Fights To Make After UFC Fight Night 46
By Raphael Garcia UFC Fight Night 46 was a strong card that succeeded where it needed to. The UFC wanted to promote the fighters that were...
byRaphaelGarcia
Fights To Make After UFC Fight Night 45: Losers Edition
By Raphael Garcia UFC Fight Night 45: Cerrone vs. Miller may have been one of the best cards presented by the UFC this year, but it...
MMA By The Numbers: Breaking Down Donald Cerrone vs. Jim Miller
By Raphael Garcia Tonight UFC Fight Night 45 will showcase a very important matchup in the lightweight division. Donald Cerrone and Jim Miller are due to...
MMA Ratings Chat Session: Eric Kamander, MMA Ratings Founder
By Raphael Garcia The online community that follows mixed martial arts is an aspect of the sport that is quite different from the rest of the...
Fights To Make After The Ultimate Fighter 19 Finale
By Raphael Garcia The Ultimate Fighter 19 Finale brought yet another season of the UFC’s reality show to a close. In addition, Frankie Edgar put an...
Fights To Make After UFC 175
By Raphael Garcia UFC 175 was the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s biggest card to date in 2014. At the end of the night, two champions kept a...
A Skyscraper Rises: Returning to Action at UFC 175, Stefan Struve Seeks to Achieve the Upper Reaches of the Heavyweight Horizon
By Raphael Garcia The role of title contender is a coveted one in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, especially in the heavyweight division. That weight class is...
How Much Longer Will B.J. Penn Continue To “Save” The UFC?
By Raphael Garcia This Sunday night, Mike Goldberg is going to have a number of chances to yell out “He’s Back!” B.J. Penn, the former two-division...
Off the Gold Standard (Part 2): Championships Are Bargaining Chips For the Biggest UFC Checks
By Raphael Garcia The first part of Off the Gold Standard discussed the difficulties in assessing the value of titles to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. While...
Fights To Make After UFC Fight Night 43 and UFC Fight Night 44: Losers Edition
By Raphael Garcia This past weekend featured fights galore, as Saturday started and ended with mixed martial arts action that was worth making sure not to...
Off the Gold Standard (Part 1): The Value of a UFC Championship Belt is Getting Harder and Harder to Assess
By Raphael Garcia A running theme throughout 2014 has been the UFC’s lack of star power. Despite names like Jon Jones and Ronda Rousey on the...
Mighty Mathematics: The Numbers Behind Demetrious Johnson’s Flyweight Reign
By Raphael Garcia Unlike other sports, statistics in MMA do not provide a complete breakdown of what is going on during the action, but they can...
Fights To Make After UFC 174: The Losers Edition
By Raphael Garcia With yet another UFC PPV in the books, a new group of fighters have additional defeats added to their respective ledgers. The ones...
End of the Line, End of An Era: Chael Sonnen’s Retirement Signals the Beginning of the End For the Age of TRT
By Raphael Garcia The date of June 11, 2014 will go down in history in the world of mixed martial arts, but not because of an...
Fights To Make After UFC Fight Night 42
By Raphael Garcia UFC Fight Night 42 featured a number of fighters on the upper rung of their respective divisional ladders. The fighters that were able...
Dagestani Invasion: Fighters From The Tiny Russian Republic Continue To Paint The Octagon Red
By Raphael Garcia Mixed martial arts has long been a sport known for bringing people from different backgrounds together in competition. Fighters from all around the...
Fights To Make After UFC Fight Night 41/TUF Brazil 3 Finale: Losers Edition
By Raphael Garcia The UFC put on two shows back-to-back as it continued to stretch its brand across the planet. And although 44 competitors stepped into...
Pushing the Pace: Globetrotting UFC Tests Fans’ Stamina With Saturday’s Multinational MMA Marathon
By Raphael Garcia If you’ve ever woken up and said “You know, there’s not enough MMA on TV nowadays,” then tomorrow will excite you beyond all...
Anatomy of An Upset: How TJ Dillashaw Did The Impossible Against Renan Barão
By Raphael Garcia Even in a month where the upset has become commonplace in mixed martial arts, the world couldn’t help but be shocked at the...
Fights To Make After UFC 173
By Raphael Garcia UFC 173 was considered a weak offering by the Ultimate Fighting Championship,as well as a poor card to kick off the summer. However,...