The Hammer MMA Radio

Two-thirds of The Hammer MMA Radio hosts are on the way to Brazil, and Dave will be co-hosting the show with a few of the guys from Sportsnet. Look for the next episode around mid-week. In the meantime, here is another episode of The Three Point Convert, talking the week in football, baseball, and basketball. Listen to The Hammer MMA Radio Wednesday nights at 6:30pm on CFMU 93.3 FM , and online at...

This episode is up a few days early to recap UFC Fight Night: Kim vs. Hathaway from Macau, that aired at the ridiculous time of 5am. Although it was an online-only Fight Pass event, it may have been the most enjoyable show of 2014 so far.  Then we preview next weekend's UFC Fight Night: Gustaffson vs. Manuwa event, Bellator, The NSAC banning TRT use, and what it means for fighters like Vitor Belfo...

The Hammer MMA Radio hosts were up at 5am to watch UFC Fight Night: Kim vs. Hathaway, live on UFC Fight Pass from Macao.  A new episode of The Hammer will be up soon, but in the meantime here is another episode of the general sports podcast The Three Point Convert . Listen to The Hammer MMA Radio Wednesday nights at 6:30pm on CFMU 93.3 FM , and online at http://www.thehammermma.com , Last Word On...

UFC 170: Rousey vs. McMann is over, and it was a much needed night of impressive victories and solid knockouts.  This episode we recap all of the fights of a card that included amongst other things, early stoppages, late stoppages, fighting baristas and avocado-related injuries. We also break down this coming week's UFC Fight Night: Kim vs. Hathaway and Bellator 110, discuss Gilbert Melendez's new...

This week we're joined by Sportsnet.ca's Adam Martin to preview Saturday night's UFC 170: Rousey vs. McMann. For the second time in two months UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey is defending her title, and we preview all of this Saturday night's card. Also coming up this weekend is World Series of Fighting Canada: Ford vs. Powell. Joining us in the second half of the episode are two WS...

Due to radio station pre-emptions and polar vortexes, we had to combine two episodes into one this week. The first half is a full preview of the UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Mousasi event coming up next Saturday night.   Then we discuss a ton of MMA news including a potential Jose Aldo vs. Anthony Pettis superfight, UFC 169 results, Jessica Eye's overturned victory, Anthony "Rumble" Johnson, Julia...

For a variety of reasons the next episode of The Hammer MMA Radio has been delayed, but will be up tomorrow. In the meantime since people seem to be enjoying it, here's the latest episode of The Three Point Convert sports podcast with hosts Jeff Hall, Mike Jeffery, and Dan "The Doctor" Ryan. Their third episode includes post-Super Bowl discussion, the latest MLB and NBA news, and some Sochi Winter...

This week we are joined by Sportsnet's James Lynch ( @lynchonsports ) to help us preview Saturday night's UFC 169: Barao vs. Faber event.  We discuss the Bantamweight title fight, Jose Aldo vs. Ricardo Lamas for the Featherweight title, Frank Mir. vs. Alistair Overeem for job security, and the rest of a pretty stacked card. Then we look back at some of the week's biggest MMA news including the res...

The Three Point Convert Podcast will be launching it's own channel soon, but in the meantime here's the latest episode from  hosts Jeff Hall, Mike Jeffery, and Dan "The Doctor" Ryan talking this week in Football, Basketball, Baseball and Hockey. Listen to us Wednesday nights at 6:30pm on CFMU 93.3 FM , and online at http://www.thehammermma.com , Last Word On Sports ,  The Itunes Store , @SteveJeff...

After a rare week off we're back previewing this coming Saturday night's UFC On Fox: Henderson vs. Thomson show, as well as recapping a few of the more notable and ludicrous moments from last week's UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. P hilipou.   Then we get into one of the busiest MMA news weeks in recent memory including Georges St. Pierre's issues with UFC drug-testing, Bellator's latest matchmaking...

Due to unfortunate technical difficulties and timeslot pre-emptions, The Hammer MMA Radio had to miss this week's episode, but our next show will be up in a few days previewing UFC On Fox: Henderson vs. Thomson. In the meantime we've uploaded a new sports podcast recorded in our studio: The Three Point Convert, talking this week in sports with hosts Jeff Hall, Mike Jeffery, and Dan "The Doctor" Ry...

Last weekend the UFC put on it's first international event using the UFC Fight Pass online subscription service, and we gave it a shot to watch UFC Fight Night: Saffiedine vs. Lim, from Singapore.  At 9:00am.  It was actually pretty good, and we recap all of the fights to kick off this week's episode. Following that we discuss all of the week's news including Dominick Cruz's injury and subsequent...

