This Saturday, the UFC is in Toronto for UFC 231, where it is headlined by the leader of the Blessed Era Max Holloway and Brian Ortega. This is truly a razor close fight and shows how far MMA has evolved, as these two exemplify 2018 elite MMA skills.
It was recently announced by a number of sources that Anderson Silva will return to the Octagon to face Middleweight prospect/contender Israel Adesanya. “The Spider” has not fought in nearly two years, and will be days shy of a year layoff at UFC 234 in February. “The Last Stylebender,” however, has been extremely active, fighting 4 times in 2018, winning all of them with 2 finishes, most recently over Derek Brunson. Many critics are saying this is a dangerous fight for an aging Silva and criticize the UFC and Dana White for condemning Chuck Liddell’s fight while announcing this one in the same breath. HOWEVER, this is truly the fight to make for both parties.
Since an Instagram post made by Donald Cerrone in essence calling out Conor McGregor, media and fans alike have been wondering if it is a good time to book Cowboy vs Conor. Long story short: yes, a thousand times yes.
Daniel Cormier is currently set to headline UFC 230 to save the day. For many years now he has seemed to be a company man, but as his career is certainly winding down, how much does he have left to give and how many more times will we get to see his famous run to the octagon?
Artem “The Russian Hammer” Lobov, the P4P king, training partner to Conor McGregor, a guy I hear is pretty good, and member of elite gym SBG in Dublin, has a fight upcoming, and it is important to use this time to give praise to the GOAT of the sport.
It is Spooky Szn, people, and with that comes Trick or Treat. The UFC has responded with treating fans by spoiling us with putting on bigger PPV shows to wrap up another great year of MMA.
We crunched the numbers in the Untitled MMA SUPER-COMPUTER (not really, we don’t even have one of those), and simulated a UFC Lightweight Grand Prix…
In a huge week of fight announcements and withdrawals, one that stood out to me was that Derrick Lewis got a long-awaited title shot against Heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier. Truly, this is such a Derrick Lewis way to get a shot, and we will explain why, but I just want to say that Derrick Lewis is getting what he deserves.
UFC 229 is this weekend, and the main event is one for the ages: Conor McGregor returns to the UFC for the first time in nearly 2 years to face Khabib Nurmagomedov. There gave been claims of mauling and knockouts from both sides of the exchange, and today we are going to give a scenario where Khabib beats Conor and retains his UFC Lightweight belt.
In this episode we discuss Bellator 206, Bellator/DAZN, Jon Jones vs DC at Heavyweight, USADA, and we break down (and make our picks for) UFC 229.
