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UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs Till comes from Liverpool, England this weekend, and features Liverpool's own Darren Till trying to take out top ranked Welterweight Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson in the main event. 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 UFC Fight Night: Usman vs Maia, the upcoming Bellator 200, the o...

In the first half of this week's episode, we discuss the results of UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington. While it was an exciting night of fights, the biggest stories coming out of the show revolved around whether the corner of overwhelmed challenger Raquel Pennington should have stopped the fight against UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes, and how UFC Women's Strawweight Mackenzie Dern miss...

UFC 224: Nunes vs Pennington takes place this Saturday night from Rio de Janeiro, as UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes will attempt to defend her title for the third time, this time against #2 ranked contender Raquel Pennington. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire main card, which also includes Souza vs. Gastelum, the return of Mackenzie Dern, and a fight be...

In the first half of this week's episode we discuss Fedor Emelianenko's win over Frank Mir in the Bellator 198 main event, the upcoming Invicta FC 29: Kaufman vs. more on Leslie Smith vs. the UFC, the shortened USADA suspensions of Junior Dos Santos and Antonio Nogeuria, and the announcment of Nick Newell getting a fight on Dana White's Contender Series. Then we continue our The Hammer MMA Tournam...

UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee was eventful both inside and outside of the cage. In the first half of this week's episode we recap all of the action from that card, including Kevin Lee and Frankie Edgar's impressive wins, a bunch of missed weight, and one really weird finish. In the second half of the show we take a look at the upcoming Bellator 198: Fedor vs. Mir card, the newly announced roste...

UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee goes down this Saturday night in Atlantic City, New Jersey, headlined by an intriguing fight between highly ranked UFC Lightweights Edson Barboza and Kevin Lee. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including a surprising UFC Featherweight rematch between Frankie Edgar and Cub Swanson. In the second half of the show we discuss the res...

UFC 223: Khabib vs. Iaquinta is over, and we start off with a recap of all of the week's insanity from right here in Brooklyn, including Khabib Nurmagomedov beating Al Iaquinta for the UFC Lightweight Championship, Conor McGregor's assault charge following his attack on the UFC media bus, and an overall eventful night of fights. We also have post-fight interviews with some of the UFC 223 winners,...

It's chaos here in Brooklyn for the lead up to the UFC 223: Khabib vs. Holloway card, and we're joined by FloCombat's James Lynch to discuss what's left of the event following Conor McGregor's assault on the fighter bus. Throughout the episode we also have exclusive one-on-one interviews with UFC 223 fighters Max Holloway, Rose Namajunas, Renato Moicano, Calvin Kattar, Kyle Bochniak, Paul Felder,...

So we're on our way to Brooklyn for UFC 223 Fight Week, and the highly anticipated main event between Tony Ferguson and Khabib Nurmagomedov has just been cancelled. On April Fool's Day. Seriously. Now instead there's an insane new main event of UFC Featherweight Champion Max Holloway vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov, for the UFC Lightweight Championship. This episode we're joined by Liam Dunlop to preview...

We start this week's episode discussing all of the news in MMA this week, including Josh Barnett winning his arbitration against USADA, Demetrious Johnson vs. TJ Dillashaw's superfight falling apart, the rumors of an Interim Welterweight Championship fight between Rafael Dos Anjos vs. Colby Covington, Floyd Mayweather's interest in an MMA license, and Dana White's interest in Anthony Joshua. In th...

Alexander Volkov just punched his ticket into the top five of the UFC Heavyweight rankings, after knocking out former UFC Heavyweight Champion Fabricio Werdum in the main event of UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Volkov. We start off this week's show recapping all of the results from that event, including some of the best finishes of the year so far. In the second half of the show we discuss the Oscar...

This episode we are joined by Bloody Elbow 's Nick Baldwin to talk about the current youth movement taking place in the UFC. We discuss the value of young talent, the current viewing patterns of the UFC audience, and the potential for prospects like Sage Northcutt, Sean O'Malley, Mackenzie Dern, Paige VanZant, and Tai Tuivasa to thrive in the future. In the second half of the show we preview the u...

