From the first day an athlete got paid to swing a bat, shoot a ball or tackle someone, the fans have had a fascination with athlete’s salaries. And we as MMA fans are no different. Maybe that’s why MMAJunkie releases fighter salaries after each and every UFC event. Or maybe they do it to give [...]
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With Belfort out, who should step in? Here are some ideas…
Posted: May 29, 2012 in Commentary/Opinion, Latest news, UFC EventsTags: Belfort, UFC 147, Wand
Dana White just can’t catch a break can he? His unbeatable Light Heavyweight Champ infamously found his match in the form of a 50 foot oak tree, his long time ring girl needs a ring girl herself for her in-home fights and Vitor Belfort just broke his hand (presumably still a side-effect of Andy’s front [...]
Shocker! Lavar Johnson wants to avoid the ground vs. Struve; says “Let’s Fight”
Posted: May 25, 2012 in UFC EventsTags: Lavar Johnson, Stefan Struve, UFC 146
Lavar Johnson has some powerful knockouts to his credit and a growing fan base to match. And if it’s up to him, he’d like to keep it that way. Johnson has made an interesting request of his UFC 146 opponent, Stefan Struve. “The UFC is for fights. So let’s fight,” he told MMA Junkie. To [...]
4 Bold (and Ridiculous) Predictions for UFC 146
Posted: May 24, 2012 in UFC EventsTags: Dan Hardy, Jakob Volkmann, Keith Jardine, UFC 146
You saw our picks for UFC 146 and you no doubt used our expertise to lay down a crapload of bets. But anyone can pick a winner and loser of a fight. Here’s where the men separate themselves from the…dumber men. I will share these hardcore predictions with the 12 people who regularly view this [...]
Roy Nelson is a Kung Fu man
Posted: May 24, 2012 in Commentary/Opinion, Cool Stuff We Like, Latest news, MMA Training, UFC EventsTags: Kung Fu, Roy Nelson, UFC 146
So, if you’ve ever seen Big Country fight, you’ve probably noticed that when he’s introduced, he’s introduced as a “kung fu fighter out of Las Vegas,” but probably wrote it off as some type of joke. I mean after all, this is a guy known for not taking himself too seriously (see: mullet, huge beard, [...]
UFC 146: Picks and Predictions – The Big Boy Edition
Posted: May 24, 2012 in Commentary/Opinion, Latest news, Picks and Predictions, UFC EventsTags: UFC 146
UFC 146 is quite literally the biggest card the UFC has ever put on. For the first time ever, the UFC has elected to have an all-heavyweight main card. How big is this? So BIG that none of these guys have even heard of Mike Dolce, that’s how frickin’ big. And as we all know, [...]
Mir: “Obviously, I predict that I win by submission…Early first round.”
Posted: May 23, 2012 in Commentary/Opinion, Latest news, UFC EventsTags: Frank Mir, JDS, UFC 146
Mir is nothing if not confident. And of course by “confident” I mean “over-compensating” because quite frankly, all of Mir’s talk is starting to come off that way. At any rate, Mark Kriegel from FoxSports.com recently sat down with both JDS and Mir and talked about their upcoming title fight. When Mir was asked about [...]
So you wanna be a fighter? Here’s how: The Gracies break down the Korean Zombie
Posted: May 21, 2012 in Commentary/Opinion, Cool Stuff We Like, Latest news, So you wanna be a fighter?, UFC EventsIn the ever popular “Gracie Breakdown,” where brothers Rener and Ryron Gracie break down the latest and greatest ground action from the prior UFC event, comes a special Korean Zombie Edition, stemming from the Zombie’s breakthrough performance this past Tuesday on UFC on Fuel III. So special was this Gracie Breakdown, not only was it [...]
There will be blood?! Can we all just agree to ban elbows in MMA?
Posted: June 1, 2012 in Commentary/Opinion, Latest news, UFC EventsTags: Alex Davis, Big Foot Silva, UFC 146
Big Foot’s manager Alex Davis recently came under fire for his comments on MMAJunkie Radio regarding the cut his fighter received at the hands of Cain Velasquez at UFC 146. More recently, Davis took to The UG to clarify his remarks and further commentated that if it were up to him, he’d ban ground elbows [...]