Hot takes, editorials, and opinion pieces from our team on the biggest stories in MMA.
Max Holloway is playing with fire, and also showing his confidence in his ability, by his recent Twitter callout of Conor McGregor In the evening of Wednesday, 28th October, Sean Sheehan (@SeanSheehanBA) made a friendly tweet asking MMA Twitter to send in their last MMA-related photo saved to the...
A historic night for the UFC and its fighters as they held their first free numbered UFC event since UFC 138 way back when. Now back at UFC 138, the main event was Chris Leben and Mark Muniz, not the greatest main event in history looking back but the same won’t be said for UFC […]
Bellator MMA is the second-largest mixed martial arts promotion in the United States. With this in mind, the UFC seems…no, is light years ahead in offering a superior MMA product to mixed martial arts fans across the globe. Why is this? We will explore that today and consider five moves for Bella...
Women’s featherweight is no longer a UFC problem, but an MMA problem. This year, Bellator has slowly been letting their 145lb women go. Julia Budd, Olga Rubin, Amanda Bell, and Jessy Miele have all been released this year. At the time of this writing, only twelve featherweights are on the roster,...
UFC 267 takes place this Saturday, Oct. 30 in beautiful Abu Dhabi, UAE, where the light heavyweight and bantamweight divisions will take centre stage whilst also having one of the most stacked undercards of the year. There are many angles that you can look at and find intriguing with this card, b...
Boxing is one of the core foundations in what makes an elite knockout artist in mixed martial arts. While the top fighters in the world blend their craft with punches, kicks, takedowns and submissions, crisp hands are at the forefront of many an elite combatant’s game. Here is a look at the five ...
Six years ago, Rory MacDonald and Robbie Lawler engaged in one of the bloodiest and savage fights in MMA history. They had clashed years prior in a close and competitive fight that saw Lawler get his hand raised, but the stakes were higher for this one. The winner would take home the title of the...
A lot has transpired within the Circle Walls of ONE Championship in recent months, and it has been reflected in the official ONE athlete rankings. In the latest edition of the rankings, four divisions have seen active movement. After bursting onto the main roster in 2019, strawweight Lito Adiwang...
UFC Vegas 39 has wrapped up on this Saturday night and we were treated with a great stylistic matchup in the main event, with Marina Rodriguez defeating Mackenzie Dern via Decision. The rest of the card was, if we’re being honest, a little weak on paper but still had fun fights like Randy Brown v...
In most sports, there are certain players that are loved by the whole world, because, in the eyes of the fans, they are the ‘good guy’. Whether it is Anthony Joshua in the world of boxing, Daniel Ricciardo in F1 or possibly Joe Root in Cricket, they are appreciated even by rival fans, as they […]
Strawweight has long been the quintessential women’s division of MMA. Like men’s light heavyweight of the late 2000s/early 2010s, strawweight is an epic cast of characters, master tacticians, and global stars. Joanna Jedrzejczyk defined the division in the UFC as a merciless and charismatic champ...
Anyone who knows their boxing was grinning from ear to ear on the 25th of September 2021 as the former undisputed cruiserweight king Oleksandr Usyk bamboozled Anthony Joshua in front of a stunned Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The two former Olympians went the distance, but after 12 rounds of action ...
We are at a lull period in the UFC schedule in terms of quality fight cards, mostly due to the UFC loading up UFC 267, so it has us all reminiscing on the better times of the UFC. UFC Venues That Delivered With a Bang Remember when the only things we had to worry about […]
A draw followed up by a loss has always left Tyson Fury on the mind of one Deontay Wilder, Saturday he looks to cleanse his mind of the Lineal Heavyweight Champion and move on in his career. The building of a legacy that was started with an unprecedented knockout rate that could see a crossroads […]
ONE Championship’s third quarter featured a bevy of exciting martial arts action. There were exciting bouts across mixed martial arts, Muay Thai, and kickboxing, which made narrowing the list of the top performances difficult. Top 5 Performances of the 3rd Quarter in ONE Championship Former World...
The highly anticipated rematch between Douglas “The Phenom” Lima and Michael “Venom” Page took place in the main event of Bellator 267 yesterday. In their first matchup, Lima stunned Page by handing him his first professional defeat in the Bellator Welterweight World Grand Prix Semifinal in 2019....