A golden-coloured belt from the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) sat propped in one corner of the hall as a shouting match ensued between US President Donald Trump and his Ukraine counterpart ...

Thomas further elaborated on why the value of the UFC's championship belts is merely symbolic, lacking the kind of legal weight and sporting legitimacy that the WBC, WBA, IBF, and WBO belts do.

‘The Machine’ has explained that the plan is to vacate his UFC belt if Aleksandre Topuria, brother of featherweight champion Ilia Topuria, enters bantamweight title contention. “In my ...