2025 was the year of the spinning back elbow. What gives?

UFC analysts, fighters and coaches offer theories on why spinning back elbow knockouts were more common in 2025.

MMA Knockout of the Year 2025: Lerone Murphy separates himself in a year of spinning strikes

In 2024, Topuria earned our No. 2 spot for his epic knockout of Max Holloway, becoming the first man to stop the Hawaiian ...
Cageside Press

MMA 2025 Year in Review: Knockout of the Year

It was a three-horse race in our 2025 Knockout of the Year awards category, with Lerone Murphy, Mauricio Ruffy, & Ilia ...
Bloody Elbow

UFC star was ‘supposed to lose’ but stunned legend who had not been KO’d in 44 fights with wild spinning kick

UFC veteran Uriah Hall pulled off a huge upset on this day 10 years ago. After his exploits on The Ultimate Fighter, fans waited a while to see Hall begin to live up to his potential on MMA’s biggest ...
Yardbarker

Training Camp Rehearsal Led to Lerone Murphy’s Incredible UFC 319 Spinning Elbow Knockout

That’s why I started with a spinning back kick… When he walked in, you can see he braces. He thinks that a back kick was coming and the elbow caught him. Lerone Murphy via The Ariel Helwani Show ...
BJ Penn

A look back at Enkh-Orgil Baatarkhuu’s 2025 Netflix fame and ONE World Title victory

A look back at the defining moments of ONE Bantamweight MMA World Champion Enkh-Orgil Baatarkhuu's 2025 career.
Bloody Elbow

Lerone Murphy believes vicious UFC 319 win sparked something in him ahead of clash against Alexander Volkanovski

Longtime UFC featherweight prospect Lerone Murphy scored one of the craziest knockouts of all time this past Saturday. On Saturday, the premier promotion returned to the Windy City for the first time ...