Lerone Murphy only has to watch his knockout win over Aaron Pico if he is feeling low. Murphy welcomed Pico to the UFC in the co-main event at UFC 319 in August 2025 in Chicago. While Murphy was a ...

Lerone Murphy gave the MMA world one of the best knockouts of 2025. Welcoming newcomer Aaron Pico at UFC 319 in August, Murphy hit a spinning back elbow clean to Pico's head, sending him crashing down ...

Lerone Murphy thought he'd clinched a title shot by knocking out Aaron Pico. | Getty/UFC Last summer in Chicago, Lerone Murphy thought a title shot was all but inevitable. After all, he had just ...

Aaron Pico is ready to capitalize on the momentum from his first UFC win. After getting knocked out by Lerone Murphy in his octagon debut at UFC 319, Pico (14-5 MMA, 1-1 UFC) rebounded with a ...

The moment everything clicked for Lerone Murphy was when he was not given a title shot by the UFC. On a nine-fight win streak in the promotion, the Briton's stunning spinning elbow knockout of Aaron ...

For as quietly as unbeaten Lerone Murphy has snuck up on the UFC featherweight title picture, his spinning back elbow knockout of Aaron Pico last August -- on short notice, no less -- proved to be a ...

One thing that may have been slowing Murphy’s rise to contentionwas the lack of finishes on his UFC resume. That’s why the knockoutof Pico was integral to re-establishing “The Iceman” as acompetitor ...