Mike Fagan Archives: 08/2011

If you’ve clamored for the names involved in Bellator’s season five heavyweight tournament, you’re in luck. The promotion released the matchups for the tournament today,…

Every promotion Fedor Emelianenko has fought for failed. Rings died in 2002 due to pressures of Pride’s ascent. Pride collapsed in 2007, its parts sold…

Dana White says Brock Lesnar will return early in 2012. Shane Carwin says Alistair Overeem is close to a deal with the UFC. Frank Mir welcomes a fight…

Strikeforce is hosting a conference call at 1 p.m. ET to promote the semi-finals of their heavyweight grand prix tournament. Scheduled to appear on the call…

If Quinton Jackson is to be believed, UFC 135 is starting to resemble Martin Scorsese’s The Departed (or the original 2002 Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs,…

It took Anderson Silva just over seven minutes to figure out and cast off Yushin Okami at UFC 134. That’s longer than it took most…

NOG STRIKES BACK “I’m back, you know?” – Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, after his first-round TKO over Brendan Schaub at UFC 134. (MMA Fighting) “When I feel…

(Click the image for higher resolution.) Here’s a word cloud generated from the post and comments in the live results post. Notes: No surprise that…

UFC 134: Rio notes and numbers from FightMetric: Anderson Silva now holds the record for most knockdowns in UFC history at 15. His two knockdowns of…

Anderson Silva is a genius. It’s not an entirely novel statement these days. Silva earned that status in his second fight with Rich Franklin, specifically…

NOTE: There is a technical issue with this post. Bloody Elbow apologizes for the inconvenience. Please see the corrected post here: http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/8/28/2389208/ufc-134-results-anderson-silva-vs-yushin-okami-post-fight-recap-and Anderson Silva is a…

If you missed the original airing of the UFC 134 barker show, here you go. Parts two and three are after the jump. Anderson Silva…

By now, you’ve likely seen the clip of Anderson Silva KOing Yushin Okami with an illegal upkick off his back. What you may not have…

I’ve had a rough time finding the space in our calendar to unload the second edition of Forrest Griffin’s refreshing UFC 134 blog, but fortunately the…

The UFC returns to Brazil on Saturday night after nearly thirteen years since Ultimate Brazil in 1998. In commemoration of the event, Bloody Elbow looks…

Yesterday, Tatame reported that the UFC was targeting a rematch between Anderson Silva and Dan Henderson to headline their debut on Fox. To make the November 12…

Following the UFC on Fox press conference last week, Matt Bishop asked me about potential matchups the UFC could put together for the debut show on November…

The UFC returns to Brazil on Saturday night after nearly thirteen years since Ultimate Brazil in 1998. In commemoration of the event, Bloody Elbow looks…

Forrest Griffin has a UFC 134 blog over at Yahoo! — delightfully titled “Forrest Fire” — where he talks Rich Franklin, Mauricio Rua, and still not…

NINE OF EVERY TEN FIGHTERS ARE JUICING CLAIMS SELF-PROCLAIMED NON-USER “I would definitely say somewhere in the percentage of 85 percent of guys are definitely…