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We begin this week's episode by previewing the seventh UFC event in the last thirty one days. While UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Cacares isn't the highest profile UFC show, there are three Featherweight fights (Yair Rodriguez vs. Alex Caceres, Dennis Bermudez vs. Rony Jason, and Cub Swanson vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri) that give us more than enough to discuss. Then in the second half of the episode we...

While it may be flying under the radar compared to this summer's other big UFC events, this Saturday night's UFC 202: Lawler vs. Woodley gives UFC Welterweight Champion Robbie Lawler another chance to have the fight of the year against contender Tyron Woodley. This episode we preview all of the fights on the card, including a solid Women's Strawweight co-main event between Rose Namajunas and Karol...

The UFC returns to Fox this Saturday night for UFC On Fox: Holm vs. Shevchenko. We begin this week's episode by previewing that event, which includes both the return of Holly Holm, and a high level Lightweight co-main event between Edson Barboza and Gilbert Melendez. Then it's a whole lot of USADA drug test talk, what with Brock Lesnar and Jon Jones' provisional suspensions, Chad Mendes' two-year...

UFC International Fight Week, along with it's three consecutive nights of UFC events, is finally over. We spend most of this week's episode discussing the results of UFC 200: Tate vs. Nunes, The Ultimate Fighter 23 Finale, and UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Alvarez. Between the three newly crowned UFC Champions, the resurgence of Brock Lesnar, and the literally dozens of fights that just went down...

This week's episode is our huge UFC 200: Lesnar vs. Hunt preview, and it looks like Jon Jones has just been removed from the main event at the last minute. We spend the first half of the show breaking down the UFC Interim Featherweight Championship match between Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar, and the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship match between Miesha Tate and Amanada Nunes. In the second hal...

While we wait for the upcoming UFC International Fight Week, we've caught up with a few current and former UFC fighters for interviews. First up is former UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman who discusses his budding rivalry with Michael Bisping. Also this episode, we have interviews with Scottish UFC Lightweight Stevie Ray, and former WEC Featherweight Champion Mike Brown. In addition we spen...

We're back from UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Thompson in Ottawa, and this episode we recap all of the fights along with post-fight interviews with Misha Cirkunov, Krysztof Jotko, Joe Soto, Elias Theodorou, Randa Markos, Colby Covington and Johnathan Meunier. We also discuss a couple of inescapable rumors from the past week, with the potential UFC sale and the increasingly likely return of former...

This is our last episode before UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Thompson takes place, and we have pre-fight interviews with co-main eventer Patrick Cote, UFC Women's Flyweight opponents Joanne Calderwood and Valerie Letourneau, and UFC Director of Operations for Canada, Tom Wright. We are also joined by Sportsnet's James Lynch for a last minute breakdown of all of this weekend's fights, now that th...

We're currently on the road in Ottawa covering the upcoming UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Thompson, and this is our first of two episodes of pre-fight interviews with many of the fighters competing on that event. This episode we speak with Rory MacDonald and Stephen Thompson about how they feel about facing each other in Saturday's main event, Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone shoots straight about USADA,...

This week we are joined by Canadian MMA journalist Adam Martin to preview this Saturday night's UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Thompson. We break down the entire card including the Welterweight main event between Rory MacDonald and Stephen Thompson, the co-main event of Donald Cerrone vs. Patrick Cote, and the first ever UFC Women's Flyweight fight. During the second half of the show we discuss so...

Last Saturday night's UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping event proved to be was an extremely newsworthy show, both inside and outside of the cage. During the first half of this week's episode we discuss Michael Bisping's UFC Middleweight Championship win, the seeming end of the ten year Dominick Cruz vs. Uriah Faber rivalry, yet another instance of Dan Henderson turning back the clock, and more. In the...

UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping takes place this Saturday night, and we spend most of this week's episode previewing the entire event including the UFC Middleweight Championship fight between Luke Rockhold and Michael Bisping, and the UFC Bantamweight Champion rematch between Dominick Cruz and Uriah Faber. In the second half of this week's show we look back at the results of last weekend's upset fil...

It's our 300th episode, and we get right into previewing this Sunday's intriguing UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Garbrandt. We spend the first half of the show breaking down all of the fights on the card including the Bantamweight main event, the Featherweight debut of Renan Barao, and a strong Fight Pass exclusive between Aljamain Sterling and Bryan Caraway. In the second half of the show we discus...

