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...
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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...
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...
Picks and Predictions for UFC 111: Clash of the Titans
By Nicholas Bailey UFC 111 is almost guaranteed to be a good pay-per-view. First of all, we get to see the pound-for-pound best fighter in the...
Picks and Predictions for UFC Live on Versus: Jones vs. Vera
By Nicholas Bailey The UFC puts together very strange cards when it expands into new markets. Vera vs. Jones is a very unusual headliner, as while...
Rankings Rumble: WEC 47, SRC 12 and UFC 110
By Nicholas Bailey As the first installment of what will be a continuing feature, the “Rankings Rumble” seeks to evaluate recent changes in our official top-ten...
Fight Picks and Predictions for Sengoku 12: A Battered Promotion Creaks On
By Nicholas Bailey Go ahead and gnash your teeth because HDnet has decided to run Sengoku 12 on a FIVE DAY tape delay. Takes one back...
Fight Picks and Predictions for WEC 47: Bantamweights? Yes Please
By Nicholas Bailey WEC 47 has flown beneath the radar, probably because the tallest guy on the main card is about 5’9″, but hardcores know that...
Pick and Predictions for UFC 110: A Star is Born?
By Nicholas Bailey UFC 110 is one of the most interesting fight cards that Zuffa has put on in the last twelve months, with lots of...
The Death of The Guard in MMA
By Nicholas Bailey In a recent interview Jon Fitch sparked conversation by declaring the Closed Guard “dead in MMA,” although he went further and made comments...
Post UFC 109 Ranking Changes and Commentary
By Nicholas Bailey UFC 109 had a lot of exciting moments, but it didn’t have a lot of real surprises. The big ones for most observers...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 109: Grumpy Old Men
By Nicholas Bailey Just ignore the main event. It’s nice to see Randy Couture in action, but against Coleman is Super Hulk Grand Prix level ridiculousness...
Picks and Predictions for Strikeforce: Miami, The World’s Most Generic Event
By Nicholas Bailey In the MMA universe, what is the role of Strikeforce? They have Fedor and a few other elite fighters, but none of their...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFN 20: Big Favorites, Big Wins?
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) There’s no overarching story to Ultimate Fight Night 20, except the story that it has none. There’s no one big name or...
Fight Picks and Predictions for WEC 46: Heel to Face
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Zuffa’s second-class citizens meet for another criminally under-appreciated card that tries to make use of a diminished posterboy to sell a little-liked...
Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 108: Card Subject to Change
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) UFC 108 is a truly snakebit event. The aura of bad luck surrounding this card is so strong that I hesitate to...
Fight Picks and Predictions for Dynamite 2009
By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Despite having some of the biggest squash matches of the year and a preposterous juvenile kickboxing tournament, this year-end card is actually...
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...