Fight Picks and Predictions for TUF 11 Finale: Where’s Tito?
By Nicholas Bailey The Ultimate Fighter 11: Team Liddell vs. Team Ortiz Finale, like all TUF finales, is very difficult to predict. Many of these fighters...
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Fight Picks and Predictions for Strikeforce: Los Angeles
By Nicholas Bailey Strikeforce needed a token card to represent their brand at E3 to help promote the EA MMA game, and that’s exactly how Strikeforce:...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 115: Old Dogs with New Abs
By Nicholas Bailey UFC 115 has “close decisions” written all over it. With the state of judging in MMA being what it is, that means that...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 114: Yet Another Tiresome Grudge Match
By Nicholas Bailey Do fighters have some kind of mental defect? Are fight fans really supposed to believe that these men stay up nights completely enraged...
Fight Picks and Predictions for Dream 14: Surprisingly Good or Lowered Expectations?
By Nicholas Bailey With Sengoku disentegrating and the money of the Katukogi boom long gone, Japanese MMA is in a very sad state, but Dream 14...
Fight Picks and Predictions for Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery. Shooting Blanks?
By Nicholas Bailey This event is a microcosm of all of Strikeforces strengths and failures. They have some world-class fighters and a great platform to put...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 113: Strategies Make Fights
By Nicholas Bailey UFC 113 is what it is. A fairly weak card that could produce some entertaining, if meaningless fights, capped off by a gem...
Fight Picks and Predictions for WEC 48: Best Card of the Year
By Nicholas Bailey WEC 48 is the product of Zuffa’s bizzare bicameral promotional structure, a bastard strategy that allows them to dominate the MMA material on...
Fight Picks and Predictions for Strikeforce: Nashville
By Nicholas Bailey For all their foibles with meaningless prelims, poor talent development, and inability to control their own fighters (Fedor, Overeem), Strikeforce can put together...
Rankings Rumble: UFC 112
By Nicholas Bailey The “Rankings Rumble” seeks to evaluate recent changes in our official top-ten divisional rankings, as well as provide some analysis of fighters that...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 112: Pray for Rain
By Nicholas Bailey There’s a lot of things that could go wrong with UFC 112, several of which could be hilarious results for cynical fans. The...
Rankings Rumble: UFC 111, UFN 21, Dream 13, Shooto
By Nicholas Bailey In this edition of the Rankings Rumble, the discussion includes the rankings fallout of UFC 111, UFC Fight Night 21, a Shooto event...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFN 21: TUF 11 Infomercial
By Nicholas Bailey UFC Fight Night 21 has very little relevance other than serving as a block of programming that fight fans actually want to watch...
Picks and Predictions for UFC 111: Clash of the Titans
By Nicholas Bailey UFC 111 is almost guaranteed to be a good pay-per-view. First of all, we get to see the pound-for-pound best fighter in the...
Picks and Predictions for UFC Live on Versus: Jones vs. Vera
By Nicholas Bailey The UFC puts together very strange cards when it expands into new markets. Vera vs. Jones is a very unusual headliner, as while...
Rankings Rumble: WEC 47, SRC 12 and UFC 110
By Nicholas Bailey As the first installment of what will be a continuing feature, the “Rankings Rumble” seeks to evaluate recent changes in our official top-ten...
Heavyweight
#1 Fedor Emelianenko .#2 Brock Lesnar .#3 Frank Mir#4 Fabricio Werdum#5 Junior Dos Santos#6 Cain Velasquez#7 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira#8 Brett Rogers#9 Andrei Arlovski#10 Alistair Overeem What...
Light Heavyweight
#1 Lyoto Machida .#2 Rashad Evans .#3 Mauricio Rua#4 Forrest Griffin .#5 Gegard Mousasi#6 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira#7 Anderson Silva .#8 Dan Henderson#9 Thiago Silva#10 Randy Couture...
Middleweight
#1 Anderson Silva .#2 Dan Henderson#3 Demian Maia#4 Nate Marquardt#5 Chael Sonnen#6 Robbie Lawler#7 Vitor Belfort#8 Yushin Okami#9 Jorge Santiago#10 Jake Shields What Do You Think...
Welterweight
#1 Georges St. Pierre .#2 Thiago Alves#3 Jon Fitch#4 Josh Koscheck#5 Matt Hughes#6 Dan Hardy#7 Martin Kampmann#8 Paulo Thiago#9 Carlos Condit#10 Paul Daley What Do You...