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UFC 121 Analysis: Brock Lesnar and the Limits of Wrestling for MMA
In recent months, it's become more and more accepted that amateur wrestling is the strongest base style for an MMA fighter. Our own Jonathan Snowden penned a great three part series breaking down the base styles of UFC fighters, base styles in Japans' famous Pride promotion, and base styles in...
MMA History XXI: The Amazing UFC Championship Run of Frank Shamrock
Since Frank Shamrock officially retired from fighting on Saturday, I thought I'd go ahead an revive my long slumbering MMA History series with a special all Frank Shamrock installment. It's oddly fitting that Frank's retirement was utterly overshadowed by the defeat of Fedor Emelianenko's first...
MMA History XX: Kazushi Sakuraba and Frank Shamrock Emerge at Ultimate Japan
A couple of installments back, I talked about the epic Frank Shamrock vs Enson Inoue fight from Vale Tudo Japan 1997. Before that bout, the UFC had told both fighters that the winner would get to face UFC 14 mini-tournament winner Kevin Jackson for the first ever UFC middleweight (199lbs)...
The USA TODAY/Bloody Elbow Top 50 MMA Fights in History III: 1997-2000
Here's our third installment of the USA TODAY/Bloody Elbow Top 50 MMA fights in modern history. Sergio Non has written up the next block at USAT's Fighting Stances blog. To start, here's our criteria: Some of the 50 fights we'll list aren't necessarily the best MMA bouts, but all of them are...
