Over the course of 6 years, Georges St. Pierre has established himself as the top fighter in the world regardless of weight class. GSP doesn’t just win against top 10 competition. He wins against top 10 competition that is head and shoulders above the rest of the division. There’s GSP, a couple other top guys, [...]
TweetBenson “Smooth” Henderson. He’s unknown to much of the casual and new fans of MMA. Now he has a chance to show that he really belongs in the major leagues with the WEC-UFC merger. The winner of Henderson-Anthony Pettis will face the winner of Frankie Edgar-Gray Maynard to unify the 155 pound titles of both [...]
TweetIt’s becoming a familiar refrain. A contender rising up the ranks says they won’t fight another contender because they are friends and training partners. Most recently, Dana White was pissed at Jon Jones’ statements that he wouldn’t fight Rashad Evans. There have been problems in the past with American Kickboxing Academy’s (AKA) welterweight trio of [...]
TweetIt’s a familiar sight by now. As an orchestra plays and voices sing in Latin, a gladiator prepares for battle. The main event and co-main event fighters talk about their opponents. This is followed by a video montage of the main card fighters while Stemm’s ‘Face the pain’ plays. It’s a formula that’s been used [...]
TweetWanderlei Silva and Mark Coleman were 2 of the top stars in Japan during the prime of their careers. Coleman was the 1st Pride Grand Prix winner, while Silva held the 205 pound title for nearly 6 years. It’s not surprising then, that these 2 would be featured in some Japanese commercials: At least they’re [...]
TweetIt seems like ancient history now. Vitor Belfort burst onto the MMA scene as a teenager and was nicknamed “The Phenom.” His hand speed was like nothing ever seen before. Given his age, it looked like it was only a matter of time before he would go on to have successful title reigns. Unfortunately, in [...]
TweetOn October 28, it was announced that the WEC would be merged into the UFC starting in 2011. It was bound to happen at some point. Zuffa purchased the WEC in 2006 to pre-empt the International Fight League (IFL) from getting a TV deal on Versus. The restructuring of the WEC hasn’t produced great results [...]
TweetJunior dos Santos earned the right to face the winner of the Brock Lesnar-Cain Velasquez fight by beating up Roy Nelson for 15 minutes. Cain, of course, dethroned Lesnar this past weekend. The Cain-JDS fight is a very interesting one stylewise that could end up being a classic series of clashes. JDS is one of [...]
TweetAs with everything else associated with Brock Lesnar, the internet explodes in a frenzy whether he wins or loses. Now that he has been dealt a bad loss at the hands of Cain Velasquez, predictably the anti-Lesnar crowd is out in full force. One of the more hilarious pronouncements is that Lesnar is no more [...]
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