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

With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best knockouts from August 2025: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie's ...

Murphy, approaching a four-year knockout drought, perfectly timed a spinning elbow and drove it right into Pico’s face. Pico ...

In early March at UFC 313 in Las Vegas, Brazilian lightweight Mauricio Ruffy opened the main card against veteran King Green ...

Quillan Salkilld won a UFC contract in September 2024 and made his official Octagon debut in February, taking just 19 seconds ...

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 ...

The knockouts keep coming this weekend. As UFC Vancouver rolls on, the rest of the MMA world has produced some violent highlight-reel finishes on Saturday. We saw another spinning back elbow knockout ...

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 ...

Mauricio Ruffy's spinning wheel kick finish of King Green at UFC 313 in March was voted MMA Junkie's 2025 Knockout of the ...