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ANAHEIM >> Jon Jones is back to claim what he never lost. Jones, in his first appearance since April 23, 2016, won back his UFC light heavyweight title with a third-round TKO stoppage of Daniel Cormier at Honda Center. After a back and forth opening two rounds, Jones started his path to victor...

Cris Cyborg finally completed a remarkable career metamorphosis. Tyron Woodley continued to hold on to his title amid the displeasure of some. Yet UFC 214 was all about Jon Jones on Saturday night at Honda Center. Here are our next-day thoughts after an epic night led by the greatest fighter in UFC ...

ANAHEIM >> Only one undefeated fighter remains in the top 10 of the UFC’s featherweight division, and Brian Ortega made sure it wasn’t Renato Moicano. After two competitive rounds spent almost entirely on their feet, No. 8 Ortega tued a takedown attempt from No. 9 Moicano into a guillotine c...

With his Hollywood good looks, Brian Ortega delivered a dramatic performance Friday moing. And it almost cost him his hair. With one minute to spare, Ortega made the featherweight limit of 146 pounds at the UFC 214 weigh-ins at Sheraton Cerritos, one day before taking on Renato Moicano at UFC 145 ...

Kailin Curran joins Lomita featherweight Brian Ortega as the only true locals on the UFC 214 card. Curran, 26, faces Alexandra Albu in a strawweight bout in the featured early prelims fight on UFC Fight Pass. From Ewa Beach, Hawaii, Curran has been living and training in Orange County for the past f...

Outside of its lightweight champion fitting himself with bigger gloves and longer odds and stepping into a boxing ring next month, the UFC is bringing its hottest fight to Anaheim. The light heavyweight championship rematch between Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones is the biggest fight of the year, and U...

The UFC has confirmed Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino and Megan Anderson will fight for the recently vacated women’s featherweight championship at UFC 214 after champion Germaine de Randamie was stripped of her title. De Randamie, who won the inaugural 145-pound champ with a narrow decision over Holly Holm in...

Holloway stops Aldo in 3rd, wins UFC featherweight belt Max Holloway, of the United States, wears a champion’s belt after defeating Jose Aldo, of Brazil, during their UFC featherweight mixed martial arts bout in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early Sunday, June 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) ...

TORRANCE — UFC 204 is being billed as Bisping vs. Henderson 2, but the middleweight champion says don’t call it a rematch. Michael Bisping is well aware what happened the first time he tangled with Dan Henderson. In his mind, their main event and his first title defense Oct. 8 in his hometown of Manchester, England, is night and day from what occurred at UFC 100. Seven years ago, Henderson famously flattened Bisping with one of his vaunted H-bomb rights in one of MMA’s most spectacular one-punch knockouts. Today, the 37-year-old wier of Season 3 of “The Ultimate Fighter” claims Henderson was on steroids, though it’s not accurate. Henderson was one of several UFC fighters who had received an...

CLEVELAND >> CM Punk could have used a folding chair or a tag-team partner. Out of pro wrestling’s scripted ring, his first trip into the octagon didn’t last long. Punk, who was one of WWE’s biggest stars when he left it two years ago to try his hand in ultimate fighting, tapped out just 2:14 into the first round after he was pummeled and choked by Mickey Gall on the UFC 203 undercard Saturday night. The 38-year-old Punk was on his back less than 10 seconds into the fight. Pied up against the octagon’s cage, he was unable to get out from under Gall, who landed numerous blows to both sides of Punk’s head. Looking confident and mugging for the sellout crowd, Punk, whose debut had been d...

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LAS VEGAS >> UFC 202 didn’t feature any title fights, but it offered several compelling matchups and scintillating performances. And while no belts were on the line Saturday at T-Mobile Arena, championship ramifications were all over the card. Here’s a look at what happened and what could happen as it pertains to UFC gold: Conor McGregor Can we just call his welterweight rematch against Nate Diaz a fight for the People’s Championship? Each fighter has his rabid fans, yet both delivered efforts that could be applauded by any MMA fan. (And by the way ... the UFC roster should regard McGregor as THEIR champion, seeing how McGregor was reportedly paid a UFC record $3 million and Diaz rake...

LAS VEGAS >> The time for the trash-talking and bottle-chucking is thankfully over. Bring on the welterweight rematch between Nate Diaz and featherweight champion Conor McGregor. The heated rivals will step back into the Octagon in the UFC 202 main event Saturday at T-Mobile Arena, more than five months after their epic welterweight clash at UFC 196. In March, Diaz famously stepped up on 11 days’ notice after a broken foot forced then-lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos out of his bout with McGregor, who was looking to become the first fighter to hold two UFC belts at the same time. McGregor and Diaz agreed to fight at 170 pounds — 25 pounds greater than the division McGregor reigns...

