by Bob Phelan | Jun 24, 2019 | MMA
The top two fights on this weekend’s UFC on ESPN 3 event are great but we’re pretty much right at the half way point for the year so its time to take a look back at the best of 2019 to date. Even if Junior Dos Santos vs. Francis Ngannou and Joseph...
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 | 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...
by Bob Phelan | Nov 5, 2017 | MMA
UFC 217 looked like the best MMA event of the year on paper. The promotions second time visiting Madison Square Garden following the monumental UFC 205 in late 2016 with three title fights that seemed even better than last year’s trio. In practice it was even...
by Bob Phelan | Jan 1, 2017 | MMA
UFC 207 was being promoted as one thing and one thing only. The return of Ronda Rousey. Every teaser, TV spot, commercial featured her and her only. And that makes sense from the UFC’s perspective. She was their brush with the mainstream before Conor McGregor...
