2025 is the year of the spinning back elbow. At UFC 319 earlier this year, we saw Carlos Prates and Lerone Murphy score incredible back-to-back knockouts with the strike. Spinning elbows are still all ...

Ortsa Gudaev handed Rafael Dias his first stoppage-loss since 2018 when the pair met in a featherweight bout at Core FC 2 in Turkiye. Much of the attention of the MMA world is currently centered on ...

Merry Christmas everyone! As the year winds down and the UFC layoff continues, it’s a perfect time to look back over the most eventful moments of 2025. Specifically, we’ll be talking here about the ...

Quillan Salkilld turned in a Knockout of the Year candidate in Abu Dhabi. At UFC 321, Salkilld (10-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) landed an all-time-violent high kick Saturday that knocked out Nasrat Haqparast ...

Melquizael Costa closed out a career year in electric fashion at UFC on ESPN 73 with a devastating head kick knockout against Morgan Charriere. Costa (25-7 MMA, 6-2 UFC) became the first to stop ...

With another action-packed year of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie takes a look at the best knockouts from January to December. Here are the top five and the winner of MMA Junkie’s Knockout of the Year ...

There was plenty of action in the UFC 321 prelims card, but Quillan Salkilld stole all the attention. Salkilld, who jokingly calls himself a minority killer, brutally knocked out Nasrat Haqparast in ...

Just like any other sport, high-level competition in MMA is subject to trends. One of the big ones in 2025 was the rise in spinning back elbow knockouts. One-fifth of all spinning back elbow knockouts ...

Top-ranked light heavyweight contenders Dominick Reyes and Johnny Walker are reportedly set to meet in the first fight confirmed for UFC 327. With 2026 right around the corner, MMA fans are eagerly ...