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Tang Kai marched through the ONE Championship featherweight division to become China’s first-ever male MMA World Champion. As 2025 gets underway, he will set forth to defend his crown. At ONE Fight Night 27 on Prime Video, Tang welcomes the challenge from an undefeated beast. Tang Kai Not Too Wor...
Time moves fast in the action-packed world of mixed martial arts. As we enter a new year inside the Octagon, let’s take a look at some of the names who called time on their careers over the past twelve months. MMA Fighters Who Retired In 2024 Stipe Miocic Former UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Mio...
Paige VanZant is set for a return to MMA, five years after parting ways with the UFC. The former hot-prospect turned Onlyfans star, turned bare-knuckle boxer, turned professional wrestler, turned influencer boxer, turned slap fighting competitor (have we missed anything?) will begin to mix the ma...
A war of words has begun ahead of one of the biggest fights of 2025 as Paul Hughes fires back at Khabib Nurmagomedov following the former UFC champion’s comments. As Usman Nurmagomedov (18-0, 1 NC) prepares to put his Bellator lightweight title on the line against Ireland’s Paul Hughes (13-1) on ...
In his entire 21-fight career, Matt Hamill fought many of the best fighters in the world and got his hand raised in victory many times. However, throughout his time as a top-level mixed martial artist, “The Hammer” not once was able to hear the roar of the crowd as they cheered him on, as he […]
In combat sports, the concept of an interim championship relates to a stopgap by the promotion when the permanent champion of a weight class can’t defend his or her title for whatever reason. With the UFC beginning its 2025 schedule of events one week from Saturday night in Enterprise, NV for UFC...
ONE Championship has handed out some hardware at the end of the year. After hundreds of fights across kickboxing, MMA, Muay Thai, and submission grappling, the promotion identified two standouts for Fighters of the Year. The two titleholders who earned the honor were Superlek Kiatmoo9 and Kade Ru...
Former UFC flyweight prospect Igor Severino made his return to competition last week for the first time since being released by the promotion back in March on the same night as his debut. Traveling all the way to the Czech Republic, the Brazilian striker’s comeback bout came against Swiss mixed m...
Previously retired UFC star Donald Cerrone has made the announcement that he will be returning to competition some time next year. The statement comes more than two years after his last mixed martial arts bout when faced Jim Miller at UFC 276, losing by second- round guillotine choke. Donald Cerr...
ONE Championship has shuffled the deck for ONE 170 on Friday, January 24. ONE Flyweight Kickboxing and Bantamweight Muay Thai World Champion Superlek Kiatmoo9 has been removed from his bantamweight title defense following a knee injury. However, interim gold will be on the line. Carrillo Battles ...
One of ONE Championship’s biggest stars did not see any action in 2024. Stamp Fairtex looked to have a big year lined up with two title tilts, but a torn meniscus sidelined the ONE Atomweight MMA World Champion for a full year. Inching closer to a comeback, Stamp Fairtex looked back on a trying y...
News emerged this week that former UFC lightweight title contender, Donald Cerrone (36-17-1 NC MMA, 23-14-1 NC UFC) has re-entered the drug testing pool and plans on making a return to the Octagon in 2025. “Cowboy” fought in the UFC 38 times from 2011 until 2022 and also competed 10 times in the ...
Rizin’s final show of the year Rizin 49: Decade is set to go down later today at the Saitama Super Arena. The show is going to feature 21 matches (17 with MMA rules, three with kickboxing rules, and one exhibition standing rules bout). Three of the main card matches will feature title defenses. R...
For the past few years, Anatoly Malykhin has created a strong legacy for himself. In 2022, the Russian MMA star won his first ever undisputed professional title at ONE on Prime Video 5 when he starched then two-division champion Reinier de Ridder in a single round, taking the middleweight belt. I...
Having booked his first Octagon assignment of 2025, Curtis Blaydes will defend his place in the heavyweight top five when he meets Russian finisher Rizvan Kuniev at UFC Fight Night 252. Despite going 4-2 in his last six fights, with those two losses coming against Sergei Pavlovich and interim cha...
The final MMA event of 2024 goes down this Sunday at the 02 Arena in Prague. Three world titles are on the line when Oktagon 65 takes place in the Czech Republic. Oktagon 65 Results Champ vs. Champ in Oktagon 65 Main Event Oktagon lightweight champion Ronald Paradeiser (21-8) will put his belt on...