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It’s been nearly a year since an arena full of fans were in attendance for a UFC event. The last time a full capacity crowd witnessed live fights inside the Octagon was UFC 248 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on March 7, 2020. COVID-19 restrictions and precautions have prevented fans from attending live events. The UFC was the first major sports league to return to action, hosting three events in eight days at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida last May… sans fans. An...

Gina Carano, a pioneer in women’s mixed martial arts, was recently dropped from the Star Wars series The Mandalorian and any future productions by Lucasfilm. Carano’s character, bounty hunter Cara Dune, was a major character in the Disney+ award-winning show. Carano was let go by Lucasfilm, as well as UTA, the talent agency that had represented her following a controversial social media post that was later deleted. The post that Carano wrote on Twitter read: “Jews were beaten in the street...

After defeating Gilbert Burns at UFC 258, welterweight champ Kamaru Usman said he is ready to run it back and finish Jorge Masvidal.

Former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar had his quest for the bantamweight belt sidetracked when Cory Sandhagen knocked him out at UFC Vegas 18 last week. Sandhagen blasted Edgar with a flying knee 28 seconds into their fight. He laid the former champion out cold. Edgar awoke from the shot, stood for the official result, and walked out of the Octagon. But he didn’t remember any of it. In a recent interview with ESPN’s Brett Okamoto, Edgar said that he didn’t really start coming arou...

The welterweight match-up between Leon Edwards and Khamzat Chimaev has been derailed for a third time, leading the UFC to scrap the bout altogether.

Hear everything Kamaru Usman had to say at the UFC 258 Media Day from Las Vegas at The APEX, ahead of his showdown with former teammate Gilbert Burns.

Gina Carano, a pioneer in women's MMA, is no longer part of the Star Wars series "The Mandalorian" following "abhorrent and unacceptable" social media comments.

February 9, 2021 Comics and cartoons are finding new life outside of the Sunday funnies. As the art form becomes more accessible from artists posting their work online, offering artistic and creative breaks in people’s feeds, Pittsburgh cartoon artist Joe Wos wants to teach anyone, regardless of age, how to get started drawing, too. Cartoonist Joe Wos will host a cartoon teaching series on public tv. Through WQED Education and the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s “Learning at ...

Bellator MMA on Tuesday revealed that Showtime would be the new home of the fight promotion, beginning with its re-start on April 2. The new partnership puts Bellator on Friday nights, just after the promotion had moved to CBS Sports on Thursday nights during the tail end of 2020. So why did the Showtime move come so soon after the move to CBS Sports? “When you look at the trajectory of Bellator, who they’ve been able to sign as free agents, their ability to build new stars and contribute t...

Horos Asset Management, an asset management firm, published its ‘Horos Value Internacional’ fourth-quarter 2020 Investor Letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. A return of 26.3% was recorded by the fund for the Q4 of 2020, outperforming its benchmark index that delivered an 11.9% return. You can view the fund’s top 5 holdings […]