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...
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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...
Heavyweight Rankings Review, December 2009
By Eric Kamander The heavyweight division has long been the whipping boy of MMA fans, with truly talented big men being very few and far between....
Featherweight Rankings Review, December 2009
By Eric Kamander Featherweight talent, while concentrated in the WEC, can also be found in great abundance in Sengoku and Dream. With their tournaments wrapped up,...
The laughs and perils of MMA blogging
By Eric Kamander (to be taken lightly) If you leave a comment in one of my blog posts and I notice in your profile that you...
Breaking down Machida vs Rua
By Eric Kamander Yesterday I brought up the appearance of impropriety as the UFC’s, and MMA’s, single biggest obstacle. And specifically I was referring to this...
The UFC's biggest obstacle is evident at UFC 104
By Eric Kamander At this past weekend’s UFC 104 I think we had a look at the single biggest obstacle facing the UFC today in their...
MMA World Expo
By Eric Kamander I just came back from New York City’s first ever World MMA Expo. It was filled with the usual things you would expect...
UFC 100 afterthoughts
By Eric Kamander UFC 100 was definitely a solid event. Possibly the best UFC event so far this year, but not the best event this year...
Do you have to be a big talker to make it big time?
By Eric Kamander Some people in the MMA media continue to think you do (if you’re an MMA fighter). Whether this means talking trash, being charismatic,...
Ups and downs in the heavyweight rankings
By Eric Kamander Unlike most team sports, in MMA the best fighters don’t get to all compete against each other, much less compete against each other...
Promotional Performance: Strikeforce vs. WEC
By Eric Kamander We recently asked people which event they were looking forward to more, Strikeforce or the WEC. Many people seemed more interested in Strikeforce,...
UFC 98 Review: Machida is the Future!
By Eric Kamander UFC 98 had some interesting potential and proved to be much more. The main event was compelling to all but the lowest common...
Does Dana White affect children’s exposure to MMA?
By Eric Kamander I want to weigh in on a recent conversation on Beatdown Radio about Dana White affecting children’s exposure to the sport. First off,...
BetUS has stepped up their game!
By Eric Kamander When I swept the BetUS UFC 94 and Affliction pickem contest I told them to step up their game and guess what? They...
Can you out pick me? Wanna BetUS?
By Eric Kamander BetUS recently held pickem contest among some of their affiliates for Affliction and UFC 94. Guess who won? Yes, yours truly. But if...
Post UFC 90 Notes
By Eric Kamander Nicholas Bailey is away on vacation, so I’m doing my best to fill in for him. UFC 90 was certainly a solid card....
Weekend of MMA Affliction, Confliction and Dreams
By Eric Kamander Last weekend was a big one for MMA. On Saturday night was Affliction: Banned, and though this was Affliction’s debut event, it was...
Ratings and Fighter Rankings
By Eric Kamander Ratings and rankings are both ways to indicate someone or something’s relative standing. However, ratings seek to gauge the value within a finite...
Women’s MMA
By Eric Kamander Women’s MMA gets some flack and is sometimes even compared to WNBA. Sometimes that comparison may have some validity respective to all women’s...