August 17th from the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts will be an event that the UFC and its fans will never forget. At least that’s what Dana White and company are hoping for. UFC on FOX Sports 1 has been quoted by White to be one of the biggest events of the year. If this…

After beating his second bulked up middleweight in a row in Chael Sonnen at UFC 159, Jon Jones stands (controversially over GSP I might add) at second place in the world, or at least according to fightmetric.com’s official UFC rankings. What we already know about Jones is that he has ardently marched through every elite…

Shane Carwin is a great guy with a smart head on his shoulders, and I’m sure you have all heard by now that he has retired. Carwin had a short, but very memorable career. When I think  on the man, a few things come to mind: All first round finishes, WEC 17, Frank Mir‘s destruction,…

Boxing has been around forever and after watching Saturday’s fight, a lot of fans and spectators think that without Mayweather, boxing will die. I completely have to disagree. Boxing fans are the epitome of fight fans. With fans, a sport will never die. Now, I do agree that without Mayweather, the boxing PPV buy rates will go…

~ Alistair Overeem ~ Overeem has fallen hard three times in the last couple years of his career. Firstly, he popped on a piss test for steroids and was taken out of the title line up when he was coming off the most momentum in his career from a first round TKO destruction of Brock…

Title fights galore will grace this summer’s fight cards. Four title fights will be up for grabs between now and August. With this in mind, the UFC does what they have shown to do best over the years, and that’s plan ahead. As fighters fight for belts, others fight for their shot at gold as…

Out of all the UFC’s newly minted rankings in a recent partnership with fightmetric.com, the only true blunder is located at the very top of their pound-for-pound (P4P) list. Anderson Silva is first, Jon Jones is second, and GSP sits at third. Georges ‘Rush’ St. Pierre is not an exciting fighter these days. Yet he’s…

Before Chael Sonnen comes on UFC Tonight on Fuel TV and talks a big game about a potential retirement, let’s break this down. Sonnen started his MMA career in 1997 (aged 19) and made his UFC debut (age 27) in a light heavyweight bout against former IFC Light Heavyweight Champion Renato Sobral at UFC 55 where…