Jeffrey Wagenheim

2 weeks ago | espn.in | Andres Waters |Brett Okamoto |Ian Parker |Jeffrey Wagenheim

The UFC returns to Miami this weekend for a battle for the featherweight title, as former champion Alexander Volkanovski attempts to reclaim the belt in the main event of Saturday's UFC 314 (ESPN+ PPV, 10 p.m. ET), facing first-time challenger Diego Lopes.

Nov 23, 2024 | owensbororadio.com | Jeffrey Wagenheim

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Nov 23, 2024 | espn.com.au | Jeffrey Wagenheim

Had Saturday's UFC main event between Petr Yan and Deiveson Figueiredo taken place four years ago, It would have been a champion-vs.-champion superfight. Yan and Figueiredo won UFC titles within a week of each other in July 2020, Yan at bantamweight and Figueiredo 10 pounds lighter at flyweight. But both were soon dethroned, and ever since then, they have been trying to climb back to that mountaintop.

Oct 25, 2024 | espn.com | Jeffrey Wagenheim

Dana White recently reached out to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for help with improving the UFC rankings system, possibly using artificial intelligence. The UFC boss confirmed his conversations with the Meta CEO during an interview Thursday with TNT Sports. "I could go on and on and on but I won't," White said. "We literally had meetings this week to work on it. I actually talked to Mark Zuckerberg, too, about AI, so yeah. I'm totally going to fix the rankings.

Oct 23, 2024 | espn.co.uk | Andreas Hale |Jeffrey Wagenheim

WHEN MAX HOLLOWAY walks to the Octagon to face Ilia Topuria at UFC 308 in Abu Dhabi, it will be shortly after midnight local time on Sunday. However, back in his hometown of Waianae in Hawaii, it will be Saturday, 10 a.m. on the island of Oahu. It's a stark contrast in time for Holloway, but it has become par for the course in the career of the widely popular MMA fighter looking to reclaim the featherweight title.