-To say this one was a long-awaited show would be a total understatement, as everyone had been clamouring to see Jones vs. Cormier since their infamous pull-apart brawl at the UFC 178 press conference. That was before the fight was postponed due to a knee injury to Jones of course. If they’d...
MMA Review: #459: UF...
posted by Newman
-Quite fitting I’d be looking at this one on the week that UFC announces a Chris Weidman title defense has been postponed. This show was of course supposed to be main evented by Weidman’s title defense against Lyoto Machida, but he ended up injuring his knee and dropping out, and so Zuffa...
MMA Review: #449: UF...
posted by Newman
-This one was originally planned to have a properly stacked main card, but of course, things changed – we kept the main event of Ronda Rousey vs. Sara McMann, as well as a Welterweight tilt between Rory MacDonald and Demian Maia, but ended up losing Rashad Evans vs. Daniel Cormier (knee...
MMA Review: #433: UF...
posted by Newman
-With both Velasquez and Dos Santos blowing through their opposition at UFC 160 and Zuffa (and combat sports) general hard-on for “trilogies”, it was pretty clear that a third, and likely final match between the two was coming. Personally I thought it was a little too soon and would’ve...
MMA Review: #431: St...
posted by Newman
-Been meaning to look at this show for well, a year now. Oops. Anyway this was the show that we’d all been waiting for since March 2011 when Zuffa purchased StrikeForce – the final fling on Showtime before the promotion would fold, sending all the top talent to the UFC in one of the...
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