Post UFC 95 Notes – Free Is A Good Price
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...
Opinion
BetUS has stepped up their game!
By Eric Kamander When I swept the BetUS UFC 94 and Affliction pickem contest I told them to step up their game and guess what? They...
UFC 95: A UK UFC Card that Doesn’t Suck!
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...
Rob Browning to Join the TUF 9 Fighter Cast
By Katrina Belcher (katrinabelcher@mmaratings.net) According to MMAjunkie.com, “Robert Browning (1-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC), the younger brother of controversial season-eight cast member Junie Browning, was one of...
Tonya Harding – Still Trying to Find Her Place…in MMA?
By Katrina Belcher (katrinabelcher@mmaratings.net) Tonya Harding an MMA fighter? She is, at least according to her Website “…one of the most influential or perhaps controversial persons...
Post Ultimate Fight Night 17 Notes – The Killing Fields
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...
Can you out pick me? Wanna BetUS?
By Eric Kamander BetUS recently held pickem contest among some of their affiliates for Affliction and UFC 94. Guess who won? Yes, yours truly. But if...
Ultimate Fight Night 17 Preview – Please Let Me Stay In The UFC
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...
2008 Irrelevants Awards Winnersss
By Garth Hansen (garthhansen@mmaratings.net) So I’m watching the same episode of House for the third time in like four days, and a sit bolt upright, dislodging...
Post UFC 94 Notes – More MMA Than You Expected
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...
The UFC’s Least-wanted (Best) Light Heavies (revisited)
By Garth Hansen (garthhansen@mmaratings.net) Way back in August I wrote “The Least Wanted UFC Light Heavies”, which featured Lyoto Machida and Rashad Evans as the two...
Federal MMA-ID Required!
By Katrina Belcher (katrinabelcher@mmaratings.net) Starting January 1st, 2009, many states now require amateur or professional mixed martial arts fighters to obtain a valid Federal ID card...
UFC 94 Predictions – Nowhere to go but up
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...
Affliction 2 in a Nutsack: One of the Best PPVs of All Time
By Royale W. Cheese a.k.a. Warren Piece (warrenpiece@mmaratings.net) Let me back that up: Not one in six fights went to decision. Lauzon avenged his broken testicles via...
Quick Hits for WEC 38
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....
Day of Reckoning – The End of Affliction
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...
Post UFC 93 Notes – Is it UFC 94 yet?
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...
Blood in the Cage – Phenomenon or Fad?
By Katrina Belcher (katrinabelcher@mmaratings.net) According to author L. Jon Wertheim, who wrote Blood in the Cage: Mixed Martial Arts, Pat Miletich and the Furious Rise of...
UFC 93 in a Nutsack
By Warren Piece (warrenpiece@mmaratings.net) Welcome to the first installment of our new “In a Nutsack” event summaries where yours truly will be posting brief event overviews...
Best of 2008
By the MMA Ratings team. At the last minute MMA Ratings decided it would be cool to do an “official” awards piece for 2008, instead of...