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Jordan Burroughs Signs With RAF, Immediately Calls Out Makhachev and Tsarukyan

Jordan Burroughs Signs With RAF, Immediately Calls Out Makhachev and Tsarukyan

Jun 26, 2026 · competition-results, grappling
Jordan Burroughs signed with RAF and immediately called out two UFC lightweights by name. Not as a stepping stone.
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RAF 9 Lineup Proved UFC Athletes Only Need Wrestling When Punches Aren't Allowed

RAF 9 Lineup Proved UFC Athletes Only Need Wrestling When Punches Aren't Allowed

Jun 23, 2026 · combat-sports, competition-results
There was a moment in every combat athlete's career when they voluntarily walk into a format that removes their biggest advantage. RAF 9 in Arlington on June 1st was that moment for five UFC-credentialed fighters: Gable Steveson (UFC heavyweight, making his wrestling promotion debut against Alexandr
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Robert Drysdale: 'If Money Is The Ultimate Achievement — How Do You Explain To A 13-Year-Old That Khabib Is Better Than Conor McGregor?'

Robert Drysdale: 'If Money Is The Ultimate Achievement — How Do You Explain To A 13-Year-Old That Khabib Is Better Than Conor McGregor?'

Jun 19, 2026 · adcc, arman-tsarukyan
Robert Drysdale went on the Jiu-Jitsu Revolution podcast and asked what he meant as a rhetorical sigh. "In a world where money is the ultimate achievement in life," he said, "how do you explain to a 13-year-old that being a Khabib is better than being a Conor McGregor?" The line was published Thursd
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Kamaru Usman Says Brock Lesnar Would Beat Jon Jones In A Pure Wrestling Match — Both Wrong For Different Reasons

Kamaru Usman Says Brock Lesnar Would Beat Jon Jones In A Pure Wrestling Match — Both Wrong For Different Reasons

Jun 19, 2026 · brock-lesnar, competition-results
Kamaru Usman went on the Pound for Pound podcast he co-hosts with Henry Cejudo and answered a fan question: who would win a freestyle wrestling match, Real American Freestyle rules, no MMA, between Jon Jones and Brock Lesnar. Cejudo, an Olympic gold medalist in freestyle and a two-division UFC champ
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Tsarukyan's Side-Quest Economy

Tsarukyan's Side-Quest Economy

Jun 13, 2026 · athlete-news, competition-results
When Real American Freestyle announced that Tony Ferguson, 42, eight UFC losses deep, hadn't wrestled since junior college, would face the No. 1 UFC lightweight contender at RAF 10 on June 13 at Chaifetz Arena in Saint Louis, it marked another milestone in Arman Tsarukyan's increasingly surreal book
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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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Khamzat Chimaev Turned Down Kyle Snyder, Asked For Bo Nickal Instead — And The UFC Already Said No

Khamzat Chimaev Turned Down Kyle Snyder, Asked For Bo Nickal Instead — And The UFC Already Said No

Jun 10, 2026 · bo-nickal, competition-results
Khamzat Chimaev signed with Real American Freestyle, then spent the next month declining the one wrestler in the building he could actually face. His RAF debut was set for RAF 10 on June 13 at Chaifetz Arena in St.
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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 Takes Dvalishvili vs Cejudo and Snyder vs Sadulaev to Tbilisi — First International Event Remakes UFC 298 in a Country That Worships Wrestling

Jun 08, 2026 · cejudo, competition-results
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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