Entries Tagged as 'UFC'

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

UFC 110 Preview

Antonio “Minotauro” Nogueira vs. Cain Velasquez (Heavyweight)
Michael “The Count” Bisping vs. Wanderlei “The Axe Murderer” Silva (Middleweight)
George “The Souvlaki” Sotiropoulos vs. Joe “Daddy” Stevenson (Lightweight)
Ryan “Darth” Bader vs. Keith “The Dean of Mean” Jardine (Light Heavyweight)
Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic vs. Anthony “The Hippo” Perosh (Heavyweight)

UFC 110 is being held in Sydney, Australia.   And I have […]

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

UFC 109 Preview

UFC 109 - Relentless, once again features two preliminary fights on Spike:
Lightweight: Mac Danzig vs. Justin Buchholz
Lightweight: Melvin (The Young Assassin) Guillard vs. Ronnys Torres
The main card features:
Light Heavyweight: Randy (The Natural) Couture vs. Mark (The Hammer) Coleman
Middleweight: Nate (The Great) Marquardt vs. Chael Sonnen
Welterweight: Mike (Quick) Swick vs. Paulo Thiago
Middleweight: Demian (Nocturnal Emissions) Maia […]

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

UFC 107 Preview

B.J. Penn vs. Diego Sanchez (Lightweight title)
Cheick Kongo vs. Frank Mir (Heavyweight)
Jon Fitch vs. Mike Pierce (Welterweight)
Kenny Florian vs. Clay Guida (Lightweight)
Paul Buentello vs. Stefan Struve (Heavyweight)

There will be no free undercard fights on Spike this time.  UFC 107 kicks off in Memphis, Tennessee.  This card was supposed to feature Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Rashad […]

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

UFC 105 Preview

UFC 105 is being held in Manchester, England.  It’s also free on Spike TV, and there is a reason - It’s a terrible PPV card.  I guarantee that if it wasn’t free, only the diehard MMA fans would waste $45 on it.
Main Card
* Randy Couture vs. Brandon Vera (205)
* Dan Hardy vs. Mike Swick (170)
* […]

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

UFC 104 Preview

The UFC is once again airing a portion of the under card for free on Spike TV before the PPV so all of the uninitiated can get a glimpse of MMA.  So under card guys - if you could not suck or be boring that would be great.
The PPV schedule is:
Anthony “Rumble” Johnson Vs. Yoshiyuki […]

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

We are the champions, my friends…

…And it’ll probably stay that way for a while. With  three out of five titles being successfully defended in the last two pay-per-views (and a fourth champ downright embarrassing a contender from a higher weight class) it seems that none of these guys will be relinquishing their belts any time soon. That being said, it […]

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

UFC 102 Preview

 
Salutations all, I’m Toque from Seattle - another new addition to ye olde pyleoflist team.  I’ll be covering Mixed Martial Arts, also known as MMA.
What qualifies me you ask?  Well, I hold black belts in Judo, Aikido and am currently the 5th ranked fighter in the world of bare knuckle murse (male nurse) kickboxing.
Coming up August, 29th […]

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Quicklist: What Boxing Can Learn from the UFC

This post originally ran on The Big Lead when I filled in back on May 4th. I’m reposting it for purposes relating to The Hot Blogger Bracket, as this was the piece I submitted. But remember I have not altered the content at all, despite my urge to do so.
As you may have ascertained […]