Jianbing Yang MMA Stats, Pictures, News, Videos, Biography

Fistic Medicine: A Perfect Example of MMA’s Willful Ignorance Mixed martial arts needs a sport-wide culture change involving more and better education, additional weight classes and more honest discussions...

Opinion

Chris Kirk

Jan 21, 2025

This Month's MMA Birthdays: Carlos Condit Turns 40 The former World Extreme Cagefighting champion was for years one of the most violent men in mixed martial arts and more than lived up to “The...

Brian Knapp

Apr 21, 2024

This Month’s MMA Birthdays: Gina Carano Turns 40 The Dallas native was instrumental in clearing the path down which Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino, Ronda Rousey, Amanda Nunes and others like...

Women’s MMA

Brian Knapp

Apr 01, 2022

This Month’s MMA Birthdays: Ilima-Lei Macfarlane Celebrates No. 30 Bellator MMA has uncovered a number of hidden gems in its 11-year existence, but few have shined brighter than its current women’s flyweight...

Brian Knapp

Apr 01, 2020

This Month’s MMA Birthdays: Nate Marquardt Turns 40 His career largely overshadowed by contemporaries like Anderson Silva and Rich Franklin, “Nate the Great” figures to be remembered as one of...

Brian Knapp

Apr 04, 2019

This Month’s MMA Birthdays: Marlon Moraes Turns 30 The former World Series of Fighting champion heads into his June 1 showdown with Jimmy Rivera having won 15 of his past 16 bouts.

Brian Knapp

Apr 03, 2018

This Month’s MMA Birthdays: Chael Sonnen Turns 40 The “Gangster of West Linn” spent much of his career as a hired gun but emerged as a top middleweight in the UFC in 2009. He will celebrate...

Brian Knapp

Apr 03, 2017

This Month’s MMA Birthdays: Megumi Fujii Turns 42 She was for a time the benchmark in women’s MMA. Megumi Fujii will celebrate her 42nd birthday on April 26.

Brian Knapp

Apr 03, 2016

One Championship Adopts New Weigh-In Policy Following Recent Fighter Death After the death of flyweight Jianbing Yang earlier this month, One Championship has adopted a new policy to prevent its athletes from cutting...

Tristen Critchfield

Dec 23, 2015

Fight Medicine: Another Weight Cutting Tragedy The death of Chinese flyweight Jianbing Yang once again dragged one of MMA’s more controversial practices into the spotlight.

Jon Gelber M.D.

Dec 12, 2015

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