TUF 10: The Ultimate Fighter Live Discussion (Episode 3)
I’ll be brief in last week’s recap. Rampage chose to match up his big white ex-NFL’er, Wes Shivers, against Rashad’s number one pick James McSweeney. …
Mike Fagan Archives: 09/2009
Looking Ahead Through the Past: Lyoto Machida’s Round 1 Performance at UFC 84
Mauricio “Shogun” Rua has his work cut out for him at UFC 104. He’ll have to do something no other fighter has been able to…
The Week in Quotes: September 20th – 27th
SO LONG, FAREWELL, AUFWIEDERSEHEN, GOODBYE “We kind of made up. We’re going to figure it out.” – UFC President Dana White. Now this has to…
TUF 10: The Ultimate Fighter Live Discussion (Episode 2)
Get up! Get up! Don’t get taken down! Submit him! OK, so Quinton Jackson isn’t the best of coaches. Picking Kimbo Slice with his first…
Mirko Cro Cop’s UFC 103 Impotence in Numbers
It didn’t take a genius to see Mirko Filipovic‘s hesitance in his UFC 103 bout with “Minotauro” Nogueira‘s protege Junior dos Santos. At times, Cro…
Taming the Wild Boy: Is This the End of Mirko Cro Cop’s Career?
In the clearing stands a boxer, and a fighter by his tradeAnd he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down or cut…
The Week in Quotes: September 13th – 19th
LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, WELCOME TO THE WES SIMS ERA “I just want to make sure because everybody knows I’ve got the largest crotch in the…
UFC 103: Franklin vs. Belfort Post-Fight Analysis and Recap
-Let the parade of “old Vitor is back” begin. One thing I glossed over in my gambling analysis is Belfort’s reliance on patient counter punching…
TUF 10: The Ultimate Fighter Live Discussion (Episode 1)
First they announced Rampage and Rashad as coaches. Then we heard about a bunch of NFL monsters. Roy Nelson’s gut butted in, and we all…
Everyone Needs Bread (or Fighters Are People Too)
Fighters are people too. It seems too obvious to need mentioning. Yet, I think it far too often gets left by the wayside. With Anderson…
Appreciating Greatness in Mixed Martial Arts
In just a few hours, Michael Jeffrey Jordan will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Growing up in the Chicago area, Jordan peaked…
FightMetric Breaks Down Over Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Randy Couture at UFC 102
FightMetric recently released their report for the UFC 102 main event between Randy “the Natural” Couture and Antonio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira. The results, I suspect,…
The Week in Quotes: August 30th – September 5th
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME “I do everything better than him, and I’m bigger than him and stronger than him!”…
Grading Mirko Cro Cop’s UFC 99 Performance
Back in June, the big story coming out of UFC 99 revolved around Mirko Cro Cop allegedly breaking a verbal deal with Dana White and…
The Anderson Silva Problem
As Randy Couture might say, Anderson Silva poses some interesting problems. Those problems, however, won’t be solved by another fighter in the cage. They’ll have…