-All of the video packages coming into this one were hyping it as the card of the year (thus far) and on paper at least they weren’t wrong, with two title fights, a Welterweight title eliminator and one of the year’s most intriguing Featherweight clashes on tap. Sure, we lost Henry Cejudo...

It would be easy to condemn them. It would be easy to say that WWE is just evil and that all they provide fans with is poor writing and poor character development. However, though it is easy to do that doesn’t mean it is necessarily true. Fans will often question what their motives are...

-Not much fanfare around this one mainly because the main event was Cub Swanson vs. ARTEM LOBOV, arguably the least deserving UFC main eventer of the modern era, but actually it was a solid card for a Fight Night outside of that, with the likes of Diego Sanchez, Joe Lauzon, OSP, John Dodson et...

-The UFC’s debut in Missouri (finally!), this show was one of the best on paper of 2017 thus far, despite the main event of Demetrious Johnson vs. Wilson Reis seeming a bit one-sided to most. With the UFC in dire need of a great show following a handful of stinkers recently – most notably...

On Friday, June 3rd, 2016, Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, passed away at the age of 74. Ali’s death, and more importantly his life, is the inspiration behind this column. Whether it was musicians, actors, athletes, or any other celebrity, the one constant comment was that Ali was...

-Despite a couple of odd fights this was largely being seen as the UFC’s first “loaded” PPV card of 2017, as the main event between Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson had been building for a long time, and Weidman/Mousasi as a co-main sounded pretty cool. Being a UFC show in 2017 there...

It seems a bit much, doesn’t it? When it comes to WWE, the numerous compliments about the product are followed by as many criticisms about it. Whether it’s the characters, the storylines, who is getting a push, who isn’t a getting a push, who won a title, who lost a title,...

Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada are two names that fans who generally don’t follow wrestling outside WWE would be familiar with. These men appear to have done something in the first week of 2017 that few can do, and that is set the bar by which all matches are measured. When fans who...

-This was the UFC’s first visit to London since last February’s Bisping vs. Silva card and the main event here was hardly as big on name value – not that Manuwa/Anderson was a bad fight, it just isn’t a big time main event, but then it’s been tough this year on that front anyway. If...

  Welcome again to The Franchise, where I examine and analyze entire bodies of work – discographies, filmographies, works in a series, etc. While the last installment was focused on all the video games in a particular franchise, this time around I am going to talk about the full...

-This was a *great* card on paper for a Fight Night, it must be said – sure, we had a fight between two borderline top ten 155lbers on the prelims (Trinaldo vs. Lee) but realistically there wasn’t a fight on the main card you’d have wanted to move anyway! To me it looked like a great mix...

Baron Corbin and Braun Strowman, Braun Strowman and Baron Corbin. In some ways they are very alike, while in others they couldn’t be more different. When exploring their contributions to the Raw and Smackdown Live brands, it has been a very different road taken by each man. On one hand...

-So this was looking like the best show of 2017 thus far on paper until late on Friday night when it was revealed that Khabib Nurmagomedov’s weight cut had gone wrong and so his fight with Tony Ferguson for the Interim Lightweight Title was scrapped. Lord knows where we go from here with...

Well hey there, Oratory. First of all, I haven’t written for this site in a very long time. Over a decade, in my estimation. In that time my life has completely changed, and those of you who remember me might be glad to know that since I last wrote here I’ve made writing into my career....

The names that are on the WWE Raw brand certainly suggest that it is a rather rich brand. Smackdown Live also appears to have a fairly competitive roster with a great deal of talent. When one looks at the names that are suggested to go to Raw in 2017, it suggests that they really want to...

-This was a rare Sunday show from the UFC and the first trip to Nova Scotia since October 2014. Initially it was pegged to feature a main event of Junior Dos Santos vs. Stefan Struve, but that went by-the-by and so WME replaced it with Travis Browne vs. Derrick Lewis – nicked from UFC...

He’s John Cena, recognize. He keeps telling opponents that he has earned the right to call his shot and make championship match requests. For the better part of a decade, Cena has received extensive criticism from fans online. That carries over to WWE shows as a section of the fans boo...

-The first UFC PPV of 2017 and let’s be honest, it wasn’t exactly the best one on paper – the main event was just plain weird, a fight between Holly Holm and Germaine de Randamie for the inaugural WFW title, with the spectre of Cyborg hanging over the whole thing, and some odd fights up...