Opinion: A Win Just Ain't Worth What It Used To Be We need a new MMA neologism. As we trudge further into 2017, we need a word, a rock-solid and clever noun, to describe the unfortunate elite fighters who, through no fault of their own, become ensnared in an increasingly common and brutally frustrating professional...

Sherdog’s Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings At UFC 209, Tyron Woodley finally topped Stephen Thompson. It may have been one of the worst UFC title fights ever, but it maintained Woodley's...

Opinion: GSP-Bisping Does Not Suck In some ways, this may fail as a successful archetype column. I'm not sure this qualifies as a “hot take,” even if my opinion seems to put me in a particular MMA minority. There's a reason this column is not called “A Defense of...

Mark Hunt: 5 Defining Moments The 2001 K-1 World Grand Prix winner will tackle his latest challenge when he faces Alistair Overeem in a rematch at UFC 209 on Saturday in Las Vegas.

Opinion: A Retroactive Look at Recent Retroactive TUE Drama Since the UFC beefed up its drug testing policy and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency officially began testing its athletes, the relationship between...

Opinion: ‘The Black Beast’ -- A Meditation on Ethics in MMA Derrick Lewis’ finish of Travis Browne and post-fight speech for the ages opened up countless avenues for contemplation, writes Eric Stinton.

Bellator 172 ‘Fedor vs. Mitrione’ Play-by-Play, Results & Round-by-Round Scoring Sherdog.com's live Bellator 172 coverage kicks off at 7 p.m. ET. Also, a free live stream of the prelims is available.

Patricky Freire and the Art of the Rebound The lightweight “Pitbull” has bounced back from defeat before and plans to do so again when he meets Josh Thomson in the Bellator 172...

Preview: UFC Fight Night ‘Lewis vs. Browne’ The heavyweights take center stage on Sunday in Nova Scotia, as Derrick Lewis takes on Travis Browne in the UFC Fight Night 105 headliner.

10 Questions for Oli Thompson In this exclusive interview, the Wolfslair Academy rep discusses his forthcoming showdown with Cheick Kongo and the pressure of competing on the same card as...