The UFC’s heavyweight title is an undomesticated beast. The sport’s biggest, baddest fighters have tried to tame her, and again and again, they’ve failed. When a heavyweight seizes the belt, it’s inevitable he will cough it up within two fights. That’s a fact. The most consecutive title defenses in UFC heavyweight history is two, a […]
The UFC’s heavyweight title is an undomesticated beast. The sport’s biggest, baddest fighters have tried to tame her, and again and again, they’ve failed. When a heavyweight seizes the belt, it’s inevitable he will cough it up within two fights. That’s a fact. The most consecutive title defenses in UFC heavyweight history is two, a […]
We have a new champion. Not long after Fabricio Werdum got his arms around Cain Velasquez’s throat, he had his hands around the UFC heavyweight belt. The underdog used a watertight game plan to stun then subdue the champ, who appeared to struggle with the thin air of the Mexico highlands. But UFC 188, which […]
We have a new champion. Not long after Fabricio Werdum got his arms around Cain Velasquez’s throat, he had his hands around the UFC heavyweight belt. The underdog used a watertight game plan to stun then subdue the champ, who appeared to struggle with the thin air of the Mexico highlands. But UFC 188, which […]
Fabricio Werdum kicked down the king’s door, marched into the king’s castle and took the king’s throne. It was only fitting that Werdum be the man to remind us that no one is unbeatable. Cain Velasquez, a heavyweight tornado, had effortlessly torn through every opponent in his path. Outside of a lone knockout loss to […]
Fabricio Werdum kicked down the king’s door, marched into the king’s castle and took the king’s throne. It was only fitting that Werdum be the man to remind us that no one is unbeatable. Cain Velasquez, a heavyweight tornado, had effortlessly torn through every opponent in his path. Outside of a lone knockout loss to […]
Most MMA pundits didn’t think it could be done. The notion of Cain Velasquez falling down—and not getting back up—was something our binary brains registered as inconceivable. The chink in Velasquez’s seemingly impenetrable armor was that he’d been out of action for 20 months, due to injury upon injury. And also the fact that Velasquez, despite his infamous […]
Most MMA pundits didn’t think it could be done. The notion of Cain Velasquez falling down—and not getting back up—was something our binary brains registered as inconceivable. The chink in Velasquez’s seemingly impenetrable armor was that he’d been out of action for 20 months, due to injury upon injury. And also the fact that Velasquez, despite his infamous […]
Undefeated records travel to the world of MMA to die. Auras of invincibility routinely perish in this sport, disappearing in a flash of punches, kicks, elbows and submissions. Yesterday’s “best ever” is today’s “overrated” is tomorrow’s “forgotten relic,” and so it goes. At UFC 188 Saturday evening in Mexico City, Fabricio Werdum completed the circle […]
Undefeated records travel to the world of MMA to die. Auras of invincibility routinely perish in this sport, disappearing in a flash of punches, kicks, elbows and submissions. Yesterday’s “best ever” is today’s “overrated” is tomorrow’s “forgotten relic,” and so it goes. At UFC 188 Saturday evening in Mexico City, Fabricio Werdum completed the circle […]
Newly minted UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum wasted no time in calling out his next opponent, and he chose the same man he had just defeated. Speaking with Ariel Helwani after his UFC 188 main event against former heavyweight champ Cain Velasquez, Werdum said he’d like his first title defense to be a rematch of […]
Newly minted UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum wasted no time in calling out his next opponent, and he chose the same man he had just defeated. Speaking with Ariel Helwani after his UFC 188 main event against former heavyweight champ Cain Velasquez, Werdum said he’d like his first title defense to be a rematch of […]