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The UFC lost their International Fight Week main event for the third year in a row. Still, the new main event of Yoel Romero vs. Robert Whittaker for the UFC Interim Middleweight Championship delivered in a big way. During the first half of this week's episode we recap the entire UFC 213 event, as well as the fallout from the cancellation of Amanda Nunes vs. Valentina Shevchenko. In the second hal...

It's the UFC's annual International Fight Week in Las Vegas, and this week the company will be hosting two events, as well as their Hall of Fame ceremony. We begin this week's episode previewing Saturday night's UFC 213: Nunes vs. Shevchenko 2 card, including the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship rematch between Amanda Nunes and Valentina Shevchenko, as well as an UFC Interim Middleweight Cham...

Last weekend Bellator MMA put on their first Pay Per View event in over three years, and it was a memorable one. We spend most of the first half of this episode recapping all of the weirdness of Bellator NYC, including Chael Sonnen vs. Wanderlei Silva, Aaron Pico's ill-fated debut, Michael Chandler's loss to Brent Primus, and more. In the second half of the episode we discuss the results of last w...

We begin this week's episode discussing the announcement of the long-awaited Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor boxing match, as well as Bellator's upcoming return to Pay Per View, Bellator NYC: Sonnen vs. Silva. We preview the long-awaited grudge match between Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva, the return of Fedor Emelianenko, three title fights, and the debut of Lightweight prospect Aaron Pico....

The UFC heads to Singapore again this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Correia, as former UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Holly Holm attempts to halt her three fight losing streak with a win over former title challenger Bethe Correia. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card. In the second half of the show we discuss the recent dispute between UFC Flyweight Champi...

Max Holloway is the new Undisputed UFC Featherweight Champion following an impressive finish of former champion Jose Aldo. We start this week's show recapping their UFC 212 headlining fight, as well as the rest of the fights from the UFC 212: Aldo vs. Holloway card. In the second half of the episode we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Hunt from New Zealand, as well as discussing the...

UFC 212: Aldo vs. Holloway is coming up this weekend, and during the first half of this episode we discuss the entire card, including a guest appearance by MMA Analyst Robin Black to break down the main event between UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo and UFC Interim Featherweight Champion Max Holloway. We are then joined by UFC Middleweight Elias Theodorou to discuss the recent UFC fighter retr...

The UFC returns to Stockholm, Sweden next weekend for UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Teixeira. In the the first half of this week's episode we preview all of the fights on the card, including the main event featuring two-time Light Heavyweight title challenger Alexander Gustafsson returning to Sweden to fight former contender Glover Teixeira. In the second half of the show we discuss the results...

This week we are joined by FloCombat 's Shawn Smith . In the first half of the episode we discuss the results of UFC 211: Miocic vs. Dos Santos 2, breaking down the successful title defenses of UFC Heavyweight Champion Stipe Miocic and UFC Women's Strawweight Champion Joanna Jędrzejczyk, as well the entire night of exciting fights. In the second half of the show we run down some of the week's MMA...

UFC 211: Miocic vs. Dos Santos 2 is coming up May 13th, 2017, and the event appears to be the most intriguing UFC card of the year so far. This episode we preview all of the fights on the card including the UFC Heavyweight Championship fight between Stipe Miocic and Junior Dos Santos, a UFC Women's Strawweight Championship fight between Joanna Jędrzejczyk and Jéssica Andrade, and an undercard load...

In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the likely delay of the UFC Middleweight Championship fight between Michael Bisping and George St-Pierre, the next likely contender for Tyron Woodley, the announcement of the Bellator Women's Flyweight division, the seeming hold-ups in the Conor McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather fight, and the twitter rage of Al Iaquinta. In the second half of the sh...

We begin this week's episode discussing the results of UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov, an event that featured another memorable performance by Cub Swanson, as well as a couple of the most impressive knockouts so far this year by Al Iaquinta and Mike Perry. In the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, including the strange case of attempted fight fixing in 2015's Tae Hyun Ban...

UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov takes place this weekend, as Cub Swanson returns to action for the first time since his Fight of The Year contending victory last December. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire event, including the somewhat surprising main event, as well as fights featuring long-term UFC veterans like Diego Sanchez, Joe Lauzon, Jake Ellenberger, and more...

We are back from UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2, and it's been a strange week in Buffalo. This episode we recap the entire night of fights, including post-fight comments from UFC 210 winners Cynthia Carvillo, Thiago Alves, Charles Oliveira, Myles Jury, Gregor Gillespie, Desmond Green, Kaitlyn Chookagian, as well as from UFC President Dana White. In the second half of this episode we preview the up...

We are currently in Buffalo, New York for the upcoming UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2 event. Throughout the episode we have exclusive one-on-one interviews with UFC 210 main card fighters Anthony "Rumble" Johnson, Cynthia Calvillo, Pearl Gonzalez, Thiago Alves, Will Brooks, and Charles Oliveira, as well as our thoughts on each of their fights this Saturday night. In addition we have interviews wit...

We're on our way to UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2 in Buffalo, and this episode we preview all of the fights on that card including the Light Heavyweight Championship rematch between Daniel Cormier and Anthony "Rumble" Johnson, and a must-see co-main event between Chris Weidman and Gegard Mousasi. Later in the show we discuss King Mo's victory over Quinton "Rampage" Jackson at Bellator 175, the an...

UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Anderson featured some highlight reel performances from European fighters Jimi Manuwa, Gunnar Nelson and Mark Diakiese. This episode we discuss the results from that Fight Pass exclusive event, as well as the continuing trend of UFC fighters not being able to compete due to weight cutting issues. In the second half of the episode we discuss the increasing likelihood tha...

This week we are joined again by Adam Martin from The MMA Review Podcast to preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Anderson. The UFC's return to London features a main event between top ten Light Heavyweights Jimi Manuwa and Corey Anderson, and we preview all of the fights taking place on this Fight Pass exclusive event. In the second half of the show we discuss the results of last weeke...

The UFC heads to Brazil this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum, and former UFC Champion Vitor Belfort meets rising Middleweight contender Kelvin Gastelum in the main event. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire main card of that show. In the second half of the episode we discuss the UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum preliminary fights, the results of la...

UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2 is coming up this Saturday night, and is headlined by a rematch of the excellent UFC Welterweight Championship fight between Tyron Woodley and Stephen Thompson. In the first half of this week's episode we preview that fight, as well as the highly anticipated UFC Interim Lightweight Championship fight between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Tony Ferguson, and the rest of the...

Former UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre is finally returning to the UFC, and while that is obviously big news, we just can't help but start this week's episode discussing Derrick "The Black Beast" Lewis and his knockout victory over Travis Browne at UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Browne. In the second half of the show we do indeed get to the impending return of Georges St. Pierre, as well...

The UFC returns to Halifax this upcoming weekend for UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Browne. We spend the first half of this week's episode previewing this somewhat patched together card, including the heavyweight main event between Derrick Lewis and Travis Browne, the debut of Johny Hendricks as a Middleweight, and appearances by Canadian fighters such as Elias Theodorou, Nordine Taleb and Randa Marko...

The upcoming UFC 208: Holm vs. de Randamie card introduces a brand new UFC title when Holly Holm faces Germaine de Randamie for the inaugural UFC Women's Featherweight Championship. We begin this episode by previewing all of the fights on that card including the most under the radar Anderson Silva fight in the last decade, against Derek Brunson. In the second half of the show we discuss last weeke...

Valentina Shevchenko became the next contender for the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship following her win at UFC On Fox: Shevchenko vs. Pena. This episode we recap all of the action from that event, which also included breakthrough wins for Jorge Masvidal, Francis Ngannou, and Jason Knight. In the second half of the episode we preview next weekend's UFC Fight Night: Bermudez vs. Korean Zombie...

The UFC returns to the FOX network again this week for UFC On Fox: Shevchenko vs. Pena. This episode we preview that event, including the main event of Valentina Shevchenko vs. Julianna Pena that will likely determine the next contender to Amanda Nunes' UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship, as well as an always welcome appearance of Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone on free television, when he meets Jorge...