Dynamite!! 2008 (Predictions)
Click the stars to rate how good you think it will be. Fighting and Entertainment Group’s Dynamite!! 2008 is to be held on New Year’s Eve,...
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K-1 Dynamite 2008 – The Freaks are Back
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...
Mir vs. Lesnar 2 or This is What Happens When Bad Meets Evil
By Warren Piece (warrenpiece@mmaratings.net) So, the UFC Heavyweight mini-touranment has finally shaken out and we are left with Mir vs. Lesnar 2 to decide who is...
TUF 8 Finale – No event could have made up for having to watch Junie
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...
Ultimate Fight Night 16 Notes – Krom Was Pleased
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,...
Ultimate Fight Night 16 Preview – Where do I belong?
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) The story of Ultimate Fight Night 16 is “where do I belong?” Every event has fighters asking themselves some variant of this...
The Thanksgiving Turkey – ATT’s Dan Lambert
By Nicholas Bailey Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrating the initial teamwork that lead to near-genocide. Which is fitting, considering that my Thanksgiving turkey is American Top...
Strikeforce: Destruction (Predictions)
Click the stars to rate how good you think it will be. Strikeforce: Destruction is to be held on November 21, 2008 at the HP Pavilion...
The Dickensian Aspect: Jon Fitch, Dana White, and Power Plays in MMA
By Nicholas Bailey In the fight game, the only people that can approximate the dishonesty and ego of a promoter are a fighter’s agents. (Which is...
Is Sports Illustrated’s Ben Fowlkes even qualified to write about MMA?
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) I take great exception to some parts of this piece by Ben Fowlkes, who apparently gets to write about MMA for SI.com...
Quick Hits for WEC 36
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Salutations everyone. I’m sorry for my absence, and I’ll start picking up everything I’ve missed during my vacation tomorrow. WEC 36 is...
The DOs and DONTs of Starting a Major MMA Promotion
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) As yet another organization promised to be “bigger than the UFC” flails about in its death throes, with contracted fighters entering limbo...
Does Werdum Deserve a Shot Yet?
By Garth Hansen (garthhansen@mmaratings.net) Fabricio Werdum has appeared to be the odd man out in the UFC’s latest heavyweight shakedown. The four-man psuedo-tournament soon to open...
The Throwaway Quote That Lost TUF
By Garth Hansen (garthhansen@mmaratings.net) While watching the most recent episode of The Ultimate Fighter tonight they showed the full video, which was teased last week, of...
“Heat” Mirrors Real World
By Garth Hansen (garthhansen@mmaratings.net) The turmoil and uncertainty sparked by the CBS/EliteXC “Heat” event from Saturday night has the mixed martial arts world as scattered, sliding...
EliteXC – Heat
EliteXC: Heat was held on October 4, 2008 in Sunrise, Florida at the Bank Atlantic Center. This was the third EliteXC show to be featured on...
EliteXC – Heat (Predictions)
Click the stars to rate how good you think it will be. EliteXC: Heat is to be held on October 4, 2008 in Sunrise, Florida at...
Quick Hits for Strikeforce: Payback
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Like the Strikeforce show at the playboy mansion, this card isn’t going to set anyone’s pants on fire, but it features a...
Elite XC on CBS II
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) As I previously outlined, EliteXC is in quite a bind with this show, and that really doesn’t change, regardless of who owns...