Fights To Watch Out For: January 2019
By Michael Ford The New Year is light on big fights, as the 2020 hype cycle hasn’t kicked into gear yet. However, even a fight fan...
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Real Compared To What: Colby Covington’s MAGA Flack Grows With A UFC 245 Win
By Michael Ford UFC 245 approaches, and despite three title fights, two of which feature future Hall of Famers, there is a clear “main event.” Kamaru...
UFC 243: Robert Whittaker vs. Israel Adesanya Is Nearly A Decade In the Making
By Michael Ford This weekend at UFC 243, the Ultimate Fighting Championship will crown an undisputed middleweight champion when Robert Whittaker steps into the Octagon to...
UFC on ESPN+ 1: On Greg Hardy and the Allure of the Redemption Arc
By Michael Ford This weekend, in the co-main event of the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s inaugural event on an ESPN platform, former NFL player Greg Hardy will...
Fights To Make After UFC Fight Night 139
By Michael Ford UFC Fight Night 139 was the promotion’s 25th Anniversary show, and in many ways, it reminded us why we started watching the sport...
UFC 225: We Might Want To Temper Our Enthusiasm For Middleweight For Now
By Michael Ford My colleague Adam Martin discussed the aftermath of Robert Whittaker’s successful “title defense” over Yoel Romero, who missed weight and was ineligible to...
UFC: Tyron Woodley’s Focus On One Kind of “Prize” Blinds Him To Others
By Michael Ford Tyron Woodley is the world champion of a division that has long been considered one of the deepest and most talented weight classes...
UFC 196: Fights to Make – Main Card Edition
By Michael Ford After an exciting UFC 196 event, the winners and losers from the main card deserve to be involved in high-profile matchups. This piece...
UFC Fight Night 84: Down For “The Count” — Nick Diaz vs. Michael Bisping is a Fight Worth Making
By Michael Ford At UFC Fight Night 84, Michael Bisping won his fight against former champion Anderson Silva, but lost the war in the eyes of...
Fights to Make After UFC 190
By Michael Ford UFC 190 culminated with another dominating performance by UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey, but she wasn’t the only standout on Saturday night....
MMA Ratings Year in Review: The Best of August 2014
By Michael Ford 2014 was an eventful year in the world of mixed martial arts. There were quite a few memorable moments and fights in the...
MMA Ratings Year in Review: The Best of July 2014
By Michael Ford 2014 was an eventful year in the world of mixed martial arts. There were quite a few memorable moments and fights in the...
Eyes on the Superfight: Why Aldo vs. Pettis is Still the Answer to the Featherweight and Lightweight Buyrate Woes
By Michael Ford Since making its debut in early 2011, the UFC Featherweight Championship has struggled to build interest commensurate with the caliber of fighter that...
Fights to Make After UFC Fight Night 48 and 49: Winners Edition
By Michael Ford After another doubleheader Fight Night Weekend, the exhilaration of exciting action and thrilling finishes had to be tempered by the fatigue of 12...
Fights to Make After UFC Fight Night 47: Losers Edition
By Michael Ford It may have turned into a bit of a slog by the end, but UFC Fight Night 47 was filled with some spectacular...
“The MM A-List”: Before The Expendables 3, Ranking MMA’s Pound-For-Pound Box Office Champs
By Michael Ford This week marks the release of “The Expendables 3,” which features former multiple-time UFC Champion Randy Couture and current UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion...
Trading Places: Why a Swap of Eddie Alvarez and Nate Diaz Would Benefit Everyone Involved
By Michael Ford Last week, rumors circulated about the UFC working on a matchup for UFC 178 featuring Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone and Bellator MMA Lightweight Champion...
Introducing “The Bruise Brothers”: Aldo and Barão Have Struggled To Achieve Stardom Apart; They Need To Be Marketed Together
By Michael Ford It’s no secret that one of the more controversial topics in MMA is the idea of teammates fighting one another. Though the saying...
Writing the Wrongs: In the Face of A Looming PPV Failure, Bellator Needs To Make Some Changes (Part 2)
By Michael Ford The first part of this piece focused on Bellator‘s tournament model, and the way that a return to that structure as a focal...
Writing the Wrongs: In the Face of A Looming PPV Failure, Bellator Needs To Make Some Changes (Part 1)
By Michael Ford The fun thing to do nowadays is to make jokes about Bellator MMA, the sport’s #2 promotion, who has twice tried to jump...