3+ hour, 19+ min ago   (451+ words) Nueraji Taiyilake has never had a judge read a scorecard with his name on it. Thirteen professional fights, twelve wins, and every single one of them ended early. Eleven knockouts. One armbar. The lone defeat on his ledger arrived the…...

4+ hour, 16+ min ago   (1130+ words) Steve Garcia was walking forward when the right hand landed. Seventy-four seconds into his Octagon debut, on a sold-out pay-per-view card in Singapore, Maheshate had put a Contender Series graduate face-first into the canvas and was standing over him with…...

19+ hour, 28+ min ago   (783+ words) She reached the TUF 34 strawweight final by beating the tournament’s top seed and then surviving a first round that should have ended her. College basketball was the plan. Then the knees went. The first serious injury arrived in high school…...

20+ hour, 34+ min ago   (844+ words) Most fans know her as Tina Black. That is the name on the Invicta FC belt, the name on the A1 Combat strap, and the name Daniel Cormier called out first when he made his No. 1 women’s pick on The Ultimate…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (848+ words) Record sits at 11-2 with two no contests. Both losses came by submission. Nobody has ever knocked him out. Altamura sits inland from Bari, closer to Matera than to anywhere glamorous. When Francesco Nuzzi started training, MMA in the Italian south…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1087+ words) Most fighters can point to the day they started. Delphine Benouaich jokes that she started at birth. She grew up with three brothers, and the house was a permanent scrap. Years later, sitting down with MMA Fighting during her run…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (857+ words) No nickname. He has never seemed to want one. The origin story is refreshingly unheroic. Parkin was sixteen, his mates trained at the local jiu-jitsu gym and his mother pushed him through the door. That was the whole of it....

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (517+ words) Brazil produces strikers the way other countries produce accountants. Every so often one arrives who has actually won something serious on the feet before he ever laced up four-ounce gloves. Hector Santiago is that fighter. Two different rulesets, two different…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (492+ words) Our matchmaking model ran the numbers on every fighter who competed at UFC 330. One decisive call each. Here they are. The fight to make is Carlos Prates. Jack Della Maddalena, and it barely needs arguing. Dern’s first defence was one-way…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1019+ words) Nine of his eleven professional wins ended inside the first round. Every single finish, without exception. That is the shape of Ramiro Jimenez’s career on paper, and it explains why the UFC handed him a contract shortly after stepping into…...