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UFC 288 takes place Saturday headlined by a bantamweight title fight, but before the fights get underway, join MMA Junkie’s Farah Hannoun for a preview show right here at 5 p.m. ET. In the main event, bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling (22-3 MMA, 14-3 UFC) takes on former two-division champ Henry Cejudo (16-2 MMA, 10-2 UFC),

Check out the best photos from the ONE Fight Night 10 bout between Demetrious Johnson and Adriano Moraes, which took place Friday at 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, Colo., right outside Denver. (Photos courtesy of ONE Championship.) Demetrious Johnson vs. Adriano Moraes ONE Fight Night 104245 Demetrious Johnson vs. Adriano Moraes ONE Fight Night 104253 Demetrious

Check out the best photos from the ONE Fight Night 10, which took place Friday at 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, Colo., right outside Denver. (Photos courtesy of ONE Championship.) DC Aung La N Sang VS Fan Rong ONE Fight Night 100833 DC Aung La N Sang VS Fan Rong ONE Fight Night 100847 DC Aung

Check out the best photos from the ONE Fight Night 10 bout between Sage Northcutt and Ahmed Mujtaba, which took place Friday at 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, Colo., right outside Denver. (Photos courtesy of ONE Championship.) Sage Northcutt vs. Ahmed Mujtaba ONE Fight Night 102315 Sage Northcutt vs. Ahmed Mujtaba ONE Fight Night 10108354 Sage

Stamp Fairtex made her U.S. debut with a bang. On Friday at ONE Fight Night 10, Fairtex (10-2) pulverized Alyse Anderson (6-3) at 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, Colo. with a shutdown liver kick at 2:27 of Round 2. The event took place at 1STBANK Center, just outside Denver. The violent finish extended Fairtex’s MMA winning

ONE Championship makes its United States debut Friday in Broomfield, Colo., just outside Denver. ONE Fight Night 10 is headlined by former UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson as he defends his 135-pound title in a trilogy match against Adriano Moraes. Also on the card, former UFC star Sage Northcutt makes his return to action after

NEWARK, N.J. – UFC 288 ceremonial fighter weigh-ins took place Friday, and the fighters came face-to-face one final time before Saturday’s event. The weigh-ins took place at Prudential Center. The same venue in “The Garden State” hosts Saturday’s event, which has a main card on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+. Check out the

The UFC is back with its sixth pay-per-view of the year, which means the popular “Embedded” fight-week video series is here to document what’s happening behind the scenes. UFC 288 takes place Saturday at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN/ESPN+. In the main event, bantamweight champion Aljamain

The UFC is back on the East Coast this week with the bantamweight title up for grabs for an ex-champ coming out of retirement. UFC 288 takes place Saturday at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN/ESPN+. (Click here to open a PDF of the staff picks grid

MMA Junkie analyst Dan Tom breaks down the UFC’s top bouts. Today, we look at the main event for UFC 288. UFC 288 takes place Saturday at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN/ESPN+. Aljamain Sterling (22-3 MMA, 14-3 UFC) Staple info: Height: 5’7″ Age: 33 Weight:

MORRISTOWN, N.J. – MMA Junkie was on scene and reporting live from Friday’s UFC 288 fighter weigh-ins, where one fighter missed and another bout was canceled, but the title fight is intact. The early weigh-ins take place at the UFC host hotel in New Jersey and precede the ceremonial weigh-ins for the fans, which take place at

Julianna Pena still plans on challenging for the title in her next fight. Peña (11-5 MMA, 7-3 UFC) was scheduled to challenge dual-champion Amanda Nunes for the women’s bantamweight title in a trilogy bout in the UFC 289 headliner June 10. However, the former champion was forced to withdraw from her bout due to broken

NEWARK, N.J. – Dana White remains firm that Colby Covington is next in line for a UFC welterweight title shot against champion Leon Edwards – but another title challenger will soon be added to the queue. At a pre-fight news conference Thursday, White announced the winner of the UFC 288 co-main event between Gilbert Burns

[embedded content] NEWARK, N.J. – Check out these photos highlighting the UFC 288 pre-fight news conference in Newark, N.J. (Photos by Mike Bohn – MMA Junkie) diego-lopes-ufc-288-press-conference kron-gracie-ufc-288-press-conference movsar-evloev-ufc-288-press-conference yan-xiaonan-ufc-288-press-conference jessica-andrade-ufc-288-press-conference gilbert-burns-ufc-288-press-conference-1 belal-muhammad-ufc-288-press-conference belal-muhammad-ufc-288-press-conference-1 henry-cejudo-ufc-288-press-conference-1 aljamain-sterling-ufc-288-press-conference aljamain-sterling-ufc-288-press-conference-1 aljamain-sterling-henry-cejudo-ufc-288-press-conference aljamain-sterling-dana-white-ufc-288-press-conference-1 aljamain-sterling-dana-white-ufc-288-press-conference aljamain-sterling-henry-cejudo-ufc-288-press-conference dana-white-ufc-288-press-conference henry-cejudo-dana-white-ufc-288-press-conference kron-gracie-charles-jourdain-ufc-288-press-conference-faceoff movsar-evloev-diego-lopes-ufc-288-press-conference-faceoff Belal Muhammad vs. Gilbert Burns, UFC 288 Pre-fight Press Conference

A man has been arrested and is awaiting questioning by police detectives following a shooting at the Miami home of former UFC fighter Jorge Masvidal. In a statement released to MMA Junkie on Thursday following initial news reports in Miami, the Miami-Dade Police Department said officers responded to a residence on SW 118th Avenue in

MORRISTOWN, N.J. – Yan Xiaonan sees title implications with a win at UFC 288. Xiaonan (16-3 MMA, 7-2 UFC) takes on former strawweight champion Jessica Andrade (24-10 MMA, 15-8 UFC) in Saturday’s featured main card bout at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN/ESPN+. With her last three

MORRISTOWN, N.J. – Charles Jourdain knows his back is against the wall heading into UFC 288. Jourdain (13-6-1 MMA, 4-5-1 UFC) meets Kron Gracie (5-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) in Saturday’s main card opener at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN/ESPN+. Jourdain is coming off back-to-back losses for the first

When Sage Northcutt was in the hospital, Rich Franklin made sure to visit him. “It was a pretty devastating shot,” Franklin recently told MMA Junkie Radio. “The injuries were fairly severe. It wasn’t like he broke an arm and had to get casted, in and out. He spent some time there, so I stopped in.”