Features
Cheick Kongo: At 42, a somebody again
Cheick Kongo turns forty-two years of age today (May 17) and is still built like a Greek God. He still packs the punch of one, too, a thunderbolt shocking enough to once upon a time [...]
Rory MacDonald: A teenage prodigy all grown up
Rory MacDonald has an aura. We know this by now. Hard-to-read, slightly unnerving, it's with him when he's in the cage on fight night, it's with him during interviews and it's with him when it [...]
UFC 211 Preview: Can Stipe Miocic stop the passing of the heavyweight parcel?
The UFC heavyweight championship. The greatest prize in sport. The title everybody wants but nobody, it seems, is able to keep. Two successful defences remains the goal, the objective, the height of the bar raised [...]
Happy, Healthy & Hazardous: In-depth with Junior dos Santos
*** This feature originally appeared in the July 2016 issue of Fighters Only *** By Nick Peet Former UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos insists he has finally put the worst two years [...]
UFC 211 Preview: Joanna Jędrzejczyk’s cleaning house
On the face of it, Joanna Jędrzejczyk from Poland probably wasn't the person the suits had in mind when drawing up the template to take women's MMA into 2017 and beyond. Her surname, for starters, [...]
Born a Champion: In-depth with Joanna Jędrzejczyk
Pocket-sized Polish powerhouse Joanna Jedrzejczyk’s accomplishments are unmatched in the UFC’s smallest weight division. The organisation’s first female European champion won strawweight gold and earned the rank of women’s pound-for-pound number one with exciting striking [...]