Phil Mackenzie

A crushing amount of crushing MMA happened over the last week, which culminated in Conor McGregor’s shocking KO of Jose Aldo, demonstrating the tiny margins…

TUF Latin America II! It was approximately seven ice ages long, but if you managed to make it through, there was a pretty awesome fight…

Belfort-Henderson III in Sao Paulo was a great card on paper, and a great card in reality. Virtually every fight delivered what it promised to,…

The first indication that the UFC’s second Dublin event was in trouble came when Stipe Miocic had to pull out from the scheduled co-main against Ben…

Was Uriah Hall’s spin kick in the co-main event of UFC Japan lucky, or even the dreaded “fluke”? Luck is a pejorative in MMA, and…

In an insanely late edition of PFP, what patterns were present in the good-but-not-great Bellator: Dynamite show? The main difference between Scott Coker’s and Bjorn…

Antonio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira looks like one of the oldest 39-year-olds you’ve ever seen. Twenty years of the cage and the ring trampled his face…

The tortoise takes on the hare, as the explosive win-one-lose-one glass cannon of the welterweight division takes on its steady competitor when Erick Silva fights…

While UFC 190 headlined by Ronda Rousey has received its fair share of criticism for being void of sporting merit, is this any reason to…

At UFC 189, when Rory MacDonald and Robbie Lawler meet, it won’t just be to determine who is the best welterweight in the world. It’ll…

After the Kimbo-Shamrock stuff and Fight Night Berlin, what patterns were present last weekend? I liked the Jedrzejczyk-Penne card. I liked it before it was…

Following Fabricio Werdum’s upset win over Cain Velasquez at UFC 188, was there a single overarching reason? Was it a fluke? The environment UFC 188,…

Looking back at some of the patterns from the last two Fight Nights in a double-header. Two straight Fight Night cards have more than delivered…

At UFC Fight Night Adelaide, a night of fights down under was characterized by lots of violence, underdog wins, and by swings of momentum. On…

Demetrious Johnson pitched a shut-out over Kyoji Horiguchi at UFC 186 in Montreal on Saturday, as many predicted he might. It was a beautifully measured…

I did not think that this series would make it to seven films. If it did, then it would be in some radically diminished form.…

There’s always something interesting to talk about after a UFC event, and there were some good performances in Poland. Another Cage Warriors standout in Stevie…

Mirko Filipovic fights Gabriel Gonzaga at heavyweight in the main event of UFC Fight Night: Gonzaga vs. Cro Cop 2  on April 11, 2015 at…

Jimi Manuwa fights Jan Blachowicz at light heavyweight in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night: Gonzaga vs. Cro Cop 2 on April 11, 2015…

This April 11, 2015 Pawel Pawlak and Sheldon Westcott have an unpredictable and probably violent throwdown at the Venue Kraków Arena in City Kraków, Poland.…