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The UFC returns to Singapore this weekend, for UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Askren, headlined by a grappling dream match of sorts between Welterweights Demian Maia and Ben Askren. We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's episode. In the second half of the show we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Weidman, the latest allegations against Conor McGregor, Jose Aldo movi...

It's a rare UFC event on a Friday coming up this weekend in Boston, as former UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman moves up in weight to fight Light Heavyweight contender Dominick Reyes. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including a hopefully eye-damage free co-main event between Featherweights Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens. Then in the second half of the...

While the UFC is heading to Tampa this weekend, the main event already appears to be in jeopardy due to issues with Joanna Jedrzejczyk's weight cut. So we're playing it safe and beginning this week's episode by recapping last weekend's UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya. Then in the second half of the show we preview UFC Tampa, which looks to be headlined by Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Someone, at Some We...

The UFC heads to Melbourne, Australia this weekend for UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya, a stadium show headlined by a unification fight between UFC Middleweight Champion Robert Whittaker and UFC Interim Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya. We preview the entire card (well, most of it), in the first half of this week's episode. Then in the second half of the show we discuss a couple of big weeks...

The UFC debuts in Copenhagen, Denmark this Saturday night, with UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Cannonier, and in the first half of this week's episode we preview most of the card, including the main event between exciting new Middleweight contenders Jack Hermansson and Jared Cannonier. Then in the second half of the show we recap last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Stephens (all 15 seco...

UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Gaethje is over, and we're recapping all of the results from Vancouver, including post-fight comments from that all of the winners on the card, including Justin Gaethje, Glover Teixeira, Tristan Connelly, Uriah Hall, Misha Cirkunov, Augusto Sakai, Hunter Azure, Chas Skelly, Louis Smolka, and Austin Hubbard. Then in the second half of the show, we're joined by The Score...

We're on location in Vancouver for UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Gaethje, and in this episode we have pre-fight interviews and comments with Donald Cerrone, Justin Gaethje, Nikita Krylov, Jeff Hughes, Misha Cirkunov, Cole Smith, Jordan Griffin, Ryan McDonald, and Kyle Prepolec, all of whom are fighting on that card. We're also briefly joined by The Score MMA's James Lynch to discuss UFC Fight Night...

In the first half of this week's episode we run down the results of UFC 242, including UFC Lightweight Champion Khabib Nurmagomedov's dominating win over Dustin Poirier, who's next for Nurmagomedov, some controversial scorecards, and how it's not the heat, it's the humidity. In the second half of the show we discuss the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Gaethje, the newly announced Diaz vs. Ma...

UFC Lightweight Champion Khabib Nurmagomedov returns after a nine month suspension to defend his title against UFC Interim Lightweight Champion Dustin Poirier. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the upcoming UFC 242: Khabib vs. Poirier card from Abu Dhabi. In the second half of the show we recap UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Zhang, some details from the ongoing UFC antitrust case,...

In the first half of this week's episode, Steve and Greg preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Zhang while we wait for James Lynch ( The Score MMA ) to get here from the airport. Then after the break, James joins us to discuss the Bellator 225: Mitrone vs. Kharitonov 2, Cain Velasquez's pro-wresting career, exactly who is the greatest MMA Heavyweight of all of time, and Conor McGregor'...

It's a huge rematch this weekend at UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2 in Anaheim, as UFC Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier is defending his UFC Heavyweight Championship against former champion Stipe Miocic. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire UFC 241 event, including a wild Welterweight co-main event between Nate Diaz and Anthony Pettis that we can't stop talking about. In...

This weekend's UFC Fight Night: Shevchenko vs. Carmouche is the promotion's debut in Urugray, and is headlined by a UFC Women's Flyweight Championship fight between reigning champion Valentina Shevchenko and former Bantamweight title contender Liz Carmouche. In the first half of this week's episode, we preview most of the fights on the card. Later in the episode we discuss last weekend's rather po...

This weekend's UFC on ESPN: Covington vs. Lawler is kind of a strange event, as former UFC Interim Welterweight Champion Colby Covington still has to make a case for himself as a title contender by beating former champ Robbie Lawler, and possibly in front of invited guest Donald Trump Jr. Plus if you live in North America it's happening on an early Saturday afternoon for various reasons. In the fi...

