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 | Feb 11, 2018 | MMA
There is a pattern emerging as we enter the second full year of UFC ownership under WME/Endeavor. Their style of running the company appears to be to load up two or three cards a year as some sort of super events, one centered around International Fight Week in Las...