Fight Picks and Predictions for Dream 14: Surprisingly Good or Lowered Expectations?
By Nicholas Bailey With Sengoku disentegrating and the money of the Katukogi boom long gone, Japanese MMA is in a very sad state, but Dream 14...
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Thoughts On Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery
By Steve Trolman Saturday’s Strikeforce “Heavy Artillery” proved to be a decent night of fights. It was an entertaining, if not particularly compelling or surprising fight...
Fight Picks and Predictions for Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery. Shooting Blanks?
By Nicholas Bailey This event is a microcosm of all of Strikeforces strengths and failures. They have some world-class fighters and a great platform to put...
Does Randy Couture Deserve Another Title Shot?
By Steve Trolman Randy Couture has made it clear that should he get past James Toney, a title shot against the winner of Machida/Shogun should be...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 113: Strategies Make Fights
By Nicholas Bailey UFC 113 is what it is. A fairly weak card that could produce some entertaining, if meaningless fights, capped off by a gem...
MMA Hangover: Talking Points for the Jose Aldo vs. Urijah Faber PPV
By Michael Ford Zuffa’s latest PPV effort featured a Urijah Faber Championship effort, as well as a whole supporting cast of Featherweights, Lightweights, and Bantamweights looking...
Strikeforce Perspective
By Eric Kamander Strikeforce sure did get a bad rap for their recent Nashville card, and while I’m not surprised at the amount of whining and...
Fight Picks and Predictions for WEC 48: Best Card of the Year
By Nicholas Bailey WEC 48 is the product of Zuffa’s bizzare bicameral promotional structure, a bastard strategy that allows them to dominate the MMA material on...
MMA Mayhem in Nashville, Tennessee (Videos)
By Katrina Belcher When all is said and done and the smoke has cleared, it could be that the biggest and most talked about fight of...
Thiago Alves says “Pre-Fight Medicals May Have Saved My Life”
By Katrina Belcher Thiago Alves has a lot to raise his hands about – he’s a winner and a champion, but this time his victory was...
The Cesar Gracie Scrap Pack… At it Again
By Regina Trolman Those who know me must know that I felt that the most exciting fight ‘on’ the Strikeforce card Saturday, April 17th was the...
MMA Hangover: Talking Points for Strikeforce: Nashville
By Michael Ford Strikeforce and CBS put together their second MMA telecast this past Saturday night, and it featured three title fights, and six of the...
Henderson vs Shields: Who’s gonna ‘Bring It’?
By Regina Trolman I take my MMA kind of seriously. It’s much more than just a hobby to me. I find myself thinking about it all...
Fight Picks and Predictions for Strikeforce: Nashville
By Nicholas Bailey For all their foibles with meaningless prelims, poor talent development, and inability to control their own fighters (Fedor, Overeem), Strikeforce can put together...
Rankings Rumble: UFC 112
By Nicholas Bailey The “Rankings Rumble” seeks to evaluate recent changes in our official top-ten divisional rankings, as well as provide some analysis of fighters that...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 112: Pray for Rain
By Nicholas Bailey There’s a lot of things that could go wrong with UFC 112, several of which could be hilarious results for cynical fans. The...
Rankings Rumble: UFC 111, UFN 21, Dream 13, Shooto
By Nicholas Bailey In this edition of the Rankings Rumble, the discussion includes the rankings fallout of UFC 111, UFC Fight Night 21, a Shooto event...
Was Palhares Suspension After UFC 111 Justified?
By Eric Kamander As has been reported, according to the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board counsel, what Rousimar Palhares did to Tomasz Drwal at UFC...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFN 21: TUF 11 Infomercial
By Nicholas Bailey UFC Fight Night 21 has very little relevance other than serving as a block of programming that fight fans actually want to watch...
Along Comes Takanori Gomi…
By Regina Trolman Former PRIDE FC Lightweight Champion Takanori Gomi will make his UFC debut on March 31 at UFC Fight Night 21. Diehard MMA fans...