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UFC Vegas 101 looms this Saturday night. After a restful break for the festive season, MMA‘s top promotion, the UFC, is back in action these next two weekends. While most sports fans will be paying attention to Wild Card Saturday in the NFL Playoffs, Enterprise, NV is the focus of attention in th...
On paper, not every UFC card is going to have the “Wow!” factor that will have people say “All right. This show looks good. Let me cancel my plans for tonight and watch this.” As mentioned in the past, while the highlight-reel knockouts are great to see and will grab the headlines every week, it’...
Marcus McGhee (7-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) will look to start his Octagon career with two straight wins when he meets JP Buys (9-5 MMA, 0-3 UFC) at a UFC Apex event in Las Vegas on Saturday, Aug. 12. McGhee said his opponent is a “really good fighter.” “I think he’s had some unfortunate shortcomings in […]
Vanessa Demopoulos (9-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) will look to add a former strawweight title challenger to her resume when she takes on Karolina Kowalkiewicz (14-7 MMA, 7-7 UFC) at the UFC event scheduled for May 20 in Las Vegas. “I’m very excited that I get to have this fight,” Demopoulos told MMASucka. “I...
Justin Jaynes (16-5 MMA, 1-1 UFC) will look to return to the win column when he fights Gabriel Benitez (21-8 MMA, 5-4 UFC) at UFC Vegas 16 on Dec. 5. “I like the match-up because Benitez doesn’t have any interest in wrestling, or at least I’d like to think he doesn’t,” Jaynes told MMASucka. “I’ll...
Casey Kenney had arguably his best UFC showing yet on Saturday when he vanquished Louis Smolka in the first round of their UFC Las Vegas bantamweight scrap. Kenney submitted Smolka, a former top-10 flyweight, with a one-arm guillotine choke at the 3:03 mark of the bout. Kenney improved to 3-1 in ...