The Hammer MMA Radio: Recent Episodes
Steve Jeffery, David Abraham, Greg Persson, Liam Dunlop
The Hammer MMA Radio. Broadcasting live from CFMU 93.3 FM in Hamilton, Ontario. Steve Jeffery, David Abraham, Greg Persson, and Liam Dunlop preview and review shows from UFC and Bellator, as well as discuss all of the latest news and rumors in Mixed Martial Arts.
Also check us out at http://www.thehammermma.com.
This week we're previewing UFC 330: Makhachev vs. Machado Garry, where UFC Welterweight Champion Islam Makhachev and UFC Strawweight Champion Mackenzie Dern will attempt to defend their newly won titles.
We also recap UFC Fight Night: Gamrot vs. Salkilld event, which only had one big fight on it, but Quillan Salkilld's looking like a star.
Catch us Wednesday nights at 6:30pm on CFMU 93.3 FM, and online at http://www.thehammermma.com, The Itunes Store, MMAPodcast.com, Player.FM, find @SteveJeffery on Twitter or just email us.
We start off this week's show previewing the not particularly deep UFC Fight Night: Gamrot vs. Salkilld event. Seriously, what's going on here?
Then we discuss the week in MMA news, including the MVP/PFL merger, Anthony Smith's arrest, and the results of PFL Nurmagomedov vs. Colgan and UFC Fight Night: Medić vs. Rodriguez.
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Its International Meh Week, as we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Uroš Medić vs. Rodriguez from Belgrade in the first half of this week's show, and recap the results of UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Guskov from Abu Dhabi in the second half.
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Ok, this doesn't really count as a full episode, since only half of us are here, and it's half the length, but Dave and Liam do take a look at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Guskov, and the results of UFC Fight Night: du Plessis vs. Usman and PFL.
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Conor McGregor returned to the UFC after five years, and....it was pretty lame. The rest of UFC 329 was pretty solid though, and we talk about it all in the first half of this week's show.
Then we move on to this upcoming weekend's rapidly disintegrating UFC Fight Night: du Plessis vs. Usman.
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We took a couple of weeks off after that UFC White House show, and we're back just in time for the return of Conor McGregor after his five-year break for some rehab and crime.
The card's pretty good, so this week we preview the entire UFC 329: McGregor vs. Holloway 2 event.
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This week it's one big post-UFC Freedom 250 episode.
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Barring any successful lawsuits, the UFC is heading to the White House lawn this upcoming Sunday for UFC Freedom 250. It's controversial, and it's gaudy, but we'd be lying if there's not some fights we want to see. We preview the card in the first half of this week's show.
Then we get into the week in MMA, including BJ Penn, more on The White House show, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim.
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UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim is coming up this weekend, and we preview the card, headlined by former UFC Welterweight Champion Belal Muhammad vs. the up-and-coming Gabriel Bonfim, in the first half of this week's show.
Then we get into the week in MMA, most of which is the build to the upcoming UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House. Eventually we get past that, and to the results of UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Figueiredo.
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Top ten UFC Bantamweights headline UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Figueiredo in Macau this weekend, and we preview the fights in the first half of this week's show.
Then we quickly recap the PFL card, and some other odd MMA-adjacent shows, and run down the week in MMA including more on how MVP MMA 1: Rousey vs. Carano did, and the return of Scott Coker.
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It sounds like MVP MMA: Rousey vs. Carano ended up being a pretty big deal on Netflix, but most importantly, what did we think of it? We look at how it went in the first half of this week's show.
Then we (very quickly) preview the upcoming PFL card, and discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Costa.
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Sean Strickland got it done at UFC 328 by dethroning Khamzat Chimaev to regain the UFC Middleweight Championship. We discuss that, the incredible UFC Flyweight Championship fight, and the rest of the card in the first half of this week's show.
Then we look towards this weekend's MVP MMA 1: Rousey vs. Carano, look at the Dana White interview with Charlamagne, and give short shift to UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Costa.
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At this weekend's UFC 328, UFC Middleweight Champion Khamzat Chimaev has his first title defense this weekend against former champion Sean Strickland, in what promises to be a cringey fight week but an intriguing fight. We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's show.
Then we look back at the results of UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs. Prates, as the list of Welterweight contenders continues to grow.
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At this weekend's UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs. Prates card, former UFC Welterweight Champion Jack Della Maddalena headlines against contender Carlos Prates in Australia. We preview the card in the first half of this week's show.
Then we look back on the week in MMA news, including the results of UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal.
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This weekend at UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal, former UFC Bantamweight Champion Aljamain Sterling tries to hold off Yusuff Zalal, who's on the best run of his career. We preview the card in the first half of this week's show.
Then, it was a big night for a few Canadian fighters at UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Malott. We discuss the results of that, as well as the rest of the week in MMA.
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UFC 327: Prochazka vs. Ulberg was a wild night. In the first half of this week's show we discuss it all, including new UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Carlos Ulberg, his injury, Jiri Prochazka's mercy, the resurrection of Paulo Costa, the insane Blaydes vs. Hokit fight, and more.
Then in the second half of the show we look at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Malott, and forget to talk about PFL.
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Ok, so it sucks that UFC 327: Prochazka vs. Ulberg lost the co-main event. Still...pretty fun card, and we preview it in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we look at the week in MMA, mostly the results of UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Duncan.
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At this weekend's UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Duncan, former Lightweight title challenger Renato Moicano gives rising contender Chris Duncan a chance to break into the top ten. We preview that card in the first half of this week's show.
In the second half of the show we get a little sidetracked, but eventually get to Joe Pyfer's big win over Israel Adesanya.
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Its odd to see former UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya in a lower-ranked fight, but time comes for us all, and Joe Pyfer's looking to capitalize. We preview that fight, and the rest of the UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Pyfer card in the first half of this week's show.
In the second half we discuss the upcoming PFL card, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Evloev vs. Murphy.
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The UFC heads back to London for this upcoming weekend's UFC Fight Night: Evloev vs. Murphy, and hopefully the headlining fight determines the next Featherweight contender. We preview that fight, and the rest of the card, in the first half of this week's show.
In the second half we discuss the week in MMA news, including more on Netflix's Rousey vs. Carano event (including the addition of Francis Ngannou), and the results of UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Vallejos.
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Oh no, Max Holloway and Charles Oliveira fought at UFC 326, and it wasn't fun! Its the end times. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria....
Anyway, we discuss the results of that card, as well as the full announcement of the UFC White House card, in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half, we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Vallejos card.
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lts a good week, because Max Holloway is fighting Charles Oliveira on Saturday night at UFC 326. We preview that BMF title fight, and the rest of the card, in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we look back at Lone'er Cavanagh's big win over Brandon Moreno, and discuss the rest of the week in MMA news.
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The UFC heads to Mexico City again this weekend, with former UFC Flyweight Champion Brandon Moreno headlining against the up-and-coming Lone'er Cavanagh. We preview that card in the first half of this week's show, as well as discuss this upcoming Ronda Rousey fight on Netflix.
Plus, former UFC Middleweight Champion Sean Strickland ran his mouth all week, but got the job done at UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Hernandez.
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The UFC Middleweight division remains hot, with a bunch of interesting names going for a title shot. At this weekend's UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Hernandez, the winner of former Champion Sean Strickland, and streaking Anthony Hernandez, will certainly have an argument for it. We preview that fight, and the rest of the card, in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the rest of the week in MMA.
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Hey...so UFC Fight Night: Bautista vs. Oliveira, and PFL Dubai: Nurmagomedov vs. Davis happened.
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It's back-to-back UFC numbered cards this week, so we start off this week's show previewing the upcoming UFC 325: Volkanovski vs. Lopes 2.
After that we have a lot to say about UFC 324: Gaethje vs. Pimblett, which was the first event of the UFC's new Paramount+ era, and had good fights, bad fights, good choices, and bad choices.
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Everyone's back from holiday hibernation. This week we're previewing the first UFC event of 2026, and the first one of the Paramount era, UFC 324: Gaethje vs. Pimblett, headlined by Justin Gaethje vs. Paddy Pimblett in a UFC Interim Lightweight fight.
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This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Sixteenth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the four of us debate 2025's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, Prospect of the Year, and more.
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In the first half of this week's show we talk about the results of FC on ESPN: Royval vs. Kape, the last UFC show of the year, and the last of their broadcast deal with ESPN.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA, including Francois Ngannou, PFL, and more.
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UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2 is the last UFC PPV of the year, and closes out the modern era of PPV, and it came with a couple of big upsets to crown new champions. We recap all of the results, including new UFC Bantamweight Champion Petr Yan, and new UFC Flyweight Champion Joshua Van, in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA, including the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Royval vs. Kape.
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In the first half of the show we take a look at UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan, a show that marks the end of an era as UFC's last traditional PPV event, at least in the United States.
Then we discuss what's up in 2026, as three UFC title fights have been announced for the first two Paramount+ events, and they're....interesting choices.
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We start off this week's show talking about the results of UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker, and how many options there are for UFC Lightweight and Welterweight title fights right now.
Then we just talk about random trash and drama for a while.
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Dominant wrestling won the day at UFC 322, with Islam Makhachev dominating to win the UFC Welterweight Championship from Jack Della Maddalena, and Valentina Shevchenko retaining against Zhang Weili. The rest of the fights were more exciting, and we discuss all of it in the first half of this week's show.
In the second half we look at some of the week in MMA news, and at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker coming up from Qatar.
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This weekend's UFC 322: Della Maddalena is looking like one of the best MMA card of the year, including two instances of a champion relinquishing their title to move up and try to win a new one. We preview the whole card in the first half of this week's show.
In the second half of the show, we look more at the recent UFC betting scandal, and the results of UFC on ESPN: Bonfim vs. Brown.
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This week we start off the show looking at the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Bonfim vs. Brown, a nice set of fights but without any big names.
Now if your fight cards can't have big names on them, there may as well be controversy, and that sums up this week in MMA news, as well as the results of UFC Fight Night: Garcia vs. Onama.
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UFC 321 was an unsatisfying night, mainly because UFC Heavyweight Championship fight between Tom Aspinall and Cyril Gane ended in a No Contest. We discuss that, new UFC Strawweight Champion Mackenzie Dern, and more, in the first half of this week's show.
Then we take a look at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Garcia vs. Onama, which at least on paper is looking a little thin.
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In the first half of this week's show, we take a look at this weekend's UFC 321, with two titles on the line. UFC Heavyweight Champion Tom Aspinall defends the non-interim title for the first time against Cyril Gane, and the vacant UFC Strawweight title is on the line for Virna Jandiroba and Mackenzie Dern.
Then we take a look back at the results of UFC Fight Night: de Ridder vs. Allen, featuring a huge win for Brendan Allen, and a night of mixed success for top Canadian fighters.
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The UFC returns to Vancouver this weekend for UFC Fight Night: de Ridder vs. Allen, headlined by a consequential Middleweight fight, and also featuring some of the best current Canadian talent. We preview that card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we take a look back at the results of UFC Fight Night: Oliveira vs. Gamrot card, and discuss a relatively quiet week in MMA news.
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Alex Pereira defeated Magomed Ankalaev at UFC 320 to win back the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship, and continue one of the most interesting careers in MMA history. We discuss the results of the entire card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we take a look at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Oliveira vs. Gamrot card, and the rest of the week in MMA news.
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It's a big Light Heavyweight rematch this weekend as Magomed Ankalaev has his first title defense against the man he won the title from at UFC 320: Ankalaev vs. Pereira 2. We preview that card to start off this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we look at the results of the apparently poorly attended UFC Fight Night: Ulberg vs. Reyes card.
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We start off this week's show looking at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Ulberg vs. Reyes card, featuring a pretty good and consequential Light Heavyweight fight, and...not much else.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA (and other) news.
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It's been a rough month for the Fighting Nerds camp, as hot Featherweight prospect Jean Silva lost to former title contender Diego Lopes at UFC Noche. We go over the results of that card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half we discuss the week in MMA news, including TKO's first crack at boxing.
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It's the UFC's third annual Noche event in celebration of Mexican Independence Day, and it's a little thin. Still, the Featherweight main event of Diego Lopes vs. Jean Silva is a hell of a fight. We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's show.
Then we recap UFC Fight Night: Imavov vs. Borralho, and discuss the week in MMA news.
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This weekend at UFC Fight Night: Imavov vs. Borralho in Paris, Middleweight contenders meet and try to lock in a title shot against UFC Middleweight Champion Khamzat Chimaev. We preview that card in the first half of this week's show.
Then we take a look at the week in MMA news, including a big weekend for Darren Till and Tony Ferguson at Misfits Boxing, and some big UFC fights announced for Madison Square Garden.
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Khamzat Chimaev just beat Dricus du Plessis in a one-sided fight at UFC 319 to become the new UFC Middleweight Champion. We discuss the results of that fight, and the rest of the card, in the first half of this week's show.
Then we take a look at the UFC's new deal with Paramount+, as well as the PFL results, and a preview of the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Zhang.
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Five years after he appeared destined to be a UFC champion, Khamzat Chimaev finally gets his chance this weekend at UFC 319, against champion Dricus du Plessis. We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's show.
Then we take a look at the results of UFC on ESPN: Dolidze vs. Hernandez, including a star-making performance from Anthony Hernandez.
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Top ten UFC Middleweights compete this weekend at UFC on ESPN: Dolidze vs. Hernandez, and we preview that card in the first half of this week's show..
Then in the second half of the show we look back at the week in MMA news, as well as the results of UFC on ESPN: Taira vs. Park, and PFL 8.
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We start off this week's show talking about the results of UFC on ABC: Whittaker vs. de Ridder, featuring a big win for Middleweight contender Reiner de Ridder, Petr Yan turning away Bantamweight prospect Marcus McGhee, and a bit of violence from Shara Magomedov and Marc-Andre Barriault.
Then in the second half of the show we look at this weekend's rather shallow UFC on ESPN: Taira vs. Park, with Tatsuro Taira getting a brand new opponent a week out.
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At UFC 318, Max Holloway finally got a win over decade-long rival Dustin Poirier, and remains the BMF Champion, while Poirier himself got to ride into the sunset in his own hometown. All in all, it was a good night of fights, and we discuss all of the results in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we preview the upcoming UFC on ABC: Whittaker vs. de Ridder, and take a look at the week in MMA news.
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It's the end of a long run for Dustin Poirier, who is having his retirement fight in New Orleans this weekend at UFC 318 against career rival and current BMF Champion Max Holloway. We preview that card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we take a look at the week in MMA. news, as well as the results of UFC on ESPN: Lewis vs. Teixeira.
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The old guard tries to hold onto their rankings this weekend at UFC ESPN: Lewis vs. Teixeira, not the least of which in the main event where rookie Tallison Teixeira takes on former UFC Heavyweight Contender Derrick Lewis in the main event. We preview that card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we take a look at the week in MMA. news.
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Ilia Topuria is the brand new UFC Lightweight Champion, kicking off what looks like an exciting (and confusing) new era in the Lightweight division. We discuss that, and all of the rest of the fights from UFC 317, in the first half of this week's show.
Then we look at some of the week in MMA news, including the PFL 7 results, and the 2025 UFC Hall of Fame.
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The vacant UFC Lightweight Championship is on the line this weekend at UFC 317, as Ilia Topuria comes up a division to try and win another world title, and standing in his way is former Lightweight Champion Charles Oliveira. We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's show.
Then we unpack the retirement of Jon Jones and what that means for his legacy and the future of the UFC Heavyweight division, and also take a look at the results from UFC's first trip to Azerbaijan, UFC on ABC: Hill vs. Rountree Jr.
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UFC's first trip to Azerbaijan, UFC on ABC: Hill vs. Rountree Jr., looks to be a decent set of action fights, headlined by some heavy Light Heavyweight hitters. We preview the card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA, as well as the results of UFC on ESPN: Usman vs. Buckley.
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UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O'Malley 2 is in the books, with Merab Dvalishvili retaining his UFC Bantamweight title, and Kayla Harrison winning the UFC Women's Bantamweight title. We discuss all of the happenings from that event in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we run down some of the week in MMA news, as well as take a look at the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Usman vs. Buckley card.
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UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O'Malley 2 is coming up this weekend, featuring former UFC Bantamweight Champion Sean O'Malley trying to reclaim his title from the man who beat him, and Kayla Harrison finally gets her shot at the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship. We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we run down some of the week in MMA news, as well as the results of the ill-rated UFC Fight Night: Gamrot vs. Klein.
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It's a relatively slow week in MMA, so we start the show discussing the results of UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales, where Michael Morales became yet another contender at Welterweight.
Then in the second half of the show we run down some of the week in MMA news.
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This week we start off with a look at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales, headlined by former UFC Welterweight contender Gilbert Burns vs. the up-and-coming Michael Morales.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena, and a bit of random MMA news.
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This weekend the UFC heads to Montreal for the first time in a decade for UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena. In the first half of this week's show we preview the card, including two title fights and a Jose Aldo fight.
Then in the second half we discuss the week in MMA, as well as the results of PFL 4 and UFC on ESPN: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo.
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It's Bantamweight action at UFC on ESPN: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo in Des Moines this weekend UFC heads to Kansas City, and we preview the card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half we discuss the week in MMA, including PFL 4 and the results of UFC on ESPN: Machado Garry vs. Prates.
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The UFC heads to Kansas City with a short notice Welterweight main event between Ian Machado Garry and rising star Carlos Prates. We preview that card in the first half of this week's show.
Then we discuss the week in MMA news, including the results of PFL 3.
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UFC 314 was a hell of a card. Alexander Volkanovski regained the UFC Featherweight Championship and has a line of potential challengers, Paddy Pimblett silenced the doubters, and the Fighting Nerds did it again. We recap all of the results in the first half of this week's show.
Then we discuss Amanda Nunes' Hall of Fame announcement, what is likely the end of GFL, and the PFL Quarterfinals.
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The UFC Featherweight Championship is for all intents and purposes vacant with Ilia Topuria moving up to the Lightweight division. So this weekend at UFC 314, former champ Alexander Volkanovski faces the rising Diego Lopes for the title, and we preview the card in the first half of this week's show.
Then we look back on a slow week in MMA, including the return of PFL, and the results of UFC on ESPN: Emmett vs. Murphy.
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It's another week and another UFC card, and this week's is UFC on ESPN: Emmett vs. Murphy, headlined by a battle between two top ten UFC Featherweights. We preview that card in the first half of this week's show.
Then we look back on the week in MMA news, including more on Cain Velasquez, and a lot of stories about our favorite topic, fighter pay. Also, a recap of UFC on ESPN: Moreno vs. Erceg.
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The UFC heads back to Mexico City this week for UFC on ESPN: Moreno vs. Erceg, and we preview that card in the first half of this week's show.
We also run down the week in MMA news, as depressing as always, as well as the results of UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Brady.
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We start of the show previewing all of the fights at UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Brady, featuring former UFC Welterweight Champion Leon Edwards meeting up-and-coming contender Sean Brady, and a big opportunity for Carlos Ulberg against former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jan Blachowicz.
In the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, as well as the results of UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2.
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UFC 313: Pereira vs. Ankalaev had a bit of everything. Great fights, terrible fights, fouls, terrible decisions, feel-good moments, and shameful ones. And of course, new Light Heavyweight Champion Magomed Ankalaev. We discuss it all in the first half of this week's show.
In the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, and take a look at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2.
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At this weekend's UFC 313, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Alex Pereira has possibly his biggest test to date against Magomed Ankalaev. Plus in the co-main event, Justin Gaethje and Rafael Fiziev have a short notice rematch. We preview the card in the first half of this week's show.
In the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Almabayev.
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The UFC heads back to Seattle after twelve years, with a Bantamweight main event of Henry Cejudo vs. Song Yadong. We preview the card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then we look back at the results of UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Rodrigues, and wonder what's going on with some insane proposed GFL fights.
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Both champions defended at UFC 312, so we start this week's show discussing the results of that show, including what's next for UFC Middleweight Champion Dricus du Plessis and UFC Strawweight Champion Zhang Weili.
In the second half of the episode we look at the week in MMA news, as well as take a look at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Rodrigues.
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The UFC heads back down under with two title fights at UFC 312: du Plessis vs. Strickland. Will Sean Strickland regain the UFC Middleweight Championship from Dricus du Plessis? Can Zhang Weili defend the UFC Strawweight Championship against the oft-injured but still dangerous Tatiana Suarez? We preview all of the fights in the first half of the show.
In the second half of the episode we look back at the results of UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Imavov, and an exceptional bad week for MMA fighters saying stupid things, even for this sport.
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The UFC returns to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for a better than usual televised card on February 1st, headlined by former UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya facing top five contender Nassourdine Imavov. We preview that card in the first half of this week's show.
Then afterwards we take a look at the very strange Global Fight League draft.
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UFC 311 took quite the turn one day before the event. With Lightweight challenger Arman Tsarukyan out with a back injury, long-time contender Renato Moicano had a last minute switch into the title shot. We discuss that first, the UFC Bantamweight title fight, and the rest of the card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show...it's the end of Bellator.
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It's looking like wrestle-mania at this weekend's UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Tsarukyan 2, is the two title fights are any indication. We preview the main card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half we look at the UFC 311 preliminary card, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Ribas 2.
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The first UFC event of 2025 is a rematch between Strawweight contenders Mackenzie Dern and Amanda Ribas, and we preview the card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half we catch up on some of the MMA news from over the holidays, but really we're just killing time until the PPV next weekend.
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This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Fifteenth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2024's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, Prospect of the Year, and many more categories..
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UFC 310: Pantoja vs. Asakura is the last UFC PPV of 2024, and it's a strange one. UFC Flyweight Champion Alexandre Pantoja defends his title against a debuting UFC fighter, Shavkat Rakhmonov is fighting Ian Garry instead of for the Welterweight title, and there are two completely weird and random Featherweight fights on the main card. We preview the main card to start this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the UFC 310 preliminary card, and talk the week in MMA news, and the results of the 2024 PFL finals at PFL 10.
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We start off the show looking at the results of UFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Figueredo from Macau, featuring a strong performance from former UFC Bantamweight Champion Petr Yan.
Then in the second half of the show we talk the week in MMA news, including the 2024 PFL finals at PFL 10, and Conor McGregor's civil trial in Ireland.
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To no one's surprise, Jon Jones defended his UFC Heavyweight Championship against Stipe Miocic at UFC 309. We discuss that fight, the looming UFC Interim Champion Tom Aspinall, and the rest of the card in the first half of this and what's next for all involved.
