Day: December 31, 2024

Check out these photos from the fights at RIZIN 49, their big New Year’s Eve show featuring three title fights at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. (Photos courtesy of RIZIN FF) Hiroto Gomyo def. Koki Akada – RIZIN 49 Hiroto Gomyo def. Koki Akada – RIZIN 49 Hiroto Gomyo def. Koki Akada – RIZIN
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Mike Valle’s work has been seen in premiere MMA for a long time. However, 2024 was the year when his coaching really stood out. The veteran trainer, who operates out of Chicago with VFS Academy, helped create two UFC champions this year and helped further the trajectories of other UFC and regional fighters. Valle’s most
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The voting for the UFC’s 2024 awards continues this week with some of the best “Say Uncle” moments of the year. Few people hate on a good old-fashioned submission in MMA, and the UFC had plenty to pick from the past dozen months. But they’ve been boiled down to the best four. What would your
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There were fight cards in 2024 that were put together to be too big to fail. And in the business of selling pay-per-views, that’s obviously a very smart thing. But how often do those shows turn into ones that were merely good for “on-paper” views, and when it came time to deliver the goods, they left
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