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derek harryman tsi sports editor, sports@tsinews.com The road to UFC 152 has been a long, strange journey for sure but the end result is a fight card that looks solid from top to bottom and could turn into one of the better events of the year so far. The main event may not be the [...]
derek harryman tsi sports editor, sports@tsinews.com The UFC has been plagued with injuries in 2012 and just when it looked as if some guys who had been on the self would be back and just maybe the rest of the year would go off without too much change UFC 153 caught the injury bug this [...]
It has been an unusually slow news week for the UFC with much of the media attention staying on the UFC 151 debacle but there was one piece of notable news. Franki Edgar will get an immediate shot at Jose Aldo Jr. after all. Erik Koch was forced to pull out of his UFC 153 [...]
Next week’s UFC 151 has been canceled; for the first time in 11 years UFC President Dana White had to cancel an event Thursday afternoon when Dan Henderson was forced to pull out of the main event fight. Henderson was going to face reigning light heavyweight kingpin Jon Jones but tore his MCL over the [...]
For the third time in the history of a major MMA promotion, a women’s fight will be the main event of a card tonight. It started with Gina Carano versus Cris Cyborg was the first but when Carano lost the fight and subsequently left the sport – women’s MMA took a couple steps back into [...]
This has been a busy few weeks for the UFC and things continue tonight with UFC 150 featuring a lightweight title fight between champion Benson Henderson and former champion Frankie Edgar. Personally, other than the main event, I feel that the UFC on Fox 4 card was more compelling from top to bottom than UFC [...]
Last week I mistakenly said that UFC on Fox 4 was last night; it is in-fact tonight from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. I will stand by my picks from last week but I would like to take a closer look at the main event and co-main event fights. First the co-main event fight [...]
UFC 149 was a bomb – the undercard fights were significantly better than the main-card fights and the co-main event between Tim Boetsch and Hector Lombard, which was supposed to be a three round war, was a snoozer. The main event between Renan Barao and Urijah Faber was a good fight between two very skilled [...]
Before we get into picking the fights for tonight’s UFC 147 there are some other notable news events this week to touch base on. First off, Alistair Overeem submitted himself to a drug test Thursday to “prove to he is a clean fighter.” Nice try Alistair, submitting yourself to a drug test at a time [...]
This fight was from the MMA fights April 7, 2012 in Winchester, Tn at Franklin Co High School.
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