UFC 253 Review
Main Card Mean Hakeem achieves the Dream Hakeem Dawodu vs. Zubaira Tukhugov Featherweight Fight This was a great opener to the card. Entirely standing up, and Tukhugov seemed to have something going wrong later in […]
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HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC Fight Night: Woodley vs. Covington, and Michael Chandler signs with the UFC
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist UFC Fight Night: Woodley vs. Covington was this past week. Let’s get to the rundown. UFC Fight Night: Woodley vs. Covington GOOD- Kevin Holland vs. Darren Stewart This was […]
UFC Fight Night 9/19/2020
Prelims Bam Bam Nam Jerome Rivera vs. Tyson Nam Bantamweight Fight This fight seemed to be going like many others, the first round was a lot of feeling out, and Rivera was trying to build […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from Bellator 246 and UFC Fight Night: Waterson vs. Hill
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist Bellator 246 and UFC Fight Night: Waterson vs. Hill were this past weekend. Let’s get to the rundown. Bellator 246 GOOD- Keoni Diggs submits Derek Campos Diggs got some […]
UFC Fight Night Review 9/12/2020 #UFCVegas10
Quarantillo Wins in Quarantine Billy Quarantillo vs. Kyle Nelson Featherweight Fight This fight had quite a bit of back and forths while standing. These boys like to throw hands. Nelson may have hurt Quarantillo in […]
Bellator 246 Review
Hell from Hawaii Derek Campos vs. Keoni Diggs Lightweight Fight Keoni Diggs absolutely ran this fight from start to finish. Got his shots in, but seriously ran things on the ground. Diggs appeared to be […]
Bellator 245 Review
Prelims Bask in his glory Keith Lee vs. Vinicius Zani 140 lb Contract Weight Fight This was a great look for Keith Lee, he dominated while the fight was standing for all 3 rounds. Zani […]
Bellator 245 & 246 Press Conference Highlights
Phil Davis Davis was asked quite a bit about wanting a fight with Ryan Bader. When asked about his fight with Lyoto Machida he eluded to hoping that Machida “wasn’t the same fighter” as the […]
UFC Fight Night 9/5/2020 Review
Surprise, Surprise Ovince Saint-Preux vs. Alonso Merifield Light Heavyweight This Fight was a brawl like we expected it to be. Merifield might be the most underrated guy entering this fight. No one was talking about […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai was this past weekend. Let’s get right to the rundown. UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai GOOD- Hunter Azure vs. Cole Smith There […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Rakic
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Rakic was this past weekend. Let’s get to the rundown, then hit on some quick pieces of news UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. RakicGOOD- […]
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 […]
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 […]
UFC Fight Night 174 Results
Sometimes we start from the top and give you the biggest results first so you can get your fix and read other results while you digest the big news. This is one of those times […]
UFC Fight Night 174 Predictions
Robert Whittaker vs Darren Till I’m giving the nod to Whittaker on this one. Till needs the win really badly but I don’t see him being able to put together a game plan that doesn’t […]