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Maycee Barber’s planned return is off the UFC 335 card, and Carli Judice is left waiting for the biggest opportunity of her career. The women’s flyweight bout had been positioned as Barber’s comeback test, but news broke Saturday, November 7, that she was out of the December 12 matchup in Las Vegas. No reason was given for the withdrawal.

Robert Whittaker wants Alex Pereira back at light heavyweight, and he’s ready to welcome him himself. It’s not a booked fight, not yet. But the door is open, and the stakes are enormous: two former champions, one division, and a showdown that could become real with one result.

Jake Paul is coming back to boxing, and he’s bringing a kickboxing legend, a Christmas Eve date and one very loud old accusation into the ring with him.

In his PFL debut at PFL Pittsburgh, Bryan Battle ran straight into a buzzsaw named Johnny Eblen. Let’s be real: Eblen is a monster. The Bellator king didn't give Battle an inch of breathing room...