At a glance
- Founded in 2002 by Ryan Bennett and Scott Petersen
- The MMA Weekly brand is now owned by Paradium.AI
- Damon Martin wrote there before joining MMA Fighting
Overview
MMA Weekly is a US MMA news site founded in 2002 by Ryan Bennett and Scott Petersen. It is one of the earliest online outlets dedicated to MMA, launched at a time when the UFC and its fighters got little space in mainstream sports media and fans had few places to read about the sport.
The MMA Weekly brand is now owned by Paradium.AI, and Joshua Ryan is part of the current staff. The site also worked as a launchpad: Damon Martin wrote there before moving to MMA Fighting, where he became news editor. His older stories are still available on his author page on the site.
What you'll find
The site covers UFC and MMA news: fight announcements, fighter reactions and event results. Stories are short and get straight to the point, with the fighters' names, the event date and what is at stake in the matchup, so you can read one in under a minute.
Results go up after each major event, with the method of victory and the round. Reaction stories pick up what fighters say after their bouts or ahead of a big fight, which lets you follow careers week to week without having to track every fighter on social media yourself.
Why follow
MMA Weekly gives you more than twenty years of MMA news history. If you want to see how a fight or an announcement was covered at the time, its archive and author pages, such as Damon Martin's, keep a record of how the sport was reported in earlier eras.
For current news, the site is a simple source with no long analysis, giving you the facts of an announcement or a result. That is handy when you want to check something quickly without reading a long feature or sitting through a full show or podcast episode.
MMA Official's take
MMA Weekly is for fans who want short UFC news in English and for anyone interested in the history of MMA media. It also suits readers who followed Damon Martin and want to go back to his work from before MMA Fighting.
Start with the results posted after a UFC event, then scan the fighter reactions in the days that follow. For the archive, go through Damon Martin's author page, which collects the stories he wrote for the site before he left.