5+ hour, 15+ min ago   (1087+ words) Most fighters can point to the day they started. Delphine Benouaich jokes that she started at birth. She grew up with three brothers, and the house was a permanent scrap. Years later, sitting down with MMA Fighting during her run…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1019+ words) Nine of his eleven professional wins ended inside the first round. Every single finish, without exception. That is the shape of Ramiro Jimenez’s career on paper, and it explains why the UFC handed him a contract shortly after stepping into…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (663+ words) That is the whole career in five sentences. The longer version is better. He teaches there. Muay Thai for the adults, assistant on the children’s classes. The jiu-jitsu foundation shows up in how he wins, which is almost always by…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (886+ words) Nobody in the division has a stranger road to the UFC than Crystal Vanessa Demopoulos. She was born on 22 September 1988 in Cleveland, Ohio, and her parents and paternal grandparents raised her in Greece. She is half Greek. Greek was her…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (828+ words) Jessie Rosas. Born 4 December 2002 in Clovis, New Mexico, to parents from Iztapalapa in Mexico City. Fights out of Las Vegas. Bantamweight, 5ft 9in, goes by Tachidito. An 8-1 professional record with six finishes in eight wins. Two knockouts, four submissions, one decision and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1144+ words) Drakkar Klose has spent nearly a decade as the man nobody at Lightweight wants on their record. He does not sell fights with a microphone. He does not have a nickname stitched into his shorts. What he has is ten…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1100+ words) Now he debuts in a main event. Against Dan Hooker. In his own city. Aubervilliers sits in Seine-Saint-Denis, the most densely populated and poorest department in mainland France. Moroccan families, West African families, Caribbean families stacked together in tower blocks....

3+ week, 5+ day 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…...

3+ week, 5+ day 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+ mon, 4+ day ago   (457+ words) Undefeated. Five pro fights, five finishes, four of them submissions. A Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt forged inside the most talked-about grappling room of the last decade. New Jersey born, Austin based, and now a UFC Bantamweight in everything but the…...