This week we are joined by fight journalist Shawn Smith (Sportsnet, Vice Sports) to discuss an extremely busy week in MMA. In the first half of the show we break down the UFC's updated weight cutting policy, Michael Bisping's just-announced Middleweight Championship fight at UFC 199, rumors of a UFC sale, details on the Flyweight season of The Ultimate Fighter, and some recent Bellator news includ...

Rob is joined this week by Showdown Joe Ferraro, the former host of UFC Central on Sportsnet.  Joe discusses his groundbreaking MMA show, his work with Titan FC, and life outside of MMA. Also, Rob discusses the upcoming Global Warriors 3 event in Brantford, Ontario. Hosted by Rob Veevers. Listen live Wednesday nights at 6:00pm on CFMU 93.3 FM , and online at http://www.thehammermma.com ,  The Itun...

UFC 198: Werdum vs. Miocic takes place this Saturday May 14th from Curitiba, Brazil. Although Anderson Silva was recently removed from the show, we still spend almost the entire episode previewing the UFC Heavyweight Championship main event between Fabricio Werdum and Stipe Miocic, a high level Middleweight co-main event with Jacare Souza vs. Vitor Belfort, and intriguing fights for Demian Maia, S...

The UFC debuts in The Netherlands this Sunday with UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Arlovski. During the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including the Heavyweight main event between Alistair Overeem and Andrei Arlovski, a high level Welterweight fight between Albert Tumenov and Gunnar Nelson, and a couple of intriguing spotlight fights in the Women's Strawweight and Banta...

Last weekend's UFC 197: Jones vs. Saint Preux event featured the two top pound-for-pound fighters in the world competing on the same night, but providing two wildly different performances. In the first half of this week's episode we break down all of the results, including the long-awaited return of new UFC Interim Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones, and the latest dominating performance by UFC...

Serious technical difficulties made yesterday's episode unlistenable. So we've just blown it up completely, and recorded a replacement episode focusing on Conor McGregor and UFC 197 discussion. As you'd expect We begin this week's show discussing McGregor's original teased retirement, the multiple responses from Dana White, and the most recent Facebook statement made by McGregor. Then we preview a...

This week Rob is joined once again by "Big Win" Don Wilson from MMATopNews.com to preview coast-to-coast Canadian MMA, including this Saturday night's Elite 1 MMA event in Moncton, New Brunswick, and this Friday night's Hard Knocks Fighting Championship 42 from Calgary, Alberta. Also discussed this week are the results of last weekend's eventful Xcessive Force Fighting Championship 9 card from las...

The UFC returns to network TV again this weekend for UFC On Fox: Teixeira vs. Evans. While this show was hurt by losing the original main event of Tony Ferguson vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov, it still features big names in big fights including Glover Teixeira vs. Rashad Evans, Rose Namajunas vs. Tecia Torres, and a short notice replacement fight for Khabib Nurmagomedov. We preview the entire card during...

This week Rob is joined by P.E.I. Welterweight Matt Macgrath, who faces UFC veteran Jesse Ronson for the XFFC Welterweight Championship this Friday night at Xcessive Force Fighting Championship in Alberta, Canada. Also we run down the results of last weekend's Fight Night: Medicine Hat event, also from Alberta, which featured big wins from Canadian fighters Ryan Machan, Josh Hill and Adam Assenza,...

This Sunday afternoon the UFC debuts in Zagreb, Croatia for UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs. Dos Santos, an event that is heavy on the heavyweights. We preview the entire card during the first half of this week's episode, or at least we attempt to. In the second half of the show we look back on another busy week in MMA news including Daniel Cormier's injury, the announcement of UFC Interim Light Heav...

Rob is back in studio,to discuss all of the news in Canadian MMA this week, and also to preview Saturday night's Fight Night: Medicine Hat taking place April 9th in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Fight Night: Medicine Hat includes fights two Middleweight title fights, a Light Heavyweight title fight, and the return of TUF and WSOF veteran Josh Hill. Hosted by Rob Veevers. Listen live Wednesday nights at 6...

This week we discuss the week in MMA news including Jon Jones' latest driving violation and arrest, the official UFC debut of Invicta FC Featherweight Champion Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos, the release of multiple UFC fighters, Fox Sports parting ways with MMA journalist Ariel Helwani, and more. We also take a quick look at this upcoming weekend's only major national MMA card, World Series of Fightin...