by Bob Phelan | Dec 12, 2016 | MMA
MMA can be a funny sport sometimes. UFC 200 in July was loaded from top to bottom with big fights featuring big names. There wasn’t a bad fight in the bunch on paper. But somehow at the end of the night most people felt let down. This past weekends event was the...
by Bob Phelan | Nov 14, 2016 | MMA
The UFC’s first attempt at a stacked super event to celebrate a milestone this year fell a little flat with UFC 200 but they nailed it with this one. UFC 205 lived up to all the lofty expectations. It had great fights, spectacular knockouts, a surprising...
by Bob Phelan | Nov 4, 2016 | MMA
Coming out of UFC 204 I wasn’t compelled to write my typical ‘Post UFC X Thoughts’ article because there just weren’t many plot lines of interest following the event. It was a surprisingly fun night of fights for being the worst Pay-Per-View of...
by Bob Phelan | Sep 12, 2016 | MMA
UFC 203 was certainly the weirdest event the organization has put on this year but it still managed to be pretty good. You had a fighter kicking his opponent’s coach after the fight, an accusation that the ref missed a tap followed by direct evidence that it...
by Bob Phelan | Aug 22, 2016 | MMA
After Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz 2 was pulled from the headline position on the milestone UFC 200 event and later announced to instead be headlining UFC 202 a little more than a month later, McGregor stated that UFC 202 was the real UFC 200. Perhaps he was right...
by Bob Phelan | Jul 31, 2016 | MMA
It may have been caught between two of the most profitable pay-per-views amidst a sea of events but UFC 201 still managed to be an exciting success in its own right. It may only barely reach 20% of the PPV buys UFC 200 and 202 do individually but for the hardcore fans...
