It appears Jake Ellenberger has a new opponent in the form of Brazilian 170 pound prospect, Carlos Eduardo Rocha for UFC 126 on February 5th in Las Vegas, Nevada after Jon Fitch was bumped to the main event of the promotions next trip Down Under. … Continue Reading
UFC welterweight powerhouse, Rick Story has been speaking about his upcoming fight this weekend with undefeated 170 pounder, Johny Hendricks at “The Ultimate Fighter” season twelve finale in Las Vegas, explaining his opponent had better be ready for a fight. … Continue Reading
The UFC 125 light heavyweight bout between Brandon Vera and Thiago Silva has been promoted to the main card of the evening after a spate of injuries ended up removing the likes of Shane Carwin and Jose Aldo from the nights action. … Continue Reading
Famed MMA coach, Greg Jackson has hit back at UFC President, Dana White after the outspoken head of the promotion labeled fighters produced by him as “boring”, explaining he should get his facts straight because so far this year his camp has pocketed twelve bonuses between them. … Continue Reading
A light heavyweight bout between veteran, Benji Radach and talented up-and-comer, Ovince St. Preux has been confirmed for the televised portion of this Saturday nights Strikeforce event in St. Louis, Missouri. … Continue Reading
It appears California based promotion, Strikeforce are calling on their heavy artillery to fill the vacant slots on their December 4th card in St. Louis, Missouri, with undefeated welterweight Tyron Woodley agreeing to compete at a 180 pound catchweight on the night. … Continue Reading
Strikeforce CEO, Scott Coker has decided against making a move for the out of contract middleweight, Gerald Harris just days after the fighter was axed by the UFC, explaining the California based promotion is committed to the fighters who are already a part of the roster. … Continue Reading
UFC middleweight contender, Nate Marquardt has today issued a statement regarding Dana White’s comments that he’s a “choker” following his latest defeat inside the octagon, as well as his desire to take on one of the most exciting fighters in the sport today, Wanderlei Silva. … Continue Reading
Check out this in-depth video preview for the forthcoming UFC 124 event headlined by the welterweight title fight between champion, Georges St. Pierre and number one contender, Josh Koscheck, set to go down on December 11th in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. … Continue Reading
“Ultimate Fighter” season one runner-up, Stephan Bonnar has been giving his thoughts on the poor run of results he suffered over the eighteen months prior to his second round stoppage win over Krzysztof Soszynski in the summer, as well as the notion that he was about to retire from the sport for good. … Continue Reading
Former WEC bantamweight title contender, Joseph Benavidez has been speaking about the difficult position he finds himself in when it comes to the UFC version of the title, as well as his belief that he’s more than worthy of a main card slot when he makes his octagon debut next year. … Continue Reading
A light heavyweight contest between heavy hitting duo, Alexander Gustafsson and James Te Huna appears set to go down on the upcoming UFC 127 card on February 27th in Sydney, Australia. … Continue Reading
UFC middleweight contender, Michael Bisping has been speaking ahead of his UFC 127 clash with veteran, Jorge Rivera on February 27th in Sydney, Australia, explaining he had to take the fight to shut “El Conquistador” up after talking nothing but sh*t for the past few weeks. … Continue Reading
MMA is one of the most polarising sports/entertainment entities in the world. To make matters worse, the vast majority of the fan base is notoriously fickle; a single good or bad performance can leave a fighter glorified or vilified. The ranks parted like the Red Sea once more last week with the firing of Gerald Harris – but were the UFC right or wrong? Let’s play Devil’s Advocate… … Continue Reading
Former UFC and PRIDE star, Dan Henderson and former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion, Renato “Babalu” Sobral have been speaking about their first encounter over ten years ago with the RINGS promotion in Japan, with both men giving their own perspective on what went down that night. … Continue Reading
Talented UFC middleweight, Dave Branch has been speaking about his development into a fully fledged fighter now that he’s a part of the world’s premiere mixed martial arts promotion and how he plans to get back to finishing fights inside the octagon as soon as possible. … Continue Reading
UFC welterweight heavy hitter, John Howard has been speaking about his upcoming fight with Thiago Alves at UFC 124 on December 11th in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, explaining he’s looking forward to testing the Brazilian’s Muay Thai skills inside the octagon. … Continue Reading
Octagon legend and five-time UFC champion, Randy Couture has been speaking about whether or not he’s going to hang up his gloves for good, explaining although he’s made no hard and fast decision about his future he’d be fine with stopping right now. … Continue Reading
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Sometimes an opportunity arises that is simply too good to pass up on. But chances inherently contain a measure of risk; the question then becomes one of risk versus reward. Michael ‘The Count’ Bisping was recently presented with such a dilemma; take the path of least resistance to the UFC gold, or throw himself headfirst [...]
The UFC returns to FOX this weekend as ‘UFC on FOX 2: Evans vs. Davis‘ goes down at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois with three cracking main card fights to get the pulse racing. In the main event, Rashad Evans and Phil Davis do battle to see who’s next for UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon [...]
‘The Cage’ is back for another stacked episode on Sports Tonight Live! Bret ‘Hollywood’ Freeman and MMABay’s own Brad Wharton are joined in the studio by veteran mixed martial artist Danielle ‘The Curse’ West and 17-year-old prodigy Lisa ‘Lights Out’ McCallum. The team discuss women’s MMA, UFC on Fox 2 and Ian ‘M16′ Butlin calls [...]
We’re just days away from the ‘UFC on FOX 2: Evans vs. Davis‘ fight card that lands on our screens on Saturday, January 28th live from the United Centre in Chicago, Illinois as Britain’s own Michael Bisping enters the biggest fight of his life in the co-main event of the evening. Before we look at [...]
With just two weeks until his first trip into the cage in 2012, top UK prospect Iain ‘Badman’ Martell sat down for a chat with MMABay Radio’s Brad Wharton. After a blistering start to his pro career in 2011, Martell is looking to make 2012 his year, and discussed his training at Kaobon, his upcoming [...]
The MMABay Radio team is back for another mid-week show as we round up all the news stories form the past couple of days from around the mixed martial arts world. This week the team discusses this past Friday night’s UFC on FX: Guillard vs. Miller event from Nashville, Tennessee, reviews this Saturday night’s UFC on [...]
There was action aplenty last night as ‘UFC on FX 1: Guillard vs. Miller‘ marked a successful debut on FX for the UFC and the fans in attendance in Nashville, Tennessee were left satisfied by a string of stunning finishes. MMABay takes a look back at the night’s action and gives you a sneak peek [...]
