Check out which UFC events saw the most issues on the scale before fight night.
(This story was updated to add new information.)
Making weight is part of the job of a mixed martial artist.
Throughout the sport’s history, many fighters have experienced weigh-in day blunders on the scale. Whether they attempted to cut too much, mismanaged their weight loss goal, or experienced a medical issue, there are a number of reasons that may cause fighters to step on the scale above their contracted weights.
Many events see all competitors make weight without issue, but a fighter or two coming in heavy isn’t uncommon. However, there are rare instances that see three or more tip the scale too heavy, causing dramatic moments the day before the fights. Four is the high mark, which has occurred on four occasions.
Scroll below to see which UFC events, in chronological order, saw three or more misses.
Here’s how the All-NBA Teams would look as of today according to Global Rating, our advanced metric that evaluates player performance during the season. According to the recently changed rules, positions are no longer factored in when selecting …
Here’s how the All-NBA Teams would look as of today according to Global Rating, our advanced metric that evaluates player performance during the season.
According to the recently changed rules, positions are no longer factored in when selecting All-NBA teams. However, to make the lineups more realistic, we’re sorting them with guards first, forwards in the middle, and centers last.
Just for fun, we’ll explore how a 5th, 8th, or 10th All-NBA Team might look too.
HoopsHype put together a list of players with the most game-winning buzzer beaters shots in NBA history, including Jordan, Kobe and LeBron.
5… 4… 3… 2… 1… BUZZZZZZ.
If you grew up a basketball fan, chances are that at some point, you have been in your driveway, local park or in the gym shooting around, dreaming about having the ball late in a close game and hitting a game-winning buzzer-beater.
Today, we put together a list ranking the players with the most buzzer-beaters in NBA history, a list featuring the likes of Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Larry Bird, Dwyane Wade and more all-time, memorable players.
Some players surprisingly not on the list include Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant and James Harden.
Check out the full list below. (For the record, the average stats are for games where the player hit buzzer-beater game-winning shots).
Conor McGregor’s time in the UFC has been the best of times and the worst of times, although the glory days feel like a distant memory.
(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccurate headline.)
[autotag]Conor McGregor[/autotag]’s time in the UFC has been the best of times and the worst of times, although the glory days feel like a distant memory.
McGregor went from being on welfare to joining the UFC in April 2013, and he talked a big game from the moment he stepped foot in the octagon. Fight fans overwhelmingly loved him. And in the ensuing three years after his debut, McGregor quickly rose to a level of stardom not quite achieved before in mixed martial arts, which peaked when he became the first fighter in UFC history to simultaneously hold two championship belts.
Below is a timeline of key events that have transpired between the highest and lowest points of his career.
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November 12, 2016: McGregor becomes UFC’s first simultaneous two-division champ
Already the promotion’s featherweight champion, McGregor reaches the pinnacle of the sport with a brilliant performance against then-lightweight champ Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205 in the promotion’s first visit to Madison Square Garden. McGregor puts on a striking clinic to dominate Alvarez before winning by second-round TKO. It’s a historic victory for McGregor, who becomes the first UFC fighter to hold two belts at the same time with the addition of the 155-pound title.
November 26, 2016: McGregor stripped of UFC featherweight title
McGregor’s champ-champ status lasts all of two weeks as the UFC announces on a Fight Night broadcast that McGregor is stripped of the featherweight title. The move is part of a shakeup that includes Jose Aldo, whom McGregor knocked out to claim the title in December 2015, being promoted from interim to undisputed champ and a new UFC 206 headliner between Max Holloway and Anthony Pettis for the interim 145-pound title.
August 26, 2017: McGregor loses monumental boxing match to Mayweather
April 5, 2018: McGregor stripped of UFC lightweight title
Dana White announces at a fight-week news conference that McGregor is stripped of the lightweight title ahead of the UFC 223 main event, sealing the fact that McGregor never defended either of the UFC two belts he’d won. McGregor responds in a crude post on Twitter.
