For a long time, Ilia Topuria and Paddy Pimblett's heated rivalry was restricted to social media, interviews and rare backstage confrontations. A fight between them isn't far-fetched now that ...

"He just wants to be Conor McGregor, but you can’t be Conor McGregor when you’ve got the charisma of a tin of beans, so it’s one of them.” Pimblett’s rivalry with Topuria stems back to ...

Islam Makhachev’s coach is focusing on a different challenger than Ilia Topuria after a lightweight shake-up this weekend. Makhachev has been struggling for challengers since breaking the record ...

Princess Kako, the niece of Emperor Naruhito and second daughter of Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko, turned 30 years old on Dec. 29. Kako remains deeply concerned about those ...

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Andreas Hale 2. Ilia Topuria UFC featherweight champion Previous ranking: 4 Record: 16-0 Last: W (KO3) vs. Max Holloway, Oct. 26, 2024 Next: TBD After knocking out two of the greatest ...

Beneil Dariush approves of Ilia Topuria getting an immediate title shot at lightweight. Topuria (16-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) vacated his UFC featherweight belt after admitting that the weight cut was too ...

Ilia Topuria is on the run of a lifetime—one we haven’t seen in quite some time—knocking out Alexander Volkanovski and Max Holloway back-to-back. With his stock skyrocketing and superstardom reaching ...

Paddy Pimblett doesn’t believe Ilia Topuria should get an immediate UFC lightweight title shot. Topuria recently vacated the UFC Featherweight Championship to move up to the 155-pound division. While ...

Losing a unanimous decision to Magomed Ankalaev at UFC 313 last weekend cost Alex Pereira his light heavyweight championship and also his top-three status in the ESPN pound-for-pound rankings.