It hasn’t been the easiest year to be an MMA fan. Between the UFC’s precipitous financial decline, decimated fight cards and what seemed to be a bizarre crime ring made up exclusively of fringe fighters, 2014 was far from a banner year. But you know us—here at B/R MMA we look for the slightest glimmers […]
It hasn’t been the easiest year to be an MMA fan. Between the UFC’s precipitous financial decline, decimated fight cards and what seemed to be a bizarre crime ring made up exclusively of fringe fighters, 2014 was far from a banner year. But you know us—here at B/R MMA we look for the slightest glimmers […]
Conor McGregor, the loquacious 26-year-old Irishman with a silver tongue, golden fists and cash-green dreams, had less than two minutes to style on poor Dustin Poirier at UFC 178. Then it was all over, a left hand just missing Poirier‘s head but the attached elbow doing no such thing, leaving the No. 5 featherweight in […]
Conor McGregor, the loquacious 26-year-old Irishman with a silver tongue, golden fists and cash-green dreams, had less than two minutes to style on poor Dustin Poirier at UFC 178. Then it was all over, a left hand just missing Poirier‘s head but the attached elbow doing no such thing, leaving the No. 5 featherweight in […]
In the end, if you were looking for the UFC’s brightest-shining stars, you were never going to find them at UFC 177. Not after The Curse waylaid Jon Jones and Alexander Gustafsson and Renan Barao and the rest. It just wasn’t in the cards. The UFC didn’t set out to turn this into one of […]
In the end, if you were looking for the UFC’s brightest-shining stars, you were never going to find them at UFC 177. Not after The Curse waylaid Jon Jones and Alexander Gustafsson and Renan Barao and the rest. It just wasn’t in the cards. The UFC didn’t set out to turn this into one of […]
Tyron Woodley was on Canfield Drive just two days before Michael Brown was gunned down by police officer Darren Wilson. “I was a one-minute walk away from where it happened,” Woodley says. “It was way too close to home.” Woodley was with his three sons, getting his hair cut. He’d been down Canfield Drive many […]
Tyron Woodley was on Canfield Drive just two days before Michael Brown was gunned down by police officer Darren Wilson. “I was a one-minute walk away from where it happened,” Woodley says. “It was way too close to home.” Woodley was with his three sons, getting his hair cut. He’d been down Canfield Drive many […]
For 23 seconds it all came together for England’s Michael Bisping (25-6) at UFC Fight Night 48 in Macau on Saturday; he unleashed a glorious combination of 20 strikes that could have been lifted directly from an MMA textbook. None of them alone was enough to finish opponent Cung Le (9-3), but the cumulative effect […]
For 23 seconds it all came together for England’s Michael Bisping (25-6) at UFC Fight Night 48 in Macau on Saturday; he unleashed a glorious combination of 20 strikes that could have been lifted directly from an MMA textbook. None of them alone was enough to finish opponent Cung Le (9-3), but the cumulative effect […]
Miesha Tate is already one of the most marketable athletes on the UFC roster. Now she just stepped into an entirely new level of visibility. On Friday morning, it was announced the former Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion and perennial threat to the UFC’s 135-pound women’s crown has signed with KHI, which is the management firm […]
Miesha Tate is already one of the most marketable athletes on the UFC roster. Now she just stepped into an entirely new level of visibility. On Friday morning, it was announced the former Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion and perennial threat to the UFC’s 135-pound women’s crown has signed with KHI, which is the management firm […]