From CagedInsider: “I did speak to Glenn Robinson his manager, and he said that Overeem is respectful for the Commission’s process, and he is very hopeful that he will be granted his license,” Kruck said. “The entire team is confident that he will be facing Junior dos Santos come … Continue reading
Look out, Chessboxing! There’s a new sport in town that makes you look like a fucking great idea. Readers, have you ever watched a team sporting event and thought to yourself “boy, I wish they made this unnecessarily chaotic and claustrophobic and harder to follow by putting it in a … Continue reading
Last Saturday’s UFC on Fuel TV card wasn’t seen by many (as of this writing Fuel’s available in about sixty-three households in the whole world), but as I alluded to last Friday, the overlooked card provided plenty of entertainment due to strong matchmaking. PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook) Jason Young defeated Eric … Continue reading
UFC on Fuel TV 2 is tomorrow afternoon for the thirteen or fourteen people in North America who actually get that channel. All cable snark aside, it’s actually a solid card in terms of fight quality. The full live card from Sweden, which starts at 3:00pm EST: Alexander Gustafsson vs. Thiago … Continue reading
The UFC decided things weren’t awkward enough and made UFC 145 headliners Jon Jones and Rashad Evans sit next to each other. What results is the equivalent of watching two high school kids arguing over a girl that one stole from the other. Tweet
Hey all! This blog’s going to be relaunched, in a sense, fairly soon. In other words there will be posts again. I think I’m going to take a different approach, however. Rather than try to make every single post a super-serious meditation on MMA, it’s going to be a bit … Continue reading
First, from Ben Fowlkes of MMAFighting.com comes the tragic story of MMA and kickboxing legend Gary Goodridge’s recent diagnosis: “When talking to him on the phone, his speech was becoming slurred,” said Mike Mobbs, who’s counted Goodridge as his best friend since the two were nine years old, growing up … Continue reading
If you missed UFC 143 live from Tokyo last Saturday…man. Man oh man. Sure, Shields and Akiyama was a disappointing affair, mostly due to Jake’s stubborn refusal to work on his boxing (and that’s coming from a guy who’s actually one of his frequent defenders), but the rest of the … Continue reading
Ben Fowlkes has a profile of UFC Lightweight champion Frankie Edgar, who defends his belt this Saturday in Japan against Ben Henderson, over at MMA Fighting.com. The focus is on how everybody seems to underestimate him. According to the oddsmakers, that was true until very recently. The first time Edgar … Continue reading
I didn’t watch a single minute of the Super Bowl and, for the most part, stayed off Twitter and Facebook all night. It’s not because I hate football. Sure, I do take issue with those who call MMA barbaric and dangerous while gathering every Sunday to watch the NFL concussion-fest … Continue reading