Editorials, hot takes, and in-depth analysis from voices that follow every punch in the sport.
UFC 258 is now one for the books. With a card that saw four finishes and six decisions, the card was solid. In the main event, we saw Kamaru Usman retain his welterweight title with a solid third-round knockout of former teammate, Gilbert Burns. The co-main saw up and comer Maycee Barber suffer h...
UFC 258 took place in the Apex Center last night in Las Vegas, NV. You can find the results of the entire card, here, but today we’re focusing on a few specific items from the fights. In short, we’re taking a look at what was the good, the bad, and the ugly from UFC 258. […]
We all like watching Nate Diaz fight. He’s game, always brings it, provides interesting and funny pre-fight antics and can turn it on when it really matters. The Ultimate Fighter Season five winner and younger brother of former Strikeforce champion, Nick Diaz has stepped up in the past and provid...
With the Super Bowl tonight, the entire world has their eyes and minds on American football as the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers compete to raise the Lombardi Trophy. It is a pinnacle event of athleticism and strength. Similarly to football players, MMA fighters constantly express a...
The UFC is the undeniable pinnacle of an MMA fighter’s career, or so is the apparent general consensus. It holds the biggest talent pool out of any promotion, with fighters from other promotions time and time again struggling to fully transition into the prestigious company, and MMA rankings cons...
The UFC is the undeniable pinnacle of an MMA fighter’s career, or so is the apparent general consensus. It holds the biggest talent pool out of any promotion, with fighters from other promotions time and time again struggling to fully transition into the prestigious company, and MMA rankings cons...
Alistair Overeem is one of the best mixed martial artists to ever grace the heavyweight division. His resume speaks for itself. He’s defeated Vitor Belfort, Fabricio Werdum, Brock Lesnar, Junior Dos Santos, and Andrei Arlovski. He’s won championships in Strikeforce, DREAM, K-1, and PRIDE. He has ...
With UFC 257 being a historic one for the books, we play matchmaker. In the main event, Dustin Poirier upset the odds to defeat Conor McGregor by second-round TKO. The debuting Michael Chandler impressed massively with a first-round TKO over Dan Hooker. Further down the main card, Joanne Calderwo...
Saturday night, Dustin Poirier took on the biggest star the sport of MMA has ever seen, Conor McGregor, and knocked him out. Certainly, there’s no way to take away from this achievement. McGregor was heavily favored by both fans and analysts and was widely seen as a bad matchup for Poirier. Poiri...
UFC 257 has come and gone with Michael Chandler (22-5) and Dustin Poirier (27-6-1) coming able to defy the odds and have impressive wins against tough competition. It seems that existing lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov (29-0) has pretty much confirmed his retirement. So now it’s time to ...
The MMA Sucka 2020 MMA Awards are here! 2019 is over and done with and what a year it was. The MMA Sucka Awards will showcase some of that action. You can revisit the 2019 MMA Awards right here. 2020 will be remembered by most for the outbreak of Covid 19 and the amazing lengths […]
Selecting the greatest Scandinavian UFC fighters is a harder task than it may sound because the majority of leading Nordic fighters come from Sweden. Instead, this list looks at the five best fighters from the most prominent Scandinavian countries: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Iceland. G...
After former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov (29-0) retired and vacated his title in October last year, there have been discussions around who would be the future UFC lightweight champion. It seems that the UFC is gearing up for an unofficial lightweight tournament in order to crown ...
Perhaps the most exciting event in Bellator’s recent history was the Heavyweight World Grand Prix Tournament. The heavyweight tournament solved a big problem. The heavyweight title had been vacated by Vitaly Minakov in 2016 and hadn’t been defended since 2014. With the title out in no man’s land,...
Aside from Khabib almost tearing his head clean off his shoulders, you suspect that Conor McGregor’s toughest opponent is himself. The Irishman lacks focus, often seeking money-making opportunities beyond the UFC – hence his boxing bout with Floyd Mayweather and owning his own whisky brand, and a...
This time last year we gave you 10 MMA predictions that could potentially have come to fruition in 2020. Now, disclaimer, some were outlandish but could very well have happened if COVID-19 didn’t play havoc with the entire world. Some we got partially correct and some were miles from being anythi...