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Jordan Burroughs: Can Elite MMA Wrestlers Actually Compete

Jordan Burroughs: Can Elite MMA Wrestlers Actually Compete

Aug 29, 2026 · elite-grappling, grappling
Jordan Burroughs, 38, two-time Olympic gold medalist and one of the few wrestlers who actually translates his dominance into combat sports, was asked a straightforward question in August 2026: Can elite MMA fighters genuinely compete with elite wrestlers at the highest level? His answer was a master
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Cejudo Pins Merab in 36 Seconds at RAF 12 — Revenge, Takedown, and Crossover Title

Cejudo Pins Merab in 36 Seconds at RAF 12 — Revenge, Takedown, and Crossover Title

Aug 27, 2026 · competition-results, crossover-title
Henry Cejudo walked into Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland on August 23rd knowing exactly what he was doing. Weeks earlier, he'd lost a decision to Merab Dvalishvili in their first encounter—a fight that had gnawed at him for one reason: he knew he could do better.
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Cejudo Pins Merab in 36 Seconds at RAF 12

Cejudo Pins Merab in 36 Seconds at RAF 12

Aug 26, 2026 · comeback, competition-results
Henry Cejudo pinned Merab Dvalishvili in 36 seconds at RAF 12 in Cleveland on Friday night. Let that number sit for a second.
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Cejudo 0-2 Against Merab, Books Third Fight at RAF 12

Cejudo 0-2 Against Merab, Books Third Fight at RAF 12

Aug 12, 2026 · cejudo, competition-results
Henry Cejudo is 0-2 against Merab Dvalishvili. At this point, even Merab knows that.
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UFC Champion Merab Dvalishvili: '99.9% of Wrestlers Sacrifice Everything and Get Nothing Back'

UFC Champion Merab Dvalishvili: '99.9% of Wrestlers Sacrifice Everything and Get Nothing Back'

Jun 29, 2026 · combat-sports, competition-results
UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili went on Dominick Cruz's podcast yesterday and articulated a problem that sits at the center of combat sports economics: wrestlers, particularly those who don't reach the elite level, sacrifice their entire lives to the sport and receive almost nothing in r
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Urijah Faber's Tech Fall And The RAF Pay Floor That Actually Checked Out

Urijah Faber's Tech Fall And The RAF Pay Floor That Actually Checked Out

Jun 12, 2026 · arman-tsarukyan, competition-results
Urijah Faber wanted you to know wrestling pays now. He told Ariel Helwani that Real American Freestyle wrestlers can make "as much as a doctor or a lawyer if you have four or five matches in a year." He said that had never been heard of in wrestling, which was why people were going to be tuning in.
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Back When RAF 9 Went Down: A Sitting UFC Champion, An Olympic Gold Medalist, And A Hall of Famer All Showed Up In Arlington

Back When RAF 9 Went Down: A Sitting UFC Champion, An Olympic Gold Medalist, And A Hall of Famer All Showed Up In Arlington

Jun 10, 2026 · competition-results, event-preview
2026, to be exact — it marked one of those moments in combat sports where you had to actually stop and process what was happening. College Park Center at the University of Texas at Arlington hosted RAF 9, and the card that night represented something the freestyle wrestling world had been chasing fo
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Gordon Ryan Retired Four Months Ago. He'd Like to Tell You Who the Good UFC Grapplers Are Anyway.

Gordon Ryan Retired Four Months Ago. He'd Like to Tell You Who the Good UFC Grapplers Are Anyway.

Jun 10, 2026 · competition-results, gordon-ryan
Gordon Ryan can't train. His gut — destroyed by years of antibiotics fighting recurring staph infections — won't recover on any timeline he controls.
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