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UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson and challenger Gilbert Melendez both made weight Friday for their title showdown in San Jose, Calif. With everything set for Saturday's UFC on FOX 7 main event, promotion president Dana White tapped each g...

Benson Henderson didn't begin preparing for his showdown Saturday night with Gilbert Melendez a few months ago, when the UFC officially announced the fight. That process started six years ago, when Henderson trained for the first time in mixed ma...

UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson will put his title on the line April 20 against former Strikeforce titleholder Gilbert Melendez in San Jose, Calif.

: Heavyweight Lavar Johnson pulled a groin that has forced him out of a Dec. 8 bout with Brendan Schaub.

What an emotional ride former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar has been on the past few weeks. One month to the day that his bid to reclaim the 155-pound title fell short, Edgar learned on Tuesday that a foot injury ousted featherweight cham...

UFC lightweight champion Ben Henderson will make the second defense of his title Dec. 8 against Nate Diaz, promotion officials revealed Wednesday.

The outcome of Saturday night's UFC lightweight title was acceptable to Benson Henderson; his performance was not. Henderson retained his 155-pound strap when two judges gave him the slimmest of wins over Frankie Edgar in the UFC 150 main event. T...

UFC president Dana White will offer Donald Cerrone and Anthony Pettis an opportunity to face one another in a lightweight title eliminator.

No matter the outcome Saturday night, it's very likely Frankie Edgar will take his talents to the featherweight division. While Edgar is determined to reclaim the 155-pound title belt from Benson Henderson at UFC 150 in Denver, he refuses to rule ...

As has been the case with all of his fights, lightweight contender Clay Guida approaches Friday night's showdown against Gray Maynard determined, focused and confident. Guida knows Maynard is a very tough out. And like Guida, the 10-1-1 Maynard enter...

As soon as the judges' scorecards were read, Ricardo Almeida knew it was time to end his fighting career. Almeida still believed he could compete against UFC's top welterweights. What he could no longer do was defeat some of the sport's questionab...

UFC lightweight Ben Henderson will make his first title defense against the man he won the belt from last month, Frankie Edgar, the promotion announced Tuesday night.

Benson Henderson let his hair down and his hands fly in dethroning Frankie Edgar over five rounds at UFC 144 in Saitama, Japan.

We have a new UFC heavyweight champion -- again. Junior dos Santos obliterated Cain Velasquez in less than a round to wrest away the title.

Being at the doorstep of a lightweight title shot has some questioning Melvin Guillard's desire to fight Joe Lauzon at UFC 136 Saturday night in Houston. It's well-documented that Guillard has an affinity for Houston, where he lived for a few year...

Lightweight contenders Clay Guida and Benson Henderson have verbally agreed to fight Nov. 12 in Anaheim, Calif., the UFC announced on Tuesday.