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Breaking Down UFC 161: Evans Vs Henderson – Prelims
The UFC touches down for the first time Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada this Saturday night for UFC 161: Evans Vs Henderson, and as always the preliminary card will be free on facebook and on FX. The main card is sure to be jam packed with fireworks, but make sure you get warmed up properly with the…
Paul Daley is headed back to Cage Warriors. According to a press release, Cage Warriors and Bellator have reached an agreement to let Daley fight in the promotion he was formerly a champion. Daley will fight Lukasz Chlewicki at Cage Warriors 57 on July 20 at Echo Arena in Liverpool, England. Cage Warriors CEO Graham…
Streaking UFC Heavyweight Mark Hunt has been on a four fight tear through the heavyweight division, and is not planning to stop before he hits five. If Hunt manages to do the same thing to former UFC Heavyweight Champion Junior dos Santos tonight at the MGM Grand he will likely find himself next to fight…
It all goes down tomorrow night at UFC 160: Velasquez Vs Silva II when Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez takes on Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva in the main event at UFC 160 is Las Vegas, Nevada this Saturday night. Yesterday we posted the Fighters.com undercard breakdown, and you can see how the main card stacks up right…
In a recent interview, UFC Lightweight Nate Diaz was as candid as I have ever heard him. He said many things that were over the top, and many things I do not agree with, but I had never heard him as relatable as he was during that conversation. It was so fascinating that it prompted…
Covering The Fingers Of The MMA Glove Isn’t A Realistic Solution
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UFC 159 was no doubt a strange event. It was such a weird night that when Chael Sonnen walked to the Octagon, for about four and a half seconds, I thought there was a chance he could win against Jon Jones. The night featured two technical decisions, the first time in UFC history, and they…
UFC 159: Jones vs. Sonnen is tomorrow, and with it comes a main event that has left many heads a-scratchin’. Light-heavyweight champ and heralded superstar Jon Jones will defend his belt against… Chael Sonnen? The same Sonnen who’s been competing at middleweight for while now? The same Sonnen who fell short against 185-pound king Anderson…
Breaking Down The UFC 159: Jones Vs Sonnen Preliminary Card
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UFC 159: Jones Vs Sonnen takes place this Saturday night on pay per view, and the preliminary card will be broadcast on FX and on Facebook/Youtube. While the conflict between the main event and co-main event combatants has taken center stage in the marketing of UFC 159, there happens to be a solid under-card leading…
UFC On FOX 7: Henderson Vs Melendez takes place this Saturday night in San Jose, California and you can watch the whole card on FOX. In the main event, Defending Lightweight Champion Benson Henderson will take on incumbent Strikeforce Defending Lightweight Champion Gilbert Melendez to see who will sit atop the UFC lightweight division. There…
I was recently asked by a colleague what was the worst thing I ever saw at an amateur MMA event. We were discussing the ills of amateur MMA, and how its clearly a necessary evil to the sport. You can spar in the gym with complete strangers, and physically feel what its like to be…
Saturday night, the UFC returned with yet another free event that was headlined by a magnificent bantamweight bout between frequent training partners Urijah Faber and Scott Jorgensen. The event was the finale of Season Seventeen of the UFC’s hit TV show, The Ultimate Fighter. This bout capped off a great night of fights which included…
Breaking Down The Ultimate Fighter 17 Finale: Faber Vs Jorgensen Main Card
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The Ultimate Fighter 17 Finale: Faber Vs Jorgensen takes place tonight, and we broke down the main card that will air live on FX. When all is said and done, we will find out who is going to be driving away with a brand new Harley Davidson and a six figure contract as Kelvin Gastelum…
Though Bellator may not boast the deepest roster there’s no question the organization has a handful of fighters under contract with the ability to compete against the best MMA has to offer. One of Bellator’s supremely skilled scrappers is featherweight champion Pat Curran. The 25-year old Curran is 18-4 thus far in his career with…
Daniel Sarafian and Eddie Mendez Agree To Meet At UFC on Fuel TV 10
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The Ultimate Fighter Brazil finalist Daniel Sarafian has agreed to roll out the blue canvas for the octagon debuting Eddie Mendez at UFC on Fuel TV 10: Nogueira vs. Werdum. Sarafian was riding a four fight win streak going into his fight with C.B. Dollaway at UFC On FX 7, but he came up short…
Former Strikeforce Welterweight Champion Nick Diaz is an emotional fighter. In training, in the media, and in the octagon; what you see is what you get. The ‘Diaz dichotomy’ is one of the reasons he is one of the most recondite anti-heros in the sport. It is easy to see that altogether Diaz is a…
The weigh ins are in the books, and all fights are a go for UFC 158: St-Pierre Vs Diaz tomorrow night in Montreal at the Bell Centre. We broke down the prelims yesterday, and you can get an eyeful of our main card picks for UFC 158 below.
