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Two of UFC's top fighters, lightweight champ Benson Henderson and featherweight champ Jose Aldo, do battle in our side-by-side analysis.

Story | Conversation | May 08, 2013

These are the featherweight power rankings.

There it goes, picking up steam. The Uriah Hall bandwagon, ladies and gents, is in full effect. Dana White has touted Hall, who fights Kelvin Gastelum this Saturday in Las Vegas for "The Ultimate Fighter 17" crown, as the meanest, toughest, bestes...

Adam Hill offers his ranking of top 10 technicians competing today in MMA. Welterweight legend Georges St-Pierre tops the list.

Story | Conversation | April 04, 2013

The tournament format that Bellator uses isn't for everyone. But it is for current featherweight champion Pat Curran, who navigated fields in two separate weight classes en route to becoming Bellator's 145-pound division champion. Curran is the pr...

In 2013, the year of the "superfight" and new-fashioned division jumping in the UFC, anything is possible. How possible? A simple, timely text can shake up an entire division for the better part of a year. Ask Ricardo Lamas, who should have been t...

Fight fans had cause for serious eye-rolling back in January, when UFC play-by-play man Mike Goldberg kicked off the organization's first pay-per-view of 2013 by proclaiming this would be the "year of the superfight" inside the Octagon. Guys in G...

Adam Hill offers his ranking of Top 10 athletes competing today in MMA. Featherweight champion Jose Aldo leads the list.

Story | Conversation | February 28, 2013

UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo will earn a lightweight title shot with a victory over Anthony Pettis.

While UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo and his handlers said a title bout with lightweight contender Anthony Pettis was out of the question, promotion president Dana White begged to differ. Something had to give, but when White's involved in ...

Dana White has lifted the lid on a storm that is gathering over one of the UFC's most dominant champions, revealing Jose Aldo is flatly refusing to fight Anthony Pettis. More »...

She will walk into the Honda Center arena in Anaheim, Calif., on Feb. 23 to defend a title belt she neither asked for nor wanted. Women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey makes her Octagon debut in the main event at UFC 157. She will face Liz Ca...

Dennis Siver and Dustin Poirier are nothing alike. Siver is shaped like a fire hydrant with spring-loaded legs; Poirier is sleek and aerodynamic. Cub Swanson understands these obvious differences better than anybody right about now. He first had ...

With less than two weeks before UFC 157, the promotion has scratched Chad Mendes from the bill due to lack of a viable opponent. Mendes initially expressed his doubts as to his participation on the Feb. 23 card via Twitter on Sunday. "Well g...

It's easy to sympathize with highly ranked featherweight contender Ricardo Lamas. In his two most recent fights, he handily defeated two of the division's better fighters -- Hatsu Hioki and Erik Koch. But on Monday, when the UFC announced who wou...

Anthony Pettis is a man of action. He could have voluntarily waited for his chance at the 155-pound belt. Or he could do what he did, which was text UFC president Dana White to embark on an expedition. Pettis asked for a chance to fight Jose Aldo,...