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By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) For those of us in North America, this card will take place very early Sunday morning, a nice precursor to the WEC...

By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Certainly the story of this event is betting success, with my plays going 4-0 for +5.65u, which is always nice to have...

By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Ultimate Fight Night 18 breaks a now-unusual dry spell of several weeks for high-level North American MMA. It also serves as an...

By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) This card has a lot of potential, but it could also be a complete disaster. A not-so-competitive main event between top-tier fighters...

By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Recently, our own Katrina Belcher put pen to proverbial paper in defense of referee Marc Goddard’s stoppage of Josh Koscheck’s fight with...

By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Mike Thomas Brown was in many ways seen as little more than a placeholder champion, a talented fighter that had gotten a...

By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) With all the shenanigans going on in Zuffa’s other product, this card has been severely overlooked, especially considering it features a fight...

By Nicholas Bailey (nwbailey@mmaratings.net) As the UFC begins to wind down its separation of the wheat from the proverbial chaff, we are seeing higher talent fighters...

By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) As indicated in the title, it’s a bit of a surprise how much fun this card could be, given that the UK...

By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Joe Rogan standing next to a DEA agent. Insane. I wonder how big the guy’s eyes would have bugged if he’d seen...

By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) As part of their continuing quest to boot losers out of their promotion, the UFC has assembled a fight night card that...

By Nicholas Bailey (nbailey@mmaratings.net) Capping off a stretch that would give even the most hardcore MMA fan excitement fatigue, UFC 94 had a shocking number of...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...