Matthew Roth Archives: 09/2011

Dominick Cruz vs Demetrious Johnson Mike Fagan – What makes Cruz tough is his movement (not his footwork) and his ability to control distance. He’ll…

The UFC has scheduled a media conference call for 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT today to promote next weekend’s UFC 136 card on Pay Per…

K-1 level striking. It’s a talking point for Joe Rogan to describe high level stand up. The reality though is that there is no such…

Often going into a fight, the fighters need to psych themselves up with some animosity towards their opponents. The fight between Stefan Struve and Pat…

Last night was episode 2 of this season of the Ultimate Fighter. It also was perhaps on of the best nights in baseball history. In Baltimore,…

The UFC has scheduled a media conference call for 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT today to promote this weekends UFC LIVE card on Versus featuring…

Welcome back to everyone’s favorite post-fight analysis piece where I, Matthew G. Roth, tell you who were the biggest winners and losers on the night.…

Jones started bear crawling around the cage. Jackson landed a jab and defended the shot. Jones clinched with a full body lock and both fighters…

Matt Hughes threw a jab to the just healed eye of Josh Koscheck and it definitely bothered the AKA fighter. Koscheck responded with a combination…

The two fighters came out throwing leather but neither fighter was able to really find range early on. Hunt was the first to really land…

Browne opened the round with a big overhand right that didn’t connect with full power. Another big overhand right failed to connect for Browne. They…

Nate came out early pawing his jab to find his range. A jab-cross landed and momentarily dropped Gomi. Big haymaker landed for Gomi to Diaz’s…

Aaron Riley was the more creative and dynamic striker mixing his kicks with punching combinations. He established solid head movement and avoided many of Ferguson’s…

Ring came out early with some fancy footwork always moving away from Tim Boetsch’s offense. He caught a kick and pushed Boetsch to the ground.…

They chose to not touch gloves with Assuncao coming out south paw. He switched to orthodox and then back to south paw. The crowd was…

Escovedo came out quickly landing a leg kick. Mizugaki returned with a string of jab-crosses while coming forward. Escovedo secured the Thai clinch but couldn’t…

Romero was telegraphing his kicks and takedowns early having no intention for fighting on his feet. Te Huna would sprawl and side step to keep…

Tonight, Titan Fighting Championships returns to HDNet with Titan Fighting Championships 20: Rogers vs Sanchez live from Memorial Hall in Kansas City. As always the…

Not too long ago this blog posted news about Brett Rogers being involved in a domestic abuse case. According to the charges, he had assaulted…

This post is going up last minute but right now on Spike TV, the countdown show for UFC 135 starts right now. This event will…