Ian Escuza profile with his 8-0 MMA record, Muay Thai world title, Peruvian background and the Contender Series win that earned a UFC deal.

Plenty of fighters leave the Contender Series with a contract. Very few do it after losing on all three scorecards, and fewer still get the news from a hospital bed. Callum Connor managed both on the ...

Aieza Bertolso won her first world title in the colours of Bahrain, thousands of miles from the town in the Mato Grosso interior where she was born. She came home with two of them, turned professional ...

Rogers Place had been almost polite for seven and a half minutes. Then Mike Malott threw what looked like a body kick, Joaquin Buckley dipped straight into the knee and the building lost its mind. The ...

Farid Basharat left the Octagon at UFC 329 on 11 July with his hand raised and his record at 16-0. Three months later he is a free agent. The UFC took him off its roster on 14 October after his ...

Damian Piwowarczyk had a KSW title fight on the table, a richer contract and a summer date in Gdańsk. He walked away from all of it for one night on Dana White’s Contender Series. The 6ft 6in Pole ...

UFC 335 did most of the heavy lifting this week. With Charles Oliveira vs Diego Lopes and Alex Pereira vs Sergei Pavlovich already sitting at the top of the 12 December card in Las Vegas, the ...

Alvi Dasuyev made a habit of clocking off early. Eight of his first nine professional wins were done inside the opening round, and the odd one out ended with a flying switch kick in the third. Then he ...

Sean Strickland has chosen the worst possible year to be a champion asking for more money. For a fortnight the Sean Strickland pay dispute has been argued as a straight morality play. Either the ...

Akbar Abdullaev walked into the Meta APEX with a perfect record and walked out 19 seconds later with a UFC contract. One overhand right did the job. The undefeated Kyrgyz Lightweight had already ...

When Piero Guaylupo fights, friends and family in Piura carry a television out onto the street so the whole neighbourhood can watch. He has told El Comercio that his mother is the one person back home ...