There is a particular kind of pressure that comes from a surname. Ask any child of a champion who has ever had to walk into a stadium carrying a name that already means something to a room full of strangers, yet Jesse-James Parr (1-0 AM) has carried that weight since before he could even […]
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Eternal MMA returns to Geelong for the second time in 2026, and this time they’re bringing a title fight with them. A Welterweight championship bout headlining in one of the competing fighters’ hometowns, a flyweight matchup that should be an outright war, and two top amateur prospects going at it in a 155-pound clash that
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Eternal MMA returns to Victoria this Saturday for the first time since May 2021, and it has been a long time coming. The promotion hasn’t even had an event scheduled in the state since the canceled Eternal 65 back in April 2022, which makes this weekend’s card something of a genuine occasion for
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Jono Micaleff (9-1) Welterweight – 27 Years Old – Combat1 MMA There are fighters who come into the sport with decades of preparation behind them, shaped by years of wrestling in school, competing in junior grappling circuits and working their way up through a carefully structured system. Jonathan Micallef is not one of
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It’s a massive weekend for Australian MMA fans, with the eyes of the combat sports world descending on Perth. On Saturday night, the UFC returns to Perth in a primetime slot packed with Australian and Kiwi prospects. But before all that, Friday night belongs to the regional scene – and Eternal 105 is ready to steal
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Before getting into the fighter as much, I wanted to write down my displeasure with the UFC this year. There was a time when fight fans got excited about short-notice replacements, but lately, the promotion has done a poor job of bringing in deserving talent. Maybe Schmid wasn’t their first choice, but there’s no way
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Brando Pericic (6-1) Heavyweight – 31 Years Old – City Kickboxing The UFC’s heavyweight division has a problem that almost everyone in the sport openly acknowledges: it is short on athletes. Not fighters, not big men who can punch hard, but genuine athletes with movement, timing, versatility and the physical tools to do
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Colby Thicknesse (8-1) Bantamweight – 26 Years Old – Freestyle MMA Every generation of fighters at every gym produces most of its talent. In addition, each generation produces a small handful of people who seem to absorb information at different rates. Colby Thicknesse has spent the better part of a decade in the
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Dom Mar Fan (9-2) Lightweight – 26 Years Old – Team Compton Training Centre There is something quietly dangerous about a fighter who doesn’t need the attention to keep showing up and winning. Dom Mar Fan, the Brisbane lightweight nicknamed “Street Buddha,” has spent the better part of three years building one of
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Quillan Salkilld (11-1) Lightweight – 26 Years Old – Luistro Combat Academy In a sport that prides itself on authentic, hard-earned breakthrough stories, few journeys in recent memory have been as compelling as that of Quillan Salkilld. The 26-year-old Perth-based lightweight has gone from a debut submission loss on the Australian regional scene, to
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