Opinion

It's a new year, a fresh start, and the UFC is finally back in action this Saturday following a three-week hiatus with UFC Vegas 101, headlined by a women's strawweight rematch between Mackenzie Dern and Amanda Ribas. Five years or...

We wrap up our year-end awards for 2024 with our pick for Fight of the Year. It wasn't a landslide, but one scrap from the highly-entertaining Noche UFC card this September took 50% of the vote— enough to give...

Our 2024 Submission of the Year award came down to a two-horse race, one that highlighted effort and outcome as much as sheer technical skill. So, no buggy chokes (sorry to Cage Warrior's Mitchell Goode) or inverted anything. Stevie...

The tightest race of our year-end awards for 2024 came in the Upset of the Year category. Given MMA is a sport where one punch can change everything, that's not at all surprising. Upsets can and do happen, and...

When you think about the greatest comebacks of all time in MMA, your mind almost certainly goes to Pat Barry vs. Cheick Kongo. Or maybe Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen I. Great comebacks in fighting almost always have a...

Our Newcomer of the Year award goes to the fighter who, newly signed to a major promotion, made the biggest impact (in other words, we're not counting time spent on the regional circuit per se). This year's winner definitely...

Our event of the year likely comes as no surprise. If anything, the biggest surprise is that there were no opposing views. Despite the brilliant production of Noche UFC and the 11-hour, 22-fight long RIZIN Decade that still turned...

We continue our year end awards with our 2024 Knockout of the Year, and being honest, there wasn't much debate. That's what happens when you have a highly anticipated fight between two fan-favorites that ends in a "did you...

Following easily one of the most banner years in MMA, the sport now has a brand new list of top fights to make in 2025. The UFC brand has never been bigger and it has in large part been due...

It's hard to remember a year, at least in recent times, where the choices for Fighter of the Year whether male or female were so obvious. So persuasive a campaign did our Female Fighter of the Year have that...