by Bob Phelan | Feb 28, 2019 | MMA
It’s the tale of two UFC Pay-Per-View’s back to back. February’s UFC 234 was paper thin, relying solely on the top two fights – a middleweight championship bout between Robert Whittaker and Kelvin Gastelum as well as a star making performance from...
by Bob Phelan | Feb 6, 2019 | MMA
There are star athletes in every major sport. Its usually just the best of the best at any given time. Lebron James in basketball. Tom Brady in football. Mike Trout in baseball. Alexander Ovechkin in hockey. Lionel Messi in soccer. Some are boring, some have...
by Bob Phelan | Jan 28, 2019 | MMA
Last weekend’s UFC event was notable for a few reasons. It was the first ever MMA event broadcast on ESPN following the start of their five year, $1.5 billion TV deal. At least the prelims were as it was also the launch of the UFC on the relatively new ESPN+....
by Bob Phelan | Oct 24, 2018 | MMA
Huge precedent setting news reverberated through the MMA world this week when ESPN’s Ariel Helwani reported that the UFC was on the verge of trading former flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson to ONE Championship, a fighting promotion based out of Singapore. In...
by Bob Phelan | Aug 22, 2018 | MMA
We’re almost two thirds of the way though 2018 so this isn’t exactly going to be awards for the first half of the year but much like the film industry, MMA tends to “save the best for last” by stacking events towards the end of the year. The UFC loves to...
by Bob Phelan | Jul 2, 2018 | MMA
Ever since 2015 the UFC has made it a point to really stack their July Pay-Per-View, usually on Independence Day weekend. It started with UFC 189 where Conor McGregor was originally supposed to fight Jose Aldo for the featherweight championship. Ultimately he ended up...
