With seemingly everything experiencing a renaissance of revival in 2026, sports are becoming a common thread of celebration and hope more than ever before among the everyday audiences who use it as a simple means of escape entertainment even if it only lasts for a few hours of wild enthusiasm. In today’s episode of Across The Pond, you will be introduced to the newest cavalier of charmed union storing up monumental steam in his Southern smokestack for Cage Fury Fighting Championships at Welterweight. A professional mixed martial artist since June 2026 and representing Kaizen MMA, Buddha Hanchard is the owner of a 2-0 record consisting of one knockout and one submission. Hanchard has made his home as a professional MMA fighter under the Cage Fury Fighting Championships banner and is 2-0 under them with two finishes in two appearances with the promotion under his belt to show for it. He has never gone to the scorecards with a finishing rate of 100 percent. Both of his finishes inside the professional ranks have been within two rounds. His entire story arc has stayed in the United States.
In his professional MMA debut and promotional debut under the Cage Fury Fighting Championships banner at CFFC 155, he took on Cody Howard and submitted him in round two to secure his sole submission win as a professional. Then in his second outing with the organization on the main card of CFFC 160, Hanchard defeated the debuting Sean Clabough via technical knockout in the second round to earn the lone knockout victory of his professional career to go alongside back-to-back wins and finishes under the Cage Fury Fighting Championships banner. He also picked up consecutive victories to usher in his journey as a professional mixed martial artist in the overall process. At 23 years of age, Hanchard has developed a habit of dishing and dealing out premium punishments at peak prices of interest as payback for oppositional errors or their own mistaken miscues on flashback film!