Then in the second half of the show we talk the week in MMA news, including the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Figueredo, and the very non-MMA Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight.
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It's a big one this week in New York, as at UFC 309: Jones vs. Miocic, UFC Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones looks to defend his Heavyweight title for the first, and possibly only time, against former champion Stipe Miocic. We preview the card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, the awful Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson Netflix thing, and look at the results of UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Prates.
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Neil Magny continues along in his never-ending duty of defending a UFC Welterweight top 15 ranking spot against all up-and-comers. This week it's Carlos Prates taking a shot at him in the headliner of UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Prates, and we preview that card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, and look at the results of UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Albazi.
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Okay, so UFC 308 was nuts. Not only did UFC Featherweight Champion Ilia Topuria cement himself with a first his title defense, he also became the first man to knock out Max Holloway. And Robert Whittaker was submitted by Khamzat Chimaev. At least the judging was bad, so something felt familiar.
We discuss the results of the whole card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we get into our favorite topics, Francis Ngannou doing his thing, and fighters getting paid. As well as a preview of UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Albazi.
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We start off this week's show looking at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Hernandez vs. Pereira, headlined by a solid fight between top 15 UFC Middleweights Anthony Hernandez and Michel Pereira.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss settlement request statements from the UFC anti-trust suit, the upcoming PFL PPV headlined by Francois Ngannou vs. Renan Ferreira, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Taira.
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UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr. was a land of contrasts. One one hand a main event war where Alex Pereira defended his UFC Light Heavyweight Championship against game contender Khalil Rountree Jr. On the other hand, some very rough judging and referee work in some very important fights. At least there's a lot to talk about.
Then in the second half of the show we briefly look at the week in MMA news, and preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Taira.
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UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr. is coming up this weekend from Salt Lake City, and we get in the spirit by getting a little salty about some of the matchmaking, but there are a lot of fun fights for us to preview in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we briefly look at the week in MMA news, as well as the results of UFC Fight Night: Saint Denis vs. Moicano.
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In the first half of this week's show we discuss the happenings from UFC 306: O'Malley vs. Dvalishvili at The Sphere in Las Vegas, including two new champions and a whole lot of very fancy video packages.
Then we wrap up the show with the week in MMA news, including updates on November's UFC 309 card, and the results of Bellator Champions Series 5: McCourt v. Collins.
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This weekend Saudi Arabia presents Riyadh Season Noche UFC 306: O'Malley vs. Dvalishvili at The Sphere in Las Vegas to celebrate Mexican Independence Day. Yes, it's a mouthful.
We preview the card in the first half of the show, including the UFC Bantamweight Championship fight between Sean O'Malley and Merab Dvalishvili, and the UFC Women's Flyweight Championship fight between Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson's retirement, and the results of Bellator and UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Brady.
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The UFC returns September 7th with UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Brady, as rising Welterweight Sean Brady looks for the biggest win of his career over former title challenger Gilbert Burns. We preview the card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news.
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This week Dave and Greg recap the results of UFC on ESPN: Cannonier vs. Borralho, including a huge win for Caio Borralho over the highly ranked former title contender Jared Cannonier.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news.
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They took the long road getting there, but this weekend at UFC 305 we get the highly anticipated UFC Middleweight Championship fight between Dricus du Plessis and Israel Adesanya. We preview the card in the first half of this week's show.
Then we run down the week in MMA news, the upcoming PFL 10 and the results of UFC on ESPN: Tybura vs. Spivak 2, a card that did not exceed our low expectations.
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The UFC Apex Center in Las Vegas really puts the term "Apex" to the test this weekend, hosting the UFC on ESPN: Tybura vs. Spivak 2 fight card. We reluctantly preview that event in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the rest of the week in MMA including the announced UFC 306 card, the return of PFL, and the results of UFC on ABC: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov.
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In the first half this week's episode we run down the results of UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2 including UFC Welterweight Champion Belal Muhammad, another dominant performance from Tom Aspinall, and Paddy Pimblett's best win yet.
Plus, Muhammad Mokaev won so many fights in a row that he's not welcome anymore in the UFC.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the rest of the week in MMA, as well as a preview of the upcoming UFC on ABC: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov.
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UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2 is coming up this weekend from Manchester, England. We preview the UFC Welterweight Championship main event, the UFC Interim Heavyweight title fight between Tom Aspinall and Curtis Blaydes, the return of Paddy Pimblett, and the rest of the card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss Dana White and Hulkamania at the RNC, another dumb Jake Paul boxing fight, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Lemos vs. Jandiroba.
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Top five UFC Women's Strawweights headline this weekend as recent title contender Amanda Lemos tries to turn away former Invicta champion Virna Jandiroba.
We preview that card in the first half of this week's show, and try not to complain too much about it.
Then in the second half of the show we briefly discuss a new development in the UFC anti-trust case, and the results of UFC on ESPN: Namajunas vs. Cortez.
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This weekend's UFC card nearly all fell apart and they have turned lemons into, well maybe not lemonade, but at the very least some overpriced lemon water, by putting some decent fights together on short notice.
We preview that new UFC on ESPN: Namajunas vs. Cortez card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the Diaz vs. Masvidal boxing match, and the latest controversy with Khamzat Chimaev.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to August 2014, and Joe Riggs pulling out of a UFC fight due to shooting himself accidentally.
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UFC 303: Pereira vs. Prochazka 2 saw Alex Pereira defend his UFC Light Heavyweight Championship against Jiri Prochazka in epic fashion, topping off a fight card that was changing right to the end. We discuss all of the results in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news.
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Conor McGregor may be out of this weekend's UFC 303 due to a toe injury, but as always, when your event is in trouble you call on Alex Pereira.
So we're previewing the brand new UFC 303: Pereira vs. Prochazka 2 card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss some recently booked fights, Paige VanZant taking a Power Slap fight, and the results of PFL, Bellator, and UFC on ABC: Whittaker vs. Aliskerov.
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Former UFC Flyweight contender Alex Perez has taken a pretty quick turnaround to headline this weekend's UFC against hot prospect Tatsuro Taira. We preview UFC Fight Night: Perez vs. Taira in the first half of this week's show. More or less.
Then in the second half of the show we speculate on the future of Conor McGregor and UFC 303, and briefly discuss the week's MMA events including Rizin, PFL, Oktagon, BTC, and UFC on ESPN: Cannonier vs. Imavov.
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UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev retained his title against Dustin Poirier in a hell of a fight at UFC 302. It was pretty incredible. The rest of the card....not so much. We discuss it all in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we take a look at the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Cannonier vs. Imavov.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to our discussion with journalist Karim Zidan about the Chael Sonnen's final drug test failure while under contract with the UFC.
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UFC Lightweight Champion and current #1 Pound for Pound fighter Islam Makhachev returns this weekend to defend his title against Dustin Poirier at UFC 302. We preview that card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss fighters defending the honor of Georges St-Pierre, and Gegard Mousasi's seperation from PFL.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to June 2014, and how Cub Swanson was doing at the time.
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The UFC remains doing shows out of their Apex Center in Las Vegas, and you can kind of see why with the lineup on this upcoming UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Murphy. We preview that card in the first half of this week's show, and search for diamonds in the rough on that card.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the retirement announcement of long-time favorite Matt Brown, this week's upcoming Bellator from France, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Nascimento.
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The UFC heads back to Rio this weekend, alongside "The King of Rio" himself, Jose Aldo. We preview Aldo's return fight, and the rest of that UFC 301: Pantoja vs. Erceg card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss Bare Knuckle FC for once, and the results of UFC on ESPN: Nicolau vs. Perez.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to June 2014, and a salty Ben Henderson following his win over Rustam Khabilov.
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It's Ariane Lipski vs. Karine Silva fight week! Maybe we're the only ones excited for that specific part of this week's UFC Fight Night: Nicolau vs. Perez card. We preview that event in the first half of this week's show.
Then we discuss a little weirdness in the UFC Lightweight rankings, Karate Combat, the 2024 PFL season, and what happens when someone vomits in the cage.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to June 2014, and our interviews at the time with Canadian fighters Rory MacDonald and Mike Malott.
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Wow, Max Holloway.
Most of this week's show is spent discussing the results of UFC 300, but we probably could have spent the entire hour talking about how awesome Max Holloway was in his victory over BMF Champion Justin Gaethje.
We also run down a few fight announcements, including the big one of Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler in June, and we have the return of Liam's PFL Corner segment.
Then in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late May 2014, and our take on the UFC's experiment in running two events in one day.
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We spend the entire episode previewing all of the fights on UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill.
That's it. Let's go.
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In the first half of this week's episode we take a look at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Curtis 2, while we wait patiently for the big fights of UFC 300.
Then in our Hammer History segment we look back (almost) 500 episodes to May 2014, and the first Renan Barao vs. TJ Dillashaw UFC Bantamweight title fight, and the ridiculous Rampage vs. King Mo feud in Bellator.
Finally, we discuss the results of UFC on ESPN: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot, which should have been called UFC on ESPN: Eyepokes and Groin Shots.
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This weekend is UFC on ESPN: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot, and the two hottest Women's Flyweight contenders out there are headlining, and we're all pretty excited about it. We preview the main event of Erin Blanchfield vs. Manon Fiorot, as well as the rest of that card, in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the episode we discuss the week in MMA news, including a bit of an anti-climactic wrap-up to the UFC anti-trust lawsuit, and the results of UFC on ESPN: Ribas vs. Namajunas.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to our interview with former WEC Featherweight Champion Mike Brown, and some strange things afoot in the UFC Rankings.
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Former UFC Strawweight Champion Rose Namajunas looks to get back on track against two division contender Amanda Ribas, this weekend at UFC on ESPN: Ribas vs. Namajunas. We preview that...not particularly stacked card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the episode we discuss Mark Coleman's heroic act, the surprising new UFC 301 main event, Bellator 302, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Tuivasa vs. Tybura.
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UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera was a pretty fun night of fights, with a bunch of impressive performances that we're pretty excited to talk about in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the episode we discuss Francis Ngannou's knockout loss to Anthony Joshua, the end of Bloody Elbow as we know it, and preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Tuivasa vs. Tybura.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-April 2014, and our post-fight interviews at the time with KJ Noons and Olivier Aubin-Mercier backstage at the The Ultimate Fighter: Nations Finale.
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These modern day UFC cards may be hit or miss, but when they hit, they hit big. This upcoming weekend's UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera is just full of great fights and solid matchmaking, and we spend almost the entire show previewing that event.
We also squeeze in a little talk about Francis Ngannou vs. Anthony Joshua, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Gaziev.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-April 2014, where we were on location for the UFC: TUF Nations Finale, and look back and our interviews at the time with Michael Bisping, Tim Kennedy, and Leslie Smith.
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UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Gaziev card is... pretty underwhelming, but at least the fighters don't have to go all the way to Saudi Arabia anymore. We preview that upcoming event in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the results of UFC on ESPN: Moreno vs. Royval, and PFL vs. Bellator from Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the week in MMA news.
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At UFC 298, the Volkanovski Era ended violently at the hand of new UFC Featherweight Champion Ilia Topuria. We discuss the new landscape at 145 pounds, as well as the results of the entire card, in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we preview the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Moreno vs. Royval, and PFL vs. Bellator, as well as gripe about fighter pay a little, because why not?
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UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski returns this weekend at UFC 298, to his best weight class, to defend his title against up-and-coming star Ilia Topuria. We preview that fight, and the rest of a pretty solid card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the results of UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Pyfer.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-March 2014, where we were on location in Natal, Brazil, conducting some awkward post-fight interviews at UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Shogun 2.
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It's another week, and another Middleweight fight headlining a shallow UFC Fight Night at the Apex Center. This week we're previewing the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Pyfer.
Then in the second half of this week's episode we look at the results of UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs. Imavov, and discuss the on-again-off-again Dustin Poirier vs. Benoit Saint-Denis fight.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-March 2014, and our show that was recorded from Brazil, including our interviews at the time with Dan Henderson, CB Dollaway, and Jussier Formiga.
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This week's UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs. Imavov kicks off a run of a UFC event every weekend until mid-April. We preview that card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the PFL vs. Bellator press conference, Holly Holm vs. Kayla Harrison, and Jon Anik's experience with the shift in MMA discourse.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to March 2014, and our thoughts at the time on Hendricks vs. Lawler, a somewhat odd choice for the future of the Middleweight division, and we wonder if there may be something suspicious about Jon Jones.
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In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of UFC 297, including new UFC Middleweight Champion Dricus Du Plessis, new UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Raquel Pennington, and just kind of a bad night for Canada all around.
Then in the second half of the show we look at more UFC 300 news, Frankie Edgar's pending UFC Hall of Fame induction, and the announcement of the first PFL vs. Bellator event.
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The UFC finally returns to Toronto this weekend, for UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis. It's maybe not the deepest card of 2024, but there are two title fights, a bunch of Canadian talent, and we preview the whole main card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we look at the UFC 297 preliminary card, where the UFC 300 card stands with a few months to go, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2.
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UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 is the first UFC event of 2024, and we're back previewing the card in the first half of this week's show. Well, the main card at least.
Then in the second half of the show we join in on the predictions for what April's UFC 300 card may look like, as well as the last few weeks of MMA news, and the huge announcement of Francis Ngannou boxing Anthony Joshua.
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This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Fourteenth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2023's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, Prospect of the Year, and many more categories.
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The last UFC event of the year fell a little flat, being big on trash talking, and a little light on action, especially in the main event, where UFC Welterweight Champion Leon Edwards solidly beat contender Colby Covington. We recap the entire card in the first half of this week's show .
Then in the second half of the show, we run down the week in MMA news.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late January 2014, and the first time James Lynch co-hosted, previewing UFC 169 with us.
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This weekend's UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington is loaded up with two title fights, and a bunch of up-and-comer vs. veteran match-ups that make this one of the more interesting MMA cards of the year. We spend a lot of this week's episode running down the card.
We also discuss the week in MMA news, as well as the results of PFL Europe, and UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Gutierrez.
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This weekend, UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Gutierrez takes a left turn at Shanghai, and winds up in Las Vegas, and hey...it's actually not a bad little card. We preview it in the first half of this week's show.
Then we run down the week in MMA news, including the arrest of Jamahal Hill, Sean Strickland taking care of business in his driveway, more depressing payout information from the UFC anti-trust class action suit, PFL's TV deal, and the results of UFC on ESPN: Dariush vs. Tsarukyan.
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With the holiday season upon us, the UFC is putting on deeper than average televised fight cards again, including this weekend's UFC on ESPN: Dariush vs. Tsarukyan. We preview that event in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show, it's the announcement that we've all been waiting months for. PFL has purchased Bellator. We discuss what we know so far, the potential for the future, as well as the results of the 2023 PFL season finals.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late December 2013, and our reaction at the time to Anderson Silva's horrifying leg injury in his second fight with Chris Weidman.
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This week we take a lap around the combat sports world, including the results of UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Craig, Francis Ngannou's WBC ranking, Bloody Elbow's fighter pay analysis stemming from the Le vs. Zuffa anti-trust lawsuit, and more, in the first half of the episode.
Then we look at the results of the last confirmed Bellator event, the upcoming PFL 2023 finals, and wonder if those two crazy kids will ever get together.
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UFC 295 was a hell of an event, with big title wins for Alex Pereira and Tom Aspinall, and a ton of exciting fights and finishes. We discuss all of the results in the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we preview the upcoming Bellator 301 and UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Craig, as well as the rest of the week in MMA news.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to December 2013, and some clips from our awards show, in case you're wondering who won 2013 MMA Douchebag of the Year.
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UFC 295 is looking pretty damn good, what with Jiri Procházka vs. Alex Pereira fighting for the vacant UFC Light Heavyweight title, and Sergei Pavlovich vs. Tom Aspinall for the UFC Interim Heavyweight title. In the first half of this week's show we preview the entire card.
Then in the second half of the episode we discuss the week in MMA news, including more on the UFC class action suit, the Fury vs. Ngannou buyrate, as well as look back at the results of UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Lewis.
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It looks like we are The Hammer Boxing Radio for the first half of this week's episode, as we have a lot to say following former UFC Heavyweight Champion Francis Ngannou's impressive boxing performance against Tyson Fury.
We also discuss the rest of the week in MMA news, including Jon Jones' injury that has taken him out of UFC 295, the newly signed UFC Interim Heavyweight Championship fight, Budweiser's return to the octagon, and a preview of the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Lewis.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 10 years to our interview at the time with Chris Weidman.
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UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev retained his title against Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 294, which was impressive, but not as impressive as the sheer number of No Contests, censorship, and staph infections going on over there in Abu Dhabi last weekend.
Then in the second half of the show we take a quick look at this weekend's Tyson Fury vs. Francis Ngannou boxing fight, and some of the recent UFC cuts.
And hey...just because we can, there's a replay of our 2011 review of the MMA film, Warrior.
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It's been one of those wacky weeks in MMA, not the least of which is that this weekend's UFC 294 has been completely revamped on very short notice.
In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card including Alexander Volkanovski stepping in for a rematch against UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev, and Kamaru Usman replacing Paulo Costa against Khamzat Chimaev.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the end of the USADA era in UFC, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Yusuff vs. Barboza.
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Top fifteen UFC Featherweights Sodiq Yusuff and Edson Barboza headline this weekend's UFC Fight Night card, and we preview it in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the results and news coming out of Bellator 300 and UFC Fight Night: Dawson vs. Green.
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The UFC returns this weekend with UFC Fight Night: Dawson vs. Green. While it doesn't look so great on the surface, we do find a lot to like about it once we get to know it. We preview that card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, as well as PFL Europe 3 results, as well as the latest from our favorite freak show fight promotion, Fight Circus 8.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early November 2013, and our interview with trainer Mike Dolce.
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Everything's coming up Gamrot, as Mateusz Gamrot picked up the biggest win of his career, beating fellow Lightweight contender Raphael Fiziev following an in-cage injury.
We discuss that result, as well as the rest of the UFC Fight Night: Fiziev vs. Gamrot card, in the first half of this week's show.
Then we move onto the week in MMA including the announcement of some new UFC title fights, and the Bellator 299 results.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to our interview with Khabib Nurmagomedov in October 2013, and then extend the segment to include our thoughts on a couple of the Expendables movies, since Expend4bles was released this week.
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UFC Lightweight contenders Rafael Fiziev and Mateusz Gamrot face off this weekend, and we preview that fight, and the rest of the UFC Fight Night: Fiziev vs. Gamrot card in the first half of this week's show.
We also run down the week in MMA news including the UFC/WWE merger, the rumors of Bellator's impending demise, and what we learned from John Makdessi sharing his UFC 293 paycheck for all to see.
Finally, we discuss the results and judging controversies of UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Shevchenko 2.
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We're not sure what's more surprising. That Sean Strickland is the new UFC Middleweight Champion, or that the worst soundbites from UFC 293 may not have come from him.
In the first half of this week's episode we discuss Strickland's big win, and the rest of the results of UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland.
Then we run down the week in MMA news, and preview UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Shevchenko 2.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early October 2013, and our interviews with Kevin "Hercules" Sorbo, and UFC Lightweight contender TJ Grant.
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UFC 293: Adesanya vs Strickland is coming up this weekend from Australia, and sure, it's maybe not the card everyone was hoping for, but we preview the fights in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss what seems to be an inevitable purchase of Bellator by PFL, take a look at the UFC 292 payouts, and check out the results of UFC on ESPN: Gane vs. Spivak.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early October 2013, and the unfortunate main event of Jake Shields vs. Demian Maia, and our interview at the time with UFC Interim Bantamweight Champion Renan Barao.
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The UFC heads to Paris this weekend for UFC on ESPN: Gane vs. Spivak, and while the Heavyweight main event is good, we're really into the co-main event of Rose Namajunas' moving up to Flyweight to fight Manon Fiorot.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the results of PFL and UFC on ESPN: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-September 2013, and more of our UFC 165 coverage at the time, including interviews with Khabib Nurmagomedov and Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson..
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Sean O'Malley won the UFC Bantamweight Championship at UFC 292, and the division is looking pretty interesting right now. We discuss that main event, as well as the rest of the results from UFC 292, in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we preview the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie card, as well as look at a couple of PFL events.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-September 2013, and the our UFC 165 coverage, including interviews at the time with Bantamweight contender Eddie Wineland and Brendan Schaub, as well as Greg's workout with Mike Dolce.
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The first half of this week's episode is our preview of this weekend's UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley card, which includes the UFC Bantamweight and UFC Women's Strawweight title fights, as well as the return of Chris Weidman from horrific injury.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the latest on the UFC class action lawsuit, the new main event of UFC 293, more Conor McGregor nonsense, PFL, and the results of Bellator 298 and UFC on ESPN: Luque vs. dos Anjos.
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In the first half of this week's episode, we take a look at the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Luque vs. dos Anjos, headlined by welterweight contender Vincente Luque returning to fight former UFC Lightweight Champion Raphael dos Anjos.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news including Jake Paul vs. Nate Diaz, the upcoming Bellator 298, and the results of UFC on ESPN: Sandhagen vs. Font.
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Justin Gaethje just beat Dustin Poirier in the main event of UFC 291, and we're wondering whether he can parlay his brand new BMF title into an actual UFC title fight. We discuss that, and all of the UFC 291 results in the first half of this week's show.
We also run down the week in MMA news, including Bellator x Rizin 2 results, the upcoming PFL, UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Font cards, and the Jake Paul vs. Nate Diaz boxing fight.
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Dustin Poirier is fighting Justin Gaethje this weekend, how cool is that? Sure, it's for the BMF title, but you can't have everything.
We preview that fight, and the entire UFC 291 card in the first half of this week's show.
Then we discuss the announcement of Makhachev vs. Oliviera 2, the at least temporary retirement of Ian Heinisch, the upcoming Bellator X Rizin 2, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Aspinall vs. Tybura.
Then in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late-August 2013, and Travis Browne's huge win over Alistair Overeem, and Conor McGregor beating Max Holloway in his second ever UFC fight.
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To "Fumble the Bag" or "To Not Fumble the Bag", that was the question everyone's been wondering about Francis Ngannou since he first decided to test the waters outside of the UFC. Well this week we can finally answer that, following the announcement of his upcoming boxing fight with Tyson Fury.
We also have a vacant UFC Light Heavyweight title, unlikely Ronda Rousey rumors, Alexandre Pantoja's experience with fighter pay, the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Aspinall vs. Tybura, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Bueno Silva.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-August 2013, and the UFC's debut on Fox Sports 1, including Conor McGregor's fight on the preliminary card.
