UFC Fight Night: Misha Cirkunov vs Volkan Oezdemir Toe to Toe Preview – A Complete Breakdown
Volkan Oezdemir and Misha Cirkunov try to make sense of light heavyweight’s misery this May 28, 2017 at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden. One…
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Editorial: Can Bellator catch up with the UFC?
Bellator 179 is this Friday. It’s a strong international card in my home town of London. While it suffers from the loss of Michael Page,…
Editorial: Analyzing the UFC, division by division
In the hiatus between UFC events, there’s some time to time to take stock of where the organization as a whole finds itself, and several…
So Meta: Ronda Rousey and the decline of the grappler
Striking vs grappling has defined MMA since the early days. In recent years, however, it begins to look like one side is winning out over…
UFC 205 Post-fight patterns: The limits of courage
Another of the UFC’s recent crop of journeyman champions fell on Saturday when Eddie Alvarez was knocked out by Conor McGregor in Madison Square Garden…
UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor Full Preview: Tyron Woodley vs Stephen Thompson
Full breakdown of Tyron Woodley vs Stephen Thomson, for the welterweight championship, in UFC 205 on November 12th in Madison Square Garden, New York. Single…
UFC Hamburg Gustafsson vs Blachowicz Preview – A Complete Breakdown
Alexander Gustafsson fights Jan Blachowicz at light heavyweight in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night: Arlovski vs Barnett Single sentence summary: After a tough…
UFC 202 Post-fight patterns: What was given up
At UFC 202, Conor McGregor needed to change himself to have a chance of beating Nate Diaz, and he did. Losing is a hard thing…
Conor McGregor – The Last Star Standing?
Shattering disruption has been the norm in the upper levels of the UFC lately. The only champions who held their belts a year ago are…
The new BT Sport deal: precursor of the post-Zuffa world?
The UFC recently renewed its TV deal with BT Sport– the first major media rights deal to come to light since the WME-IMG sale, securing…
UFC 200 Post-fight patterns – Aldo and fundamentals
After UFC 200, what does Jose Aldo’s masterful defensive performance tell us about the role of fundamentals and adaptability in MMA? Fundamentals, guessing and reading…
Opinion: Mayweather-McGregor and media culpability
So, we have the latest report from Floyd Mayweather that the Conor McGregor fight is absolutely, for sure going to happen. This story continues to have…
UFC 197 Post-fight Patterns: Good MMA
UFC 197? Remember that? Let’s go back and take a look. Archetypes One of the best things about watching MMA is the emergence of different…
UFC 196 Post-fight patterns: On McGregor and rules
“Two fighters come together… for a fight that breaks all the rules.” That was DMX in the pre-fight hype vid for McGregor-Diaz. MMA doesn’t have…
UFC London post-fight patterns: Intro to the Count
I went to the UFC London event. In some brutally bad luck my MMA partner in crime Andrew came down with norovirus on the day…
UFN 83 Toe to Toe Preview: Donald Cerrone vs Alex Oliveira
Two former lightweights turned welterweights with the same nickname battle for control of the octagon shaped ranch this February 21, 2016 at the Consol Energy…
UFN 83 Toe to Toe Preview: Derek Brunson vs Roan Carneiro
Derek Brunson meets Roan Carneiro at middleweight in the co-main event of Fight Night: Cowboy vs Cowboy on February 21, 2016, at the Consol Energy…
UFC Vegas Post-fight Patterns – Do you want to do this?
Wonderboy took Johny Hendricks apart at UFC Vegas. It’s the highest point of a UFC career which some of us thought might never amount to…
The UFC tier list: bantamweight
After Dominick Cruz won his nip-tuck decision over TJ Dillashaw you might be looking at the bantamweight division wondering- what happens next? There’s Fights to Make,…
UFC 195 Post-fight patterns: Disappointing narratives
Finding the patterns in Robbie Lawler’s controversial win over Carlos Condit at UFC 195 Distance and regression Robbie Lawler fought a bad fight against Carlos…