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The UFC is considered to have the best MMA fighters in the world. They have consumed Pride, Affliction, and are currently snacking away on Strikeforce. But, they don’t have everybody. There are still a lot of top-level fighters not sign…
The UFC is considered to have the best MMA fighters in the world. They have consumed Pride, Affliction, and are currently snacking away on Strikeforce.
But, they don’t have everybody.
There are still a lot of top-level fighters not signed by Dana White, but could compete with the elite fighters. So here is a list of the top 10 fighters that need to be in the UFC.
Over the past decade we have seen some of the greatest fights in the history of the UFC. While the UFC has clearly been the center stage for fighters across the globe, it’s certainly not the only place we’ve seen exciting fights. While fighting outside…
Over the past decade we have seen some of the greatest fights in the history of the UFC. While the UFC has clearly been the center stage for fighters across the globe, it’s certainly not the only place we’ve seen exciting fights.
While fighting outside of the Octagon does not occur regularly, there are some exceptions. Outside of the UFC we have almost seen it all. The one-punch knockouts, fans interacting in fights and the bench-clearing brawls.
The following video slides display the top five sports fights that have occurred away from the sport of mixed martial arts. Please sit back and enjoy.
Over the past several years we have seen some of the greatest UFC fighters of all time. We have witnessed Chuck Liddell knockouts, Anderson Silva submissions and George St. Pierre’s grueling five-round decisions. While UFC has unarguably beco…
Over the past several years we have seen some of the greatest UFC fighters of all time. We have witnessed Chuck Liddell knockouts, Anderson Silva submissions and George St. Pierre’s grueling five-round decisions. While UFC has unarguably become the center stage for producing fighters, other sports have played a role as well.
The exchanging of punches in the NBA, and MLB’s bench-clearing brawls. While these players are world-class athletes of their own respective sport, it doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be successful inside the Octagon.
The following is a ranking of 10 professional athletes who would make good UFC fighters if they put in the required training. Please sit back and enjoy.
Dominick Cruz was successful in defending his bantamweight for the third consecutive time at UFC 132, defeating Urijah Faber by unanimous decision.Throughout the fight, Mike Goldberg and Joe Rogan talked about how hard it is to train for Dominick Cruz …
Dominick Cruz was successful in defending his bantamweight for the third consecutive time at UFC 132, defeating Urijah Faber by unanimous decision.
Throughout the fight, Mike Goldberg and Joe Rogan talked about how hard it is to train for Dominick Cruz because of his unusual striking.
Their assessment proved to be true, as Urijah looked relatively lost striking with Dominick and was outclassed for much of the fight.
This gives Dominick a huge advantage over the rest of his weight class because he can bring in people to mimic his opponents styles, but his opponents can’t because no one fights quite like he does.
Let’s take a look at Dominick and some other UFC fighters who are very difficult to train for…
With the opening round of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix concluding Saturday night in Dallas, most people who don’t know headliner Fabricio Werdum from his swift throttling of Fedor Emelianenko know him as a faceless brutal knockout on UF…
With the opening round of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix concluding Saturday night in Dallas, most people who don’t know headliner Fabricio Werdum from his swift throttling of Fedor Emelianenko know him as a faceless brutal knockout on UFC star Junior dos Santos’ highlight reel.
As he stands only hours away from another big challenge in Strikeforce heavyweight champion Allistair Overeem, so is the paradox of his career:
What is Fabricio Werdum?
Is he a top-flight heavyweight, a man who has deservedly sat as high as third on the heavyweight rankings of credible MMA websites, ahead of names such as dos Santos, Brock Lesnar, and the very champion he’ll meet Saturday?
Is he a grappler-turned-mixed martial artist who has benefited from generally favorable matchups that allowed him to display his considerable skills?
Is he somewhere in the middle—not quite what the Emelianenko win had people thinking but not what the dos Santos KO suggested either?
It’s almost impossible to set on an answer.
Werdum is as skilled a jiu-jitsu player as there is at heavyweight in MMA. He’s crafty, but not wildly flashy and has one of the slicker bottom games out there for a big man. Most heavies don’t get used to being on their back and if they do, they still don’t like it. Werdum excels there and it makes him a unique commodity.
He’s also durable, in spite of what the aforementioned dos Santos highlight might betray. Ducking into an uppercut from the best pure heavyweight boxer in the MMA world will knock most guys senseless and, aside from that, he’s survived and even beaten guys who’ve left many unconscious opponents in their wake.
Saturday night will see him in the cage once again with such a threat. In Overeem, Werdum will see an absolute monster of a human being who has a K-1 title sitting on his mantle at the moment and an ever-evolving grappling game that probably deserves more credit than it gets. You’d take Werdum in Abu Dhabi at the Combat Club—in a cage in Texas it’s not a foregone conclusion.
The result? He’s an insurmountable underdog at most online betting parlors, the type that you could place five dollars on and buy a house on Monday with your winnings if he pulls it off.
I’m of the mind that the truth on Werdum is somewhere in the middle. He’s not a top-three heavyweight in the world, but he’s got the tools to beat a lot of big names on any given day. He’s no outlier, not a guy that’s suddenly going to become the best in the world at 34-years-old, but he’s not the guy you see falling like a house of cards every time Junior dos Santos is starring on pay-per-view for the UFC.
And so we’ll all sit and watch this Saturday as he attempts to once again scale the unscale-able mountain that Allistair Overeem has become. Given his recent success, Werdum deserves more respect than he’s gotten, but I don’t need a house bad enough to put that five dollars down on him.
Regardless of the outcome though, we’ll be one step closer to finding out what he actually is on the heavyweight landscape.
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It is probably unfair to ask this question so far in advance as there are still 74 days until UFC 134 in Rio takes place. The main event of that fight card will feature Anderson Silva defending his middleweight belt for the ninth time, this time agains…
It is probably unfair to ask this question so far in advance as there are still 74 days until UFC 134 in Rio takes place. The main event of that fight card will feature Anderson Silva defending his middleweight belt for the ninth time, this time against Yushin Okami.
But when you aren’t completely satisfied with a fight, your mind will tend to wander. Nothing against Okami who is a perfectly adroit fighter, boasting an impressive 10-2 record inside the Octagon with his only losses coming to Rich Franklin and Chael Sonnen.
And technically, he was the last man to beat Silva. But we all know that is “fools gold” as Silva was on his way to victory before being disqualified because of an illegal upkick. So assuming all goes according to plan, Silva will extend his record for most consecutive victories in the UFC to fourteen.
So, without sounding too disinterested, what’s next?