HYDEN BLOG: Eagle FC Fights and Jake Paul Talk
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist Another week of no events so another week of checking out some news. Get ready for a lot of Jake Paul. But first… Eagle FC, the promotion founded by […]
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HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus and Paul-Woodley II results
UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus was last night and featured a record-setting performance by Derrick Lewis. Let’s get to the rundown. UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus GOOD- Cub Swanson stops Darren Elkins They […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC 267
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist UFC 267 was last night and it featured two title fights, including an Interim UFC Bantamweight Title fight so we were guaranteed at least one new champion. Were two […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from Bellator 269 and UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Costa
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist Bellator 269 and UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Costa were last night. Bellator 269 GOOD- Anatoly Tokov vs. Sharaf Davlatmurodov Tokov drops Davlatmurodov in the first round but nothing […]
MMA Rankings 9/29/21
Heavyweight Rankings Francis Ngannou – UFC Heavyweight Champion Stipe Miocic Cyril Gane – Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion Derrick Lewis Curtis Blaydes Alexander Volkov Jairzinho Rozenstruik Marcin Tybura Chris Daukaus Cheick Kongo Valentin Moldavsky Phillip De […]
UFC Rankings 9/7/21
Heavyweight Rankings Francis Ngannou – UFC Heavyweight Champion Stipe Miocic Cyril Gane – Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion Derrick Lewis Curtis Blaydes Alexander Volkov Jairzinho Rozenstruik Marcin Tybura Chris Daukaus Cheick Kongo Valentin Moldavsky Phillip De […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from Bellator 264
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist Bellator 264 was last night and featured Bellator Middleweight Champion Gegard Mousasi defending his title against John Salter. Let’s get to the rundown. Bellator 264 GOOD- Ty Gwerder vs. […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC 265 and Fedor Emelianenko’s next match is Timothy Johnson
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist UFC 265 was last night and though it was weakened by the cancellation of Amanda Nunes defending her UFC Bantamweight Championship against Julianna Pena it was still a pretty […]
HYDEN BLOG; The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from Bellator 259 and UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Garbrandt
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist Bellator 259 and UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Garbrandt were this weekend. Let’s get right to the rundown. Bellator 259 GOOD- Jaleel Willis vs. Maycon Mendonca Willis got three […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC: Reyes vs. Prochazka
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist UFC: Reyes vs. Prochazka was yesterday and featured a contender making a big statement in his quest for a title shot. Let’s get to the rundown. UFC: Reyes vs. […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from Bellator 255, and McGregor vs. Poirier 3 is signed
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist Bellator 255 was this past week and featured a big title fight and the continuation of the Bellator Featherweight World Grand Prix. Also, Conor McGregor’s next fight is set. […]
MMA Rankings
Notes: (1)Jon Jones is not ranked due to his impending move to the heavyweight division. (2) Yoel Romero is not ranked due to his impending move to the light-heavyweight division Heavyweight Francis Ngannou -UFC Heavyweight […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC 260
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist UFC 260 was yesterday and featured a huge title change, let’s get right to the rundown. UFC 260 GOOD- Jamie Mullarky stops Khama Worthy They traded for a bit […]
UFC 260 Review
Jamie Mullarkey vs. Khama Worthy Lightweight Fight It only took 46 seconds. Mullarkey caught Worthy completely off guard and landed a huge shot. This was a win he needed. 11 straight finishes for an accomplished […]
UFC 259 Review
Thiago Santos vs. Aleksandar Rakic Light Heavyweight Fight The first round between these two was mostly a feeling out process with the occasional flurry of punches. The 2nd round was much of the same with […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC 258, plus Jon Jones to challenge for the UFC Heavyweight Title
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist UFC 258 was this past weekend and it featured a big title fight in the welterweight division. Let’s get to the rundown. UFC 258 GOOD- Julian Marquez submits Maki […]
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 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 […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC 247
UFC 247 was this past weekend and it featured two title fights, with one ending decisively and the other being controversial. Let’s get right to the rundown. HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The […]
MMA Talk for Pro Wrestling Fans – Robert Vallejos reviews UFC 247, previews UFC’s trip to Rio Rancho, praises XFL, more
On this week’s edition of MMA Talk for Pro Wrestling Fans, Robert Vallejos reviews UFC 247, with analysis on the controversial scoring, the future of Jon Jones, and more. He previews the UFC’s trip to […]
UFC 247 Results & Reactions: Real-time results and analysis of Jones-Reyes
UFC 247 February 8, 2020 Toyota Center, Houston Texas ESPN+, ESPN, ESPN+ PPV UFC 247 Results & Reactions UFC 247 Early Prelims (UFC Fight Pass, ESPN+) Men’s featherweight Austin Lingo vs. Youseff Zalal Round 1 […]
HISCOE: Dominick Reyes is the right kind of opponent to beat Jon Jones
UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has been nothing short of dominant over the course of his nearly nine-year run atop the division. If it weren’t for a few notable (very) poor choices outside of […]
Who wins between Jon Jones and Dominick Reyes?
On Saturday night Jon Jones will defend his light heavyweight title against Dominick Reyes in the main event of UFC 247. Who wins? Who wins between Jon Jones and Dominick Reyes? Frank Hyden MMATorch Columnist […]
MMA Talk for Pro Wrestling Fans – Rick Monsey previews UFC 247 Jones vs. Reyes, plus Colby Covington news
On this week’s edition of MMA Talk for Pro Wrestling Fans, Rick Monsey Previews UFC 247 Jones vs. Reyes, and also talks Colby Covington news. SUBSCRIBE TO THE MMATORCH RSS FEED: Put this link in […]
HISCOE: Four fighters we’d love to see back in 2020, and one we’d rather not
Follow @mikehiscoe With Conor McGregor returning to the cage last month, it has created a feeling of excitement around UFC that may have been missing in 2019. McGregor was only out of action for about […]