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UFC 153 Aftermath: What’s Next for Anderson Silva and Saturday’s Winners?
In the wake of his utter destruction of Stephan Bonnar on Saturday night at UFC 153, the number of potential challengers that remain for Anderson Silva is down to three. As far as I’m concerned, there...
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UFC 158 Aftermath: GSP Gonna Be GSP, Nick Diaz Gonna Be Nick Diaz
Despite a continuous diet of “bad blood” promotional trailers and the usual assortment of Nick Diaz pre-fight craziness, the UFC 158 main event was about as anti-climactic as you can get. The most...
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UFC 158: Victories Will Define GSP’s Legacy, Not Finishes
When we look back on Joe DiMaggio’s record 56-game hitting streak, no one cares if there were a couple Texas leaguers mixed in somewhere around Game 24 or 25. We’re not scrutinizing the friendly bounce...
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UFC Aftermath: If A Great Fight Happens and No One Is Watching…
The buzz about Matt Brown’s stirring and yet somehow typical come-from-behind bludgeoning of Erick Silva on Saturday night still hasn’t died down. More than 24 hours after “The Immortal” put the...
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UFC 173 Aftermath: Why We Can’t Have Pretty Things
You’d think by now we would have learned our lesson. In the preamble to UFC 173, the majority of the talk centered around why Renan Barao wasn’t a superstar, how to make that happen, and the...
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UFC 179 Aftermath: Jose Aldo Stands Alone, Deserves Spotlight
In the wake of Jose Aldo’s career-defining victory over Chad Mendes at UFC 179, plenty of fans and media are framing a potential showdown with brash Irishman Conor McGregor as the fight the champion...
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UFC Fight Night Aftermath: Middleweight division the one to watch in 2015
In just 62 seconds, Lyoto Machida set up the middleweight championship race as the most intriguing divisional battle in the UFC heading into 2015. Returning for the first time since losing to Chris...
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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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