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blog.mmaratings.net - 6 hours ago
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By E. Spencer Kyte ( espencerkyte@mmaratings.net ) Quickly:
Who is getting the better of this exchange? The
fact of the matter is that there is no definitive answer, and getting three people to agree certainly wouldn't be the easiest task of the day. In all honesty, coming up with a definitive ...
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My Subjective Decision is Better: Looking at ...
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blog.mmaratings.net - 30 hours ago
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By E. Spencer Kyte ( espencerkyte@mmaratings.net ) 1.
Best Entrance Music Ever Before breaking down the fights,
let's get one thing clear: the choice of "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba as Forrest Griffin's entrance song was awesome. Coming off an embarrassing defeat at the hands of Anderson ...
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UFC 106: 10 Things We Learned Last Night
blog.mmaratings.net - 3 days ago
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By E. Spencer Kyte ( espencerkyte@mmaratings.net ) A
lot of people are lamenting this bout being atop
the marquee for UFC 106. They complain about two fighters coming in on losing streaks; one not having stepped into the cage for over a year, the other coming off an embarrassing defeat less ...
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UFC 105 Fight Week Previews: Tito Ortiz vs. Forrest Griffin
blog.mmaratings.net - 4 days ago
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By E. Spencer Kyte ( espencerkyte@mmaratings.net ) Quickly
put together in the wake of Brock Lesnar's inability
to headline UFC 106, this is a welterweight matchup many fans have been looking forward to since it was announced. Anthony "Rumble" Johnson is widely considered one of the top ...
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UFC 106 Fight Week Previews: Anthony Johnson vs. Josh ...
blog.mmaratings.net - 4 days ago
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By Nicholas Bailey ( nbailey@mmaratings.net ) It should
be sinking in around now that Zuffa is desperate
with respect to main event fights for the next couple of months. They've put the money down for the venue and the PPV slot, but with all the various injuries, illnesses, and movie roles ...
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Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 106: Reheated Leftovers
blog.mmaratings.net - 5 days ago
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By E. Spencer Kyte ( espencerkyte@mmaratings.net ) Am
I the only one who looks at this picture
of Phil Baroni and immediately thinks of a stylized-MMA version of "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff? While Jason "Mayhem" Miller brings flare to the fight game, he additionally backs it up inside the ...
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UFC 106 Fight Week Preview: Amir Sadollah vs. Phil Baroni
blog.mmaratings.net - 5 days ago
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By Nicholas Bailey ( nbailey@mmaratings.net ) The WEC
promotion is putting on another fabulous fight consisting of
massively underpaid divisional elite fighters on a network with very little visibility. It's the kind of thing that harkens back to the UFC of many years ago. Unusually, this card ...
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Fight Picks and Predictions for WEC 44: Lightning in a ...
blog.mmaratings.net - 6 days ago
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By E. Spencer Kyte ( espencerkyte@mmaratings.net ) Hard
to believe that it was just over a year
ago that Mike Brown shocked the WEC by sending then-Featherweight champion Urijah Faber crashing to the mat with a well-placed punch, claiming the championship and a place atop the divisional ...
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WEC 44 Fight Week Previews: The Main Card
blog.mmaratings.net - 6 days ago
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By E. Spencer Kyte ( espencerkyte@mmaratings.net ) After
years of being considered one of the top 205-pound
talents outside the UFC, Antonio Rogerio "Minotoro" Nogueira will make his debut against fellow Brazilian light heavyweight Luis Arthur Cane. From here on out, The Noguiera's will be ...
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UFC 106 Fight Week Previews: Luis Cane vs. Antonio ...
blog.mmaratings.net - 7 days ago
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By E. Spencer Kyte ( espencerkyte@mmaratings.net ) As
the signage says, WEC 44: Brown vs. Aldo takes
place this Wednesday night from The Pearl at The Palms in Las Vegas, Nevada. With such a short time frame before the fights take place - and coming off the busy week that was UFC 105 - the ...
