The time for reflection is upon us after a roller-coaster year in MMA that nobody will soon forget. Our team at The Athletic already handed out the first round of our hardware last week, beginning ...

While the UFC forged ahead during the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, only missing a very short beat before resuming a business-as-usual approach to their weekly event schedule, Bellator MMA was ...

Obviously, that's a rhetorical question. The answer is clearly no, and that's why the 33-year-old Brazilian nabbed Bleacher Report's award for best MMA fighter of 2020. Figueiredo's incredible run ...

When the bell sounded to begin the fifth round of the main event of the final pay-per-view card of 2020, much hung in the balance for both Deiveson Figueiredo and Brandon Moreno, as well as mixed ...

It is no secret that BTS go hard when it comes to their MMA stages. Every year, fans wonder how BTS will top the previous year, and then they somehow always manage to exceed the already high ...

In one of the sport’s most bizarre moments, female MMA star Darina Mazdyuk has defeated 530-pound YouTuber Grigory Chistyakov in a fight in Russia. Mazdyuk is a 135-pound professional fighter who ...

Sometimes these year-end awards call for difficult decisions, drawing microscopic distinctions between a field of worthy candidates. This was not one of those. This was actually pretty easy. This time ...