Brent Brookhouse Archives: 12/2012

2012 has been an interesting and exciting year on both the MMA front and the personal front. As we head into the new year there…

The UFC has been quickly moving away from any sort of sensible, easy-to-follow methodology and instead has moved into “whoever Dana White and Co. like…

It appeared to seemingly anyone with a functioning set of eyes that Jamie Varner had beaten Melvin Guillard when the three rounds of their UFC…

Cain Velasquez’s destruction of Junior dos Santos at UFC 155 really cemented for me that he never really stopped being the best heavyweight on the…

Cain Velasquez’s “Brown Pride” tattoo is one of the UFC’s great non-controversies. It’s also one of those things that will be brought up every single…

UFC 157 has added another fight to bring the total number of planned bouts for the event up to twelve. In what is likely to…

Zach Makovsky was the first Bellator champion at bantamweight, defeating Ed West in the tournament final at Bellator 32. While he followed up on the…

Lack of focus and desire does not benefit a man who makes his living as a professional fighter. When Jonathan Brookins faced off against Dustin…

Personally, Melvin Guillard vs. Jamie Varner was one of the fights I was most looking forward to on The Ultimate Fighter 16 Finale card. The…

With UFC 155 about a week and a half away, the UFC has released an extended video preview for the card. The show is main…

Michael Bisping has long chased a UFC middleweight title fight with Anderson Silva. It’s a fight that many fans dismiss, not giving Bisping much of…

Dana White often brings up how he is a “boxing guy” who “comes from boxing” and “loves boxing” while often engaging in petty sniping about…

Gilbert Melendez has been in an odd situation in MMA over the past few years. After voluntarily signing a new contract with Strikeforce only to…

With his violent knockout win of Mike Swick at UFC on Fox 5, Matt Brown is riding a career best four fight win streak in…

Vitor Belfort is one of the few men with first hand knowledge of what it’s like to be in the UFC octagon with both Jon…

Jon Jones has conquered almost every possible challenge at light heavyweight during his time in the UFC. While fights with Dan Henderson and Alexander Gustafsson…

We live in weird times. While it’s okay to watch to men beat each other up in a cage or a ring on network TV,…

Saturday night will see the start of something that is incredible to see as a fan of both MMA and boxing. When the UFC’s Fox…

On a recent episode of The MMA Beat, Mike Straka said that Georges St. Pierre would require $50,000,000 to take a fight with Anderson Silva.…