Jon Jones was set to headline this fantastic event, but he is serving an indefinite suspension for his out-of-cage events. Fear not, fight fans. UFC 187 remains spectacular. Jones did not make this fight card. Although his exclusion casts a shadow over the main event, the UFC built this to be a stacked card without […]
Jon Jones was set to headline this fantastic event, but he is serving an indefinite suspension for his out-of-cage events. Fear not, fight fans. UFC 187 remains spectacular. Jones did not make this fight card. Although his exclusion casts a shadow over the main event, the UFC built this to be a stacked card without […]
Michael Johnson still has a long road in front of him before he earns a shot at the UFC lightweight title. Given his forward progress against Edson Barboza at Fight Night 61, however, he seems capable of covering that distance fairly expeditiously. Johnson’s pressure told the tale on Sunday, as he got in Barboza’s face […]
Michael Johnson still has a long road in front of him before he earns a shot at the UFC lightweight title. Given his forward progress against Edson Barboza at Fight Night 61, however, he seems capable of covering that distance fairly expeditiously. Johnson’s pressure told the tale on Sunday, as he got in Barboza’s face […]
(“I’ll see you there, NOBODY!” Photo via Sherdog.)
The baseless cheap shot I just took in that caption aside, I’m actually pretty excited about the UFC’s decision to book a flyweight title fight between Demetrious Johnson and Ali Bagautinov as the main event of UFC 174. As Ariel Helwani noted when breaking the news earlier today, the fight will serve as Johnson’s first time headlining a pay-per-view and should make for another highly-technical, entertaining fight on his resume. Plus, with a maybesortaprobably #1 contender bout between Rory MacDonald and Tyron Woodley serving as the evening’s co-main event, UFC 174 is quickly becoming the most stacked card of the summer, amiright guyz?!!
After leaving his first seven UFC contests in the hands of the judges, “Mighty Mouse” has scored back-back-finishes of John Moraga and Joseph Benavidez via fifth round submission and first round KO, respectively. Bagautinov, on the other hand, has notched three straight victories over someone, someone else, and John Lineker since entering the UFC back in September of 2013.
As for the rest of UFC 174, well, we’ll just let these random Twitter users break it down…
(“I’ll see you there, NOBODY!” Photo via Sherdog.)
The baseless cheap shot I just took in that caption aside, I’m actually pretty excited about the UFC’s decision to book a flyweight title fight between Demetrious Johnson and Ali Bagautinov as the main event of UFC 174. As Ariel Helwani noted when breaking the news earlier today, the fight will serve as Johnson’s first time headlining a pay-per-view and should make for another highly-technical, entertaining fight on his resume. Plus, with a maybesortaprobably #1 contender bout between Rory MacDonald and Tyron Woodley serving as the evening’s co-main event, UFC 174 is quickly becoming the most stacked card of the summer, amiright guyz?!!
After leaving his first seven UFC contests in the hands of the judges, “Mighty Mouse” has scored back-back-finishes of John Moraga and Joseph Benavidez via fifth round submission and first round KO, respectively. Bagautinov, on the other hand, has notched three straight victories over someone, someone else, and John Lineker since entering the UFC back in September of 2013.
As for the rest of UFC 174, well, we’ll just let these random Twitter users break it down…
“If u don’t liek it dont by it dummy!” — Anonymous
Actually, now that I look over the Twitters and Youtubes, it would appear that many people aren’t even sharing my enthusiasm for the main event:
Jeez, a bunch of size-ists in here (although I will agree with Mr. Bowker that UFC 174 will draw shit numbers, you know, because of the main card being garbage-ass and all).
Considering the last two events to take place in Vancouver (UFC 115 and 131) didn’t even feature a title fight, Canadian fans should be more than satisfied with at least one of the (likely) twelve fights transpiring on June 14th. And that’s what the modern era of MMA is about, right? Stringing together just enough mildly intriguing fights to warrant charging less and less fans $50 to watch it?
UFC Fight Night 38 from Natal, Brazil, Sunday night will be headlined by a huge rematch between Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Dan Henderson, but there are plenty of evenly matched fights throughout the card. Although most of the star power relates to Rua and Henderson, the vast majority of the bouts should be quite exciting. […]
UFC Fight Night 38 from Natal, Brazil, Sunday night will be headlined by a huge rematch between Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Dan Henderson, but there are plenty of evenly matched fights throughout the card. Although most of the star power relates to Rua and Henderson, the vast majority of the bouts should be quite exciting. […]
In mixed martial arts, it seems the weight class with the most talent now is the lightweight division. From the fight promotions in Japan, Bellator and both Zuffa-owned promotions, Strikeforce and UFC, it looks like there is an endless list of tal…
In mixed martial arts, it seems the weight class with the most talent now is the lightweight division. From the fight promotions in Japan, Bellator and both Zuffa-owned promotions, Strikeforce and UFC, it looks like there is an endless list of talent. From Japan, we have the likes of Shinya Aoki, Takanori Gomi and Tatsuya Kawajiri. […]
Every now and then, you run into an UFC event that features an All-Star lineup.
Even if the event doesn’t seem like a strong lineup on paper, the card ends up impressing in a number of ways.
It’s happened before in years past.
From the days…
Every now and then, you run into an UFC event that features an All-Star lineup.
Even if the event doesn’t seem like a strong lineup on paper, the card ends up impressing in a number of ways.
It’s happened before in years past.
From the days of Ken Shamrock and the golden years of Chuck Liddell, to today’s […]
