7+ hour, 5+ min ago   (1160+ words) Manon Caroline Fiorot. Born 17 February 1990 in Nice, on the French Riviera. Fights out of the same city she grew up in, which is rare enough in modern MMA. Southpaw, 5ft 7in, 66in reach, and long for Women’s Flyweight in a way that shows…...

3+ hour ago   (923+ words) Magomed Ankalaev is back in the win column and he did it the hard way, the long way and, in the end, the brutal way. The former Light Heavyweight champion stopped Bogdan Guskov with ground-and-pound at 2:41 of the fifth round…...

10+ hour, 39+ min ago   (1048+ words) Serbian. Thirty-three years old, born 29 January 1993 in Vršac, a small town up near the Romanian border in Vojvodina. Bantamweight. Five foot nine with a sixty-nine inch reach. Record: 16-2, and only one of those sixteen wins went to the judges. Seven…...

15+ hour, 9+ min ago   (1063+ words) Born in Coari, a river city deep in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Raised in Manaus. Lives in Stockholm. Fights out of the most famous gym in Scandinavia. Felipe “Jungle Boy” Lima is 5ft 6in with a 68in reach, holds a professional record…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1241+ words) Portage, Indiana. Born 16 May 1984. Five foot ten, 71-inch reach, orthodox, and a professional MMA record of 29-12 built across nearly two decades of getting hit in the face and refusing to care. Thirty trips into the Octagon. Nobody has fought more…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1117+ words) Groton, Connecticut. Five foot ten, 72.5 inch reach, switch stance. Nine wins, four losses. Seven of those wins by knockout or TKO, four of them finished inside a single round. A purple belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu who, asked to name his…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1502+ words) Brazilian. Twenty-six. Born in São João de Meriti, raised in the sprawl of Duque de Caxias on the edge of Rio de Janeiro. Nicknamed “The Legend”, which he gave himself after half-watching a Will Smith film. Mairon Santos stands 5ft 7in with…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (820+ words) That is the short answer. The long answer is a two-decade story about how French sport is governed, a 2016 decree that banned the cage without ever mentioning MMA by name, a television blackout that lasted 15 years and a generation of…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (379+ words) Muhammad Saidov does not do long fights. Eight professional bouts, nine wins, and only one of them has ever heard the final bell. The Russian Light Heavyweight made his name in Moscow fight halls throwing kicks at people’s heads, and…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (402+ words) Rodrigues did not stumble into fighting through a gym buddy or a bad neighbourhood cliché. He was sent there. In his own words on his official UFC athlete page, he was a hyperactive kid at school and his psychologist recommended…...