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 ...

Last summer in Chicago, Lerone Murphy thought a title shot was all but inevitable. After all, he had just knocked out highly-regarded Bellator MMA signee Aaron Pico with a spinning back elbow in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 addresses a missed UFC featherweight opportunity and why his bout with Movsar Evloev carries eliminator stakes. His UFC 319 spinning-back-elbow knockout of Aaron Pico and attention from ...

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 ...

Last summer in Chicago, Lerone Murphy thought a title shot was all but inevitable. However, Murphy did not get the championship opportunity he anticipated. Instead, it went to Diego Lopes, who only ...

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 ...