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UFC 2013 Alternate Reality: Massive PPVs, Better Fight Cards, Fewer Events
This is what happens when there isn’t a fight card on the horizon for me to fixate on. Then again, I’ve been kicking around this idea in my head for a couple months now and the current two-week break...
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UFC 179 Aldo vs. Mendes II: Time Between Fights Makes Rematch More Compelling
When Jose Aldo and Chad Mendes hit the cage Saturday night in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1014 days will have passed since Aldo brought their first encounter to an abrupt halt with a perfectly placed knee...
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UFC Fight Desk: Weidman and Rousey Team Up Again, “Cowboy” Saddles Up Against...
Following their respective wins at UFC 175, champions Chris Weidman and Ronda Rousey joked that they wanted to keep fighting on the same cards together going forward. After all, they were two-for-two...
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The Excellence of Frankie Edgar
The fact that Frankie Edgar isn’t listed in the pound-for-pound rankings on the UFC website is laughable. As much as rankings are a subjective exercise and scanning through the individual ballots that...
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UFC 181: Anthony Pettis Facing Must-Win Situation on Saturday
Anthony Pettis has the potential to be the UFC’s biggest star. He’s a dynamic talent that does incredible things inside the Octagon and away from the cage, the fashionable, well-spoken lightweight...
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5 Reasons to Watch UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs. Siver
Lost in all the talk about how the UFC is promoting this weekend’s event and whether or not Conor McGregor is deserving of all the hype and attention (and Reebok deals) that has been directed his way...
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UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs. Siver Punch Drunk Predictions
After kicking off 2015 with UFC 182 two weekends ago, the action returns to the Octagon Sunday night for the first of back-to-back-to-back events beginning in Boston with UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs....
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UFC Fight Night McGregor vs. Siver: 10 Things We Learned Last Night
1. Clinical Conor McGregor demolished Dennis Siver, finishing him just before the two-minute mark of the second round after working him over with pinpoint striking in the first. It was completely...
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UFC Aftermath: Aldo vs. McGregor officially on tap after WWE-style “Go-Home”...
Less than 24 hours removed from UFC Fight Night 59 in Boston and I can’t shake the feeling that I just watched a WWE “Go-Home” show before a major pay-per-view event. No, I’m not saying the outcomes of...
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UFC Fight Desk: Weidman vs. Belfort Off, Aldo vs. McGregor confirmed for UFC 189
Friday sucked. Even though we got confirmation of one of the biggest fights on the horizon, you couldn’t help but feel deflated and a sense of dread given all that went down between the time Conor...
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5 Reasons to Watch UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Thatch
Events like Saturday’s UFC Fight Night in Broomfield, Colorado are my favourite ones to watch as a fan. True story. Sure, I get geeked for the next big title fight and loaded pay-per-view card as much...
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UFC Fight Night Henderson vs. Thatch: Punch Drunk Predictions
Welcome back, fight fans! After a very ridiculous, stressful, annoying week and change spent dealing with positive tests and their fallout, it’s finally time to actually watch some fights again. While...
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UFC Fight Night Henderson vs. Thatch: 10 Things We Learned Last Night
1. Big Win for Benson Henderson “Smooth” stepped up to welterweight on a month’s notice and came away with one of the most impressive wins of his career. Outsized against hometown knockout artist...
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UFC Fight Night 60: What’s Next for Saturday Night’s Winners?
After a week with no fights (but plenty of things to talk about, as always), the Octagon was bustling again last night as UFC Fight Night 60 went down in Broomfield, Colorado. While short on the major...
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UFC Fight Night Aftermath: Benson Henderson and the Reactionary Nature of MMA
Benson Henderson has always been a terrific fighter. You don’t climb to the top of the UFC lightweight division and successfully defend the title three times by happenstance. You don’t take up...
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UFC Fight Nights: A Constant Source of Quality Entertainment
Each of the four UFC events in January felt like “you have to see this fight” events – shows built around a single match-up, where the main event was enough to lure you in and the promise of what might...
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Keyboard Kimura podcast: UFC PEDs, Fight Nights, Frank Mir’s smirk and smooth...
Spencer Kyte and Paul Chapman are joined by Wyatt Arndt to talk about the UFC’s big statement on Performance Enhancing Drugs. The boys kick around how much the positive tests tarnish Anderson Silva’s...
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UFC Fight Night 61: What’s Next for Sunday Night’s Winners?
Given how many upsets took place inside the Octagon last night, trying to project what comes next for the actors that went home with Oscars on Sunday night might be easier than figuring out where the...
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UFC 185 Title View: Anthony Pettis and the Lightweight Division
After yesterday’s look at Carla Esparza, Joanna Jedrzejczyk and the women’s strawweight division, it’s time for UFC Title View to focus in on the lightweight ranks, beginning with the champion and the...
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UFC First Quarter Awards: Vote for the Best Fight of 2015
So we’ve done the knockouts and we’ve covered the submissions, now it’s time to dive in to the best fights from inside the Octagon so far in 2015. Before getting to the list, I will say this: we...
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UFC Manila: The Underrated Excellence of Frankie Edgar
Sitting cageside at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas last November, I looked over at UFC VP of Public Relations Dave Sholler and we both just shook our heads. Frankie Edgar was systematically...
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UFC Round-Up: The Need for More 10-8 Rounds, Podcast Preview & More
Go back and watch last weekend’s main event scrap between Neil Magny and Kelvin Gastelum, which Magny won by split decisions, where all three judges turned in 48-47 scorecards. Pay particularly to the...
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Picking a Fight: Benson Henderson not looking for handouts on latest title run
Benson Henderson isn’t wasting anymore time. At 32, the clock is ticking differently for the former UFC lightweight champion who recently made the move up to welterweight in pursuit of his second run...
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UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Masvidal Punch Drunk Predictions
Another week, another set of predictions, but this time, the fights will happen while most people are sleeping. Emanating from Seoul, South Korea, Saturday’s event on Fight Pass kicks off at 2am on the...
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UFC Fight Night 79: About Last Night in Seoul
Henderson Edges Masvidal in Tight, Technical Fight As was expected, the main event between Benson Henderson and Jorge Masvidal was a close, technical affair where both men had their moments and neither...
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UFC Seoul Post-Fight: Henderson Shouldn’t be a Free Agent for Long
Benson Henderson gambled on himself and appears to have won. Saturday morning, the man they call “Smooth” scored his second consecutive victory since as a member of the welterweight ranks, edging out a...
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Keyboard Kimura Podcast: Talking Jones, Henderson and Namajunas vs. VanZant
On this week’s episode of the Keyboard Kimura Podcast, Paul Chapman and E. Spencer Kyte dive into the MMA news of the week. In this week’s Main Event, they get into talk of the ongoing Jon Jones...
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UFC 2016: Free Agency Going to be Biggest Story of the Year
Heading into 2016, three prominent fighters enter the year as free agents with a few more planning on fighting out their contracts and how these different situations get resolved will surely be the...
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UFC Title View: Robbie Lawler, Carlos Condit and the Welterweight Division
Welcome to Year Two of Title View, where we preview the upcoming title fight and take an in-depth look at the division that will be in the spotlight at the next UFC event, highlighting the other...
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MMA Free Agency: What does Benson Henderson’s move to Bellator mean?
Benson Henderson is now a Bellator fighter. Monday morning, the former lightweight champion announced that he was changing competitive addresses, moving from the UFC to their closest, yet distant...
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