Category: MMA

Can’t some other guys at welterweight fight each other?

So, the UFC has booked Jorge Masvidal-Kamaru Usman II for next month in Jacksonville. A rematch like that should seem like a pretty big deal. Instead it kind of feels…what’s the right word?
By Chuck Mindenhall March 18, 2021

When it comes to title shots, Leon Edwards is a slowpoke

For Leon Edwards it was actually pretty simple: Beat Belal Muhammad, and punch a ticket to a jenyoowhine title shot against UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman. To punch that ticket — or to punch anything, really — he merely needed to make a fist.
By Chuck Mindenhall March 15, 2021

Leon Edwards’ run is enough to give you vertigo

Two years ago Leon Edwards distinguished himself to a fight public that still confused him, somewhat regularly, with Leon Roberts. That night in London he beat Gunnar Nelson by split decision, which was pretty cool. But what really made him materialize...
By Chuck Mindenhall March 11, 2021

The champ-champ thing has run its course

Of late it seems like the UFC of 2021 a little aimless. Too many fighters are careening off in directions that aren’t very predictable or are just hard to justify.
By Chuck Mindenhall March 7, 2021

Something’s in the air for UFC 259

I like to think it’s strictly coincidence that two of the three titleholders at UFC 259 have names pronounced as yawn, and that by making Amanda Nunes something like a 150-to-1 favorite over Megan Anderson Vegas is trying to make us do just that, but I’m telling you — something’s in the air for Saturday night.
By Chuck Mindenhall March 4, 2021

Ciryl Gane got it done, but it wasn’t exactly a ‘wow’ affair

If there was an ounce of caution heading into Ciryl Gane’s heavyweight fight with Jairzinho Rozenstruik, it had to do with something the fight game is all too familiar with — the hunch to guard against a letdown
By Chuck Mindenhall March 1, 2021

Oh hey, guess what — I’m back!

Hello again! The Man in the Hat is back!
By Chuck Mindenhall February 26, 2021

Nate Diaz’s return was one hell of a contact high

Of all the bold claims Dana White has made over the years, his “Nate Diaz isn’t a needle mover” comment has offered countless hours of comic relief to the more serious matters of the fight game. To use a Diaz-like expression, all he has to do is show up and people lose their shit.
By Chuck Mindenhall August 18, 2019
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