LAS VEGAS >> The UFC’s next big thing is ready for approach — and his landing could come at UFC 202. Cody Garbrandt, a rising star out of Sacramento’s Team Alpha Male, is in an ideal spot Saturday when he takes on Japanese veteran Takeya Mizugaki in the featured bout on the UFC 202 prelims card on Fox Sports 1. Nicknamed “No Love,” Garbrandt is about as recognizable as they come: handsome and typically sharply dressed, with countless tattoos covering most of his body, including his neck where it meets his trim beard. He’s also the eighth-ranked bantamweight in the UFC, sporting a spotless 9-0 record. And he just tued 25 last month. “Cody’s looking great. It’s fight week. That’s when h...

LAS VEGAS — Nate Diaz and Conor McGregor really don’t like each other. Or apparently press conferences for that matter. Just five months after their press conference for UFC 196 broke into a wild melee, the pair and their camps hurled insults, profanities and drinks at each other Wednesday at the UFC 202 press conference at the David Copperfield Theatre at the MGM Grand. Diaz and McGregor are the main event Saturday in a welterweight rematch of their scintillating March showdown, shockingly won by Diaz via a second-round rear-naked choke. McGregor arrived nearly 25 minutes late to the presser Tuesday, which also featured UFC President Dana White and light heavyweights Anthony Johnson and Gl...

Two top 10 featherweights figure to square off in one of the most intriguing fights at UFC Fight Night 96. Ninth-ranked Brian Ortega of Lomita pits his unbeaten record against No. 10 Hacran Dias on Oct. 1 at Moda Center in Portland. Ortega, a 25-year-old Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt and Carson native, is coming off a third-round TKO of veteran Clay Guida at UFC 199 at The Forum in June. The Carson native and former RFA champion (11-0, 1 NC) is 3-0 in the UFC with one victory overtued after testing positive for a steroid. Dias (23-4-1) is 3-3 in the UFC. All six fights have gone the distance. He’s coming off a unanimous-decision loss to Cub Swanson in April. Before that, the 32-year-old Br...

UFC featherweight contender Chad Mendes has been suspended for two years after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency aounced the sanction Wednesday. USADA administers the UFC’s anti-doping policy. USADA says Mendes tested positive for a growth hormone-releasing hexapeptide in an out-of-competition test conducted May 17. Mendes (17-4) is suspended until June 10, 2018, when he will be 33. Mendes has fought for the UFC 145-pound title three times, losing twice to Jose Aldo and once to Conor McGregor. The Northe Califoia native, who trains with Team Alpha Male in Sacramento, has lost three of his last four fights overall, including a first-round kno...

Lorenz Larkin was in Las Vegas this past weekend to support some of his Milleia MMA teammates. It looks like he’ll be going back there next month. The Riverside welterweight has agreed to step in for an injured Dong Hyun Kim and take on No. 7 Neil Magny on Aug. 20 at UFC 202. Larkin (17-5, 1 NC) is 4-5 in the UFC. After dropping three in a row in 2014, “The Monsoon” has won three of his past four fights, He rebounded in January 2015 with a first-round TKO of John Howard that eaed him a Performance of the Night bonus. Five months later, his second-round TKO of Santiago Ponzinibbio was declared Fight of the Night. After a split-decision loss to Albert Tumenov in January, Larkin won via split ...

LAS VEGAS >> So much for that trilogy fight between Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey. Amanda Nunes rained on that parade after raining punches on Tate and sinking in a rear-naked choke in the first round to claim the women’s bantamweight title in the co-main event at UFC 200 on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena. “I’m the champion,” said the fourth-ranked Nunes (13-4), who was a 3-1 underdog. “Oh my god, the greatest moment of my life! I feel amazing!” Nunes, known as a fast starter, started landing rights on Tate (18-6) as the champion continued to back up. At one point, Tate stumbled and folded before rising again, face bloodied. Nunes chased her across the cage again, delivering more punishmen...

LAS VEGAS >> Brock Lesnar is back. The WWE superstar and former UFC heavyweight champion put the promotion’s biggest fighters on notice with a unanimous-decision victory over eighth-ranked Mark Hunt in the co-main event at UFC 200 on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena. The main event between women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate and Amanda Nunes started after press time. All three judges scored it 29-27 for Lesnar (6-3). “It took me a little while to get acclimated,” Lesnar said after the fight. “Words can’t describe. Thank you so much!” Lesnar, who hadn’t been in the Octagon in more than four years, was unstoppable once he took Hunt to the mat. He got the heavy-hitting Samoan down twice ...