The time for reflection is upon us after a roller-coaster year in MMA that nobody will soon forget. Our team at The Athletic already handed out the first round of our hardware last week, beginning ...
While the UFC forged ahead during the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, only missing a very short beat before resuming a business-as-usual approach to their weekly event schedule, Bellator MMA was ...
Obviously, that's a rhetorical question. The answer is clearly no, and that's why the 33-year-old Brazilian nabbed Bleacher Report's award for best MMA fighter of 2020. Figueiredo's incredible run ...
If sports were the canaries in the coal mine for the COVID-19 Pandemic, the UFC canary had a distinct case of laryngitis. And it coughed all the way to the bank. On one hand, the company adapted to ...
In one of the sport’s most bizarre moments, female MMA star Darina Mazdyuk has defeated 530-pound YouTuber Grigory Chistyakov in a fight in Russia. Mazdyuk is a 135-pound professional fighter who ...
Remember how it started? Remember January 18, 2020? Picture yourself there, enraptured by the glow of the screen as Conor McGregor makes the walk to face “Cowboy” Cerrone in the first UFC event of the ...
Scott Coker was sitting in the stands at the Next Level Sports Complex in Garden Grove, California. It was May 10, 2014. Quinton "Rampage" Jackson was promoting an amateur MMA card that night, and ...