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...
by Bob Phelan | May 14, 2018 | MMA
UFC 224 – This past weekend was the UFC’s yearly Pay-Per-View event held in Brazil. On paper this was the weakest such event in recent memory but as it tends to be in these situations it was actually a really fun night of fights in practice. UFC 224 tied the...
by Bob Phelan | Feb 26, 2018 | TV & Movies
The 90th Annual Academy Awards are coming up and once again it gives us a chance to wrap up the previous year at the movies. 2017 was an interesting year in film. In stark contrast to 2016 where the big budget blockbusters were largely disappointing, they were much...
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...
