The ride to UFC 311 had some last-minute bumps in the road when would-be lightweight title challenger Arman Tsarukyan suffered a back injury Friday that forced his withdrawal from a main event rematch with champion Islam Makhachev, resulting in a Renato Moicano detour on a day's notice.

Arman Tsarukyan won't be fighting for the UFC lightweight title anytime soon. Tsarukyan hast lost his opportunity to rematch champion Islam Makhachev following his late-notice withdrawal from the main

UFC president Dana White has officially given Islam Makhachev lightweight GOAT status. At the UFC 311 post-fight press conference, White claimed that Makhachev is "100 percent" the greatest lightweight the UFC has ever seen and, even somewhat shockingly, also named the Russian as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, ahead of Jon Jones.

In 2024 it became a running joke that UFC president Dana White took every opportunity to name Jon Jones as the No. 1 best pound-for-pound fighter in

There's a new UFC pound-for-pound No. 1 in Dana White's book. While lightweight champion Islam Makhachev officially has been ranked as the promotion's pound-for-pound best for quite some time, White has spent the

Islam Makhachev delivered against short-notice opponent Renato Moicano in the main event of UFC 311 on Saturday night at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif. So much so, Dana White finally had to admit that the lightweight champion is the No.