The Hammer MMA Radio

We're on site in Montreal for UFC 154: St. Pierre vs. Condit.  Check out this episode for our thoughts on the pre-fight press conference, and a batch of fighter interviews including Mark Bocek, John Makdessi, and Mark Hominick.

This week's episode is up a day early, as Dave and Greg are on the way to Montreal for the rest of the week to cover UFC 154: St. Pierre vs. Condit.  On this week's show we preview the entire UFC 154 card, recap last weekend's UFC on Fuel: Franklin vs. Le, and give our early thoughts on the closing of Strikeforce and the upcoming introduction of a UFC women's division. Check back online all this w...

We're gearing up towards UFC 154: St. Pierre vs. Condit in Montreal on November 17th.  This week we discuss the UFC 154 Media Conference including the complete audio from the event. Then we preview this Saturday's UFC on Fuel: Franklin vs. Le, talk this week's latest drug suspensions, give our thoughts on the latest trainwreck episode of The Ultimate Fighter, and recap all of the MMA cards from la...

UFC fighter and The Ultimate Fighter alumni TJ Dillashaw is on the show this week to talk about his career.  Then with no UFC cards this weekend and the Strikeforce show being cancelled, we preview some of the smaller MMA shows including The World Series Of Fighting, Resurrection Fighting Alliance, and Bellator shows coming up on Friday and Saturday night. We also hit up all the week's news such a...

With no major MMA cards this week, and with so much recent talk about Anderson Silva vs. Georges St. Pierre and Jon Jones, we decided to see just how super some of these proposed superfights would actually be. We also run down all the week's news including the Bellator events, The Score Fighting Series, Anthony Pettis' injuries, a couple of drug test failures and the unfortunate passing of Jeff Bl...

While the current season of The Ultimate Fighter is floundering, things look a lot more interesting for the new year, as Jon "Bones" Jones and Chael Sonnen will be hosting the show and then fighting in the new year.  We discuss whether this matchup, and a new timeslot, can help save the whole TUF concept. Then we run down the rest of this week's news, including yet another cancelled Strikeforce sh...

It's MMA overload this week.  We start the show previewing UFC 153: Silva vs. Bonnar (yes, that fight is really happening, and we kind of love it), as well as the rest of the card coming live from Brazil this Saturday night. Then we hit up a bunch of news, including the weekly Strikeforce debacle, Mayhem Miller's latest meltdown, fighters who've been fired, fighters who are now in jail, fighters w...

UFC on FX: Browne vs. Bigfoot is coming up this Saturday, and the main event looks like a pretty violent heavyweight affair.  It has a lot to live up to to top last weekend's UFC on Fuel: Struve vs. Miocic though.  We discuss both cards in depth on this week's episode. Then we hit up some of the week's MMA news, the Bellator heavyweight tournament, and close out the show with an interview with UFC...

UFC 152 is over, and things are getting back to normal.  After one final rundown of last Saturday's card, we preview this coming weekend's UFC on Fuel: Struve vs. Miocic from Nottingham, England. We would preview the Strikeforce card on the same night, but it's been cancelled! Also, we end the show with a quick interview with top UFC Welterweight, Rory MacDonald. Check back online all this week fo...

UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort is over, and so is our week long coverage of all of the UFC 152 events taking place around Toronto for the past week.  Check out this episode for our thoughts on all of the fight results from live in the building, as well as what went down at the post-fight press conference. Spoiler:  Dana White yelled at Dave. Check back next Wednesday night at 7pm for our regular weekl...

Dave and Steve are still in Toronto covering UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort.  Since the last time they checked in, there's been the UFC 152 pre-fight press conference, and the weigh-ins, as well as a UFC Community event for underpriviledged youths featuring Rory MacDonald and Brendan Schaub. Check back online all this week for bonus episodes following various UFC 152 media events, and we'll be back li...

Dave and Steve continue their week in Toronto covering UFC 152. This bonus episode covers the UFC 152 Open Workouts, where we got a good look at the fighters and play some highlights from the media including quotes from Brian Stann, Demetrious Johnson, Michael Bisping, and Joseph Benevidez. Also relieve our shame, as the two of us spent time at the Media Workouts learning the most basic of MMA tec...

The Hammer MMA Radio is on location all week in Toronto for UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort.  This episode we're previewing the entire UFC 152 card from top to bottom, including both the Light Heavyweight and Flyweight Championship fights. We also run down all of this week's MMA news including the bizarre new main event for UFC 153, the first episode of The Ultimate Fighter Season 16, recently signed w...

