The Hammer MMA Radio

Rob is flying solo this week, and covers the whole week in Canadian MMA, including a look back at the results of last weekend's Super Fight League 42 in Calgary, Alberta, as well as the CES MMA 30 event in Rhode Island featuring a 39 second knockout from Edmonton's Lenny "The Show Stealer" Wheeler. Hosted by Rob Veevers. Listen live Wednesday nights at 6:00pm on CFMU 93.3 FM , and online at http:/...

In a pretty big case of better late than never, here is the podcast of last week's live radio show with Canadian Bantamweight Roland Delorme prior to his Super Fight League 42 fight with Jesse Arnett. Hosted by Rob Veevers. Listen live Wednesday nights at 6:00pm on CFMU 93.3 FM , and online at http://www.thehammermma.com , Last Word On Sports ,  The Itunes Store , and  @BanzukeAthletic on Twitter...

With Steve and Greg both unable to make it, Rob Veevers from the Hammer MMA Canada joins us in the first half of the show to review the exciting main event of Fight Night Teixeira vs Saint Preux - and the controversial split decision between Michael Johnson and Beneil Dariush. In the second half of the show, Sean Smith joins us to finish off the Fight Night prelimins and then to discuss the always...

UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs. Saint Preux is coming up this weekend, and we spend the first half of this week's episode previewing the entire card, including a high level Light Heavyweight main event between Glover Teixeira and Ovince Saint Preux, as well as a co-main event between two on-the-rise Lightweights in Michael Johnson and Beneil Dariush. In the second half of the show we discuss the res...

This weekend is UFC 190, and the UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey takes a break from Hollywood to fly down to Brazil for a good old fashioned grudge match against Bethe Correia.  This is an enormous seven-fight Pay Per View main card, so it takes most of this week's episode to get through it all.   After the break we return with a quick look at the upcoming World Series of Fighting 2...

This week Rob is joined by debuting Canadian Welterweight Johnny Sanguinetti. Johnny fights out of Joslin's MMA in Hamilton, Ontario and Johnny looks to be having his first fight in Warrior Xtreme Cage Fighting 59 on August 8th, in Michigan. Hosted by Rob Veevers. Listen live Wednesday nights at 6:00pm on CFMU 93.3 FM , and online at http://www.thehammermma.com , Last Word On Sports ,  The Itunes...

The much-delayed UFC Bantamweight Championshp rematch between TJ Dillashaw and Renan Barao finally takes place this weekend at UFC On Fox: Dillashaw vs. Barao 2.  On paper this free TV event is full of intriuging and exciting fights, and we break down as many as we can during the first half of this week's episode. During the second half of the show we discuss some of the week's biggest MMA news st...

This week Rob is joined by Battlefield Fight League Middleweight Champion Ryan Janes, to discuss Ryan's upcoming title fight at Battlefield Fight Le ague 37. The event takes place on July 25th, 2015 in Coquitlam, British Columbia. Also joining the show is highly ranked Canadian Featherweight Kyle "The Monster" Nelson, who is newly signed to the Battlefield organization, and he discusses what led t...

The UFC heads to Scotland this Saturday night for the first time ever with UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Leites.  While not the strongest top to bottom card, we do find a lot to discuss with both the main event of Michael Bisping vs. Thales Leites, as well as the promising co-main eve nt between Ross Pearson and Evan Dunham. Then we discuss the news of Conor McGregor and Urijah Faber starring in th...

Rob is joined this week by Justin Donnelly of Five Star Fight League / Five Star Athletics, to discuss Team Canada's involvement in the IMMAF World Championships this weekend in Las Vegas. Hosted by Rob Veevers. Listen live Wednesday nights at 6:00pm on CFMU 93.3 FM , and online at http://www.thehammermma.com , Last Word On Sports ,  The Itunes Store , and  @BanzukeAthletic on Twitter .  

This week we are joined by Fight Network Analyst and Commentator Robin Black to discuss the upcoming UFC 189: Mendes vs. McGregor event.   Robin hosts an incredible series of fight breakdowns called Five Rounds, so there's no one better to help us predict a fight with as many variables as this upcoming UFC Interim Featherweight Championship fight between Chad Mendes and Conor McGregor. The fight i...

This week Rob is joined by Cat Clarke to discuss the Submission Series PRO event (which includes Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Grappling), that takes place in this Saturday, July 11th in Toronto, Ontario. Hosted by Rob Veevers. Listen live Wednesday nights at 6:00pm on CFMU 93.3 FM , and online at http://www.thehammermma.com , Last Word On Sports ,  The Itunes Store , and  @BanzukeAthletic on Twitter ....

