2025 is the year of the spinning back elbow. At UFC 319 earlier this year, we saw Carlos Prates and Lerone Murphy score incredible back-to-back knockouts with the strike. Spinning elbows are still all ...

Producing some notable finishes in recent years, the final Contender Series episode of 2025 certainly produced one of the best reactions from UFC boss Dana White. The final Contender Series episode of ...

Just like any other sport, high-level competition in MMA is subject to trends. One of the big ones in 2025 was the rise in spinning back elbow knockouts. One-fifth of all spinning back elbow knockouts ...

Avazbek “Ninzya” Kholmirzaev headed to Tokyo’s Ariake Arena confident that he could finish reigning ONE Flyweight MMA World Champion Yuya “Little Piranha” Wakamatsu, and he lived up to that promise at ...

Lerone Murphy only has to watch his knockout win over Aaron Pico if he is feeling low. Murphy welcomed Pico to the UFC in the co-main event at UFC 319 in August 2025 in Chicago. While Murphy was a ...

The final MMA bout and second-to-last title fight at ONE Samurai 1 ended in incredibly violent fashion before the card’s highly-anticipated main event. Featuring a total of four title fights across ...

Masvidal says Prates is 'the best fighter right now for violence' ...