LAS VEGAS – Rob Font is looking forward to throwing down with Deiveson Figueiredo. Font (20-7 MMA, 10-6 UFC) meets Figueiredo (21-3-1 MMA, 10-3-1 UFC) in a bantamweight clash Dec. 2 at a UFC Fight ...

To see the depth of the UFC 300 fight card, one needed only look at the first time on the early prelims, where former bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt was set to face two-time former flyweight ...

Ever since he was first coming up through the ranks at flyweight, Deiveson Figueiredo’s coaches have been trying to tell him. They really have. They tell him that it’s a bad idea to go into every ...

LAS VEGAS – Deiveson Figueiredo thinks he’s done enough to earn a title shot. Figueiredo (23-3-1 MMA, 12-3-1 UFC) picked up his second win at bantamweight when he submitted former champion Cody ...

Following his dominant second-round submission win over Cody Garbrandt at UFC 300 last weekend, Deiveson Figueiredo is already eyeing up his next possible opponent. Following the fight, Cody Garbrandt ...

Deiveson Figueiredo argues why he should leapfrog other contenders if he rebounds at UFC Fight Night 261. Figueiredo (24-5-1 MMA, 13-5-1 UFC) will look to snap a two-fight losing skid when he takes on ...

Deiveson Figueiredo's priorities remain in the UFC bantamweight division, but the only thing standing between him and a return to flyweight to rematch champ Alexandre Pantoja is an official offer. In ...

Cody Garbrandt isn’t the least bit flustered by Deiveson Figueiredo’s trash talk ahead of UFC 300. Former UFC bantamweight champion Garbrandt (14-5 MMA, 9-5 UFC) is set to take on former two-time ...

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Dating back to the days when he watched Pride FC, Deiveson Figueiredo has been enamored of fighter nicknames. He needed one for himself and, despite not being a big fan of the critically acclaimed, ...

A bantamweight banger headlines the UFC's return to China in Macau. The last time the Octagon touched down in China in August 2019, history was made as Zhang Weili became the country's first champion.

Former UFC flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo says his health wasn't up to par entering the UFC on ESPN 67 main event against Cory Sandhagen. Figueiredo (24-5-1 MMA, 13-5-1 UFC) sought to return ...