The benefit of hindsight isn’t even needed to declare 2019 the year of Jorge Masvidal. Once considered something of a journeyman, Masvidal engineered one of the most stunning, rapid transformations in ...

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This has been the toughest year to choose a male Fighter of the Year in quite some time. Elite candidates abound and there are strong arguments which could be made for each of my five finalists (in ...

The UFC held 41 different events in 2019. That's roughly 500 fights this year in the UFC alone. Across the sport, there were literally thousands of chances to make an impression. That sort of volume, ...

Jorge Masvidal's meteoric rise from middling veteran to must-see superstar in 2019 is among the best one-year runs in mixed martial arts history. Masvidal knocked out three opponents in nine months, ...

Dustin Poirier didn’t win them all this year, but his 2019 run made two things abundantly clear about the hard-swinging, straight-talking Lafayette, La., native. First, after 10 years and more than 30 ...

It’s been an incredible year of both wrestling and mixed martial arts, and my first writing for Bloody Elbow. A huge thank you to those who brought me on, and those who consistently comment and share ...

Joe Schilling is returning to MMA competition for the first time since October 2019 and combat sports for the first time in more than two years at PFL Brussels. Schilling (4-6), a veteran of six ...

Guilherme Cruz is a Brazilian journalist covering combat sports since 2008. At long last, Renan Barao is heading back to a MMA cage. One of the most touted UFC champions from the first half of the ...