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A light heavyweight bout between former UFC champion Rashad Evans and Dan Henderson has been promoted to the main event of UFC 161 on June 15 in Winnipeg, Canada.

Welcome to SportsNation! On Wednesday, ESPN.com mixed martial arts writer Brett Okamoto stops by to chat about the news from the octagon.Okamoto joined ESPN.com in December 2010. Previously, he was the boxing/MMA writer for the Las Vegas Sun newspape...

Vitor Belfort's knockout win over Luke Rockhold on Saturday in Jaragua Do Sul, Brazil, was almost a perfect story. The "old dinosaur," as Belfort calls himself, tamed the "young lion" with a spinning wheel kick in the first round that was really m...

The UFC has suspended lightweight Nate Diaz indefinitely for disparaging remarks he wrote about bantamweight Bryan Caraway on his Twitter account Thursday.

LAS VEGAS -- It's 100 degrees in Las Vegas and feels hotter inside Wanderlei Silva's gym. At one point while I'm there, he grabs my shoulder and admits he killed the air conditioning earlier when no one was looking and opened the back door to all...

A UFC pay-per-view event has been scheduled on Sept. 21 at Air Canada Centre in Toronto.

Welcome to SportsNation! On Wednesday, ESPN.com mixed martial arts writer Brett Okamoto stops by to chat about the news from the octagon.Okamoto joined ESPN.com in December 2010. Previously, he was the boxing/MMA writer for the Las Vegas Sun newspape...

LAS VEGAS -- There is no doubt about it: Chris Weidman believes he'll beat Anderson Silva on July 6. I had the opportunity to eat lunch with Weidman on the Las Vegas Strip this week. We sat directly down the street from the MGM Grand, where he and...

The first time I saw Anderson Silva in action live was the week he fought Forrest Griffin at UFC 101 in August 2009. I had seen him on tape previously, but it's different in person. You see the fluidity of his motion firsthand and hear the crack o...

Welcome to SportsNation! On Wednesday, ESPN.com mixed martial arts writer Brett Okamoto stops by to chat about the news from the octagon.Okamoto joined ESPN.com in December 2010. Previously, he was the boxing/MMA writer for the Las Vegas Sun newspape...

Longtime UFC heavyweight Cheick Kongo has finished the last fight of his contract and has not been re-signed based on recent performances, according to a UFC official.

LAS VEGAS -- Robert Guerrero says the gun charges stemming from a recent incident in New York are "taken care of," and haven't been a distraction as he prepares to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday. Guerrero, 30, ...

At some point during Jon Jones' fifth UFC title defense (which nearly cost him a big toe) Saturday, a reader posted a great question to the ESPN.com live chat. "Is it weird," he wrote, "that I rank Anderson Silva pound-for-pound above Jon Jones, ...

At the age of 31, UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre has accomplished so much that rumors of a two-fight retirement plan shouldn't come as a shock. St-Pierre (24-2) holds the record for total UFC wins (along with Matt Hughes) at 18 and is...

Welcome to SportsNation! On Wednesday, ESPN.com mixed martial arts writer Brett Okamoto stops by to chat about the news from the octagon.Okamoto joined ESPN.com in December 2010. Previously, he was the boxing/MMA writer for the Las Vegas Sun newspape...

Fans of the UFC who perhaps didn't paid attention to female martial arts before have all learned a little something in 2013 -- women fight pretty hard. Two female bouts have taken place in the Octagon this year, and both stole the show. Ronda ...