Five years ago this week, the MMATorch Roundtable featured staff thoughts on this topic: Will B.J. Penn’s UFC 137 loss to Nick Diaz be his final fight? The following is what the staff had to say. (And […]
B.J. Penn “retired” in the cage after losing to Nick Diaz at UFC 137. There’s a lot of good things to write about B.J., about how he was a champion in two different weight classes, […]
QUESTION: Georges St-Pierre stole the headlines last week with his announcement regarding him being a free agent which was quickly refuted by the UFC. UFC 206 would have been the perfect event for GSP to […]
TOPIC: Rank the top three relatively big name talkers in MMA today in terms of their effectiveness at boosting the drawing power of their fights and increasing fan interest. Then, on the flip side, who […]
QUESTION: UFC Legend B.J. Penn was due to make his return to MMA this weekend to fight Ricardo Lamas in the Philippines. He pulled out due to injury. Penn has many big fights under his […]
QUESTION: Ricardo Lamas was due to fight UFC legend B.J. Penn this weekend at the now cancelled UFC Fight Night 97. Lamas was hoping to get back to winning ways in the Featherweight Division after a […]
JOSH SAMMAN CAUSE OF DEATH DETERMINED UFC middleweight Josh Samman, who was declared dead at a Florida hospital Wednesday morning, died of a probable drug overdose, according to Broward County chief medical examiner, Dr. Craig […]
B.J. PENN’S COMEBACK SETBACK B.J. Penn is facing yet another setback in his comeback bid. According to reports from John Morgan at MMA Junkie, Penn has been forced out of his Oct. 15 fight with […]
With his thrilling win over B.J. Penn on Saturday night, Matt Hughes solidified his position as the top welterweight in the world, and arguably the best welterweight ever to compete in mixed martial arts. How does Hughes’s […]
This Saturday, John Dodson and John Lineker battle it out to see who moves up in the Bantamweight Title picture. Both fighters have experienced great success at 135 pounds despite moving up a weight class, […]
Ten years ago this week, MMATorch columnist Randy Rowles wrote about how UFC 63’s results set the stage for the fall and winter with big match outcomes involving the Lightweight Division, Matt Hughes, B.J. Penn, […]
Ten years ago this week, UFC 63 took place in Anaheim, Calif., airing live on PPV. The main event featured B.J. Penn vs. Matt Hughes, but there are other still active and familiar names on […]
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 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 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 […]
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