Tag: Hope

Mainstream MMA: Is This the Best We Can Hope For?

One of Dana White’s favorite lines is that the UFC has only just scratched the surface of how big the sport of MMA can become. But is that really true?  For MMA to reach the level White seems so confident that it can, it needs to be accepted…

One of Dana White’s favorite lines is that the UFC has only just scratched the surface of how big the sport of MMA can become. But is that really true?  For MMA to reach the level White seems so confident that it can, it needs to be accepted into the mainstream. The FOX deal is […]

Do Hardcore MMA Fans Secretly Hope It Fails to Go Mainstream?

MMA fans are a hateful bunch, but the most hateful of all are the self-proclaimed “hardcore” fans who spit on others and seemingly wish for a dark future for the UFC and MMA itself.  However, even amongst hardcore fans, there is a schi…

MMA fans are a hateful bunch, but the most hateful of all are the self-proclaimed “hardcore” fans who spit on others and seemingly wish for a dark future for the UFC and MMA itself.  However, even amongst hardcore fans, there is a schism. There are the hardcore fans who simply have a wide-eyed love of […]

Rampage Jackson Will Eventually Fight Shogun, and I Hope He Finds Happiness

I realize that I’ve been somewhat hard on Quinton Jackson over the past week. The truth is that I’ve long been a Rampage fan. He was one of my three favorite fighters during the PRIDE era, and I always look forward to his fights in the UFC….

I realize that I’ve been somewhat hard on Quinton Jackson over the past week. The truth is that I’ve long been a Rampage fan. He was one of my three favorite fighters during the PRIDE era, and I always look forward to his fights in the UFC. And yes, that includes his bout with Matt […]

UFC Fans: Don’t Give Up Hope Yet, Silva vs. GSP Could Still Happen

This weekend’s Cain Velasquez vs. Junior dos Santos fight on FOX is perhaps the biggest fight in the history of the company (and sport), but there is one fight that everyone is still waiting for that could overshadow even a heavyweight title figh…

This weekend’s Cain Velasquez vs. Junior dos Santos fight on FOX is perhaps the biggest fight in the history of the company (and sport), but there is one fight that everyone is still waiting for that could overshadow even a heavyweight title fight. I’m talking, of course, about the potential super-fight between UFC welterweight champion […]

UFC Betting

UFC Fans: Don’t Give Up Hope Yet, Silva vs. GSP Could Still Happen

Anderson Silva To Retire at Middleweight? Let’s Hope Not

Say it isn’t so , Anderson Silva.
Seems the middleweight champ of the UFC isn’t looking to make a semi-permanent habitat out of light heavyweight, heavyweight, or welterweight.
He wants to stay at middleweight and hopes to retire at that we…

Say it isn’t so , Anderson Silva.
Seems the middleweight champ of the UFC isn’t looking to make a semi-permanent habitat out of light heavyweight, heavyweight, or welterweight.
He wants to stay at middleweight and hopes to retire at that weight.
There go my hopes of Silva Vs. Shogun ever happening for real.
I won’t complain too long, and […]

UFC Betting

Anderson Silva To Retire at Middleweight? Let’s Hope Not