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UFC Aftermath: Aldo vs. McGregor officially on tap after WWE-style “Go-Home”...
Less than 24 hours removed from UFC Fight Night 59 in Boston and I can’t shake the feeling that I just watched a WWE “Go-Home” show before a major pay-per-view event. No, I’m not saying the outcomes of...
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UFC 184 Aftermath: On Ronda Rousey, Female Athletes and Forced Comparisons
Ronda Rousey is a one-of-a-kind talent – a true world-class athlete with next level skills, tremendous drive and focus and a string of standout performances that illustrates the gap between the...
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UFC Aftermath: Demian Maia, Gatekeepers and Video Game Bosses
For 20 minutes on Saturday night in Rio de Janeiro, Demian Maia dominated Ryan LaFlare. As the final five minutes ticked off the clock in the early morning hours in Brazil, exhaustion set in, Maia’s...
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UFC Aftermath: Trying to Understand the “Angry Watching” Phenomenon
Fatigue seems to be setting in amongst the hardcore UFC audience. Tracking social media during Saturday’s UFC Krakow event, the overwhelming sentiment was that the show was one of the weakest fight...
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UFC on FOX Aftermath: No Reason to Rush with VanZant, Holloway
Saturday night on FOX, a pair of talented, young twentysomethings picked up the biggest victory of their promising careers. In the main card opener, 21-year-old Paige VanZant took the fight to Felice...
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UFC 186 Aftermath: The Demetrious Johnson Dilemma
As a fighter, Demetrious Johnson checks all the boxes. He’s skilled and technical, tactical and efficient. He has a bottomless gas tank. He’s highly coachable, committed to being the absolute best...
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UFC Adelaide Aftermath: Why Stipe Miocic Should Have Next and Other Fights to...
All too often, the UFC puts themselves in a position where they are short on potential title challengers, having cycled contenders in against each other until they’re left with a single fight that...
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UFC Manila Aftermath: Frankie Edgar Set to Play the Waiting Game
Frankie Edgar did what he needed to do on Saturday in Manila, stepping into he Octagon for an East Coast vs. West Coast showdown with Urijah Faber, complete with duelling Biggie vs. Tupac walkout...
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UFC Goiania Aftermath: Charles Oliveira and Different Ways to Book Deep...
Once Charles Oliveira forced Nik Lentz to tap to a mounted guillotine choke midway through the third round of their Fight of the Night encounter Saturday night in Goiania, Brazil, Twitter lit up with...
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UFC New Orleans Aftermath: Fight Night 68 Keeps Momentum Rolling
Over the last few years, the trend amongst UFC fans and critics has been to lament the arrival of the latest Fight Night event, pointing to the collection of unranked fighters that make up the majority...
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UFC 188 Aftermath: Options abound for new champion Fabricio Werdum’s next fight
“That’s the only fight that makes sense.” More often than naught, that is how post-fight discussions of what comes next for the latest main event winner come to an end. A fighter’s name is put forward...
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UFC Berlin Aftermath: Where Joanna Jedrzejczyk fights next more important...
During her outstanding post-fight interview with Dan Hardy following her first successful title defense, UFC strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk mentioned that she’s going to be in Las Vegas in a...
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UFC 189 Aftermath: Welcome to The Conor McGregor Show
LAS VEGAS — Conor McGregor is the biggest star in the UFC and it’s not even close. There may be more decorated and longer tenured champions and Ronda Rousey may have more crossover appeal, but the...
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UFC on FOX Aftermath: Are You Not Entertained?
For a little over 15 minutes on Saturday night, TJ Dillashaw had fight fans captivated as he fired and feinted, painting another violent masterpiece to successfully defend his UFC bantamweight title...
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UFC 190 Aftermath: Ronda Rousey, A Once in a Lifetime Force of Nature
In team sports, generational players don’t always win; they can be limited by their supporting cast or have their season scuttled by injuries. They need help. Just like Batman needed Robin, Michael...
