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UFC 110 Thoughts and Analysis »
Posted: February 20, 2010 5:34 pm By: Pramit MohapatraThe UFC makes its debut in Australia tonight (tomorrow if you're actually in Australia watching the event) with UFC 110, which takes place in Sydney. After UFC 100, I felt that the quality of UFC cards slid a little, not always the fault of the promotion but often due to unfortunate circumstances. However, UFC 109 marked what I believe was the [...]
UFC 109 Post-Fight Thoughts: Wrestling Sets the »
Posted: February 7, 2010 12:25 pm By: Pramit MohapatraMixed martial arts can be crudely separated into three phases: the stand-up, the ground game, and the transition between the two. While boxing and Muay Thai are two of the more popular stand-up disciplines and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has cornered the market on ground disciplines, the transition between these two phases may be the most underappreciated [...]
UFC 109 Weigh-In Results and Pre-Fight Thoughts »
Posted: February 5, 2010 8:26 pm By: Pramit MohapatraThe UFC held its pre-fight weigh-ins for UFC 109 today at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. For those of you who weren't there live to witness the fighters get set for tomorrow night's card and for those of you weren't able to catch the live online stream, here are the weigh-in results as well as my thoughts on the fights [...]
The Most Important Fights We Won’t See in 2010 »
Posted: January 24, 2010 12:16 pm By: Pramit MohapatraOver the last couple of weeks, SI.com's Josh Gross has revived a long-running discussion over cross-promotional fights. One of the main points of his columns is that with the emergence of Strikeforce as a solid #2 MMA promotion, the UFC no longer has the ability to put on the absolute best fights possible in most -- if not all -- the heaviest five [...]
Post-UFC 108 Thoughts »
Posted: January 3, 2010 11:56 am By: Pramit MohapatraUFC 108 is now in the books and most MMA fans have either watched the fights by now or at least know the results. So, rather than regurgitate what you already know and what you can find in a hundred other places, here's my attempt at making sense of what we saw Saturday night while looking at the big picture. (more...)
UFC 108 Featured Bout Predictions »
Posted: January 2, 2010 8:10 pm By: Pramit MohapatraLet's get a couple of things out of the way early. As far as New Year's Eve UFC events go, UFC 108 is a bit underwhelming, especially when compared to year end offerings from the promotion over the last few years. However, UFC 108 has also been a victim of bad luck, with a number of tantalizing matchups scrapped for a variety of reasons, and has [...]
MMA Podcast: UFC 105 Recap and More (11/15/2009) »
Posted: November 15, 2009 9:56 pm By: Pramit MohapatraOn this week's podcast, Ryan "The Woodman" Sebring, Emile "The Beagle" Desjardine, and I ("The Missing Link") recap UFC 105, look ahead to UFC 106, and tie up loose ends with Strikeforce's CBS debut. Hot topics include Michael Bisping's comeback victory over Denis Kang, debate over whether or not Dan Hardy has earned a title shot against GSP, and [...]
Pre-UFC 105 Questions »
Posted: November 14, 2009 12:52 pm By: Pramit MohapatraUFC 105 emanates from Manchester, England today and MMA fans in the US are fortunate enough to be able to watch the event on tape delay on SpikeTV at 8 PM ET. While I don't consider the card pay-per-view worthy, it's certainly perfect for basic cable and features some intriguing match-ups between fighters who are each at a crossroads of [...]
UFC 106 Welterweight Marcus Davis Tuesday on Jack of »
Posted: November 10, 2009 7:01 am By: Pramit MohapatraTuesday on Jack of All Sports radio, we’ll be talking to UFC welterweight Marcus Davis, who faces fellow TUF alum Ben Saunders at UFC 106 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is Davis' first fight on American soil since April, 2007. Since then, the "Irish Hand Grenade" has fought five times in the UK, once in Ireland, and once in Germany en route to [...]
Jack of All Sports MMA Podcast (11/08/2009) »
Posted: November 8, 2009 9:42 pm By: Pramit MohapatraI'm very happy to introduce a weekly MMA podcast courtesy of Ryan "The Woodman" Sebring, Ray "The Producer" Atkinson and me ("The Missing Link"). On this week's episode, we get down and dirty as we discuss Strikeforce's CBS debut this past Saturday night. We not only look back at the fights themselves but also examine the bigger picture as far [...]