MMA As I See It

Booking two title fights on the same card is great for fans. It makes the PPV event hard to pass up and more enticing to pay for. But lately it seems to be the savior of the event all together. The latest reports in the Jon Jones "Hit and Run" saga have seen the charges against Jones escalate from misdemeanor to felony. These charges could see Jones facing up to 3 years of jail time. With these new developments it would seem those who speculated that the main event at UFC 187 would not be taking place may be right. With a month to go before the fight between Jon Jones and Anthony Johnson the UFC might have to take advantage of the phrase "fight card subject to change." The obvious move would be to bump the middleweight title fight between Chris Weidman and Vitor Belfort to the main event spot. But the fate of Jon Jones is still unknown so the UFC must decide whether it wants to delay the fight or have an interim title fight. With the charges against Jones havin...

With an impressive victory at UFC on Fox 15, Luke Rockhold not only took down one of the greatest mixed martial artist in the UFC(Lyoto Machida), he also did enough to take #1 contender spot. But the man who had that spot going into the Fight Night event in New Jersey also put on quite a performance. Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza, who was set to fight Yoel Romero before Romero suffered a knee injury made short work of Chris Camozzi for the second time in his mma career with a first round verbal tap out. So based on their performance at UFC on Fox 15, which man deserves the title shot against the winner of the title fight between Chris Weidman and Vitor Belfort at UFC 187? Ronaldo Souza had only 6 days to train for a second fight with Chris Camozzi after an injured Yoel Romero was forced to pull out of the fight. Camozzi had been released from the UFC when he received a call asking him to take Romero's place in the co-main event. Eager to avenge his loss to Souza, he agreed t...

Dana White came out to a crowd of 3000 Irish fans while wearing an Irish shirt. The event started in traditional fashion with a closer look at the two men in the main event at UFC 189, then the home town hero came out. Connor McGregor came out to a deafening roar of the crowd while the UFC Featherweight Champion was met with a sea of boos. But that wasn't the loudest moment of the press conference. McGregor threw respect of the champ out the window (again) and grabbed the championship belt away from José Aldo and that sent the crowd into a complete frenzy. It took more than Dana White to separate the two featherweights and Aldo made sure he got his belt out of his challengers hands before he sat back down. There was a young man that asked Connor McGregor to respect the champion because it was going to rile him up and turn Aldo into an animal, but McGregor brushed off the advise and continued to send verbal assaults on the champ even making a prediction on the fight saying "o...

The UFC's Women's Bantamweight Champion added another platform to her portfolio. She not only attended Wrestle Mania 31, she became part of the show. Rousey joined The Rock and began to throw members of the WWE Universe around. This had many mma fans asking "Why is Ronda Rousey on WWE?" This is nothing new for the WWE. There have been plenty of times they used star athletes to create a buzz around their biggest event of the year. Mike Tyson served as a special enforcer at Wrestle Mania 14 while Floyd "Money" Mayweather had a match against The Big Show at Wrestle Mania 24. This has served as a great way to create more awareness of the big event...and it worked. The MMA world has heard all about Rousey's appearance in professional wrestling which has brought names like Brock Lesnar and more recently Phillip Brooks(CM Punk) to the UFC. Ronda Rousey has grown in popularity since taking the throne as "The Baddest Female on The Planet." Her app...

Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone made short work of his latest sparing partner. If he can do this against Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 187 he can be sure he will be next in line to take on Rafael Dos Anjos. Click here to see Cowboys Knock out his sparing partner

Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino has signed a deal with Zuffa, the parent company of the UFC and has wasted no time in calling out the Women's Bantamweight Champion. Cyborg took to social media and released the following statement aimed at the undefeated champ. “Your excuses to not fight me are going down as fast as you will when I catch you in the Octagon. Stop irresponsibly accusing me of using anabolic steroids. I am clean! You know that I’ve passed several tests, a lot of them surprise ones. Let’s do Olympic testing, like Pacquiao and Mayweather , and then you’ll have one less excuse to hide behind. Lorenzo hired me, I’m back and I’m coming after you. After we fight, you will either retire and go make movies or you’re going to run to the flyweight division, like you ran away from me at featherweight. You’re never going to be the best until you face the best. Show up, it takes two to make a fight. Don’t be scared. Fans see me out her...

During training on Monday, TJ Dillashaw sustained a fractured rib that will force him out of his rematch with # 1 contender Renan Barao in Montreal on April 25. Dana White made the announcement on a L.A Radio station. There is no date for the rematch as of yet. This is the second time the rematch has been rescheduled. The last rematch did not take place because of weight cut issues by Barao.