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UFC 191 Aftermath: Flyweight champ Demetrious Johnson, Dana White discuss...
LAS VEGAS — Determining what comes next for a dominant champion is rarely easy, but Demetrious Johnson is making the process even harder for the UFC as the flyweight titleholder continues to post...
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UFC 191 Aftermath: Paige VanZant, Premature Comparisons and Advancing...
Mike Goldberg said her finish of Alex Chambers was reminiscent of Ronda Rousey. No sooner had her fight finish did a segment of the social media populous start tweeting that she would have absolutely...
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UFC 192 Aftermath: Sage Northcutt and Slow-Playing Prospects
Physically, Sage Northcutt is equal parts action figure and Abercrombie model; a 19-year-old with the muscular definition of the latest line of WWE figures mixed with spiky blonde hair, piercing blue...
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UFC Dublin Aftermath: Exactly What Fight Pass Should Be Going Forward
Saturday’s return event in Dublin would have been spectacular had the top two fights originally scheduled to take place at 3Arena not fallen through in the two weeks leading up to the event. There is...
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UFC 193 Aftermath: On Overlooking Holly Holm & Immediate Rematches
At the end of the day, what matters most is still what happens when the cage door closes and the action gets underway inside the Octagon. Everything else – the pre-fight hype, the celebrity tweets, the...
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UFC 194 Aftermath: Conor McGregor, Undisputed
LAS VEGAS — Conor McGregor is the complete package – a perfectly formed combat sports entity. He is a master in all elements, combining deft microphone skills with sublime gifts inside the cage and he...
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UFC 194 Aftermath: Frankie Edgar Waiting to ‘Kick in the Door’
LAS VEGAS — Every time Frankie Edgar races the to Octagon, a familiar track produced by DJ Premier and featuring the vocal stylings of the late Christopher Wallace echo through the venue. After...
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UFC 195 Aftermath: How Do We Solve MMA’s Judging Issue?
Let’s cut to the quick: the judges have to get it right and far too often, it seems like they’re failing to meet that objective. Saturday night at UFC 195, there were a few instances where questionable...
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UFC on FOX Aftermath: The Ugly Reaction to Sage Northcutt’s Loss
“He had board shorts on and he was all tanned up and we were kind of making fun of the kid going into the fights.” That was UFC President Dana White’s first impression of Sage Northcutt on the pilot...
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UFC 196 Aftermath: Tyron Woodley Wants His Shot at Robbie Lawler
LAS VEGAS — Outside of Nathan Diaz’ team, The Scrap Pack, the happiest man inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena following the Stockton, California native’s upset win over Conor McGregor in the main event...
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UFC 196 Aftermath: A Special Night in Sin City
If the last year has taught us anything, it’s that no matter the hype and promotion surrounding a particular big fight, what truly makes them magical is how they play out in the Octagon. Demigods are...
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UFC 196 Aftermath: A Great Night for the Sport in Multiple Ways
Standing in adjoining ballrooms that serve as the Media Room for UFC events at the MGM Grand with videographer extraordinaire E. Casey Leydon of MMA Fighting shortly after Saturday night’s main event...
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UFC Rotterdam Aftermath: Sorting Out the Heavyweight Contenders
With the heavyweight title being defended on Saturday at UFC 198, Alistair Overeem walked into the Octagon and made his case his case for the next title shot on Sunday evening, channeling The Karate...
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UFC 198 Aftermath: Nothing More Than a Great Night of Fights
There wasn’t a single wolf ticket sold for UFC 198 and yet the event still drew more than 45,000 people to the Arena da Baixada on Saturday night in Curitiba, Brazil. On a loaded fight card heralded as...
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Do We Really Want Dominant Champions in the UFC?
Listening to Ben Fowlkes and Chad Dundas on the Co-Main Event Podcast Monday, the duo addressed a piece of listener mail (Listener Mail) that asked whether Michael Bisping’s ascent to the top of the...
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