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WEC 44 Fight Week Previews: The Prelims
blog.mmaratings.net - 7 days ago
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By E. Spencer Kyte ( espencerkyte@mmaratings.net ) Nothing
like starting off a Monday morning with a little
McLovin! Fresh off the heals of Saturday's free show from Manchester, the Frankenstein monster of UFC cards lands in our laps from Las Vegas this weekend. Illness and injuries are the ...
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UFC 106 Fight Week Preview: Karo Parisyan vs. Dustin ...
blog.mmaratings.net - 8 days ago
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By E. Spencer Kyte ( espencerkyte@mmaratings.net ) 1.
Time to Fix Things... And Fast Controversial decision aren't
good for business and the UFC has had back-to-back main events end with a lot of people questioning the results, and it obvious that the current issues with judging need to be ...
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UFC 105: 10 Things We Learned Last Night
blog.mmaratings.net - 9 days ago
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By Adam K. Strong ( AdamStrong@mmaratings.net ) World
Victory Road held Sengoku 11 yesterday from the Ryogoku
Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan and was shown on HD Net. Like its rival promotion Dream, Sengoku is a fledgling organization growing out of the tall shadow cast by Pride Fighting ...
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Sengoku 11 Review
blog.mmaratings.net - 10 days ago
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By Nicholas Bailey ( nbailey@mmaratings.net ) UFC 105
is not the most sparkling card Zuffa has ever
put together, which should come as no shock since Zuffa's revenue-sharing contracts with their big stars heavily disincentivize them from taking part in the weak-selling foreign cards, so UK ...
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Fight Picks and Predictions for UFC 105 by HumungusMMA
blog.mmaratings.net - 10 days ago
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By E. Spencer Kyte ( espencerkyte@mmaratings.net ) Two
weeks ago, this fight was of little interest to
me. Last week, I was looking forward to a free show on Spike TV, a couple of the fights on the undercard and a little interested in seeing who came out on top in the Main Event. Now, a day ...
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UFC 105 Fight Week Previews: Randy Couture vs. Brandon Vera
blog.mmaratings.net - 10 days ago
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By E. Spencer Kyte ( espencerkyte@mmaratings.net ) Though
many are looking at this fight simply as a
match-up to decide who will become the next victim of Georges St-Pierre, looking beyond this fight will cause you to miss some fireworks. Regardless of where you stand on whether either of ...
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UFC 105 Fight Week Previews: Dan Hardy vs. Mike Swick
blog.mmaratings.net - 10 days ago
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By E. Spencer Kyte ( espencerkyte@mmaratings.net ) What
a difference one fight can make... Heading into his
fight with Dan Henderson at UFC 100, it was widely believed that a victory would have put Michael Bisping at the top of the marquee for this event opposite Anderson Silva, the UFC ...
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UFC 105 Fight Week Previews: Michael Bisping vs. Denis Kang
blog.mmaratings.net - 11 days ago
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By Katrina Belcher ( KatrinaBelcher@mmaratings.net ) As per
my previous article , many of the techniques associated
with MMA are routinely utilized and practiced in other combat sports disciplines on an international level and they have been practiced safely. The evolution of MMA includes a ...
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MMA 101: Banana Split, gogoplata, and kimura are MMA ...
blog.mmaratings.net - 11 days ago
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By Michael Ford ( MichaelFord@mmaratings.net ) Last week,
fellow writer Spencer Kyte discussed his Jorge Gurgel Theory
, which he suggested was an impediment to the mixed martial arts becoming mainstream. While I agree with much of the article, I disagree with his contention that the growth of ...
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Hugging it Out, or MMA's Mainstream Conundrum
blog.mmaratings.net - 12 days ago
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By Katrina Belcher ( KatrinaBelcher@mmaratings.net ) Many people
are not familiar with the technical aspects of MMA
and have viewed the vast arsenal of the technical elements of the sport of MMA as confusing and in some cases “barbaric”. However, MMA techniques by their definition ...
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MMA 101: What are holds, take downs and submissions?
