Does This Belt Make Me Look Fat? The only long-term solution to MMA’s weight-cutting crisis is for the culture to change and for fighters to realize that mass is only one...

Raquel Pennington Says Her Team Made the Right Call to Keep Fighting at UFC 224 Ultimate Fighting Championship women’s bantamweight contender Raquel Pennington believes her coaches made the right call in allowing her to...

Knowing When to Quit The situations involving Raquel Pennington and Vitor Belfort at UFC 224 on Saturday are far more complex than some might think, Eric Stinton writes.

O Kyoji, Where Art Thou? Whether or not the UFC needs Kyoji Horiguchi more than he needs the UFC is up for debate, but the flyweight division is better off with him in...

Sherdog’s Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings Francis Ngannou may not be the No. 1 heavyweight in a post-UFC 218 world, but when he challenges champion Stipe Miocic, he will be treated as such.

Sherdog’s Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings Maybe you still think Kelvin Gastelum is an elite welterweight with an extra 15 pounds on him, and you may be right. However, regardless of...

Sherdog’s Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings It has been three years since Dustin Poirier fell out of our featherweight top 10 and moved up 10 pounds to arguably the most difficult and...

Sherdog’s Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings UFC 217 on Nov. 4 produced a trio of new champions, with all three title changes coming in riveting fashion and resulting in a triumvirate of...

Sherdog’s Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings Love him or hate him -- admittedly, it is probably the latter -- you can no longer deny Colby Covington is an elite welterweight. That is...

Sherdog’s Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings Just because your breakthrough win fails to break you into the top 10 does not mean you cannot have a real rankings impact. Being able to say you are a top-15 welterweight still carries clout,...