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Lightweight champion Benson Henderson will defend his title against T.J. Grant on Aug. 31 at UFC 164 in Milwaukee, the promotion officials announced Tuesday night.

The UFC lightweight division is the deep end of the pool. It's nondebatable. According to the new ESPN.com rankings, a well-rounded talent like Jim Miller no longer cracks the Top 10. Same for Nate Diaz -- and he fought for the title six months a...

These are the lightweight power rankings.

UFC 159 Analysis

These are the P4P power rankings.

For what it's worth, my personal scorecard now has Benson Henderson 1-3 in UFC title fights. And what it's worth, of course, is a hill of beans. In the real world, Henderson on Saturday moved to 4-0 in UFC championship bouts, tying BJ Penn's reco...

Talk about nerve-racking for Benson Henderson. Not defending your UFC lightweight championship title against Gilbert Melendez at UFC on Fox 7 in San Jose, Calif., Saturday night. Not even proposing to longtime girlfriend Maria Magana in front o...

Josh Gross rates the performances of UFC on Fox 7 fighters.

The winner of a lightweight fight between Gray Maynard and T.J. Grant at UFC 160 in Las Vegas will produce the division's next No. 1 contender.

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 versus Gilbert Melendez

A longtime lightweight title holder in Strikeforce, Gilbert Melendez will make his UFC debut against defending champion Ben Henderson at this weekend's UFC on Fox event at the HP Pavilion.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Gilbert Melendez's long, winding ride to the UFC concludes Saturday, not so far from where it began. The 31-year-old Californian, a Strikeforce lightweight champion and longtime resident of top-10 lists, enters the Octagon for the...

John Candido of FightMetric breaks down the bouts of UFC on Fox 7, indicating where the value picks lie, including the feature fight of Benson Henderson versus Gilbert Melendez as well as Daniel Cormier versus Frank Mir.

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California has long been inundated with mixed martial arts gyms, which isn't the sort of thing that just happens. The Gracie family settled near Los Angeles in the 1980s, and therefore so did Brazilian jiu-jitsu. After several years, the UFC arose...

UFC on Fox 7 will air on free network television from the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., Saturday night. In the main event, UFC Lightweight Champion Benson Henderson will defend his title against the debuting #1 contender Gilbert Melendez, who was ...