Tim Bissell Archives: 12/2022

Tim Bissell is a writer, editor and deputy site manager for Bloody Elbow. He has covered combat sports since 2015. Tim covers news and events…

The last MMA show of the year goes live from Japan tomorrow, with a special crossover event pitting stars of Bellator against their RIZIN counterparts.…

Dana White’s slap fighting league will debut on TBS on January 11. The show will feature competitors slapping each other across the jaw as hard…

The calendar is pretty sparse in these waning days of 2022. However, two promotions have decided to join forces to give us a heck of…

One of the year’s biggest Judo competitions takes place this week in Jerusalem, Israel. The 2022 World Judo Masters is an invite only tournament that…

The UFC’s 2022 season is coming to a close with a… well, not a bang. The last show of the year is not a big…

The UFC’s final show of the year is just a day away. The promotion’s year-end show is not exactly a tentpole event, filled—instead—with mostly talent…

The feud between Ilia Topuria and Paddy Pimblett doesn’t feel like it will die down anytime soon. The whole thing kicked off when Pimblett made…

This week, ‘The Monster’ Naoya Inoue returns to action with hopes of becoming the undisputed bantamweight champion of the world. To do this he will…

UFC 282 petered out as the night went on last night, leading to disappointing finishes in both the main and co-main event. The main event…

The 2022 Wrestling World Cup for freestyle and women’s wrestling is happening live this weekend in Coralville, Iowa. At that event takes place over December…

The last UFC title fight of 2022 is for a vacant belt with Jan Blachowicz and Magomed Ankalaev set to battle it out for the…

The UFC is very close to wrapping up its 2022 season. This weekend’s UFC 282 will be the last pay-per-view (and penultimate event) on this…

There’s just one episode left of The Paddy Pimblett this year and it takes place in the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. At UFC 282…

We are getting ready to close the curtain on 2022, but before we do we have a couple more events on the docket. The last…

Update: Vinicius Salvador vs. Daniel Da Silva has been cancelled after Da Silva was not medically cleared to compete. The UFC is back this weekend…

We’ve got a really interesting Bellator card on tap tonight. Bellator 289 goes live from Uncaseville, CT (of course) and has two tournament semi-finals and…

Terence Crawford is action this weekend and he is putting up his WBO welterweight title against the unheralded David Avanesyan (whom he is expected to…

One of the best fights this weekend has on offer goes down at the famous Madison Square Garden in New York City. There Teofimo Lopez…

Poor Ovince Saint Preux. The UFC veteran has seen his hopes of a big payday this weekend take another hit after yet another opponent has…