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UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez was a hell of a fight card, and in the first half of this week's episode we discuss the night of big upsets, wild finishes, as well as Robbie Lawler's retirement fight.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, and quickly preview the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Holm vs. Bueno Silva.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early August 2013, and Jose Aldo's victory of The Korean Zombie, and wonder how Ben Askren may do if he ever came to UFC.
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The upcoming UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez card looks to be the MMA card of the summer, with two title fights, great prospects, and Robbie Lawler's retirement fight. We spend most of this week's episode previewing all of the fights on that show.
We also quickly go over the results of UFC on ESPN: Strickland vs. Magomedov.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late-July 2013, and the results of UFC on Fox: Johnson vs. Moraga.
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It's another big UFC main event this weekend at UFC on ESPN: Strickland vs.... wait, what? Okay then...
We preview UFC on ESPN: Sean Strickland vs. Abus Magomedov in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we regretfully discuss some Elon Musk vs. Mark Zuckerberg nonsense, as well as the results of PFL 6 and UFC on ABC: Emmett vs. Topuria.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late-July 2013, and the UFC debut of future champion Jessica Andrade, as well as Swedish superstar Reza Madadi's legal issues.
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This weekend's UFC on ABC: Emmett vs. Topuria looks to be one of the better UFC events of the summer on paper, and we preview the card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the rest of the week in MMA, including the results of UFC on ESPN: Vettori vs. Cannonier, Bellator 297, PFL 5, and BTC 20. Also, Conor McGregor's sexual assault allegation.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-July 2013, and TJ Grant's unfortunate career ending concussion, and the MMA retirement of Brian Stann.
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Amanda Nunes got the job done at UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana, then retired in the cage at the top of her game, vacating both the UFC Women's Bantamweight and Featherweight Championships. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss all of the news and results coming out of that event.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the rest of the week in MMA, including The Ultimate Fighter, Conor McGregor vs. a basketball mascot, PFL,, Bellator, and the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Vettori vs. Cannonier.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to July 2013, and our thoughts at the time on Chris Weidman defeating Anderson Silva, and winning the UFC Middleweight Championship.
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It took almost four years, but the UFC is finally returning to Canada this weekend. In the first half of this week's show we preview the entire UFC 289 card, including UFC Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes vs. Irene Aldana, an incredible Charles Oliveira vs. Beneil Dariush fight, and a bunch of our local fighters up and down the card.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the rest of the week in MMA including The Ultimate Fighter, PFL 4, Fight Circus, and other nonsense.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early July 2013, and which one of us actually picked Chris Weidman's to win the UFC Middleweight Championship from Anderson Silva, as well as an interview with soon-to-be UFC fighter Alex Ricci.
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Flyweights get to shine this weekend at UFC on ESPN: Kara-France vs. Albazi, and the winner may even be in line for a UFC Flyweight championship fight. We preview that card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the the week in MMA, including the return of The Ultimate Fighter, Bellator's new Flyweight division, and questionable actions from fighters old and new.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late-June 2013, and Chris Weidman's hype going into his first UFC Middleweight Championship fight, as well as the implementation of a UFC dress code.
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Francis Ngannou appears to have pulled it off. After leaving the UFC (and his UFC Heavyweight Championship) to test the waters elsewhere, he has now landed a substantial deal with PFL, and we have quite a lot to say about it in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the rest of the week in MMA news, including the potential return of Conor McGregor in late 2023, recent UFC main event announcements, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Hill.
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"The UFC's "mid" summer run of Fight Night cards continues with a transplanted Mackenzie Dern vs. Angela Hill fight, which was moved to this weekend to save the event. We preview that fight, and the rest of the UFC Fight Night: Mackenzie vs. Dern card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the the week in MMA, including the results of UFC on ABC: Rozenstruik vs. Almeida, an update on the Tim Hague public death inquiry, Bellator charging per event in Canada, and a shockingly large amount of PFL test failures.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-June 2013, and a pretty rough looking UFC 161 card, our awkward interview with Yves Jabouin, and the horrible tale of Waylon Lowe.
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UFC Bantamweight Champion Aljamain Sterling defended his championship at UFC 288, and while he gets less respect than Rodney Dangerfield, it's hard to fault a win over former champion Henry Cejudo. We discuss the results of that fight, and the rest of the UFC 288 card, in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the rest of the week in MMA, including a great One Championship event, Irene Aldana replacing Julianna Pena against Amanda Nunes, our preview of the upcoming UFC on ABC: Rozenstruik vs. Almeida, and more.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early June 2013, and an underwhelming The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 2 finale, as well as big money moves for Rampage Jackson.
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This weekend's UFC 288: Sterling vs. Cejudo has shaped up to be a fun little card. It's headlined by UFC Bantamweight Champion Aljamain Sterling defending his title against Henry Cejudo who is coming out of retirement, after having relinquished the same title three years ago. We preview that card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we take a look at the week in MMA news including the arrest of Nate Diaz, early rumors of PFL buying Bellator, a wild scene at Bare Knuckle FC, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Simon.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late-May 2013, and the announcement of Forrest Griffin going into the UFC Hall of Fame, as well as Cat Zingano needing to pull out of The Ultimate Fighter spot coaching against Ronda Rousey.
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This coming weekend's UFC card has a new main event of Song Yadong vs. Ricky Simon. On the plus side, that's a great fight. On the other hand, there's the rest of the fights. We sort of preview that card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we take a look at the results of Bellator 294, Bellator 295, and UFC Fight Night: Pavlovich vs. Blaydes.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-May 2013, and the upcoming UFC 160: Velasquez vs. Bigfoot 2, as well as a tough robbery loss for ol' Evan Dunham.
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The big boys are fighting this weekend at UFC Fight Night: Pavlovich vs. Blaydes, and the winner should be considered a deserving challenger for the UFC Heavyweight Championship. We preview that fight, and the rest of the card, in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, PFL 3 results, Bellator 294 and 295, and the results of UFC on ESPN: Holloway vs. Allen.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early April 2013, and the at-the-time upcoming Vitor Belfort vs. Luke Rockhold fight, a ridiculously huge punishment for Pat Healy, and our interview with TJ Grant heading into his fight with Gray Maynard.
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at UFC 287, Israel Adesanya finally broke the curse of Alex Pereira, beating his long-time rival and winning back the UFC Middleweight Championship. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss what's next for them, as well as Gilbert Burns retiring Jorge Masvidal, and the rest of the results from UFC 287.
Then in the second half of the show we take another look at the Endeavour/WWE merger, PFL 2 and PFL 3, and preview the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Holloway vs. Allen card.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late April 2013, our interviews at the time with MMA journeyman Bill Smallwood, and former UFC fighter Nick Ring.
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UFC 287: Pereira vs. Adesanya 2 is coming up this weekend, headlined by new UFC Middleweight Champion Alex Pereira's first title defense against former champion Israel Adesanya. We spend much of this week's episode previewing that pretty solid fight card.
Then we discuss the rest of the week in MMA, including word of WWE joining UFC under the Endeavor umbrella, as well as the results of Bellator 293, PFL 2023 1, Fight Circus 6, and Gamebred Boxing.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late April 2013, and Jon Jones defeating Chael Sonnen at UFC 159. Plus our interview at the time with former UFC fighter Mike Ricci.
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UFC On ESPN: Vera vs. Sandhagen wasn't the greatest night of fights ever, but Cory Sandhagen did impress in his main event victory over Marlon Vera. We discuss the results of that show in the first half of this week's episode, as well as the announcement of Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone into the UFC Hall of Fame.
Then in the second half of the show we take a look at this weekend's PFL, Bellator, and Fight Circus events, and the rest of the week in MMA news.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-April 2013, and Ben Henderson's win over Gilbert Melendez, and our interview at the time with eventual UFC Women's Bantamweight contender Sara McMann.
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At UFC 286: Edwards vs. Usman 3, Leon Edwards managed to defend his UFC Welterweight Championship against Kamaru Usman, and silence his critics. We discuss the entire event, including the wild Gaethje vs. Fiziev fight, in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, and preview the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Vera vs. Sandhagen card.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to April 2013, and clips from our interview at the time with Nate Diaz.
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The UFC heads to London, England this weekend for UFC 286: Edwards vs. Usman 3, for a show headlined with a UFC Welterweight Championship rematch between Leon Edwards and Kamaru Usman. We preview that event in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the results of Bellator 292: Nurmagomedov vs. Henderson and UFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Dvalishvili. Oh, and Power Slap. Sort of.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to April 2013, with Wanderlei Silva's April Fool's joke, and our interview at the time with Josh Hill.
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Following years of speculation, Jon "Bones" Jones finally moved up a weight class, and has won the vacant UFC Heavyweight Championship at UFC 285. We discuss that fight, Valentina Shevchenko's upset loss to new UFC Women's Flyweight Champion Alexa Grasso, and the rest of the card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show preview the upcoming Bellator 292: Nurmagomedov vs. Henderson, and UFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Dvalishvili cards, and hopefully wrap up this Dana White's Power Slap thing forever.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early April 2013, and the short notice main event debut of Ilir Latifi, Conor McGregor's first UFC fight, and an interview with Tristar head Firas Zahabi.
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After three long years, Jon Jones will (hopefully) be back in the UFC cage this weekend at UFC 285: Jones vs. Gane, and fighting Cyril Gane for the vacant UFC Heavyweight Championship. We preview the card in the first half of this week's show, which also includes Valentina Shevchenko vs. Alexa Grasso, and the UFC debut of red hot prospect Bo Nickal.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the results of Bellator 291 and UFC Fight Night: Muniz vs. Allen, and continue to chart the death of Power Slap.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late March 2013, and the Montreal weigh-in scale controversy, as well as part of our interview with Tyron Woodley.
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In the first half of this week's episode we take a look at this weekend's UFC Fight Night: Krylov vs. Spann, a show headlined by Light Heavyweight action fighters Nikita Krylov and Ryan Spann, and also including the long-awaited return of Tatiana Suarez following years of injury problems.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, including various controversies coming out of last week's Makhachev vs. Volkanovski fight, the upcoming Bellator 291 card, more Power Slap awfulness, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Blanchfield.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late March 2013, and our post-fight thoughts on UFC 158: St-Pierre vs. Diaz, including an interview with Rick Story, who won at that show.
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UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev defended his title against UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 284, and seems to have locked in his spot as the #1 pound-for-pound fighter in the sport. It was a pretty solid night of fights, and we discuss all of the results in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, including more MMA legends boxing, more bad news for Power Slap, recent changes to UFC fighter contracts, and the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Blanchfield card.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to March 2013, and our coverage at the time of Georges St-Pierre vs. Nick Diaz, including interviews with St-Pierre, Johnny Hendricks, and Matt Hughes.
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The UFC's top two Pound-for-Pound fighters meet this weekend at UFC 284: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski. It's an incredible fight that's going a little under the radar, with both Islam Makhachev's Lightweight title, and Alexander Volkanovski's #1 P4P spots on the line. We preview that card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss McGregor vs. Chandler on The Ultimate Fighter, the Bellator 290 and UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Spivak results, and more of the brutal realities of Dana White's Power Slap.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late February 2013, and our thoughts on the time on Brian Stann's last fight, Mark Hunt knocking out Stefan Struve, and the winner for all-time worst corner advice.
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If you're looking for Heavyweight MMA at 1am, then UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Spivak is for you. We preview this weekend's late-night, South Korean focused, UFC card in the first half of this week's show, as well as Bellator's big debut event on CBS.
In the second half of the show we deal with all sorts of Conor McGregor news, Vox media ending their support of BloodyElbow.com, and discuss some of our concerns with Dana White's Power Slap now that one of us has actually seen some of it.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-February 2013, and the overall success of Ronda Rousey's UFC debut.
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UFC 283 was a rough night for Brazil.
In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of that show, including big wins for new UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jamahal Hill, and new unified UFC Flyweight Champion Brandon Moreno. Plus the retirements of legendary fighters Shogun Rua and Glover Teixiera.
In the second half of the show we dig deeper into Francis Ngannou's free agency now that he's told his side of the story, and while we didn't actually watch it, we do gawk at how poorly Dana White's Power Slap seems to be doing so far.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-February 2013, and Ronda Rousey's UFC debut at UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche.
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UFC 283: Teixiera vs. Hill is coming up this weekend, headlined by a fight for the vacant UFC Light Heavyweight title between former champion Glover Teixiera, and knockout artist Jamahal Hill. We preview the card in the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we get into the big news of (now former) UFC Heavyweight Champion Francis Ngannou leaving the UFC, and the announcement of Jon Jones vs. Cyril Gane for that belt. We also discuss more on Dana White, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Imavov.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to February 2013, when Renan Barao was the scariest Bantamweight on the planet.
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We're back after the holiday break, and catching up on possibly the darkest couple of week's in memory, Dana White's physical altercation with his wife, the deaths of Stephan Bonnar, Victoria Lee and Abdul-Kerim Edilov, Phil Baroni's arrest for murder, Jose Aldo putting up Jair Bolsonaro, and more.
We also discuss Jake Paul fighting for PFL, Bellator vs. Rizin, and the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Imavov vs. Gastelum.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early February 2013, and the Jon Fitch vs. Demian Maia fight, and Randy Couture hooking up with Bellator.
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This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Thirteenth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2022's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, Prospect of the Year, and many more categories.
Also, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late January 2013, and our thoughts at the time on UFC 156: Aldo vs. Edgar.
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It's a short, podcast-only episode here before we take the holidays off, and in the first half of the show we take a look at the results of UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Strickland.
Then we quickly discuss the Jake Shields / Mike Jackson altercation, and the upcoming Bellator vs. Rizin event.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late-January 2013, and Demetrious Johnson's first UFC Flyweight Championship defense against John Dodson, and poor Judo Rick Hawn getting ripped off by his sponsor.
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UFC 282: Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev was so much fun, until it wasn't anymore. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of that show, from the great finishes, all the way to the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship still being vacant.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, including TJ Dillashaw's retirement, BTC 18 and Bellator 289 results, and preview the last UFC event of 2022, UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Strickland.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-January 2013, and our thoughts on Michael Bisping, and Josh Barnett at the time.
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UFC 282: Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev is not the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship main event that we were promised this weekend, but we're still pretty cool with it. We start off this week's episode previewing Jan Blachowicz and Magomed Ankalaev fighting for the vacant title, as well as the rest of the UFC 282 card.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA, including the suspension of UFC betting in our home province of Ontario, the upcoming Bellator card, and the results of UFC on ESPN: Thompson vs. Holland.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-January 2013, and the very last Strikeforce card.
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This week's UFC on ESPN: Thompson vs. Holland card has some solid fights, including the Welterweight main event between Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson and Kevin Holland, and a monster Heavyweight fight between Tai Tuivasa and Sergei Pavlovich. We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we take a look at the results of the PFL 2022 Championships, and some other random nonsense.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early January 2013, and the results Cain Velasquez vs. Junior Dos Santos 2, and the final Dream show from Japan.
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UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Spivak Nzechukwu vs. Cuțelaba was a mess of a card, but it was a mostly enjoyable mess. We start this week's show discussing the results of that event, as well as the results of Bellator 288: Nemkov vs. Anderson 2.
Then in the second half of the show we take a look at the upcoming PFL 2022 Championships, and the passing of Anthony "Rumble" Johnson.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late December 2012, and the (at the time) upcoming UFC 155: dos Santos vs. Velasquez 2.
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UFC 281: Adesanya vs. Pereira certainly delivered, what with new UFC Champions Alex Pereira and Zhang Weili, a Fight of the Year contender between Dustin Poirier and Michael Chandler, and Frankie Edgar's retirement fight. We discuss all of the results in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we regretfully look at the new Power Slap League announcement, and preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Spivak, and Bellator 288: Nemkov vs. Anderson 2.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes with clips from our December 2012 Awards Show, including clips of our Worst Fight of the Year, and Robbery of the Year.
R.I.P. Anthony "Rumble" Johnson
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UFC 281: Adesanya vs. Pereira certainly delivered, what with new UFC Champions Alex Pereira and Zhang Weili, a Fight of the Year contender between Dustin Poirier and Michael Chandler, and Frankie Edgar's retirement fight. We discuss all of the results in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we regretfully look at the new Power Slap League announcement, and preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Spivak, and Bellator 288: Nemkov vs. Anderson 2.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes with clips from our December 2012 Awards Show, including clips of our Worst Fight of the Year, and Robbery of the Year.
R.I.P. Anthony "Rumble" Johnson
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This weekend's UFC 281 features a UFC Middleweight Championship grudge match between Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira, Carla Esparza defending her UFC Strawweight Championship fight against Zhang Weili, and Michael Chandler vs. Dustin Poirier somewhat of a dream action fight. We preview the card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news including recent UFC releases, the crazy Fight Circus, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Lemos.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-December 2012, and the official announcement of women fights in the UFC, and the retirement of Mark Hominick.
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This weekend's UFC 281 features a UFC Middleweight Championship grudge match between Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira, Carla Esparza defending her UFC Strawweight Championship fight against Zhang Weili, and Michael Chandler vs. Dustin Poirier somewhat of a dream action fight. We preview the card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news including recent UFC releases, the crazy Fight Circus, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Lemos.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-December 2012, and the official announcement of women fights in the UFC, and the retirement of Mark Hominick.
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UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Lemos is coming up this weekend, headlined by a fun Marina Rodriguez vs. Amanda Lemos fight, where the winner appears to be ready for a UFC Women's Strawweight title fight. We preview that card in the first half of this episode.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news including the results of UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Allan and Jake Paul vs. Anderson Silva, the UFC releases of Krzysztof Jotko and Askar Askarov, and what's up with Jiri Prochazka getting drug tested every week?
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early December 2012, where we're joined by UFC veteran Mark Bocek, and talk about the upcoming (at the time) Shogun Rua vs. Alexander Gustafsson fight.
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UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Lemos is coming up this weekend, headlined by a fun Marina Rodriguez vs. Amanda Lemos fight, where the winner appears to be ready for a UFC Women's Strawweight title fight. We preview that card in the first half of this episode.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news including the results of UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Allan and Jake Paul vs. Anderson Silva, the UFC releases of Krzysztof Jotko and Askar Askarov, and what's up with Jiri Prochazka getting drug tested every week?
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early December 2012, where we're joined by UFC veteran Mark Bocek, and talk about the upcoming (at the time) Shogun Rua vs. Alexander Gustafsson fight.
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UFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev was certainly eventful, and the first half of this week's episode we discuss all of the results, including new UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev, the trainwreck of the UFC Bantamweight title fight, Sean O'Malley's win over Petr Yan, and more.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news including Jake Paul vs. Anderson Silva, Ilir Latifi's suspension, Dana White's Power Slap Fighting, Conor McGregor's status, and the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Allen.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late November 2012, and news of the final Strikeforce show falling apart, and our first interview with the at-the-time UFC bound Jesse Ronson.
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UFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev was certainly eventful, and the first half of this week's episode we discuss all of the results, including new UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev, the trainwreck of the UFC Bantamweight title fight, Sean O'Malley's win over Petr Yan, and more.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news including Jake Paul vs. Anderson Silva, Ilir Latifi's suspension, Dana White's Power Slap Fighting, Conor McGregor's status, and the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Allen.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late November 2012, and news of the final Strikeforce show falling apart, and our first interview with the at-the-time UFC bound Jesse Ronson.
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The UFC heads back to Abu Dhabi this weekend for UFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev. It's one of the best looking fight cards of the year, and we spend most of this week's episode discussing it.
Later in the show we look at the results of UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Araujo, and a couple of big fight announcements and rumours.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to November 2012, and our post-UFC 154: St-Pierre vs. Condit coverage in Montreal, and our fun exchange with Anderson Silva.
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The UFC heads back to Abu Dhabi this weekend for UFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev. It's one of the best looking fight cards of the year, and we spend most of this week's episode discussing it.
Later in the show we look at the results of UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Araujo, and a couple of big fight announcements and rumours.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to November 2012, and our post-UFC 154: St-Pierre vs. Condit coverage in Montreal, and our fun exchange with Anderson Silva.
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This weekend Alexa Grasso and Viviane Araujo try to make their case for a shot at Valentina Shevchenko's UFC Women's Flyweight Championship, in the main event of UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Araujo. We preview that fight, and the rest of the card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news including a date for the UFC Flyweight title unification fight, Uriah Hall joining the Paul vs. Silva boxing card, and Melvin Guillard not getting licensed for his BKFC fight in Colorado.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to November 2012, and our UFC 154 coverage, where Greg speaks with GSP and Condit, Mark Hominick goes into his retirement fight, and we annoy Martin Kampmann.
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This weekend Alexa Grasso and Viviane Araujo try to make their case for a shot at Valentina Shevchenko's UFC Women's Flyweight Championship, in the main event of UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Araujo. We preview that fight, and the rest of the card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news including a date for the UFC Flyweight title unification fight, Uriah Hall joining the Paul vs. Silva boxing card, and Melvin Guillard not getting licensed for his BKFC fight in Colorado.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to November 2012, and our UFC 154 coverage, where Greg speaks with GSP and Condit, Mark Hominick goes into his retirement fight, and we annoy Martin Kampmann.
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In the first half of this week's episode, we discuss the results of Mark Zuckerberg's favorite MMA card of the year, UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Yan.
Then in the second half of the show we go over the week in MMA, including Bellator 286 results, Aspen Ladd's release from the UFC, PFL moving to PPV, and Eddie Alvarez's free agency.
Finally in our Hammer History segment we look back to mid-November 2012 and the genesis of "Let Me Bang, Bro", a Stephan Bonnar test failure, and the Cung Le vs. Rich Franklin fight.
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In the first half of this week's episode, we discuss the results of Mark Zuckerberg's favorite MMA card of the year, UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Yan.
Then in the second half of the show we go over the week in MMA, including Bellator 286 results, Aspen Ladd's release from the UFC, PFL moving to PPV, and Eddie Alvarez's free agency.
Finally in our Hammer History segment we look back to mid-November 2012 and the genesis of "Let Me Bang, Bro", a Stephan Bonnar test failure, and the Cung Le vs. Rich Franklin fight.
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We begin this week's episode previewing UFC Fight Night: Mackenzie Dern vs. Yan Xiaonan.
Then we are joined by Invicta FC President Shannon Knapp to discuss her storied career in the MMA business, and the upcoming Invicta FC 49: Delboni vs. DeCoursey event.
