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By Dave Walsh We’ve had a few obnoxious server issues, so this is up a few days late. But late is better than never, no? Join Chris Henderson, Alan and myself as we look back at UFC 87 as well as do some speculating into the future and more. ShareThis We’ve had a few obnoxious server issues, so this is up a few day...

By Dave Walsh ShareThis UFC 87 has come and gone, we’ve had some time to digest it, so it is time to reflect — GSP defended the Welterweight title against the clear #1 contender, and while he didn’t finish him, he absolutely dominated him. Brock Lesnar scores his first win in the UFC, but does so in a very [...]

By Dave Walsh GSP defends his Welterweight Championship against number 1 contender Jon Fitch, Brock Lesnar faces a very game Heath Herring, KenFlo takes on Roger Huerta. Join us tonight for our UFC 87 live coverage! Demian Maia vs. Jason MacDonald

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By Marc Staehling Heavyweight Light Heavyweight This division has a much different landscape than heavyweight, with several elite fighters in the top ten that have been considered the best in the world at different points in their career. Just under five years ago Randy Couture fought Tito Ortiz to unify...

By Iain Liddle ShareThis By Steve Aschburner (reprinted with permission from MinnPost.  View the original article here.) As Brock Lesnar throws punches and scrambles through various moves in his “ground game” as a rapidly progressing professional in the mixed martial arts, you almost can’t help but...

By Dave Walsh In this week’s edition of Total MMA Radio, Alan, Kendall and myself discuss this weekend’s UFC 87 card — Alan covers what to look for in the Olympics in boxing and Kendall gives an in-depth look into what The Olympics has to offer with Judo.

By Dave Walsh After July 19th, Affliction has set the bar incredibly high, maybe even too high for their own good. Yesterday, Affliction Day of Reckoning was announced, officially. While there are conflicting reports about fighters being asked to take pay cuts, it seems like that isn’t the case with th...

By Dave Walsh ShareThis We’ve been here before with Brock Lesnar, and really, we aren’t in any different of a place now than we were when Brock Lesnar met Frank Mir in February. At the time, there was a lot of hype and conjecture surrounding the debut of Lesnar in the UFC. Would Lesnar simply steamroll Frank...

By Kendall Shields Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Lyoto Machida UFC 74 22 September 2007 David Spade in the crowd, ladies and gentlemen. David Spade. If you are the type who enjoys embedded videos of Korean feeds of mixed martial arts fights, then you are in luck! Nakamura vs Sokoudjou -UFC 84 - Uploaded by Spooky271

By Dave Walsh This slap and public barrage of insults proved to be a bittersweet and telling beginning to Lyoto Machida’s career. One could say it motivated the careful and cerebral Machida in his next 3 fights, where he cut Stephan Bonnar under the eye bad enough to stop the bout in Inoki’s first Jungle F...

By Alan Conceicao So when I think, “who is the most talented fighter in the world”, I have to think it is GSP. I just must. When I see GSP fight, I see everything being put together and he dominates some of the strongest fighters in the world P4P. Silva honestly doesn’t rank for me as highly as he does others. He remind...

By Kendall Shields Nakamura takes the unanimous decision, and deservedly so, I guess, in that he at least managed some borderline compelling submission attempts, whereas Igor didn’t get anything in at all. And that Anderson Silva! Nobody could be surprised that he got past James Irvin without much troubl...

By Jonathan Snowden The problem for the UFC is a lack of promising contenders in his weight class. Patrick Cote seems overmatched and Yushin Okami is one-dimensional. British superstar Michael Bisping is the best matchup for business, but he has to get past the tough Ultimate Fighter veteran Chris Leben befo...

By Dave Walsh Fedor Emelianenko is a fighter that is more notorious than any other fighter in Mixed Martial Arts history. While fighters like Cro Cop, Takaonori Gomi, BJ Penn and Chuck Liddell have all had similar auras and hype surrounding them, they were all brought back down to earth and had their fla...

By Jonathan Snowden ShareThis In our latest edition of Total MMA Radio, Dave and Alan preview the UFC’s Affliciton-Killer card and Dave talks with THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER Amir Sadollah. Remember to subscribe to  via iTunes or possibly more underground and edgy podcast receivers.  Just search for ‘Total MMA’ o...

By Dave Walsh For Rothwell, this fight signifies his step into the upper echelons of competition. Rothwell, whose last loss was back in February of 2005 against Dan Christison, has been on quite a roll the past few years, steamrolling any competition thrown at him in the rather bleak heavyweight divis...

By Iain Liddle However there was as much drama after the devastating knockout as before it when a corner-man, believed to be the brother of the fallen opponent, delivered a headbutt to the former UFC star which resulted in an unsavoury scene that will do nothing to improve the British image of mixed mart...

By Jonathan Snowden ShareThis Covering the weekend in British MMA with Lee Whitehead from MMA Weekly and UFC 86 with a brief word from Forrest and Rampage. Remember to subscribe to  via iTunes or possibly more underground and edgy podcast receivers.  Just search for ‘Total MMA’ of if want to flex your technolo...

By Marc Staehling JS: think the Shields-Thompson matchup is great and should add some much needed technical prowess to the Elite XC CBS show. But as much as I like the fight, it is hardly the biggest non-UFC welterweight battle in the history of the sport. I think that Pele-Carlos Newton and Pele-Hughes were b...

By Kendall Shields I can offer nothing by way of introduction that would set the stage more fittingly for the no doubt earth-shattering events about to unfold on this, our season finale of The Ultimate Fighter, than these words from Dana White himself. BEHOLD:

By Alan Conceicao In case you were in a cave today, Dana White decided to both debase the “MMA media” and concurrently announce that the big world shattering announcement was that some guy who part owns the UFC is now going to work in the office full time. It was quite the press release that Kevin Iole made [...]

By Marc Staehling The issue of champion vs. champion “Superfights” has been a major talking point as of late in MMA circles. Matchups like BJ Penn vs. Georges St. Pierre, St. Pierre vs. Anderson Silva, and Silva vs. Chuck Liddell have been talked about by pundits and fighters alike. But the thing is, at all three weig...

By Jonathan Snowden MICHAEL BISPING VS. JASON DAY Can Hughes return to form? And what is it about a Hughes fight that makes guys bound and determined not to make weight? The pressure of his legendary power? I expect this to be similar to Hughes-Lytle. Matt will ground him and make him miserable for three rounds.

By Bill Thompson Rampage Jackson: He is firmly entrenched as the champion. However due to his stint as a coach on the newest season of The Ultimate Fighter he hasn’t fought since September and won’t defend his title against Forrest Griffin until July. That fight is locked in so there is nothing that can be don...