Onama is also coming off an important win as he took a decision over Giga Chikadze in April. Prior to joining the UFC in 2021, Onama was touted as a prospect to watch, and now that the former lightweight is seemingly entrenched at featherweight, he can begin his run up the rankings in earnest.

The division was unrivaled as the leader on the UFC women’s roster in 2020, a year in which a battle at 115 pounds immortalized itself as one of the best fights in history. After Weili beat Joanna Jedrzejczyk in a five-round thriller at UFC 248, the division had big names, former champions, future queens, legends, and worthy contenders.

Mairon Santos has joined one of the most popular and up-and-coming gyms in MMA. Ahead of his featherweight matchup against Muhammad Naimov (13-3 MMA, 5-1 UFC) at UFC 323 on Dec. 6 in Las Vegas, Santos (16-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) has left Xtreme Couture to join The Fighting Nerds, home to top contenders Caio Borralho, Carlos Prates and Jean Silva.

Real American Freestyle follows the standard freestyle wrestling rules, in which action scores points. A takedown results in two points, and a stepout, which is when a fighter forces his opponent out of bounds, is one point. These are the two most common ways to score points in freestyle wrestling, though certainly not the only.

Muhammad Mokaev is 25 years old and on a 37-fight winning streak, but he no longer competes in the UFC. Mokaev, who was born in Russia but came to the UK as a refugee in 2012, contests his 16th

Two weeks after he said he was quitting, Jones walked back the retirement and said he was back to training. Once the UFC's plans for an event at the White House were announced, Jones started pitching himself for a spot on the card.

Tom Cruise has gone into a “meltdown” over his recent split from Ana de Armas, a source tells the National Enquirer. “Tom’s telling people Ana wasn’t up to his standards and he’s the one who pulled the plug,” explains the source. The Top Gun: Maverick star, 63, was first linked to the Ballerina actress, 37, […]

For years, the UFC antitrust saga has hovered over the sport like a storm cloud waiting to burst. Fighter pay, restrictive contracts, and allegations of business strong-arming have fueled a legal battle stretching back to 2014,