Finally, we run down the week in MMA news, Bellator 285 and Bellator 286, and look back on our 2012 interview with TJ Dillashaw as part of our Hammer History segment.
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Following the unfortunate passing of Elias Theodorou, this week we look back on ten years of following his MMA career, including clips from the many times that we were lucky enough to be joined by Elias on this show.
We also discuss the MMA retirement of the legendary Jose Aldo, the results of UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Song, and the upcoming Bellator: Queally vs. Henderson.
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Well that was a wild ride.
UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson was one of the strangest UFC fight weeks in memory, with the top three fights getting rearranged literally the day before the event. We recap all of the drama and all of the fights, in the first half of this week's episode.
Also, in honor of Nate Diaz fighting out his UFC contract, stick around to the end of the show for our interview with Nate from back in 2013.
Then in the second half of the show we take a quick look at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Song card.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to October 2013, and the announcement of The Ultimate Fighter: Jones vs. Sonnen, UFC 153 results, and another cancelled Strikeforce event.
R.I.P. Elias.
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What a turn of events.
The main event of UFC 279 is now, somehow, Nate Diaz vs. Tony Ferguson. The entire main card has been shaken up and reorganized with twenty four hours notice.
With our last episode previewing UFC 279 now totally out of date, this is our quick update show of all of the changes, and what to expect Saturday night.
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So this is a weird one.
UFC 279: Chimaev vs. Diaz is coming up this weekend, headlined by Welterweight contender Khamzat Chimaev vs. the departing Nate Diaz. We preview that wacky fight, and a card full of totally random yet exciting undercard fights in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to October 2012, and another strange PPV main event...UFC 153: Silva vs. Bonnar. Plus Dave Batista's first and only MMA fight.
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So this is a weird one.
UFC 279: Chimaev vs. Diaz is coming up this weekend, headlined by Welterweight contender Khamzat Chimaev vs. the departing Nate Diaz. We preview that wacky fight, and a card full of totally random yet exciting undercard fights in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to October 2012, and another strange PPV main event...UFC 153: Silva vs. Bonnar. Plus Dave Batista's first and only MMA fight.
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For the first time in their almost thirty year history, the UFC is heading to France this weekend, for UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa. We preview the card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA, including an incredible win for Demetrious Johnson in One Championship, a tough week for BJ Penn, and Rob Veevers signing on with Unified MMA (not United...sorry for that slip up).
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late September 2012, and our interview with Brendan Schaub, as well as a look at the then upcoming UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs. Brown.
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UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards 2 turned into a pretty eventful night. capped off by underdog Leon Edwards beating Kamaru Usman to win the UFC Welterweight Championship. We take a look at all of the results in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA, including Shane Burgos signing with PFL, Kayla Harrison moving to the PFL 2022 finals, Perry vs. MVP in bare knuckle, and the announcement of Esparza vs. Weili at UFC 281.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late September 2012, and our very own Dave getting yelled at by Dana White at the UFC 152 post-fight press conference, and our interview with Rory MacDonald.
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UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards 2 is coming up this weekend, headlined by UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman defending his title against Leon Edwards, a man who's last loss was to Usman himself seven years ago. We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the results of UFC On ESPN: Vera vs. Cruz, PFL, Bellator, and the announced retirements of veteran fighters Rory MacDonald and Uriah Hall.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late September 2012, and our live coverage of UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort, including our at-the-time current interviews with Joseph Benavidez and Michael Bisping, as well as us getting roughed up a little by some UFC fighters.
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UFC on ESPN: Vera vs. Cruz is coming up this weekend, headlined by a solid Bantamweight fight between the rising Marlon Vera, and former champion Dominick Cruz. We preview the card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the this week's PFL and Bellator cards, as well as the results of UFC On ESPN: Santos vs. Hill.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-September 2012, and the cancellation of Jose Aldo vs. Frankie Edgar, as well as the very first World Series of Fighting event.
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We start off this week's episode discussing all of the results from UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2, including Amanda Nunes regaining her UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship from Juliana Pena, and new UFC Interim Flyweight Champion Brandon Moreno.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Santos vs. Hill and PFL cards.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to September 2012, and more on Jon Jones and the cancelled UFC 151 event, as well as the Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight scene at the time.
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This weekend's UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2 should answer a lot of questions about current UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Juliana Pena, and former champion Amanda Nunes. We preview that fight, the UFC Interim Flyweight fight, and the rest of the card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show in our Hammer History segment, we look back at the cancelled UFC 151: Jones vs. Henderson event. We also discuss last weekend's Bellator and UFC cards, and the recently announced Chimaev vs. Diaz fight.
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The UFC heads back to London, England this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Aspinall, which means it's another early afternoon fight card for North American viewers. We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss some recent UFC releases, the continuing saga of Askar Mozharov's fight record, the newly announced UFC 280 main event, Bellator 283, and the results of UFC on ABC: Ortega vs. Rodriguez.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to August 2012, including the first talks of Rousey vs. Cyborg, an incredible Ovince St Preux knockout, and fighter pay in 2012.
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The UFC returns to the ABC network for this Saturday afternoon's UFC on ABC: Ortega vs. Rodriguez card. In the first half of this week's show we preview the card, including the main event between UFC Featherweight contenders Brian Ortega and Yair Rodriguez, as well as the return of Miesha Tate.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the results of UFC on ESPN: dos Anjos vs. Fiziev.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-August 2012, including the Ben Henderson vs. Frankie Edgar rematch, this Max Holloway kid, and Ronda Rousey vs. Sarah Kaufman.
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There were a lot of interesting stories coming out of UFC 276: Adesanya vs. Cannonier, from Israel Adesanya's dominant win and likely next challenger, to the retirements of longtime UFC fighters, including Donald Cerrone. We spend the first half of this week's episode discussing the card from top to bottom.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the upcoming UFC on ESPN: dos Anjos vs. Fiziev, and the week in PFL.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to August 2012, including Lyoto Machida's memorable knockout of Ryan Bader, and the upcoming UFC 150: Henderson vs. Edgar 2.
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The UFC has an has one of their strongest events of the year coming up this weekend at UFC 274: Adesanya vs. Cannonier. In the first half of this week's show we preview the main card, including UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya vs. Jared Cannonier, and UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski vs. Max Holloway.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the UFC 274 preliminary card, the results UFC on ESPN: Tsarukyan vs. Gamrot and Bellator 282, and the recent PFL events.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early August 2012, and our thoughts at the time on UFC on Fox 4: Shogun vs. Vera, and Invicta FC 2.
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We start off this week's episode previewing the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Tsarukyan vs. Gamrot. The card itself isn't that deep, but there aren't many current prospects hotter in the UFC than the two guys in the Lightweight main event.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, the results of UFC on ESPN: Kattar vs. Emmett, PFL 4 and 5, and this weekend's Bellator card.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to July 2012, and Renan Barao's UFC Interim Bantamweight Championship win over Urijah Faber, the terrible Boetch vs. Lombard fight, and a big win for Matt Riddle.
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In the first half of this week's episode, we discuss the results of the really fun UFC 275: Teixeira vs Prochazka, including a fight of the year contender in the main event, a contentious UFC Women's Flyweight title defense for Valentina Shevchenko, and the retirement of Joanna Jędrzejczyk.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, as well as the upcoming PFL 4, and UFC on ESPN: Kattar vs. Emmett events.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-July 2012, including a pretty weak looking UFC 149 PPV in Calgary, and Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Kennedy.
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This weekend the UFC heads to Singapore for UFC 275: Teixeira vs. Prochazka. We preview the entire card in the first half of the show, including the Light Heavyweight Championship main event, and Valentina Shevchenko defending her UFC Women's Flyweight title against Taila Santos.
Then in the second half of the episode we discuss the week in MMA news, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Rozenstruik.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early July 2012, and the results of UFC 148: Silva vs. Sonnen.
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The UFC is back this weekend with top ten heavyweights headlining UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Rozenstruik. We preview that upcoming card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we pretty much just kill time talking about what's angering Nate Diaz this week, flat fee fighter pay, open scoring, and what's the worst UFC main event ever.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early July 2012, and our predictions for Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen 2, Dave being pretty hard on Cung Le and Patrick Cote's abilities, and the worst intro theme to our podcast imaginable.
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In the first half of this week's episode we start off with the results of UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Vieira. Everyone seems worked up about this Ketlen Vieira vs. Holly Holm fight, so we may as well chime in.
Then we discuss the week in MMA news, including Sports Business Journal giving the UFC an award, more on fighter pay, Hong Kong flags, sunglasses, Eagle FC: dos Santos vs. de Castro results, and more
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late June 2012, and the awful Gray Maynard vs. Clay Guida fight, UFC 148 hype, and the winners of the first Ultimate Fighter: Brazil.
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UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Vieira is coming up this weekend, and while it's not a particularly deep card, we should get a UFC Women's Bantamweight contender out of the main event. We preview the show in the first half of this week's episode.
Then we discuss the week in MMA, and the results of UFC on ESPN: Blachowicz vs. Rakic, and Bellator: Page vs. Storley.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late June 2012, and our thoughts on the UFC running two events in the same weekend, and the Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight division.
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UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje ranged from incredibly eventful, to depressingly non-eventful. In the first half of this week's show we discuss the newly vacant UFC Lightweight Championship, the frontrunner for knockout of the year, and some absolutely terrible fights, and more.
Then we discuss the week in MMA, the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Blachowicz vs. Rakic, and recent Bellator and PFL cards.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to the totally random announcement of Shogun Rua vs. Brandon Vera.
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UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje is coming up this weekend, headlined by two big title fights. We preview the main card, including the UFC Lightweight Championship fight between Charles Oliveira and Justin Gaethje, and the UFC Women's Strawweight Championship fight between Rose Namajunas and Carla Esparza, in the first half of this week's show.
In the second half of the episode we look at the UFC 274 preliminary fights, discuss some big UFC fight announcements, Bellator, PFL, and the results of UFC on ESPN: Font vs. Vera.
Our Hammer History segment will be back next week.
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We start off this week's episode taking a look at the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Font vs. Vera card coming up this weekend.
Then we discuss the week in MMA, including a potential Tyson Fury vs. Francis Ngannou fight, all sorts of Bellator and PFL events, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Lemos vs. Andrade.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts at the time on Kenny Florian's retirement, BJ Penn's non-retirement, and the UFC Flyweight Tournament rematch between Demetrious Johnson and Ian McCall.
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Former UFC Strawweight Champion Jessica Andrade returns to the division where she was champion, to fight Amanda Lemos this weekend. We preview the UFC Fight Night: Lemos vs. Andrade card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss recent UFC cuts, Henry Cejudo coming out of retirement, all of this week's Bellator events, and UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Muhammad 2.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts at the time on Cain Velasquez annihilating Bigfoot Silva, Jamie Varner's upset win over Edson Barboza, and the UFC release of Mayhem Miller.
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UFC 273 answered a lot of questions, and in the first half of this week's episode we discuss all of the results including Alexander Volkanovski's impressive title defense against The Korean Zombie, the incredibly close UFC Bantamweight unification fight, and an absolute war between Chimaev and Burns.
Then in the second half of the show we look forward to this weekend's UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Muhammad 2 and Bellator: McKee vs. Pitbull 2 cards.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts at the time on The Korean Zombie vs. Dustin Poirier, an awful Zaromskis vs. Spiritwolf feud, and King Mo going into pro wrestling.
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Most of our episode this week is discussing the upcoming UFC 273, headlined by UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie, as well as a heated UFC Bantamweight unification fight between Aljamain Sterling and Petr Yan.
Also, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early May 2012, including disappointing ratings for UFC on Fox 3: Diaz vs. Miller, a career threatening injury for Dominick Cruz, and our coverage of Bellator 67.
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In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Daukaus, the latest round of UFC Strike NFTs, and a trio of legal incidents involving Jorge Masvidal / Colby Covington, Chael Sonnen, and Conor McGregor.
Then in the second half of the show we try to determine The Greatest Villain in UFC History, from a field of sixteen legendary bad guys.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early May 2012, including UFC on Fox 3: Diaz vs. Miller, as well as a pretty gross prank on The Ultimate Fighter Live.
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The UFC is back on the road, and heading to Columbus, Ohio this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Daukaus, headlined by a big top ten Heavyweight fight. We preview the card in the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we discuss some brief MMA news, and then get into a recap of the pretty wild UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Aspinall show that had out of cage drama, big finishes, and bigger celebrations.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late April 2012, including more Alistair Overeem drug test stories, and the results of UFC 145.
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It was a pretty wild weekend of fights, so in the first half of this week's episode we take a look at the results of UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Ankalaev, as well as the various Bellator, ONE Championship, and Eagle FC events.
Then in the second half of the show we set the terms for Dave and Greg's "Will Tai Tuivasa stay in the Top 5" bet, and preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Aspinall from London.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late April 2012, including Jon Jones vs. Rashad Evans and Brendan Schaub vs. Ben Rothwell at UFC 145.
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In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of UFC 272: Covington vs. Masvidal, including big wins for Colby Covington, Raphael Dos Anjos, Bryce Mitchell, Marina Rodriguez, and more.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, including the arrest of Cain Velasquez, Khabib Nurmagomedov going into the UFC Hall of Fame, and a preview of the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Ankalaev card.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to April 2012 and a drug test failure for Alistair Overeem, Thiago Santos vs. Alexander Gustaffson, and an overseas win for Todd Duffee.
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UFC 272: Covington vs. Masvidal is coming up this Saturday night, headlined by a grudge match between former Welterweight title contenders Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal. We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss more about the UFC Strike NFTs, the week in MMA news, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Makhachev, and Bellator 275.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early April 2012, including Brock Lesnar returning to WWE, Ben Askren vs. Douglas Lima, and Bellator's Fight Master reality show.
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In the first half of this week's episode, we discuss the results of UFC 271: Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2, including another successful UFC Middleweight Championship defense for Israel Adesanya, huge wins for Tai Tuivasa and Jared Cannonier, and Roxanne Modiferri's retirement fight.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, and preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Hill and Bellator 274.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late March 2012, including more on The Ultimate Fighter Live, a random drug test for UFC heavyweights, and the continuing horrors of the Santos vs. Prindle feud in Bellator.
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UFC 271: Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2 is coming up this week, where UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya defends his title against the man he beat for it in the first place, Robert Whittaker. We preview the card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss recent MMA news including Max Holloway's injury clearance, The Utlimate Fighter 30 announcement, UFC bonuses, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Strickland.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to March 2012, including The Ultimate Fighter Live, and Rampage Jackson's frustrations.
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Although there's an upcoming UFC Fight Night, we chose to start this week's episode going over what was weird week in MMA, including Jake Paul buying some Endeavor stock, Neil Young taking his music off of Spotify due to Joe Rogan, and our experience buying the UFC Strike NFT's.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Strickland, as well as quick recaps of Bellator and Eagle FC.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to March 2012, where we were blown away by Justin Lawrence on The Ultimate Fighter Live, and horrified by Jon Tuck's horrible toe injury, and Pat Curran vs. Joe Warren in Bellator.
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We're now in the most interesting timeline coming out of UFC 270: Ngannou vs. Gane, as UFC Heavyweight Champion Francis Ngannou wrestled his way to victory, and now due to contract and pay disputes, his future in the UFC is up in the air. We discuss all of that, as well as the rest of the UFC 270 card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, including the new UFC NFTs, the upcoming Bellator 273, and the death of Maiquel Falcao.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early March 2012, including the botched first round of the inaugural UFC Flyweight tournament, the state of the UFC Welterweight division at the time, and Ronda Rousey's first victory over Miesha Tate.
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This weekend at UFC 270, the heaviest and the lightest UFC men's championships get decided.
In the first half of this week's show we preview all of the drama surrounding UFC Heavyweight Champion Francis Ngannou vs. UFC Interim Heavyweight Champion Cyril Gane, the trilogy fight between UFC Flyweight Champion Brandon Moreno and Deiveson Figueiredo, and the rest of the UFC 270 card.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Chikadze.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early March 2012, including Ben Henderson winning the UFC Lightweight Championship, and the legendary first fight between Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate in Strikeforce.
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This week we start off the show previewing the first UFC event of 2022, UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Chikadze. This Saturday's event is headlined by an exciting matchup between Calvin Kattar and Giga Chikadze, that just received an extra jolt of interest now that there is a UFC Featherweight Championship fight up for grabs in March.
Then in the second half of the show we take a look at the Jake Paul vs. Dana White beef that kicked off the new year.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late February 2012, and UFC 144, including our thoughts at the time on Edgar vs. Henderson, Rampage vs. Bader, and Shields vs. Akiyama.
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This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Twelfth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2021's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, Prospect of the Year, and many more categories.
Also, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-February 2012, and Diego Sanchez' vampire hunter cosplay, Nick Diaz' suspension following the Carlos Condit fight, and wonder whether this Stipe Miocic guy is going to be any good.
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In the first half of this week's show we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus, Woodley vs. Paul 2, and the rest of the week in MMA news.
Then in the second half of the show we take a look at the UFC roster, and try to determine what the strongest overall division is going into 2021.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to February 2012, and the results of UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit, including controversial scorecards, the UFC return of Fabricio Werdum, and the last hurrah of Josh Koscheck.
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UFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier absolutely delivered, and we spend the first half of this week's episode discussing Charles Oliveira's first successful UFC Lightweight Championship defense, Amanda Nunes' shocking loss to Julianna Pena, and a bunch of other great fights up and down the card.
In the second half of the show we quickly recap the week in MMA news, and then preview this Saturday night's UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to late-January 2012, and the then upcoming UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit event.
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This weekend's UFC 269 is looking to be one of the better MMA cards of the year, headlined by a UFC Lightweight Championship fight between Charles Oliveira and Dustin Poirier, and a UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship fight between Amanda Nunes and Juliana Pena. We preview the entire card in the first half of the show.
In the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, as well as the results of UFC on ESPN: Font vs. Aldo, and Bellator: Pettis vs. Horiguchi.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to mid-January 2012, and the then upcoming UFC on Fox 2, the Diaz vs. Condit Countdown Special, and the MMA film "Warrior".
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We begin this week's episode previewing the very promising UFC on ESPN: Font vs. Aldo and Bellator 272: Pettis vs. Horiguchi cards coming up this weekend.
In the second half of the show we look at recent MMA news including the arrests of a couple of former UFC fighters, what is probably our sixth testicular trauma story in the history of this radio show, and the Triller Triad Boxing results.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to early January 2012, with the first Jose Aldo vs. Chad Mendes fight, and Edson Barboza's all-timer of a spinning wheel kick on Terry Etim.
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In the first half of this week's show we quickly go over the results of UFC Fight Night: Vieira vs. Tate, as well as have a discussion of how well the UFC appears to be doing financially in 2021.
In the second half of the show we look at Al Iaquinta's retirement, Kevin Lee's suspension, a strange Jon Jones vs. Jake Hager grappling match, and Kayla Harrison's free agency.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to early January 2012, including the at-the-time upcoming UFC 142: Aldo vs. Mendes card, and Luke Rockhold vs. Keith Jardine in Strikeforce.
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UFC Fight Night: Vieira vs. Tate is coming up this weekend, featuring Miesha Tate's second fight since coming out of retirement, against the number seven ranked Women's Bantamweight Ketlin Vieira. We preview that fight and the rest of the card in the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we discuss Jorge Masvidal's injury, and the results of Bellator 271 and UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Rodriguez.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to early January 2012, including what looked like the end of Brock Lesnar in the UFC, Nate Diaz's win over Donald Cerrone, and wonder why the crowd was booing Danny Castillo.
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UFC 268: Usman vs. Covington 2 was expected to be one of the best fight cards of the year, and it absolutely delivered. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results from the show, and what's up next for everyone involved.
In the second half of the show, we take a look at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Rodriguez card, and this week in Bellator.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to late-December 2011, including our look at the then-upcoming UFC 141 card, featuring Brock Lesnar vs. Alistair Overeem, Nate Diaz vs. Donald Cerrone, and Jon Fitch vs. Johny Hendricks.
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This weekend the UFC returns to New York City for the first time since the pandemic hit, and it's a pretty great looking card on paper. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the UFC 268: Usman vs. Covington 2 card.
Then in the second half of the show, we discuss the upcoming Bellator event from Ireland, the PFL 2021 Tournament finals, and the results of the excellent UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira show.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to late-December 2011, including our Fighter of the Year, and Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal.
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Due to a family emergency, we've passed on recording an episode this week. Instead, we have a repost of our Greatest Fighter Ever episode from 2018.
Who is the Pound For Pound Greatest MMA Fighter Of All Time?
In order to solve this intricate puzzle, we've seeded the Top 16 fighters and held a single elimination tournament to decide the G.O.A.T.
Is it Jon Jones? Fedor Emelianenko? Georges St-Pierre? Anderson Silva? Jose Aldo? Demetrious Johnson? Conor McGregor? Daniel Cormier? By the end of this week's episode (and after a whole lot of arguing), we'll have it all figured out.
Hopefully we'll be back next week to recap UFC 267, and preview UFC 268.
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UFC Fight Night: Costa vs. Vettori is coming up this weekend, and in the main event Paulo Costa and Marvin Vettori, the two most recent Middleweight title contenders, fight each other to try and get another shot at the champ. We preview the card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show, we discuss the week in MMA news, including Conor McGregor vs. an Italian DJ, Jon Jones leaving Jackson-Winklejohn, the release of Luis Pena, Fedor vs. Johnson, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Ladd vs. Dumont.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to mid-December 2011, including Alistair Overeem's testing issues, Mir breaking Nogueira's arm, and Miguel Torres being fired from the UFC for an insensitive tweet.
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Just two weeks after being forced to pull out of a Bantamweight fight due to weight cutting issues, Aspen Ladd will replace an injured Holly Holm against Norma Dumont in this weekend's UFC Fight Night: Ladd vs. Dumont. In the first half of this week's show we preview that (now) Featherweight fight, as well as the rest of the card.
Then in the second half of the show, we discuss the week in MMA news, including the death of Justin Thornton following his BKFC fight, the arrests of Luis Pena and Chuck LIddell, Kevin Holland stopping a car theft, the Bellator Light Heavyweight Tournament, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Rodriguez.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to early December 2011, including Georges St-Pierre's injury, the announcement of UFC on Fox 2, and Jon Jones vs. Lyoto Machida.
