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Three letters — UFC — are once again on the verge of a big, adventurous storyline. Alex Pereira instantly reclaimed his light heavyweight throne by stopping Magomed Ankalaev in a minute and a half, and immediately set his sights on a historic supercard at the White House — for a heavyweight debut ag...
On the night of November 16, New York will once again become the center of the fight world: in the UFC 322 main event at Madison Square Garden, Islam Makhachev will try to make history — to capture a second title in the promotion, this time at welterweight. His opponent is the reigning champion Jack...
His biography reads like a TV pitch: a Czech bodybuilder and bouncer, the first fighter from the Czech Republic in the UFC, a prison stint for marijuana, a comeback on the European stage with 20,000-seat sellouts — and a private zoo in his yard with sharks, lionesses, and a crocodile. Karlos Vemola...
In Chicago on August 17, at UFC 319, a middleweight title fight awaits: champion Dricus du Plessis versus challenger Khamzat Chimaev. The matchup doesn’t boil down to “striker vs. wrestler” — both can work in the stand-up, clinch, and on the ground. We spoke with the fighters about their game plan...
P4P – An Abstract League of Champions The pound-for-pound (P4P) rating is a kind of “weight utopia” in combat sports. Experts mentally equalize every fighter’s weight and try to figure out who would be the strongest under such a hypothetical parity. There is no official set of criteria, so som...
In the UFC world, there are rivalries that do not fade even after years. One of the loudest and most memorable conflicts in mixed martial arts history remains the feud between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor. Recently, former two-division UFC champion and current Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier...
In the world of mixed martial arts, bold statements are often heard backstage, but this time the echo has traveled well beyond the sport itself. American singer Azealia Banks claims that former UFC featherweight and lightweight double champion Conor McGregor sent her explicit photos and then tried t...
From the Iowa Rally to an Octagon on the Lawn The phrase “Why not hold a UFC tournament right on the grounds of the White House?” was uttered almost casually at a rally in Iowa, yet it instantly shook the sports news feeds. Speaking at the “Salute to America” celebration, which kicked off the co...
American grappler and MMA fighter Dillon Danis has drawn attention again with a bold thesis: in his view, he could take down and submit newly crowned, undefeated UFC middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev without much trouble. As justification, Danis dissects how “readable” he finds the opponent’s st...
Islam Makhachev took the kind of risk many champions avoid for years: he moved up to a new weight class, stepped straight in against the reigning king of the division and calmly took his belt. At UFC 322 the Dagestani star made his welterweight debut against Jack Della Maddalena, dismantled the Aust...
