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“Once they get to be No. 1 contender, they get a peek into what kind of workload I have and when they go through that process when they get ready to fight me, they realize […]
How well do you expect UFC 193 to do on pay-per-view given Ronda Rousey’s recent successes and some significant promotion for the event? RICH HANSEN, MMATORCH COLUMNIST UFC 190’s massive pay-per-view success really came […]
Bellator 145 and UFC Fight Night 77 were this past weekend. Let’s get right to the rundown. Bellator 145 BAD/GOOD: Justin Lawrence vs. Emmanuel Sanchez There was some decent enough action in this fight, but […]
There are a number of obvious choices to review for the week between Nov. 8-14, such as the first UFC event and the UFC on Fox debut, but there was another event that also occurred […]
Mirko “Cro Cop” Filopovic has pulled out of his fight with Anthony Hamilton at UFC Fight Night 79 later this month due to injury, and he’s in turn announced his official retirement from the sport. […]
A former UFC Bantamweight Title challenger is returning to the fold, as FoxSports.com reports that Michael McDonald will be back in action at UFC 195. In what will be his first fight since a loss […]
Anthony “Rumble” Johnson got the fight he wanted from the UFC, as he’ll face Ryan Bader this January in the main event of UFC on Fox 18. The bout is an important matchup for both […]
Despite having a main event I had a hard time getting excited for, I was very excited for this fight night to come as it offered all sorts of exciting matchups. Thankfully it lived up […]
UFC FIGHT NIGHT 77 NOVEMBER 7, 2015 LIVE FROM SAO PAULO, BRAZIL The UFC returns to Brazil tonight with a 13-fight card, kicking off with the UFC Fight Pass prelims at 6:30PM ET. We’ll have […]
Who wins the Vitor Belfort-Dan Henderson trilogy bout at UFC Fight Night 77, and how? Which other bouts on the Brazil card are you most interested in seeing? MICHAEL BANE, MMATORCH CONTRIBUTOR Let’s call this […]
BELLATOR 145 NOVEMBER 6, 2015 LIVE FROM ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI Sean Grande and Jimmy Smith open up the broadcast and highlight the rematches populating tonight’s event along with the two title fights at the top […]
Nearly 21 years after they last met in the cage, Ken Shamrock and Royce Gracie will meet again. Shamrock announced on his website that he’s fighting Gracie on Bellator’s Feb. 19 card from Houston, which […]
Following a stretch of just one event over the last four weeks, the UFC kicks off a run of four straight weekends of events in a row on Saturday night. UFC Fight Night 77 brings […]
David Rickels returns to the Bellator cage tonight in an attempt to avenge a 2013 loss to Michael Chandler. The Bellator 145 matchup is an opportunity for Rickels – a one-time tournament winner in the […]
Who wins the Patricio Pitbull vs. Daniel Straus and Will Brooks vs. Marcin Held title fights at Bellator 145, and how? MICHAEL BANE, MMATORCH CONTRIBUTOR Patricio “Pitbull” Freire is one of the most dynamic fighters […]
31-year-old Alan Belcher hasn’t fought since April of 2013, and on Friday he said he won’t be coming back to the cage. “I’m done fighting. I’m finished. I’ll never, ever fight again. This is my […]
It’s time for a brand new Thursday night podcast from MMATorch with editor Jamie Penick joined by columnists Shawn Ennis and Rich Hansen to talk all things MMA. On tonight’s new episode, they discuss Nick […]
“It’s more palatable that it’s Jon Jones coming back and getting it than the whole [Alexander] Gustafsson situation coming off a knockout loss and all that. For me, it looks like I’ve got to beat […]
Georges St-Pierre has not entirely decided whether or not to return to action, but according to his boxing coach Freddie Roach, they’ve devised a plan to make that determination one way or another. In an […]
After another week off last week, The Ultimate Fighter is back tonight to keep trudging along to the Dec. 11 finale event in Las Vegas. Last time we were here, Julian Erosa from Urijah Faber’s […]
The UFC is returning to Newark, New Jersey, on January 30 for UFC on Fox 18, and the card will be headlined by a light heavyweight showdown between Anthony “Rumble” Johnson and Ryan Bader. The […]
As a private company, the UFC doesn’t officially release numbers for their pay-per-view events, so those reported wind up being best estimates based on a number of industry factors. However, the fighters involved in the […]
The Pitbull brothers are telling a very different story of the incident Will Brooks claimed happened on Wednesday. After Brooks accused the two of sucker punching him, Champ Patricio called him a liar and said […]
Bellator Lightweight Champion Will Brooks has kept a heated rivalry up with the Pitbull brothers, Featherweight Champ Patricio and lightweight Patricky Freire, and it took a dark turn on Wednesday in St. Louis prior to […]
“What are you talking about? I have beaten him already. He is dead. Look at his body language. His body is weak and his mind is weaker. I can smell the lack of confidence. If the […]
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