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UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Rodriguez is coming up, headlined by a fun fight between UFC Women's Strawweight contenders Mackenzie Dern and Marina Rodriguez. We preview that fight, as well as the rest of the card, in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show, we discuss the latest on Jon Jones' arrest, the announcement of Yan vs. Sandhagen for the UFC Interim Bantamweight Championship, Bellator: Lima vs. MVP 2, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Walker.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to late November 2011, and Jon Dodson's The Ultimate Fighter Finale run, Tony Ferguson's potential, and the start of the legendarily stupid Eric Prindle vs. Thiago Santos series in Bellator.
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We start of this week's episode discussing the results of UFC 266, including Alexander Volkanovski's incredible Featherweight title defense against Brian Ortega, yet another dominant win for Valentina Shevchenko, and what amounted to a pretty damn weird return to the UFC for Nick Diaz.
Then in the second half of the show, we go over the week in MMA news including Jon Jones' most recent trouble with the law, the UFC Hall of Fame, Aljamain Sterling's injury, and the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Walker and Bellator: Lima vs. Page cards.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to late November 2011, including Dan Henderson vs. Shogun Rua in one of the greatest fights ever, a weird forgotten beef between Stephan Bonnar and Josh Koscheck, and our first ever thoughts on Ronda Rousey..
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UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega is coming up this weekend. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski vs. Brian Ortega, UFC Women's Flyweight Champion Valentina Shevchenko vs. Lauren Murphy, and the return of Nick Diaz against Robbie Lawler.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, including Conor McGregor's embarrassing altercation with Machine Gun Kelly, the retirements of Joseph Benavidez and Carlos Condit, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Spann and Bellator: Romero vs. Davis.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to November 2011, and the Junior Dos Santos' win at UFC on Fox 1, the incredible Henderson vs. Guida fight, and our live coverage of Bellator 57.
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UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Spann is coming up this weekend, headlined by UFC Light Heavyweight contenders Anthony Smith and Ryan Spann, who should have a fun fight. We preview that card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the results of the trashy Triller event headlined by Vitor Belfort vs. Evander Holyfield, have more UFC fighter pay discussion, and look at why Olympic wrestler Gable Steveson is going to WWE.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to early November 2011, and the highly anticipated at the time, UFC on Fox 1: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos card, and the building hype on Renan Barao.
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We start off this week's show discussing the results of UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Till, including what's next for Derek Brunson in the UFC Middleweight division, whether oblique kicks are cool or not, and what's the deal with Paddy Pimblett?
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, including Vitor Belfort vs. Evander Holyfield of all things, and Anderson Silva vs. Tito Ortiz.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to late October 2011, including the Nick Diaz beating BJ Penn, Roy Nelson getting into shape, and Donald Cerrone getting some great corner advice from Greg Jackson.
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UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Till is this weekend, headlined by a high stakes Middleweight main event between the streaking Derek Brunson, and former Welterweight contender Darren Till. We preview the card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, including the recently announced UFC 268 card coming to New York City, and the end of the PFL playoffs.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to late October 2011, including the BJ Penn vs. Nick Diaz fight, Frankie Edgar PPVs doing disappointing numbers, and how we think this Hatsu Hioki guy will fare in the UFC.
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UFC on ESPN: Barboza vs. Chikadze is coming up this weekend, and we're pretty excited for the main event between Featherweight strikers Edson Barboza and Giga Chikadze, and we preview that card in the first half of this week's show.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, and recent Bellator and PFL events.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to October 2011, including Chael Sonnen rescinding his "loser leaves town" stipulation for the Anderson Silva rematch, and our interview with Ontario fighter Will Romero, who had been fighting in Bellator and The Score Fighting Series at the time.
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It is Middleweight rehabilitation time at UFC on ESPN: Cannonier vs. Gastelum this weekend, where Jared Cannonier and Kelvin Gastelum are fighting to try to get back into title contention. We preview that fight, and the rest of the card, in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, as well as recent Bellator and PFL events.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to October 2011, including Chael Sonnen's win over Brian Stann, and which UFC fighter won the Edge Shaving Gel competition.
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Cyril Gane made a big impression in the main event of UFC 265: Lewis vs. Gane, winning the Interim UFC Heavyweight Championship, and setting up a future title unification fight with UFC Heavyweight Champion Francis Ngannou. We discuss the results of that fight, and all of the rest of UFC 265 in the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, as well as this coming weekend's Bellator and PFL events.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to early October 2011, and how hyped we were at the time for UFC 136: Edgar vs. Maynard 3.
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UFC 265: Lewis vs. Gane is coming up this weekend. Sure, there's no real reason for the main event to be for an Interim Heavyweight Championship, and yeah the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship fight has been cancelled due to COVID, but there are a handful of great fights on this card, and we preview them in the first half of this week's show.
In the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, and the results of Bellator: Pitbull vs. McKee and UFC on ESPN: Hall vs. Strickland.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to late-September 2011, and Jon Jones' win over Rampage Jackson at UFC 135, and just how far we think Pat Barry may go in the UFC Heavyweight division.
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UFC on ESPN: Hall vs. Strickland is this Saturday, July 31st, and it's...not the strongest card on paper. It is headlined by a pretty solid Middleweight contenders fight between Uriah Hall and Sean Strickland though, and we preview the entire card in the first half of this week's show.
In the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, the upcoming Bellator: Pitbull vs. McKee, and the results of UFC on ESPN: Sandhagen vs. Dillashaw.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to late-September 2011, when we had current Bellator fight Josh Hill on as a guest-host.
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Former UFC Bantamweight Champion T.J. Dillashaw returns this weekend following a two year suspension, but will need to get past Bantamweight contender Cory Sandhagen on the way back to the title that he never lost. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire UFC on ESPN: Sandhagen vs. Dillashaw card.
In the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, and the results of UFC On ESPN: Makhachev vs. Moises.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to mid-September 2011, including our discussions around Shields vs. Ellenberger, Luke Rockhold, and Alan Belcher's tattoo.
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UFC 264: Poirier vs. McGregor 3 may have ended the Dustin Poirier vs. Conor McGregor trilogy in an anti-climactic way, but the fun didn't stop after the fight itself. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss Poirier's big win, McGregor's breakdown, and the results of the rest of the UFC 264 card.
Then in the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, and the upcoming UFC On ESPN: Makhachev vs. Moises card.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to early September 2011, including the Nick Diaz skipping a media event and losing his Welterweight title shot, his new fight with BJ Penn, and who will be the alternate that will enter the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix.
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UFC 264: Poirier vs. McGregor 3 is coming up this weekend, headlined by the rubber match between Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss how much different this fight may look from their last fight back in January, and preview the entire UFC 264 main card.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the UFC 264 preliminary card, the newly announced UFC Interim Heavyweight Championship, and Sarah Alpar's GoFundMe.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to late August 2011, including the Anderson Silva's dominant performance at UFC 134, Forrest Griffin's knockout loss to Shogun Rua, and rumors of a spy in Rampage Jackson's camp.
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With no major MMA cards coming up this week, we start off this episode just talking random MMA happenings from the last few days.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Volkov, Bellator 261, and PFL 6.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to late August 2011, including the upcoming-at-the-time UFC 134 from Brazil, how high we were on Brendan Schaub, and a supposed Middleweight run for Josh Koscheck.
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UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Volkov is coming up this weekend, headlined by a consequential Heavyweight fight between Ciryl Gane and Alexander Volkov, and we are previewing the card in the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, including Anderson Silva's big boxing win, Oscar De La Hoya vs. Vitor Belfort, Bellator, PFL, and the results of UFC Fight Night: The Korean Zombie vs. Ige.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to mid-August 2011, including the announcement of UFC putting fight cards on the FX Network, would Joseph Benavidez do well as a Flyweight,, and Alex Caceres going 0-2 in the UFC.
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UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 was an eventful night of fights. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss Israel Adesanya retaining, Brandon Moreno winning the UFC Flyweight Championship, and Nate Diaz somehow coming out looking even better in defeat.
In the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, Bellator and PFL, as well as preview the upcoming UFC On ESPN: The Korean Zombie vs. Ige card.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to August 2011, including our thoughts on Rory MacDonald, Alexander Gustaffon, and Dennis Hallmann's speedo.
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UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 is coming up this weekend, including Israel Adesanya vs. Marvin Vettori for the UFC Middleweight Championship, a UFC Flyweight Championship rematch, and the return of Nate Diaz. We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we discuss Paul vs. Woodley, more on fighter pay, Bellator, PFL, The Ultimate Fighter, and UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruick vs. Sakai.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to August 2011, including Evans vs. Ortiz, the rise of Alexander Gustaffson, and Miesha Tate's Strikeforce Championship win.
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The UFC returns this weekend on ESPN+ for UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Sakai. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, and if you love Heavyweights floatng around the middle of the Top 15, then this is the show for you.
In the second half of the show we discuss more on Jon Jones' status, the upcoming Ultimate Fighter season, and Jimmy Smith's new gig with the WWE.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to August 2011, including Fedor vs. Henderson, and our live coverage of Bellator 47.
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We start off this week's show catching up on the week in MMA news, including the UFC "moving on" from Francis Ngannou vs. Jon Jones, Derrick Lewis vs. a carjacker, more on Georges St-Pierre vs. Oscar De La Hoya, and Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza being released from the UFC.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Garbrandt and Bellator: Cyborg vs. Smith events, and the retirement of Paul Felder, including a replay of our first interview with him from October 2014.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to August 2011, including "Anderson Silva Money", Alistair Overeem pulling out of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix, and a potential GSP vs. Nick Diaz fight.
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It took 28 fights in the UFC, but Charles Oliveira is the new UFC Lightweight Champion. In the first half of this week's episode we recap a pretty good night of fights from UFC 262, and run down the week in MMA news.
In the second half of the show we look forward to the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Garbrandt card coming up on May 22nd, 2021.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to late July 2011, including UFC 133: Evans vs. Ortiz, and whether Jose Aldo should be looking at superfights in other divisions.
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UFC 262: Oliviera vs. Chandler is coming up this weekend, and the main event features Charles Oliviera and Michael Chandler fighting for the vacant UFC Lightweight Championship. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card. If it holds together, it should be a good one.
In the second half of this episode we discuss more on Diego Sanchez, some other recent UFC releases, and the results of Bellator 258 and UFC on ESPN: Rodriguez vs. Waterson.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to late July 2011, and the rise of Carlos Condit, and just how could Ryan Bader lose to Tito Ortiz?
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Jiri Prochazka made a real impression with his spinning back elbow victory over Dominick Reyes. In the first half of this week's show we discuss that win, as well as the rest of the results from UFC on ESPN: Reyes vs. Prochazka.
In the second half of this episode we discuss Diego Sanchez' release from UFC, the May 8th UFC card that is currently without a main event, Jon Jones, Sage Northcutt, Zabit Magomedsharipov, Bellator, PFL, and more.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to late June 2011, and Cruz vs. Faber 2, Tito Ortiz vs. Ryan Bader, and Nate Marquardt's abrupt release from the UFC.
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Okay, so UFC 261 was pretty good, huh? In the first half of this week's show we run down all of the results from that card, including impressive title defenses from Kamaru Usman and Valentina Shevchenko, and Rose Namajunas reclaiming the UFC Women's Strawweight Championship.
In the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, PFL's first show of 2021, and the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Reyes vs. Prochazka.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to June 2011, and Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum. There's one of the worst fights of all time, Jorge Masvidal beating KJ Noons, and Josh Barnett cutting a crazy promo.
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UFC 261: Usman vs. Masvidal 2 is coming up this weekend, complete with three title fights and the first full crowd since the pandemic changed everything. In the first half of this episode we preview that entire card. .
Then it's time for the nonsense. In the second half of the show we discuss Conor McGregor not donating to Dustin Poirier's charity yet, how that didn't seem to affect McGregor vs. Poirier 3 at all, Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren, as well as Bellator and UFC recaps.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to June 2011, including how we think Junior Dos Santos might fare against Cain Velasquez, the introduction of 5 round non-title fights in UFC, and if this Chris Weidman guy could turn out to be really good.
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For the second week in a row, the UFC main events with an important fight in the MIddleweight division. In the first half of this week's show we preview the upcoming UFC On ESPN: Whittaker vs. Gastelum, and afterwards we should have a pretty good idea about the next UFC Middleweight Championship contender.
Also, in the second half of the show we discuss the results of UFC On ABC: Vettori vs. Holland, and the recent Bellator and ONE Championship cards.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to early June 2011, including Dos Santos vs. Carwin, Munoz vs. Maia, and some controversy including Rampage Jackson and Joe Rogan.
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The UFC returns to the ABC Network this Saturday afternoon for UFC On ABC: Vettori vs. Holland, a card that while lacking in big stars, appears to have a lot of intriguing fights. We preview the entire show in the first half of this week's episode..
In the second half of the show we discuss the new UFC Venum apparel deal going into effect this week, Nate Diaz returning for a 5 round co-main event against Leon Edwards, the newly announced Ultimate Fighter coaches, and Bellator 255 and 256.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to late May 2011, including Guida vs. Pettis, Demetrious Johnson vs. Miguel Torres, and The Ultimate Fighter: Lesnar vs. Dos Santos season.
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Francis Ngannou finally achieved what seemed inevitable a few years back, by knocking out Stipe Miocic at UFC 260: Miocic vs. Ngannou 2 and becoming the UFC Heavyweight Champion. In the first half of this week's show we recap that fight, the possibility of Jon Jones getting the first crack at Ngannou, and the rest of the results from the card.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss UFC returning to live crowds next month, the return of Miesha Tate, Bellator's first event on Showtime, and Jim Miller's comments on pay from his UFC 258 that was cancelled.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to late May 2011, and the kind of underwhelming UFC 130: Rampage vs. Hamill.
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This weekend's UFC 260 is already down one title fight due to the forced rescheduling of Alexander Volkanovski vs. Brian Ortega, but we do have the UFC Heavyweight Championship rematch between Stipe Miocic and Francis Ngannou to preview in the first half of this weeks episode.
Then in the second half of the show, we discuss Khabib Nurmagomedov vacating the UFC Lightweight Championship, the UFC running live events with crowds again in Florida and Texas, the the results of UFC on ESPN: Brunson vs. Holland.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to May 2011, and Brock Lesnar's second bout of diverticulitis, The Ultimate Fighter 13, and UFC's Twitter bonuses.
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The UFC returns to ESPN this weekend for UFC on ESPN: Brunson vs. Holland. In the first half of this week's episode, we preview that entire card.
Then we discuss the apparent end of the UFC Women's Featherweight division, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Muhammad, from the illegal eye pokes to the illegal knees.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to May 2011, and our interview with the author of a book on GSP, as well as whether Dan Hardy will lose his fourth fight in a row.
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UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya had a bit of everything in it's three UFC Championship fights, including the first time that a UFC Championship has ever changed hands due to disqualification. In the first half of this week's episode, we recap all of the results from that card.
In the second half of the show we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Muhammad card, and discuss the week in MMA, including Khamzat Chimaev's ongoing issues with COVID-19, the end of Junior Dos Santos and Alistair Overeem in UFC.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts on attending UFC 129 in April 2011, the first ever UFC event in Ontario. Plus...could Georges St-Pierre ever fight the Strikeforce Welterweight Champion, NIck DIaz?
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There are a massive three UFC Championship fights coming up at UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya. In the first half of this week's episode we preview Jan Blachowicz defending his Light Heavyweight Championship against UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya, Amanda Nunes vs. Megan Anderson for the UFC Women's Featherweight Championship, and Petr Yan vs. Aljamain Sterling for the UFC Bantamweight Championship.
In the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, including an update on Invicta FC, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Gane.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts on Jose Aldo vs. Mark Hominick, Jon Jones turning down a beer sponsorship, and Miguel Falcao.
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For the second week in a row, UFC Heavyweight contenders are in the main event, and this coming Saturday's UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Gane features two of the most promising contenders in the division. We preview all of the fights on that card in the first half of this week's show.
Then we discuss the week in MMA news, including Stefan Struve's retirement, Bryan Caraway, the Gina Carano sketch on Saturday Night Live, and the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Lewis.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts on Randy Couture in the leadup to his April 2011 retirement fight, and the possibility of Nick Diaz taking a boxing fight while under Strikeforce contract.
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UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Lewis is this weekend, headlined by a rescheduled Curtis Blaydes vs. Derrick Lewis Heavyweight contenders main event. In the first half of this week's episode we preview that entire card.
Then we discuss the removal of Gina Carano from the Star Wars franchise, the upcoming Bellator LIght Heavyweight Grand Prix, and the results of UFC 258: Usman vs. Burns.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts on April 2011's The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team Dos Santos, and the all-time classic Nick Diaz vs. Paul Daley fight in Strikeforce.
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UFC 258: Usman vs. Burns is coming up this weekend, headlined by the oft-delayed UFC Welterweight Championship fight between Kamaru Usman and Gilbert Burns. We preview the entire card in the first half of the show.
In the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, including Paige VanZant's Bare Knuckle loss, some recent UFC releases, more Tito Ortiz, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts in early April 2011 on the very first legalized MMA event in Ontario, and just how high we think Gegard Mousasi can go.
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UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor 2 is finished, and so was Conor McGregor. By Dustin Poirier. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss all of the results of UFC 257, including the main event, Michael Chandler's successful UFC debut, and more.
In the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, including the most recent lawsuit against Conor McGregor, all of the announced UFC title fights, the release of Ottman Azatair, the fight against piracy, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Magny.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts in early April 2011 on Dan Hardy's losing streak, The Korean Zombie's twister submission, and Thiago Silva's non-human urine.
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It's the return of Conor McGregor this weekend at UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor 2, and Lightweight contender Dustin Poirier gets a chance to avenge his loss to McGregor back in 2013. In the first half of this week's episode, we preview that entire event.
In the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, as well as a preview of the mid-week UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Magny, and our thoughts on Max Holloway's record setting performance at UFC On ABC 1.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts at the time on Jon Jones stopping a robbery, Rumble Johnson's difficult weight cuts to 170 pounds, and the future of Mirko Cro Cop.
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The UFC's first event of 2021 is coming up this weekend, and it's their first ever on the ABC network. In the first half of this week's episode, we preview UFC on ABC 1: Holloway vs. Kattar, a really fun looking card on paper with a great headlining fight in Max Holloway vs. Calvin Kattar.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the raise in UFC Pay Per View pricing, recent COVID-19 updates, more Tito Ortiz nonsense, and Irwin Rivera's arrest.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts at the time on Shogun vs. Jon Jones, and the big news of Zuffa purchasing Strikeforce.
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Our first episode of 2021 is spent looking back on the UFC in 2019.
We run down all of the major UFC fights from last year, from the most improved fighters, to the biggest upsets. We also compare our year of fight picks against each other, as well as to our friends at Sherdog and MMA Fighting.
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This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Eleventh Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2020's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, and many more categories.
Also, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts at the time on who Dan Henderson may defend his Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Championship against, Judo guys fighting in Bellator, and Matt Lindland running afoul of the law.
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The last UFC event of 2020 is in the books, and at least it was a good one. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Neal, including a great performance by Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson in the main event, and Jose Aldo's first UFC win in the Bantamweight division.
In the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA news, including Yoel Romero signing with Bellator, Youtube stars invading combat sports, and more Tito Ortiz wackiness.
Finally, in our Hammer History segment, we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts at the time on Jon Fitch, Mark Hunt, and Strikeforce in early 2011.
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The last UFC event of 2020 is coming up this weekend, and it looks to be a good one if it doesn't get ravaged by COVID. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Neal card.
In the second half of the show we discuss some of the week's MMA news, and results of UFC 256: Figueiredo vs. Moreno card, including the main event Flyweight Championship fight, which is a surefire Fight of the Year contender.
Finally, we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts at the time on UFC 127: Penn vs. Fitch, the Michael Bisping vs. Jorge Rivera rivalry, and Josh Barnett in the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix.
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UFC 256: Figueiredo vs. Moreno is coming up, headlined by one of the more exciting Flyweight fights in recent memory, as Deiveson Figueiredo tries to defend his UFC Flyweight Championship again, against Brandon Moreno. In the first half of this week's episode we preview that entire event.
In the second half of the show we discuss Claressa Shields entering MMA, Leon Edwards testing positive for COVID-19, the suspension of Yair Rodriguez, the release of Yoel Romero, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Vettori.
Finally, we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts at the time on Brandon Vera's release from the UFC, Gina Carano's potential comeback fight, and the UFC 129 presale.
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COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on the weekly UFC cards, and Jack Hermansson has lost yet another opponent for his second December 5th, 2020 main event. So now we're previewing the newly named UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Vettori in the first half of this week's show.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Clark, another UFC card that lost it's main event to COVID, the Tyson vs. Jones Jr. boxing PPV, and how no organization seems interested in Anderson Silva.
Finally, we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts at the time on Steven Segal teaching Anderson Silva how to kick, and Kid Yamamoto's first UFC fight.
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UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Lewis is coming up this weekend, and while the card isn't the strongest, the main event between Heavyweight contenders Curtis Blaydes and Derrick Lewis is a big fight, with big men. In the first half of this week's episode we preview that entire card.
In the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, including Anderson Silva parting ways with the UFC, Jussier Formiga's release, Gina Carano, Tara LaRosa, Bellator, and the results of UFC 255.
Finally, we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts at the time on Anderson Silva vs. Vitor Belfort, Jon Jones vs. Ryan Bader, and Donald Cerrone's UFC debut.
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MIt's Flyweight night coming up at UFC 255, as UFC Flyweight Champion Deiveson Figueredo makes his first title defence against Alex Perez, and UFC Women's Flyweight Champion Valentina Shevchenko looks to continue her run of dominance against contender Jennifer Maia. We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we discuss Conor McGregor vs. Dustin Poirier 2, Diego Sanchez's UFO, recent Bellator events, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Dos Anjos.
Finally, we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts at the time on poor judging in 2011, what Pat Barry's ceiling may be, and Jacare Souza vs. Robbie Lawler in Strikeforce..
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Minutes after uploading our last episode previewing UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. Dos Anjos, Islam Makhachev had to pull out of his main event fight, and has been replaced with Paul Felder. So we've uploaded a revised episode featuring discussion of the new fights added to UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. dos Anjos, combined with the still-accurate segments from our last episode.
In the second half of the show run down the recent Bellator events, election-related MMA news, and Mark Coleman's status, as well as the results of UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Teixeira, which had quite the main event.
