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Usman puts a number on the standoff: he turned down $2 million from the PFL, and his ask was higher

The champion himself broke the silence in a Russian-language interview, revealing the price the promotion offered and the fact that his camp wanted more. Sixty-three days remain on the exclusive window, the promotion’s next offer is still being assembled, and the most consequential free agency in the sport finally has a public floor.

By Andrew Weissmann
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UFC Shanghai preview: Umar Nurmagomedov’s title case meets Song Yadong’s home crowd.

While one Nurmagomedov’s free agency dominates the sport’s business pages, his brother spends Saturday morning trying to force his way back to a title shot, against a Chinese striker fighting the biggest fight of his life in front of his own people. Set the alarm: the main card starts at 6 a.m. ET.

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BKB 58’s seismic rewrite: Terrill flies in on three days’ notice to challenge Trujillo for the heavyweight title

Terrill was booked to sit cageside with a headset. Then the visa news broke, the former champion demanded his way into the main event, and the promotion said yes.

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DWCS wrap: Apodaca authors the biggest upset in the show’s history, and five fighters leave with contracts

Alex Apodaca took the fight a month after her last one, walked in as high as +1500 against the most heavily favoured prospect the series has ever staged, and out-fought the NCAA champion for fifteen minutes. The broadcast called it the biggest upset the show has ever aired.

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Cyborg wins No. 30 in her billed farewell, keeps the belt, and declines to say goodbye: ‘I’m ready for anybody. Any time, any weight.’

The legend outworked Ketlen Vieira over five hard rounds in Tampa, closed the three-fight farewell she announced two years ago, and then spent her retirement speech calling out a boxing world champion. The greatest résumé in women’s MMA history added a round number on Saturday. It did not add an ending.

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Cejudo pins Dvalishvili in 36 seconds at RAF 12, takes the belt, and calls his next shot: ‘Cody Garbrandt, you’re next’

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UFC BJJ 10 wrap: Tackett cranks his way to a record fourth defence, Ste-Marie takes the featherweight crown in her debut

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BKB plants its flag in Newcastle behind Terrill’s homecoming, in the same arena where he won a rival promotion’s belt in March

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