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Joshua Van, UFCvideo

UFC: Joshua Van Hoping For ‘Six or Seven’ Fights In 2024, Top 15 Ranking

The lone Burmese fighter in the UFC, Joshua Van, had an extremely impressive UFC rookie year in 2023, and in the new year he is hoping for more of the same. This coming Saturday at UFC Vegas 84, the 22-year-old...
Olga Rubinvideo

Olga Rubin Was Working on Buggy Choke For At Least Three Fights Before Hitting...

Las Vegas, NV — Israeli bantamweight Olga Rubin, a former featherweight title challenger in Bellator MMA, is coming off what is almost certainly the biggest performance of her career. Though it's now more than six months removed, the sight of...
Christian Echolsvideo

Christian Echols Reflects on Epic Upset of Pat Downey

Las Vegas, NV — One of the biggest MMA upsets in recent memory came when little-known (to that point) Christian Echols put away NCAA wrestling champ Pat Downey with an uppercut inside of a round at Bellator 289. Despite coming...
Ken Shamrock, 15th Annual World MMA Awardsvideo

Ken Shamrock “Truly Blessed” to See Growth of MMA After Lengthy Career

UFC Hall of Famer and MMA pioneer Ken Shamrock received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 15th Annual World MMA Awards last month, seven years or so onward from his final fight in the sport. Shamrock, the inaugural UFC superfight...
Gillian Robertson, UFCvideo

Gillian Robertson Teared Up Learning She’d Fight at UFC 297 in Toronto, Wants Opponents...

January 20 in Toronto will see Gillian Robertson fighting as close to her home town of Niagara Falls, Ontario as she's likely to get in her UFC career — and when the news was delivered, it garnered an emotional...

TTP Ep. 410 with Jim Miller, Westin Wilson, and Top 5 Unranked Prospects

TopTurtleMMA · Episode 410: Jim Miller, Westin Wilson, and 5 Unranked Challengers UFC Vegas 84's Jim Miller Interview (2:21) Kicking off this edition of TTP is our interview with UFC Vegas 84 lightweight, Jim Miller. Miller talks about all the possibilties...
John Dodson, RIZINvideo

John Dodson Surprised by RIZIN 45 Match-Up, Plans to “Destroy” Ougikubo As Quickly As...

39 and feeling fine is one way to describe flyweight John Dodson these days. The former two-time UFC title challenger sits on a three-fight win streak in MMA as he heads into RIZIN 45, where he's been paired up with...
Jasmine Jasudavicius UFCvideo

Jasmine Jasudavicius Hoping for Another Clean Sweep for Canada at UFC 297

Jasmine Jasudavicius was already chomping at the bit ahead of UFC 297, when we spoke with the flyweight star ahead of her January 20, 2024 fight with Priscila Cachoeira. In an interview conducted just prior to Christmas 2023, the Canadian...
Themba Gorimbo UFCvideo

UFC’s Themba Gorimbo Wants to Be Inspiration, Not Role Model

Themba Gorimbo had a breakout year in 2023, picking up his first win in the UFC, while being gifted a house by Hollywood and pro wrestling legend Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who had been moved by the Zimbabwean fighter's...
Laura Sanko, 15th Annual World MMA Awardsvideo

Laura Sanko Feels MMA Has Done “Best Job Creating Equity” Between Male and Female...

Las Vegas, NV — UFC analyst Laura Sanko has seen her following online blow up in recent months, thanks to a bit of lighthearted fun with UFC welterweight Shavkat Rakhmonov. During the UFC 279 weigh-in show, Sanko joked that Shavkat...