Trent Reinsmith Archives: 06/2022

Jalin Turner made his UFC debut opposite Vicente Luque. He was 23 years old and had a pro record of 7-3 with seven first-round finishes.…

On Saturday, the UFC is in Las Vegas for UFC 276. The pay-per-view card is headlined by two title fights and what might be a…

Jessica-Rose Clark was on a two-fight winning streak when she stepped into the Octagon to face Stephanie Egger at UFC Vegas 48. A favorite in…

The MMA world is quick to hang tags on fighters like “the next big thing,” “someone to watch,” or “future champ.” Shavkat Rakhmonov picked up…

If you’re of a certain age, you remember the introduction to ABC’s Wide World of Sports. The second sentences of that voiceover is famous —…

Name recognition might have been low, but the action and talent level were both amazingly high in the main event of Saturday’s UFC Vegas 57…

Neil Magny has been designated a welterweight gatekeeper for a long while. That tag first got put on the 34-year-old somewhere between December 2016 and…

Adrian Yanez earned a UFC contract on the strength of 39 seconds. That’s how long it took him to knockout Brady Huang during their Dana…

When the UFC Austin main event bout ended, the judges awarded Josh Emmett a split decision victory over Calvin Kattar. While the fight was a…

If, like me, you pay attention to the fight-night bonuses the UFC distributes after each fight card, you’ll know that for the past two events,…

Adrian Yanez has fought four times under the UFC banner. He’s 4-0 in those fights and has won a fight-night bonus award in each of…

I will not sit here and claim the UFC under the stewardship of the Fertitta brothers wasn’t a money-making endeavor. It was. Despite that, there…

Joanna Jedrzejczyk had a 6-0 professional MMA record when she joined the UFC in 2014. Before she signed with the promotion, Jedrzejczyk spent several years…

Glover Teixeira was 28 seconds away from retaining his UFC light heavyweight crown when he tapped to the rear-naked choke that Jiri Prochazka applied in…

Joanna Jedrzejczyk’s UFC career began in 2014. By that time she had already been a world champion in Muay Thai and put together a 6-0…

There was some grumbling about the scoring of the co-main event of UFC 275. In that fight, UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko retained her…

MMA’s shiny new thing left the octagon in Singapore with a significant amount of damage, a passing grade and some questions. That of course is…

With a trilogy fight between strawweight champion Carla Esparza and ex-champ Rose Namajunas off the table—after UFC president Dana White caught himself “zoning out” during…

Recency bias is a persistent issue within the MMA world. It’s not something that raises its head every week there’s a UFC card, but it…

Jorge Masvidal likes to project the image of a competitor who will take any fight, anywhere, against anyone. Give him a dotted line and he’ll…