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The Cobra wins gold: Former WWE star, Santino Marella, tops his Jiu-Jitsu CON bracket and leaves Vegas with a medal, a crooked jaw, and no regrets

The man who made a career of comedy in WWE spent World Master week doing something deeply awesome: grinding through a five-man purple belt super heavyweight bracket at 46-plus, and cataloguing the damage on the flight home.

Andrew WeissmannSep 93 min read

MMA

Contender Series wrap: Pasley knocks out Berisha, earns a Jon Jones comparison, and the season hits halfway ahead of record pace

The main event between two men who had never seen a second round ended in the first, with the underdog on top dropping elbows. Four more contracts, a wedding present from the boss, one winner sent home empty-handed, and twenty-four signings at the season’s midpoint. The record is officially in danger.

Andrew WeissmannSep 94 min read

MMA

DWCS Week 5 preview: Two unbeaten light heavyweights who have never needed a second round

A main event where every professional win has come in the first round, the week’s genuine gem at welterweight courtesy of the Fighting Nerds, and a returner back from one of the worst knockouts in show history. The auditions continue tonight at 7 p.m. ET on Paramount+.

Andrew WeissmannSep 83 min read

Bare Knuckle Boxing

Fernandez promises war for BKB’s Mexico debut

The Tijuana champion defends his belt at home on September 19, in the promotion’s first card on Mexican soil, against the most credentialed opponent it could send. A three-division champion versus a man less than a year into his bare-knuckle career, in front of the city that raised him. The homework had better be done.

Andrew WeissmannSep 73 min read

UFC

UFC Paris wrap: Parnasse finishes Hooker in one round, and the coronation arrives exactly on schedule

Fight by fight through a Paris card that produced eight finishes in fourteen bouts, a new French star at the top, a 100-second civil war underneath, and a prelim bloodbath the box score cannot do justice.

Andrew WeissmannSep 55 min read

MMA

Umar breaks his silence in four sentences, Khabib vows the title fight, and Usman answers his critics: the family speaks after Shanghai

No excuses, no relitigating, forty words of thanks and promise. The words around it carried the weight. The uncle called him one of the best in the world. The brother told the internet exactly what it could do with its outrage. And to the man who knocked him out, Umar sent three words.

Andrew WeissmannSep 44 min read

MMA

UFC Paris preview: France’s greatest export finally arrives at a -550 favourite over a top-10 gatekeeper in his debut

Salahdine Parnasse has been the best fighter not in the UFC for half a decade. Saturday at Accor Arena he gets his debut, at home, in a main event, against Dan Hooker, priced like a champion. The Hangman has spent a career making anointed men earn it. Special start times: prelims at noon ET, main card at 3 p.m. ET.

Andrew WeissmannSep 44 min read

Italy’s BJJ federation launches a Grand Slam for Europe’s black belts

Unione Italiana Jiu-Jitsu is launching a four-event, consecutive-wins gauntlet with real money banked along the way, opening in Milan in November.

Sep 34 min read

Wrestling

Chimaev and Burns run it back in RAF: the fight that dented the aura gets a wrestling sequel at RAF 13 in Miami

Four years after the war that proved The Wolf was mortal, the rematch arrives with the striking stripped out. Chimaev wrestles Woodley in Moscow this Saturday, then Burns in Miami thirteen days later, while the man across from him arrives from retirement with a new career and an old grudge.

Sep 35 min read

Jiu-Jitsu

Jiu-Jitsu CON Takes Over Las Vegas This Weekend

Thousands of adult competitors, the legends teaching between the mats, and the industry selling to all of them, under one convention center roof for three days. World Master week has quietly become the participation economy’s biggest annual gathering, and this year it moved into a bigger building to prove it.

Sep 23 min read

MMA

Contender Series Week 4 preview: An Irish favourite headlines a week after the show taught favourites humility

Fifteen contracts in three weeks, a season record within reach, and a graduate already knocking people out in the UFC. Tonight: streak against streak at welterweight, two returners chasing the season’s redemption pattern, and a co-main prospect who has finished every win of his career.

Sep 14 min read

MMA

Perry breaks his silence after the shoulder gave out in Orlando: ‘Health is wealth’

He took the replacement fight at half pay, walked out at -900 in his own city, hurt the substitute inside two minutes, and then his shoulder left its socket mid-combination.

Aug 314 min read

MMA

Gaethje rules out 2026, still unable to punch two months after the White House war: ‘I’m just gonna enjoy being the champion’

The lightweight king’s hands are still reeling from what they did to Topuria’s face. The champion says he cannot hit anything, the rematch does not sit right in his gut, and the division below him gets a year to argue about who is next.