-After the last two Fox shows headlined by women’s fights (Holm/Shevchenko and Waterson/PVZ) did great numbers, UFC were clearly hoping for more of the same here when they booked Shevchenko vs. Pena as the headliner for their first big show of 2017. Overall it was a solid-looking card with a...

-The UFC’s first ever show from South Korea – a hotbed of sorts for MMA these days – happened to be one of the year’s most injury-hit cards too, with three of the four main card bouts being changed at late-ish notice. To be fair though it was a Fight Pass card meaning the changes...

-A couple of months down the line I’m still not sure how I feel about TUF 21 – AKA Blackzilians vs. American Top Team to be honest. The season was a new idea entirely for TUF – rather than a tournament with the winner (and usually a bunch of the others) getting a UFC contract, this...

-This show wasn’t getting much fanfare at all despite being a pretty solid card – I mean you can’t sneeze at two top five FWs facing in the main event and a bunch of other top fighters (Poirier, Pena, Guida, Chiesa, Iaquinta and Masvidal) up and down the card, but to be fair I guess when...

Gilbert Melendez defends his StrikeForce Lightweight crown against Jorge Masvidal while Cris Cyborg roids up and squashes another unsuspecting victim.