Cejudo 0-2 Against Merab, Books Third Fight at RAF 12
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 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 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
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 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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RAF Takes Dvalishvili vs Cejudo and Snyder vs Sadulaev to Tbilisi — First International Event Remakes UFC 298 in a Country That Worships Wrestling
RAF is taking its first international card to Tbilisi, and if you've trained anywhere in the Caucasus region, you already know why that's not a random choice. The Resurrection Athletic Federation — the wrestling promotion that spent the last two years quietly rebuilding after Ryan Bader stepped back
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RAF 9 Just Added The Reigning UFC Bantamweight Champion vs Frankie Edgar — Five UFC Names On One May 30 Wrestling Card
Real American Freestyle had three UFC names on the May 30 card already: Gable Steveson making his RAF debut against former UFC heavyweight Alexandr Romanov, Colby Covington against former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman, and Arman Tsarukyan against Keelon Jimison at 175. Then on April 18, at
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