The UFC returns to Edmonton for the second time, and this time they've brought UFC Featherweight Champion, and honorary Canadian, Max Holloway to headline. In the first half of this week's show we preview the entire UFC 240: Holloway vs. Edgar event. In the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA, including the latest Jon Jones disaster, Chris Weidman officially moving up to Light Heavy...

The UFC heads to Sacramento this Saturday, July 20th, for UFC Fight Night: dos Anjos vs. Edwards. In the first half of this week's show we preview most of the card, including the main event where finally after seven wins in a row, Leon "Rocky" Edwards gets a shot at a top five opponent in Rafael dos Anjos. In the second half of the show we discuss last weekend's UFC Fight Night: de Randamie vs. La...

The UFC returns to Sacramento, California for UFC Fight Night: de Randamie vs. Ladd, and they're pulling hometown hero Urijah Faber out of retirement for the occasion. In the first half of this week's episode we preview his return fight against Ricky Simon, the UFC Women's Bantamweight contenders fight between Germaine de Randamie and Aspen Ladd, and the rest of this tightly matched event. In the...

UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos is this weekend, headlined by arguably the greatest male and female MMA fighters in the sport's history. In the main event, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones defends his title against Thiago Santos. In the co-main event, Amanda Nunes defends her UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship against former Champion Holly Holm. It's looking like a great night of fights, and...

The UFC returns to ESPN this Saturday night for UFC on ESPN 3: Ngannou vs. Dos Santos. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the card, including a Heavyweight contender main event between Francis Ngannou and Junior Dos Santos, and what would be a Flyweight contender fight between Joseph Benavidez and Jussier Formiga if that title is ever defended again. In the second half of the show...

UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Korean Zombie is coming up this Saturday, June 22nd from Greenville, South Carolina, and this episode we preview the entire card, including fun fights like the main event, a John Lineker vs. Rob Font rematch, Andrea Lee vs. Montana De La Rosa, and the totally random return of Matt Wiman. Plus there's a quick recap of Bellator 222: MacDonald vs. Gracie, and an update fr...

UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes was one hell of a night of fights, and in the first half of this week's episode we discuss all of them, including brand new UFC Bantamweight Champion Henry Cejudo's victory over Marlon Moraes, a dominating performance by UFC Women's Flyweight Champion Valentina Shevchenko over Jessica Eye, and a wild, controversial, Lightweight war between Tony Ferguson and Donald Cerron...

UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes is coming up this weekend, and in the first half of this week's double-length episode we preview all of the fights on the card, including UFC Flyweight Champion Henry Cejudo vs. Marlon Moraes for the vacant UFC Bantamweight Championship, UFC Women's Flyweight Champion Valentina Shevchenko defending against Jessica Eye, and Tony Ferguson returning to face Donald Cerrone i...

The UFC heads to Sweden again for the this weekend's UFC Fight Night in Stockholm, as Alexander Gustafsson and Anthony Smith main event a show topped by three Top 15 Light Heavyweight fights. We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's episode. In the second half of the show we run down some of the week's MMA news including Yoel Romero's supplement lawsuit, allegations against UFC...

This episode we welcome back our former co-host and current BTC Fight Promotions matchmaker Rob Veevers, BTC Super Lightweight Championship contender "Handsome" Scott Hudson, and live event correspondent Liam Dunlop, to discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: dos Anjos vs. Lee, Sage Northcutt's knockout loss in ONE Championship, Rashad Evans entering the UFC Hall of Fame, some weird UFC Rankings s...

UFC Fight Night: dos Anjos vs. Lee takes place this weekend featuring a relatively important Welterweight fight between Raphael dos Anjos and Kevin Lee, as well as a rather large Neil Magny-shaped hole on the card. In the first half of this week's episode we preview (most) of the fights from Rochester this Saturday night. In the second half of the show we look back at the results of UFC 237: Namaj...

UFC Women's Strawweight Champion Rose Namajunas returns this weekend at UFC 237 in Rio de Janeiro, following a one year layoff, to defend her title in enemy territory against Jessica Andrade. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including appearances from Brazilian legends Anderson Silva and Jose Aldo. In the second half of the show we discuss the results of last we...