Fight Picks and Predictions for Dynamite 2009
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Despite having some of the biggest squash matches of the year and a preposterous juvenile kickboxing tournament, this year-end card is actually...
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Fight Picks and Predictions for WEC 45: Tiny Titans
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) With the much more limited event space of the WEC product combined with its stranglehold on MMA’s smaller weightclasses, WEC 45 is...
Fight Picks and Predictions for the UFC 107 Undercard: Struggling to Stay
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) While some horrible video-game award show preempted spiketv showing some of these fights prior to the Pay-Per-View kicking off, the likelihood of...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 107 Main Card: Baby Jay Is Still King
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) UFC 107 in Memphis was supposed to cap off the foul-tasting tenth season of The Ultimate Fighter, finally putting to bed the...
Fight Picks and Predictions for TUF 10 Finale: More Kimbo
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) This Saturday brings us the finale of the tenth (can you believe it?) installment of the now-venerable “Ultimate Fighter” television series. Despite...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 106: Reheated Leftovers
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) It should be sinking in around now that Zuffa is desperate with respect to main event fights for the next couple of...
Fight Picks and Predictions for WEC 44: Lightning in a Bottle
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) The WEC promotion is putting on another fabulous fight consisting of massively underpaid divisional elite fighters on a network with very little...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 105 by HumungusMMA
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) UFC 105 is not the most sparkling card Zuffa has ever put together, which should come as no shock since Zuffa’s revenue-sharing...
Jake Shields in the Mainstream
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) The first time I ever saw a Jake Shields fight, it was his smothering decision win over Mach Sakurai. I knew that...
Strikeforce In Review: Live Cageside
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Being cageside for this event was a great experience. While the bottom of the card lacked energy, the arena was electric for...
Fight Picks and Predictions for Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Rogers
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) What is the meaning of a Fedor vs. Rogers fight? It’s not clear. Rogers isn’t the cream of the crop, and he’s...
Picks and Predictions for Dream 12: Caged Heat
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Dream 12 represents Fight Entertainment Group’s concession to the modern age of MMA, adopting the cage (and no, they are not the...
Picks and Predictions for UFC 104: The Machida Era
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Any time you get to see Lyoto Machida fight, it is a treat. The man is an absolute master and his style...
Independent World MMA Rankings: October 2009
The October 2009 Independent World MMA Rankings have been released. These rankings are independent of any single MMA media outlet or sanctioning body, and are published...
October Divisional Top Ten Rankings
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) This month saw lots of small changes to the divisional top-ten rankings. That is lots of changes in the lighter weight classes....
Picks and Predictions for WEC 43: Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Beset by injuries, network negotiations, delays, and the other slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, WEC 43 will finally come to pass...
Dream 11 Quick Hits: Fernandes, Aoki Take Belts
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Dream 11 was a mixed bag. The Cinderella Story of the tournament, Joe Warren, got handled in controversial fashion, and the impressively...
Picks and Predictions for Dream 11: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and The Embarrassing, and Bob Sapp
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) This is a card that lives up to all the negative stereotypes of Japanese MMA promotions: freakshow matches, wildly mismatched fights, and...
See you in April, Rampage
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) In case you, dear reader, do not have your finger on the pulse of MMA, yesterday (9/22/2009) Quinton “Rampage” Jackson put up...
Quick Hits for Sengoku 10: The Forgotten Card
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Sengoku 10 has flown very low under the radar, being a card primarily for hardcore japanese MMA fans, with even fewer major...