Hot takes, editorials, and opinion pieces from our team on the biggest stories in MMA.
With the New Years now come and gone, many have already found out what Santa completed on their wish list and is starting, if not already completed, to compile their list of resolutions for 2013. Resolutions are usually made to correct the wrongs from the previous year or vowed changes to better ...
The UFC Heavyweight Championship once again resides on the mantle of Cain Velasquez. To say that Velasquez beat Junior dos Santos last night would not do it justice. He overwhelmed, frustrated, bloodied and dominated the Brazilian to comfortably knock him off his perch and take back what he lost ...
There are two main events during Saturday night’s UFC 155 event. Of course, we all know UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos headlines opposite former champion Cain Velasquez in the main event of the pay-per-view card.
When it was announced that Jamie Varner would be making his return to the UFC for a May bout against Edson Barboza, most observers were perplexed. A moderate 3-1 record since leaving the WEC left most under the impression Varner had not earned the opportunity and would prove fodder for the younge...
The end of 2012 is near the corner, and for Christmas this year we’ll be asking Santa Claus to bring us five gifts to help improve the sport of MMA in 2013. Hopefully he’ll be to us this Christmas and not give us a lump of coal instead.
Ronda Rousey’s UFC debut will certainly be among the most scrutinized events of 2013. Walking into the promotion with a title waiting for her, a pay-per-view main event slot given to her above two of the sport’s proven best and an opponent that opened at a 15-1 underdog…these things do leave some...
Mismatched, freak show fights and mixed martial arts essentially go hand-in-hand. The argument can certainly be made that the first few years of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) were all freak show affairs – There were no weight-classes, few rules and felt like you were watching a snuff f...
I’m a strange cookie, I’ve got a library of thousands of fights stored in my memory bank and sometimes a fight just springs into my mind so I am forced to go and re-live the magic that was. Usually I dish up some fun tilts from the Shooto library from the mid-to-late nineties but Eddie […]
Ronda Rousey is headlining the UFC 157 fight card in Anaheim, California and there are plenty of folks who don’t agree with it. Most recently, Dan Henderson’s Striking Coach, Gus Pugliese took to Facebook to argue his point.
21 fights. 11 knockouts. 3 submissions. 7 decisions. 24 hours. Yup, all that happened under the same banner of the Ultimate Fighting Championship in less than a complete day’s cycle, the second half of proceedings invaded Las Vegas capped off with Roy Nelson blowing the doors off Matt Mitrione. F...
At UFC 154, not only did we see the remarkable return of GSP but we got to see two fighters in the main event fight without a familiar face in their camp and corner. That face being none other than famed MMA coach Greg Jackson. He is known in the MMA community as one of […]
When I walked into the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre at 7AM on a Saturday morning I had just heard of the horrific events that unfolded in Connecticut so it would be fair to say that my mood was a little somber and I wasn’t really in the mood to watch men brutalize each other in […]
The Ultimate Fighter 16 and the Australian version of “Smashes” both came to an end last weekend. The finale is the only thing to look forward to when watching TUF. I’m so tired of the format that I’d rather watch Downton Abbey with my wife than sit through an hour of played out and washed […]
Benson Henderson already ruled the roost at 155-pounds heading into Key Arena when he defended his championship against Cesar Gracie-trained fighter Nate Diaz but he had his naysayers who believe that Frankie Edgar should have those ten-pounds of gold wrapped around his waist. Last night Henderso...
The suspensions of Nick Diaz, Dave Herman, Matt Riddle and Thiago Silva show that athletic commissions are in need of a serious overhaul on how they approach the issue of marijuana as it is inconsistent with their stance on other medically approved therapies and even logic. The athletes in questi...
A star was born last night in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. In the main event of Score Fighting Series 7, 23-year old Canadian Jordan Mein stopped tough-as-nails Forrest Petz in the first round and made it look easy, knocking out the seven-fight UFC veteran with one of the most vicious barrage of pu...