The New Status Quo The Ultimate Fighting Championship has handed over meritocracy to theatrics, and fans better get used to it, writes Jacob Debets.

Breen: Bellator’s Checkered Bridge to Nowhere Bellator MMA has a problem. A big one. Granted, it’s a problem about which only the sport’s most dedicated and fastidious fight watchers...

Sherdog’s Top 10: Fastest Knockouts in UFC History During the 24 years the Ultimate Fighting Championship has existed, its record books have been written and rewritten by quick-strike KOs, the...

Opinion: The Anniversary of a Terminal, Beastly Sickness Fifteen years ago today -- April 28, 2002 to be exact – MMA caught a nasty virus. Today, most of its symptoms are dormant, but that destructive DNA still resides inside the host. This was the day of...

Sherdog’s Top 10: Light Heavyweights of All-Time Long considered a glamour division in MMA, the 205-pound weight class has been home to savages, trendsetters, technicians and pioneers.

Sherdog’s Top 10: Fighters of the 2000s From Randy Couture and B.J. Penn to Wanderlei Silva and Dan Henderson, the decade gave mixed martial arts fans plenty of lasting memories.

UFC 199 By The Numbers It took 26 professional bouts for Michael Bisping to receive his first title shot. It took him 3:36 to become the UFC’s eighth middleweight...

‘Minotauro’ Nogueira to be Enshrined in UFC Hall of Fame Former Ultimate Fighting Championship interim and Pride Fighting Championships heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira will be inducted...

Opinion: Debunking the Myth of Heavyweight Exceptionalism Heavyweights are the biggest and the baddest fighters in the game. They bring the knockouts. Everybody loves the heavyweights. The heavyweights...

Sherdog’s Top 10: Ground-and-Pounders Randy Couture to Fedor Emelianenko, plenty of mixed martial artists have made a living out of punishing opponents on the canvas.