Finally, we have another installment of Hammer History, where we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts at the time on Dunham vs. Guillard, Cody Mackenzie's unbreakable guillotine, and whether women will ever compete in the UFC.
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UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. Dos Anjos is coming up this weekend, and while the card is a little lacking compared to recent events, it will still be interesting to see how UFC Lightweight contender Islam Makhachev fares against former champion Raphael dos Anjos. We preview that card in the first half of this week's show.
In the second half of the show run down the recent Bellator events, election-related MMA news, and Mark Coleman's status, as well as the results of UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Teixeira, which had quite the main event.
Finally, we have another installment of Hammer History, where we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts at the time on Dunham vs. Guillard, Cody Mackenzie's unbreakable guillotine, and whether women will ever compete in the UFC.
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In the first half of this week's episode we preview the upcoming UFC Fight NIght: Santos vs. Teixeira card featuring an important Light Heavyweight contender main event between Thiago Santos and Glover Teixeira. We also discuss the news that neither man seems to be next to fight champion Jan Blachowicz, thanks to Israel Adesanya.
In the second half of the show run down the recent Bellator events, updates on Khabib Nurmagomedov , and the results of UFC Fight Night: Hall vs. Silva, which could just be the last time that we see Anderson Silva compete in the Octagon.
Finally, we have another installment of Hammer History, where we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts at the time on Nate Diaz at Welterweight, Jacob Volkman getting political before it was cool, and the possibility of Cris Cyborg vs. Amanda Nunes in 2011.
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We're joined this week by James Lynch (@LynchOnSports) to discuss the results of UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje, including Khabib Nurmagomedov's surprise retirement announcement following his successful UFC Lightweight Championship defense against Justin Gaethje.
In the second half of the show we run down the week in MMA, including accusations against Mike Perry, Leon Edwards' removal and subsequent return to the UFC Rankings, Mousasi vs. Lima in Bellator, and the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Hall vs. Silva.
Finally, we have another installment of Hammer History, where we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts at the time on Anthony Pettis' first UFC fight, Chael Sonnen's legal problems, and some of the best prospects at the time in Strikeforce.
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UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje is coming up this weekend, and it's a big one. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including the UFC Lightweight Championship fight between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Justin Gaethje.
In the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, including the results of Bellator 249 and UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs. The Korean Zombie, the latest on McGregor vs. Poirier 2, more recent COVID tests, and the announcement of Petr Yan vs. Aljamain Sterling at UFC 256.
Finally, we have another installment of Hammer History, where we look back 500 episodes to the upcoming UFC 125: Edgar vs. Maynard 2, this unknown Dustin Poirier guy fighting on the undercard, and our thoughts on Strikeforce going into 2011.
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This weekend the UFC continues their run of Fight Island shows with UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs. The Korean Zombie. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including the Featherweight contender grudge match between Brian Ortega and Chan Sung Jung.
In the second half of the show we discuss the Jon Jones and Israel Adesanya feud, Lance Palmer's lawsuit against PFL, Darren Till's corner sweepstakes, and Mark Coleman's brave statement, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Moraes vs. Sandhagen.
Finally, we have another installment of Hammer History, where we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts on the best submissions of 2010, who the brightest prospects of 2011 may be, and our reactions to Anthony Pettis' Showtime Kick.
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The UFC's staycation in Abu Dhabi continues, and in the first half of the show we preview the entire UFC Fight Night: Moraes vs. Sandhagen card, including the Bantamweight main event between Marlon Moraes and Cory Sandhagen, which may determine a future title contender.
In the second half of the show we discuss last week's Bellator shows in Italy, this week's Bellator in France, whatever Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier are up to, Colby Covington at the Presidential Debate, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Aldana.
Finally, we have another installment of Hammer History, where we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts on why GSP didn't finish Josh Koscheck at UFC 124, whether Alistair Overeem would ever fight in Strikeforce again, and if we should start covering this new Bellator promotion.
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We start this week's episode discussing the results of UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa, a pretty fun night of fights that resulted in another successful UFC Middleweight Championship defense for Israel Adesanya, and an unlikely brand new UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, Jan Blachowicz.
In the second half of the show we preview UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Aldana, and discuss the week in MMA news, including whatever nonsense Conor McGregor is up to, the retirement of Stevie Ray due to knee injury, and the recent Bellator events in Italy.
Finally, we have another installment of Hammer HIstory, where we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts on GSP vs. Koscheck, the Strikeforce Welterweight division, and Chael Sonnen claiming to have not gone through puberty (!?).
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Following a bit of venting at the start of the episode regarding the literal political elephant in the room, we are happy to use the remaining first half of this week's episode to preview the upcoming UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa card.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss Michael Chandler coming to UFC, the upcoming Bellator event in Italy, yet more COVID test failures, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Woodley.
Finally, we have another installment of Hammer HIstory, where we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts on Fedor vs. Bigfoot, Andrei Arlovski's Strikeforce losing stream, and our interview with former UFC Lightweight Champion Sean Sherk.
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Out of nowhere, the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Woodley is looking like one of the best overall fight cards of the year, and certainly for a free television event. In the first half of this week's show we preview the entire card, headlined by a long-awaited grudge match between Colby Covington and Tyron Woodley.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, and the results of UFC Fight NIght: Waterson vs. Hill, and a pair of Bellator events.
Finally, we have another installment of Hammer HIstory, where we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts on Machida vs. Rampage, George Sotiropoulous, and why the hell so many fights are going to decision in 2010.
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UFC FIght NIght: Waterson vs. Hill is coming up this weekend, and with recent UFC cards getting torn apart by COVID, we have an unlikely main event in Michelle Waterson vs. Angela Hill. In the first half of this week's episode we preview that entire fight card as it stands, and on the complete opposite side of the spectrum, address the latest on Brock Lesnar.
Then we have Liam's Bellator Corner, running down two upcoming Bellator events, and recap UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai.
Finally, we have another installment of Hammer HIstory, where we look back 500 episodes to our thoughts on BJ Penn vs. Matt Hughes, Nik Lentz vs. Tyson Griffin, and how maybe, just maybe, Joseph Benavidez could be best served at a new weight class.
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In the first half of this week's episode we recap the results of UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Rakic, which due to the last-minute loss of the Ankalaev vs. Cutelaba fight, natually leads to talk of some of the recent COVID failures in the UFC, as well as Dana White's Republican National Convention speech.
Then we continue on with Hammer History, as we look back 500 episodes to our discussion of Urijah Faber's drop to Bantamweight at WEC 52, as well as a crazy story about Donald Cerrone getting into a fist fight over his future wife.
Finally, we're joined by Greg to preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai card, taking place Saturday, September 5th, 2020.
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In the first half of this week's episode we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Rakic, but we get a little sidetracked talking about Jon Jones relinquishing his UFC Light Heavyweight Championship, and making things a lot more interesting for fighters in that division such as this week's headliners Anthony Smith and Alexander Rakic.
Then in the second half of the episode we discuss the results of Bellator 244: Bader vs. Nemkov, UFC Fight Night: Munhoz vs. Edgar.
Finally, we continue on with Hammer History, as we look back 500 episodes to our discussion of the announcement of WEC merging with the UFC, plans for Randy Couture's retirement fight, and The Korean Zombie publicly announcing the end of his "zombie style".
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UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3 is over, and Stipe Miocic is still the UFC Heavyweight Champion. We start of this week's episode previewing all of the results from that event, including almost assuredly the end of Daniel Cormier's fighting career, and the abrupt end to Sean O'Malley vs. Marlon Vera.
Then we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Munhoz vs. Edgar and Bellator 244: Bader vs. Nemkov, and the week in MMA news, including Paige VanZant signing with Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship.
Finally, we continue on with Hammer History, as we look back 500 episodes to our discussion of Cain Velasquez winning his first UFC Heavyweight Championship, should Tito Ortiz retire in 2010, and the surprise appearance of The Undertaker to confront Brock Lesnar at UFC 121.
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UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3 is coming up this Saturday on PPV, and the main event will complete the recent trilogy between current UFC Heavyweight Champion Stipe Miocic and former champion Daniel Cormier. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card.
In the second half of the show we run down some recent UFC releases and marijuana test failures, a pretty big defection to Bellator, and the results of Bellator 243 and UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik.
Finally, we continue on with Hammer History, as we look back 500 episodes to our discussion of the upcoming Lesnar vs. Velasquez PPV, Carlos Condit's huge win over Dan Hardy, and whether WEC fighters will ever compete on a UFC card.
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The upcoming UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik card is headlined by a big crazy Heavyweight main event between Derrick Lewis and Alexsei Oleinik that we can't stop talking about. In the first half of this week's episode we preview that fight, and the rest of the fights on the card.
In the second half of the show we discuss which fighters have COVID, who has new jobs, Bellator 243, and UFC FIght Night: Brunson vs. Shahbazyan results for the fights that actually took place as expected.
Finally, we continue on with our as part of Hammer History, as we look back 500 episodes to our discussion at the time of Bisping vs. Akiyama, John Hathaway's future, and the Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight division.
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The UFC heads back to Las Vegas for another run of shows, and we start off this week's episode previewing the first of which, this upcoming Saturday night's UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Shahbazyan.
Then after the break we get into some of the week's MMA news including which fighters tested positive for COVID this week, and the results of Bellator 242 and UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till.
Finally, we continue on with our as part of Hammer History, as we look back 500 episodes to the aftermath of WEC 51: Aldo vs. Gamburyan.
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In the first half of this week's episode we preview the last of the UFC Fight Island cards, with UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till, which is coming up on Saturday, July 25th.
Then we get into some of the week's MMA news, including which fighters tested positive for COVID this week, "Sportswashing" in Abu Dhabi, Bellator's return, NSAC no longer providing details on fighter purses, and the results of UFC FIght NIght: Figueiredo vs. Benavidez 2 and UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Ige.
Finally, we continue on with our as part of Hammer History, we look back 500 episodes, to the results of UFC 119, and how we expected Zhang Tiequan to do at WEC 51.
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UFC 251: Usman vs. Masvidal in in the books, and in the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of that card from Fight Island, including Kamaru Usman and Alexander Volkanovski defending their titles, and the brand new Bantamweight champion Petr Yan.
In the second half of the show we look at some of the week in MMA news, as well as two more upcoming events from Fight Island, July 15th's UFC FIght Night: Kattar vs. Ige, and July 18th's UFC Fight NIght: Figueiredo vs. Benavidez.
Finally, as part of Hammer History, we look back 500 episodes, to when we were actually excited for the Frank Mir vs. Mirko Cro Cop fight.
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Jorge Masvidal has taken a short notice trip to Fight Island to face UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman at UFC 251.
So since we've already recorded a show discussing the rest of the fights on UFC 251 on July 11th, this is an emergency bonus episode focusing only on the background and breakdown of the Usman vs. Masvidal title fight.
Also, stick around to the end of the podcast, as we've included Episode 6 of our show from 2010. It was 500 episodes ago this week, and the first time Steve saw Jorge Masvidal fight.
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The UFC is heading to FIght Island in Abu Dhabi for four straight events including UFC 251, and thanks to COVID-19 the Welterweight Championship fight between Kamaru Usman and Gilbert Burns is now off.
In the first half of this show we preview July 11th's entire UFC 251 card as it currently stands, including the Featherweight Championship rematch between Alexander Volkanovski and Max Holloway.
In the second half of the show discuss the week in MMA news, including the Fight Island quarantine precautions, the death of Abulmanap Nurmagomedov, wacky conspiracy theories, and a better late than ever overturned fight result.
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We start this week's show previewing the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Hooker, which is the last of the UFC's June run of fight cards from Las Vegas. It looks to be a pretty fun card, including the Lightweight contender main event between Dustin Poirier and Dan Hooker, and Mike Perry vs. Mickey Gall.
In the second half of the show we discuss UFC fighters catching COVID, Joe Silva horror stories, the next UFC clothing deal, Rachel Ostovich, and the results of UFC Fight NIght: Blaydes vs. Volkov.
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The UFC continues to run weekly shows from their Apex Center in Las Vegas, and we're starting off this week's show talking about the June 20th's UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Volkov card, headlined by an important Heavyweight contenders fight between Curtis Blaydes and Alexander Volkov.
Later in the show we discuss the UFC's Fight Island events, Gray Maynard's comments about fighter pay, Leslie Smith's adventures in protesting, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Eye vs. Calvillo.
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Amanda Nunes successfully defended her UFC Women's Featherweight Championship at UFC 250: Nunes vs. Spencer, and further solidifying her all-time great status. In the first half of this week's episode we recap the entire night of fights, including huge Bantamweight statements from Cody Garbrandt, Aljamain Sterling, and Sean O'Malley.
In the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, including Jon Jones and Jorge Masvidal's public statements about fighter pay, and a look at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Eye vs. Calvillo card.
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In the first half of this episode we preview the upcoming UFC 250: Nunes vs. Spencer event coming up on June 6th, 2020, including Amanda Nunes defending her UFC Women's Featherweight Championship against Felicia Spencer, and a whole lot of relevant fights in the Bantamweight division.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news including Henry Cejudo vacating his title, Jon Jones threatening to do the same, updated COVID procedures for the UFC shows in Vegas, and the potential end of the UFC's Reebok sponsorship deal.
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Now that all three UFC events from Jacksonville are finished, we can reflect on how this most unique of fight weeks went. To start with, in the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of just ended UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Harris.
Then in the second half of the show we review the success of this week from a financial and safety perspective, fighter and media contracts, when the next UFC card will likely be, Kelvin Gastelum's marijuana test failure, Dominick Cruz's allegations against Keith Peterson, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Teixeira.
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UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje actually went ahead as planned, and rather successfully at that. Well, other than Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza testing positive for COVID-19.
In the first half of this week's episode we run down the entire event, including new UFC Interim Lightweight Champion Justin Gaethje, Henry Cejudo's win and subsequent retirement announcement, and more.
And if that wasn't enough UFC for one week, there are two more UFC cards coming up in Jacksonville, Florida this week, so we briefly preview UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Teixeira, and UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Harris as well.
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UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje has been rescheduled for May 9th, 2020 in Jacksonville, Florida, and it actually seems like it's going to happen this time. Coronavirus be damned.
In this week's episode we take a break from discussing MMA in a state of quarantine, and instead preview the entire scheduled UFC 249 card, currently including a UFC Interim Lightweight Championship fight between Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje, and a somewhat surprising UFC Bantamweight Championship fight between Henry Cejudo and Dominick Cruz.
Not to mention the completely stacked card of repurposed fights from all of the cancelled events from over the last two months.
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As quickly as UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje was announced, it was just as quickly cancelled once the UFC was unable to run their April 18th event in Lemoore, California.
In this week's episode we get together on Skype (unfortunately) to discuss the cancellation of all UFC events going forward during the COVID-19 quarantine, and the various positions and reactions occuring in the world of MMA.
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There may not be any MMA fights happening in the world due to the COVID-19 outbreak, but the usual players continue to keep things interesting.
In the first half of this week's episode we discuss UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones' DWI arrest and guilty plea, as well as Khabib Nurmagomedov officially confirming that he will not be fighting on April 18th's potential UFC 249 card.
In the second half of the episode we run down the rest of the week in MMA news, including various fighter's take on quarantine, Valentina Shevchenko's injury, Bellator cancelling their May events, and more.
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Since our radio station and studio are under quarantine, it looks like we're doing podcasts from a living room for the moment.
In the first half of this week's episode we run down the effects that coronavirus had on MMA this past week, including empty arenas, cancelled shows, and transplanted fighters.
Then in the second half of the show we recap last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Lee vs. Oliviera, and then discuss some random MMA happenings while we watch Bigfoot vs. Gonzaga from Bare Knuckle FC 8.
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The UFC heads to Brasilia, Brazil this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Lee vs. Oliviera. Headlined by a Lightweight fight between Kevin Lee and Charles Oliviera, this card looks to be about as a strong of a free TV card as we've seen in a while, and we preview most of the fights in the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of last weekend's UFC 248: Adesanya vs. Romero, Coronavirus, Brian Ortega, and Bellator 241.
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UFC Fight Night: Benavidez vs. Figueiredo is over, and we're recapping all of the results from Norfolk, Virginia including post-fight comments from Deiveson Figueiredo, Felicia Spencer, Kyler Phillips, Brendan Allen, Marcin Tybura, Luis Pena, Jordan Griffin, Spike Carlyle, and Sean Brady.
Then we have a few words with former UFC Heavyweight Champion Andrei Arlovski, who was backstage at UFC Norfolk.
Finally, UFC 248: Adesanya vs. Romero is coming up this Saturday night, and we preview the entire card, including the UFC Middleweight Championship fight between Israel Adesanya and Yoel Romero, and the UFC Women's Strawweight Championship fight between Zhang Weili and joanna Jedrzejczyk.
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We're on location in Norfolk, Virginia for UFC Fight Night: Benavidez vs. Figueiredo, and in this episode we have pre-fight interviews and comments with Joseph Benavidez, Deiveson Figueiredo, Felicia Spencer, Zarah Fairn Dos Santos, Ion Cutelaba, Megan Anderson, Tom Breese, Luis Pena, and Spike Carlyle, all of whom are fighting on this Saturday night's card.
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The main event of UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Hooker was expected to be an exciting one, and it more than delivered. In the first half of this week's episode we recap the entire event including Dan Hooker's razor close victory over Dan Hooker, Paul Felder's possible retirement afterwards, and big wins for Jimmy Crute and Yan Xiaonan.
Then in the second half of the episode, we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Benavidez vs. Figueiredo, before Steve and Liam head to Norfolk, Virginia for it. We also discuss Bellator 239 and 240, Valentina Shevchenko's next opponent, and rumors of Josh Barnett being out of his upcoming fight.
Check back later this week for additional episodes on location from Norfolk, Virginia, including interviews with man of the fighters competing at UFC Fight Night: Benavidez vs. Figueiredo.
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The UFC heads back to New Zealand this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Hooker, featuring a main event between dark horse Lightweight contenders Paul Felder and Dan Hooker. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card.
In the second half of the show we discuss some of the week's MMA news, as well as last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Anderson vs. Blachowicz 2, an event that gave us yet another possible contender to Jon Jones' UFC Light Heavyweight Championship, as well as a record setting amount of disqualifications for one night.
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There's more to the UFC Light Heavyweight division this week than just poorly judged title fights, but we do get into that this episode.
First up though, the UFC heads to Rio Rancho, New Mexico this Saturday night for UFC Fight Night: Anderson vs. Blachowicz 2, and we preview that card in the first half of the show.
Then once that's clear, we get all worked up about the main event of last weekend's UFC 247: Jones vs. Reyes card.
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We unfortunately had to skip our regular weekly episode this week due to illness, but we just couldn't let a Jon Jones fight week go without at least some discussion.
So here is a quick preview of UFC 247: Jones vs. Reyes on the morning of the fight, and we'll be back next week with a full length regular episode.
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Curtis Blaydes picked up a big win over former UFC Heavyweight Champion Junior dos Santos last weekend at UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. dos Santos. In the first half of this week's episode we recap that event, and discuss what's next in the Heavyweight division with Stipe Miocic currently out of the picture.
In the second half of the show we discuss last weekend's Bellator event, some recent UFC releases and signings, and what top level fights we'd like to see signed for the rest of 2020.
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UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. dos Santos is coming up this weekend, and is the UFC's debut in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the first half of the episode we preview the entire event, including the main event between Heavyweight contenders Curtis Blaydes and former UFC Heavyweight Champion Junior dos Santos.
Then in the second half of the show....Conor McGregor returned last weekend at UFC 246, knocking out Donald Cerrone in less than a minute, and opening up a ton of choices for his next fight for us to discuss.
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We're back in studio for our first live show of 2020, and it's just in time for Conor McGregor's return to the cage.
This episode we preview the entire UFC 246 event, including the main event between Conor McGregor and Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone, Pay Per View bouts for former UFC Champions Holly Holm and Anthony Pettis, and potential showcases for up-and-coming prospects such as Maycee Barber and Sodiq Yusuff.
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Our first episode of 2020 is spent looking back on the UFC in 2019.
We run down all of the major UFC fights from last year, from the most improved fighters, to the biggest upsets. We also compare our year of fight picks against each other, as well as to our friends at Sherdog, MMA Fighting, and Bloody Elbow.
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This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Tenth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2019's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, and many more.
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In the first half of this week's show we discuss "The Korean Zombie" Chan Sung Jung closing out the last UFC event of 2019 with a huge knockout win over Frankie Edgar, Bellator 235 and 236 from Hawaii, the upcoming Bellator & Rizin: Fedor vs. Rampage, the PFL finals on New Year's Eve, and the announcement of a new fight for the vacant UFC Flyweight Championship.
Then, just because, we try to determine who the best fighter who has never won either a UFC or Pride Championship is.
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The upcoming UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. The Korean Zombie is the last UFC event of 2019. Sure it's in South Korea, and it's airing at 5:00am Eastern Standard Time, but it does have a must-see Featherweight main event between Frankie Edgar and "The Korean Zombie" Chan Sung Jung. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, although we can't promise that we'll actually watch the whole thing.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss the results of last weekend's excellent (and long) UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington show, as well as the week in MMA news.
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UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington is coming up this weekend, and is headlined by a rare night of three UFC Championship fights. In the first half of this week's show we preview the entire card, including UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman vs. Colby Covington, UFC Featherweight Champion Max Holloway vs. Alexander Volkanovski, and Amanda Nunes defending her UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship against Germaine de Randamie.
In the second half of the show we recap an eventful UFC On ESPN: Overeem vs. Rozenstruick event including the ridiculous Struve/Rothwell situation, and discuss the week in MMA news including the UFC releases of Renan Barao, Liz Carmouche, and Gray Maynard.
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After a couple of weeks hiatus, the UFC is back on December 7th with UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Rozenstruik. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including the Heavyweight main event between Alistair Overeem and Jairzinho Rozenstruik, as well as a couple of high ranking Women's Strawweight and Women's Bantamweight fights.
In the second half of the show we recap the results of BTC 8: Eliminator from Niagara Falls, Ontario, including a successful BTC Super Lightweight Championship title defence by "Handsome" Scott Hudson, and Lupita Godinez winning the BTC Women's Strawweight Championship.
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We start this week's show catching up on the week's MMA news, including the announcement of Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson, Jon Jones vs. Dominick Reyes, and Valentina Shevchenko vs. Katlyn Chookagian, Kyoji Horiguchi's injury issues, changes to the USADA testing program, Mark Hunt's lawsuit, and some recent UFC releases and retirements.
