UFC 188 Results: There Is No Greatest Heavyweight of All Time, Not Yet at Least

UFC 188 brought a strange sort of clarity to the grand scheme of the heavyweight division.  Showcasing two of the finest heavyweights competing today—Fabricio Werdum and Cain Velasquez—the UFC’s latest event proved the more things change, the more things stay the same in the big boys’ division.  Prior to his latest fight in Mexico City, […]

UFC 188 brought a strange sort of clarity to the grand scheme of the heavyweight division.  Showcasing two of the finest heavyweights competing today—Fabricio Werdum and Cain Velasquez—the UFC’s latest event proved the more things change, the more things stay the same in the big boys’ division.  Prior to his latest fight in Mexico City, […]

Brock Lesnar: Second, Hopefully Final Farewell to MMA’s Greatest Circus Act

Brock Lesnar was the greatest popcorn fighter in the history of combat sports. We savored every taste all the way down to the bottom of the bucket. But now the bucket is empty. While some would rather stick around and lick their fingers for the salty remnants from four years ago, the rest of us […]

Brock Lesnar was the greatest popcorn fighter in the history of combat sports. We savored every taste all the way down to the bottom of the bucket. But now the bucket is empty. While some would rather stick around and lick their fingers for the salty remnants from four years ago, the rest of us […]

Anthony Pettis & the Showtime Kick: Reliving One of MMA’s Greatest In-Cage Moves

December 16, 2010. WEC 53. The blue cage would see its final night under the bright lights. The UFC was absorbing the lighter weight classes into its ranks, and the winner of the night’s main event between Benson Henderson and Anthony “Showtime” Pettis would be the final WEC lightweight champion and earn a unification fight […]

December 16, 2010. WEC 53. The blue cage would see its final night under the bright lights. The UFC was absorbing the lighter weight classes into its ranks, and the winner of the night’s main event between Benson Henderson and Anthony “Showtime” Pettis would be the final WEC lightweight champion and earn a unification fight […]

Ronda Rousey: “I’m the Greatest Fighter of All Time”

Throw away your stupid pound-for-pound rankings and flush the stinking all-time great debate down the toilet. The greatest fighter of all time is a woman, not a man, and her name is Ronda Rousey, according to Ronda Rousey. The reigning UFC women’s bantamweight champ has looked relatively unbeatable in the UFC, tossing grown women around […]

Throw away your stupid pound-for-pound rankings and flush the stinking all-time great debate down the toilet. The greatest fighter of all time is a woman, not a man, and her name is Ronda Rousey, according to Ronda Rousey. The reigning UFC women’s bantamweight champ has looked relatively unbeatable in the UFC, tossing grown women around […]

Chael Sonnen: Georges St-Pierre, Not Anderson Silva, the Greatest of All Time

Chael Sonnen may not be mixing it up inside the Octagon these days, but that doesn’t mean his opinion doesn’t resonate throughout the MMA community whenever a hot issue arises. His career may have been mired and eventually ended in controversy inside and out of the cage, but one thing the silver-tongued Oregon native could […]

Chael Sonnen may not be mixing it up inside the Octagon these days, but that doesn’t mean his opinion doesn’t resonate throughout the MMA community whenever a hot issue arises. His career may have been mired and eventually ended in controversy inside and out of the cage, but one thing the silver-tongued Oregon native could […]

UFC 183 Is All About the Return of the Greatest of All Time, Anderson Silva

In every sport, there exists a perpetual debate as to who the greatest of all time is. And with each passing generation, the line blurs between the ghosts of past, present and future.  Mixed martial arts, under the banner of the UFC, turned 20 in 2013. In comparison to its more seasoned siblings, MMA is going through puberty. But that […]

In every sport, there exists a perpetual debate as to who the greatest of all time is. And with each passing generation, the line blurs between the ghosts of past, present and future.  Mixed martial arts, under the banner of the UFC, turned 20 in 2013. In comparison to its more seasoned siblings, MMA is going through puberty. But that […]