April 5, 2018: McGregor attacks fighter bus at UFC 223 media day
Looking for revenge against Khabib Nurmagomedov, who two days earlier confronted his then-good friend Artem Lobov, McGregor goes berserk on a bus carrying Nurmagomedov and other UFC 223 fighters. The incident took place after McGregor and members of his team entered the bowels of Barclays Center, which hosted the aforementioned press event, where fighters boarded busses to return to the host hotel. Once inside, McGregor incited a chaos that included him throwing a dolly through a bus window, causing injuries to Ray Borg and Michael Chiesa (Borg withdrew from UFC 223 afterward), and immediately fled the scene. McGregor was arrested by the New York Police Department and charged with multiple counts of assault after turning himself in the next day. McGregor eventually reached a plea deal in the case and served his sentence of community service at at churches.
October 6, 2018: McGregor submitted by Khabib at UFC 229, brawl ensues
March 11, 2019: McGregor arrested after smashing fan’s phone
McGregor is arrested in Miami Beach, Fla., after being caught on video grabbing a fan’s cell phone and throwing it to the ground. Charges against McGregor were dropped two months later, and the man, whose phone was destroyed in the incident, dropped his lawsuit after reaching a settlement with McGregor.
March 26, 2019: McGregor under investigation for sexual assault in Dublin
October 19, 2019: McGregor faces second sexual assault allegation
After revealing McGregor’s name in a report of an alleged sexual assault earlier in the year, the New York Times reports that McGregor is under investigation for a second sexual assault allegation in Ireland. The Times report includes the detail that a woman in her 20s was sexually assaulted, allegedly by McGregor, outside a Dublin pub while in a vehicle.
January 18, 2020: McGregor finishes Cerrone in 40 seconds
McGregor returns from a 15-month layoff and wins his first fight in more than three years when he beats Donald Cerrone by TKO in 40 seconds at UFC 246.
June 6, 2020: McGregor ‘decided to retire from fighting’
July 10, 2021: McGregor suffers gruesome broken leg in Poirier trilogy at UFC 264
Six months after losing to Poirier, McGregor returns for the trilogy and loses by injury TKO after suffering a gruesome broken leg in the final seconds of the first round. McGregor undergoes surgery the next day and is out of action indefinitely while he recovers.
March 22, 2022: McGregor arrested for ‘dangerous driving’ in Dublin
June 9, 2023: McGregor punches Miami Heat mascot in skit gone wrong
While attending Game 4 of the NBA Finals, a promotional stunt goes wrong when the man wearing the Miami Heat mascot costume is injured by McGregor, who punches him twice. The man was hospitalized but not seriously hurt.
June 15, 2023: McGregor accused of sexually assaulting woman at NBA Finals game
At the same NBA Finals game where the mascot stunt went wrong, a woman accuses McGregor of “violently” raping her inside of a bathroom at Kaseya Center. McGregor was arrested and charged, but the charges were later dropped after prosecutors concluded there was “insufficient evidence” and “contradicting and/or no corroborating witnesses” to prove beyond a reasonable that McGregor assaulted the woman.
October 11, 2023: McGregor controversy at center of UFC-USADA program ending
McGregor, who had exited the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s drug-testing pool while recovering from his broken leg, reenters the program as the UFC announces that it will end its partnership with USADA. In a statement, USADA indicates at the center of the split is a disagreement with the UFC over a potential McGregor exception to return to the cage without having to pass two tests in six months. The UFC later accuses USADA of using McGregor to advance a “false narrative.”
June 3, 2024: McGregor vs. Chandler press conference called off
After booking his highly anticipated return to the cage against Michael Chandler at UFC 303, a press conference to promote the event in Dublin is suddenly called off hours beforehand. It’s initially announced to have been postponed for unknown reasons.