Then in the second half of the show we speak with BTC Strawweight Lindsay Garbatt, and BTC Bantamweight Teshay Gouthro, prior to their fights this weekend at BTC 8: Eliminator in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Check out BTC 8: Eliminator, which is coming to Niagara Falls, Ontario on November 30th, 2019.
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The UFC's run of twelve events in twelve straight weekends did not end on the strongest note with last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Jacare.
In the first half of this week's episode we recap that event, and discuss some of the week's MMA news including Ben Askren's retirement from MMA, Paulo Costa, and a couple of recent fight announcements.
Then after the break we're joined by BTC Fight Promotions matchmaker (and former The Hammer MMA co-host) Rob Veevers to run down BTC 8: Eliminator, which is coming to Niagara Falls, Ontario on November 28th, 2019 with three Championship fights.
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UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Jacare takes place this weekend in Brazil, and it's headlined by Light Heavyweight contender Jan Blachowicz welcoming yet another former UFC Middleweight to his division with Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza.
We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's show, including fights for long-standing Brazilian fighters Shogun Rua and Charles Oliviera.
In the second half of the show we discuss last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Magomedsharipov vs. Kattar, Bellator 233 including "King Mo" Lawal's retirement, the UFC release of Gilbert Melendez, the announcement of Frankie Edgar's move to Bantamweight, and more.
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The UFC heads back to Russia this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Magomedsharipov vs. Kattar, an event that looks a lot different today than when it was announced.
In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including the main event Featherweight contenders fight between Zabit Magomedsharipov and Calvin Kattar, and a Heavyweight co-main event between Alexander Volkov and the controversial Greg Hardy.
In the second half of the show we discuss last weekend's UFC 244: Masvidal vs. Diaz, the BMF title, the most unpopular doctor in the world, Paulo Costa's injury, and some recent UFC releases.
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It almost fell through last week, but as of this recording, thankfully Nate Diaz will still be fighting Jorge Masvidal this weekend at UFC 244: Masvidal vs. Diaz for the BMF title, which is a thing that now exists.
In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card which also includes Darren Till's move up to Middleweight, as well as high opportunity fights for Vincente Luque, Gregor Gillespie, Johnny Walker, and more.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Askren, new Bellator Welterweight Champion Douglas Lima, and some notable recent Bellator signings.
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The UFC returns to Singapore this weekend, for UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Askren, headlined by a grappling dream match of sorts between Welterweights Demian Maia and Ben Askren. We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Weidman, the latest allegations against Conor McGregor, Jose Aldo moving to Bantamweight, Junior Dos Santos' leg infection, Gonzaga vs. Bigfoot, and more on Cain Velasquez in WWE.
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It's a rare UFC event on a Friday coming up this weekend in Boston, as former UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman moves up in weight to fight Light Heavyweight contender Dominick Reyes. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including a hopefully eye-damage free co-main event between Featherweights Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss California's new weight cutting rules, Aspen Ladd's denied CSAC appeal, Jon Jones' legal problems, and MMA managers fighting getting into fist fights.
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While the UFC is heading to Tampa this weekend, the main event already appears to be in jeopardy due to issues with Joanna Jedrzejczyk's weight cut. So we're playing it safe and beginning this week's episode by recapping last weekend's UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya.
Then in the second half of the show we preview UFC Tampa, which looks to be headlined by Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Someone, at Some Weight Class. We also run down the rest of that card, and Brock Lesnar vs. Cain Velasquez in WWE.
This is a re-upload to try to fix some weird sound issues
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The UFC heads to Melbourne, Australia this weekend for UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya, a stadium show headlined by a unification fight between UFC Middleweight Champion Robert Whittaker and UFC Interim Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya. We preview the entire card (well, most of it), in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss a couple of big weeks for Bellator, Kamaru Usman vs. Colby Covington finally coming together, the UFC release of BJ Penn, and the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Cannonier.
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The UFC debuts in Copenhagen, Denmark this Saturday night, with UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Cannonier, and in the first half of this week's episode we preview most of the card, including the main event between exciting new Middleweight contenders Jack Hermansson and Jared Cannonier.
Then in the second half of the show we recap last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Stephens (all 15 seconds of it), and discuss the upcoming Bellator 228, Rashad Evans' free agent status, more USADA suspensions, and how finally...The Rock will return to Madison Square Garden. Probably.
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UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Gaethje is over, and we're recapping all of the results from Vancouver, including post-fight comments from that all of the winners on the card, including Justin Gaethje, Glover Teixeira, Tristan Connelly, Uriah Hall, Misha Cirkunov, Augusto Sakai, Hunter Azure, Chas Skelly, Louis Smolka, and Austin Hubbard.
Then in the second half of the show, we're joined by The Score MMA's James Lynch to preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Stephens from Mexico City.
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We're on location in Vancouver for UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Gaethje, and in this episode we have pre-fight interviews and comments with Donald Cerrone, Justin Gaethje, Nikita Krylov, Jeff Hughes, Misha Cirkunov, Cole Smith, Jordan Griffin, Ryan McDonald, and Kyle Prepolec, all of whom are fighting on that card.
We're also briefly joined by The Score MMA's James Lynch to discuss UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Gaethje fight week so far.
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In the first half of this week's episode we run down the results of UFC 242, including UFC Lightweight Champion Khabib Nurmagomedov's dominating win over Dustin Poirier, who's next for Nurmagomedov, some controversial scorecards, and how it's not the heat, it's the humidity.
In the second half of the show we discuss the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Gaethje, the newly announced Diaz vs. Masvidal PPV main event, Cyborg signing with Bellator, and Bader vs. Kongo.
Check back later in the week for additional episodes on location from Vancouver, including interviews with many of the fighters competing at this Saturday night's UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Gaethje.
*And thanks to Adam Lane (@Alane999) who contributed to this week's corrections and omissions section, but Steve ironically omitted his name.
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UFC Lightweight Champion Khabib Nurmagomedov returns after a nine month suspension to defend his title against UFC Interim Lightweight Champion Dustin Poirier. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the upcoming UFC 242: Khabib vs. Poirier card from Abu Dhabi.
In the second half of the show we recap UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Zhang, some details from the ongoing UFC antitrust case, the announced return of Anthony "Rumble" Johnson, BJ Penn's street fights, CB Dollaway's USADA suspension, and more.
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In the first half of this week's episode, Steve and Greg preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Zhang while we wait for James Lynch (The Score MMA) to get here from the airport.
Then after the break, James joins us to discuss the Bellator 225: Mitrone vs. Kharitonov 2, Cain Velasquez's pro-wresting career, exactly who is the greatest MMA Heavyweight of all of time, and Conor McGregor's recent apology interview.
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It's a huge rematch this weekend at UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2 in Anaheim, as UFC Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier is defending his UFC Heavyweight Championship against former champion Stipe Miocic. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire UFC 241 event, including a wild Welterweight co-main event between Nate Diaz and Anthony Pettis that we can't stop talking about.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Shevchenko vs. Carmouche 2, the release of Cat Zingano, and some recent scary weight cuts.
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This weekend's UFC Fight Night: Shevchenko vs. Carmouche is the promotion's debut in Urugray, and is headlined by a UFC Women's Flyweight Championship fight between reigning champion Valentina Shevchenko and former Bantamweight title contender Liz Carmouche. In the first half of this week's episode, we preview most of the fights on the card.
Later in the episode we discuss last weekend's rather politicized UFC On ESPN: Covington vs. Lawler event, more on the absolutely crazy Dana White vs. Cris Cyborg issue, Frankie Edgar's recently announced move to the Bantamweight division, Eddie Alvarez and Demetrious Johnson's wins in ONE Championship, and the upcoming Invicta FC 36: Sorensen vs. Young card.
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This weekend's UFC on ESPN: Covington vs. Lawler is kind of a strange event, as former UFC Interim Welterweight Champion Colby Covington still has to make a case for himself as a title contender by beating former champ Robbie Lawler, and possibly in front of invited guest Donald Trump Jr. Plus if you live in North America it's happening on an early Saturday afternoon for various reasons. In the first half of this week's episode we preview most of the fights on this card.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of last weekend's UFC 240: Holloway vs. Edgar, Cris Cyborg's promotional options, BJ Penn somehow being booked for another UFC fight, and the upcoming ONE Championship fights for Demetrious Johnson and Eddie Alvarez.
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The UFC returns to Edmonton for the second time, and this time they've brought UFC Featherweight Champion, and honorary Canadian, Max Holloway to headline. In the first half of this week's show we preview the entire UFC 240: Holloway vs. Edgar event.
In the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA, including the latest Jon Jones disaster, Chris Weidman officially moving up to Light Heavyweight, and Myles Jury heading to Bellator. We also run down the results of the UFC Fight Night: dos Anjos vs. Edwards, an event that may still be going on as you're reading this.
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The UFC heads to Sacramento this Saturday, July 20th, for UFC Fight Night: dos Anjos vs. Edwards. In the first half of this week's show we preview most of the card, including the main event where finally after seven wins in a row, Leon "Rocky" Edwards gets a shot at a top five opponent in Rafael dos Anjos.
In the second half of the show we discuss last weekend's UFC Fight Night: de Randamie vs. Ladd, the seeming resurrection of the UFC Flyweight division, Abel Trujillo's arrest, and the announcement of Bellator's Featherweight Grand Prix competitors.
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The UFC returns to Sacramento, California for UFC Fight Night: de Randamie vs. Ladd, and they're pulling hometown hero Urijah Faber out of retirement for the occasion. In the first half of this week's episode we preview his return fight against Ricky Simon, the UFC Women's Bantamweight contenders fight between Germaine de Randamie and Aspen Ladd, and the rest of this tightly matched event.
In the second half of the show we discuss last weekend's excellent UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos, John Lineker finding a new home in ONE Championship, the official announcement of Robert Whittaker vs. Israel Adesanya, Sarah Kaufman's default tournament win, Tito Ortiz vs. Alberto Del Rio, and Dillon Danis' nightclub altercation.
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UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos is this weekend, headlined by arguably the greatest male and female MMA fighters in the sport's history.
In the main event, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones defends his title against Thiago Santos. In the co-main event, Amanda Nunes defends her UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship against former Champion Holly Holm. It's looking like a great night of fights, and in the first half of this week's show we preview the entire card.
In the second half of the show we discuss last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Dos Santos event, the surprising release of John Lineker, some people kicking bottlecaps, and the the mid-year tally of our 2019 UFC prediction competition.
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The UFC returns to ESPN this Saturday night for UFC on ESPN 3: Ngannou vs. Dos Santos. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the card, including a Heavyweight contender main event between Francis Ngannou and Junior Dos Santos, and what would be a Flyweight contender fight between Joseph Benavidez and Jussier Formiga if that title is ever defended again.
In the second half of the show we discuss last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Korean Zombie, new Bellator Middleweight Champion Rafael Lovato Jr.'s win over Gegard Mousasi, Sean O'Malley's removal from UFC 239, BJ Penn's latest trouble, and some recently signed UFC title matches.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Korean Zombie is coming up this Saturday, June 22nd from Greenville, South Carolina, and this episode we preview the entire card, including fun fights like the main event, a John Lineker vs. Rob Font rematch, Andrea Lee vs. Montana De La Rosa, and the totally random return of Matt Wiman.
Plus there's a quick recap of Bellator 222: MacDonald vs. Gracie, and an update from Steve as meets up with some MMA media personalities while traveling down the North American West Coast.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes was one hell of a night of fights, and in the first half of this week's episode we discuss all of them, including brand new UFC Bantamweight Champion Henry Cejudo's victory over Marlon Moraes, a dominating performance by UFC Women's Flyweight Champion Valentina Shevchenko over Jessica Eye, and a wild, controversial, Lightweight war between Tony Ferguson and Donald Cerrone.
In the second half of the show we run down some of the week's MMA news, the results of Invicta FC 35: Bennett vs. Rodriguez 2, and the upcoming Bellator 222: MacDonald vs. Gracie.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes is coming up this weekend, and in the first half of this week's double-length episode we preview all of the fights on the card, including UFC Flyweight Champion Henry Cejudo vs. Marlon Moraes for the vacant UFC Bantamweight Championship, UFC Women's Flyweight Champion Valentina Shevchenko defending against Jessica Eye, and Tony Ferguson returning to face Donald Cerrone in a must see Lightweight contenders fight.
In the second half of the show we look back on the results of UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Smith from Stockholm, Jessica Andrade being robbed in Brazil, and a discussion of our local BTC 6: Night of Champion event from Burlington, Ontario including post-fight interviews with winners Scott Hudson, Cheyanne Vlismas, Adam Assenza and Jacob Bohn.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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The UFC heads to Sweden again for the this weekend's UFC Fight Night in Stockholm, as Alexander Gustafsson and Anthony Smith main event a show topped by three Top 15 Light Heavyweight fights. We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we run down some of the week's MMA news including Yoel Romero's supplement lawsuit, allegations against UFC Welterweight Alex "Cowboy" Oliviera, Urijah Faber ending his retirement, and a whole bunch of UFC releases, including many Flyweights and Elias Theodorou.
Finally, former host and current BTC matchmaker Rob Veevers returns to discuss BTC 6: Night of Champions on June 1st in Burlington, Ontario, and featuring Scott Hudson vs. Dawond Pickney for the Super Lightweight Championship, additional Flyweight and Interim Women's Strawweight Championship fights, and fights with UFC and Invicta FC veterans.
If you are in the Ontario area, BTC 6: Night of Champions takes place on Saturday, June 1st, 2019, and tickets can be purchased at http://www.btcfight.ca
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This episode we welcome back our former co-host and current BTC Fight Promotions matchmaker Rob Veevers, BTC Super Lightweight Championship contender "Handsome" Scott Hudson, and live event correspondent Liam Dunlop, to discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: dos Anjos vs. Lee, Sage Northcutt's knockout loss in ONE Championship, Rashad Evans entering the UFC Hall of Fame, some weird UFC Rankings stuff, and the reduced suspensions of Abubakar Nurmagomedov and Zubaira Tukhugov.
Then in the second half of the show, Rob and Scott discuss the upcoming BTC 6: Night of Champions event in Burlington, Ontario, featuring Scott Hudson vs. Dawond Pickney for the Super Lightweight Championship, as well as Flyweight and Interim Women's Strawweight Championship fights, and fights including UFC and Invicta veterans.
If you are in Ontario, then BTC 6: Night of Champions takes place on Saturday, June 1st, 2019, and tickets can be purchased at http://www.btcfight.ca
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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UFC Fight Night: dos Anjos vs. Lee takes place this weekend featuring a relatively important Welterweight fight between Raphael dos Anjos and Kevin Lee, as well as a rather large Neil Magny-shaped hole on the card. In the first half of this week's episode we preview (most) of the fights from Rochester this Saturday night.
In the second half of the show we look back at the results of UFC 237: Namajunas vs. Andrade, including what's next for the Women's Strawweight division, Anderson Silva, Jose Aldo, and BJ Penn. There's also newly announced big returns for Nate Diaz and Tony Ferguson, and the wildly entertaining Bellator 221 event from last weekend.
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UFC Women's Strawweight Champion Rose Namajunas returns this weekend at UFC 237 in Rio de Janeiro, following a one year layoff, to defend her title in enemy territory against Jessica Andrade. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including appearances from Brazilian legends Anderson Silva and Jose Aldo.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cowboy, rumors of disappointing numbers for last month's UFC 236: Holloway vs. Poirier, Anthony "Rumble" Johnson's arrest, Bellators both old and new, and Invicta FC's first Phoenix Rising tournament.
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The UFC returns to Ottawa, Ontario this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cerrone, headlined by an incredible Lightweight contenders fight between Al Iaquinta and "Cowboy" Donald Cerrone. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including big fights for a lot of up-and-coming Canadian talent.
In the second half of the show we discuss last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Hermansson, and Bellator: MacDonald vs. Fitch cards, as well as the most recent end of Brock Lesnar's MMA career.
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This weekend's UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Hermansson may have been downgraded from ESPN to the ESPN+ app, but it's still looking like a night full of fun fights. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, which is headlined by a Middleweight fight between Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza vs. late replacement Jack Hermansson.
In the second half of the show we catch Dave and Greg up on a week of MMA news following their week in Mexico, including Darren Till stealing a taxi, Angela Magana's coma and recovery, BJ Penn threatening farmers with machetes, Dan Ige giving blood to strangers, beach creepers getting kicked, and multiple USADA test failures.
Finally, we take a quick look back at the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Oleinik card, and the upcoming Bellator: MacDonald vs. Fitch.
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Two new UFC Interim Champions were just crowned at UFC 236: Holloway vs. Poirier 2, and it was in two of the most exciting fights in recent memory.
In the first half of this week's episode we discuss all of the UFC 236 results, including Dustin Poirier's upset victory over Max Holloway to become the UFC Interim Lightweight Champion, and Israel Adesanya living up to the hype by beating Kelvin Gastelum to win the UFC Interim Middleweight Championship.
In the second half of the show we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Oleinik in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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UFC 236: Holloway vs. Poirier is coming up this weekend, and it's just full of UFC Interim Championship fights. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card including UFC Featherweight Champion Max Holloway vs. Dustin Poirier for the UFC Interim Lightweight Championship, and Kelvin Gastelum vs. Israel Adesanya for the UFC Interim Middleweight Championship.
It's kind of a mess, but it looks like a fun mess.
In the second half of the show we run down a crazy week of MMA news, including TJ Dillashaw's official USADA suspension for EPO, the troubling allegations against BJ Penn, an update on Tony Ferguson, and of course more Conor McG regor drama. Plus, Greg quickly pops in to give his UFC 236 picks before he leaves for his wedding.
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The UFC is taking a weekend off for the first time in ten weeks. Ten weeks! So we start off this week's episode talking about some MMA news including the unfortunate Conor McGregor/Khabib Nurmagomedov war of words, now former UFC Heavyweight Ruslan Magomedov's lifetime ban by USADA, Josh Barnett's signing with Bellator, Artem Lobov and Paulie Malignaggi's media day altercation, and the UFC 239 card announcement.
In the second half of the show we look back on last weekend's UFC On ESPN 2: Barboza vs. Gaethje including a main event that did not disappoint, and the ONE Championship: A New Era fight results.
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We start this week's show discussing the New York Times article detailing Conor McGregor's sexual assault allegation, Henry Cejudo vs. Marlon Moraes for the vacant UFC Bantamweight Championship, and Cain Velasquez's upcoming professional wrestling debut.
Also, UFC On ESPN: Barboza vs. Gaethje is this Saturday night and is the UFC's second full broadcast on ESPN television. You couldn't ask for a more entertaining fight for this type of spotlight, as Edson Barboza vs. Justin Gaethje has potential to be the best fight of 2019, and we preview most of the card.
In the second half of the show we recap last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Pettis, and somewhat preview this weekend's ONE Championship event from Tokyo, featuring the debuts of Demetrious Johnson and Eddie Alvarez.
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In the first half of this week's episode we discuss what little is currently known regarding the adverse findings in TJ Dillashaw's post-fight drug test, and what his relinquishing of the UFC Bantamweight Championship means for both him, and the entire Bantamweight division. We also look at the UFC's new exclusive PPV deal with ESPN+.
In the second half of the show we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Pettis card, headlined by one of the most random fights in recent history, and look back on the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Till vs. Masvidal.
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Former UFC Welterweight Championship contender Darren Till gets a shot at the comeback trail this weekend by headlining UFC Fight Night: Till vs. Masvidal in London, England against Jorge Masvidal. In the first half of this week's episode we preview that entire ESPN+ exclusive card.
In the second half of the show we the discuss last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Dos Santos results, Invicta FC Bantamweight Champion Sarah Kaufman joining the PFL Lightweight tournament, Conor McGregor's latest legal trouble, and Yoel Romero's opinion of one-time opponent Paulo Costa's whereabouts.
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UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Dos Santos is this Saturday night, and it's the first UFC event in Wichita, Kansas. It's a big one too, although mostly because Derrick Lewis is fighting Junior Dos Santos in the main event. We preview the entire card in the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we run down the results of last weekend's UFC 235: Jones vs. Smith, which was a weird night where Jon Jones almost lost his UFC Championship by disqualification, Kamaru Usman won the UFC Welterweight Championship in as dominating fashion as possible, and Ben Askren quite controversially defeated Robbie Lawler.
Also, for Ontario MMA fans (or US fans on the border), it's worth checking out BTC 5: Typhoon this Saturday night in Windsor, Ontario.
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UFC 235: Jones vs. Smith is coming up this weekend, as Jon "Bones" Jones returns very quickly after his last fight to defend his UFC Light Heavyweight Championship against Anthony "Lionheart" Smith. In the first half of this week's episode we preview that fight, as well as the rest of the UFC 235 main card including Tyron Woodley vs. Kamaru Usman for the UFC Welterweight Championship, and Ben Askren's long-awaited UFC debut against Robbie Lawler.
In the second half of the show we discuss the UFC 235 preliminary card fights, the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Santos, recent allegations against Matt Hughes, even more UFC Interim Championships, and PFL's new ESPN deal.
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The UFC heads to Prague for the first time for UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Santos, and it's headlined by an important Light Heavyweight fight between Jan Blachowicz and Thiago Santos, and supported by...not much other than John Dodson vs. Peter Yan. In the first half of this week's episode we preview all of the fights on this EPSN+ exclusive card.
In the second half of the show we recap a bunch of weird fights, including the too-short main events of UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Velasquez and Bellator: Mitrione vs. Kharitonov, and the too-long main event of Bellator: MVP vs. Daley. We also run down a few of the week's biggest MMA news stories, including the impending retirement of Georges St-Pierre, and the recently announced UFC Interim Middleweight fight between Israel Adesanya and Kelvin Gastelum.
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The UFC debuts their first main card on ESPN this Sunday night, and it's literally a big one. Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez returns after almost three years away, to face the hard hitting Francis Ngannou. In the first half of this week's episode we preview that entire UFC On ESPN: Velasquez vs. Ngannou event.
In the second half of the episode we discuss last weekend's troubled UFC 234 card from Australia, the various health problems of Robert Whittaker and Kelvin Gastelum, and both of the Bellator shows coming up this weekend.
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This weekend the UFC heads to Melbourne, Australia for UFC 234: Whittaker vs. Gastelum, as UFC Middleweight Champion Robert Whittaker attempts to defend his title for the first time in his home country. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire UFC 234 card.
