The weigh-ins from UFC 171 just went down, and, in a surprising turn, welterweight contender Johny Hendricks missed weight. Hendricks is slated to fight Robbie Lawler in the card’s main event, with the vacant welterweight title on the line. “Big Rigg” weighed in at 171.5 pounds, 1.5 pounds over the weight limit. While in non-championship […]
The weigh-ins from UFC 171 just went down, and, in a surprising turn, welterweight contender Johny Hendricks missed weight. Hendricks is slated to fight Robbie Lawler in the card’s main event, with the vacant welterweight title on the line. “Big Rigg” weighed in at 171.5 pounds, 1.5 pounds over the weight limit. While in non-championship […]
Middleweight seems to suit Lyoto Machida. The former light heavyweight champion’s style will probably never be for everyone, but in the wake of his victory over Gegard Mousasi on Saturday, at least we can conclusively classify his move to 185 pounds as a smashing success. We suspected as much last October, but Machida’s three-minute, 10-second […]
Middleweight seems to suit Lyoto Machida. The former light heavyweight champion’s style will probably never be for everyone, but in the wake of his victory over Gegard Mousasi on Saturday, at least we can conclusively classify his move to 185 pounds as a smashing success. We suspected as much last October, but Machida’s three-minute, 10-second […]
So much has surrounded UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo and his future plans in the promotion. Will he stay at featherweight and fend off the division’s core group of contenders? Will he move to lightweight and challenge titleholder Anthony Pettis for superfight supremacy? Or will he take his talents to South Beach and former “The […]
So much has surrounded UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo and his future plans in the promotion. Will he stay at featherweight and fend off the division’s core group of contenders? Will he move to lightweight and challenge titleholder Anthony Pettis for superfight supremacy? Or will he take his talents to South Beach and former “The […]
UFC 169 featured a big heavyweight fight between Alistair Overeem and Frank Mir. The bout was not big because it was highly anticipated, or because the two fighters were battling for a title shot. It was big because all signs pointed to the fighters nearing the end of their UFC run with a loss. Overeem came out […]
UFC 169 featured a big heavyweight fight between Alistair Overeem and Frank Mir. The bout was not big because it was highly anticipated, or because the two fighters were battling for a title shot. It was big because all signs pointed to the fighters nearing the end of their UFC run with a loss. Overeem came out […]
More than anything that actually happens in the cage, John Lineker’s Achilles’ Heel has been cutting weight. When he stepped onto the scales ahead of his UFC 169 bout with Ali Bagautinov, the question surrounding the fight wasn’t who would win, it was whether Lineker would actually be able to make the 126-pound limit. Lineker […]
More than anything that actually happens in the cage, John Lineker’s Achilles’ Heel has been cutting weight. When he stepped onto the scales ahead of his UFC 169 bout with Ali Bagautinov, the question surrounding the fight wasn’t who would win, it was whether Lineker would actually be able to make the 126-pound limit. Lineker […]
Roy Nelson has an earned reputation as a joker. But on Monday, word came that he has cast his hat in the ring for one of the most serious positions in combat sports. The active UFC heavyweight, long known as a gadfly to MMA‘s power brokers, recently applied to be the executive director of the […]
Roy Nelson has an earned reputation as a joker. But on Monday, word came that he has cast his hat in the ring for one of the most serious positions in combat sports. The active UFC heavyweight, long known as a gadfly to MMA‘s power brokers, recently applied to be the executive director of the […]