The Rush To Hate GSP
By Raphael Garcia The sports world can be a tough community to please, whether it’s the media who covers you, or the fans who spend money...
By Raphael Garcia The sports world can be a tough community to please, whether it’s the media who covers you, or the fans who spend money...
By Raphael Garcia UFC 158 featured an animosity-filled bout between Georges St. Pierre and Nick Diaz for the welterweight title. Now that the dust has settled,...
By Raphael Garcia Every time a UFC fighter decides to step into the Octagon he or she puts many different things at risk. Health, money, roster...
By Raphael Garcia Next weekend the mixed martial arts community is going to get a main event that mainstream fans have wanted to see for a...
By Raphael Garcia If wild knockouts in mixed martial arts are your thing, then the main event of UFC on Fuel TV 8 was right up...
By Raphael Garcia It’s very tough for any professional athlete to sit on the sidelines while he or she watches his or her peers continue to...
By Raphael Garcia Everyone wants to be #1. It doesn’t matter if it’s in track and field, soccer, or badminton, if there are rankings created by...
By Adam Martin The Number 1 contender spot in the UFC heavyweight division is up for grabs, and it’s Alistair Overeem’s goal to take it and...
By Raphael Garcia Professional sports has become a world of multi-million dollar athletes that are worth much more to the organizations that employ them than they...
By Adam Martin 2012 has come and gone, but now that the year is officially done we can look back to its most memorable moments. Here...
By Raphael Garcia For a long time it has been apparent that the Ultimate Fighting Championship does not use “rankings” when deciding which fights to place...
By Raphael Garcia The powers that be behind the Ultimate Fighting Championship are dead set on placing their flag everywhere in the world. The TUF Smashes...
By Adam Martin First and Worst is an ongoing series for MMARatings.net, where every week Adam will make his pick for the best and worst newly-announced...
By Raphael Garcia The online mixed martial arts community has a certain “love” for the Diaz family. For as many fans as Nick and Nate Diaz...
By Raphael Garcia Professional athletes are usually concerned with two things: 1) winning a championship of some sort; and 2) making the most amount of money...
By Adam Martin First and Worst is a new series for MMARatings.net, where every week Adam will make his pick for the best and worst newly-announced...
By Adam Martin Fight Fixin’ was once a regular column at theScore.com, but has now been transplanted to MMARatings.net. It will come out after each big...
By Raphael Garcia UFC 154 brought answers to many different questions, but of course, the MMA community is now asking so many more. Welterweight champion Georges...
By Raphael Garcia When you go by the name of “Natural Born Killer” you don’t expect to win many “Man of the Year” awards, but Carlos...
By Adam Martin I’ve been questioning the UFC’s matchmaking in recent weeks, and the recent news that former UFC light heavyweight champion “Suga” Rashad Evans will...