The Independent Voice of Mixed Martial Arts
This weekend we will get to see two top ranked light heavyweights go to war. Alexander Gustafsson takes on Anthony Smith in a bout that has title shot implications. Gus has lost twice to current 205 pound king Jon Jones meaning it is unlikely that he would get another crack at the title anytime soon. … Read more
This is incredible. According to Dave Meltzer the buy rate for UFC 236 is very low. The UFC moved its pay per views to ESPN+ exclusively making it the only method to purchase them. If Dave Meltzer and his Wrestling Observer newsletter are correct, and they usually are, the buy rate was under 100,000. To … Read more
The card for UFC 237 is finalized and we put an asterisk next to that because in MMA nothing is ever set in stone. Injuries and illnesses can appear at any time to devastate an event. Here is the line-up for the PPV and the offerings on ESPN. PPV on ESPN+ UFC Strawweight Championship(c)Rose Namajunas … Read more
When Edson Barboza got knocked out by Justin Gaethje on March 30th for all of ESPN to see we were admittedly surprised. We thought this would be one of those wars that received a standing ovation no matter who managed to win out in the end. We were obviously wrong. Edson’s coach Anderson Franca was … Read more
UFC on ESPN 4 is giving us one of the best rematches we could ask for. Heavy hitters Robbie Lawler and Tyron Woodley will try to knock each other’s heads off. The first go around saw Woodley take the welterweight title off of Lawler back in 2016. Woodley just got manhandled by Kamaru Usman in … Read more
The weigh-ins for Saturday’s UFC Wichita is in the books. The main event of Derrick Lewis and Junior Dos Santos is greenlit with ‘Hot Balls’ tipping the scales a 1/2 of a pound over the 265 pound weight limit. The full results are below (via BJPenn.com). The Main Card | 8 pm ET on ESPN+ … Read more
Former NFL player turned UFC prospect Greg Hardy gets a shot at redemption at UFC on ESPN 3. The event is not on the channel ‘ESPN3’ it is the third card hosted on ESPN. They didn’t think this naming through did they? ESPN is reporting that Hardy will face Dmitrii Smoliakov at UFC on ESPN … Read more
Dustin Poirier was supposed to fight Nate Diaz at UFC 230 but he had to back out citing injuries. Since then making that fight a possibility once more has been impossible. The fans want it, Dana wants it, Dustin wants it, but Nate Diaz doesn’t want it.
Check out what Poirier had to say to Nate via ESPN MMA’s Twitter:
Normally we wouldn’t zoom and enhance a loss but the Cain Velasquez camp and his friends are making it hard. At UFC on ESPN 1 we watched Cain get knocked silly by power puncher Francis Ngannou and fall to the ground. His knee buckled and despite this angle showing Francis land a vicious shot… …there … Read more
Joe Rogan is the voice of the UFC on pay per view so when ESPN entered the picture it was a natural assumption that he would be there, too. He was there recently as Jon Jones defended his belt, who proved a popular selection amongst punters using this promo code. So was this the case … Read more
