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Fight fans were treated to a rare mid-week fight card on Wednesday with UFC on ESPN 13. Although the main card featured all unanimous decisions, it was an exciting event nonetheless. The UFC on ESPN 13 Post-Fight Matchmaker will give these main card unanimous decision winners opponents for their ...
In a stunning upset of Shinya Aoki for the ONE Lightweight World Championship, Christian “The Warrior” Lee joined his sister Angela as a world champion. Not only did he capture the gold, but he followed it up with a remarkable performance on short notice in the ONE Lightweight World Grand Prix fi...
Holloway vs Volkanovski was not a robbery. When both men fought for the UFC Featherweight title on Saturday, it was a fantastic performance from them. Max Holloway (21-6) was able to address the challenges Alexander Volkanovski (22-1) brought to his game and provided the champion Volkanovski with...
The UFC touched down in Yas Island, Abu Dhabi on Saturday for their first edition of Fight Island. UFC 251 included three title fights, one of them being a rematch between featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski and former champion Max Holloway. Volkanovski successfully defended his title fo...
Team Lakay’s Joshua “The Passion” Pacio may be young, but he is already on top of the strawweight world. The 24-year-old is ONE Championship’s shining beacon in the division with an 82% finishing rate that puts fans on the edge of their seats. After capturing the gold in 2018, Pacio briefly lost ...
Since Tyson Fury‘s destruction of Deontay Wilder in their February 22nd rematch, boxing’s pound-for-pound rankings have been significantly altered with a new entry in the form of a heavyweight sensation. But, where does “The Gypsy King” rank among these modern-day greats? Check out one person’s t...
In the inaugural ONE Championship athlete rankings, Bibiano “The Flash” Fernandes has an exciting collection of contenders awaiting their shot, including a man he has seen inside the ONE Circle on four separate occasions. Fernandes has been a mainstay atop the division, only briefly dropping the ...
At UFC 251 on Fight Island, Petr Yan (14-1) will face Jose Aldo (28-6) for the vacant bantamweight title. This booking is the strangest of all three title fights on the stacked card. Aldo has no official wins in a division full of top contenders. If Yan wins the belt, he will have become a champi...
In a post-fight press conference last weekend, Dana White admitted that they are working on making EA UFC 4 the game. They will be officially announcing more information while they are on Fight Island in July. With that being said most MMA fans are always debating who should be on the cover of th...
UFC on ESPN 11 was the UFC’s fourth consecutive event at the UFC APEX in as many weeks, and the next to the last before the organization moves on to the highly-anticipated Fight Island. This event featured a lot of decisions, with some fights being exciting while others were not quite so. Nonethe...
It has been just over a year since Andy ‘The Destroyer’ Ruiz’s monumental upset win over Anthony Joshua to win the unified heavyweight titles and simultaneously become Mexico’s first-ever heavyweight champion. Just over 6 months later he turned up to the Diriyah Arena in Saudia Arabia overweight,...
MMA fans were left with a sense of déjà vu when Conor McGregor announced that he was retiring from UFC last week. The Irish fighter made his first retirement announcement back in April 2016 but returned to action just four months later. He then retired for the second time in March 2019 but came o...
Adriano “Mikinho” Moraes sits atop the ONE Championship flyweight mountain with an 18-3 record. After re-capturing the ONE Flyweight World Championship in January of 2019, Moraes got to sit back and watch the ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix take place. Demetrious Johnson entered the promotion and ...
UFC on ESPN 10 featured a bevy of first-round finishes and fighters that missed weight. The third fight card at the UFC APEX brought action, again providing an entertaining night of fights for fans around the world affected by COVID-19. This UFC on ESPN 10 Matchmaker looks at the main card winner...
Top Rank Boxing was the first boxing promotion to resume this week. In large part, it received criticism in many parts. Matchmaking has long been a knock on boxing, it’s likely this will continue due to the travel restrictions and lack of resources. In the light of boxing returning in the US, the...
In October of 2018, the UFC and One Championship completed a trade that would historically change the landscape of MMA. Not only was it beneficial for Ben Askren and Demetrious Johnson, but the UFC generated a significant rise in popularity from Jorge Masvidal. Trades are almost unheard of in the...