Payton Talbott should fight Sean O’Malley next. Fightomic’s matchmaking model had Raul Rosas Jr on top for him and this column is overruling it. Talbott has now finished Henry Cejudo and Figueiredo ...

Quentin Pasley needed four minutes and 41 seconds on Dana White’s Contender Series to turn a three-fight professional record into a UFC contract. Two elbows from top position put Arlind Berisha out ...

Mackenzie Stiller has been throwing people since she was eight years old. She had more than 200 judo matches behind her before she ever set foot in a cage, and five of her six professional wins have ...

Nikolas Motta left Governador Valadares straight after high school with one plan. His family wanted him at university. He wanted the UFC, and he has chased it through Rio de Janeiro, New Jersey, ...

The UFC used the UFC 332 broadcast to hand its December pay-per-view a top end, and it did not go small. A BMF title fight, Alex Pereira’s second crack at Heavyweight and a Middleweight ...

Nick Galanti used to pour concrete in New York high rises, then race back to New Jersey to train on three hours of sleep. On 25 August 2026 he knocked out Carlos Petruzzella in 35 seconds on Dana ...

Shem Rock learned to fight while hiding from the police. The Liverpool Lightweight spent seven years in Asia as a wanted man, turned himself into a submission specialist in a Kuala Lumpur gym, came ...

Plenty of fighters wait for the UFC to call. Alice Pereira printed her own résumé on a T-shirt and wore it in the cage. Pereira is a Brazilian Women’s Bantamweight from Feira de Santana in Bahia. She ...

Some divisions are built to end early. Others are built for fifteen minutes of hard work and three scorecards. The pattern is consistent enough that you can more or less predict the shape of a fight ...

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Josh Emmett has spent a decade in the UFC swinging one of the heaviest right hands the Featherweight division has seen. He has also had his face put back together, won a fight on a knee that gave out ...

Harry Hardwick spent ten years getting to the UFC and three and a half minutes finding out how unforgiving it is. The Middlesbrough Featherweight arrived as a Cage Warriors champion on a nine-fight ...