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Fedor Emilianenko has had a long and storied career as one of the all-time great mixed martial artists. But he's likely never had a more bizarre experience than he encountered…

At the age of 37, Evan Tanner passed away late last week due to extreme heat exposure in the Southeastern part of California. A month prior to his death, Tanner…

Ryan Bennett was a significant figure in the growth of mixed martial arts in that he established one of the sport’s major media outlets, then became a “face of the…

In the early 21st century, the Ultimate Fighting Championship grew into perhaps the most popular form of fighting in the United States, and indeed was pegged by many as the…

Royce Gracie Royce Gracie was the first real superstar in mixed martial arts, though it can be argued that most of it may have come by accident. In planning for the…

He was one member of the legendary Gracie clan who did not make his name by fighting in officially-sanctioned MMA bouts. But if not for Rorion Gracie, the UFC, as…

The Ultimate Fighting Championship got kicked off, literally, on November 12, 1993, at the 18,000-seat McNichols Arena in Denver. Without a boxing commission or other regulatory body other than Art…

He may have never won a UFC event when it was in its tournament format, and it can not be said that he was the dominant figure Royce Gracie was…

Someday - and it won't matter if it's a hundred years into the future - when the list of the most distinctive personalities in UFC history is discussed, one of…

Dana White is far from your traditional company president. Unlike many of the major promoters in boxing, White is a figure that can readily identify with the competitors under his…

One of the more incredible competitors in the history of mixed martial arts has been Randy Couture, who could perhaps be considered one of the two or three best practitioners…

One of the landmark events in UFC history took place when Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock stepped into the octagon to do battle. It also began perhaps the sport's most…

The objective of the Zuffa-led UFC ownership in 2001 was to transform the organization and the sport in engaged in from an "outlaw" activity into something that could reasonably be…

Shamrock was bigger and stronger than Gracie, who came in at 176 pounds. He got Gracie to the mat early on, but then he got caught in Gracie's guard, where…