Arman Tsarukyan won't be fighting for the UFC lightweight title anytime soon. Tsarukyan hast lost his opportunity to rematch champion Islam Makhachev following his late-notice withdrawal from the main

UFC president Dana White has officially given Islam Makhachev lightweight GOAT status. At the UFC 311 post-fight press conference, White claimed that Makhachev is "100 percent" the greatest lightweight the UFC has ever seen and, even somewhat shockingly, also named the Russian as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, ahead of Jon Jones.

There's a new UFC pound-for-pound No. 1 in Dana White's book. While lightweight champion Islam Makhachev officially has been ranked as the promotion's pound-for-pound best for quite some time, White has spent the

In 2024 it became a running joke that UFC president Dana White took every opportunity to name Jon Jones as the No. 1 best pound-for-pound fighter in