UFC 168: Weidman vs. Silva is over, and 2014 looks to be a year of young champions and absent legends. Chris Weidman retained the UFC Middleweight title after Anderson Silva's leg shattered during a kick. We discuss the aftermath of that fight, Ronda Rousey's continued streak of armbars, and all of the rest of the fights from last weekend. Also we take a quick look at The UFC Fight Pass digitial s...

This week's episode is up a few days early due to the holidays, and it's some sort of Christmas miracle that the show even happened.  Ice storms and blackouts couldn't quite keep us from previewing next weekend's UFC 168: Silva vs. Weidman, where two title fights (including Ronda Rousey's rematch with Miesha Tate) will headline one of the biggest shows of the year. Following that we spend a few mi...

It's the Fourth Annual Hammer Awards episode.  As always we choose the winners and losers in eight categories such as Fighter of the Year, Fight of the Year, Submission of the Year and of course Douchebag of the Year. Before we get to that though, we had a busy week of MMA news to discuss including Georges St. Pierre's retirement, the future of vacant UFC Welterweight Championship, the exciting ne...

After taking a rare week off, we're back to talk about a busy week of MMA including this upcoming Saturday night's UFC On Fox 9: Johnson vs. Benavidez.  Although a few important fights fell through due to injuries, the card is still full of promising fights from top to bottom. Afterwards we discuss last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Bigfoot which was a night of violence including one of the...

Our live broadcast was pre-empted this week, so this is a shorter than usual episode previewing The Ultimate Fighter 18 Finale: Diaz vs. Maynard event. That card features the Men and Women Bantamweight finals, and more female fighters competing than on any Zuffa show so far. We also have a few minutes with current UFC Champion Chris Weidman prior to his rematch with Anderson Silva, a recap of the...

The UFC just celebrated their 20th Anniversary with mystery and controversy.  UFC 167: St. Pierre vs. Hendricks may have been a great night of fights, but the main event still has everyone scratching their heads days after it ended.  We spend a lot of time this episode trying to make sense of the judging, the referees, the rumors, the future of the Welterweight division and everything in-between....

UFC 167: St. Pierre vs. Hendricks is coming up next weekend and in addition to the much anticipated Welterweight Championship fight, the event also celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.  As this is one of the biggest cards of the year we've once again called on Fighters Only Magazine's Shawn Smith to help us preview the show, and also released the episode a few day...

This week we are joined by former UFC Middleweight contender Patrick Cote to talk about his role as a coach on the upcoming Ultimate Fighter: Canada vs. Australia reality show. He give us his thoughts on coaching against Kyle Noke's Australian team, the talent levels of both countries, and his current place as a UFC Welterweight. We also have an extensive recap of the fights and fallout from Bella...

We have another packed show this week as we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Munoz from last weekend, preview the stacked Bellator 106: Chandler vs. Alvarez show coming up on Saturday, and run down some of the bigger recent MMA news. We also have UFC's Executive Vice-President of Entertainment Don Gold, and nutrition expert Mike Dolce on to talk about the new UFC Fit program.  G...

It's another big week of fights between the aftermath of last weekend's UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos, and our full card breakdown of this coming Saturday's UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Munoz from England.   While those two events take up most of the show, we also have a few words with highly ranked UFC Lightweight Khabib Nurmagomedov and some news including new UFC signings, and Chael Sonnen...

This week we're previewing UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos.  Since it's such a big event (including three huge heavyweight fights and the return of Gilbert Melendez) we've brought in Sportsnet.ca's Shawn Smith to help us out.  We also have an interview with UFC 166 fighter Adlan Amagov just days prior to his fight with TJ Waldburger, and then a few thoughts on last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Mai...

As the UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Shields event was airing at exactly the same time as our live broadcast, we had to work with what we had.  So we discussed some newly signed fights, the introduction of World Series of Fighting Canada, Ben Rothwell's suspension, and then caught up on The Ultimate Fighter. Sort of.  We also have some interviews recorded at a recent charity event including UFC Lightw...

UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Shields takes place at exactly the same time that our live broadcast airs next week so we're previewing the entire card a whole week in advance. Following that we we get into all of the week's news including Michael Bisping's injury, a ton of recent fighter cuts including Yushin Okami, and the unfortunate death of a Brazilian fighter while cutting weight for a fight. Fina...