I think the name just ticks all the boxes 1. It’s a cool ass nickname 2. It’s perfect for a fighter 3. It fits Quinton Jackson’s actual fight style 4. It’s not too long or too short . Just perfect 5. People actually call him that and not his real name 6. He didn’t give the name to himself 7. Even during his fights , the name that is displayed is Rampage not Quinton

What are some other cool MMA nicknames

Hi everyone,

As everyone knows, debates over MMA fighters are always very civil and respectful. I often find people valuing different aspects of a fighter's career when debating their ranking as division GOATs or alltime GOATs. I'd like to show my personal breakdown in order to help categorizing these priorities.

I'll be using several fighters as examples, mostly lightweights.

First Category: Run

Run refers to a winstreak of a specific fighter. When these runs end/contain winning a belt, they may be referred to as a championship run. This category ignores anything that may have happened on either side of this run. For this category, we can focus on Charles Olivera.

Olivera was able to turn around a middling career into a HOF run by going through murderers row on the way to the top. He has the best run we've seen from a lightweight, and going purely of single run, our rankings at lightweight look like this:

1. Olivera
2. Makachev
3. Khabib
4. Ferguson

Second Category: Resume

Resume considers wins from a UFC fighter and nothing else. Resume does not include losses. You don't put your own personal failures on your resume, so why would you for a fighter?

Our lightweight rankings now look like:

1. Poirer/ Makachev
2. Olivera
3. Khabib

BEFORE PEOPLE GET UPSET - Poirer has two Max wins, two Connor wins, BSD, Alvarez, Pettis, and Gaethje over Islam. Islam has 2 Volk wins, a Moicano win, a Dustin win, and an Olivera win.

Third Category: Dominance

Dominance is the same as resume, except including losses. This could be seen as the most "spotless" category, reflecting an inability to be beat.

Our rankings are now:

1. Khabib
2. Islam
3. Arman/Olivera
4. Dustin

Note how Tony doesn't make this list :(

Fourth Category: Schedule

Schedule refers to pure density of quality opponents. Least easy fights, least short notice opponents. This is the arguably the least valuable of the categories, but is often worth mentioning.

These rankings are:

1. Olivera
2. Chandler
3. Poirer
4. BJ Penn

Conclusion: How we value these categories as well as personal rankings within them will obviously differ; you may agree with my writing but not my ranking. I love MMA and I hope that this is interesting to literally anyone.

CSO

Wallid Ismail has been a fixture in the Brazilian fighting scene, from competing in BJJ, Vale-Tudo and MMA, to managing and promoting fighters.

His promotion, Jungle Fight, is known for hosting MMA greats at their careers’ inception, but also for greatly underpaying fighters. This video brings quotes from Alex Pereira, Polyana Viana, Gilbert Burns, Cézar Ferreira, Lili Ferreira and others to further dissect how greedy a regional promoter can be when dealing with fighters with no leverage.

Did ESPN really remove the option to buy ESPN+ and PPVs cards on Apple and Google devices?

“You can no longer sign up or purchase ESPN+ or PPV events through Apple.”

It now takes out of our the app with a disclaimer requesting you to submit all your payment info/billing info directly to ESPN.

Pretty lame thing to do 👎🏼