UFC Fight Night August 29th Review
3rd Rounds a Charm Ricardo Lamas vs. Bill Algeo Featherweight Bill Alego just couldn’t get his plan to come through. It seemed he wanted to keep the fight standing up, and it certainly had its […]
August 2020
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC Fight Night: Munhoz vs. Edgar and Bellator 244
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist The UFC ran another event in this super busy time for sports. It featured a legend who’s not quite ready to give it up yet, and he’s fighting like […]
UFC Fight Night 8/22/2020 Review
Caught Him Quick Daniel Rodriguez vs. Dwight Grant Welterweight This fight turned pretty quickly, as Grant seemed like he would have the upper hand on striking. Rodriguez put that to rest by catching Grant off-guard […]
Bellator 244 Review
Ground and Ground John Salter vs. Andrew Kapel Middleweight This fight went as expected, Salter used his superior wrestling ability to simply run this match from bell to bell. Kapel spoke of wanting to keep […]
Bellator 244 Press Conference Highlights
By Gil Kuta Jr. Vadim Nemkov Nemkov spoke of having to change his camp because of the pandemic, but continually stressed he was ready for a 5-round fight. When asked if Fedor’s recent loss was […]
MMATorch MMA Rankings
Heavyweight: Stipe Miocic (UFC Heavyweight Champion) Francis Ngannou Curtis Blaydes Jairzinho Rozenstruik Derrick Lewis Alistair Overeem Junior Dos Santos Cheick Kongo Alexander Volkov Alexei Oleynek Light-heavyweight: Jon Jones (UFC Light-heavyweight Champion) Thiago Santos Ryan Bader […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC 252, and Daniel Cormier retires
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist UFC 252 was this past weekend and featured a huge fight for the UFC Heavyweight Championship. Let’s get to the rundown. GOOD– John Dodson vs. Merab Dvalishvili Dvalishvili took […]
UFC 252 Review
Early Prelims By Gil Kuta Jr. Take a Bow Fellas Featherweights Kai Kamaka III vs. Tony Kelley This was a fantastic opener for a Pay Per View. Neither of these fighters had much of a […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleynik
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch contributor UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleynik was this past weekend. It had a couple big fights. Let’s get to the rundown. GOOD/BAD- Beneil Dariush stops Scott Holtzman We start sloppy […]
UFC Fight Night August 8th, 2020 Review by Gil Kuta Jr.
Prelim of the Night: Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk Kevin Holland vs. Joaquin Buckley Middleweight This was definitely the type of fight we come to expect from Kevin Holland. Lots of talking that is […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the current MMA and sports scene
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch contributor Well, I’m back. Before the pandemic shut everything down, I had written a blog for the Torch here for many years. I had written my view on MMA and MMA […]
UFC Vegas 5
by Gil Kuta Jr. Preliminaries: Before we get into fists flying and mastery of the mat, I need to let you know how this is going to go down. Every fight will be rated from […]