What started as a spontaneous event, thought up by UFC president Dana White, turned out to be a memorable night on Saturday in Las Vegas.

On a night usually reserved for boxing and Mexican champion Canelo Alvarez, the UFC took center stage with a full house of 18,700 fans filling T-Mobile Arena for the first Noche UFC event.

Alvarez waited too long to schedule his fight on Mexican Independence weekend, and the UFC stepped in for a card that was highlighted by Alexa Grasso defending her flyweig

Situated in a nondescript neighborhood of Guadalajara’s Antigua Penal neighborhood, Gimnasio Julián Magdaleno doesn’t look like much from the outside.

Inside at the end of a long hallway is an old boxing ring, and in one corner a small altar to the Virgen de Guadalupe with photos of Oscar “Chololo” Larios, the first champion trained by Don Chepo Reynoso decades ago.

At 70 years old, Don Chepo, doesn’t stop moving. His son Eddy Reynoso is Saúl “Canelo” Alvarez’s current trainer, but it was Don

Rebeca Landa remembers a text message she received in college that has been etched in her mind until this day.

“Women don’t talk about football,” it read. The message came from a well-known person and a fan of the sport she loved, which gave it even more of an impact.

“It didn’t square how someone who loved football would limit their own gender like that,” said Landa, a native of Puebla, Mexico, who at the time was a student at the Universidad de las Americas Puebla and was an announcer for th

Graciella Boltiansky is the owner of a Los Angeles business making empanadas. As an Argentinean and fan of Lionel Messi, there was little doubt that she would find a way to pay tribute to her idol before the Inter Miami match against LAFC on Sunday from BMO Stadium.

“For us Argentineans what he is doing is incredible,” said Boltiansky, owner of Nonna’s Empanadas. “The effect of what Messi is doing is impressive, not only as a player but as a person, a friend, a father. He has been touched by Go

Life has shown Cristo Fernández that when one door closes, another one opens. And sometimes it happens in the most unexpected ways.

Fernández has seen that adage play out up close as his dreams of playing professional soccer were promising, playing on the developmental teams of the Tecos of the Liga MX at 15 years old. By 2014, he was playing first-team soccer with Guayama FC in Puerto Rico before injuries began derailing his playing career. It was at that point that his parents urged Fernández