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Opinion: Weighing In on the MMA Judging Debate

15 Nov 2009 14:06:23 PST

Written by Darren Wong
After Randy Couture's victory over Brandon Vera, Joe Rogan stated that he believes that there is a serious problem with judging in MMA. This has actually already been done in boxing with less-than-stellar results, especially when one fighter is leading heavily on the scorecards and can...

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Opinion: A Message To The B/R MMA Community: Words Of Wisdom

15 Nov 2009 14:03:20 PST

Written by Mitch Ciccarelli
Should Koscheck still remain in the top five or should the other fighters who have been winning take his spot? It’s ok to dislike a certain fighter and it’s perfectly fine to let your readers know you are not a fan of certain fighters but it is not ok to spend a majority of your article insultin...

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Opinion: Missed opportunities for Strikeforce on CBS

09 Nov 2009 13:21:16 PST

Written by Zach Arnold
“We talk to everybody. We’re never going to say no, we like MMA and you know like I said, Strikeforce put on a great show for us tonight and we’re very happy with Strikeforce but we’re not going to close the door on anybody.” The result? Not many “real” MMA fans watched the show.

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Opinion: Can CBS, Strikeforce, and Fedor Emelianenko Elevate Mixed Martial Arts?

05 Nov 2009 20:55:03 PST

Written by Todd Jackson
That is a very bold statement considering the story history tells. This is not the first time an MMA event was held live on CBS. EliteXC tried their hand in impressing the sport upon casual viewers and sadly they failed handily. Strikeforce has something they didn't have and that is Fedor. ...

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Opinion: TUF Heavyweights: Fights Don't Meet The Hype

01 Nov 2009 21:27:20 PST

Written by Greg Riot
The Lyoto Machida vs. Shogun Rua light heavyweight title fight at UFC 104 is excellent proof of the evolution of the sport and should be used as a shining example of a fight to show people who don’t think MMA fighters are highly skilled athletes.

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Opinion: How Do MMA Weight Classes Win Their Fights? Expectation Vs Reality.

31 Oct 2009 19:15:52 PDT

Written by Ed J Pickle McNasty III
Total Wins = 305Wins by Knockout = 88 (29%)Wins By Submission = 116 (38%)Wins by Decision = 101 (33%) Light Heavyweight: (Frank Shamrock, Tito Ortiz, Randy Couture, Vitor Belfort, Chuck Liddell, Quinton Jackson, Forrest Griffin, Rashad Evans, Lyoto Machida, Wanderlei Silva, Dan Hen...

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MMA: Mixed martial arts news and blogs - November 21, 2009

21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit MMA: Mixed martial arts news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Opinion: Debut Edition -- by sundaymorningtrainer from randy-couture « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Strikeforce/M-1 Global Fedor vs Rogers on Bravo - TV Review -- from Two Sheds RSS Feed
• Opinion: Pirozzi's UFC 105 Predictions! - Aaron Riley vs. Ross Pearson -- by hardboiledmma from mixed-martial-arts « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Opinion: Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Rogers Report Card -- by David Andrest from Five Ounces of Pain
• Strikeforce Challengers IV Preview: Showcasing California's MMA Talent Pool -- by Leland Roling from Bloody Elbow
• Opinion: Interview with Sherdog.com radio host Joran Breen on Strikeforce's Fedor-Rogers CBS broadcast, and Showtime's Super Six boxing tournament -- by PJ Swenson(jon@sharkspage.com) from Sharkspage San Jose Sharks NHL hockey and local sports blog
• Opinion: Ladies and Gentleman, Fedor Emelianenko -- by Jim Genia from MMAMemories.com
• Opinion: Brandon Vera is not underestimating Randy Couture going into their UFC 105 fight -- by Zach Arnold from MMAMemories.com
• Opinion: Rua Vs Machida Had the Best and Worst Officiating Ever? -- by Tim from Bleacher Report - Front Page
• Opinion: Eat your heart out Liddell, Njokuani danced his way into MMA -- by Steve Cofield from Cagewriter - UFC - Yahoo! Sports

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Opinion: Brent Wilson talks MMA judging and why ten point must system isn't the problem

28 Oct 2009 18:43:24 PDT

Miller is absolutely right, in most cases a late takedown does not result in effective grappling or striking but is just a last ditch effort to try to appeal to the judges and score points. The problem with that being scored has nothing to do with the ten point must system, if either Machida or...

