Brent Brookhouse of Bloody Elbow examines the history of heavyweight title fights on network TV and comes away with the realization that Cain Velasquez vs. Junior dos Santos on the UFC Fox debut is an almost entirely unique situation.
Former heavyweight champion of the world, Joe Frazier, passed away at age 67 after a battle with liver cancer.
As Joe Frazier lies in a Philadelphia hospice, Kid Nate wonders "Will the UFC Ever Produce Its Own Smokin' Joe Frazier?" Read it at MMA Nation.
Are Manny Pacquiao and Georges St. Pierre leaving fans underwhelmed? Do they need new challenges? And what can they learn from Muhammad Ali and the Thrilla in Manila?
"They don’t do any real fighting, man," he complained of MMA, bending down to demonstrate what goes on inside the Octagon. "When a man goes down instead of going to a neutral corner they jump on him and keep beating him. --Smokin' Joe Frazier, 65, Talking About MMA HT: the Examiner
