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BreakingDana White explains why he’s not ready to crown Islam Makhachev as the GOAT just yet
Makhachev sits on sixteen straight UFC wins, level with Anderson Silva. Across 336,562 careers in the MMAHIT archive, only 209 contain a fifteen-fight winning streak — and the all-time record is 37.
BreakingIan Machado Garry on the backlash to his personality before UFC 330: ‘I couldn’t care less’
Garry challenges Makhachev for the welterweight title. He is walking into the archive's second-most destructive division below light heavyweight — 36.9% of welterweight's 80,119 bouts end on strikes.
UFCVolkanovski Anticipates Evloev Showdown, Says Confirmation Is Coming Soon
Volkanovski is drilling wrestling for Evloev before the bout is signed. He is right to: featherweight sends more fights to the judges than any division above it, and 34.7% of its bouts end by submission.
BreakingUFC champion Justin Gaethje not interested in Paddy Pimblett rematch
Gaethje has no interest in running it back with Pimblett. The archive backs the instinct: rematches repeat the first result 67.4% of the time, and lightweight is the most evenly split division in the sport.
BreakingGarcia and Benn Set for September 12 Clash in Las Vegas
Garcia and Benn are set for 12 September, both arriving from long controversies. In combat sport's largest public record, the outcomes those controversies produce are vanishingly rare — no-contests appear in 0.5% of bouts.
BreakingUFC Paris adds several bouts, including Michael Page’s surprising middleweight return
UFC Paris fills out its card at the Accor Arena. France now supplies 5,823 fighters to the MMAHIT archive — a national scene that barely existed in the record a decade ago.
BreakingUFC parts ways with Michel Pereira following Shara Bullet loss in Baku
The UFC has released Michel Pereira after a fourth loss in five fights. The MMAHIT archive holds 1,864 fighters who reached exactly that point between 30 and 35 — and only one in five ever put a run together again.
BreakingAnkalaev Gets Guskov Replacement for Abu Dhabi Headliner as Rountree Exits
Guskov steps in against Ankalaev on short notice. Both come from the deepest talent pipeline in the sport outside the Americas — Russia supplies 20,009 fighters to the MMAHIT archive and wins more often than any other major nation.
BreakingDan Hooker wants UFC to let Conor McGregor box: ‘His body can’t hold up in MMA’
Hooker says McGregor's body cannot hold up in MMA. The archive's most durable careers say what holding up actually looks like — Igor Vovchanchyn finished 41 opponents across 66 recorded fights.
BreakingMcGregor's Coach Breaks Silence After Catastrophic UFC 329 Injury: "Doesn't Get Any Worse Than This
"Doesn't get any worse than this." The archive holds a specific vocabulary for a fight that ends because a body stops cooperating — 5,346 doctor stoppages, 5,335 retirements between rounds, 2,379 corners intervening.
ResultsSteveson Survives Firefight in UFC Debut, Proves Striking Prowess Beyond Wrestling Pedigree
Steveson won his debut as a -2800 favourite. The archive's view of debuts is bleaker than that suggests: of 336,562 fighters, 177,840 have exactly one recorded professional bout and never appear again.
ResultsBautista Seizes Redemption Over Sandhagen, Eyes Title Shot at UFC 329
Bautista reversed a five-year-old loss to Sandhagen on the cards. He landed on the right side of a 32.6% — and in the division that splits its outcomes more evenly than almost any other.
ResultsPimblett Eyes Title Shot After Devastating Submission Win, Targets Oliveira
Pimblett finished it in 52 seconds. Only 14.6% of the archive's 109,512 round-one submissions arrive that fast, against an average of 2:10.
RankingsDana White Erupts Over UFC Production Blunder, Calls Network 'Worst Ever' at Celebrity Identification
White tore into his own broadcast team over a graphics error. The volume of fights the sport now stages explains some of the strain: recorded bouts have risen from 11,480 in 2020 to 36,395 in 2025.
ResultsDana White Dismisses Pre-Existing Injury Claims as McGregor Suffers First-Round Loss
White insists nothing was wrong beforehand. The archive cannot see a fighter's medicals, but it can see what age does: win rates fall from 50.6% at 30-35 to 40.2% at 37 and over.
