The Dickensian Aspect: Jon Fitch, Dana White, and Power Plays in MMA
By Nicholas Bailey In the fight game, the only people that can approximate the dishonesty and ego of a promoter are a fighter’s agents. (Which is...
20697 Search results
For the term "search".
UFC 91 Notes
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) UFC 91 was an awesome event. All the fights were entertaining, some were very high-quality, and the bulk of them were competitive,...
Is Sports Illustrated’s Ben Fowlkes even qualified to write about MMA?
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) I take great exception to some parts of this piece by Ben Fowlkes, who apparently gets to write about MMA for SI.com...
UFC 91 Picks and Predictions
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) A superfight with a superfreak, rehabilitation fights, contender fights, “I deserve to be here” fights, and just plain scraps. This card promises...
WEC 36 Notes
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Well this was a wreck of an event, both in terms of sport, and personally for my wagering. A debacle like the...
Quick Hits for WEC 36
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Salutations everyone. I’m sorry for my absence, and I’ll start picking up everything I’ve missed during my vacation tomorrow. WEC 36 is...
WVR Sengoku 6 Notes
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) This event had a serious case of the Mondays. It just never got going or, aside from a few moments of brilliance...
WVR Sengoku 6 Picks and Predictions
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Sengoku: Sixth Battle, has the potential to be World Victory Road’s best event to date. Unfortunately, that’s not saying much. But with...
UFC 90 Notes
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) When the main event is a clunker or ends on a sour note, it’s really hard for a fight card to have...
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....
UFC 90: Silva vs. Cote – 7. Junior dos Santos vs. Fabricio Werdum
UFC 90 7. Junior dos Santos vs. Fabricio Werdum(Heavyweight bout): Junior dos Santos defeated Fabricio Werdum via KO (uppercut) at 1:20 of Round 1. Click the...
The DOs and DONTs of Starting a Major MMA Promotion
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) As yet another organization promised to be “bigger than the UFC” flails about in its death throes, with contracted fighters entering limbo...
UFC 90 Picks and Predictions
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) The biggest fights on this card are a tale of two replacements. First you have Cote, replacing a much more deserving (and...
Does Werdum Deserve a Shot Yet?
By Garth Hansen (garthhansen@mmaratings.net) Fabricio Werdum has appeared to be the odd man out in the UFC’s latest heavyweight shakedown. The four-man psuedo-tournament soon to open...
Post UFC 89 Notes
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) UFC 89 mostly turned out the way I expected, although it did feature several fighters (Hardy, Taylor, Miller, Cane) firmly establishing themselves...
UFC 89 Picks and Predictions
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) UFC 89 as it exists today is a much weaker card than the one originally scheduled. The back injury that forced Thiago...
The Throwaway Quote That Lost TUF
By Garth Hansen (garthhansen@mmaratings.net) While watching the most recent episode of The Ultimate Fighter tonight they showed the full video, which was teased last week, of...
“Heat” Mirrors Real World
By Garth Hansen (garthhansen@mmaratings.net) The turmoil and uncertainty sparked by the CBS/EliteXC “Heat” event from Saturday night has the mixed martial arts world as scattered, sliding...
Quick Hits for Strikeforce: Payback
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Like the Strikeforce show at the playboy mansion, this card isn’t going to set anyone’s pants on fire, but it features a...