Nick Baldwin Archives: 02/2018

There was a time, way back in 2015, when Conor McGregor vs. Frankie Edgar was realistic. It was the fight to make – perhaps before…

There is yet another way to watch the UFC’s pay-per-view events. Commerce giant Amazon announced a new deal with the UFC Wednesday morning. Its streaming…

Last week, Al Iaquinta became the third member of the Project Spearhead interim executive board. The UFC lightweight contender took the role of interim secretary…

Project Spearhead won’t just focus on UFC fighters. The new unionization effort will also include athletes signed to Bellator, which has long been considered the…

Leslie Smith is keeping her expectations low in the early stages of her new effort to unionize fighters. Earlier this month, the UFC women’s bantamweight…

Luke Rockhold’s next fight will almost certainly be up a weight class. Two weeks removed from a third-round knockout loss to Yoel Romero, the former…

At the young age of 23, Jake Matthews has already had nine fights in the UFC. He signed with the premier MMA promotion in 2014,…

Ben Askren is retired, but Joe Rogan still wants to see the ONE Championship welterweight champion in the UFC one day. The longtime UFC color…

A pair of former UFC contenders will meet at the next Rizin FF event. Kyoji Horiguchi vs. Ian McCall has been booked for Rizin FF…

EPISODE 150: The MMA Circus, hosted by Nick Baldwin and Andrew Lawrence, is back for your listening pleasure. Discussion Topics: UFC 221 recap — In…

The year 2017 wasn’t all that nice to Max Griffin. The UFC welterweight got injured in training early in the year and had to pull…

Elias Theodorou is here to “break some barriers.” Historically, most ring card bearers at MMA events — big and small — have been women, or…

Some people anticipated Israel Adesanya’s UFC debut in a big way. Others weren’t sure who “The Last Style Bender” was. Even after UFC 221, the…

Yoel Romero couldn’t win the UFC interim middleweight title in the UFC 221 main event Saturday night, but it appears that he’ll challenge the division’s…

Tim Kennedy has made up his mind on who he is rooting for in the UFC 221 main event Saturday night. The former UFC middleweight…

With EA Sports UFC 3 released last week, UFC lightweight Kajan Johnson is here to remind us of the sad truth: fighters don’t get paid…

Ben Nguyen’s pivotal flyweight bout against Jussier Formiga could determine champion Demetrious Johnson’s next title challenger. But, instead of being featured on the already-not-too-deep UFC…

…And exhale. The UFC has booked women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg vs. newcomer — and former Invicta FC bantamweight titleholder — Yana Kunitskaya as the…

Will T.J. Dillashaw vs. Cody Garbrandt 2 likely happen at UFC 222? No. But according to Dillashaw, it’s not out of question entirely. The 135-pound…

Eryk Anders had a major test on Saturday at UFC Fight Night 125 — one he did not pass — and he has since received…