UFC Fight Night 20 Breakdowns
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) Following up on Sunday’s WEC 46 card, the UFC makes a rare Monday night appearance, landing at The Patriot Center in...
Opinion
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...
Urijah Faber: Should “The California Kid” Still Be the WEC Poster Boy?
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) In a recent interview with Bleacher Report’s Bryan Levick, Lightweight champion Jamie Varner had some choice words for his employers, questioning...
Champions Collide: WEC 46 Fight Card Preview
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) By now, just about everyone knows my stance on the WEC. For those who don’t, the quick version is this: World...
Fight Night III – presented by Tuff-N-Uff and MTX Audio
By Katrina Belcher (KatrinaBelcher@mmaratings.net) Tuff-N-Uff and MTX Audio Present FIGHT NIGHT III – Live at the Riviera Hotel & Casinoin Las Vegas, Nevada Looks like the...
Is Shinya Aoki bad for MMA?
By Katrina Belcher (KatrinaBelcher@mmaratings.net) At the Dynamite!! 2009 event on December 31, 2009, the Lightweight bout pitted DREAM champion Shinya Aoki, against Mizuto Hirota, the SRC...
Q & A with female MMA fighter, Amanda LaVoy
By Katrina Belcher (KatrinaBelcher@mmaratings.net) Mixed Martial Arts or MMA is not new. In fact, many of the martial arts systems that make up MMA have been...
Fight Rankings – December Update
By Eric Kamander With 2009 over and done with, looking back it was a great year of MMA. With 481 fights from 47 major events in...
Event Rankings – December Update
By Eric Kamander What do these three events have in common? They are the top three MMA events of 2009. Looking back 2009 was a great...
UFC 108: 10 Things We Learned Last Night
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) 1. Rashad Evans MUST Use His Wrestling Over the first two rounds, the former light heavyweight champion kept Thiago Silva off...
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...
Upcoming Karate events in the Southeast
By Katrina Belcher (KatrinaBelcher@mmaratings.net) For those people looking for a calendar of karate tournaments and events in the Southeast and Tennessee, please see the list below....
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...
Early stoppage by MMA ref Kim Winslow?
By Katrina Belcher (KatrinaBelcher@mmaratings.net) After the Joseph Benavidez vs. Rani Yahya MMA fight on Saturday night at WEC 45: Cerrone vs. Ratcliff at the Palms in...
U.S. Karate Open Registration and Dates
By Katrina Belcher (KatrinaBelcher@mmaratings.net) Good news – the U.S. Karate Open dates have finally been posted! US Open 2010 Date: July 9th – July 10th 2010Location:...
B.J. Penn – it’s time to grow up
By Katrina Belcher (KatrinaBelcher@mmaratings.net) Greasegate has gone from bad to worse. In an article published at Yahoo Sports by Kevin Iole, when talking about George St....
Heavyweight Rankings Review, December 2009
By Eric Kamander The heavyweight division has long been the whipping boy of MMA fans, with truly talented big men being very few and far between....
MMA Super Saturday: 10 Things We Learned Last Night
By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) 1. The Embodiment of “Puncher’s Chance” and “Anything Can Happen” Scott Smith may want to add “Head of Stone” to his...
This Sport Needs a Scoreboard: The Case for Open Scoring in MMA
By Michael Ford Judges’ scorecards shouldn’t be rendered in secret. By publishing round winners as rounds are scored, we can pinpoint EXACTLY when and where judges...
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...