-The UFC were obviously billing this as the biggest fight in MMA history and yeah, they weren’t far wrong really given the hype going in and the likelihood of this becoming the best-selling PPV ever. Thankfully they actually decided to make it far more than a one-fight card too, throwing the...

-This was undoubtedly one of the most injury-hit cards of the year, with a ton of matches being scrapped after they’d been announced – including the main event of Jimi Manuwa vs. Glover Teixeira. That made it a total throwaway show, so I was just hoping for some decent action. UFC Fight...

-Given this was the UFC’s first ever show in Russia, I was expecting a lot more than a Fight Pass card with the biggest name being Mark Hunt, but the UFC in 2018 is full of surprises I guess – not all of them good ones, either. Weird stuff to say the least but I guess Hunt vs. Oleinik...

-When they first announced this card I was more hyped for it than any other show in 2018 – largely because Darren Till was getting a title shot, but also because of a stacked undercard. That ended up being decimated by injuries (goodbye Zabit Magomedsharipov vs. Yair Rodriguez!) and a weight...

-This was a bit of a lesser card even for a Fight Night, but really it was still must-see due to the presence of Justin Gaethje – perhaps the most exciting fighter in MMA right now. UFC Fight Night 135 08/25/18 Lincoln, Nebraska -Your hosts are Brendan Fitzgerald and Paul...

-The UFC’s big August show was headlined by two rematches for UFC titles – and while nobody was really clamouring for Demetrious Johnson vs. Henry Cejudo II or TJ Dillashaw vs. Cody Garbrandt II, at least the latter one had a nasty rivalry behind it – making this look like a watchable...

-This was the UFC’s first trip to Calgary since the ill-fated UFC 149 back in 2012 and this one at least looked far better than that show, with Poirier/Alvarez, Aldo/Stephens and Jedrzejczyk/Torres looking especially cool. UFC on Fox: Alvarez vs. Poirier II 07/28/18 Calgary, Alberta -Your...

UFC Fight Night 134 07/22/18 Hamburg, Germany -Your hosts are John Gooden and Dan Hardy. Lightweight Fight: Marc Diakiese vs Nasrat Haqparast This was Diakiese’s comeback fight following a pair of disappointing losses in 2017, and he’d joined American Top Team for good measure to attempt...

UFC Fight Night 133 07/14/18 Boise, Idaho -Your hosts are Brendan Fitzgerald and Jimmy Smith. Women’s Bantamweight Fight: Cat Zingano vs Marion Reneau This was a great-sounding opener as Reneau was coming off three wins out of four and hadn’t lost since 2016, and while Cat hadn’t...

-The UFC had built this show as the biggest one of the year to this point, as the main event was the big superfight between Heavyweight champ Stipe Miocic and Light-Heavyweight champ Daniel Cormier, and we were also supposed to get an amazing-sounding Featherweight title fight too between Max...

-Time to play catch-up again, fuckers. I can’t say I even watched one episode of TUF 27 AKA TUF: Undefeated, so I was hardly excited about this one going in – especially with a super weak card overall outside of a fun sounding main event between veteran Brad Tavares and hot prospect Israel...

-Classic Fight Pass fare, this one, with a relatively weak card but a couple of intriguing fights in there too, namely Donald Cerrone in action as well as the always-exciting Tyson Pedro. UFC Fight Night 132 06/23/18 Kallang, Singapore -Your hosts are Jon Anik and Dan Hardy. Welterweight...

-So I found this one on my hard drive and couldn’t remember for the life of me why I downloaded it, then I realised it was SILVA vs. SONNEN and figured I better give it a look. This was of course a rare PPV effort for Bellator, their first show in New York too and inevitably it was pretty...

-This was clearly 2018’s most loaded card thus far, with big names up and down the card – you know it’s stacked when the likes of Alistair Overeem, Claudia Gadelha and Ricardo Lamas are on the prelims after all! The presence of CM Punk on the PPV card was an annoyance to some of course...

-Okay, so I don’t give a flying fuck about the Bellator HW Grand Prix as it’s clearly a farce with a bunch of non-Heavyweights in there, but I wasn’t going to pass up the chance to check out Fedor vs. Mir which is like a genuine all-time dream match from the PRIDE vs. UFC heyday. Come...

-This was a bit of a weaker card even for a Fight Night on paper, but despite that the main event – a long-awaited showdown between top Bantamweights Marlon Moraes and Jimmie Rivera – sounded pretty awesome, meaning it was still somewhat of a must-watch. UFC Fight Night 131 06/01/18 Utica,...

-Initial reports had this show coming from Dublin, but the UFC switched it in the end to Liverpool – a move that made sense when the main event was announced as being hometown kid Darren Till against former title challenger Stephen Thompson. Hell of a fight right there. UFC Fight Night...

-Most fans seemed to be sleeping on this card – the UFC’s first from Chile – but I actually thought it was pretty solid for a Fight Night, with a chance for Kamaru Usman to really break into contention in the main event and then some legit prospects (Tatiana Suarez, Alexa Grasso,...