UFC: Lightweight Stars In the News, But Not For the Right Reasons
By Adam Martin Last week wasn’t a good one for the UFC lightweight division. Earlier in the week, TMZ broke the news that Conor McGregor was...
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UFC: Heavyweight Contenders Shouldn’t Have To Wait Around For Brock Lesnar
By Adam Martin Back at UFC 226 last July, Daniel Cormier, then UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, became a rare UFC double champion when he shocked the...
UFC Wichita: Uncertain Heavyweight Path Could Put Junior Dos Santos and Stipe Miocic On A Collision Course
By Raphael Garcia The heavyweight division is the land of second chances. Not only in the UFC, but across mixed martial arts we have seen heavyweight...
UFC 236: Max Holloway vs. Dustin Poirier 2 Shows How Broken the System Has Become
By Raphael Garcia Last Friday evening, the UFC announced that Max Holloway will face Dustin Poirier at UFC 236 for the interim lightweight title. This is...
UFC 236: Tony Ferguson Is the Odd Man Out Once Again In Lightweight Title Circus
By Adam Martin Late Friday night the MMA world was shocked when Brett Okamoto of ESPN reported that the main event of UFC 236 is going...
UFC 234: Even In the Main Event, Robert Whittaker Is Standing In the Shadows
By Raphael Garcia UFC 234 may not be a strong card from top to bottom, but the two bouts at the top set the stage for...
UFC on ESPN+ 1: TJ Dillashaw Looks To Join Elusive Double Champion Club At UFC Brooklyn
By Adam Martin When the UFC announced it had traded Demetrious Johnson to ONE Championship for Ben Askren, the immediate question was what the promotion was...
UFC 235: Kamaru Usman, Not Colby Covington, Is Next In Line For Tyron Woodley and We Don’t Know Why
By Adam Martin Last June, Colby Covington defeated Rafael dos Anjos by decision at UFC 225 to become the new UFC Interim Welterweight Champion. With UFC...
MMA Ratings 2018 Year-End Awards
By Adam Martin With 2018 in the books, we here at MMA Ratings have decided to make a list of award winners from last year’s fights....
UFC Fight Night 140: Even With Big KO Win At UFC Argentina, Santiago Ponzinibbio Is Still Far Away From A Welterweight Title Shot
By Adam Martin The best fighter to ever come from Argentina put on a show for the fans in his home country over the weekend as...
UFC Divisional Dissolution: Why the Fear of Weight Class Contraction Should Concern More Than Just the Flyweights
By Raphael Garcia According to multiple reports, the UFC is planning to fold the flyweight division. With longtime champion Demetrious Johnson getting traded to ONE Championship...
ONEward and Upward: Demetrious Johnson Is Already the Greatest Flyweight Ever, But His Story Is Not Over Yet
By Adam Martin The mixed martial arts world was stunned when it was reported that the Ultimate Fighting Championship and ONE Championship had made the first...
UFC 230: Israel Adesanya Gave Us A Breakthrough Performance To Cap Off A Breakthrough Year
By Adam Martin A year ago at this time, not too many MMA fans had heard about Israel Adesanya, the Nigerian-born, New Zealand-bred kickboxer who has...
UFC 230: The Curious Case of Daniel Cormier vs. Derrick Lewis
By John Jordan The current heavyweight picture is a perplexing one, and provides the context for what many consider to be a curious main event at...
MMA and Inclusion: UFC 229 Put “MMAGA Culture” On Full Display
By Raphael Garcia The discussion about diversity and inclusion can often be a polarizing one, whether in politics, business, or culture. And although many believe that...
UFC: Ronda Rousey’s Suggestion of Equal Treatment of Fighters Is Easier Said Than Done
By Raphael Garcia By now, we should all be aware of what happened before, during and after the UFC 229 main event. Now, the UFC is...
Bellator Grand Prix Heavyweight Finals Will Be Determined This Weekend
By Adam Martin Two Bellator cards take place this weekend, with Bellator 207 going down tonight at Mohegan Sun Resort in Uncasville, Connecticut, and Bellator 208...
UFC 229: The UFC Lightweight Division Now Finds Itself In Flux
By Adam Martin The current status and future of the UFC lightweight division is very much up in the air following this past weekend’s blockbuster UFC...
MMA Ratings Podcast: Conor McGregor, Khabib Nurmagomedov and the UFC 229 Fallout (Special Episode)
By Raphael Garcia Raphael Garcia is back to talk about the chaos after UFC 229. What Do You Think of This Fight/Event?
UFC 229: Spectacular Performances Will Be Forgotten Because of Main Event Melee
By Adam Martin It’s too bad that one of the best cards of the year will be remembered for what happened after the event and not...