Alexander K. Lee

Khalil Rountree couldn’t care less if a handful of fans — and the UFC light heavyweight champion — didn’t appreciate his latest performance. Saturday’s UFC Baku main event saw Rountree cleanly out-strike Jamahal Hill for three rounds en route to a unanimous decision win. It was a bounce-back result for Rountree, who suffered a hard-fought […]

Jon Jones is hanging up the gloves for good. Following UFC CEO Dana White’s announcement that Jones is retired and no longer UFC heavyweight champion, Jones released his own statement addressing his retirement via social media. See Jones’ statement below. “Today, I’m officially announcing my retirement from the UFC,” Jones wrote. “This decision comes after

Jon Jones is retired. So says UFC CEO Dana White, anyway. White made the announcement that Jones—the UFC’s undisputed heavyweight champion, the most dominant light heavyweight champion in the promotion’s history, and arguably the greatest fighter of all-time — has officially hung up the gloves. The news means Jones forfeits his heavyweight belt and interim

Nazim Sadykhov and Nikolas Motta left it all inside the octagon and are now leaving Azerbaijan with extra six-figure checks. On a UFC Baku card filled with competitive—and occasionally uneventful—decisions, Sadykhov and Motta stole the show with main card bout that went deep into the second round before Sadykhov finished Motta with strikes. It was

Tom Aspinall can finally put the Jon Jones drama behind him. On Saturday, following UFC Baku, UFC CEO Dana White spoke to reporters and announced Jones is officially retired. Jones was the incumbent undisputed heavyweight champion, but with the 37-year-old hanging up the gloves, Aspinall is officially promoted from interim to undisputed status. Shortly after

Khalil Rountree did what he had to stay in light heavyweight title contention. In Saturday’s UFC Baku main event, Rountree put on a methodical striking performance to win a clear-cut unanimous decision over Jamahal Hill. The five-round bout was light on drama, but Rountree impressed by consistently beating Hill to the punch, chopping him down

Jun Yong Park scraped out another win in a truly strange fight at UFC Baku. “The Iron Turtle” was on the receiving end of a brutal illegal knee in the second round of his fight with Ismail Naurdiev, a foul that occurred after Naurdiev had already twice poked Park in the eye. Referee Lukasz Bosacki

Jamahal Hill and Khalil Rountree know what it takes to fight for a spot at the top of the mountain; soon, one of them might rediscover what it’s like to be back near the bottom of it. For Hill, a one-time UFC titleholder currently on the first losing streak of his career, Saturday’s UFC Baku

Gadzhi Rabadanov ran through Kevin Lee to book his ticket to the finals. In Friday’s PFL 6 main event in Wichita, Kansas, the Dagestani star needed a little more than half a round to pummel Lee with punches and send him crashing face-first to the mat. Rabadanov seemingly landed every punch he threw from the

Mariya Agapova got up close and personal with Jessica Eye. Ahead of their BKFC 76 clash Saturday in Forth Worth, Texas, Agapova and Eye faced off at the event’s ceremonial weigh-ins on Friday. The smiling Agapova went face-to-face with Eye and after a brief staredown, Agapova leaned in to give Eye a quick kiss. Eye