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Texas Recruiting 2013: Defensive Needs and Numbers
With the first Junior Day looming Sunday, it's time to take a look at the needs and numbers Texas will be looking at on the defensive side of the ball in 2013 (the offensive appraisal is here). It's going to be a relatively small class -- somewhere in the range of 18 to 22 or so depending on what...
Strikeforce Heavyweight Tournament: Lineal Title at Stake on Showtime
Last week, Strikeforce announced that their heavyweight title would not be up for grabs in their upcoming heavyweight tournament. That's their choice. But some titles are bigger than any promotion. The Strikeforce title may not be at stake this year, but MMA's lineal heavyweight championship...
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...
Antonio McKee and Maurice Smith, Two Great Fighters, One May Never Get His Chance and the Other Has Been Erased from UFC History, Racism?
MFC champ Antonio McKee won quickly and decisively on Friday night via TKO over Luciano Azevedo due to a cut from a nasty elbow. He then called out B.J. Penn and Sean Sherk but with an unusual caveat: "I'm waiting for the UFC to release BJ [Penn] or Sean Sherk so I can tear their ass up, too." Why...
Community Interview: UFC Legend Frank Shamrock on His Career and Future
One of MMA's "Kingpins," a legendary figure in the sport's history, sat down to take your questions in our biggest community interview yet. Frank Shamrock, simply put, is one of the greatest fighters to ever walk the planet. As always, our own Kid Nate puts it best: It's impossible to convey how...
UFC 112 Preview: MMA History and the Legacy of Renzo Gracie
Renzo Gracie, a key member of the generation of Gracies who dominated the 1990's MMA land scape, will be making his UFC debut at UFC 112. He'll be attempting to avenge his cousin Royce's loss to Matt Hughes. Since the majority of modern UFC fans have very little knowledge of Renzo's storied...
Mark "The Hammer" Coleman's Career Defining Fights
Mark Coleman's career has been a lot like the way he fights. It hasn't always been pretty, and it sure as hell isn't perfect. But he redefined the sport and forced an evolution. Coleman ushered in the era of the wrestler and forced everyone to cope, which helped to force strikers to evolve...
The USA TODAY/Bloody Elbow Top 50 MMA Fights in History II: 1996-1997
Here's our second 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...
The Official History of the UFC
Now there's no such thing as yet, but between the ongoing speculation about who will be the next two fighters in the UFC Hall of Fame and Spike TV's online ballot for the Ultimate 100 UFC fights we can get a pretty clear view of how Zuffa views their history. Personally I understand why Tito...
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