Why Machida Was Right, Jones Was Wrong, And Belfort Is Intriguing
UFC 152 was recently thrown into further confusion with the news that Lyoto Machida had turned down a rematch with Jon Jones. While many saw…
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Fight Like Dos Santos: The Left Hook
Several months ago I wrote a piece called Fight Like Dos Santos: The Right Body Straight which was supposed to be part of a series…
Judo Chop Finish of the Week: Jerome Le Banner vs Mike Bernardo In A K-1 Classic
This edition of Finish of the Week will focus on a fight from the early days of K-1, the 1995 meeting between Jerome Le Banner…
Judo Chop FOTW: Dan Henderson & Rocky Marciano
This edition of Finish of the Week (the second edition) will focus on a fight from the golden era of boxing, Rocky Marciano versus Jersey…
UFC on Fox 4 Judo Chop: Is Lyoto Machida Ready for Jon Jones?
UFC on Fox 4 may have been the card of the year and a return to form for the UFC after several awful cards. The…
UFC on Fox 4 Judo Chop: The Real Signature Moves of Lyoto Machida
Last week the UFC released an official video called “The Signature Moves of Lyoto Machida”, which consisted of Machida talking through some of his memorable…
Judo Chop: Finish of the Week – Alistair Overeem vs. Peter Aerts
In this new feature to Bloody Elbow’s Judo Chop I will be attempting to examine some of my favourite finishes in MMA, kickboxing and perhaps…
UFC on Fox 4 Judo Chop: The Weaknesses of Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua
In a previous edition we examined the strengths in the striking of 205lbs all time great, Mauricio Rua – more commonly known as Shogun. In…
UFC 149 Judo Chop: Barao vs Faber Full Fight Analysis
At UFC 149 we were treated to one of the weakest and least entertaining cards in recent history. That is, unfortunately, the nature of the…
UFC 149 Judo Chop: Renan Barao Is NOT The Bantamweight Jose Aldo
Renan Barao has set the UFC 135lbs division on fire with his exciting stand up and slick Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and has drawn a great…
Strikeforce Judo Chop: Marquardt’s Rough Striking
Nate Marquardt provided the best finish of the night at Strikeforce: Rockhold vs Kennedy last night by knocking out Tyron Woodley. Woodley is far from…
UFC on Fuel Judo Chop: Chris Weidman’s Hybrid Stand Up
Last night Chris Weidman emerged as perhaps the number one contender in the middleweight division, dominating and stopping the dangerous Mark Munoz. The fight was…
Judo Chop: Michael Bisping’s British Dirty Boxing
With the UFC’s middleweight king Anderson Silva effectively declaring himself nonpareil by crushing the last man who gave him a decent fight at UFC 148,…
UFC 148 Judo Chop: How Chael Sonnen Out Struck Anderson Silva
In monday’s article I spent almost 4000 words searching for a chink in Anderson Silva’s armour, and came to the conclusion that the holes in…
UFC 148 Judo Chop: Beating Anderson Silva
Over the past few weeks regular readers have heard me gush praise over Anderson Silva’s phenomenal stand up game over three volumes in anticipation of…
UFC On Fox 4 Judo Chop: Lyoto Machida’s Tai-Sabaki
Earlier this week I examined Lyoto Machida’s use of simulteneous counters and introduced the Japanese concepts of Sen, Sen-No-Sen, and Go-No-Sen. As a passionate karateka…
UFC On Fox 4 Judo Chop: Lyoto Machida’s Sen-No-Sen
Please note: Whenever Karate is mentioned here-in, it refers to the movement based point style karate, and not to knockdown karate, whose emphasis is entirely…
Judo Chop: Fedor’s Fake & Shogun Rua’s Superman Hook
Fedor Emelianenko has just surprised no-one by knocking out a much aged and worn down Pedro Rizzo, but Rizzo is still no slouch on the…
UFC 148 Judo Chop: Analyzing Anderson Silva’s Thai Plum Entrances
With UFC 147 and UFC 148 looming in the near future, we are about to see some of the best middeweights in MMA history fight…
UFC 148 Judo Chop: Anderson Silva’s Right Hooks Against Forrest Griffin
Anderson Silva is one of the top two fighters in the world pound for pound in terms of accomplishment, ranked by most either #1 or…