Post WEC 39 Notes – The Champ is Here
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Mike Thomas Brown was in many ways seen as little more than a placeholder champion, a talented fighter that had gotten a...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Mike Thomas Brown was in many ways seen as little more than a placeholder champion, a talented fighter that had gotten a...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) With all the shenanigans going on in Zuffa’s other product, this card has been severely overlooked, especially considering it features a fight...
By Nicholas Bailey (nwbailey@mmaratings.net) As the UFC begins to wind down its separation of the wheat from the proverbial chaff, we are seeing higher talent fighters...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) As indicated in the title, it’s a bit of a surprise how much fun this card could be, given that the UK...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Joe Rogan standing next to a DEA agent. Insane. I wonder how big the guy’s eyes would have bugged if he’d seen...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) As part of their continuing quest to boot losers out of their promotion, the UFC has assembled a fight night card that...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Capping off a stretch that would give even the most hardcore MMA fan excitement fatigue, UFC 94 had a shocking number of...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) UFC 94 is the sort of card fight fans dream about. Obviously with GSP vs. BJ we have two premier fighters at...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Tucked away in between a truly remarkable couple of weeks of MMA is yet another exciting WEC card featuring stellar lighter fighters....
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Day of Reckoning is most likely the last Affliction show that will ever be produced. The payroll is enormous, the production costs...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) UFC 93 saw far too many decisions and poor performances for fans to remember it as anything other than a clunker, but...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) UK Fans are desperate for MMA, so they’ll buy anything the UFC puts out, and the UFC has some important fights that...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Appropriately for a K-1 event, the most stirring part of this event were the kickboxing bouts and knockouts. In an exciting night...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) This was a very solid fight card. Betting-wise, I got absolutely hosed, with a net result of -4.5 that wiped out my...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) While it won’t have the paegenty or theatrics of the recent K-1 dynamite production, this card should provide a surprisingly solid after-dinner...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Despite a lot of exciting fights, dramatic finishes, and an absolute gem of a main event, this card was bittersweet, and not...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) In typical K-1/Japanese MMA fashion, this card makes very little sense as anything aside from a spectacle. There’s the usual parade of...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Ultimate 2008 indeed. This card brings us two sterling matchups in the prestige division of MMA, light-heavyweight, featuring four of the best...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Well, I regret the fact that TUF 8 even existed as a season. I regret watching grown men drink urine, behave like...
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) UFC: Fight for the Troops was somewhat of a throwback event, with the raucous and unruly crowd, the booing, the late stoppages,...