ShinSplints Archives: 12/2012

After being hit by injury after injury, UFC 155 finally went off Saturday night. The main card on its own was lackluster early, but the…

Overall, UFC 155 delivered with a great night of fights to end 2012. The Middleweights that opened up the PPV slowed down the action, but…

Back in November, then Heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos followed in the footsteps of fellow Brazilian Anderson Silva and Light Heavyweight champion Jon Jones when…

The main event of UFC 155 featured the heavyweight title fight between Junior Dos Santos and Cain Velasquez.. Cain came out hyper aggressive. He pressured…

Lightweights Joe Lauzon and Jim Miller met in the Octagon for the UFC 155 co-main event. Miller got ahead early with some powerful shots. Miller…

In the final Middleweight fight of UFC 155, Tim Boetsch faced off against Constantinos Philippou. Boetsch took the center of the Octagon right from the…

Alan Belcher and Yushin Okami hit the Octagon second for the UFC 155 PPV. Belcher got it started with a head kick. He made it…

Middleweights Chris Leben and Derek Brunson faced off to start the UFC 155 PPV show. Brunson opened up the action with a blocked head kick.…

In another Bantamweight fight on the UFC 155 FX prelims, Brad Pickett met Eddie Wineland in the Octagon. Pickett came right out throwing poewr punches,…

Bantamweights Erik Perez and Byron Bloodworth got right to it in their fight on the FX prelims for UFC 155. Perez got Bloodworth’s back against…

Melvin Guillard finally got to get to business on the FX prelims for UFC 155. The Lightweights squared off right in the center of the…

Lightweights Michael Johnson and Myles Jury opened up the FX prelims for UFC 155. Both men worked to find their range and timing from the…

To close out the Facebook prelims of UFC 155, Heavyweight Todd Duffee return to face Philip De Fries. Took no time at all for Duffee…

Second up on Facebook for UFC 155, Featherweights Leonard Garcia and Max Holloway squared off. Garcia was originally set to face Cody McKenzie, but he…

Opening up the Facebook prelims for UFC 155, Flyweights John Moraga and Chris Cariaso met in the Octagon. First round started out slow, with both…

The final UFC event of 2012 goes down tonight in UFC 155: Dos Santos vs. Velasquez 2. In the PPV main event Junior dos Santos…

Friday, just before the UFC 155 fighters weighed in, UFC Lightweight Donald Cerrone participated in a fan Q&A. Cerrone is 6-1 in the UFC since…

Just hours before the UFC 155 weigh-ins, MMA Junkie has confirmed that Mike Goldberg will not be commentating tomorrow’s PPV event due to illness. Instead…

Going into Bellator 76 Eddie Alvarez’s move to the UFC seemed inevitable. It was widely known that his fight against Patricky Freire was the last…

Tomorrow night UFC 155 will go down at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, NV. UFC Heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos will try…