January Snow Storms: Five Fights to Watch This Month
Every month I pick five fights I’m most excited to see. This month is a bit of the calm before the storm, as February promises…
Jonathan Snowden Archives: 01/2011
UFC Star Joseph Benavidez: Urijah Faber, Bantamweight Limbo, and the Art of Joe Jitsu
Team Alpha Male’s Joseph Benavidez is one of the very best bantamweights in the entire world. But he’s much more than a fighter. In an…
Backstage at Strikeforce: The Best Announcing Team in the Business
Mauro Ranallo and Pat Miletich are arguing again. The rest of the table is studiously ignoring them. There’s a comfortable routine about it all, but…
Strikeforce Tournament: UFC’s Past Shows Great Risk and Great Reward
Yesterday, Strikeforce announced the biggest and most ambitious MMA tournament since PRIDE faded into a mere memory in 2007. The San Jose based promotion will…
UFC 125 Results: Five Fights to Make Going Forward
UFC 125 is officially history, a good card made special by one of the UFC’s best fights of all time. I watched it again last…
UFC 125 Results: Forget What You Think You Know About the Featherweight Division
If we learned anything last night at UFC 125, it should be this simple lesson: think twice before anointing UFC Featherweight champion Jose Aldo as…
UFC 125 Results: Gray Maynard and Frankie Edgar Deserve a Rematch
It looked like it was going to be over quick. Gray Maynard rocked Frankie Edgar in the first round of their lightweight title fight at…