Mixed Martial Arts
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Frankie Edgar is not an intimidating knockout artist or a submission expert. But MMA fans should embrace the speedy fighter as the best lightweight in the world, says Ben Fowlkes.
SEATTLE (AP) -- Searchers in the rugged North Cascades have found a backpack belonging to the son of Hall of Fame boxing promoter Bob Arum, but they are still looking for the missing climber.
NEW YORK -- The next time Chad Dawson gets into the ring he could have a new voice in his corner. Representatives for Dawson, the former light heavyweight champion who suffered a one-sided defeat to WBC champion Jean Pascal last month, have contacted Freddie Roach about possibly training the 28-year-old Dawson for his next fight.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal is set to defend his title against Bernard Hopkins in December in Quebec City.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez has agreed to fight Michael Katsidis at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas on Nov. 27.
BRAKPAN, South Africa (AP) -- Mzonke Fana has earned an impressive unanimous decision over Cassius Baloyi to win the vacant IBF junior lightweight title in a matchup of South Africans.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Manny Pacquiao and his trainer Freddie Roach wanted the exact same thing that boxing fans everywhere wanted: Floyd Mayweather Jr.
LONDON (AP) -- Evander Holyfield wants to fight heavyweight champions David Haye and Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko.
SEATTLE (AP) -- Park rangers in the Cascade Mountains are searching for the son of boxing promoter Bob Arum, who went missing while on a camping trip over the weekend.
Where does Frankie Edgar stand after yet another victory over B.J. Penn? And what kind of future in MMA does Penn have now? Josh Gross digs into the mailbag following UFC 118.
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Former heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs said Monday he would make current WBC titleholder Vitali Klitschko his "30-second, first-round victim'' when they meet later this fall.
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) -- Vyacheslav Senchenko retained his welterweight title with a unanimous decision over Charlie Jose Navarro on Monday night, though the unbeaten Ukrainian needed to work a bit harder than most people expected.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Juan Manuel Lopez's highly anticipated featherweight title fight against Rafael Marquez has been rescheduled for Nov. 6 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
After 50 minutes spent together in a cage, we now know this to be true: Frankie Edgar is better than B.J. Penn. If he didn't prove that last April in Abu Dhabi, the scrappy wrestler from Toms River, N.J., undoubtedly did Saturday in Boston with a clean sheet against the 31-year-old Hawaiian.
As it turns out, James Toney was all talk. The washed-up fighter put together an all-around dismal effort before being forced into submission by Randy Couture, writes Chris Mannix.
Frankie Edgar looks to prove April's win over B.J. Penn was no fluke, while Randy Couture defends MMA's honor against James Toney. Josh Gross breaks down a volatile UFC 118.
Former welterweight champion Antonio Margarito has been approved to fight in Texas, clearing the way for his proposed bout against Manny Pacquiao at Cowboys Stadium this fall.
UFC president Dana White has nothing to gain by putting Hall of Famer Randy Couture in with once-great boxing champion James Toney. But Jon Wertheim sees a shrewd gamble.
WBC super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler pulled out of Showtime's Super Six tournament Wednesday with an eye injury, but insisted he wouldn't be forced into retirement.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) -- Timur Ibragimov scored a 10th-round technical knockout over India's Gurchuran Singh in a bout between 1996 Olympians on Tuesday night.