Renan Barao's stint as a UFC featherweight apparently lasted all of 11 months.The former bantamweight champion is returning ...

NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 19: A detail shot of the new UFC Legacy Championship belt during the UFC Fight Night event at the Barclays Center on January 19, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

LAS VEGAS – Almost out of nowhere, the talk has sprung up: Renan Barao is the best fighter in the world. Renan Barao is as fearsome as it gets. Renan Barao is a stone-cold killer. The odds are ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The toughest part of Thursday's festivities for Renan Barao was being so close to what was once his. There sat the former UFC bantamweight champion, during a UFC 177 media day at ...

LAS VEGAS -- Years ago when Renan Barao lost in his first professional fight, he considered the possibility that he was not meant to compete in mixed martial arts. Perhaps, he thought, he was destined ...

For that amount of time, which is the vast majority of the first round, we saw a fight. Renan Barão, champion of the UFC men’s bantamweight division, was defending his belt against T.J. Dillashaw, a ...