Jose Aldo's rib injury has officially removed him from the main event of UFC 189, and now Chad Mendes is stepping up to face Conor McGregor for the UFC Interim Featherweight Championship. We start off this week 's episode discussing this turn of events and what this new fight means for one of the biggest MMA events of 2015. Then in the second half of the show we are joined by Invicta FC Bantamweig...

For the second weekend in a row we have both UFC and Bellator events taking place.  In the first half of this week's episode we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Romero (a card which so far has already lost most of it's scheduled fights, as well as it's country of origin), and then recap last weekend's Fight Pass only event, UFC Figh t Night: Jedrzejczyk vs. Penne. In the second ha...

This week Rob is joined by Saskatoon fighter Jose Rodriguez to discuss his last fight in World Series of Fighting, as well as the UFC's announcement of their first show in Saskatchewan. There's also a look at the upcoming Hard Knocks Fighting Championship event on June 26th, as well as a recap of last weekend's Havoc FC 9 card from Alberta. Hosted by Rob Veevers. Listen live Wednesday nights at 6:...

The UFC returns to Germany this Saturday night for the fourth time for UFC Fight Night: Jedrzejczyk, a night headlined by Joanna Jedrzejczyk's first defen se of her UFC Women's Strawweight Championship.  This episode we preview the entire UFC Fight Pass exclusive card. We also take a look at the first major Bellator event in a while, as Kimbo Slice and Ken Shamrock will presumably fight each other...

This week Rob is joined by top Canadian Light Heavyweight Misha Cirkunov to discuss his newly announced signing with the UFC. Then Havok Fighting Championship fighters Jesse Fox and Ryan Machan join the show to discuss Jesse's fight with Brent Harvie on Friday June 19th, at Havoc Fighting Championship 9 in Red Deer, Alberta. Hosted by Rob Veevers. Listen live Wednesday nights at 6:00pm on CFMU 93....

UFC 188: Velasquez vs. Werdum takes place in Mexico City this weekend, and UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez returns to face UFC Interim Heavyweight Champion Fabricio Werdum in order to unite the titles. This episode we preview the entire fight card, including the highly anticipated co-main event between Gilbert Melendez and Eddie Alvarez, as well as  the latest Flyweight test for Olympic Go...

UFC Fight Night: Boetsch vs. Henderson takes place this Saturday night. We take the first half of this week's episode to preview the fight card, a night that looks to be a pivotal one for the future of the legendary Dan Henderson. We also check in with UFC fighter Elias "The Spartan" Theodorou and former UFC fighter Jesse "The Body Snatcher" Ronson, both of whom were in town for last weekend's Glo...

It's a packed show this week as Rob recaps a couple of huge Canadian M MA events from last weekend. First it's a rundown of May 30th's Elite 1 event in St. John's, a night which featured big wins for Adam Hunter, Matt DesRoches and more. Then David Abraham joins in to recap the events of last Saturday night's Global Warriors 2 event in Burlington, Ontario including post-fight interviews with Globa...

We are joined this week by Stand And Bang Radio's Aaron Robbins to preview UFC Fight Night: Condit vs. Alves. Former UFC Interim Welterweight Champion Carlos Condit returns from more than a year on the sidelines due to a knee injury to face former title contender Thiago Alves in Brazil. We preview that fight, as well as the rest of the 12 fight Fox Sports 1/Fight Pass card. Then we take a look bac...

This week host Rob Veevers has put together a double-sized show focused on this Saturday May 30th, 2015's Global Warriors fight card in Burlington, Ontario, as well as the Elite 1 event in St. John, New Brunswick the same night. Guests on this week's show to discuss these events include Canadian Welterweight Johnny Sanguinetti, who is having his first professional fight this weekend at the Elite 1...

Two UFC Championship fights take place on this Saturday night's UFC 187: Johnson vs. Cormier event. Anthony "Rumble" Johnson and Daniel Cormier will compete to determine the new UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, a title vacated by Jon Jones following his recent legal issues. Then the UFC Middleweight Championship will be defended for the first time in almost a year when Chris Weidman meets Vitor Bel...

This week host Rob Veevers is joined by Canadian Welterweight Ryan Dickson (10-3)to discuss his upcoming hometown fight with Jason Witt at the May 30th Global Warriors event in Burlington, Ontario. Then Reed Duthie joins in to continue the discussion about Global Warriors. Reed is the media ambassador for the event, and is also the co-host of the MMA Cave television show in Hamilton, Ontario. For...

U FC Fight Night: Edgar vs. Faber takes place this weekend, as former WEC Featherweight Champion Urijah Faber heads back up to  the weight class that he made famous to meet one-time UFC Featherweight title contender Frankie Edgar. We break down that exciting matchup, as well as the rest of the fights on this early morning event from The Phillipines.  Then we return to last week's discussion of the...