June 13, 2024: McGregor vs. Chandler UFC 303 headliner canceled
The Warriors are trying a new approach this season with their rotation, featuring 13 players averaging between 14 and 30 minutes per game so far. The strategy seemed to work well early on, with 12 wins in the first 15 games, but not so lately, as …
The Warriors are trying a new approach this season with their rotation, featuring 13 players averaging between 14 and 30 minutes per game so far.
The strategy seemed to work well early on, with 12 wins in the first 15 games, but not so lately, as evidenced by four straight losses and Stephen Curry suggesting they may need to make some changes.
Steve Kerr is hardly the first coach to employ a deep rotation in the NBA. Here we have listed all the teams in league history with no players averaging 32 minutes per game and how that approach worked for them.
Up to 540 players can hold NBA contracts during a season. Here’s how they’re performing so far in 2024-25, according to our Global Rating advanced metric.
Up to 540 players can hold NBA contracts during a season. Here’s how they’re performing so far in 2024-25, according to our Global Rating advanced metric.
Editor’s Note: This article originally published on November 30, 2023
The general debate over when Christmas season truly begins has plenty of options. For some, it’s the day after Thanksgiving. Others say it begins earlier. For another contingent it’s the first snowfall or first day of December.
Then there are those who believe one specific commercial dictates the start of Christmas season: Corona Extra’s ‘O Tannenpalm’ ad.
You know the one, where the palm tree gets dressed up with Christmas lights while someone offscreen whistles ‘O Tannenbaum’.
The ad pops up every year without fail and without virtually any updates. It’s simple, it’s calming and it’ll play approximately 80,000 times during every sporting event from late November to New Year’s Day.
The commercial has been around so long and become such a staple that it’s worth knowing a few fun facts about it.
With Nick Saban retiring, we reflect on the Clemson vs. Alabama College Football Playoff rivalry.
For a period of the College Football Playoff era, the question was, Clemson or Alabama?
There is no denying that in the early stages of the CFP era, the best-developed rivalry was the one between Dabo Swinney’s Clemson Tigers and Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide. The two programs had some of the best battles you’ll see, and their history is intertwined together through these classic matchups.
Things look a lot different for both programs nowadays, with reports released that Saban will be retiring from football after what could be the best coaching career in college football history. It came as a shock to many, but Saban’s time as a coach has come to an end.
With Saban stepping away, we wanted to reflect on what is the best College Football Playoff rivalry of all time, Clemson vs. Alabama.
HoopsHype ranks the 12 players who have made the biggest efficiency leaps from 2023-24 to 2024-25, including Chris Paul and Josh Hart.
The first quarter of every NBA season is a blast because there’s so much to learn. We’re creeping up on the 20-game mark for most teams, which means we’re starting to feel a little more grounded in our new evaluations of players, teams, and coaches – although plenty can still change.
Sample sizes at the player level are still small, but they’re not infinitesimal anymore. We can feel better about directional reads on where they’ve improved (or where they haven’t).
In today’s numbers-driven NBA, efficiency is king. We wanted to look at who has optimized their shot diet and leveled up their shotmaking compared to previous years to become a more effective scoring option. I looked at everyone in Basketball-Reference’s qualifying list of players from this year and last year and narrowed it down to players who have attempted at least 7.5 shots per game this season, leaving me with a pool of 119 players. Below are the 12 (the top decile) with the biggest jump in true shooting percentage (TS%).
We’re not at the point where these things are capital-T truths yet; a whole lot of the season still has to go on, and not everyone on this list will remain here if we re-run the exercise at the end of the year. But these players have made such significant jumps that it has to mean something, even if they come back to Earth eventually.
The season is in full swing, and so is Global Rating, HoopsHype’s primary metric for evaluating basketball players’ performance worldwide. This rating system combines individual and team stats to rank players based on their court impact, while also …
The season is in full swing, and so is Global Rating, HoopsHype’s primary metric for evaluating basketball players’ performance worldwide. This rating system combines individual and team stats to rank players based on their court impact, while also factoring in missed games. For a detailed breakdown, click here.
Below, you’ll find rankings showcasing top performers this season, in the last 365 days, and more.