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UFC 232 is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. What should be a celebrated rematch between Jon Jones and Alexander Gustafsson is now a questionable event taking place in Inglewood, California. While Jon continues to defend his position of a “pictogram”, fans and media seem to be leaning t...
Our final staff picks card of 2018. Who are the MMASucka staff taking to win on the main card of UFC 232: Jones vs. Gustafsson?
The mess that is UFC 232 takes place in 24 hours time. A ruckus week which saw the UFC pick up and move from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada to The Forum in Inglewood, California. All this due to another truly perplexing situation surrounding Jon Jones. Weigh-ins for the event are altered...
European-Based Muay Thai Grand Prix Coming to UFC Fight Pass in April 2019 UFC Fight Pass continues to expand its diverse LIVE and Video-On-Demand content offerings. A European Muay Thai organization called MTGP/KGP is the new addition to the library. First reported by muaythaiblog.co.uk, KGP ann...
The Greatest Women’s Fighter of All Time The conversation of the ‘Greatest of All Time’ for women’s MMA ran stale some time ago. One aspect that possibly hampers this discussion is the lack of divisions. In North America’s top organizations, UFC & Bellator (there is more than one), there are a co...
The UFC’s year-end pay-per-view event is now just days away, as UFC 232 is set to take place Saturday (Dec. 29) from The Forum in Inglewood, California. Despite some recent controversy that led to the event being moved from Las Vegas to California just this week, the card remains one of the promo...
The UFC’s decision to relocate UFC 232 is certainly driven by money, but for different reasons than many think. The main event for UFC 232 at the T-Mobile Arena was thrown into jeopardy Sunday. An announcement stated a ‘very small amount‘ of the steroid commonly known as turinabol was found in h...
On Christmas day, the New York Post ran a story about two individuals alleged to have committed at least eight brutal robberies. According to the original article (Posted to nypost.com at 6:14 PM (EST) on December 25), the man involved was a UFC fighter. Except, he isn’t. The Crime Prosecutors al...
It would be incredibly difficult to have a discussion regarding the most dominant fighters in the history of mixed martial arts without mentioning the name Cris Cyborg. A native of Curitiba, Brazil, the feared 33-year-old currently holds the UFC women’s featherweight championship and previously h...
There have been a battery of fighter responses to Jon Jones’ latest atypical drug test. Many fighters who have previously fallen victim to USADA punishments seem to think that there is a clear double-standard being enacted in their testing protocols. The common theme implies that fighters who hav...
Jon Jones is in the middle of another peculiar situation due to drug testing. Less than a week from UFC 232 and two days from Christmas, news broke that the venue of the event changed from Las Vegas to Inglewood, California. Many were deeply upset by yet another card altering transgression coming...
A ruckus surrounds the UFC and its year ending event UFC 232. Headliner Jon Jones tested positive for a trace metabolite ahead of the event. Due to the metabolite being consistent with the Jones’ 2017 failed drug test, per USADA. The organization concluded that the athlete did not violate the UFC...
Up until today, the plan has been for UFC 232 to take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, On Saturday, December 29th, 2018. Per Dana White and Jeff Novitzky, the fight card will now be held at The Forum in Inglewood, California. That’s right. On one week’s notice, one of the largest...
Joel Suprenant is a former mixed martial artist who was a large part of the original Team Quest. He previously worked closely with Chael Sonnen as a voice on the podcast ‘You’re Welcome – With Chael Sonnen.’ He contacted MMASucka and asked to share his thoughts regarding UFC 231. ****** In Novemb...
UFC 232 As 2018 comes to a close, the final UFC PPV lingers on the edge of the calendar year. Many storylines lay on the other side of December. One being a new broadcast deal takes hold. A deal that could change the landscape of the UFC due to the sheer magnitude. Yet, UFC 232 […]
Walt Harris has quite the opportunity ahead of him at UFC 232. “The Big Ticket” is slated to fight former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski on the preliminary card headliner of a pay-per-view marked by the return of Jon Jones, who fights Alexander Gustafsson in a rematch of arguably the gr...