Five years ago this week, Rashad Evans made a prediction of how the UFC 135 Jon Jones vs. Rashad Evans fight would go. The fight would end up differently, with Jones winning in the fourth […]
10 years ago this week, MMATorch senior columnist Shawn Ennis wrote about some new names appearing on Saturday’s UFC 63. Read on to see what he had to say about a few who would go […]
Five years ago this week Nick Diaz was feeling the fallout of skipping his scheduled press conference for his fight against B.J. Penn, and current MMATorch columnist Jason Amadi wrote a column about the importance […]
Five years ago this month MMATorch senior columnist Shawn Ennis presented an in-depth assessment of the Middleweight Division in his ongoing series titled “Lay of the Land.” Check out where things were back in September […]
Five years ago this week, WWE wrestler and executive Triple H (Paul Levesque) commented on comparisons people make between WWE pro wrestling and UFC mixed martial arts. The following is the inflammatory quote and Jamie […]
Five years ago Rampage Jackson was talking up his chances against Jon Jones a week later at UFC 135. Here’s our story on his comments and some analysis… As he attempts to regain the UFC […]
Five years ago this week, B.J. Penn expressed discontent with how UFC was marketing his fight, exposing that the UFC production team pushed him to give them answers that would help hype the fight and […]
Ten years ago, MMATorch contributor Mike Jarsulic – a fan of UFC since UFC 2 – introduced a column where he broke down a single fight in-depth, explaining what was happening in each segment of […]
Ten years ago this week, MMATorch senior columnist Shawn Ennis presented the following column listing the top contenders lining up to face Chuck Liddell. The original headline was: “ENNIS: A walk through Liddell’s challengers – […]
Yesterday, we republished Wade Keller’s full detailed report on the Pride PPV ten years ago this weekend. Today, we republish Randy Rowles’s in-depth analysis of the ramification of the happening at that event featuring a […]
The following is my original MMATorch.com report on Pride FC’s “Final Conflict Absolute” event which aired live on PPV ten years ago this weekend, on Sept. 10, 2006. Alistair Overeem fought on this Pride event; […]
Five years ago this week, Nick Diaz skipped out on a presser to hype his scheduled fight against George St. Pierre and then just disappeared. Yesterday we ran a series of stories we posted initially […]
Ten years ago today, MMATorch.com ran a story on the evolution of MMA. Check it out below. Two opponents circle each other, looking to strike. A missed punch, a slam to the ground, and the […]
Five years ago today, Nick Diaz no-showed his press conference to hype his scheduled fight against George St. Pierre. The following is our coverage of that crazy turn of events. Dana White on Nick Diaz […]
Ten years ago today on MMATorch, senior columnst Shawn Ennis wrote about the Matt Hughes vs. B.J. Benn series and made a prediction on their fight scheduled a week later. Here it is… Back in […]
Five years ago, Dana White vehemently denied a report questioning whether Brock Lesnar would fight again. Lesnar proved Dana right, as he fought one more time later that year. It would be his last fight […]
It was five years ago this week that UFC announced that a Heavyweight Championship fight between Cain Velasquez and Junior dos Santos would headline the debut on Fox network. The following is our initial report and […]
Ten years ago today, I wrote about a busy upcoming fall for UFC and evaluated the main events scheduled but wondered what they had ready to go in the winter and beyond, depending on match […]
Ten years ago this week, Dana White talks with the Fox Sports website about some hot topics in UFC. The following are key excerpts and Wade Keller’s analysis. The quote that jumps out in retrospect […]
Ten years ago this week, “The Ultimate Fighter: The Comeback” episode four aired. Get in the mood for tonight’s season premier of “The Ultimate Fighter: Champions” with the following review originally published on MMATorch.com ten […]
Ten years ago this week, MMATorch contributor Mike Roe wrote an editorial proposing that UFC was more effectively creating new stars with its TV shows than WWE was with its TV shows, even though WWE has […]
Five years ago today, MMATorch columnist Jason Amadi asserted that Anderson Silva earned the status of the Greates of All Time with his destruction of Yushin Okami at UFC 134. The following is the original […]
Signing a big TV deal with Fox was part one. Part two was putting together a big main event to draw an impressive first audience for UFC on free broadcast TV. Five years ago, Dan […]
Five years ago this week, Cyborg resigned with Strikeforce. The details on that story are below, along with Jamie Penick’s analysis. This story was first published on MMATorch.com on Aug. 25, 2011… Strikeforce Women’s Featherweight […]
Five years ago, MMATorch columnist Jason Amadi asserted that women’s MMA wasn’t at the level worthy of being featured in UFC yet. Later that week, MMATorch columnist Frank Hyden countered with an argument that it was […]
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