‘Ice Cold’ in the Tropical Heat: Igor Vovchanchyn at WVC 5 In winter 1998, Igor Vovchanchyn left sub-zero Moscow and won three fights in one night in a 113-degree nightclub in Recife, Brazil. He emerged with the ...

This Month’s MMA Birthdays: Maurice Smith Turns 60 The Alliance co-founder and former Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight titleholder remains one of MMA’s most overlooked pioneers.

Matches to Make After UFC Fight Night 197 It was not the virtuoso performance to which the buying public had grown accustomed, but Max Holloway once again showed the unbreakable resolve that not long ago brought him to the front of the...

The MMA Hall of F@#$%&G Awesome: Kazushi Sakuraba He was the face — and soul — of Pride Fighting Championships, taking on all comers in his signature freewheeling style and becoming one of...

By The Numbers: Frank Shamrock The Santa Monica, California, native in many ways was a forerunner to the modern mixed martial artist, a game-changing competitor defined by his...

This Month’s MMA Birthdays: Jessica Andrade Turns 30 Pound-for-pound one of the most violent females in mixed martial arts history, the former Ultimate Fighting Championship women’s strawweight...

This Month’s MMA Birthdays: Angela Lee Turns 25 Building blocks are prized commodities in mixed martial arts, and One Championship appears to have one in its “Unstoppable” atomweight...

Forgotten Fights of Yesteryear: One of the Greatest UFC Matches Ever In the latest installment of Forgotten Fights, Lev Pisarsky shines a light on a proto-MMA gem that was far ahead of its time, and one of the...

5 Things You Might Not Know About Frank Shamrock The Santa Monica, California, native wore many faces—champion, mercenary, pioneer, advocate and enigma, to name but a few—in mixed martial...

Frank Shamrock: From Failure to Greatest Ever in Two Years On Jan. 17, 1997, Frank Shamrock lost his third straight fight and was largely seen as an MMA failure. Two years later he was a dominant UFC...