UFC analysts, fighters and coaches offer theories on why spinning back elbow knockouts were more common in 2025.

It represented a seismic shift in women's mixed martial arts. Holly Holm knocked out Ronda Rousey with a second-round head kick and follow-up punches, as she captured the undisputed Ultimate Fighting ...

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 ...

With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best knockouts from November 2025: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie's ...

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 ...

The threat of turbocharged offense always exists with Muslim Salikhov. “King of Kung Fu” authored another chapter in his late-career resurgence with the Ultimate Fighting Championship when he felled ...

UFC Paris' hyped debutants are 0-1 so far, as Cage Warriors' Harry Hardwick suffered a crippling knockout loss on the night's prelims. Hardwick stepped in on short notice to fight Kaue Fernandez, ...

Melquizael Costa turned in one of the best knockouts of the year last night (Sat., Dec. 13, 2025) at UFC Vegas 112 LIVE on ESPN+ from inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, stopping featherweight ...