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The illusion couldn't have been better. It had been four years to the day since Fedor Emelianenko's last fight in Japan. He made his return at Dream's Fight For Japan: Genki Desu Ka Omisoka 2011 looking like the Fedor of old while going through a fighter that was guaranteed to make him look that »»
After his post-fight interview following a loss to Marcos Maidana in 2009, I thought I was done with Victor Ortiz. That night saw a fight that was heading towards fight of the year territory with both men knocking each other down multiple times in the first half of the fight before a deep cut on »»
Speed beats power. Checkmate. That seemed to be the moral of the story surrounding Manny Pacquiao's twelve round brutal decision win over Antonio Margarito at Cowboys Stadium Saturday night. In fact, the only real surprise to me that came out of this fight was that Margarito didn't win a single »»
Dream’s final MMA show of 2010 was a mix of the old and the new. It was the past meeting the present with a primetime audience watching. Of course how big that audience was was more of a factor than the show itself. With FEG’s financial state and the state of MMA of Japanese network televisio »»
Chael Sonnen's night turned into Anderson Silva's moment. After weeks of pre-fight trash talk that rivaled some of Tito Ortiz's flurries before big fights, Sonnen backed up his words with a 23-minute performance that was undoubtedly the best of his career. The problem: UFC title fights last 25 m »»
Saturday July 3, 2010 was the night that Brock Lesnar officially became a star in the world of mixed martial-arts. Many people would respond to that by saying that Lesnar has always been a star in MMA. Incorrect, he's been a big draw for MMA since he signed with UFC and thanks to what UFC is abl »»
He may have nothing left to prove, but Floyd Mayweather Jr. still has one more fight left. This past Saturday night, Floyd Mayweather Jr. got to once again prove why he is as good as he says he is. Mayweather's unanimous decision win over Shane Mosley in Las Vegas was as easy as any of Mayweather »»
In an early fight of the year candidate, Sergio Martinez and Kelly Pavlik put on quite a show for the Atlantic City crowd last Saturday night. Martinez took Pavlik's WBC and WBO middleweight titles by virtue of his unanimous decision. The scores were 115-112, 116-111, and 115-111. And while I score »»
One was a legit close fight, one appeared to be karma working its magic, and one was definitive. When it came to the Zuffa-owned MMA promotions of the U.S.—UFC and WEC—in the last month, it has been mostly about three main event fights: Randy Couture/Brandon Vera from UFC 105, Tito Ortiz' UF »»
The Yokohama Arena was the center for a day full of surprises from Dream’s latest offering. While crowning the promotion’s first featherweight champ was set in stone, the appearance of Kazushi Sakuraba at the last minute did somewhat balance out the absence of Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto, wh »»
It isn't all hype with Alistair Overeem. In as dominating fashion as any of the wins in his twelve-fight unbeaten streak, Overeem went through Brock Lesnar quick, hard, and decisively. It took a little over two minutes, but Overeem silenced many of his critics and sent an MMA media sensation into »»
Anthony Pettis must now play the waiting game. Probably. The first day of the new year brought 2011's first bit of controversy into UFC's octagon with the lightweight title fight between champion Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard. The storyline was simple for this one: these two had demolished UFC's »»
The entire MMA world gravitated toward the Brock Lesnar/Cain Velasquez UFC heavyweight championship fight as the countdown changed from weeks to days. When the fight actually took place, it was an almost even mix of people in absolute shock and those shaking their heads having seen the result coming »»
Apparently MMA was a bit more complicated than James Toney thought. After off-and-on trash talk from the multiple-time world champion boxer dating back eight years, James Toney finally got into the cage and tried his hand at mixed martial-arts. Of course, he was welcomed to the sport by one of it »»
Last year's fight between Juan Manuel Marquez and Juan Diaz showed two warriors duking it out until one couldn't get up. The rematch saw both men potentially etch their legacies into boxing history. Juan Manuel Marquez played the part of never-aging warrior with another phenomenal performance wi »»
Early in the week of his fight with Fabricio Werdum, Fedor Emelianenko commented that he wasn't worried about Werdum's jiu-jitsu. He should have been. The last of MMA's mythic warriors finally fell as Werdum became the man to do what many thought would never be done: beat Fedor. Not only did Wer »»
There have been few heavyweight fights in recent time that provided the action and excitement of this past Saturday's bout between Chris Arreola and Tomasz Adamek. Adamek's twelve round majority decision came on the heels of a fight that was as much power versus technique as it was a wild brawl. »»
UFC’s first trip down under will certainly not be their last. For a moment, forget about the show, and realize that this was not only a packed house in Sydney, it was packed way, way, way in advance. One of the quickest sell-outs in UFC history and possibly MMA history saw the Australian people »»
We've got controversy people. This past weekend should have marked another fine chapter in what has been an otherwise great year for UFC and MMA in America. Instead it became one more example—along with the Cerrone/Henderson fight in WEC recently—that showed why the ten-point must system of s »»
Chris Arreola fought gamely, but that was all he did this past Saturday Night in Los Angeles. Vitali Klitschko fully reasserted his dominance over the heavyweight division (alongside his brother and titleholder Vladimir) with a tenth round technical knockout of the then-undefeated Arreola. Ref »»
