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Tatsuro Taira, UFC

What’s Next: UFC Vegas 93 Winners

Tatsuro Taira picked up a key win over a former title challenger in Alex Perez, though it came due to injury off a rarely-seen body triangle takedown. Miles Johns found success in the co-main event of UFC Vegas 93-...
Alex Perez UFC

What’s Next: UFC Vegas 93 Losers

UFC Vegas 93 featured 11 fights with six of them on the main card. In the flyweight main event, Tatsuro Taira stayed undefeated against the 12-fight UFC veteran in Alex Perez thanks in part to a graphic knee injury. Alex...
Jose Johnson UFC

The Weight Cutting Chronicles: 6’0″ Jose Johnson Moves to 125lbs

Six-foot all Jose Johnson makes the move to flyweight for UFC Vegas 93, successfully making 125lbs for the fight time at the event's official weigh-in on Friday. Here's a little look at his weight cutting history, and the sort...
The Ultimate Fighter 32

The Ultimate Fighter 32 Ep. 2 Sees Last-Minute Switch in Fights

We’ll be recapping each episode of The Ultimate Fighter 32 this year, with episode 2 arriving on June 11, 2024. Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko are your coaches, while featherweights and middleweights are featured. "Victory or Valhalla" is the second...
Nassourdine Imavov, UFC

What’s Next: UFC Louisville Winners

UFC Louisville started slow, but when Saturday's main card rolled around, business picked up. Five finishes in six fights later, and the slog that was the prelims had been forgotten. What will be remembered, most likely, is the controversial...
Jared Cannonier UFC

What’s Next: UFC Louisville Losers

UFC Louisville featured a packed night of 14 fights. Of the eight fights on the undercard, there was a just a single fight that ended with a finish. The main card however, delivered, with all six fights ending in...
Nassourdine Imavov UFC

The Pro Take: Fighters React to UFC Louisville Main Event Stoppage

UFC Louisville is in the books, and the main event middleweight showdown between Jared Cannonier and Nassourdine Imavov ended in controversy. A competitive fight heading into the fourth round, it appeared France's Imavov had begun to take over. And that's...
Punahele Soriano UFC

The Weight Cutting Chronicles: UFC Louisville – Career Middleweight Punahele Soriano Moves to Welterweight

Like it or not, weight-cutting is deeply rooted in mixed martial arts. MMA adopted its weight-cutting from the sport of wrestling, where it is presumed to be very advantageous to be the biggest and strongest in your weight class....
Valentina Shevchenko and Alexa Grasso, UFC 285

The Ultimate Fighter 32: Team Grasso vs. Team Shevchenko Debuts

We'll be recapping each episode of The Ultimate Fighter 32 this year, with the show kicking off on June 4, 2024. Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko are your coaches, while featherweights and middleweights are featured. After taking 2019 and 2020...
Islam Makhachev, UFC 302

What’s Next: UFC 302 Winners

It took longer than he had predicted, but Islam Makhachev did put Dustin Poirier away at UFC 302 on Saturday. A D'arce choke in the fifth round shortly after Poirier had mounted a brief comeback sealed the deal in...