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MMA History for the Holidays
For Boxing Day, a celebration of Britain's feudal past, I thought I'd share my aging MMA History series. I wasn't as diligent as planned in 2010, only adding two installments, but I swear I'll do more this year! Read a few you might learn something! I: UFC 1 Pancrase meets BJJ II: The...
Bellator XXII's Dan Hornbuckle vs Ben Askren an Archetypal MMA Style Clash
Bellator welterweight finalist Dan Hornbuckle talked to Bleacher Report about tonight's bout with Olympic wrestler Ben Askren: "Well you're talking about American Top Team and if they don't have what you need they go out and get what you need," Hornbuckle said when asked to prepare for a...
The USA TODAY/Bloody Elbow Top 50 MMA Fights in History: 1993-1996
Beau Dure at USA Today has posted the first two installments of our top 50 fights in MMA history series. Again here's the criteria: Some of the 50 fights we'll list aren't necessarily the best MMA bouts, but all of them are milestones for one reason or another, for better or for worse. The idea is...
UFC 7: Marco Ruas Demonstrates the Power of Leg Kicks
Yahoo continues it's UFC retrospective and this time Kevin Iole takes a look at what made UFC 7 unique: Marco Ruas not only used leg kicks to stop Paul Varlens, he did so before the true effectiveness of leg kicks were known in NHB: Massive Paul Varelans, who is 6 feet, 8 inches and around 300...
MMA History VII: A New Phase in the UFC
So for this installment I've decided to cover the UFC in 1995 and in the next installment I'll cover what happened in MMA outside the UFC in 1995 (except for Rickson Gracie's return visit to Japan which I've already covered). As always I can't pretend to be writing comprehensive history in a blog...
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