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567 days. George St. Pierre hadn’t competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship in 567 days. The reigning welterweight king returned to a brave new world at 170-pounds with a log-jam of worthy challengers nipping at his heels as new challengers emerged. Standing atop of the heap of challengers...
UFC 154: St. Pierre vs. Condit is in the books and once again the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) delivered a solid night of mixed martial arts action. Pablo Garza, Rafael Dos Anjos, Francis Carmont, Johny Hendricks and Georges St. Pierre were the big winners last Saturday night in Monteeal ...
Georges St. Pierre put on a legacy-defining performance Saturday night at UFC 154 against Carlos Condit. There were many in the MMA media who suggested that a perfect storm of events would conspire the undisputed welterweight champion; with it being his first fight in eighteen months since having...
On Saturday night at UFC 154, which takes place at Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre makes his long-awaited return to the Octagon when he fights UFC interim welterweight champion Carlos Condit in the evening’s main event to unify the belts and cr...
All it took was one punch. There were few out there, whether fans, critics or media aficionado’s that placed their faith behind Cung Le this past Saturday morning to defeat former UFC titlist Rich Franklin. Seconds into the fight it seemed the former Strikeforce champion looked flat as Franklin b...
UFC on FUEL TV 6: Franklin vs. Le is in the books and for the third time this year, the Ultimate Fighting Championship delivered an outstanding fight card in the country of Brazil. Cung Le, Thiago Silva, Dong Hyun Kim, Takanori Gomi, Jon Tuck and Tekaya Mizugaki were the big winners last night in...
You’re UFC president Dana White, and you just got off the phone with one half of your next pay-per-view main event. He’s out of the fight. Now what? What are you going to do with the event just a few weeks away and a bunch of fans who already paid their hard-earned cash to watch […]
Eddie Alvarez is officially the hottest free agent on the market. In a mixed martial arts world controlled and dominated by the Ultimate Fighting Championship, it’s hard to be considered one of the elite, especially at 155-pounds without locking horns with the top-ranked fighters under the Zuffa ...
The last time I entered a cinema to watch an MMA-themed movie – Never Back Down – My girlfriend at the time left the building vowing never to attend a movie with me again after I complained and bickered for the full 94 minutes. I am happy to report that history didn’t repeat itself when […]
On Tuesday, word began to spread that UFC Light-Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones would take on former middleweight title contender Chael Sonnen, first as coaches on The Ultimate Fighter and then against one another inside the octagon. The announcement came as a shock to most, considering Dan Hender...
The announcement of the impending TUF season being coached by Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen and their subsequent fight for the UFC Light Heavyweight title has sent shock waves through the MMA fanbase. There are those who are decrying the match-up, scribbling furiously from their laptops that Sonnen ...
Once upon a time there was a golden age for boxing. Most of us weren’t there for it but we all would pay our hard earned money to sit under the learning tree and listen to the all-time greats from the 1920’s – 1960’s tell tales from inside the twenty-by-twenty ring. With any sport or […]
Have you ever seen a pet snake kill a mouse? The moment the human hand drops the tiny mammal into the cage it doesn’t attack and gnaw on its corpse within seconds, it just locks eyes on it immediately. Panic is written all over the mouses face as it runs and desperately seeks a way […]
Last week, we saw two sides of Dana White at play. The side that will undoubtedly support a fighter in his time of need, and a ruthless promoter determined not to let anything affect his ability to put on the card UFC had scheduled. Usually these two sides operate independently of each other, but...
Last week, we saw two sides of Dana White at play. The side that will undoubtedly support a fighter in his time of need, and a ruthless promoter determined not to let anything affect his ability to put on the card UFC had scheduled. Usually these two sides operate independently of each other, but...
UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has beaten a who’s-who’s list of opponents. Those include 5 former 205lbs title holders, Rashad Evans, Quinton Jackson, Lyoto Machida, Mauricio Rua and Vitor Belfort. That seems like quite the task, however UFC President Dana White does not feel that it pu...