The Hammer MMA Radio

The UFC celebrated it's 25th Anniversary in style with UFC Fight Night: Korean Zombie vs. Rodriguez, in Denver, Colorado. In the first half of this week's episode we recap the entire event, including Yair Rodriguez scoring the likely Knockout Of The Year, during the likely Fight Of The Year, against The Korean Zombie. In the second half of the episode we discuss UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Ponzinib...

UFC 230: Cormier vs. Lewis is in the books, and should be considered successful for the card that was essentially held together with crazy glue and chewing gum. In the first half of this week's episode we run down all of the results, including Daniel Cormier's successful UFC Heavyweight Championship defense against Derrick Lewis, Jacare Souza defeating Chris Weidman in an important Middleweight fi...

The UFC returns to Madison Square Garden this weekend for the snakebit UFC 230: Cormier vs. Lewis event, a card that experienced many revisions before landing on the current main event between two-division UFC Champion Daniel Cormier defending his UFC Light Heavyweight Championship against Derrick Lewis. We spend the first half of this week's show previewing the (hopefully) final UFC 230 main card...

UFC Fight Night: Volkan vs. Smith, the UFC's first event in Moncton, New Brunswick, takes place this Saturday night, and we're joined by Liam Dunlop to preview the entire card during the first half of this week's episode. In the second half of the show, we discuss former UFC and Bellator Lightweight Champion Eddie Alvarez signing with the ONE FC promotion, Bradley Scott's USADA suspension for coca...

The shadow of UFC 229 remains long, as we continue with the ongoing saga of the Khabib Nurmagedov and Conor McGregor, including early buyrate information, an update on athletic commission punishments, Zubaira Tukhugov's status, the media reaction to the UFC 229 fight, and which new fights may be made from here. We also run down the completely reshuffled upcoming New York, Toronto and Las Vegas UFC...

UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor is now in the books, and it appears we will be talking about this one for a while. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of UFC 229, including Khabib Nurmagomedov's successful UFC Lightweight Championship defense against Conor McGregor, the wild post-fight brawl involving their teammates, and the rest of the mostly enjoyable fights from that e...

UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor takes place this Saturday, October 6th, 2018, and we spend the entire first half of this week's show previewing the main event fight between UFC Lightweight Champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor. In the second half of the episode we run down the rest of the UFC 229 card, as well as The National Labor Relations Board's dismissal of employee status for UFC figh...

We begin this week's episode discussing the UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor press conference from Radio City Music Hall, the abrupt end of Jon Jones' USADA suspension, the unfortunate passing of Japanese fighting legend Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto and Blackzillians founder Glenn Robinson, and the announcement of Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Valentina Shevchenko for the vacant UFC Women's Flyweight Championship...

We start off this week's episode discussing the results of UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Oleinik from Moscow, Russia. In the second half of the show we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Anders vs. Santos (formerly known as UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Santos), and then get into some of the week's MMA news including the announcement of a Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov press conference, some...

This week we start the show off discussing the USADA suspension of former UFC Heavyweight Champion Fabricio Werdum, Michael Chiesa's lawsuit over the infamous UFC 223 bus attack, and a preview of the UFC's upcoming debut in Moscow, UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Oleinik. In the second half of the show we take a look back at one of the most exciting MMA cards in recent memory in UFC 228: Woodley vs. Til...

The UFC heads to Dallas this weekend for UFC 228: Woodley vs. Till. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the UFC 228 main card, including UFC Welterweight Champion Tyron Woodley vs Darren Till, and UFC Women's Flyweight Champion Nicco Montano vs. Valentina Shevchenko. In the second half of the show we run down the UFC 228 preliminary card, take a brief look at the results of Invicta...

In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Gaethje vs. Vick, including the abbreviated main event, some wild submissions, and the retirement of Jake Ellenberger. Then we get into all of the week's MMA news including the upcoming Invicta FC 31 card, Kamaru Usman as the UFC 228 Welterweight Championship alternate, Donald Cerrone's comments on t...

