How to PlayOpponents
5 rounds. Two real fighters, one question: did they ever actually fight?
UFC only -- every other league plays Teammates instead, which asks the same shape of question about a roster.
5 rounds. Two real fighters are shown. Guess whether they ever actually fought each other. This is the UFC's version of Teammates -- MMA has no teammates, so the relationship the sport does have is who stepped in against whom.
Rules
- "Opponents" means they met in a completed UFC fight. An exhibition, a cancelled booking or a fight that never happened does not count.
- A single click locks in your answer immediately; the real answer and a short explanation reveal right away, naming the event and how it ended.
- All 5 rounds are always played; get all 5 correct for a perfect day.
- A "No" pair is usually a near miss on purpose -- two fighters from the same weight class whose careers overlapped -- rather than two strangers.
Tips
- Sharing a weight class is the setup for the question, not the answer to it. Most pairs shown will share one; that is what makes the round worth asking.
- Check whether their careers actually overlapped in time. Two fighters who were never active in the same years cannot have been matched, however alike they look.
- Champions and long-tenured contenders in a thin division tend to have fought nearly everyone in it -- a "Yes" is likelier there than in a crowded one.
- A fighter who moved up or down a division has a wider set of possible opponents than their current weight class suggests.
Common Mistakes
- Answering "Yes" because two fighters are from the same division and the same era -- that is exactly the trap this mode is built around.
- Answering "No" because you do not remember the fight, when a short-notice or early-career meeting is easy to forget.
- Assuming a famous fighter only fought other famous fighters; plenty of well-known names have wins over opponents you would not recognise.