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It was just one short year ago and things were looking good for Will Chope (20-7). Riding a fourteen-fight win streak, and having just dispatched of former King of Pancrase, Takumi Nakayama, Chope was on deck to make a run in the UFC’s famed octagon. Then it all went away. “Everything was great w...
Michael Bisping and Luke Rockhold are set to settle their differences in Australia come November, and as expected, the war of words has started already. Check out the video of the confrontation below, along with text of the altercation. Warning: there’s lots of swearing on both ends. MB: You are...
UFC Fight Night 55 gets a huge middleweight fight as two guys who clearly do not like one another face-off in Australia. Michael ‘The Count’ Bisping vs. Luke Rockhold has been made official. There will be no shortage of trash talk here! UFC officials announced the fight on Friday. Bisping (25-6) ...
Hector Lombard (34-4-1) has been out of action since March following a dominant win over Jake Shields at UFC 167. This loss would result in Lombard entering title contention along with Shields getting released from the UFC. Hector Lombard: If #3 is scared to fight me, does that make me move to #3...
There are always young, up-and-coming fighters to watch around the world. Unfortunately, most mixed martial arts fans don’t get to know these diamonds in the rough unless they are in the UFC. That is where MMASucka.com decided to get involved to bring you this “Five fighters to watch from…” featu...
You might know him simply as the ex-partner of current TUF: 20 and UFC fighter Bec Rawlings, but Dan Enson Hyatt’s (8-4-1) impetus in the Mixed Martial Arts landscape extends much deeper. Unbeknownst to most fans outside the continent, along with co-heading and serving as matchmaker for a local p...
In a fighter’s career, there will be a time when he/she faces a downward spiral. Chuck Liddell, Randy Couture and Muhammad Ali are just a few names that will come to mind. They all plunged. They eventually experienced what it was like fighting at the tale end of their careers. And in the case of ...
The transition from Judo to Mixed Martial Arts can be a hard one but for Australia’s rising Featherweight star, Michael Tobin (8-0), he was habituated on becoming the best fighter he could possibly be. Before, not a day went by without the former Roshambo champ slapping on his Judo Gi. But what s...
There are always young, up-and-coming fighters to watch around the world. Unfortunately, most mixed martial arts fans don’t get to know these diamonds in the rough unless they are in the UFC. That is where MMASucka.com decided to get involved to bring you this “Five fighters to watch from…” featu...
This past weekend, at BRACE 26, BRACE finally kicked off its new championship tournament format at the Big Top situated in Luna Park, Sydney. As previously announced, the Australia-based organization has turned its events’ format into knockout-style championship tourneys across multiple divisions...
On Saturday night, BRACE’s new championship tournament format finally commences at the Big Top situated in Luna Park, Sydney. As previously announced, the Australia-based organization will be embarking on knockout-style championship tourneys across multiple divisions much like Bellator’s, but wit...
Officials have been forced to make a few shuffles to the AFC 8 fight card after Jack Johns and Alex Volkanovski suffered injuries this week. The beneficiaries will be Dean Purdon (4-2) and Daniel Way (2-3), who will make their way to the line-up to take on Rodolfo Marques and Daniel Almeida respe...
AFC 8 just got bigger. Australian Fighting Championship officials today announced that current UFC Heavyweight and former K-1 champ Mark Hunt (9-8-1), is set to be in attendance at the Melbourne Pavilion in ten days’ time for the promotion’s eighth instalment. UFC superstar Mark Hunt will be LIVE...
BRACE’s newly launched tournament format finally kicks off next month. As previously announced, the promotion has revealed plans to execute multi-division tournaments for its Male crop of fighters. Suffice to say, it’s going to be much like Bellator’s, but with a few differences. Opening round to...
Australian Fighting Championship returns later this month, February 22nd, with its eighth installment set for the Melbourne Pavilion in Victoria, Australia. In the headliner, one of the country’s best 155-lbs combatants, Nick Patterson (12-4), meets adopted Aussie fighter, Bernardo Magalhaes (12-...
Newly signed ONE FC prospect Martin Nguyen (3-0) will be seen as an underdog hereon in but don’t feel bad for counting him out. Such is the nature of the fight game, for people to doubt a fighter who’s only had three pro bouts and is making it to the big stage. Martin Nguyen on […]