The UFC’s Least-wanted (Best) Light Heavies (revisited)
By Garth Hansen (garthhansen@mmaratings.net) Way back in August I wrote “The Least Wanted UFC Light Heavies”, which featured Lyoto Machida and Rashad Evans as the two...
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Federal MMA-ID Required!
By Katrina Belcher (katrinabelcher@mmaratings.net) Starting January 1st, 2009, many states now require amateur or professional mixed martial arts fighters to obtain a valid Federal ID card...
UFC 94 Predictions – Nowhere to go but up
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) UFC 94 is the sort of card fight fans dream about. Obviously with GSP vs. BJ we have two premier fighters at...
Affliction 2 in a Nutsack: One of the Best PPVs of All Time
By Royale W. Cheese a.k.a. Warren Piece (warrenpiece@mmaratings.net) Let me back that up: Not one in six fights went to decision. Lauzon avenged his broken testicles via...
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....
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...
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...
2008 Irrelevant Awards
By Garth Hansen (garthhansen@mmaratings.net) There’s a lot of awards being given out, and a lot of well-planned and -executed awards being given out, at the end...
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...
Welcome Tim Lee!
I’m happy to welcome “Dr. MMA” Tim Lee as a contributor to MMA Ratings. Tim writes for MMAFightSpace.com, and is the brains behind the scenes of...
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...
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...
K-1 Dynamite 2008 – The Freaks are Back
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) In typical K-1/Japanese MMA fashion, this card makes very little sense as anything aside from a spectacle. There’s the usual parade of...
Mir vs. Lesnar 2 or This is What Happens When Bad Meets Evil
By Warren Piece (warrenpiece@mmaratings.net) So, the UFC Heavyweight mini-touranment has finally shaken out and we are left with Mir vs. Lesnar 2 to decide who is...
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...
