Connor Ruebusch

Remember when it felt like BJ Penn was probably going to win his next fight? Us, too. It was a magical time, when “just scrapping”…

At UFC 207, Ronda Rousey flashed in an out of existence like a Higgs boson, her comeback undone by the particle collider of Amanda Nunes’…

UFC 207 could very well be Ronda Rousey’s swan song. Were her career to end here, it would seem to some like nothing more than…

Christmas has come and gone, but it’s Easter for Ronda Rousey, as the former champion finally makes her return after just over a year away…

The UFC catches a lot of flak for their handling of prospects–and fighter development in general. Whether throwing a newly signed novice to the wolves…

UFC 206 was so good, you know we had to dedicate a solid chunk of this week’s show to it. This week on Heavy Hands,…

Jose Aldo is the featherweight champion once again. With former champion Conor McGregor being stripped and/or “relinquishing” the belt, it is officially the weirdest title…

Demetrious Johnson is fighting a particular challenger this weekend, but we can’t talk about that just yet. Instead, we get to look at the flyweight…

Sometimes in the fight game you just come across a plate heaping with delicious face-punching. A smorgasbord of combat, if you will. Such is the…

Andre Ward and Sergey Kovalev are two of the best in the world at what they do. Sergey Kovalev is an unparalleled knockout puncher, who…

Trainer Mark Henry joined us for a special bonus episode of Heavy Hands this week. The Millstone, New Jersey native made some headlines in the…

It happened, and it was glorious. Now is the time to bathe in the afterglow of UFC 205, and I can think of no better…

So Conor McGregor is the first two-weight champion in UFC history. It’s a big deal. McGregor and his time claimed that Eddie Alvarez would be…

UFC 205 is a big deal because of the location, but even the UFC’s first trip to the Empire State in over two decades somehow…

The time is upon us. Americans, we survived the election. Non-Americans, we made it through a terrible, debilitating three-week UFC drought. Tony Ferguson’s remarkable win…

You know UFC 205 has too much good stuff to be covered by just one show, so we’re previewing a few of the tentpole event’s…

The Ultimate Fighter Latim America 3 Finale is just around the corner and . . . wow. Let’s just call it UFC: Mouthful. As Rafael…

If there is one good thing about a lull between UFC events (and there are probably several), it is that it gives us fight analysts…

A while ago on Heavy Hands, we began a series called “Styles Make Fights.” Original, I know. The idea of the series was to dissect…

Prior to October 8th, 2016, it was said by a certain MMA writer that Dan Henderson had put on his last great performance against Mauricio…