Introduction UFC Fight Night 194: Dern vs. Rodriguez took place on October 9, 2021 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas — UFC Vegas 39. The strawweight main event was a title-eliminator in all but name: Mackenzie Dern, riding a four-fight win streak and ranked #4, against Marina Rodriguez, ranked #6 and on a two-fight run of her own. Both women had legitimate arguments for the next strawweight title shot. Rodriguez dominated the striking game across five rounds and won a unanimou

UFC Fight Night 167: Anderson vs. Blłachowicz 2 — Feb 15, 2020, Rio Rancho New Mexico. FIRST UFC IN RIO RANCHO! ESPN+ 25. 5,282ft altitude! FIRST EVER UFC EVENT WITH TWO DQs (Pereira illegal knee + Vargas illegal knee)! Blłachowicz R1 KO of Anderson PoN — TAUNTED JON JONES at cageside! Jim Miller earns 7TH CAREER FotN (MOST IN UFC HISTORY!) with Holtzman; tied Cerrone at 33 UFC bouts. Rodriguez debut guillotine PoN. Dvalishvili wins (future BW champion!).

UFC Fight Night 123: Swanson vs. Ortega — December 9, 2017, Fresno CA. 1st UFC in Fresno. Ortega guillotine choke of Swanson R2 — DOUBLE BONUS (FotN + PoN; earned FW title shot). Moraes knee KO of Sterling R1 PoN (67 seconds). Knight BIT Benitez fingers (point deduction). Benito Lopez fined for weigh-in shove. De Tomas USADA fail. Dvalishvili early career loss (future BW champion!). 1.03M peak viewers.

UFC Fight Night 70: Machida vs. Romero — June 27, 2015, Seminole Hard Rock, Hollywood Florida. Originally planned for São Paulo Brazil but moved due to US State Department visa system crash blocking 12 athletes. Romero KO’d Machida with elbows in R3. Thiago Santos’ 30-second head-kick KO PoN. Larkin/Ponzinibbio FotN. Only 9 fights. Attendance: 5,604 (sellout).

UFC Fight Night 65: Miocic vs. Hunt — May 10, 2015, Adelaide Entertainment Centre, South Australia. First UFC event in Adelaide. UFC Fight Pass exclusive. Stipe Miocic TKO’d Mark Hunt in R5, landing 361 strikes (UFC record) with a 315-strike differential (all-time record). Robert Whittaker PoN in 44 seconds — future UFC MW champion. Dan Hooker early career PoN. Attendance: 7,984.

UFC Fight Night 61: Bigfoot vs. Mir — February 22, 2015, Porto Alegre, Brazil. First UFC event in Rio Grande do Sul. Record 10 of 11 underdogs won — cost Bovada nearly $1 million. Frank Mir KO’d Bigfoot in R1 with elbows. Michael Johnson dominated Edson Barboza. Sean Strickland’s UFC debut. No FotN — four PoN bonuses. Attendance: 5,080 (sellout).

Introduction Jamahal Hill is the only UFC Light-Heavyweight Champion in history to win the title and then forfeit it without losing a fight. A southpaw striker out of Black Lion Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with the second-highest significant-strike differential in UFC championship history (+157 over Glover Teixeira at UFC 283) and seven of his twelve wins coming by knockout, Hill won the vacant UFC Light-Heavyweight Championship at UFC 283 in January 2023 —

Introduction Mark "The Super Samoan" Hunt is one of the most beloved heavyweight strikers in MMA history and the foundational K-1 kickboxer who transitioned to championship-level UFC competition. The Auckland-born New Zealander — winner of the 2001 K-1 World Grand Prix — produced some of the most-replayed walk-off knockouts of the 2010s UFC heavyweight era against Stefan Struve, Frank Mir, Roy Nelson, and Antonio Silva. His chin durability, his Samoan power, and his legenda

Introduction Rose "Thug" Namajunas is one of the most accomplished strawweight fighters in UFC women's MMA history and a two-time UFC Women's Strawweight Champion. The Milwaukee-born Lithuanian-American striker rose to championship contention through The Ultimate Fighter Season 20 in 2014, dethroned Joanna Jędrzejczyk at UFC 217 in 2017 to become the second-ever UFC strawweight champion, and reclaimed the title at UFC 261 in 2021 with a head-kick KO of Zhang Weili. She cont

Good morning, fight fans. It is Wednesday, February 25, 2026. The MMA world is currently split between looking back at a dominant middleweight statement in Houston and staring down a high-altitude, high-stakes homecoming in Mexico City this weekend. From a legend making a massive divisional jump to Dana White setting the record straight on the most expensive event in history, here is your daily briefing. "Bobby Knuckles" Goes Big: Whittaker Moving to 205 In a move that has st