4+ hour, 51+ min ago  (454+ words) That tells you most of what you need to know about how he operates. Nascimento's first paid fight came on 19 October 2019 at Shooto Brasil 97 in Rio de Janeiro, where he grew up. He stopped Marcelo Carvalho by first-round submission. No…...

15+ hour, 35+ min ago  (1022+ words) Luana Santos turned a childhood in S'o Paulo judo into a UFC career shaped by travel, discipline, illness and reinvention. The Brazilian judo black belt has moved between Women's Flyweight and Bantamweight, built a 10-2 MMA record and made one of…...

20+ hour, 51+ min ago  (1069+ words) Karol Rosa has built her UFC career on durability, volume and long-term persistence in the Women's Bantamweight division. The Brazilian fighter from Vila Velha entered MMA as a teenager, worked through financial pressure at home and has turned a long…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (908+ words) Most fighters spend their careers chasing the next pound. Jared Cannonier spent his shedding them. He walked into mixed martial arts as a heavyweight north of 300lbs and rebuilt himself, fight by fight, into one of the most feared punchers the…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1026+ words) Christian Rodriguez has built a UFC career around difficult assignments, short-notice tests and a move from Bantamweight to UFC Featherweight after repeated weight-cut issues. Known as "Cee Rod, the Milwaukee-based fighter carries Mexican family roots, a Roufusport background and a…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (440+ words) Ten wins, one loss, and seven of those wins never saw the judges" scorecards. Otari Tanzilovi does not hang around. The Georgian has spent the better part of a decade turning small-hall cards in the Caucasus into a knockout reel,…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (633+ words) Whittaker was born in New Zealand, with Samoan and Maori heritage running through the family, and moved to Australia as a young boy. His father put him and his brother into martial arts in the Sydney suburb of Menai, partly…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (572+ words) That origin story colours everything about him. There is no decade of amateur pedigree here, no Olympic credential, no famous lineage. Just a big, angry heavyweight who found a reason to keep going and turned out to be frighteningly good…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (1007+ words) There are fighters who brawl their way to the top and there are fighters who solve their way there. Cory Sandhagen belongs firmly in the second camp. The American Bantamweight from Aurora, Colorado has spent more than a decade building…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (323+ words) Patrick Mark Pimblett was born on 3 January 1995 and grew up in Huyton, Merseyside, on the eastern edge of Liverpool. He is English, sounds it within half a syllable, and has never once tried to sand the accent down for an…...