ATLANTA — Both UFC 236 title fights are now official, as Max Holloway, Dustin Poirier, Kelvin Gastelum and Israel Adesanya all made weight on Friday. UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway will fight longtime lightweight contender Dustin Poirier in the main event of UFC 236 on Saturday. Who has the edge? We asked some of MMA’s

When he was a kid, Jalin “The Tarantula” Turner was afraid of spiders. Instead of avoiding them, Turner confronted his fear as a young adult. He started by caring for one tarantula. Then there were 10. By the time he was done, he had more than 200 tarantulas. “You just get addicted to collecting them,”

Through five fights in the UFC, Israel Adesanya has proved to be exactly as advertised. The only question left is whether he can win a UFC championship. It has taken 30 professional fights, but the time is finally here for longtime contender Dustin Poirier to win his first UFC championship. The UFC is putting two

ATLANTA — The transpacific flight from Melbourne, Australia, to Los Angeles is 16 hours long — which is a very, very long time to think about a fight that didn’t happen. It has been two months since Kelvin Gastelum saw a middleweight title fight ripped away at the last minute, due to a hernia suffered

A lot has changed since Dustin Poirier submitted Max Holloway in the first round of a featherweight bout at UFC 143 in 2012. Holloway (20-3) became a featherweight champion and has turned into one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world. At age 27, he’s already working on “legacy fights” and will attempt to

UFC star Conor McGregor‘s next court date has been scheduled for May 13 in Miami-Dade County Court for criminal charges including robbery and criminal mischief. Judge Spencer Multack assigned a trial date of May 13 on Wednesday during an arraignment hearing. McGregor, 30, did not attend the hearing in person. Last month, he filed a

ATLANTA — When Max Holloway first signed with the UFC in 2012, the promotion offered the 20-year-old featherweight a choice between two opponents for his Octagon debut. “One is a [Brazilian jiu-jitsu] black belt, and one is a striker,'” Holloway told ESPN. “I told them, ‘That is a cake [decision]. We are fighting the striker.'”

English lightweight Ross Pearson announced his retirement from mixed martial arts on Tuesday, bringing his 15-year professional career to an end. View this post on Instagram After some long hard talks, and careful consideration with my family, friends and team, I’ve decided it’s time to retire as an MMA fighter. As hard as that is

With lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov under suspension stemming from last October’s brawl following his victory over Conor McGregor, the UFC put together Saturday’s interim title fight featuring featherweight champion Max Holloway and Dustin Poirier. The two fighters are both on impressive winning streaks, and they have a history. Seven years ago, Poirier handed Holloway his

Former UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw was suspended for two years by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency on Tuesday for testing positive for recombinant human erythropoietin (EPO) before a flyweight title fight against Henry Cejudo on Jan. 19 in New York. The two-year suspension is the maximum sanction for a non-specified substance under the UFC’s anti-doping