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UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Leites (UFC Fight Night 72) was live from The SSE Hydro as the UFC made its debut in Glasgow, Scotland on July 18, 2015. The main event was a pivotal middleweight match-up as the #9 ranked Michael Bisping squared off with the #10 ranked Thales Leites. Just like at eve...
UFC Fight Night: Mir vs. Duffee wrapped up last night, and while it didn’t have all the big names and fireworks that UFC 189 had over the weekend, there were still plenty of scintillating bouts between veterans and up and comers, filler fighters, and regional circuit veterans. For the main card w...
Jose Aldo is the only featherweight champion the UFC has known. His reign as top Zuffa featherweight extends back to a November 2009 win over Mike Brown. He hasn’t lost a fight in ten years. Zuffa has paid him nearly a quarter of a million dollars in knockout and fight of the night bonuses, which...
At UFC Fight 70 Yoel Romero (10-1) laid out Lyoto Machida (22-7) via TKO and showed the world that he is a legitimate threat in the middleweight division. What he also showed the world is up to your own interpretation. What did Yoel actually say? It started out with something like “What happened ...
Yoel Romero found himself in front of a microphone after the biggest win of his career. He elected to speak in English – not his first language – and addressed the live Miami crowd and the Fox Sports 1 viewing audience: “Hey, USA! Hey, Miami! Hey, Florida! Listen people, listen, listen. Listen! W...
UFC middleweight Yoel Romero moved up the 185-pound ladder with an impressive victory over Lyoto Machida in the main event at UFC Fight Night 70. Following a performance of a lifetime, Romero used his post-fight speech to discuss his thoughts about America’s decision on gay rights. Yoel Romero ve...
Jose Aldo (25-1) vs. Conor McGregor (17-2) at UFC 189 is the biggest fight of the year, all you have to do is look at the amount of promotional dollars the UFC has put into hyping the main event. Some people like me occasionally forget that welterweight champion Robbie Lawler (25-10-1) is defendi...
Packed with past and present UFC champions, the pound-for-pound list is one the most prestigious rankings in the MMA world and dictates the top fighters on the UFC roster. There are several MMA enthusiasts who reject the UFC rankings as the ‘best in the world’ but their ability to attract the top...
Fabricio Werdum hadn’t even finished troll facing before people started asking the question: With wins over Fedor Emelianenko, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, and Cain Velasquez, is Fabricio Werdum the greatest heavyweight MMA fighter of all time? It’s a fair-enough question, given how quickly “great...
UFC Heavyweight Champ Cain Velasquez (13-1) returns this weekend to UFC 188. The champ had been on the sidelines dealing with injuries all while Fabricio Werdum (19-5-1) kept up with his winning ways and picked up the interim heavyweight title. Werdum may not be the “real champ” but he is a formi...
The UFC held a press conference this week to discuss their new Athlete Marketing and Development program. The press conference announced partnerships with Fusionetics and EXOS, revealed plans for a rehab facility called the UFC Lab, and officially introduced Jeff Novitzky as the head of the progr...
So, the UFC has officially booked Daniel Cormier’s first light heavyweight title defense. “DC” will be taking on former title challenger Alexander Gustafsson in the early fall for the strap. Now, if you say it like that, it doesn’t sound so bad. If you add in the fact that “The Mauler” was KOed i...
Thank God for Carlos Condit! Last Saturday night at UFC Fight Night 67 we saw the return of the “Natural Born Killer” and we missed him. Mixed Martial Arts is an exciting sport, but over the years we have seen a lot of fights and fighters bore us to sleep as they sleepwalked to a […]
The UFC-Reebok deal goes into effect in 38 days. UFC fighters, in an unprecedented collective showing, have not been shy in voicing their disapproval. (Which is not to say that everyone is unhappy.) The UFC has 38 days to make it right or not, though judging by the UFC’s public comments, it’s unl...
It’s nice to be back. From this day forth every Monday will be full of Mayhem here on MMASucka.com. Whether it be interviews, opinions, ideas, or even a movie review from time-to-time, it will be my goal to make this column as interesting as possible. UFC 187 has come and gone and it was finally […]
Last week, UFC President Dana White appeared on TSN’s Off the Record. Host Michael Landsberg asked White about Anthony Johnson’s “checkered past” with domestic violence (transcription via Women’s MMA): White: Actually, that’s incorrect. What happened with Anthony Johnson is, he was dating a girl ...