MMA Super Saturday: 10 Things We Learned Last Night
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) 1. The Embodiment of “Puncher’s Chance” and “Anything Can Happen” Scott Smith may want to add “Head of Stone” to his...
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This Sport Needs a Scoreboard: The Case for Open Scoring in MMA
By Michael Ford Judges’ scorecards shouldn’t be rendered in secret. By publishing round winners as rounds are scored, we can pinpoint EXACTLY when and where judges...
Strikeforce: Evolution – Main Card Predictions
By Bryan Levick (BryanLevick@mmaratings.net) Strikeforce is back on Saturday night, as they present “Evolution“, live from San Jose, California. The card will air live on Showtime...
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...
Canadian MMA Landscape Could Change Today
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) While the upcoming Olympics and the on-ice activities of the Canucks consistently garner the biggest headlines in the Vancouver sports scene,...
WEC 45: Wickedly Exciting Carnage
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) This Saturday at The Pearl at The Palms in Las Vegas, Nevada, the WEC goes live-to-air on Versus. For those who...
UFC 107: 10 Things We Learned Last Night
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) 1. Best. Lightweight. Ever. If there was ever any doubt (and there shouldn’t have been in all honesty), BJ Penn made...
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...
You Call Yourself an MMA Fan?
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) Why a photo of Michael Clarke Duncan? In addition to being a monster of a man who I can see posing...
UFC 107 Fight Week Preview: BJ Penn vs. Diego Sanchez
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) As great as watching Rampage and Rashad settle their differences Saturday night would have been, the headlining act for UFC 107...
UFC 107 Fight Week Previews: Mir vs. Kongo and More
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) For all the mediocre cards we’ve suffered through over the last couple of months, UFC 107 takes to the Octagon this...
UFC 107 Fight Week Previews: The Prelims
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) Can I just say how much day jobs suck? Always interfering with what I want to do… Thankfully, Saturdays don’t fall...
10 Things We Learned from the TUF 10 Finale
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) 1. Roy Nelson, Ultimate Fighter “Big Country” was the big favorite heading in to Season 10 and made all those who...
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 Week Previews: TUF 10 Finale, Part III
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) We’ve covered the undercard and we’ve covered the co-main events, now the time has come to turn our attention to the...
Fight Week Previews: TUF 10 Finale, Part II
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) Yesterday we tackled the three undercard bouts and tomorrow we’ll talk about everything involving the cast of Season 10. As for...
Comcast to Buy NBC: Somewhere, Dana White is Smiling
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) See that chair Dana White is sitting in? Feel free to consider it “The Driver’s Seat,” because with the impending acquisition...
Strikeforce Signing Bonanza: Manhoef, Noons, Prangley and Canadian TV Deal
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) The phones must have been ringing off the hook these last couple of days at the Strikeforce offices, as the San...
Fight Week Previews: TUF 10 Finale, Part I
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) My apologies for being gone for so long. I know you’ve missed me. Quick and painful version: I had to get...