Billington’s Breakdown: Maia vs. Shields
By Roy Billington Tonight in the main event of UFC Fight Night 29, two of the UFC’s most gifted grapplers square off, as former top UFC...
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Time to Shine or End of the Line: Thiago Silva Fights For a Roster Spot at UFC on Fuel TV 6
By Raphael Garcia Like it or not, mixed martial arts has become a sport mired in the detriment that comes along with being associated with performance...
Black Wednesday Hits The UFC: Mark Coleman One of Four Fighters Let Go
By Bryan Levick Fighting for the UFC is a dream for most mixed martial artists. They work hard to get noticed by the company, and receiving...
Who’s On The Hot Seat? UFC 109 Edition
By Bryan Levick When fighting for the UFC, fighters must have a sink or swim mentality. Either you win or you wind up looking for work...
Has The Velasquez-Nogueira Bout Been Overshadowed Or Ignored?
By Bryan Levick (BryanLevick@mmaratings.net) On a day when the UFC found out that their heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar will be returning to the organization this summer,...
UFC Fight Night 20 Breakdowns
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) Following up on Sunday’s WEC 46 card, the UFC makes a rare Monday night appearance, landing at The Patriot Center in...
Fight Rankings – December Update
By Eric Kamander With 2009 over and done with, looking back it was a great year of MMA. With 481 fights from 47 major events in...
Event Rankings – December Update
By Eric Kamander What do these three events have in common? They are the top three MMA events of 2009. Looking back 2009 was a great...
Fight Rankings (top 10 from 2009):
#1 – 4.78 – Josh Thomson vs. Gilbert Melendez (Strikeforce: Evolution) .#2 – 4.67 – Fedor Emelianenko vs. Brett Rogers (Strikeforce: Fedor vs Rogers) .#3 –...
UFC 107 Fight Week Previews: The Prelims
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) Can I just say how much day jobs suck? Always interfering with what I want to do… Thankfully, Saturdays don’t fall...
UFC 105 Main Card Predictions
By Bryan Levick (BryanLevick@mmaratings.net) A busy month of November continues as UFC 105 takes place this Saturday from Manchester, England. The card will be headlined by...
For The UFC, Less Could Mean More
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) When news broke earlier in the week that Brock Lesnar was forced to pull out of his UFC 106 title defense...
Event Rankings, October 2009
WEC 43. may have had a Fight of the Year main event, but the event as a whole failed to break into the Top 10 Event...
Welcome Back: Buentello Returning to the UFC, Set to Face Todd Duffee
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) Paul Buentello is returning to the UFC. The former heavyweight contender who fell victim to the collapse of Affliction has inked...
Pick and Predictions for UFC 103: Rich Franklin, 195lb Champion
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) The return of the old Crocop? Dos Santos to be the next heavyweight star? The return of the old Vitor? Kampmann to...
Is It Time to Take The Ultimate Fighter in a New Direction?
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net)(courtesy of MMA Fight Council) There is no question that The Ultimate Fighter changed the mixed martial arts landscape when the first...
Getting Official with Nick Lembo
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) The guy with the big smile on his face between Renzo Gracie and Ricardo Almeida is Nick Lembo. Lembo is legal...
Top 10 Fights of the Year
UFC 102‘s Randy Couture vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira enters the rankings at #6 with 4.33 stars. Maybe fans really like Machida’s recent displays of dominance, or...
Fighter Safety Falls on Everyone
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) Yesterday, we discussed the Yves Lavigne fallout from UFC 102 and the precarious position that referees are in when officiating MMA...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Yves Lavigne, Referee Stoppages and Armchair Analysis
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) While a great deal of the discussions stemming from UFC 102 have centered around the return to form of Minotauro Nogueira,...