It's another slow news week, and it's mostly bad news. Pretty much the entire main card of UFC 153 in Brazil has fallen apart, so we try to come up with ways to save it. Also, since a three month onslaught of continuous major MMA events kicks in next week, we spend the calm before the storm analyzing the current state of each of the UFC title scenes. Finally, we will be in Toronto next week coveri...

We're not live in studio this week, and since the UFC 151 show has been cancelled we are just doing a shorter episode to recap all of the week's news. Topics include Jon "Bones" Jones vs. Twitter, Jose Aldo vs. Frankie Edgar, Jose Aldo vs. A Car, One FC from The Phillipines, recently signed Strikeforce matches, some recent injury statistics and more. Check us out live Wednesday at 7pm on CFMU 93.3...

UFC 151 was supposed to happen this Saturday night but it's been cancelled.  Or murdered, depending on who you ask.  Instead of skipping Episode 108 of our show entirely, we decided to show up and recap the entire sequence of events, and Dave uses his math skills to distribute blame to everyone who deserves it. We also find some time to discuss GSP's return, last weeks Bellator, Score Fighting Ser...

Ronda Rousey retained her Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Championship with yet another consecutive first round armbar victory. It's amazing.  We discuss the title fight, the future of women's MMA, and the rest of the Strikeforce card from last Saturday night. Then we run down this Saturday night's Bellator show, The Score Fighting Series in Hamilton Ontario, Frankie Edgar dropping to Featherweig...

The UFC Lightweight Championship rematch between Ben Henderson and Frankie Edgar at UFC 150 was even closer than their first fight, and may have left just as many questions. Was the fight scored correctly?  Who gets the next shot at the belt?  Should Edgar drop to a lower weight class?  We discuss it all on this week's show, including all of the prelim fights. We also preview Strikeforce: Rousey v...

The UFC 150: Henderson vs. Edgar 2 Pay Per View is this weekend, and if their last fight is any indication then Ben Henderson vs. Frankie Edgar's Lightweight Championship rematch should be an exciting one.  We preview all of the fights on the show, as usual. We also discuss the latest drama in the UFC Heavyweight division, yet more injuries ruining big fights, and the surprisingly incredible UFC o...

It's an extra-long episode of The Hammer MMA Radio this week.  We use the extra time to preview UFC on Fox 4 coming up this Saturday, featuring two Light Heavyweight fights that will determine the next number one contender. We also run down all of the week's news as usual, but the real benefit to our double-length show is that allowed us to do a full recap of last weekend's excellent all-women's I...

Let's be honest, UFC 149: Faber vs. Barao was a pretty lackluster event.  Still there were some highlights, and even the lowlights were kind of interesting failures.  We run through the whole card, including all of the preliminary fights, which actually provided the best action of the night. We also recap Bellator 72, preview The Invicta Fighting Championships 2 coming up this Saturday, and talk a...

UFC 149: Faber vs. Barao is coming up this weekend, and it's not exactly the card that was originally promised.  Still, between the UFC Interim Bantamweight Title fight, Hector Lombard's debut, and a heavyweight fight that's sure to be fun, there still looks to be some excitement left in this card. We preview the whole event (including the fights that no one wants to see), as well as Friday night'...

UFC 148: Silva vs. Sonnen 2 is now in the books, and Anderson Silva is still the UFC Middleweight Champion.  We analyze the fight, including the wild finishing sequence, and then try to figure out where both of the fighters go from here. Then we run down the rest of the card, preview Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Kennedy, and discuss a bit of news, including Rampage Jackson's next fight. Check us out...

Not only is this week our 100th episode, but it's also the biggest MMA event of the year. UFC 148: Silva vs. Sonnen is coming up July 7th, and we dedicate the whole show to previewing the most anticpated rematch in MMA history between Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen.  We also make our predictions for the rest of the card, including what looks to be Tito Ortiz' retirement fight. Check us out live W...

Well that was disapointing.  Between UFC on FX 4's disapointing main event, and UFC 147's thrown together Brazilian card, the UFC didn't deliver the most exciting double-header last weekend.  We spend a lot of this week's show ripping on Clay Guida vs. Maynard though, which can't be any worse than the actual fight. We do find some diamonds in the rough though, including a handful of solid fights,...