UFC 222: Cyborg vs. Kunitskaya is in the books, and to no one's surprise Cris "Cyborg" Justino remains the UFC Women's Featherweight Champion. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss all of the results of that event, including Brian Ortega's incredible knockout victory over the previously unstoppable Frankie Edgar. In the second half of the show we go over Jon Jones' California State A...

Cris "Cyborg" Justino returns to the Octagon this weekend to defend her UFC Women's Featherweight Champion against her latest Bantamweight contender, Yana Kunitskaya, in the new main event of UFC 222. Can former Invicta Bantamweight Champion Yana Kunitskaya be the one to finally dethrone Cyborg? Probably not, but we preview that fight, and the entire UFC 222 card in the first half of this week's e...

The UFC returns to the Fox Network this Saturday night for UFC On Fox: Emmett vs. Stephens, a fight card that looks to be high in action, and likely low in ratings. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including the main event between new Featherweight contender Josh Emmett, and the always dangerous Jeremy Stephens. In the second half of this week's show we discuss...

UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold originally promised a new UFC Interim Middleweight Champion, but there was none crowned once Yoel Romero defeated Luke Rockhold after missing the championship weight limit. This week we're joined by Between The Cages' Shawn Antman, and in the first half of the show we recap all of the weight-missing, eye-gouging, beer-in-a-shoe action from the UFC 221 event in Perth, A...

The UFC debuts in Perth, Australia this weekend with UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold, a show hastily headlined by a UFC Interim Middleweight Championship fight between Yoel Romero and Luke Rockhold. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire UFC 221 card. In the second half of the show we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders, an event that hit the grand slam...

UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders takes place this upcoming Saturday night, headlined with a somewhat surprising main event of former UFC Champion Lyoto Machida vs. up-and-coming Middleweight prospect Erik Anders. 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 UFC On Fox: Jacare vs. Brunson 2, and the announcement of...

UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou was a good night for the defending champions, as UFC Heavyweight Champion Stipe Miocic retained his title against Francis Ngannou, and UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier retained against Volkan Oezdemir. In the first half of this week's episode, we discuss the results of all of the UFC 220 fights, as well as the Bellator 192 card. In the second half of the ep...

The upcoming UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou is headlined by the most intriguing UFC Heavyweight Championship fight in years. Stipe Miocic will attempt to be the first fighter to make three consecutive UFC Heavyweight Championship title defenses, but standing in his way is heavy-handed contender Francis "The Predator" Ngannou. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire UFC 220 card...

We're approaching the first UFC event of 2018, as UFC Fight Night: Stephens vs. Choi takes place on Sunday, January 14th. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the main card, including the likely all-action main event between Jeremy Stephens and "The Korean Superboy: Doo-Ho Choi, as well as the co-main event between Uriah Hall and Vitor Belfort. In the second half of the show we prev...

UFC 219: Cyborg vs. Holm, the final UFC event of the 2017, its over and Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino remains the UFC Women's Featherweight Champion after beating a very game Holly Holm. In the first half of this week's episode we recap the results of the entire 219 card. In the second half of the show we discuss a quiet week in MMA news, including the retirement of MMA veteran Nate Marquardt, and al...

UFC 219: Cyborg vs. Holm takes place this Saturday night, an is headlined by the highest profile women's fight currently possible. UFC Women's Featherweight Champion Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino faces likely her most difficult opponent ever in former UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Holly Holm, and in the first half of this week's episode we preview  that fight, as well as the rest of the UFC 219 m...

This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Eighth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2017's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, and many more. In the second half of the show we take a look back at the results of the next-to-last UFC event of the 2017, UFC On Fox: Lawler vs. Dos Anjos. Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.   Listen to us We...

This week we are joined by Winnipeg's own Nick Baldwin ( Bloody Elbow ) to preview this upcoming Saturday night's UFC On Fox: Lawler vs. Dos Anjos event in Winnipeg, which should determine the next UFC Welterweight title contender between former Welterweight Champion Robbie Lawler, and former Lightweight Champion Raphael Dos Anjos. In the second half of the episode we discuss Georges St-Pierre vac...