Posted on 05 February 2012
UFC 143 went down last night featuring Carlos Condit earning the UFC welterweight championship, out-pointing former Strikeforce champ Nick Diaz unanimously on the judges’ score cards. As I am required to do as a part of my agreement with Joe Silva to do his job I’ll give you my thoughts on who the main card [...]
Posted on 02 February 2012
The UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit open workouts went down yesterday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Thanks to the UFC for the video highlight footage of some of the main card fighters. UFC 143 goes down this Saturday night also at the Mandalay Bay Events Center and features a main [...]
Posted on 30 January 2012
Two weeks out from Battlefield 13 and i’m sick, tired and beat up, yet I know that two weeks from right now i will be eating a dinner that tastes extra special because I will have spent the week leading up to that moment cutting weight. Obviously, cutting weight is terrible, but its part of the sport [...]
Tags: Battlefield fight league, micah brakefield
Posted on 30 January 2012
It’s difficult to talk about MMA in Hawaii without mentioning the name, TJay Thompson. His name is synonymous with Hawaii MMA. From the days of SuperBrawl to Icon Sport, and now with the return of ProElite to Hawaii, TJay’s longtime passion for MMA has put Hawaii on the map for grooming some of the most [...]
Tags: DREAM, proelite, tjay thompson
Posted on 29 January 2012
When the Ultimate Fighting Championship made their first showing on the FOX platform most walked away from their television screens disappointed – It took Brazilian bomber Junior dos Santos a little over a minute to put away Cain Velasquez and take a seat at the top of the division. Don’t get me wrong, the fight [...]
Tags: chael sonnen, chris weidman, Rashad Evans, UFC on Fox 2
Posted on 27 January 2012
I just wanted to update everyone on what was posted about FORM Athletics loosing K-Swiss the money they claimed… Although some numbers are correct, K-Swiss blaming FORM for their losses is no fault of anyone at FORM Athletics (Past, present or future). If you take a look at what K-Swiss has done in the past 6 [...]
Posted on 27 January 2012
After rumors persisted about Chicago native and WWE superstar CM Punk walking down to the Octagon with Chael Sonnen at UFC on FOX 2 this Saturday night, it made me wonder if the UFC and WWE can work together and crossover. When talking to MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani, Chael Sonnen made an interesting point about [...]
Tags: Brock Lesnar, chael sonnen, CM Punk, dana white, Floyd Mayweather, HHH, Ken Shamrock, ufc, UFC on Fox 2, Vince Mcmahon, WWE
Posted on 23 January 2012
ProElite returned to Honolulu, Hawaii last Saturday night after a successful debut last August. With the main card streaming live on HDNet, fans all over the country could experience the excitement straight from the Hawaiian islands, where MMA has been a constant for over the last 15 years. The seven untelevised bouts did not disappoint, [...]
Tags: kendall grove, Minowaman, proelite 3
Posted on 21 January 2012
Earlier in the week The Ultimate Fighting Championship publicly supported the SOPA Bill which was probably one of the worst pieces of legislation in the twenty first century. I don’t think the UFC realized that there would be so much backlash. A part of me wants to believe that Lorenzo Fertitta and the UFC threw [...]
Tags: PIPA, SOPA, ufc
Posted on 20 January 2012
Top-to-bottom UFC’s first offering on the FX network was exciting with the judges only being needed twice on this ten-bout bill. The partisan crowd at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee were treated to a bit of everything tonight with a smorgasbord of submissions, deadly elbows and a big upset in one of the better [...]
Tags: jim miller, Josh neer, pat barry, ufc on fx 1