Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua have dominated British heavyweight boxing for the past decade, and their meeting is the fight fans have wanted for most of it. It is now confirmed for 11 December, and anyone checking the Fury v Joshua odds will know that neither man got this far unopposed. A handful of heavyweights have matched them, and some have beaten them. These are the rivals who have tested both men the hardest.
The UFC roster currently draws from roughly 75 countries. That number gets quoted as a marketing fact. It is better understood as a coaching problem, because talent has always been distributed evenly across those 75 countries and instruction never has.
For most of the sport’s history, the fix was relocation. If you were a promising featherweight in Lyon or Tbilisi, you moved to Albuquerque or Boca Raton or you accepted a ceiling. That calculus has shifted in the last five years, and the shift looks different at every level of the ladder. Here it is, tier by tier.
| Thursday, December 31st 2026: Rizin FF Super Rizin 6: Shiwasu no Owarinagoya Gekokujo Matsuri | |||
 [#1 W105] Natalia Kuziutina |  [#4 W105] Saori Oshima | ||
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| Last Fight Date: 9/10/2026 [Rizin Fighting Federation] Last Opponent: [#17 W105] Rena Kubota Last 5: W W W W W | Last Fight Date: 7/18/2026 [Rizin Fighting Federation] Last Opponent: [#12 W105] Ye Ji Lee Last 5: L W L W W | ||
| Sunday, December 13th 2026: Deep - 135 Impact | |||
| [#3 SW] Sukai China | [#4 SW] Jo Arai | ||
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| Last Fight Date: 5/04/2026 [DEEP] Last Opponent: [#6 SW] Sora Sugiyama Last 5: W W W W W | Last Fight Date: 9/13/2026 [DEEP] Last Opponent: [#24 SW] Daichi Kitakata Last 5: L L W L W | ||
| Sunday, December 13th 2026: Deep Tokyo Impact 2026 6th Round | |||
| [#6 SW] Sora Sugiyama | [#10 SW] Goal Makino | ||
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| Last Fight Date: 9/20/2026 [DEEP] Last Opponent: [NR] Musashi Musashi Last 5: W W W L W | Last Fight Date: 9/06/2026 [DEEP] Last Opponent: [#43 SW] Toshiya Takashima Last 5: W W W W W | ||
| [#5 HW] |  Josh Hokit | [#1 HW] |  Ciryl Gane | |
| [#6 W135] |  Amanda Nunes | [#53 MW] |  Yousri Belgaroui | |
| [#14 WW] | Uros Medic | [#82 FLW] | Bilal Hasan | |
| [#32 LW] |  Chris Duncan | [#1 WW] | Islam Makhachev | |
| [#85 LW] | Jim Miller | [#1 W135] | Kayla Harrison |
Never pictured myself as someone who’d mix fight night with casino action. Life’s funny that way.
My buddy hits me up at 9:37pm on a Saturday about 8 months back, asking what I’m doing while UFC’s running. I was already playing blackjack on my phone, so I just decided to keep both going. Fights stayed on my TV, cards kept dealing on my screen. I’ve never felt more locked into either thing.
The two-time middleweight champion says he is willing to surrender his belt, move to 205 pounds and burn through the remaining fights on his UFC contract before pursuing Jake Paul, an extraordinary possibility emerging as negotiations for a Nassourdine Imavov rematch remain stalled and the chaos around Strickland continues to grow.
Sean Strickland fought his way back to the UFC middleweight championship only five months ago. Now, he is openly contemplating giving it away.
In the latest and most significant escalation of a growing dispute with the UFC over compensation, Strickland says he is considering vacating the 185-pound championship, moving to light heavyweight and fighting through the remainder of his contract as quickly as possible before pursuing opportunities outside the promotion. For a fighter who reclaimed the title from Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 328 in May, the possibility represents an extraordinary reversal. Strickland spent years fighting his way back toward the belt, finally regained it, and is now publicly questioning whether keeping it is worth the financial restrictions that accompany remaining champion.
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Every rating system for fighters is an estimate built from too little data. A fighter might compete twice a year, against opponents who are themselves only partly known. Compare that with a game whose edge is written into its rules and repeated millions of times. One number is a judgment under doubt. The other is close to a constant.
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So what is round robin betting? It turns one pool of selections into several smaller parlays instead of a single all-or-nothing ticket. You choose the combination size, every combination of that size gets built, and each is settled as its own bet.
At equal stakes per bet, that costs more than one parlay, because you are buying several bets at once. Wild.io’s round-robin calculator lists the combinations and all-win totals, but the arithmetic below is small enough to check by hand.
Sal Everett went from stocking Dana White’s refrigerator and working security around the UFC to knocking Ozzy Martin unconscious and earning a contract of his own, while Mateus Soares, Roque Conceicao and short-notice replacement Preston LaGrange joined him after an explosive night at the Meta APEX.
Meta Apex, Las Vegas, Nevada – Dana White’s Contender Series has spent nearly a decade selling the possibility that one performance can completely change a fighter’s life. On Tuesday night in Las Vegas, that premise became almost literal. Sal Everett arrived at the Meta APEX as someone who had already spent years working around the UFC, handling errands for Dana White, walking the building on graveyard security shifts and watching other fighters chase the opportunity he wanted for himself. Less than two minutes after the opening bell against Ozzy Martin, Everett was no longer an employee trying to reach the UFC. He was a UFC fighter.
