In an interview with Submission Radio, Mendez revealed it wasn’t Makhachev’s brutal five-rounder with Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 284 that was his hardest fight, but Dustin Poirier at UFC 302.

In his first title defense, Makhachev defeated UFC featherweight champ Alexander Volkanovski in a hard-fought five-round scrap at UFC 284 in Perth, Australia. Makhachev won that contest by ...

Team Khabib’s manager reveals how submission game of Islam Makhachev is on another level and how he made five UFC BJJ black ...

Bryce Mitchell (left) once described the first fight between Islam Makhachev (far right) and Alexander Volkanovski (center right) as a robbery. [Images courtesy: @UFC_CA and @ufc via X/Twitter ...

Islam Makhachev has been rumored to cut an enormous amount of weight to make the 155-pound lightweight championship limit. His coaches and training partners have boasted about the size and ...

Makhachev has now successfully defended the UFC lightweight title for a fifth time, the most title fight victories in the division’s history. Makhachev has won 15 consecutive fights in his 17 ...

You can find him at X @james_brizuela. The UFC chose to change gears immediately, offering Makhachev a matchup against Renato Moicano. Moicano was set to face Beneil Dariush and instead chose to ...

UFC 311 was originally going to be a rematch between lightweight champion Islam Makhachev and Arman Tsarukyan, but Tsarukyan was pulled from the bout on Friday due to a back injury. Renato Moicano ...

UFC 311 was originally scheduled to feature lightweight champion Islam Makhachev battling top-rated challenger Arman Tsarukyan in a rematch. However, a back injury forced Tsarukyan to withdraw on ...

He was expected to compete on the UFC 311 main card against Beneil Dariush in a high-profile contendership fight. News then broke that Arman Tsarukyan, Makhachev’s scheduled opponent ...

Hard fight,” Makhachev said of his comrade’s title challenge. Unbowed, however, is the champ upon receiving news that challenger Arman Tsarukyan had informed the UFC at 1 a.m. Friday that a ...