Lightweight
#1 BJ Penn .#2 Shinya Aoki#3 Tatsuya Kawajiri#4 Kenny Florian#5 Gray Maynard#6 Eddie Alvarez#7 Frankie Edgar#8 Tyson Griffin#9 Diego Sanchez#10 Jim Miller What Do You Think...
Humungus
Featherweight
#1 Jose Aldo .#2 Mike Thomas Brown .#3 Urijah Faber .#4 Raphael Assuncao#5 Hatsu Hioki#6 Bibiano Fernandes#7 Marlon Sandro#8 Manny Gamburyan#9 Masanori Kanehara#10 Michihiro Omigawa What...
Bantamweight
#1 Dominick Cruz .#2 Scott Jorgensen#3 Joseph Benavidez#4 Masakatsu Ueda#5 Brian Bowles .#6 Miquel Torres .#7 Wagnney Fabiano#8 Takeya Mizugaki#9 Akitoshi Tamura#10 Damacio Page What Do...
Fight Picks and Predictions for Sengoku 12: A Battered Promotion Creaks On
By Nicholas Bailey Go ahead and gnash your teeth because HDnet has decided to run Sengoku 12 on a FIVE DAY tape delay. Takes one back...
Fight Picks and Predictions for WEC 47: Bantamweights? Yes Please
By Nicholas Bailey WEC 47 has flown beneath the radar, probably because the tallest guy on the main card is about 5’9″, but hardcores know that...
Pick and Predictions for UFC 110: A Star is Born?
By Nicholas Bailey UFC 110 is one of the most interesting fight cards that Zuffa has put on in the last twelve months, with lots of...
The Death of The Guard in MMA
By Nicholas Bailey In a recent interview Jon Fitch sparked conversation by declaring the Closed Guard “dead in MMA,” although he went further and made comments...
Post UFC 109 Ranking Changes and Commentary
By Nicholas Bailey UFC 109 had a lot of exciting moments, but it didn’t have a lot of real surprises. The big ones for most observers...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 109: Grumpy Old Men
By Nicholas Bailey Just ignore the main event. It’s nice to see Randy Couture in action, but against Coleman is Super Hulk Grand Prix level ridiculousness...
Picks and Predictions for Strikeforce: Miami, The World’s Most Generic Event
By Nicholas Bailey In the MMA universe, what is the role of Strikeforce? They have Fedor and a few other elite fighters, but none of their...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFN 20: Big Favorites, Big Wins?
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) There’s no overarching story to Ultimate Fight Night 20, except the story that it has none. There’s no one big name or...
Fight Picks and Predictions for WEC 46: Heel to Face
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Zuffa’s second-class citizens meet for another criminally under-appreciated card that tries to make use of a diminished posterboy to sell a little-liked...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 108: Card Subject to Change
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) UFC 108 is a truly snakebit event. The aura of bad luck surrounding this card is so strong that I hesitate to...
Fight Picks and Predictions for Dynamite 2009
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Despite having some of the biggest squash matches of the year and a preposterous juvenile kickboxing tournament, this year-end card is actually...
Fight Picks and Predictions for WEC 45: Tiny Titans
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) With the much more limited event space of the WEC product combined with its stranglehold on MMA’s smaller weightclasses, WEC 45 is...
Fight Picks and Predictions for the UFC 107 Undercard: Struggling to Stay
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) While some horrible video-game award show preempted spiketv showing some of these fights prior to the Pay-Per-View kicking off, the likelihood of...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 107 Main Card: Baby Jay Is Still King
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) UFC 107 in Memphis was supposed to cap off the foul-tasting tenth season of The Ultimate Fighter, finally putting to bed the...
Fight Picks and Predictions for TUF 10 Finale: More Kimbo
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) This Saturday brings us the finale of the tenth (can you believe it?) installment of the now-venerable “Ultimate Fighter” television series. Despite...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 106: Reheated Leftovers
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) It should be sinking in around now that Zuffa is desperate with respect to main event fights for the next couple of...
Fight Picks and Predictions for WEC 44: Lightning in a Bottle
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) The WEC promotion is putting on another fabulous fight consisting of massively underpaid divisional elite fighters on a network with very little...
