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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Sean Woodson (13-1-1 MMA, 7-1-1 UFC) said he is on “cloud nine” following his TKO win over Fernando Padilla at UFC Tampa Bay on Dec. 14. “I’m still riding the high,” Woodson told MMASucka a few days after the fight. “Still loving life and trying to live in the moment. But at the same time, […]
As the global leader in combat sports, the UFC is home to easily the most top-tier mixed martial arts fighters on the planet. From flyweight to heavyweight, there isn’t anywhere else that one could find such a loaded roster of world-class talent. However, while every division in the company is st...
Sometimes in life, anybody and everybody with an Internet footprint needs to take a break from using social media. A hiatus from social channels can be done for any number of reasons, but for Sean O’Malley, his recess from social media is performance-based. Sean O’Malley, nicknamed “Suga”, hasn’t...
At one point in time, Alexander Volkanovski was on top of the world in more ways than one. Near the end of 2023, his legacy as an all-time great in the sport had firmly been cemented after defending his featherweight strap against Yair Rodríguez, making it the fifth consecutive time he had retain...
Throughout mixed martial arts history, there have been more than a few prominent families that have gone on to take the sport by storm. Alex Pereira, nicknamed “Poatan”, is part of a laundry list of such family names, including the reign of domination the Gracie family had in the early days of th...
Ahead of UFC 311 next month, Arman Tsarukyan (22-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC) sat down with ESPN’s Brett Okamoto to discuss his upcoming match with the 155-lb champion Islam Makhachev (26-1 MMA, 15-1 UFC). First PPV of 2025 is a BANGER 🔥@MAKHACHEVMMA vs @ArmanUFC 2@MerabDvalishvil vs @UNmgdv #UFC311 at the @...
Brandon Royval vs. Manel Kape At UFC Apex, Not Larger Stadium Eager for a chance at facing reigning flyweight champion Alexandre Pantoja for a third time, Brandon Royval (17-7 MMA, 7-3 UFC) will face down previous Rizin Bantamweight king Manel Kape (20-7 MMA, 5-3 UFC) in Las Vegas this March. The...
Is Ilia Topuria Moving Up To Lightweight? UFC featherweight champion Ilia Topuria (16-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) has just pulled off one of the all-time great calendar years in UFC history. “El Matador” ended Alexander Volkanovski’s long championship reign at UFC 298 back in February, when he knocked the Au...
Israel Adesanya will soon be entering waters that he hasn’t charted in quite a long while. Adesanya (24-4 MMA, 13-4 UFC) nicknamed “The Last Stylebender”, has not appeared in any card other than a flagship UFC pay-per-view event since the summer of 2018. On July 6 of that year, during The Ultimat...
UFC World Titles Up For Grabs In 2025 Alexandre Pantoja became the eleventh champion to successfully defend his UFC world title in 2024 when he submitted Kai Asakura in the main event at UFC 310 earlier this month. There were nineteen UFC world title fights in total throughout the year and seven ...
Confusion Reigns At 125 lbs One of the biggest questions to come out of UFC 310 earlier this month has been that of the next contender in the flyweight title picture.. Alexandre Pantoja (29-5 MMA, 13-3 UFC) picked up the eleventh submission victory of his career when he strangled former Rizin cha...
UFC lightweight legend Jim Miller has another grizzled veteran in mind for his next fight. Keeping very active in 2024, the winningest competitor in UFC history, Miller (38-18-1 NC MMA, 27-17-1 NC UFC) continues to add to his record-setting amount of promotional wins at 27. Starting off his year ...