UFC 204: Bisping vs. Henderson 2 was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on October 8, 2016 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.

UFC 285: Jones vs. Gane was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on March 4, 2023, at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.

Lesnar, a former UFC heavyweight champion, returned to the UFC from the WWE for the UFC 200 fight and defeated Hunt via unanimous decision. Beforehand, he was given an exemption from a four-month drug testing window required of returning fighters.

UFC 285 results: Jones becomes new heavyweight champion; Grasso dethrones Shevchenko. LAS VEGAS -- We knew we'd have one new champion after UFC 285. Alexa Grasso made sure there were two on Saturday night. In his first fight in over three years, Jon Jones defeated Ciryl Gane to become the UFC's new heavyweight champion ...

Endeavor CFO Jason Lublin confirmed this week that UFC 285, headlined by Jon Jones vs. Ciryl Gane, was the highest-grossing commercial PPV of the last 12 months. The official PPV numbers aren't released, but if you estimate that the PPV sold 750,000 buys on ESPN+, that's $60,000,000 in revenue.

UFC president Dana White announced on Saturday that the organisation and Ngannou had parted ways. Speaking on Ariel Helwani's MMA Hour show, Ngannou said he rejected a UFC deal to preserve his "freedom". "It doesn't matter how much [money] is in that contract, I am not free," said Cameroon-born Ngannou, 36.

Daniel Cormier's UFC 200 main event fight with Jon Jones was canceled Wednesday as Jones faced doping allegations.

UFC 285: Jones vs. Gane was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on March 4, 2023, at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.

and Logan Paul drew around 1 million pay-per-view buys on Showtime, according to Sportico. That figure would correlate to more than $50 million in PPV revenue alone before the live gate revenue is calculated from Hard Rock Stadium.

$4 billion After months of intense negotiations, the deal has finally closed. As first reported by TMZ, the Ultimate Fighting Championship was sold for $4 billion to talent agency WME-IMG in the single biggest transaction in sports history.

Ngannou's split from the UFC comes after more than a year of contract disputes between the two parties. UFC president Dana White announced the news at a press conference on Saturday in the immediate aftermath of UFC Fight Night.

“We are giving up the right to match. He can go wherever he wants and do whatever he wants. We offered Ngannou a deal that would make him the highest paid Heavyweight of all time. He turned it down.”