2+ hour, 22+ min ago  (967+ words) Dagestan sends wrestlers to the UFC. Grinders. Chain-wrestling machines who take you down and drown you there. That has been the template for years and it rarely breaks. Then along came a lean kid from a mountain village who would…...

3+ hour, 41+ min ago  (444+ words) Damian Rzepecki does not leave things to the judges. Nine of his first ten professional wins were finished long before the scorecards ever came into play, a churn of knockouts and submissions that dragged the UFC to his door without…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago  (739+ words) Rafael Fiziev needed this one. Badly. Four losses in his last five had turned a man once tipped as a future Lightweight champion into a fighter the cynics were ready to write off. Then he walked into a packed National…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago  (615+ words) He chokes people. That's the short version. The longer version is one of the more unusual backstories on the current UFC roster, and it runs through European amateur tournaments, a Bahrain-based promotion, a brutal knockout of a UFC veteran and…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (449+ words) The nickname tells you how he thinks. "Beast Boy" comes from the DC character Garfield Logan, the shapeshifter who morphs into whatever animal the moment demands. Davis took it because adapting is the entire point of his game. He'll bang…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (806+ words) Makhachkala does not hand out reputations cheaply. The Dagestani capital churns out grapplers and maulers by the dozen, and most of them spend years in the regional grind before anyone outside Russia learns their name. Magomedrasul Gasanov spent more than…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (740+ words) A Brazilian Welterweight out of Curitiba, Paran. Born 22 July 1996. Black belt on the mat, problem-solver off his back. Pro MMA record of 18-8, eight of those wins by submission. UFC mark sits at 3-6. Trains in Connecticut under a former world champion....

5+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1124+ words) Nobody at the Wilkes Martial Arts gym in Perth was planning a UFC career. It was a family place. Fun and fitness, kids" classes, the kind of suburban dojo that runs on enthusiasm rather than fight purses. Then a quiet…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (602+ words) He fought nine straight without a loss before the UFC ever called. Then he walked into the Apex on debut, dropped a respected veteran in under three minutes, and pocketed a fat bonus cheque for the trouble. Ramazan Temirov announced…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago  (625+ words) He was born in Los Angeles in 1990. His father, Khalil Rountree Sr, worked as a tour manager for Boyz II Men and was shot and killed in an attempted robbery when Khalil was two years old. That loss shaped a…...