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Opinion: In the Red Corner at Xtreme Courage Fighting Championship's Havoc

20 Oct 2009 23:50:39 PDT

Written by Todd Jackson
See, this isn't your run of the mill, flashy casino style event. This was MMA at its purist. Master Shane Dunagan would not have it any other way. He prides himself on the exciting fights he puts on. These fights are a direct result of his hard work to pair up fighters that are equal in talent an...

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Opinion: Is a College Education an Edge in MMA?

08 Oct 2009 14:54:27 PDT

Written by Tom Grant
The 10th season of The Ultimate Fighter has pitted two bitter rivals against each other as coaches, Rampage Jackson and Rashad Evans. Couture's adaptive style flew in the face of the prevalent wisdom of the time; be excellent at one thing and impose your will. Fighters like Tito Ortiz, Chuc...

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Opinion: Kimbo Slice an Eventual UFC Champion? Not Likely

29 Sep 2009 18:18:15 PDT

Written by Mitch Ciccarelli
Whether or not Slice wins you can rest assured you will be seeing him again in the UFC. He might not win The Ultimate Fighter but he’s way too popular for the UFC to let go. With that being said what can fans expect from the street-brawler in his post-TUF career inside the UFC’s Octagon?

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Opinion: James McSweeney Is A Clone

23 Sep 2009 21:36:37 PDT

Written by Darren Wong
Following Chuck's recent defeats, some of the imitation and emulation of Chuck Liddell has stopped, but that hasn't stopped some of Chuck's nuthuggers from telling me that they still believe that Chuck Liddell is still the best fighter in the world, but just needs to make a few small adju...

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Opinion: The UFC , the illuminatti , and the demise of MMA .

07 Aug 2009 00:02:30 PDT

Written by Anti Newb World Order
Everything about the UFC is aimed towards this certain demographic of sheeple who dont cuestion the packaging of the product. When Pride was around we used to get fightcards with like 7-8 fights guaranteed in a 3 hour pay per view ! Nobody really complained when all of a sudden it dropped d...

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Opinion: UFC 100 Bloody Elbow Judo Chop: The Integrated Game of Jon Jones

23 Jul 2009 14:31:24 PDT

Written by Kid Nate
Let's review. First Jones used the wrestling phase of the game -- a fake shoot -- to get O'Brien in position to catch him with a spinning elbow -- a second phase of the game, striking -- then when O'Brien reacted by shooting for the take down, Jones used his wrestling to stuff the shoot and set up...

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Opinion: The 5 reasons the MMA world hates Kimbo Slice

19 Jul 2009 20:53:36 PDT

Written by ckfighter
The 5 reasons the MMA world hates Brock Lesnar was such a hit, that I decided to make another 5 reasons list. This time I’m setting my sites on another hated figure (at least to the UFC MMA fans) in the MMA world, and that figure would be the one and only Kimbo Slice. Now, one thing i should clear up. T...

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Opinion: Brock Lesnar says Frank Mir is jealous of him

07 Jul 2009 16:00:36 PDT

Written by Zach Arnold
Despite being the UFC Heavyweight champion, Brock Lesnar is a man who has a lot of people gunning for him in the MMA business. Every time you read an article about another fighter talking about him, it’s almost as if Lesnar is looked upon as this cancerous tumor on the business. It doesn’t [...]

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Book Review: “Got Fight?” by Forrest Griffin with Erich Krauss

26 Jun 2009 13:10:40 PDT

Written by Thomas Hackett
There have been a ton of autobiographies from MMA champions released in the last year or so. Here at Total-MMA we have reviewed releases from legendary champions like Randy Couture, Tito Ortiz, Matt Hughes, and my favorite of the bunch, Chuck Liddell. Forrest Griffin, a good-but-not-leg...

