Tom Aspinall has finished his last six UFC opponents inside one round. This breakdown explains the Kaobon-trained fighting style that built the most dangerous heavyweight in UFC history.
Valter Walker tied Rousimar Palhares’s UFC heel hook record in 14 months. The heel hook submission isn’t a niche trick anymore — it’s the most efficient finishing weapon in modern MMA, and most fighters still defend it wrong.
On June 14, 2026, the Ultimate Fighting Championship held its most audacious event in the sport’s 33-year history. UFC Freedom 250 — staged on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. — was not just a fight card. It was a $700,000+ production exercise, a political statement, a 250th anniversary celebration, a…
The MMA clinch decides more title fights than any highlight-reel knockout. Here is how the Muay Thai plum, dirty boxing, and cage pressure actually work — and why clinch fighters keep stealing round three.
The MMA sprawl is the quiet move that decides title fights. Here is how it works, who does it best, and why TKO Tycoon models takedown defense as a chain, not a single stat.
Islam Makhachev choked out Jack Della Maddalena at UFC 322 to become a two-division UFC champion — and reset the entire pound-for-pound conversation. Here’s how the 2026 rankings actually shape up under the new performance-based system.
Sixteen of seventeen wins by first-round finish. Manuel Torres takes on a 1-4 Rafael Fiziev at UFC Baku on June 27 in a fight where one career doesn’t survive. Preview, prediction, and what it teaches about TKO Tycoon.
MMA conditioning is three energy systems doing three different jobs, and training them wrong is why title contenders gas out in Round 3. Inside Joel Jamieson’s framework and the TKO Tycoon model.
The UFC announced at Vegas 118 it’s scrapping its 13-year-old media voting panel for a performance-based rankings system. Here’s what changes for fighters, fans, and the politics of who gets a title shot.
Manel Kape and Kyoji Horiguchi run it back nine years after their RIZIN Grand Prix semi-final. The flyweight rematch headlines UFC Vegas 119 on June 20, 2026, with the next title shot on the line.