The 2026 IMMAF European Championships in Belgrade, Serbia is underway and already delivering on the hype, and the Senior Men’s brackets are where things start to get dangerous. This year’s field features a mix of battle-tested veterans and emerging talents who look more like future professionals than amateurs. These are the fighters to be watching […]
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Every fighter starts somewhere. Before the hype, before the Contender Series, before the UFC call — there’s the grind. Before They Blow Up is where @mmawizzard shines a light on prospects still in that phase. This time, the spotlight shifts, and I’ll be the one doing it — Cangrejo Ruiz. In this fourth edition,
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Fully into the LFA on the Vice era, we see the middleweight title as the headline. This Friday, we are in Clarksville, Tennessee, for the numbered 226 event. The card sees an important main event headliner and a mix of other prospects from multiple weightclasses. Middleweight, David Allakhverdiev (7-0) Vs. Joseph Kropschot (7-3)
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She’s Next – WMMA Weekly Preview Each week, I’ll highlight one women’s prospect on my radar and in action in the upcoming days Mackenzie Stiller Record: 5-1 Weight Class: Strawweight Age: 26 years old Training: One Touch Fight Team Combined opponents record: 25-8 Born on July 15, 1999, Mackenzie Stiller grew up practicing judo
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She’s Next – WMMA Weekly Preview Each week, I’ll highlight one women prospect on my radar and in action in the upcoming days Alina Dalaslan Record: 4-0 Weight Class: Bantamweight Age: 25 years old Training: Planet Eater Combined opponents record: 20-17 Born in Illertissen, Bavaria, on August 11, 2000, Alina Dalaslan has emerged as
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Black Combat 16: Exodus ends the month of January with their biggest event in company history. The card will host 14-fights and five of them will be title bouts. Let’s get started with who I believe you should be watching for. The event has a banger of a main event lined up for us
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Every fighter starts somewhere. Before the hype, before the Contender Series, before the UFC call — there’s the early grind. Before They Blow Up is my way of spotlighting prospects still in that stage. In this third edition, I’m looking at a few rising talents with five fights or fewer that are on my radar. These
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French MMA is a large family that also includes Belgium and Switzerland. Indeed, these two countries have strong French-speaking minorities that are close to the French. In MMA, these Belgian and Swiss minorities are well integrated into the French circuit. Belgium, in particular, has seen several of its fighters become stars in France. French-speaking fighters
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She’s Next – WMMA Weekly Preview Each week, I’ll highlight one women’s prospect on my radar and in action in the upcoming days Gigi Canuto Record: 6-1 Weight Class: Strawweight Age: 23 years old Training: 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu Las Vegas Combined opponents’ record: 17-12 Giovanna “Gigi” Canuto is a Brazilian-born professional MMA
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With a new broadcast partner for the new year, LFA has a big year coming up. This list wasn’t made with the idea of getting all these prospects to the UFC this year (which they very well could). Instead, it aimed to highlight the depth of the LFA roster and how high the level of
