My UFC 97 Picks

Usually before I put together these picks articles, I review a bit of film on each fighter, examine their recent history, and take some time to make educated predictions on how their bouts will play out. It’s been a good enough formula. But as you can see, I don’t have time for that. I’m [...]

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Strikeforce: Striking While the Iron is Hot

 
In light of the abscence of Andrew Wallace from Northern California this weekend, we instead sent Mike Garza to report on this weekend’s Strikeforce event. With Cyborg’s fight with Akano fallen apart, as well as the injury and subsequent pull-out of Josh Thompson it is safe to say there have been a few bumps along [...]

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Boring Fights: Why?

As 2009 plugs on and I watch more and more of this year’s action, I find myself looking through a growing list of mind-numbingly boring decision fights.  Bader v. Marrero.  Maeda v. Miller.  WarGods. Sometimes as viewers we are blessed to have Bas Rutten bitterly complaining about the boredom along with us, but at times, [...]

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DREAM.8: When the Past Becomes The Future

It seems not long ago that PRIDE introduced a second tier show, Bushido, and ultimately used that event to push forward its non-heavyweight stars. Inargurably one of its centerpieces was Hayato “Mach” Sakurai, a former Shooto champion and even UFC welterweight title challenger, a popular and exciting fighter with a storied background in Shooto. His [...]

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Analyzing the Second Tier: WEC & Bellator

One of the strange aspects of spending one’s time reading internet forums and the like is that one often sees a bizarre representation of reality. The reaction to the WEC as a sort of “major league” is an excellent example of that. Clearly, it isn’t. The ratings, live gates, attendance, hell, really everything point to [...]

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Jeff Monson: Living the Gimmick

Its one thing to call one’s self an “anarchist”. How many teenagers have done that in the midst of etching Pantera or Exploited logos into the backs of their notebooks? Its almost a rite of passage for disaffected youth before going off to college and being exposed to the real world. But there are those [...]

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Rankings in MMA: The Cro-Cop Problem

With the second anniversary of PRIDE’s funeral now having passed, its brought about much discussion about questions regarding how good PRIDE was compared to the UFC and whether or not its fighters were overvalued. None of this has resulted in questions about whether or not said overstated evaluation of PRIDE’s competitors has led those people to, by virtue [...]

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UFN 18: What did we learn?

Another night of fights is over from Nashville, and there must be something that we can take away from it….right? Right? Well, a few things at least. 
-WEC: Being the AAA of MMA is still being minor league-
Poor Carlos Condit. Close decision loss, sure, but a loss nonetheless. Listen, the fact is that even if you [...]

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The Internet Plague; The Art of Copy and Paste

If you are here, reading this, you probably read a lot of Mixed Martial Arts sites. You might have a RSS viewer, a Google Homepage or you just know the sites you read by heart and read them every day. Total MMA is not a site for you to come and scope out the latest [...]

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#1 in the MMAlulz Aggregate

Dear Bloodyelbow,
Posting at epic length about how your rankings are in USA Today as part of the development of the sport, working for promoters, demanding/begging for credentials, to say nothing of internet ad revenue and its disbursment, may in fact be the very definition of having a “self interested agenda”.
Your friends,
T-MMA
p.s. - Arguing that the overall value [...]

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Much To Do About Rankings

There’s been a few articles this week around the circle jerk of MMA blogdom reviewing the value or lack of value in rating MMA fighters. Interesting arguments placed against ratings are that lower ranked fighters do tend to beat higher ranked fighters on occassion, that top fighters don’t fight each other every other month, and [...]

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Better Late Than Never: Analyzing DREAM.7

In the rush of entry level business analysis, a stunning aspect of the little DREAM.7 talk that did take place was that almost none of it pertained to the actual bouts on the card. Rather, all the focus was on the business aspects of the show, which is great, except that at some point, someone [...]

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Strikeforce: Why I Love Thee

If you don’t love this, I don’t know. This is exactly what I’m looking for in MMA; Nick Diaz antics, Frank Shamrock talking about honor, fighting, his family while still coming off like an incredible dick. This fight is going to rule.

AllElbows: Shamrock vs Diaz Presser in Hollywood from All Elbows on Vimeo. 

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More Fighting on TV: Dhani does Muay Thai

Last year, the glut of martial arts related TV programming prompted me to write An Ultimate Fighter or a Fight Girl in a Fight Quest Against a Human Weapon at a Fight Club Until the Last One Standing is a Contender Asia, or Something. Ouch. So, in 2009, who is left standing? Well, not too [...]

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March Badness: Could it have been worse?

Last night marked the first PPV entry of a mixed card here on this side of the Atlantic. While the biggest events in Japanese history are almost universally events mixing kickboxing and MMA, stateside the attitudes have been different regarding the use of both sports on the same stage. While there were lots of criticisms [...]

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