UFC 158: St-Pierre Vs Diaz takes place this Saturday night, and as always the UFC will be streaming the first few fights on facebook and youtube, and the rest on the FX network in the states. There is plenty to breakdown on the UFC 158 prelims, so take a look at how they all stack…
UFC On Fuel TV 8: Silva Vs Stann is just hours away, and fans and gamblers alike are searching for fight picks. Earlier in the week we broke down the undercard, and you can check out the main card breakdown as the UFC returns to the land of the rising sun tonight on Fuel. most…
Breaking Down The UFC On Fuel TV 8: Silva Vs Stann Prelims
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The UFC returns to Japan this Saturday for UFC On Fuel TV 8: Silva Vs Stann, and while you will have to watch these bouts stream on YouTube or Facebook, there are some fun match ups on the undercard worth checking out. Check out a quick breakdown and predictions of the entire preliminary card right…
Breaking Down UFC on Fuel TV 7: Barao vs. McDonald (Main Card)
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UFC on Fuel TV 7: Barao vs. McDonald takes place tomorrow in London, England, and airing in the US for a rare afternoon of fights. Fans will not want to miss any of the action as the UFC has outdone themselves for a ‘smaller’ event. The Fighters.com preliminary picks have already been published, but you…
UFC 156: The Best
The Best: The undercard on FX. One of the main reasons behind airing the preliminary bouts for free on FX is to lure viewers into ordering their pay–per-views. Therefore, the UFC has concocted a unique formula to persuade viewers into ordering them. This weekend was an outstanding example of this strategically thought-out formula, for even…
Three Tilts for Tyron Woodley
Former Strikeforce welterweight Tyron Woodley (11-1) announced his presence on the UFC’s roster with an exclamation point this past weekend by blasting Jay Hieron into unconsciousness before a minute had ticked off the clock in their bout at UFC 156. Prior to the defeat Hieron hadn’t been finished in more than five years, going 11-2…
Last night the UFC returned with their annual Super Saturday event on the eve of “The Big Game”, hosted by the Mandalay Bay Event Center in Las Vegas, NV. UFC color commentator Mike Goldberg opened up the broadcast by proclaiming 2013 will be “super fight” year. UFC 156 was the UFC’s first pay-per-view of the…
Frankie Edgar: What’s Next?
After last night’s unanimous decision loss to the champion Jose Aldo, the question is where does Frankie Edgar go from here? He was the lightweight champion and lost the belt. Now he has had a shot at the featherweight title, and lost in a close but convincing fight. Luckily for Edgar, he put together one…
UFC 156: Aldo vs. Edgar takes place tomorrow night in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay for their annual Superbowl Weekend card, and we will find out once and for all if the main is a superfight or just another title fight in the featherweight division. In the main event, Jose Aldo will defend…
Tonight marks another evening of action from the UFC with a card sure to entertain in the form of UFC on FOX 6. The lineup features flyweight champ Demetrious Johnson defending his belt against TUF 14 winner John Dodson in addition to match-ups like Donald Cerrone-Anthony Pettis and Quinton Jackson-Glover Teixeira. Like fans around the…
If heroes truly aren’t born and are instead made, then Dutchman Alistair Overeem is to cagefighting what Beowulf was to killing scaly monsters in a cave. Which is to say, it was just ten years ago that “The Reem” was a lanky light-heavyweight getting knocked out by Chuck Liddell in PRIDE. Now he’s a K-1,…
In about two months the MMA world will be treated to a match-up between two tremendous talents who happen to be polar opposites of each other personality-wise and are entering the bout looking to settle a longtime score. The clash in question is, of course, the headlining tilt at UFC 158 between welterweight champion Georges…
With Strikeforce officially blinking out of existence, it’s time to reflect on some of the organization’s top offerings, including some of the entertaining title-fights fans were offered over the years. In the following piece I’m going to reflect on three of my favorite championship clashes. There were moments in the Strikeforce cage that may top…
Nate Marquardt‘s welterweight debut was watched closely, and not just because it was a title-fight but also because many wanted to see how the middleweight was going to make the transition down to 170 pounds. Analysts were given sixteen minutes of footage to sift through, though any expected holes weren’t there and Marquardt’s transition looked…
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