UFC 143 Condit vs. Diaz: 5 Burning Questions for Saturday’s Event
1. Nick Diaz: UFC Champion? A victory this weekend will make that question a fact, and leave all of Diaz’s critics without any way to deny the Stockton, California native his due. The knock on Diaz...
View ArticleUFC 143 Condit vs. Diaz: Bantamweights Barao and Jorgensen Battle Under the...
With Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit set to do battle for the interim UFC welterweight title, it’s pretty challenging for anyone else on this card to garner any kind of attention. If I asked you right now...
View ArticleUFC 143 Condit vs. Diaz: Main Card Breakdown & Analysis
There is no denying that Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit deserve the lion’s share of the attention heading into UFC 143 this weekend. The interim welterweight title fight is a tremendous match-up with a...
View ArticleUFC 143 Results: Carlos Condit is the New Interim UFC Welterweight Champion;...
Carlos Condit is the new interim UFC welterweight champion. In a fight that could have been scored any number of ways through the opening two rounds, Carlos Condit distanced himself from Nick Diaz over...
View ArticleUFC 143 Diaz vs. Condit: 10 Things We Learned Last Night
1. Brilliant Game Plan Leads Condit to Victory Let’s get one thing clear — right here, right now: all this “how can you win when you’re running the whole time” talk is off-point. Carlos Condit didn’t...
View ArticleUFC News: Clay Guida vs. Gray Maynard for FX 4, Three Fights Added to UFC 148
Sorry about the lack of content over the last couple days. Your friendly neighbourhood Spencer-man took a three day sabbatical from the blogosphere to spend a weekend with family and friends, and then...
View ArticleUFC: Renan Barao & Questionable Booking
By all measures, Renan Barao is the top contender in the UFC’s bantamweight division. The Brazilian dynamo has gone an incredible 29 consecutive fights without tasting defeat, earning the last three of...
View ArticleUFC News: Renan Barao Gets New Opponent, June FX Cards Filling Up
Barao to Face Menjivar, Hougland Shuffled to Face Jabouin I’m not saying that my post earlier in the week about Renan Barao facing Jeff Hougland being a really strange match-up choice had anything to...
View ArticleUFC 148: Bantamweights Forced to Take a Back Seat This Summer
The arrival of Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen has shuffled the Dominick Cruz-Urijah Faber trilogy bout for the UFC bantamweight title to the co-main event slot on this summer’s UFC 148 fight card....
View ArticleUFC Bantamweight Champ Dominick Cruz Tears ACL, Out of UFC 148
The trilogy bout between Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber is going to have to wait. It was confirmed by various outlets Monday that Cruz, the UFC bantamweight champion, tore his anterior cruciate...
View ArticleUFC 148: Dominick Cruz’s Injury Highlights Need to Further Showcase...
When the knee injury that forced Georges St-Pierre out of his UFC 143 match-up with Nick Diaz was announced, there was no question that Carlos Condit would be the one to take his place. If by some...
View ArticleUFC 148: Urijah Faber Draws Renan Barao for Interim Bantamweight Title
Friday night on The Ultimate Fighter Live, the world found out who would be replacing injured bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz in the co-main event of UFC 148. Brazilian Renan Barao(28-1, 1 NC), the...
View ArticleUFC: Examining the Injury Issue as Jose Aldo Forced Out of UFC 149
Another day, another event altered by injuries. Saturday afternoon, news broke that UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo would not be defending his title against Erik Koch in the main event of UFC 149,...
View ArticleUFC 149: Interim Bantamweight Title Must Be Defended
Saturday night in the main event of UFC 149, Urijah Faber and Renan Barao square off to crown an interim UFC bantamweight champion. Sunday morning, we need to know that whoever leaves Calgary with the...
View ArticleUFC 149: More Thoughts on Why Interim Titles Need to be Defended
What do you do if after six-plus months of waiting, one of the two titleholders isn’t ready to go? That’s the question that has been running through my head all day as a follow up to yesterday’s...
View ArticleUFC 149: 5 Burning Questions as Fight Week Kicks Off in Calgary
1. Will Urijah Faber Add “UFC Champion” to His List of Accomplishments? “The California Kid” has been the poster boy for the lighter weight classes over the years, earning the role during his time as...
View ArticleUFC 149: Faber vs. Barao: 10 Things to Watch for Saturday Night at the...
1. Renan Barao’s Speed and Movement Over the last couple of years, the one thing that has been a thorn in the side of Urijah Faber is opponents who are faster than he is and who tend to use a lot of...
View ArticleUFC 149 Faber vs. Barao: Punch Drunk Predictions
The UFC’s debut card in Calgary has been the greatest example of the “Fight Card Subject to Change” disclaimer in quite some time, but that doesn’t mean the people in Cowtown are getting the shaft...
View ArticleUFC 149 Faber vs. Barao: Renan Barao Wins Interim Bantamweight Title by...
It’s Fight Night, and as always, I’m here to make sure you get all your UFC results and analysis hot and fresh at Keyboard Kimura. The card from Calgary kicks off with two fights on Facebook at 4:00pm...
View ArticleUFC 149 Faber vs. Barao: 10 Things We Learned Last Night
1. You Can’t Win’ em All UFC 149 was a loss as far as the main card and overall impression left on the fans. The myriad injuries leading into the event put the UFC in a hole going in, and the tepid...
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