By Kyle Appleby, Sports Co-Editor
• February 12, 2026
When Max Holloway, who had a pedestrian 3–3 record in the UFC at the time, knocked out Will Chope on the first card of 2014, very few could have expected Holloway wouldn’t taste defeat for 13 consecutive bouts — 14, if you’re only counting featherweight fights.
During UFC: Moreno vs. Erceg, news broke that Geoff Neal was injured and could not compete against Carlos Prates at UFC 314, the card losing an exciting matchup.
We already saw Joe Pyfer’s bout with...
By Kyle Appleby, Sports Co-Editor
• March 31, 2025
The lightweight division is the UFC’s most prestigious. It’s housed some of the most dominant and highest-skilled champions in the sport’s history and it’s always been stacked with title contenders.
It’s no secret that the UFC awards some privileges to their money-making superstars. Israel Adesanya was granted an immediate rematch for the middleweight belt after suffering the worst loss of his career to a short-notice Sean Strickland.
By Kyle Appleby, Sports Co-Editor
• February 24, 2025
It’s not often that the UFC alerts its fans of an impending announcement. So when they took to social media to announce that president and CEO Dana White had big news on Wednesday night, over 40,000 people tuned in to the boss’s Instagram Live, where he detailed a series of landscape-altering matchups alongside other news.
By Kyle Appleby, Sports Co-Editor
• November 4, 2024
Ilia Topuria’s recent win at UFC 308 didn’t move him in the UFC’s rankings, which makes me wonder what changes I’d make if I had that kind of power. Often determining matchups and used to debate legacies, the UFC rankings are always in the spotlight. I’ve ranked every champion in the UFC below, plus some non-champs I might add if I were to rank 15 fighters as the UFC does.
