MMA Roundtable: Does an Eight-Man Tournament Trump UFC Castoffs?

Even if the UFC and Strikeforce are sitting this weekend out, that doesn’t mean there’s no MMA for us to overanalyze. In fact, there are at least three notable events in the next two days, leaving some of us with difficult choices to make.

With that i…

Even if the UFC and Strikeforce are sitting this weekend out, that doesn’t mean there’s no MMA for us to overanalyze. In fact, there are at least three notable events in the next two days, leaving some of us with difficult choices to make.

With that in mind, I pulled MMA Fighting’s Ray Hui away from more serious work in order to make him answer some questions I had running through my mind. Join us as we break down the weekend’s action, debate which pay-per-view to buy in a perfect world, and try to calculate the odds that Antonio McKee will wrestle his way into retirement.

Shine Fights is holding a one-night, eight-man unsanctioned tournament at an Indian casino on Friday night. That means the eventual winner will have to win three (unsanctioned) fights in one night. Awesome idea or horrible idea?