BreakingMcGregor's Comeback Derailed by Devastating Injury
McGregor's knee gave way 69 seconds into his return. In 1,049,038 archived bouts, an injury has ended the fight 2,777 times — and a knee specifically 357 times, roughly one bout in three thousand.
BreakingMcGregor's Return Derailed: Knee Injury Halts UFC 329 Comeback in 69 Seconds
The main event was over in the opening minute. That is not the anomaly it feels like: 48.9% of every fight in the MMAHIT archive with a recorded round ends in the first one.
BreakingRoyval Outlasts Kavanagh in Thrilling Brawl
Royval finished it with the most common finishing hold in the sport. Of 183,099 submissions in the MMAHIT archive, 59,237 are rear-naked chokes — nearly a third of every tap ever recorded.
BreakingWhittaker Delivers Devastating Light Heavyweight Debut, Possibly Fractures Krylov's Jaw at UFC 329
Whittaker knocked out Krylov at 1:01 of round three on his light heavyweight debut. It is the division the MMAHIT archive rates second-most destructive of all — 45.4% of its 29,715 bouts end on strikes.
BreakingPinas Demolishes Almeida with Surgical Right Hand at UFC 329
Pinas ended it with one punch at 4:44 of round one. Clean single-punch knockouts appear 12,216 times in the MMAHIT archive — and 95% of round-one knockouts are already over by the time this one landed.
BreakingControversy Surrounds Riley's Win at UFC 329
Pros called the stoppage early. The archive's 108,424 round-one knockouts say the opposite: 77.2% of them were already over by 3:03, and Kerry Hatley stops fights at almost exactly the average rate.
BreakingUFC 329: McGregor vs Holloway 2 Under Threat from Curses
Drake put a million dollars on a fight that lasted 69 seconds. In the MMAHIT archive, 42.3% of all round-one finishes arrive inside 99 seconds — the shortest window in which a bet of that size can be decided.
BreakingUFC 329 Weigh-Ins: Fighters Hit the Scale
McGregor and Holloway made 171 pounds for their welterweight rematch. Across 11,364 pairings that met twice in the MMAHIT archive, the second meeting repeated the first result 67.4% of the time.
BreakingDana White Maps Out McGregor's Future: Five Paths Forward If He Defeats Holloway
White says marquee fighters do not get tune-up bouts. The archive suggests Irish MMA can afford the confidence: from just 1,573 archived fighters, Ireland posts the highest win rate of any major producing nation at 59.1%.
BreakingMcGregor Belts Out Oasis Classic at UFC 329 Press Conference
McGregor sang at the presser before his first fight in five years. The MMAHIT archive holds 23,580 returns from a layoff of three years or more, and they are won 42.2% of the time.
BreakingShakur Stevenson Joins Zuffa Boxing
Stevenson arrives at Zuffa Boxing unbeaten. In the MMAHIT archive of 336,562 fighters, 675 have ever started a career 10-0 — and sixteen have reached 20-0.
BreakingIsrael Adesanya Parts Ways with City Kickboxing After 16 Years
Israel Adesanya is leaving City Kickboxing after 16 years. By the archive's numbers the gym is genuinely elite — and the four-fight streak he is on at 36 is the least reversible situation in the sport.
BreakingAdesanya Announces Split from Longtime Coach and Gym
Adesanya leaves the coach he has had since 2009. The gym he built his career in also built a national scene — New Zealand supplies 1,090 fighters to the MMAHIT archive, and a single Auckland room accounts for a visible slice of its best results.
RankingsShakeup in Combat Sports
Ruiz returns to a division where one punch decides everything. In combat sport's largest public record, heavyweight ends 53.3% of its bouts on strikes and sends only 17.2% to the judges.
BreakingUFC Vegas 120: Gamrot and Salkilld Set for Thrilling Main Event
Gamrot meets Salkilld at the Apex. It is a Poland-Australia main event, and the archive holds 6,277 Polish fighters against 5,044 Australians — two mid-size scenes that arrived from opposite directions.
BreakingGaethje Eyes McGregor Showdown After UFC Title Win
Gaethje wants to punch McGregor in the face. The archive is precise about what that usually produces: of 187,800 stoppages by strikes, only 19.7% are clean knockouts.