After Silva vs. Sonnen, it became known that the current middleweight king suffered broken ribs before his title defense, and now after the fight may be out until early 2011. With Anderson Silva on the shelf for a good while, the question becomes what to do with the middleweight division. The next title fight was [...]
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Alistair Overeem went from being a guy with a soft chin, woman-beater, bar-room brawler, suspected steroid-user, and crotch shot artist to a fan favorite, almost with one simple publicity stunt: the Reem.
It didn’t take long for Nick Diaz to respond to Jason Miller’s comments in a recent interview. A quick rundown is that it kind of seems like Nick is disinterested in fighting Miller and cites the following reasons:
10 MMA Predictions for 2010: Chuck Liddell will win, Kimbo Slice will lose and James Toney will fight in MMA
Posted: January 1, 2010 in OpinionTags: Kimbo Slice, Rampage Jackson, Rashad Evans
1. Rashad Evans will fight Quinton Jackson. After a great post-fight confrontation, a season oftrash-talk on the Ultimate Fighter 10 and the shooting of The A-Team, it lookslike we will finally see Evans/Jackson.
The Ultimate Fighter Recap: Let’s redo the matches to give Team Rampage a chance
Posted: November 5, 2009 in OpinionTags: Kimbo Slice, Rampage Jackson, Rashad Evans
Is it good coaching or better fighters? That’s one, among many questions, that came to my mind during this season’s Ultimate Fighter. Rashad Evans came within one over-hand right of sweeping Rampage Jackson’s team. But was Rampage’s team cursed at the draft or was the match-making the bigger issue?
Marcus Davis emerged as another winner from the casts of The Ultimate Fighter series
Posted: September 10, 2009 in OpinionTags: Diego Sanchez, Forrest Griffin, Marcus Davis, Rashad Evans
With the premier of the Ultimate Fighter 10 set for Sept. 16, we wrap up our look back at who emerged as the real winners from previous seasons. After the jump, a look back at seasons one and two.
Patrick Cote and Chris Lytle have out-shined the winners of The Ultimate Fighter 4
Posted: September 8, 2009 in OpinionTags: Chris Lytle, Kendall Grove, Michael Bisping, Patrick Cote
Leading up to the premier of the latest season of The Ultimate Fighter, we will check in with a look at some of the show’s previous contestants. We left off our look back at previous seasons of The Ultimate Fighter at seasons five and six. Below, we look at the seasons three and four contestants.
The top 10 MMA fights that never happened but should have
Posted: August 23, 2009 in OpinionTags: Brock Lesnar, Chuck Liddell, Forrest Griffin, Randy Couture
One of my favorite old country tunes is What Might Have Been by Little Texas. It’s a lyric to recount lost love and all of that, but in my case, I think of sports, and more to the point, mixed martial arts. Here are the 10 greatest fights that almost were, but weren’t.
