UFC Fight Night Review 11/7/2020
Dominat-Yan Claudia Gadelha vs. Yan Xiaonan Women’s Flyweight Fight This was a very good fight for Xiaonan, she got better as it went along. She was on her back for the majority of the […]
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HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from Bellator 250 and UFC Fight Night: Hall vs. Silva
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist Bellator 250 and UFC Fight Night: Hall vs. Silva were both this past weekend. We had a new champion crowned in Bellator and we’ve likely seen the final fight […]
UFC Halloween Fight Night Review
Style over Substance Bobby Green vs. Thaigo Moises Lightweight Fight Bobby Green was deceptively good in this fight. If you watched it, it seemed like he was getting hit more than he was giving, but […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC 254
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist UFC 254 was yesterday and it featured the retirement of a UFC legend. Let’s get to the rundown. UFC 254 GOOD- Tai Tuivasa stops Stefen Struve Tuivasa blasted Struve […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs. Zombie
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs. Zombie was this past week. Let’s get to the rundown. UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs. Zombie GOOD- Thomas Almeida vs. Jonathan Martinez Both men […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from Bellator Paris and UFC Fight Night: Moraes vs. Sandhagen
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist Bellator Paris and UFC Fight Night: Moraes vs. Sandhagen were this past weekend. Let’s get to the rundown. Bellator Europe 10 GOOD- Mads Burnell stops Darko Banovic Burnell took […]
UFC Fight Night 10/10/2020 Review
Escape, Escape, Escape. Yousef Zalal vs. Ilia Topuria Featherweight Fight This was a very entering fight to watch, it had a bit of everything and was mostly even. The only facet of it that wasn’t […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from Bellator Europe 9 and UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Aldana
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist Bellator Europe 9 and UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Aldana were both this past week. Let’s get to the rundown. Bellator Europe 9 GOOD- Charlie Leary stops Keifer Crosbie […]
UFC Fight Night 10/3/2020 Review
Get Back You Eight Legged Freak! Dequan Townsend vs. Dosko Todorovic Middleweight Fight Unfortunately it was a bad night for The Tarantula Dequan Townsend. Todorovic had control the whole time, consistently landed big shots while […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC Rio Rancho, and UFC fighters are underpaid by how much?
UFC Rio Rancho was this past weekend. Let’s get to the rundown. HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from UFC Rio Rancho, and UFC fighters are underpaid by how much? UFC Rio […]
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 […]
Who wins between Conor McGregor and Donald Cerrone?
Tonight, Conor McGregor will fight Donald Cerrone in the main event of UFC 246. Who wins? Who wins between Conor McGregor and Donald Cerrone? Frank Hyden MMATorch Columnist I’ll go with McGregor by TKO in […]