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The American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas played host to UFC 171 over the weekend, where a stellar five bout line-up on the main card had fans on the edge of their seats, and longing for more action. Headlining the event was a much anticipated Welterweight title affair that for the very first...
It’s hard to criticize a fighter with only two losses on his resume (only one loss in rational people’s eyes, but I digress). There were still areas that needed Johny Hendricks needed to improve on, similar to all fighters today. I’ve always brought up his cardio issues in how he slows down in la...
UFC 171 has one of the most compelling cards I’ve seen on paper in the past few years . It features several match ups, where there are no significant mismatches. While the latter pay-per-views in 2013 were full of star power, many of those match-ups were fairly predictable. That isn’t the case fo...
March may not quite have come in like a lion in terms of anticipated fights – Let’s be honest, most of us initially slept through the TUF: China Finale – it will certainly not end like a lamb. We’ve got some a fight for welterweight supremacy, a hotly anticipated (but now TRT-free) rematch, and a...
After Thursday’s huge announcement about the Nevada Athletic State Commission banning TRT, it was a major step towards the right direction for MMA. Then later that night, it was to no one’s surprise that Vitor Belfort was taken out of the title fight against Chris Weidman at UFC 173. I’m not goin...
With all the buzz surrounding Ronda Rousey (9-0) who just defeated Sara McMann in order to defend the UFC bantamweight title for the third time this Saturday, viewers may, again, be reading headlines that claim Ronda is responsible for the increased interest in female MMA. Aside from that stateme...
In the main event at last night’s UFC 170 event, Ronda Rousey defended her UFC women’s bantamweight championship against Sara McMann. It took just over one-minute for Rousey to finish McMann and it didn’t come without some controversy. Surprise, surprise… A UFC main event with controversy. Both M...
The UFC raised a lot of eyebrows on December 28th – less than an hour after a title fight with Miesha Tate that was undoubtedly the hardest of her career, the UFC hastily printed off a poster for a new Ronda Rousey fight. UFC 170: Rousey vs McMann, just fifty-six days later. Is the UFC […]
UFC Fight Night 36: Does a Lyoto Machida win merit a title shot? Not with Ronaldo Souza in the picture UFC Fight Night 36 is bound to shape the middleweight division for the near future and, as of now, it seems Lyoto Machida has the best chance at a title shot. UFC President Dana White […]
Yes, the month started off with UFC 169, but that doesn’t mean there’s not more to see. In fact, there’s much more to see, and not in places you would expect. From World Series of Fighting Canada to Cage Warriors FC, and everything in between, there’s fights to watch for different reasons. Five F...
For the past five years, Frank Mir has been a top ten heavyweight. Of course he won the UFC heavyweight title in 2004, but it took him a while for him to become a top fighter again after his horrific motorcycle accident. He’s been able to persevere for all these years, while other heavyweights ha...
Let’s face it, we all think we can do the job better than the ones making the huge amounts of coin scoring fights right? Tonight MMASucka presents an old concept that we have brought back to the drawing board. The judging panel of Jeremy Brand, Allen Strk and Thinesh John will be scoring round-by...
It’s been almost three-months since we saw the former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre inside the Octagon. While he hasn’t officially retired, many believe he is done with the sport. However St-Pierre himself told the Ottawa Sun, “Right now, I take a break. I don’t give myself any pref...
UFC on FOX 10 went down this past weekend and while it wasn’t the highlight reel card it could have been it still had some great fights. In the main event, former UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson defeated Josh Thomson in a controversial split decision. Neither fighter did much to prove t...
The main event at UFC on FOX 10 between Benson Henderson and Josh Thomson came down to the judges scorecards. Unfortunately like many headlining fights in the past it came with some controversy. Media POV: How did they score the Henderson vs Thomson fight? Henderson came out of the gate strong, b...
Let’s face it, we all think we can do the job better than the ones making the huge amounts of coin scoring fights right? Tonight MMASucka presents a an old concept that we are bringing back to the drawing board, a judging panel with Jeremy Brand, Allen Strk and Callum Leslie scoring round-by-roun...