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You may be right, but I just love the fact that you knew exactly who I was talking about.

Ngannou should definitely wait out his contract and box Fury if he can. He probably gets wrecked, but he probably makes more money to get wrecked than he would in the UFC, especially at his age with a knee injury. And while it's definitely not very likely, Fury has struggled with heavy hitters...

I don't know why this bothers me, but I feel like this description is inaccurate. I'm pretty sure Dana was full-cue ball by 2004 and Liddell didn't win the belt until 2005. This should be from before Liddell's title reign.

Yan may have the best striking defense I've ever seen in MMA. I think he won that round, but good defense confuses judges so I wouldn't count on it if I were him.

He probably thinks he's likely to lose and if he does he can command a lot less money in subsequent fights, so he needs to go big on his demands now.

I agree with this. Some grabs will be missed, so the penalty has to be worse than just 'whatever would have happened had it not been committed', or fighters may as well try and hope the ref misses it. Basically, wherever there's uncertainty the benefit of the doubt should go to the fighter...

I agree with this. Any time you have a foul, you have the unknown 'what would have happened if the foul hadn't been committed', and the fight should move forward giving the benefit of the doubt to the fighter that didn't commit a foul. In addition, intent is hard to judge, so unless there's no...

It was a very close fight. I'm not sure which version of the judging rules they were fighting under; if it's the new ABC rules where aggression and octagon control are only scored if striking and grappling are even, the third round belonged to Moraes. They landed a similar number of strikes...

Imagine that. Moving forward getting oustruck doesn't always get the decision.

One of the biggest mistakes you see over and over again is this false dichotomy: It was either something about Chris Benoit the person, or it was CTE, or it was steroids. Most people who traumatic brain injury don't become violent, but traumatic brain injury is much more common among those who...

If it wasn't an early stoppage, it was a late stoppage. Anderson had just landed one punch after missing like five in a row and Walker didn't go down. Walker was getting his ass kicked, but if he was out on his feet then, he was out on his feet like 20 seconds earlier. It was a bizarre moment...

I know he's improved a lot since, but Canelo pigeonholed himself by taking a fight against an already-past-his-prime Mayweather before he could even make it competitive. It's hard for me not to see him as the number 2 guy who's keeping the belt warm because the number 1 guy retired. I just...

Riddle/Pearson is still (barely) within the last 10 years.

Absolutely nothing, but it isn't about "deserving." It makes too much sense for everyone. Khabib's pride is soothed by not giving McGregor an immediate title shot. The UFC/ESPN gets to cash in on Conor. Ferguson/Cerrone winner gets to cash in on Conor. Conor gets a fight that makes him...

It sort of looks like it from that angle, but it's very clear in the next angle in the video that he didn't. And if you actually remember the fight, Mir was really, really out of it. And there's nothing wrong with tapping to strikes anyway.

Garcia put a hurting on the air in that fight, but didn't do shit to Holloway.

In 2009, Mark Coleman had the fight of his life against Stephan Bonnar after getting massacred by Shogun, who was himself already looking shopworn. The unbeatable Wanderlei Silva lost his fifth fight in six. Ken Shamrock beat Ross Clifton (?!) to snap a 5-fight losing streak, including Robert...

This is how you choose to come out of the closet? What do you mean "for all I know"? That's literally the definition.

That's usually how it goes. Stanford doesn't give a degree to a high-school dropout because his parents funded a wing, they give a "second look" to an application that's a bit below their standards. Politicians don't get a bag of money for unrepentant loyalty, they get invited on fancy trips...