Jon Jones was on the MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani and revealed that he offered to jump to Heavyweight for a Superfight against a top 10 fighter in late 2012, sort of like what they did a couple years back when Anderson Silva moved up to Light Heavyweight and destroyed … Continue reading
Category Archives: MMA
The Japanese fight scene is all but dead, just so you know
Zach Arnold is one of my favorite fight bloggers and the only guy out there I know who consistently has his pulse on the scene in Japan. Most others who claim to are over-eager fanboys who don’t even know what the kanji tattoo on their right shoulder blade means let … Continue reading
UFC on Fox 2: fights let down fans while the network lets down its affiliates
PREVIOUSLY: UFC on Fox 2 Preview The second installment of the UFC on Fox delivered with some exciting fights, memorable finishes, and one of the better Lightweight fights of the past month between Evan Dunham and Nik Lentz. Too bad all of that was in the preliminaries. The reactions I … Continue reading
Video: hear the best live crowd for a UFC live event ever at UFC 142
Those of you who follow me on Twitter most likely saw me rave about the UFC 142 fight card from Rio and the intensity the crowd gave that event. In the days following, I’d read and heard from people there that said the crowd must have been poorly mic’ed because … Continue reading
Picks for UFC on Fox 2
UFC’s second show on the Fox Network is this Saturday, January 28th, headlined by Phil Davis and Rashad Evans in a (sorta) #1 contenders bout. This one kind of got lost in the shuffle due to the fact that there’s been about 368 shows so far in 2012. Unlike the … Continue reading
Instant replay in MMA? Sure, why not.
There’s been a renewed call for instant replay after Mario Yamasaki’s controversial decision to disqualify Erick Silva for what he thought were illegal strikes to the back of the head on his opponent Carlo Prater two weekends ago. Referees in the sport encounter the same level of controversy and criticism that … Continue reading
Why it would be in Zuffa’s best interests to initiate random drug testing
Just a week after Cris “Cyborg” Santos tested positive for stanazalol, Strikeforce has lost another headliner due to a failed drug test. Earlier this week, the Nevada State Athletic Commission announced that Muhammad “King Mo” Lawal had tested positive for another anabolic steroid, drostanolone, the day of the January 7th … Continue reading
Great sports moment (Video): Jose Aldo runs into the crowd at UFC 142
I got chills watching this last Saturday. I’m told that the arena was actually not mic’d well, meaning that as thunderous as the reaction was on television, it did them no justice. Jose Aldo became a superstar overnight, and few deserve it more than him. Tweet
Kurt Angle tells the Times Union’s Steve Barnes about his Olympic hopes
In advance of tonight’s TNA (Total Nonstop Action) Wrestling event at the Times Union Center in Albany, Times Union writer and American Idol aficionado Steve Barnes got an interview with controversial wrestler Kurt Angle. It being the fringe world of professional wrestling, Angle was able to dictate the narrative of the piece. … Continue reading
Double standard or inevitable? Miguel Torres fired after tweeting (yet another) rape joke
Miguel Torres was publicly fired by Dana White yesterday after White was blindsided by “Outside the Lines” host Michael Landsberg about an offensive rape joke that Torres posted to his Twitter account earlier in the day. The tweet, which was originally said to be a reference to an episode of … Continue reading