The 38-year-old floored his soft-punching opponent in the first, second, fourth and seventh rounds.

The 28-year-old Ballybofey man showed extraordinary heart but took a battering at the hands of Tureano Johnson.

Overeem extended his winning streak on Saturday in the Russian capital.

The former Man Utd defender says he’s ‘hanging up his gloves’.

Chan Sung Jung enjoyed an impressive comeback in last night’s main event in Houston.

A Portuguese fighter was hospitalised and later died following his TKO loss at Saturday’s Total Extreme Fighting MMA event in Dublin.

Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier had one of the greatest fights in history.

Ireland’s Olympic silver medallist was back in the ring last night after a 10-month lay-off.

The pair met for the headline fight at Bellator 138 last night.

James Kirkland and Raphael Zumbano Love were on the receiving end of devastating TKOs.

Frenchman Cheick Kone proved too powerful for the Irish middleweight in Wolverhampton tonight.

Yana Allekseenva will attempt to stop the Bray star’s five-in-a-row bid.

Ex-European champion, Jamie Moore is in hospital after shooting

The former France talisman faces a ban for the punch this weekend.

The former heavyweight champion is on publicity tour for his autobiography.

The legendary middleweight’s 7-year title reign was ended in spectacular fashion by Chris Weidman.

Featuing big hits from and Vitor Belfort, Antonio Silva and Ireland’s Conor McGregor.

The victory at Los Angeles’ Sports Arena stopped a run of two successive setbacks for the Bolton fighter.

Having been taken ill after an evening meal, Klitschko had to call an ambulance during the night and was put on a drip by an emergency doctor. Should have had the soup.

The Brazilian was tested early on by Chael Sonnen before wrapping up his 15th win in succession.

Iron Mike is taking his show to Broadway.

The centrepiece of a crowded bill, Ben Henderson’s at times brutal demolition of lightweight champ Frankie Edgar stole the show at Japan’s Saitama Super Arena.

Now that the dust has settled, it’s time to take stock of the biggest winners and losers from the previous 12 months.

The UFC’s subtly propagandistic talent show has been running for fourteen seasons and, in addition to winning hearts and minds, has served up some first-class fighting.

One of the best fights in UFC history, the return of Wanderlei Silva and the organisation’s chance at the big-time: our man takes a look back at the stories and results that have been grabbing the headlines this month.

The UFC touches down in Birmingham this week, and with two British fighters on the card, there’s more than enough to keep the home fans entertained. Connoisseurs, however, will be watching Munoz vs. Leben.

This weeK: Nick Diaz makes yet another return to the UFC and Roy “Big Country” Nelson takes on a diminished Mirko Filipovic in a bid to save his UFC career.

George St. Pierre may be gone, but in the view of our resident MMA afficionado, Brian Kirk, UFC 137 was always going to be about an awful lot more than one fight.

Edgar v Maynard, Florian v Aldo, Sonnen v Stann: this week’s card could well be one of the strongest ever.

With the MMA season in something of a lull, we take the opportunity to profile one of the UFC’s newest stars: light heavyweight champion Jon “Bones” Jones.