UFC 146 ends one of the most fun months in MMA that I can remember. It's the first time that the UFC has ever put together an all-heavyweight main card culminating with Junior Dos Santos defending his title against Frank Mir . The card has seen a lot of changes, mostly stemming from Overeem's test for elevated levels of testosterone (14:1 T:E). Wi […]
Something has to be done. The first UFC on FOX event was set off with a huge main event of Cain Velasquez vs. Junior dos Santos for the UFC Heavyweight Championship and became the most watched MMA event in U.S. history with 5.7 million average viewers. Fast forward to January, with the main event of Rashad Evans vs. Phil Davis, and ratings take a slight di […]
MMA is about much more than the action in the cage. The best fighters, or at least the most popular ones, understand that what happens outside the Octagon is just as important as anything that takes place within. Fighters are entertainers. As we've learned, they are competing for ever-tightening entertainment budgets, not just with boxers and other athl […]