Tag: Champion

Rousey vs. Tate: Arm Bar on Miesha Tate Makes Rowdy Ronda Deserving Champion

Ronda Rousey silenced her legions of doubters in the world of MMA with a rousing victory over Miesha Tate to secure the Strikeforce women’s bantamweight title on Saturday. True, “Rowdy” Ronda came into the fight as the heavy favorite …

Ronda Rousey silenced her legions of doubters in the world of MMA with a rousing victory over Miesha Tate to secure the Strikeforce women’s bantamweight title on Saturday. True, “Rowdy” Ronda came into the fight as the heavy favorite to take the belt from Tate, who’d retrieved it from Marloes Coenen in July of 2011. […]

Ronda Rousey: Is the New Strikeforce Champion the Best Finisher in All of MMA?

We don’t know the extent of the damage yet, but it looked bad. Real bad. Ronda Rousey, a 2008 Olympic judo bronze medalist, bent Strikeforce bantamweight champion Miesha Tate’s arm in a direction no one ever intended an arm to bend. As Show…

We don’t know the extent of the damage yet, but it looked bad. Real bad. Ronda Rousey, a 2008 Olympic judo bronze medalist, bent Strikeforce bantamweight champion Miesha Tate’s arm in a direction no one ever intended an arm to bend. As Showtime shared the brutal submission with us in the slowest of slow motion—and […]

King Mo’s Future in Doubt, Will the Former Champion Ever Return to the Cage?

Muhammed Lawal, a former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion known to fans worldwide as “King Mo,” is no stranger to adversity. Usually that adversity comes in the form of the best Light Heavyweight competition Strikeforce has to offer a…

Muhammed Lawal, a former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion known to fans worldwide as “King Mo,” is no stranger to adversity. Usually that adversity comes in the form of the best Light Heavyweight competition Strikeforce has to offer and/or the controversies he inevitably finds himself in due to his brash, outspoken personality. But according to a […]

Jon Tuck, World Grappling Champion with KO Power, Makes It to TUF

Jon Tuck of Guam (6-0 with three wins by KO) has made it as one of the competitors of this season’s The Ultimate Fighter, the UFC TV reality show for its aspiring MMA athletes. Tuck is the 2010 Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Cup gold meda…

Jon Tuck of Guam (6-0 with three wins by KO) has made it as one of the competitors of this season’s The Ultimate Fighter, the UFC TV reality show for its aspiring MMA athletes. Tuck is the 2010 Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Cup gold medalist and is coming off two consecutive KO wins in […]

UFC 144: Why Benson Henderson Will Remain the Lightweight Champion

On Saturday night, Japanese fans were given an excellent taste of what mixed martial arts has evolved into. There were finishes of all sorts, improbable comebacks and a five-round war which is sure to be a candidate for Fight of the Year. The title fig…

On Saturday night, Japanese fans were given an excellent taste of what mixed martial arts has evolved into. There were finishes of all sorts, improbable comebacks and a five-round war which is sure to be a candidate for Fight of the Year. The title fight between Frankie Edgar and Ben Henderson is one of the […]

Frankie Edgar: Why Champion UFC Lightweight Deserves More Credit

Frankie Edgar has been in four UFC lightweight title bouts, and fans have doubted his ability to win each and every one of them. Whether it was because his stand up wasn’t good enough to hang with BJ Penn’s, or his wrestling was inferior to…

Frankie Edgar has been in four UFC lightweight title bouts, and fans have doubted his ability to win each and every one of them. Whether it was because his stand up wasn’t good enough to hang with BJ Penn’s, or his wrestling was inferior to Gray Maynard’s—there has always been some reason for fans to […]