Diego Lopes viciously ended the Jean Silva hype train earlier tonight (Sat., Sept. 13, 2025) LIVE on ESPN+ from inside Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Tex., stopping the Fighting Nerds standout with a bloody spinning elbow knockout in the second round.

Lopes used his weapons against The Fighting Nerds star and rocked Silva with a spinning elbow of his own, TKO’ing his opponent with more ground and pound strikes. Right before Lopes won, popular streamer Adin Ross was praising Silva’s striking skills to a UFC champion.

Diego Lopes needed to bounced back from a featherweight title loss earlier this year – and he did so in a big, big way.

Devin Tejada asks about one of the hottest teams in MMA over the last two years: Have the Fighting Nerds hit a wall, or was UFC Paris just a speed bump?

Flyweight contender Maycee Barber is set to return. “The Future” has been booked to face Brazil’s Karine Silva at UFC 323 on Dec. 6, 2025, the promotion’s final pay-per-view (PPV) of the year, inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas,

Daniel Cormier assures Jean Silva is locked in for his first UFC headliner. Silva (16-2 MMA, 5-0 UFC) takes on former title challenger Diego Lopes (26-7 MMA, 5-2 UFC) in Saturday's UFC Fight Night 259 (ESPN+) main event, the promotion's annual Noche UFC celebration, at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas.

After its four main representatives tallied an impressive 20 wins in 21 fights over the past three years in the UFC, The Fighting Nerds were awarded “Team of the Year” at the recent MMA Oscars.

This past Saturday in the co-main event of UFC Paris, we saw a big matchup in the lightweight division. The […]