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Emma Clement | Senior Graphic Artist

Pound-for-Pound: UFC 321’s main event ended in calamity — now what?

By Kyle Appleby, Associate Sports Editor October 28, 2025
For the first time in his UFC career, Tom Aspinall looked human. And by “human,” I mean he failed to finish his opponent within one round.

Massachusetts’ own Brendan Fitzgerald is on his path from Cape Cod to the UFC booth

By Kyle Appleby, Associate Sports Editor October 26, 2025
“How about that view?” Brendan Fitzgerald panned his camera from his hotel room to the sunrise-bathed skyline of Vancouver, Canada. He was in the Great White North to call UFC Fight Night: de Ridder vs. Allen, the latest stop on his winding journey to the apex of mixed martial arts.
Emma Clement | Senior Graphic Artist

Pound-for-Pound: Dominick Reyes’s resurgence meets a cruel end

By Kyle Appleby, Associate Sports Editor September 30, 2025
Five years ago, Dominick Reyes finally earned his shot at the light heavyweight strap after winning his first six UFC fights. 
Emma Clement | Senior Graphic Artist

Pound-for-Pound: The rise and fall of ‘The Ultimate Fighter’

By Kyle Appleby, Associate Sports Editor September 23, 2025
Dana White, along with Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta, nearly gave up on a multi-million dollar purchase of the UFC in 2004 but decided to stick it out another year.
Emma Clement | Senior Graphic Artist

Pound-for-Pound: The UFC is now in the blue corner

By Kyle Appleby, Associate Sports Editor September 15, 2025
This summer held no shortage of talking points for the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Emma Clement | Senior Graphic Artist

Pound-for-Pound: The clock is ticking on UFC 317

By Kyle Appleby April 28, 2025
International Fight Week is the UFC’s Super Bowl. Every year, a scorching midsummer Las Vegas week is dedicated to celebrating the biggest mixed martial arts promotion on the planet.
Emma Clement | Senior Graphic Artist

Pound-for-Pound: The BMF belt has lost its purpose

By Kyle Appleby April 22, 2025

Dana White has always made a point of being against gimmicks in the UFC. He’s criticized boxing promotions for making “gimmicky” fights, and infamously refused to re-sign heavyweight champion...

Emma Clement | Senior Graphic Artist

Pound-for-Pound: We’re officially in the UFC’s era of inactivity

By Kyle Appleby April 7, 2025

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...

Emma Clement | Senior Graphic Artist

Pound-for-Pound: Solving the UFC’s 155-pound problem

By Kyle Appleby 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.
Emma Clement | Senior Graphic Artist

Pound-for-Pound: Jon Jones’ title reign is far from undisputed

By Kyle Appleby March 24, 2025
Tom Aspinall will officially become the longest-reigning interim champion in UFC history April 29, passing Renan Barao’s record of 534 days. The end to Aspinall’s streak is nowhere in sight.
Emma Clement | Senior Graphic Artist

Pound-for-Pound: The UFC is prioritizing popularity over merit

By Kyle Appleby March 3, 2025
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.
Emma Clement | Senior Graphic Artist

Pound-for-Pound: The UFC is fixing double champions at the wrong time

By Kyle Appleby 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.
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