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On June 8th, Professor Calvin Kattar delivered another boxing lesson to the masses at UFC 238, utilizing #10 ranked featherweight contender, Ricardo Lamas, as his test subject. Analysts and pundits have been noting Kattar’s outstanding boxing technique for a while, and it seems with every victory...
The rumor mills have been swirling since the beginning of the year. Well, the rumors were true. The pinnacle combat sports promotion, UFC will be returning to Vancouver in September. Tapology was the first to post the date of the event at Rogers Arena, however, it was still just speculation. On S...
The UFC 238 pay-per-view card has officially reached its conclusion. History was made, controversy was present, and aesthetic combat was bountiful. Let’s break down the main card fight-by-fight. UFC 238 Main Card Recap Henry Cejudo vs. Marlon Moraes Henry Cejudo is a man who has accomplished the ...
The UFC returns to Chicago, Illinois for one of their best cards of the year. In the main event, the vacant UFC men’s bantamweight championship will be on the line. The UFC’s flyweight champion, Henry Cejudo, will move up to 135 pounds for the first time since 2013. In his return to the bantamwei...
USA Wrestling struck gold with the concept of “Final X“. Historically, US World and Olympic teams in freestyle and Greco-Roman were determined by wrestling through a massive tournament in one weekend. A defending World medalist could sit in the finals while their opponent had just wrestled multip...
Young prospect Mike “The Savage” Kimbel returns to the cage at Bellator 222 on June 14th at Madison Square Garden. Kimbel will be facing Sebastian Ruiz at the “World’s Most Famous Arena” in a bantamweight tilt. Mike Kimbel was complimentary about his opponent heading into this prize fight. “He’s ...
Iranian heavyweight Amir Aliakbari (10-1) has terminated his contract with ACA MMA, allowing the former Greco-Roman wrestler to complete his UFC move. Contractual troubles Aliakbari announced that he had signed to the UFC in May 2019, whilst still under contract with struggling Russian Promotion ...
UFC 238 is a 13-fight event filled with championship bouts, top contenders and rising prospects. The action begins with Katlyn Chookagian vs. Joanne Calderwood and concludes with the bantamweight title fight between Henry Cejudo and Marlon Moraes. Check out a rundown of every fight on the card be...
Building up to their World team wrestle-off at Final X: Rutgers, we’ve already taken a look at recent matches from both Yianni Diakomihalis and Zain Retherford. In their first meeting in April at the US Open, Diakomihalis capped off his eye-opening run with a 6-4 victory. Since then, the two-time...
Undisputed lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov will face interim lightweight champion Dustin Poirier at UFC 242. The fight will be for the undisputed championship in Abu Dhabi. Nurmagomedov captured the vacant title at UFC 223, defeating Al Iaquinta over five rounds. Poirier faced featherwei...
28-year-old American phenom Tatiana Suarez is the strawweight division’s worst nightmare. At a solid 7-0, the TUF 23 champion has put the whole division on notice with her relentless wrestling style. Having defeated a former UFC champion in dominant fashion, we take a look at the career of Tatian...
BJJ Mental Models is a podcast which explores the conceptual side of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Black belt brothers Steve & Matt Kwan discuss the mental models, or universal principles, behind the gentle art. What are mental models? Mental models are frameworks for understanding how things work. We use...
UFC bantamweight Ricky Simon came into the promotion as a star in the making. His next outing could catapult him into the stratosphere as he takes on UFC Hall of Famer Urijah Faber. Ricky Simon vs. Urijah Faber Faber will be returning from a short retirement hiatus and Simon will be welcoming him...
The octagon’s return to Stockholm, Sweden saw three light heavyweight bouts with important divisional implications. UFC Fight Night 153 was headlined by former title challengers Alexander Gustafsson and Anthony Smith. In the co-main event, we saw Jimi Manuwa and Aleksandar Rakic lock horns, and f...
Bellator MMA bantamweight champion Darrion Caldwell is extremely confident going into his rematch with RIZIN bantamweight champion Kyoji Horiguchi. Though the first fight did not go in his favor, he appears not to have let it affect him mentally. He is promising a different outcome in this fight....
RIZIN 16 – Results RIZIN Fighting Federation is back after a six-week layoff as they bring an action-packed RIZIN 16 fight-card to the World Memorial Hall in Kobe, Japan tonight for the promotion’s first show in the region. The main event features the Japanese phenom Tenshin Nasukawa as he takes ...