The Hammer MMA Radio

UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem is coming this Friday night, and it's ending the year in a big way.  Brock Lesnar is returning after more than a year away, to face Alistair Overeem, the enormous former champion of Strikeforce, K-1, and Dream.  The whole card is loaded, so we spend a ton of time previewing all of the fights, including the highly anticipated Cerrone vs. Diaz match. We also sneak in a lo...

It's our Second Annual Hammer Awards show!  We spend a big part of this week's episode discussing our choices for 2011's Best Fight, Best KO, Best Submission, Favorite Fighter, Best Prospect, Worst Fight, Biggest Robbery, and of course, Douchebag of The Year. There's also some Strikeforce news, including the continued existence of the promotion, and a recap of last weekend's Strikeforce: Melendez...

The Hammer MMA Radio was live in Toronto at UFC 140: Jones vs. Machida, and it was quite the show, including great fights, huge knockouts, broken arms, and the quickest finish in UFC history. We recap all of the matches from the main card and the prelims. Not only that, but it's been a huge week in MMA news, with Alistair Overeem's issues with drug testing, the introduction of the UFC Flyweight di...

The audio quality's a little rough, but The Hammer MMA Radio was at the UFC 140 Weigh-Ins in Toronto, as well as a Mark Munoz Q&A, and an odd surprise videogame battle between Frankie Edgar and Ben Henderson.  We run down the whole card in more depth than on last week's show, and discuss what the mood's like for the second ever Toronto UFC card.  Come back next Wednesday for our full thoughts on t...

UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre is injured and will be out for a year.  We lead off this week's show discussing this unfortunate news, and examining where the UFC goes from here. We also have issues with the newly announced UFC on FOX 2 card, love the next season's coaches for The Ultimate Fighter, and debate Bellator's new timeslot. Following that, we preview the top matches coming u...

The non-stop run of UFC events continues with The Ultimate Fight Finale: Mayhem vs. Bisping coming up this Saturday night on Spike TV.  We analyze the coaches fight, our thoughts on the Featherweights and Bantamweights fighting for a UFC contract, and all the rest of the fights filling out the card. In other news, we recap Bellator 59 from last weekend including one of the worst finishes of the ye...

Two of the best fights in all of 2011 happened last Saturday night.  UFC 139 had an epic Dan Henderson vs. Shogun Rua epic that headlined an amazing card. Not to be outdone, Bellator lightweights Eddie Alvarez and Michael Chandler had a completely different, but equally as exciting war at Bellator 58.  We discuss all of the action from both shows. Then we hit up all sorts of news from around the w...

UFC debuted on the FOX network last Saturday night.  Millions and millions of viewers tuned in to watch just over a minute total of action.  We run down the pros and cons of the show, including both the American and the international versions of the broadcast, as well as all of the fights that aired only on Facebook. Meanwhile, on that very same night, the Hammer MMA Radio was also live at Bellato...

The UFC debuts on the FOX network this Saturday night, when Cain Velasquez faces Junior Dos Santos for the UFC Heavyweight title in a free one-hour special that may be the most important MMA fight ever.  As you'd expect we spend most of our show analyzing the title fight, the new television deal, and the Facebook-only preliminary card. Afterwards we recap last weekend's UFC 138: Leben vs. Munoz, p...

Last weekend's UFC 137 show was nothing if not eventful.  Nick Diaz got his title shot against GSP back, BJ Penn and Mirko Cro Cop say they've retired from MMA, Donald Cerrone put the lightweight division on notice, and Roy Nelson was less fat than usual.  We run down these events, as well as all of the fights on the card. We also discuss this weekend's unfortunate looking UFC 138, Carlos Condit's...

Georges St. Pierre may be injured, but UFC 137: Penn vs. Diaz looks to be a solid show even without a title match.  We run down the whole card and make our picks for all of the fights. There's also a ton of news including Viacom buying Bellator, the future of the Silva/Sonnen rematch, the disapointing buyrate for UFC 136, the slow painful demise of K-1 in Japan, and more. Check us out at http://ww...

We're joined this week by top Canadian featherweight, Will Romero.  We discuss his huge victory at The Score Fighting Series last weekend, his continuing Bellator career, training, rivalries, the current Canadian MMA scene, and more. Afterwards, we get into all the week's news, including Georges St. Pierre's injury and withdrawal from UFC 137, more Chael Sonnen ridiculousness, and some big upcomin...

