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UFC London is now one for the books and from a card that seemed positive ahead of fight night went down terribly. The main event was a onesided beat down with the home fighter, Leon Edwards on the wrong end of it. There were 18,583 people in attendance, bringing in a record Fight Night gate […]
The spring equinox is just about here. One of the nicknames people give this rite of passage to signal the end of the winter season is “Party time.” Even the late, great comedian Robin Williams said as much in one of his stand-up routines. “Spring is nature’s way of saying ‘Let’s party!’”, Willia...
Mairon Santos‘s victory over Francis Marshall will go down as one of the most polarizing bouts of 2025. Prospective Brazilian Fighter Mairon Santos Returns in Las Vegas Opening up the preliminary portion of UFC 313, prospective featherweights Mairon Santos and Francis Marshall duked it out in wh...
Magomed Ankalaev will compete for the UFC light heavyweight title for the second time in his career at UFC 313 this weekend, live from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. His first attempt was back at UFC 282 when he fought for the vacant belt against Jan Blachowicz. On that occasion, the two men fo...
The illusive UFC megafight. The one that gets all fans, whether they are casual fans, experts, hardcore, journalists or, in fact, the UFC brass excited, hypothesizing, predicting and anticipating the bout itself. 2024 was a good year for a UFC megafight. We had UFC 300, where arguably the most an...
After UFC 312, Zhang Weili answered yet more critics, shut down more doubters and proved that she deserves to be in the conversation for female GOAT of the sport. After a dominant display against the previously undefeated, Tatiana Suarez, largely beating her at her own game, questions are swirlin...
Best Adult UK MMA Champions The United Kingdom boasts a rich history in MMA. It has produced a wide variety of sports champions who have left an iconic mark in the industry. When examining the best or greatest British MMA champions, a few names pop up. However, some consistently do because of the...
In the future, the women’s boxing world is about to get a shock as a historic fight is about to end. The showdown will be between two strong fighters, Claressa Shields and Danielle Perkins. Both of them are champions, and the landmark fight is about to go down in Michigan. The main question rema...
Although 2025 may be in full swing, the results of last year’s title bouts still leave a lingering feeling of excitement. From Alex Pereira and Khalil Rountree Jr.’s all-time barnburner, to Jon Jones making his return against Stipe Miocic, 2024 was certainly a highlight time in UFC history. Hark...
After the first PPV of the year is in the books for the UFC, we look forward to the next, UFC 312. Set to take place in Sydney, Australia, UFC 312 will feature two title fights, however, outside of that, the entire card is fairly weak. We look at the main card specifically and analyse […]
At UFC 311 last week, Merab Dvalishvili logged the first defense of his bantamweight title in a landmark upset victory over the highly-touted Umar Nurmagomedov. Receiving some harsh blows, and even losing a few grappling exchanges in the early goings of the contest, “The Machine” lived up to his ...
Let’s talk about having a dream, shall we? A dream, in its simplest form, is time spent on the playground of a person’s imagination. When a person lets his or her imagination run wild on the playground known as the world of fantasy, anything is possible, anything at all. One such dream that takes...
What’s Next For The Main Card Winners At UFC 311? The first UFC pay-per-view event of 2025 went down this past weekend and fans were treated to an evening of exciting finishes at UFC 311 at the brand new Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California. Both the UFC bantamweight and lightweight titles were r...
The UFC have preferences, just like any other company. They have certain men and women on their roster who they hope to be UFC champions. This is based on potential, those who make ‘business sense’ e.g ticket sellers, those who put on entertaining fights and ‘fit’ the UFC mould. We take a look at...
When it comes to the conversation about deciding who is the best UFC featherweight of all time, two names standout above all others: Alexander Volkanovski and José Aldo. Cementing their places amongst the best to ever do it, both champions defeated a bevy of top-level competition, ranging from yo...
As has become somewhat of a tradition here at MMASucka, we like to throw out 10 outlandish predictions every year and claim to be psychic when one of the 10 gets remotely close. Last year’s article can be found here, however, we will revisit our 2024 predictions in this article. Be sure to check ...