Last summer, the Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports (ABC) voted to remove the ban on 12-6 elbows, signaling a major change to the Unified Rules of MMA. While big changes to the ...

One could argue that no single living person has done more to shape the rules and officiating of mixed martial arts than John McCarthy, the man who began his career as an MMA referee all the way back ...

The image of Tom Aspinall clutching his face, unable to open his right eye inside Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Arena, is one that no UFC fan will soon forget. Just four minutes and thirty-five seconds into his ...

Fight sports are a funny thing. The goal is simple: hurt your opponent. It's something that everyone understands. But the sportification of mixed martial arts introduces rules and concepts that ...

Mixed martial arts has existed for decades, but the UFC brought it into the mainstream. In the early UFC era (starting with UFC 1 in 1993), there were no rounds, no judges, and only a few fouls ...

Andy Foster, the California State Athletic Commission executive director and one of MMA’s most influential regulators, is pushing this week for a major scoring shake-up. If successful, it'll ...