Frankie Edgar and Jose Aldo proved why they are two of the best pound for pound fighters in the world at UFC 136 last Saturday night, and it was a great night of fights.  We run down all of the matches from that show, including Chael Sonnen's amazing performance and his infamous interview afterwards. We also discuss weight cutting, pound for pound rankings, UFC 140 in Toronto, The Score Fighting S...

This Saturday's UFC 136: Edgar vs. Maynard is a loaded night of fights.  Frankie Edgar meets Gray Maynard for the UFC Lightweight title, Jose Aldo defends his Featherweight title against perennial contender Kenny Florian, and Chael Sonnen and Brian Stann battle for a likely number one contender's slot.  We discuss these fights, and the rest of the card, on this week's episode. We also talk a new p...

It's rare that a UFC Championship match is given away on free TV, but The Hammer MMA Radio favorite Dominick Cruz defends his UFC Bantamweight Championship against Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson in the headlining match of a great looking card this Saturday night.  We also take a look back at last week's UFC 135: Bones vs. Rampage event, the new season of The Ultimate Fighter, and discuss Dan He...

The Hammer is joined by special guest host Josh Hill! Josh is one of the rapidly rising stars in the Ontario MMA scene and will share with us some insight about training for MMA, cutting weight and trying out for the Ultimate Fighter. We also make our predictions for the upcoming Bones Vs Rampage PPV.

Greg chose a good week to be in Australia, because UFC Fight Night: Shields vs. Ellenberger is this Saturday night, and it's threatening to be the lowest rated UFC television show in recent memory.  At the very least, the rest of us will be watching, and we preview all of the fights on this week's episode.   Afterwards, we run down the results of last weekend's eventful Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Kh...

It's pretty much the biggest MMA news week in a while.  Nick Diaz lost his UFC Welterweight title shot for no-showing a press conference.  Carlos Condit had the best phone call of his life.  Brock Lesnar's returning.  Alistair Overeem's returning.  Josh Koscheck's returning.  Fedor's returning (sort of).  And Zuffa announced events in pretty much every country you can think of. There's also the St...

It's our seventh special edition of The Hammer MMA Radio, where we review MMA related media and special events seperate from our weekly show.  This time we managed to get a sneak preview of the new MMA movie Warrior starring Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, and uh...Nate Marquardt and Rumble Johnson.  We debate whether it was a good MMA film, if it was a good movie overall, and end up giving away tons of sp...

It was a good night for Brazilian fighters, when Anderson Silva, Shogun Rua, and seemingly every other local fighter on the card brought their A-games at UFC 134. We discuss the card in-depth, including potential Middleweight title contenders, why Forrest Griffin looked so bad, and what was up with the judging. Later on in the show we talk about the return of Pro-Elite, some interesting new UFC ma...

The UFC returns to Brazil this Saturday night for the first time since the 1990s. UFC 134: Silva vs. Okami is full of great matchups including Anderson Silva vs. Yushin Okami, and Shogun Rua vs. Forrest Griffin.  We run down all the fights and give our predictions. Other topics this week include more on the UFC's network deal with Fox, Ultimate Fighter going live, Bellator 48, and Josh Koscheck po...

UFC put on a great free TV card with UFC Live 5: Hardy vs. Lytle, and we spend a good part of this week's show sending off Chris Lytle, pondering Dan Hardy's future, and praising the incredible Ben Henderson vs. Jim Miller fight.  We discuss the rest of the card too, but those guys get most of the love. Then we get into all of this week's news, including UFC's deal with The Fox Network, Rich Frank...

UFC 133: Evans vs. Ortiz made chicken salad out of chicken shit, as Brock Lesnar might say.  This card full of injuries and substitutions wound up being pretty damn good.  We begin this week's show running down all the great performances, the retirements, and the unfortunate clothing choices that occured last weekend. Then we preview this coming Sunday's free UFC card, UFC Live: Hardy vs. Lytle, a...

UFC 133: Evans vs Ortiz is this Saturday, and we're previewing the whole card, one that's had more than it's share of unfortunate events leading up to it.  A rotating main event, a dropped co-main event, and more injuries and substitutions than we can count.  Do we think it's still worth buying?   Check out our show and see.    We also recap last weekend's Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Henderson card, a...

Bellator came to Canada for the first time last week, and The Hammer MMA Radio was there.   We recap all the fights, including both featherweight title tournament fights, and the ridiculous Neil Grove vs. Zak Jensen battle.   Stick around till the end of the show too, where we interview Neil Grove about his victory.  Then we preview Strikeforce:  Fedor vs. Henderson, a card headlined by what some...