UFC 284: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski — February 11, 2023, RAC Arena, Perth. Islam Makhachev retained the lightweight title against Alexander Volkanovski in the most-anticipated champ-vs-champ fight of 2023. Makhachev won via unanimous decision (48-47, 48-47, 49-46) in a razor-close fight that most observers had for Volkanovski. Yair Rodriguez stopped Josh Emmett in the co-main. The card produced one of the highest Australian UFC gates in promotion history.

UFC 281: Adesanya vs. Pereira — November 12, 2022, Madison Square Garden, NYC. Alex Pereira finished Israel Adesanya with a fifth-round TKO from behind on the scorecards, becoming the first man to beat Adesanya in MMA and starting the Pereira championship era. Zhang Weili reclaimed the strawweight title with a second-round rear-naked choke of Carla Esparza. Dustin Poirier vs Michael Chandler stole the night.

Introduction UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington. May 12, 2018. Jeunesse Arena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Amanda Nunes made her third UFC Women’s Bantamweight Championship defence, stopping Raquel Pennington with hammer fists at 2:36 of round five. UFC 224 was the first event in UFC history headlined by two openly gay fighters. The fight’s most discussed moment came at the end of round four: Pennington, her nose broken and face battered, told her corner she wanted to stop. Her co

Introduction Derrick Lewis is the most prolific knockout artist in UFC heavyweight history. A 6'3", 265 lb striker out of Houston, Texas, with the most knockouts in UFC heavyweight history (15) and tied for the most KO wins in UFC history overall (alongside Vitor Belfort and Anderson Silva), Lewis is the modern UFC's heavyweight cult-hero: the man who finished Travis Browne, Marcin Tybura, Alexander Volkov and Curtis Blaydes with single-punch counterattacks in the final minut

Introduction Glover Teixeira is the oldest first-time UFC champion in history. A Brazilian-American jiu-jitsu black belt out of Sobrália, Minas Gerais, who emigrated to Connecticut at age 19 to work landscaping jobs and support his family back home, Teixeira built one of the longest, most patient title runs in modern UFC light-heavyweight history. The path was eighteen professional fights and 22 UFC appearances before the championship — a 2014 title-shot loss to Jon Jones at

Introduction Shavkat 'Nomad' Rakhmonov is the undefeated 19-0 UFC welterweight contender, former M-1 Global Welterweight Champion, first Kazakh fighter to sign a contract with the UFC, and the foundational Central Asian UFC welterweight pop-culture branding figure of the early 2020s. The Sho'rchi, Uzbekistan-born ethnic Kazakh submission-grappling specialist — Steppe Wolves MMA Almaty product, member of the Altynbai clan of the Alimuly tribe of the Junior Zhuz, brother of M

Introduction Zhang "Magnum" Weili is the most accomplished Chinese fighter in UFC history and the first Chinese UFC champion in promotion history. The Hebei native won the UFC Women's Strawweight Championship twice — first in August 2019 with a 42-second TKO of Jessica Andrade, and again in November 2022 with a submission win over Carla Esparza. Her UFC 248 war with Joanna Jędrzejczyk is widely considered the greatest women's MMA fight ever and was inducted into the UFC Hal