UFC 226: All UFC Main Events and Title Fights Should Have A Backup Fighter Ready
By Adam Martin The UFC suffered a big loss when it lost one of two title fights for tonight’s UFC 226 card in Las Vegas, Nevada....
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MMA Ratings Podcast: Khabib Nurmagomedov, Max Holloway, Tony Ferguson, and UFC 223 (Episode 81)
By Raphael Garcia Raphael Garcia and Schwan Humes are back to talk all things MMA, including Khabib Nurmagomedov, Tony Ferguson, Conor McGregor, Max Holloway, UFC 223,...
UFC 223: Holloway, Nurmagomedov, and the UFC Deserve a Round of Applause
By Raphael Garcia Everyone is aware of the news by now. Tony Ferguson is out and Max Holloway is in for UFC 223 on Saturday. Many...
UFC 223: The MMA Gods Won’t Let Us Have Nice Things
By Adam Martin Sunday was April 1, and that means it was April Fools Day. I joked early in the morning on my Twitter that I...
UFC 222: The Youth Movement Pushes Through To Victory
By Raphael Garcia During the past few days the NFL Scouting Combine has featured some of the top young college football talent that will soon be...
UFC: Lack of Divisional Turnover Hurts Prospects and Booking
By Raphael Garcia In professional sports, turnover is a function of time, as older athletes are supplanted by a youth movement, and the same eventually happens...
UFC Fight Night 124: Jeremy Stephens Joins List of Contenders At 145
By Adam Martin With a huge KO victory over Doo Hoi Choi in the main event of UFC Fight Night 124, featherweight Jeremy Stephens is now...
UFC: The Danger of Fighting Down In the Rankings Makes For More Turning Down of Fights
By Raphael Garcia For UFC fighters, becoming ranked is a precarious and often ambiguous development. Since the UFC introduced rankings in 2013 as a part of...
UFC Fight Night 123: Brian Ortega’s Big Opportunity
By Adam Martin Brian Ortega is one of the hottest prospects in the featherweight division, and after winning the first 13 fights of his career (one...
Brian Ortega vs. Cub Swanson Is The Prototypical “Old Guard” vs. “New Guard” Showdown
By Raphael Garcia In combat sports there’s a trend whereby younger fighters have to forcibly supplant the older generation as they push up the rankings ladder....
UFC 218: Max Holloway Is On the Path To Becoming An All-Time Great
By Adam Martin At just 25 years of age, UFC Featherweight Champion Max Holloway is well on his way to carving out a path as an...
UFC 218: Storylines Emerging From An Amazing Card In Detroit
By Adam Martin The UFC hit another one out of the ballpark this weekend with UFC 218, the company’s latest pay-per-view offering, which took place this...
UFC Fight Night 120: Anthony Pettis’ Days of Title Contention Are Over
By Adam Martin It really wasn’t too long ago that Anthony Pettis was the best lightweight in the world. It was 2010 when Pettis defeated Benson...
UFC Fight Night 120: Poirier vs. Pettis For Dummies: Nine Things You Need to Know
By Schwan Humes Tonight at UFC Fight Night 120, we have an exciting lightweight fight featuring former top-five-ranked featherweight and current top ten lightweight Dustin “The...
UFC 218 Is Looking Stacked
By Adam Martin The UFC hasn’t been to the Detroit area since UFC 123 back in 2010, but when the promotion returns to Motown on December...
UFC 216: Tony Ferguson Takes A Step Forward In the Conor McGregor Sweepstakes
By Raphael Garcia With UFC 216 in the books, the answer to “what’s next” seems slightly more clear. Tony Ferguson is the UFC Interim Lightweight Champion, submitting...
UFC Looking For A Strong Fourth Quarter To End 2017
By Adam Martin This definitely hasn’t been the best year for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A year after WME-IMG took over operations, the promotion has had...
UFC 215: Nunes vs. Shevchenko for Dummies: Thirteen Things You Need to Know
By Schwan Humes This Saturday at UFC 215, UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes and challenger Valentina Shevchenko will come full circle in this highly anticipated...
Men’s Featherweight (145) Top 15 Rankings
#1 Max Holloway #2 Jose Aldo #3 Frankie Edgar #4 Ricardo Lamas #5 Cub Swanson #6 Patricio Freire #7 Anthony Pettis #8 Charles Oliveira #9 Yair...
Mixed Martial Arts for Dummies: Ten Things You Need to Know About Journeymen
By Schwan Humes Journeyman are often underappreciated, if not outright ignored, members of the mixed martial arts world; these guys are all over every card, and...