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According to a published report, Kimbo Slice's Bellator 149 prefight medicals showed no signs of a heart condition.

UFC lightweight Nick Hein will be returning to the Octagon to face Tae Hyun Bang at UFC Fight Night 93 in his home country of Germany. The news was announced by the UFC on Wednesday.

The latest episode with Ariel Helwani and the UFC has confirmed my suspicions about MMA writers seeking approval and favor of the UFC.

After all the smoke (and promotional miasma) cleared at UFC 199, there stood 45-year old Dan Henderson, the old throwback who may have punched the lights out of the last man he ever will in a cage. "Hendo" alluded to his possible retirement after knocking out Hector Lombard on Saturday night. He had all his kids gathered at the Forum in Inglewood, and it felt like a farewell. He was even pointing out the warmth he felt in his heart from the California faithful.

Better, I suppose, than the rattle in his brain. Читать дальше...

This is the Promotional Malpractice Live Chat.

Beginning with the opening bout at UFC 199 and for roughly 48 hours afterwards, the sport of mixed martial arts went crazy. Inside the Octagon, Michael Bisping defeated Luke Rockhold in the easiest fight of his career, Dan Henderson and Urijah Faber had potentially fought for the last time and more. Outside of the Octagon, Brock Lesnar was reported to be coming back to the UFC, Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz 2 was made official and Kimbo Slice died. Читать дальше...

Former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis is on the move – to the featherweight division.

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson says Bellator "got rid of the bad apple" and is happy that he's not "forced to wear a clothing brand that's not really a good fit."

Kimbo Slice was told by doctors that he needed a heart transplant in the days before his death Monday, according to a report Tuesday afternoon from the Sun Sentinel in Florida.

UFC welterweight Nordine Taleb is out of UFC Fight Night 90 due to injury. Taleb announced the news on Tuesday via his Instagram and was later confirmed to MMA Fighting by UFC officials.

Even if Brock Lesnar's UFC return is a one-off, he'll still be subject to in- and out-of-competition drug testing, the UFC said Tuesday in a statement.

The UFC wanted a big splash at UFC 200, so the promotion enlisted help from perhaps its most massive star in Brock Lesnar. That seems to be the prevailing narrative.