Jon Jones is officially a heavyweight. The longtime light heavyweight champion weighed in at 248 pounds at Friday’s official weigh-ins for UFC 285, where he battles Ciryl Gane for a vacant title in Saturday’s main event. Gane came in slightly lighter at 247.5 pounds. This…

LAS VEGAS – The UFC 285 co-main event is locked in after Valentina Shevchenko and Alexa Grasso made weight for their women’s flyweight title fight. Shevchenko and Grasso are scheduled to clash in Saturday’s co-headliner at T-Mobile Arena. The fight airs on pay-per-view following prelims…

Dominick Cruz thinks Jon Jones will stop Ciryl Gane on the ground at UFC 285. Jones (26-1 MMA, 20-1 UFC) returns from a layoff of more than three years to face Gane (11-1 MMA, 8-1 UFC) for the vacant heavyweight belt in Saturday’s headliner at…

Both Caleb Plant and David Benavidez have fulminated in the public eye for the better part of the past five years. But while they jawed back and forth, the pair continued to go in opposite directions. Now, having crossed their t’s and dotted the i’s…

Olympic gold medal winner Audley Harrison is backing Tyson Fury to score a stoppage victory over Oleksandr Usyk – if their undisputed fight is finalized. The two world champions are in serious discussions to collide in the coming months. Fury, the current WBC world champion,…

Jon Jones has always considered himself a student of the game, but it appears at UFC 285 he plans on teaching Ciryl Gane a thing or two. Ahead of their showdown on Saturday night, Jones called Gane the “most incomplete” heavyweight among the top-five fighters…

As Cody Garbrandt prepares to compete for the first time in more than a year, the former UFC bantamweight champ is coming clean about what went wrong in his only fight at 125 pounds. While it would be easy to guess that he endured a…

LAS VEGAS – Jamie Pickett wasn’t even aware of the hype surrounding Bo Nickal when he was offered the fight. Pickett (13-8 MMA, 2-4 UFC) welcomes fellow Dana White’s Contender Series graduate Nickal (3-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) to the octagon on Saturday’s UFC 285 main…

Ciryl Gane’s head coach considers Jon Jones to be the greatest fighter of all-time, and despite all of the questions surrounding Jones, he’s expecting the best version of the former light heavyweight champ to show up at UFC 285. Jones and Gane battle for the…