{"id":104584,"date":"2026-06-04T06:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grizzliz.com\/media\/fighter\/rhys-mckee\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T19:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:37:50","slug":"rhys-mckee","status":"publish","type":"fighter_profile","link":"https:\/\/www.grizzliz.com\/media\/fighter\/rhys-mckee\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhys McKee"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Rhys \u00ab\u00a0Skeletor\u00a0\u00bb McKee \u2014 Le finisseur du Nord<\/h2>\n<p>Il a re\u00e7u l&rsquo;appel de l&rsquo;UFC un samedi soir, en plein milieu de la pand\u00e9mie. Destination : Abu Dhabi. Adversaire : Khamzat Chimaev, \u00e0 peine dix jours apr\u00e8s que ce dernier venait de d\u00e9buter \u00e0 l&rsquo;UFC. McKee n&rsquo;a pas dit non. C&rsquo;est peut-\u00eatre le meilleur r\u00e9sum\u00e9 du personnage : Rhys \u00ab\u00a0Skeletor\u00a0\u00bb McKee, 30 ans, originaire de Ballymena en Irlande du Nord, n&rsquo;a jamais eu peur de prendre les combats difficiles.<\/p>\n<h3>De Ballymena \u00e0 l&rsquo;octogone<\/h3>\n<p>McKee commence \u00e0 taper dans un sac de frappe en 2012, initialement pour garder la forme pendant sa saison de foot. Il pousse la porte du gym de Rodney Moore \u00e0 Ballymena \u2014 Next Generation IMMA \u2014 et il ne repart jamais vraiment. Sa carri\u00e8re professionnelle d\u00e9marre en septembre 2015 \u00e0 BAMMA 22, o\u00f9 il soumet John Redmond au premier round. La suite est dans la m\u00eame veine : sur ses dix-sept premiers combats en BAMMA et Cage Warriors, il en finit la grande majorit\u00e9 avant la limite, souvent d\u00e8s le premier round.<\/p>\n<p>Le surnom \u00ab\u00a0Skeletor\u00a0\u00bb ? Il date de ses premi\u00e8res descentes de poids, quand son visage \u00e9maci\u00e9 faisait directement penser au m\u00e9chant de la s\u00e9rie anim\u00e9e. La ressemblance lui a coll\u00e9 aux basques, et il l&rsquo;a pleinement assum\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<h3>Champion Cage Warriors, puis le grand saut<\/h3>\n<p>McKee boucle son parcours pr\u00e9-UFC avec un bilan de 10\u20132\u20131 entre BAMMA et Cage Warriors, dont une ceinture de champion des welters Cage Warriors arrach\u00e9e \u00e0 Justin Burlinson par TKO au troisi\u00e8me round en juin 2022. C&rsquo;est avec ce titre en poche qu&rsquo;il obtient sa seconde chance \u00e0 l&rsquo;UFC apr\u00e8s en avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 coup\u00e9 une premi\u00e8re fois en 2020.<\/p>\n<h3>Deux passages \u00e0 l&rsquo;UFC, un seul vrai d\u00e9part<\/h3>\n<p>Son premier passage \u00e0 l&rsquo;UFC en 2020 tient en deux combats. Le premier, face \u00e0 Chimaev le 25 juillet 2020 sur Fight Island, se r\u00e8gle en 3 minutes 9 de round 1 : takedown, ground and pound, TKO. Contexte in\u00e9dit, court pr\u00e9avis, adversaire qui deviendra l&rsquo;un des ph\u00e9nom\u00e8nes de la d\u00e9cennie. Quatre mois plus tard, McKee perd aux points face \u00e0 Alex Morono, et l&rsquo;UFC le lib\u00e8re.<\/p>\n<p>Il revient en 2023 apr\u00e8s avoir d\u00e9croch\u00e9 la ceinture Cage Warriors. Mais les deux premiers combats de ce second passage lui r\u00e9sistent : Ange Loosa aux points en septembre 2023, puis Chidi Njokuani aux points en mars 2024. En avril 2025, il inscrit enfin son nom dans la colonne des victoires \u00e0 l&rsquo;UFC : arr\u00eat m\u00e9dical contre Daniel Frunza au premier round, avec la prime de performance de la nuit (50 000 dollars) en prime. Un premier UFC W qui lui avait pris cinq ans \u00e0 d\u00e9crocher. Puis, en septembre 2025, un TKO au troisi\u00e8me round face \u00e0 Axel Sola entra\u00eene une deuxi\u00e8me coupure. Il rebondit en avril 2026 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la PFL, avec une victoire aux points contre Alex Lohore \u00e0 Belfast.<\/p>\n<h3>Ce qu&rsquo;il met dans les gants<\/h3>\n<p>McKee est avant tout un frappeur. Onze victoires par KO sur quinze, un gabarit g\u00e9n\u00e9reux pour le welter (1,88 m, 198 cm d&rsquo;allonge), et une tendance marqu\u00e9e \u00e0 chercher le corps et \u00e0 terminer le travail au sol. Il tient aussi une ceinture violette en JJB et a montr\u00e9 des soumissions \u00e0 la cl\u00e9 dans sa carri\u00e8re \u2014 triangle notamment. Sur pied, c&rsquo;est le hook gauche au corps qu&rsquo;il place le plus souvent selon les stats UFC. Pas un wrestling specialist, mais un finisseur qui peut \u00e9teindre la lumi\u00e8re \u00e0 tout moment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sources-article\"><strong>Sources :<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhys_McKee\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/athlete\/rhys-mckee\">UFC.com<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theallstar.io\/ufc-fighter-record\/rhys-skeletor-mckee\/\">The AllStar<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhys \u00ab\u00a0Skeletor\u00a0\u00bb McKee, welter nord-irlandais de Ballymena, ex-champion Cage Warriors 2022, 15-7-1 au pro avec 11 KO et deux passages \u00e0 l&rsquo;UFC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":102638,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"fighter_category":[69976],"fighter_tag":[],"class_list":["post-104584","fighter_profile","type-fighter_profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","fighter_category-welterweight"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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