Arman Tsarukyan thinks he'd have the advantage over UFC lightweight champion Ilia Topuria everywhere, even in the striking ...

Du Plessis, meanwhile, is tied with fellow UFC titleholder Alexandre Pantoja at No. 4. Despite his impressive reign and ...

Topuria (17-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC) walked through that door at UFC 317 in June, when the former featherweight champion moved up in ...

The building blocks for a potential super fight between Islam Makhachev and Ilia Topuria are being put in place. There's no ...

The lightweight division experienced a dramatic shift after Islam Makhachev vacated his title to pursue opportunities in the welterweight division. The post Arman Tsarukyan Still Not Over Islam ...

In pursuit of becoming a two-division champion, Makhachev relinquished his lightweight title shortly after friend Belal ...

Islam Makhachev’s team is now considering a fight with Ilia Topuria, only a few months after Makhachev relinquished the ...

After Ilia Topuria knocked out Charles Oliveira to claim the vacant UFC lightweight title at UFC 317, many, including the UFC official rankings, have put Topuria over Islam Makhachev on that list.

For context, Dana White had Makhachev's quote about being ready to fight anyone immortalized on a wall at the UFC Performance ...

After that, Makhachev also hinted at settling his long-standing beef with Topuria in a potential super fight. The newly crowned lightweight champion has also expressed his desire to move up to the ...

Islam Makhachev is unbothered by Ilia Topuria overtaking him in the official UFC rankings. For many years, Makhachev (27-1 MMA, 16-1 UFC) made it clear he was striving to be the No. 1 pound-for ...

Ilia Topuria stance that Islam Makhachev was not ducking him with is move to welterweight was short lived, because the new UFC lightweight champion has returned to previous claims after his UFC ...