Mixed Martial Arts and Boxing

TORONTO — As befitting its main attraction, Thursday's UFC 297 news conference was loud and raucous.

When Sean Strickland went after Dricus Du Plessis last month outside the octagon during UFC 296, jumping over a row of seats to throw a series of haymakers , it would have been easy to dismiss that as a publicity stunt to promote their main event at

TORONTO — The UFC is back in Toronto. And so is Brad (Superman) Katona.

TORONTO — UFC middleweight champion Sean (Tarzan) Strickland came as advertised Wednesday — R-rated with absolutely no self-edit.

Toronto's weather, a frigid -10 C feeling like -21 Wednesday, was a shock to some fighters in town for Saturday's UFC 297 card.

TORONTO — The stakes will be high Friday when Calgary's John (The Dragon) Ngyuen takes on Ottawa's Mateo (Carrapato) Vogel at Unified 55. Nguyen's Unified MMA Canadian featherweight title will be on the line at Toronto's Rebel Entertainment Complex.

TORONTO — Fighting in the UFC has taken Canadian featherweight Charles (Air) Jourdain to France, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Rochester and Elmont, N.Y., Newark, N.J. and six times to Las Vegas.

NEW YORK (AP) — The PFL is headed to pay-per-view, with the MMA promotion running a Super Fight event Feb. 24 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia .

TORONTO — It seems only fitting that Canadian welterweight (Proper) Mike Malott helps set the table for the two title fights that wrap up Saturday's UFC 297 fight card in Toronto Malott (10-1-1) is battling his way to the front of the line, or at lea

TORONTO — Middleweight champion Sean (Tarzan) Strickland has sent South African challenger Dricus Du Plessis a warning ahead of their UFC 297 main-event showdown in Toronto on Saturday.