TUF or WTF?: A Season-by-Season Retrospective of The Ultimate Fighter
(Thanks to tufentertainment.net for the fitting logo.) By Nathan Smith With the recent announcement that Roy Nelson and Shane Carwin have been named as the coaches for…
(Thanks to tufentertainment.net for the fitting logo.) By Nathan Smith With the recent announcement that Roy Nelson and Shane Carwin have been named as the coaches for…
In June 2010, we posted a list of the ten greatest fighters who had yet to take a loss….
UFC President Dana White, who was in attendance at the MGM Grand Garden Arena for the UFC 146 Press Conference, discusses Nick Diaz’s suspension, as well as his potential retirement. White also talks about the ever-emerging topic of testosterone replacement therapy, and draws comparisons between the drug-testing procedures in mixed martial arts and other major sports leagues.
(Similar to Georges St.Pierre, MMA pundits, and most fans heading into UFC 129, Dana White was looking right…
(We’re guessing Brock is off of the Jack’s Links and Coors Light) It looks like Roy Nelson isn’t the…
Next weekend, Georges St. Pierre will step inside the Octagon as a Champion for the seventh time in his career, facing Jake Shields in the main event of UFC 129 at the sold-out Rogers Center in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. St. Pierre and Shields are two of the most decorated Welterweights on the planet, with a long list of top tier opponents tasting defeats against them. Match-up wise, Jake Shields is the most aggressive grappler St. Pierre faced since Matt Serra. Cesar Gracie’s protégé is
Daniel Fletcher’s feature about Zavurov; the Russian on a tear through Europe’s welterweight division, and a man M-1 Global believe will become a new Fyodor of sorts. Sambo world champion, San Shou champion, M-1 Global MMA champion. He has the pedigree, the potential and the stats, now where will he go from here…
In my efforts to compile a list of “Stupid MMA Quotes” for my most recent article I unearthed many other quotations that I would have liked to include but that didn’t quite qualify as “stupid”. Some were inspirational, others rekindled memories of legendary fights of the past but my favourite quotes were the ones that made me laugh. Since the previous article was well received I have decided to create a second collection of my favourite MMA quotes; The ROFL Files.
First up is
You hear it a lot. We’ve heard it even more than usual last Saturday for the Fight for The Troops 2 card, Joe Rogan talking about how so and so is an “elite striker”. What exactly is an elite striker and who should be considered an elite striker? I’ve thought about this for a long time prior to last Saturday’s UFC event. You hear this phrase thrown around so loosely in the world of Mixed Martial Arts. Now, I’m not comparing the sport of Mixed Martial Arts to other Combat Sports like Boxing or Muay Thai / K
Let’s get this out of the way: The cage-spring head-kick that Anthony “Showtime” Pettis landed on Ben Henderson in their lightweight title…