Ramifications of MMA’s First Trade

Ramifications of MMA’s First Trade

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...
2018 (First Half) MMA Awards

2018 (First Half) MMA Awards

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...
The UFC’s Pay-Per-View Problem

The UFC’s Pay-Per-View Problem

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...
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