The UFC debuts in Lincoln, Nebraska this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Gaethje vs. Vick. The main event features Justin Gaethje vs. James Vick in a battle of exciting Top 15 Lightweights, we preview the entire main card during the first half of this week's episode. In the second half of the show we discuss the UFC Lincoln preliminary card fights, James Gallagher and the risk of talking trash, Brock...

This week we spend the entire hour debating the most frustrating of MMA arguments: Who is the Pound For Pound Greatest MMA Fighter Of All Time? In order to solve this intricate puzzle, we've seeded the Top 16 fighters and held a single elimination tournament to decide the G.O.A.T. Is it Jon Jones? Fedor Emelianenko? Georges St-Pierre? Anderson Silva? Jose Aldo? Demetrious Johnson? Conor McGregor?...

UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2 is in the books, and in addition to TJ Dillashaw retaining his UFC Bantamweight Championship in the main event, we also saw the end of an era when long-reigning UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson lost to Henry Cejudo. We go over the results of all of the UFC 227 fights in the first half of this week's episode. In the second half of the show,...

UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2 is coming up this weekend, and in the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire main card, including TJ Dillashaw defending his UFC Bantamweight Championship against former champion Cody Garbrandt, and UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrious Johnson taking on Henry Cejudo for a second time. In the second half of the show we preview the UFC 227 preliminary...

We kick off this week's episode catching up on recent MMA news, including the announcement of Tyron Woodley vs. Darren Till at UFC 228, the result of Nick Newell's Contender Series fight, Cain Velasquez's visit to the WWE Performance Center, The Bellator Welterweight Tournament lineup, and Anderson Silva's reduced USADA suspension. Then we preview the UFC's return to Calgary for this weekend's UFC...

The UFC heads to Hamburg, Germany on July 22nd, for the ever-changing UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Smith event card. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including the new main event of Mauricio "Shogun" Rua vs. Anthony Smith. In the second half of the show we go for something a little bit different. Each of us watched and reviewed one of the three early WFA events f...

While not the biggest news in the UFC Heavyweight division this week, Junior Dos Santos vs. Blagoy Ivanoy headline the UFC's debut in Boise, Idaho on Saturday night, and in the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card. In the second half of the show we discuss the results of last weekend's UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier, where the UFC Heavyweight division experienced a major shake...

It's International Fight Week in Las Vegas, and that means two UFC cards coming up next weekend. We start off this episode previewing the main card of UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier, including UFC Heavyweight Champion Stipe Miocic vs. UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier, Max Holloway defending his UFC Featherweight Championship against Brian Ortega, and Francis Ngannou and Derrick Lewis mee...

We begin this week's show discussing the recently announced retirements of two of the all-time great MMA fighters; former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Rashad Evans, and former UFC Welterweight Champion Johny Hendricks. Then we move onto Lyoto Machida's recent signing with Bellator, the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Edwards event, and we also give away some copies of Cody...

We start off this week's show previewing UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Edwards from Kallang, Singapore, headlined by a Welterweight fight between between Top 15 Welterweights Donald Cerrone vs. Leon Edwards, and starting extremely early next Saturday morning. Then we discuss some of the week's MMA news, including the rumored low buyrate of UFC 225, the controversial UFC signing of Greg Hardy, and t...

UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2 was an eventful night of MMA, and we spend the first half of this week's episode discussing the controversial scoring of the UFC Middleweight main event between Robert Whittaker and Yoel Romero, the outspoken new UFC Interim Welterweight Champion Colby Covington, and CM Punk vs. Mike Jackson having one of worst UFC fights ever. In the second half of the show we reca...

The UFC heads to Chicago this weekend for the loaded UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero card. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire UFC 225 main card, including the UFC Middleweight Championship fight between Robert Whittaker and Yoel Romero, the UFC Interim Welterweight Championship fight between Raphael Dos Anjos vs. Colby Covington, the return of CM Punk, and the UFC debut o...

UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Till was the UFC's debut in Liverpool, and hometown fighter Darren Till won a surprising decision against the number one ranked Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson. In the first half of this week's episode we go over all of the suspect judging, refereeing, and weight cutting that went on down by the riverside. In the second half of the show we discuss the upcoming UFC Fight...