Breaking down Miocic vs Dos Santos and Jedrzejczyk vs Andrade (Heavy Hands #158)
The card of the year is almost upon us. Touch my hand; I’m shaking. Junior Dos Santos defeated Stipe Miocic in 2014, but that was…
Connor Ruebusch
UFC 211 preview pt. 1 and Joshua vs Klitschko (Heavy Hands #157)
UFC 211 is so damn good that we have to spread it out over two—no, three, if you count our upcoming bonus episode—different episodes. This…
Cub Swanson vs Artem Lobov was . . . actually pretty great? (Heavy Hands #156)
Good thing we gave Artem Lobov at least a little credit on last week’s show, because The Russo-Irish Hammer really exceeded expectations in his much-maligned…
How Bobby Knuckles shocked the world (Heavy Hands #155)
Apparently Robert Whittaker doesn’t much like the nickname “Bobby Knuckles,” but honestly, we at Heavy Hands think he’s making a mistake. It fits, right? I…
Opinion: Flyweight is a stacked division—Demetrious Johnson is just that good
While watching the main event of UFC on Fox 24, I was once again staggered by the sheer brilliance of Demetrious Johnson. In the past…
Judo Chop – Tom Duquesnoy: The Crown Prince of Violence
This weekend, Demetrious Johnson will make the 10th defense of his UFC flyweight title as the headliner of a UFC on Fox card absolutely stacked…
UFC 210: Will Rumble crumble again? (Heavy Hands #153)
At UFC 210, Daniel Cormier and Anthony “Rumble” Johnson will meet in the Octagon for the second time. In their first encounter, Johnson managed to…
Styles Make Fights, GGG and Chocolatito (Heavy Hands #152)
We know that styles make fights, but do we know which styles make which fights? Well, your hosts have a a few ideas, but we…
Boxing for MMA: Fisticuffs for the Freestyle Fighter – Part One: The Guard
So, you want to be able to hit people and drag them into a hellish world of suffocating misery on the ground? Then MMA is…
UFC London and the frustrating talent of Gunnar Nelson (Heavy Hands #151)
Though it probably won’t make it onto any year-end lists, UFC London ended up being a fun, well-rounded card. The wild scrambles between Arnold Allen…
UFC Fortaleza and UFC London: Violence from coast to coast (Heavy Hands #150)
Matchmaking is a difficult job, so let this week’s episode of Heavy Hands stand as a celebration of good matchmaking. Sure. UFC Fortaleza’s main event…
Why was Woodley-Thompson II so bad? Heavy Hands #149
Well, they can’t all be winners. In their first fight there were hints that Tyron Woodley and Stephen Thompson might not be the kind of…
Predicting Woodley vs Thompson, Khabib vs Ferguson (Heavy Hands #148)
UFC 209 is this week, and the bulk of this week’s Heavy Hands is dedicated to the fantastic main and co-main events of that card.…
UFC Halifax – The Derrick Lewis special: Ether, two ways (Heavy Hands #147)
Derrick Lewis is a treasure. He’s genuine. He’s funny. He turns people into a fine mist when he hits them. Oh, and he needs a…
Anderson Silva’s win over Derek Brunson was bullsh-t, but it was good bullsh-t
So. Let’s talk about bullshit. Again. (Warning: potentially offensive language ahead.) At UFC 208, Anderson Silva earned his first official victory since October of 2012, defeating…
UFC 208 Judo Chop – Holly Holm: Why Technique Matters
Over the course of my career as a fight analyst, I have gone away from my once intense focus on fighting technique. Of course, every…
UFC 208: Does Germaine de Randamie have Holly Holm’s number? (Heavy Hands #145)
It wasn’t so long ago that Holly Holm was the women’s bantamweight champion of the world, and now the long-time boxing champ could very well…
Pena bites the bullet, the Korean Zombie returns! (Heavy Hands #144)
Fights, fights, fights. Sometimes the UFC hits you with so many bouts you can’t keep your thoughts from spinning out of control. Fight overload, and…
Is Valentina Shevchenko the next UFC champion? (Heavy Hands #143)
UFC on Fox 23 is flying just slightly under the radar, but diehard MMA fans learned long ago not to judge a book by its…
Greg Jackson explains how he comes up with a gameplan (Heavy Hands #142)
Greg Jackson has accomplished the rare feat of making himself an MMA celebrity without ever stripping down and setting foot into the Octagon. He has…