10+ hour, 17+ min ago  (226+ words) Conor McGregor, whose much-anticipated return to the octagon ended after 69 seconds with a knee injury at the weekend, says he will have surgery and hopes to fight again. The former two-weight world champion suffered the injury in the opening moments…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (226+ words) Israel Adesanya dropped some big news on his YouTube channel, Freestylebender, on Friday afternoon. The former UFC middleweight champion announced he has left City Kickboxing (CKB), the gym he first linked up with in 2009. "So, Wednesday 20th May, I spoke to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (228+ words) Champion wrestler Henare (Aaron Henry). Photo: aotearoawrestling.co.nz Here on Afternoons we like to celebrate New Zealanders doing great things - and our next guest very much fits that bill. Aaron Henare - better known in the ring as Henare - is…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (1113+ words) By Holmes Lybrand, Kaanita Iyer and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Federal officials have charged multiple people who they claim discussed plots to attack the UFC fight night event at the White House, including by using drones and a gunman. A team…...

4+ week, 3+ hour ago  (601+ words) By Kit Maher, Jake Tapper, Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN Less than 24 hours after a UFC fighter used a highly publicised White House match to lob a false insult at former first lady Michelle Obama, Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO and President Dana…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (739+ words) By Danny Kemp, AFP Donald Trump celebrates his 80th birthday in typically forceful style on Sunday, as the oldest US president ever to take office holds a bloody cage match on the White House lawn. The unprecedented "UFC Freedom 250" event will…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago  (287+ words) Politics aside, UFC Freedom 250 delivered in the cage. An historic occasion with the first ever professional sporting event at the White House on US President Donald Trump's birthday, the event saw seven spectacular finishes in a truly surreal setting. Fears…...

4+ week, 20+ hour ago  (269+ words) President Donald Trump is hosting a UFC fight night on the White House grounds, where organizers are hoping to avoid the worst of a severe weather threat. The event is part of programming for America's 250th anniversary and also falls on…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (807+ words) The iconic building in which the Emancipation Proclamation was drafted, the New Deal was conceived and the Cuban Missile Crisis averted is set to play host to cage fighting as President Donald Trump invites the UFC to the White House....

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (474+ words) He trains by chopping wood at the Whangamōmona family farm, now 23-year-old Matthew Gower is one of the world's best with an axe. A young New Zealand axeman has gone from chopping wood on his Whangamōmona family farm, to be…...