Quick Hits for WEC 38
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Tucked away in between a truly remarkable couple of weeks of MMA is yet another exciting WEC card featuring stellar lighter fighters....
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Day of Reckoning – The End of Affliction
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Day of Reckoning is most likely the last Affliction show that will ever be produced. The payroll is enormous, the production costs...
Post UFC 93 Notes – Is it UFC 94 yet?
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) UFC 93 saw far too many decisions and poor performances for fans to remember it as anything other than a clunker, but...
Blood in the Cage – Phenomenon or Fad?
By Katrina Belcher (katrinabelcher@mmaratings.net) According to author L. Jon Wertheim, who wrote Blood in the Cage: Mixed Martial Arts, Pat Miletich and the Furious Rise of...
UFC 93 in a Nutsack
By Warren Piece (warrenpiece@mmaratings.net) Welcome to the first installment of our new “In a Nutsack” event summaries where yours truly will be posting brief event overviews...
UFC 93: Franklin vs. Henderson
Click the stars to rate how good you think this event was. UFC 93: Franklin vs. Henderson was held on January 17, 2009 at The O2,...
Best of 2008
By the MMA Ratings team. At the last minute MMA Ratings decided it would be cool to do an “official” awards piece for 2008, instead of...
UFC 93 Picks and Predictions – Which 185lber is the best 205lber?
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) UK Fans are desperate for MMA, so they’ll buy anything the UFC puts out, and the UFC has some important fights that...
Post K-1 Dynamite Notes – The Revolution Has Begun
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Appropriately for a K-1 event, the most stirring part of this event were the kickboxing bouts and knockouts. In an exciting night...
Post Sengoku 7 Notes – Rise of the Mo
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) This was a very solid fight card. Betting-wise, I got absolutely hosed, with a net result of -4.5 that wiped out my...
Sengoku 7 Predictions and Analysis
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) While it won’t have the paegenty or theatrics of the recent K-1 dynamite production, this card should provide a surprisingly solid after-dinner...
TWOTHOUSANDNINE
By Warren Piece (warrenpiece@mmaratings.net) The following is a short list of some of the fights I am most looking forward to in the new year. Let...
Fight Rankings (top 10 from 2008):
#1 – 4.74 – Carlos Condit vs. Hiromitsu Miura (WEC 35) #2 – 4.69 – Miguel Angel Torres vs. Yoshiro Maeda (WEC 34)#3 – 4.66 – Eddie...
Event Rankings (top 10 from 2008):
#1 – 4.41 – UFC 84: Ill Will #2 – 4.30 – Dream 5: Heiwa#3 – 4.29 – UFC 92: Ultimate 2008#4 – 4.26 – WEC 35#5...
Worst Fights (from 2008):
#1 – 1.00 – Kim Couture vs. Lina Kvokov (Strikeforce: Destruction) #2 – 1.00 – Zelg Galesic vs. Taiei Kin (Dream 4)#3 – 1.10 – Nate...
Post UFC 92 Notes – The End of an Era
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Despite a lot of exciting fights, dramatic finishes, and an absolute gem of a main event, this card was bittersweet, and not...
Professional Female MMA Fighters…Say What?
By Katrina Belcher (katrinabelcher@mmaratings.net) Being a female in the MMA world, I’ve talked to a lot of men about my involvement in this industry. I find...
UFC 92 Preview – Ultimate 2008 indeed!
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Ultimate 2008 indeed. This card brings us two sterling matchups in the prestige division of MMA, light-heavyweight, featuring four of the best...
TUF 8 Finale – No event could have made up for having to watch Junie
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Well, I regret the fact that TUF 8 even existed as a season. I regret watching grown men drink urine, behave like...
Ultimate Fight Night 16 Notes – Krom Was Pleased
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) UFC: Fight for the Troops was somewhat of a throwback event, with the raucous and unruly crowd, the booing, the late stoppages,...