UFC 300 full press conference gets wild | 34:51On the eve of UFC 300, Fox Sports Australia ranks the 16 most important Octagon wars in the nation’s history.Remember what you were doing at age 19? For Melbourne AFL wannabe Jake Matthews , it was walking to the Octagon for his UFC debut against Dashon Johnson as the youngest fighter in company history . A decade later, the Celtic Kid is still competing. Which is why he has to be on our list. Which, of course, not everyone will agree with.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – Pic story on the UFC at the Gold Coast Exhibition Centre. Ross Pearson celebrates a KO win over George Sotiropoulos.Jack Della Maddalena has undeniably proved himself the Next Big Thing of Australian MMA after not only scoring an emphatic KO win against Brazilian star Gilbert Burns at UFC 299 in March, but doing it with a broken forearm. Despite snapping the bone early, the West Australian rallied to score a huge comeback win that now catapults him into title contention.
Chris Tuchscherer of the United States is punched by Mark Hunt of Australia. Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty ImagesFor his first appearance on this list, we’re going all the way back to when Rob Whittaker was still an anonymous CityRail electrician. That, and a fella who only signed up for Australia’s 2012 series of The Ultimate Fighter because … well, he heard everyone got a free tracksuit.
Way back when the UFC was still a thing you could consume from Blockbuster Video, Australia had the King of Rock ‘n’ Rumble – aka Elvis Sinosic. Apart from becoming Australia’s first UFC fighter way back in 2001 – when he fought Jeremy Horn at UFC 30 – Sinosic also became our first winner and, incredibly, first title contender.
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