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Opinion: March Badness: Could it have been worse?

22 Mar 2009 07:25:53 PDT

Written by Alan Conceicao
After a start that most every MMA fan would be assumed to be happy with, along comes Bobby Lashley, and with him, the end of the event’s entertaining portion. Lashley’s sideshow bout with Ken Shamrock was take away at the last minute when he tested positive for an army of roids for his bout wit...

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Opinion: Rankings Make no Sense in Mixed Martial Arts

12 Mar 2009 18:00:52 PDT

Written by Michael Rome
3) Most top fighters don't fight each other: In MMA Weekly's current top 10 list at 205 pounds, Lyoto Machida has fought exactly one guy there, and it's a guy I don't think has any business being considered one of the 10 best fighters in the world.

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Opinion: Rahman's babbling shows boxers simply have no respect for MMA

27 Feb 2009 15:50:37 PST

Written by Steve Cofield
The Kimbo knockout loss to a guy like Seth Petruzelli, who is probably in the No. 30-40 range worldwide at light heavyweight, should have been a warning to boxers, instead it's motivation for a guy like Rahman. Bizarre. Next we're going to hear about 65-year-old Jimmy Snuka being ready fo...

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MMA Week In Review: Strikeforce/EliteXC Details, UFC 97/Montreal Issues, More

15 Feb 2009 18:51:11 PST

Written by Josh Nason
In dealing with the aftermath of a 2/6 incident at the Strikebox event in Montreal where fans peppered the ring with cans and bottles in a match between James Thompson vs. Steve Bosse due to perceived rules infractions, the Commission has decided to enforce the laws that allows only boxing...

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Joe Babinsack reviews B.J. Penn's "Book of Knowledge"

28 Jan 2009 05:49:32 PST

The Book of Knowledge BJ Penn, with Erick Krauss, Glen Cordoza Victory Belt Publishing http://victorybelt.com/books/bj-penn-the-book-of-knowledge $34.95 Reviewed by Joe Babinsack The Hype Machine is chugging on all cylinders, and certainly doesn’t need me, but I wanted to chime i...

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Bloody Elbow Book Review: Karo Parisyan Judo for Mixed Martial Arts

13 Oct 2008 13:49:44 PDT

Written by Kid Nate
Like B.J. Penn's MMA Book of Knowledge and Randy Couture's Wrestling for Fighting, Judo for MMA is very well done -- great pictures, excellent organization, and very clear step-by-step instructions for executing each throw, strike, takedown or submission.

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Opinion: Who rules the MMA world? Trigg says there's no argument

20 Jul 2008 13:15:00 PDT

Written by Steve Cofield
Oddly enough, Trigg forgot to mention Silva. I believe Fedor is the best but it's not without debate. And Trigg is dead wrong, Penn, St. Pierre and Silva all have skills sets on par with Fedor. Give the UFC announce team, Mike Goldberg and Joe Rogan credit, they not go into shill-mode screamin...

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Opinion: Washington Post Writer Trashes CBS for Showing MMA, Displays His Own Ignorance

19 Mar 2008 11:45:00 PDT

Written by Michael David Smith
Leonard Shapiro of the Washington Post has written a column that is ostensibly about the CBS network's decision to broadcast mixed martial arts but is in reality about his own ignorance. It's a column I would simply dismiss and move on if it were written for a community college media studie...

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“Fight Science” on National Geographic — An MMAjunkie.com Review

26 Jan 2008 16:47:01 PST

Written by Neal Taflinger
Dr. Cindy Bir wasn’t a fan of mixed martial arts before she started working on the new installment of “Fight Science.“ “Fight Science: Mixed Martial Arts” sets out to measuring the power and accuracy of MMA fighters’ punches and kicks, exploring the mechanics of grappling, and examining t...

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