Then we take a look back at the results of last weekend's action packed UFC Fight Night: Assuncao vs. Moraes 2 event, and run down some of the week's MMA news including Khabib Nurmagomedov's anti-anti-bullying stance, more disappearing UFC Flyweights, and the possibility of an Amanda Nunes vs. Holly Holm fight.
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The UFC heads to Fortaleza, Brazil this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Assuncao vs. Moraes 2. In the first half of this week's episode we preview all of the fights on the main card, including a Bantamweight contender rematch between Raphael Assuncao and Marlon Moraes, and a high level Featherweight co-main event between Jose Aldo and Renato Moicano.
In the second half of the show we run down the UFC Fight Night preliminary card, the results of last weekend's fun Bellator 214: Bader vs. Fedor event, Jon Jones' eligibility to fight in Nevada this March, Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor's suspensions, and the UFC's release of Artem Lobov.
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It seems like it's been going on forever, but the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix wraps up this Saturday night at Bellator 214: Fedor vs. Bader.
In the first half of this week's episode we preview that event, including the tournament final main event between Fedor Emelianenko and Ryan Bader for the vacant Bellator Heavyweight Championship, the continued rise of Aaron Pico, and the debut of former WWE World Champion Jake "Jack Swagger" Hager.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of the UFC's debut on ESPN, which featured Henry Cejudo possibly saving the Flyweight division, the controversial Greg Hardy fight, the brand new title belt design, and more.
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The UFC begins the ESPN era with a superfight in Brooklyn this Saturday night, when UFC Flyweight Champion Henry Cejudo defends his title against UFC Bantamweight Champion TJ Dillashaw. In the first half of this week's episode we run down the entire main card, as well as whether the Flyweight division survives this weekend, and the backlash for co-main event fighter Greg Hardy.
In the second half of the show we discuss the UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Dillashaw preliminary card, the UFC 232 buyrate, Jon Jones' CSAC test results, Cat Zingano's decision to appeal her UFC 232 loss to Megan Anderson, the suspension of UFC Women's Flyweight Jennifer Maia, and some exciting new fights that were just announced.
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Following a quick recap of the week in MMA news, including word of a Jon Jones vs. Anthony Smith fight at UFC 235, the rest of our first episode of 2019 is spent looking back on 2018.
We run down all of the major UFC fights from last year, from the most improved fighters, to the worst upset losses. We also compare our year of fight picks against each other, as well as to our friends at Sherdog and Bloody Elbow.
As you can imagine, this was a huge opportunity for us to look absolutely terrible.
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This week's episode was recorded immediately following the conclusion of UFC 232: Jones vs. Gustafsson 2, and we're joined by a few friends including Sherdog's James Lynch.
There's a ton to discuss between the return of Jon Jones to the top of the UFC Light Heavyweight division, Amanda Nunes staking her claim as the greatest women's MMA fighter of all time, and the rest of a pretty eventful UFC 232 card full of fouls and upsets.
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It wouldn't be a Jon Jones fight week without a bunch of drama, and this week's UFC 232: Jones vs. Gustafsson is no different. Due to an abnormality in one of Jones' drug tests, the entire UFC 232 event has been moved from Las Vegas to Los Angeles on only a few days notice. Needless to say we have a lot to say about that during the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we run down the entire UFC 232 card, including the UFC Women's Featherweight Championship fight between champion Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino and UFC Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes.
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This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Ninth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2018's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, and many more.
In the second half of the episode we look back on the seven year history of UFC on Fox, as well as run down the results of a ton of MMA events including UFC On Fox: Lee vs. Iaquinta 2, Bellator 212 and 213 from Hawaii, and Invicta FC 33: Frey vs. Grusander 2.
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UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega is in the books, and featured an exceptionally exciting UFC Featherweight Championship defense by Max Holloway, and a brand new UFC Women's Flyweight Champion in Valentina Shevchenko. In the first half of this week's episode we are joined by FloCombat's James Lynch to recap the entire night of fights, and we also have post-fight comments from UFC 231 winners Thiago Santos, Nina Ansaroff, Brad Katona, Carlos Diego Ferreira, and Alexsandar Rakic.
Then in the second half of the episode we preview the upcoming UFC On Fox: Lee vs. Iaquinta 2, an event that signals the end of the UFC's seven year deal with the Fox Network.
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We're on location in Toronto for UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega, and in the first half of this week's episode we have interviews with UFC 231 fighters Eryk Anders, Kyle Bochniak, Brad Katona, and more.
In the second half of the show we are joined by the hosts of The Parting Shot Podcast, James Lynch and Adam Martin, to recap UFC 231 media week so far, including discussion of Max Holloway's status, Kyle "The Monster" Nelson, and the UFC on ESPN Greg Hardy controversy.
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The UFC heads to Toronto, Ontario this weekend for UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega, and in the first half of this week's episode we preview the main card, including the UFC Featherweight Championship fight between Max Holloway and Brian Ortega, and the Vacant Women's Flyweight Championship fight between
Valentina Shevchenko and Joanna Jedrzejczyk.
After the break we continue on by discussing the UFC 231 preliminary card, more information on how the Golden Boy MMA: Liddell vs. Ortiz PPV did.
Finally, we run down the results of last weekend's two UFC events, The Ultimate Fighter: Heavy Hitters Finale, and UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa from Adelaide, Australia.
Check back later in the week for a bonus episode on location from Toronto, including interviews with many of the fighters competing at UFC 231.
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We start off this week's episode previewing next weekend's The Ultimate Fighter 28 Finale headlined by a Welterweight contenders fight between Raphael Dos Anjos vs. Kamaru Usman, and UFC's return to Adelaide, Australia for UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa.
In the second half of the show we recap the UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs Blaydes 2 event, the Liddell vs. Ortiz 3 PPV, BTC 4: Vendetta from Peterborough, Ontario, and discuss the week in MMA news.
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We start off this week's show discussing the results of UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Ponzinibbio, which was the UFC's debut in Argentina, and it was a successful one for hometown Welterweight Santiago Ponzinibbio, who beat Neil Magny in the main event. We're joined again by Liam Dunlop to recap the entire fight card.
Then we continue along on the UFC's current international tour, previewing all of the fights on the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Ngannou 2, from Beijing, China.
Finally we run down the week in MMA news, including the unlikely Chuck Liddell vs. Tito Ortiz PPV, Cody MacKenzie's fake urine, Rick Story's retirement, whatever's going on with Floyd Mayweather in Japan, and the upcoming BTC 4: Vendetta card in Peterborough, Ontario headlined by Lightweight Champion Adam Assenza vs. UFC veteran Jason Saggo.
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The UFC celebrated it's 25th Anniversary in style with UFC Fight Night: Korean Zombie vs. Rodriguez, in Denver, Colorado. In the first half of this week's episode we recap the entire event, including Yair Rodriguez scoring the likely Knockout Of The Year, during the likely Fight Of The Year, against The Korean Zombie.
In the second half of the episode we discuss UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Ponzinibbio, the impending closure of the UFC Flyweight division, Henry Cejudo vs. TJ Dillashaw, the incredibly short-lived Floyd
Mayweather vs. Tenshin Nasukawa fight in RIZIN, and Ben Askren's first UFC opponent.
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UFC 230: Cormier vs. Lewis is in the books, and should be considered successful for the card that was essentially held together with crazy glue and chewing gum.
In the first half of this week's episode we run down all of the results, including Daniel Cormier's successful UFC Heavyweight Championship defense against Derrick Lewis, Jacare Souza defeating Chris Weidman in an important Middleweight fight, and Israel Adesanya's continued rise through the Middleweight division.
In the second half of the episode we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Korean Zombie vs. Rodriguez event, which is the UFC's 25th Anniversary show, and then run down some of the week's MMA news.
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The UFC returns to Madison Square Garden this weekend for the snakebit UFC 230: Cormier vs. Lewis event, a card that experienced many revisions before landing on the current main event between two-division UFC Champion Daniel Cormier defending his UFC Light Heavyweight Championship against Derrick Lewis. We spend the first half of this week's show previewing the (hopefully) final UFC 230 main card.
In the second half of the show we discuss the UFC 230 preliminary card fights, Demetrious Johnson going from UFC to ONE FC in exchange for Ben Askren, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Volkan vs. Smith.
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UFC Fight Night: Volkan vs. Smith, the UFC's first event in Moncton, New Brunswick, takes place this Saturday night, and we're joined by Liam Dunlop to preview the entire card during the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show, we discuss former UFC and Bellator Lightweight Champion Eddie Alvarez signing with the ONE FC promotion, Bradley Scott's USADA suspension for cocaine metabolites, the UFC's parent company pulling out an investment deal with the Saudi government, and the matches set for PFL's New Year's Eve tournament finals.
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The shadow of UFC 229 remains long, as we continue with the ongoing saga of the Khabib Nurmagedov and Conor McGregor, including early buyrate information, an update on athletic commission punishments, Zubaira Tukhugov's status, the media reaction to the UFC 229 fight, and which new fights may be made from here. We also run down the completely reshuffled upcoming New York, Toronto and Las Vegas UFC events.
In the second half of the episode we discuss the results of last weekend's two Bellator events, Bellator 207: Bader vs. Mitrione, and Bellator 208: Fedor vs. Sonnen.
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UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor is now in the books, and it appears we will be talking about this one for a while.
In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of UFC 229, including Khabib Nurmagomedov's successful UFC Lightweight Championship defense against Conor McGregor, the wild post-fight brawl involving their teammates, and the rest of the mostly enjoyable fights from that event.
In the second half of the show we discuss the newly signed UFC Women's Flyweight Championship fight signed for UFC 230, and take a look at the upcoming double shot weekend of Bellator 207: Mitrione vs. Bader, and Bellator 208: Sonnen vs Emelianenko.
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UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor takes place this Saturday, October 6th, 2018, and we spend the entire first half of this week's show previewing the main event fight between UFC Lightweight Champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor.
In the second half of the episode we run down the rest of the UFC 229 card, as well as The National Labor Relations Board's dismissal of employee status for UFC fighters, manager Malki Kawa's side of the Jon Jones' USADA suspension reduction, some recent changes to the USADA suspension announcements, and the retirement of Bellator fighter and former UFC Interim Bantamweight contender Michael McDonald.
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We begin this week's episode discussing the UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor press conference from Radio City Music Hall, the abrupt end of Jon Jones' USADA suspension, the unfortunate passing of Japanese fighting legend Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto and Blackzillians founder Glenn Robinson, and the announcement of Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Valentina Shevchenko for the vacant UFC Women's Flyweight Championship.
In the second half of the show we preview the upcoming Bellator 206 headlined by Bellator Middleweight Champion Gegard Mousasi defending against Bellator Welterweight Champion Rory MacDonald, and run down the results of UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Anders.
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We start off this week's episode discussing the results of UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Oleinik from Moscow, Russia.
In the second half of the show we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Anders vs. Santos (formerly known as UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Santos), and then get into some of the week's MMA news including the announcement of a Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov press conference, some more details on the Chuck Liddell vs. Tito Ortiz event, Melvin Guillard's recent criminal charges, and check in on Tyron Woodley's new single.
Note: We uploaded this episode literally minutes before Erik Anders replaced Jimi Manuwa in the UFC Sao Paulo main event.
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This week we start the show off discussing the USADA suspension of former UFC Heavyweight Champion Fabricio Werdum, Michael Chiesa's lawsuit over the infamous UFC 223 bus attack, and a preview of the UFC's upcoming debut in Moscow, UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Oleinik.
In the second half of the show we take a look back at one of the most exciting MMA cards in recent memory in UFC 228: Woodley vs. Till, highlighted by an impressive UFC Welterweight Championship defense by Tyron Woodley, Nicco Montano's hospitalization and subsequent stripping of her UFC Women's Flyweight Championship, as well as an undercard filled with incredibly brutal knockouts and creative submissions.
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The UFC heads to Dallas this weekend for UFC 228: Woodley vs. Till. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the UFC 228 main card, including UFC Welterweight Champion Tyron Woodley vs Darren Till, and UFC Women's Flyweight Champion Nicco Montano vs. Valentina Shevchenko.
In the second half of the show we run down the UFC 228 preliminary card, take a brief look at the results of Invicta FC 31, and unfortunately even mention the idea of Sage Northcutt vs. Logan Paul.
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In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Gaethje vs. Vick, including the abbreviated main event, some wild submissions, and the retirement of Jake Ellenberger.
Then we get into all of the week's MMA news including the upcoming Invicta FC 31 card, Kamaru Usman as the UFC 228 Welterweight Championship alternate, Donald Cerrone's comments on the Jackson-Winklejohn camp, the MMA ties of late Senator John McCain, KSI vs. Logan Paul's boxing PPV, and a current UFC fighter's horrible testicular injury.
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The UFC debuts in Lincoln, Nebraska this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Gaethje vs. Vick. The main event features Justin Gaethje vs. James Vick in a battle of exciting Top 15 Lightweights, we preview the entire main card during the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we discuss the UFC Lincoln preliminary card fights, James Gallagher and the risk of talking trash, Brock Lesnar and Ronda Rousey at WWE Summerslam, and a bunch of other random news.
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This week we spend the entire hour debating the most frustrating of MMA arguments: Who is the Pound For Pound Greatest MMA Fighter Of All Time?
In order to solve this intricate puzzle, we've seeded the Top 16 fighters and held a single elimination tournament to decide the G.O.A.T.
Is it Jon Jones? Fedor Emelianenko? Georges St-Pierre? Anderson Silva? Jose Aldo? Demetrious Johnson? Conor McGregor? Daniel Cormier? By the end of this week's episode (and after a whole lot of arguing), we'll have it all figured out.
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UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2 is in the books, and in addition to TJ Dillashaw retaining his UFC Bantamweight Championship in the main event, we also saw the end of an era when long-reigning UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson lost to Henry Cejudo. We go over the results of all of the UFC 227 fights in the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show, we discuss the week in MMA news, including a comparison of the reported in-cage weights of the UFC 227 fighters, the official announcement of Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Conor McGregor, the supposed announcement of Nate Diaz vs. Dustin Poirier, the matchups for the upcoming Bellator Welterweight Tournament, and Colby Covington's trip to The White House.
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UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2 is coming up this weekend, and in the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire main card, including TJ Dillashaw defending his UFC Bantamweight Championship against former champion Cody Garbrandt, and UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrious Johnson taking on Henry Cejudo for a second time.
In the second half of the show we preview the UFC 227 preliminary card, discuss Conor McGregor's plea deal, and look back at the results of last weekend's UFC On Fox: Alvarez vs. Poirier 2.
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We kick off this week's episode catching up on recent MMA news, including the announcement of Tyron Woodley vs. Darren Till at UFC 228, the result of Nick Newell's Contender Series fight, Cain Velasquez's visit to the WWE Performance Center, The Bellator Welterweight Tournament lineup, and Anderson Silva's reduced USADA suspension.
Then we preview the UFC's return to Calgary for this weekend's UFC On Fox: Alvarez vs. Poirier 2, a stacked free TV card that also includes former UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo vs. Jeremy Stephens, and former UFC Women's Strawweight Champion Joanna Jędrzejczyk vs. Tecia Torres.
Finally, North American listeners can email us their predictions for the upcoming UFC Bantamweight Championship fight between TJ Dillashaw and Cody Garbrandt, for a chance to win a copy of Cody Garbrandt's new book "The Pact".
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The UFC heads to Hamburg, Germany on July 22nd, for the ever-changing UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Smith event card. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including the new main event of Mauricio "Shogun" Rua vs. Anthony Smith.
In the second half of the show we go for something a little bit different. Each of us watched and reviewed one of the three early WFA events from the early 2000s ("Where The Fight Club Meets The Night Club"). If you like breakdancing, lasers, and bad fights, then this one's for you.
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While not the biggest news in the UFC Heavyweight division this week, Junior Dos Santos vs. Blagoy Ivanoy headline the UFC's debut in Boise, Idaho on Saturday night, and in the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of last weekend's UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier, where the UFC Heavyweight division experienced a major shakeup. UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier knocked out UFC Heavyweight Champion Stipe Miocic to become a two division champion, and then Brock Lesnar returned and got himself a UFC Heavyweight Championship fight. There's a lot to talk about.
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It's International Fight Week in Las Vegas, and that means two UFC cards coming up next weekend.
We start off this episode previewing the main card of UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier, including UFC Heavyweight Champion Stipe Miocic vs. UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier, Max Holloway defending his UFC Featherweight Championship against Brian Ortega, and Francis Ngannou and Derrick Lewis meeting in a clash of titans.
In the second half of the show we preview the rest of the UFC 226 main card and The Ultimate Fighter 27 Finale, take a quick look at the career of former UFC Welterweight contender Josh Koscheck, and give away some more copies of Cody Garbrandt's new book "The Pact".
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We begin this week's show discussing the recently announced retirements of two of the all-time great MMA fighters; former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Rashad Evans, and former UFC Welterweight Champion Johny Hendricks.
Then we move onto Lyoto Machida's recent signing with Bellator, the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Edwards event, and we also give away some copies of Cody Garbrandt's new book "The Pact".
Finally we hit up the local BTC 3: Prophecy event from last weekend in Burlington, Ontario, including interviews with UFC Middleweight and BTC Ring Boy Elias Theodorou, new BTC Lightweight Champion Adam Assenza, new BTC Super Lightweight Champion Kyle Prepolec, and former WSOF Bantamweight contender Josh Hill.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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We start off this week's show previewing UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Edwards from Kallang, Singapore, headlined by a Welterweight fight between between Top 15 Welterweights Donald Cerrone vs. Leon Edwards, and starting extremely early next Saturday morning.
Then we discuss some of the week's MMA news, including the rumored low buyrate of UFC 225, the controversial UFC signing of Greg Hardy, and the upcoming PFL 2 event.
Finally we're joined by our former The Hammer MMA Canada host, and current BTC matchmaker Rob Veevers, to run down the BTC 3: Prophecy event this Saturday June 23rd, in Burlington, Ontario. Click here for tickets.
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UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2 was an eventful night of MMA, and we spend the first half of this week's episode discussing the controversial scoring of the UFC Middleweight main event between Robert Whittaker and Yoel Romero, the outspoken new UFC Interim Welterweight Champion Colby Covington, and CM Punk vs. Mike Jackson having one of worst UFC fights ever.
In the second half of the show we recap the UFC 225 preliminary card, the seeming end of UFC early morning weigh-ins, and the debut of the first Professional Fighters League season.
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The UFC heads to Chicago this weekend for the loaded UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero card. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire UFC 225 main card, including the UFC Middleweight Championship fight between Robert Whittaker and Yoel Romero, the UFC Interim Welterweight Championship fight between Raphael Dos Anjos vs. Colby Covington, the return of CM Punk, and the UFC debut of Megan Anderson.
In the second half of the show we preview the UFC 225 preliminary card, recap the results of UFC Fight Night: Rivera vs. Moraes from Utica, and discuss Michael Bisping's official retirement.
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UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Till was the UFC's debut in Liverpool, and hometown fighter Darren Till won a surprising decision against the number one ranked Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson. In the first half of this week's episode we go over all of the suspect judging, refereeing, and weight cutting that went on down by the riverside.
In the second half of the show we discuss the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Rivera vs. Moraes, the results of Bellator 200: Mousasi vs. Carvalho, the UFC's updated TV deal with ESPN, Nick Diaz' arrest and Fabricio Werdum's USADA provisional suspension.
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UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs Till comes from Liverpool, England this weekend, and features Liverpool's own Darren Till trying to take out top ranked Welterweight Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson in the main event. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Usman vs Maia, the upcoming Bellator 200, the official announcement of a UFC Fight Night in Moscow, and Brian Stann joining the PFL organization.
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In the first half of this week's episode, we discuss the results of UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington. While it was an exciting night of fights, the biggest stories coming out of the show revolved around whether the corner of overwhelmed challenger Raquel Pennington should have stopped the fight against UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes, and how UFC Women's Strawweight Mackenzie Dern missed weight by seven pounds.
Later in the show we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Usman card from Chile, the results of Bellator 199: Bader vs. King Mo, the surprising release of Yair Rodriguez from the UFC, and the financial implications of the UFC's new contract with ESPN+.
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UFC 224: Nunes vs Pennington takes place this Saturday night from Rio de Janeiro, as UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes will attempt to defend her title for the third time, this time against #2 ranked contender Raquel Pennington.
In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire main card, which also includes Souza vs. Gastelum, the return of Mackenzie Dern, and a fight between former champions Vitor Belfort and Lyoto Machida.
In the second half of the show we discuss the UFC 223 preliminary card, the results of last weekend's Invicta 29: Kaufman vs. Lehner, and preview the upcoming Bellator 199: Bader vs. King Mo event.
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In the first half of this week's episode we discuss Fedor Emelianenko's win over Frank Mir in the Bellator 198 main event, the upcoming Invicta FC 29: Kaufman vs. more on Leslie Smith vs. the UFC, the shortened USADA suspensions of Junior Dos Santos and Antonio Nogeuria, and the announcment of Nick Newell getting a fight on Dana White's Contender Series.
Then we continue our The Hammer MMA Tournament Series by trying to determine the single worst MMA fight in history.
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UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee was eventful both inside and outside of the cage. In the first half of this week's episode we recap all of the action from that card, including Kevin Lee and Frankie Edgar's impressive wins, a bunch of missed weight, and one really weird finish.
In the second half of the show we take a look at the upcoming Bellator 198: Fedor vs. Mir card, the newly announced rosters of the Professional Fighters League tournaments, and debate Matt Serra's UFC Hall of Fame announcement.
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UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee goes down this Saturday night in Atlantic City, New Jersey, headlined by an intriguing fight between highly ranked UFC Lightweights Edson Barboza and Kevin Lee. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including a surprising UFC Featherweight rematch between Frankie Edgar and Cub Swanson.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of UFC On Fox: Poirier vs. Gaethje, a few more notes from UFC 223 in Brooklyn last week, Ronda Rousey's WWE debut and Brock Lesnar's contract status.
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UFC 223: Khabib vs. Iaquinta is over, and we start off with a recap of all of the week's insanity from right here in Brooklyn, including Khabib Nurmagomedov beating Al Iaquinta for the UFC Lightweight Championship, Conor McGregor's assault charge following his attack on the UFC media bus, and an overall eventful night of fights.
We also have post-fight interviews with some of the UFC 223 winners, including Karolina Kowalkiewicz, Olivier Aubin-Mercier, Ashley Evans-Smith and Devin Clark.
In the second part half of the episode we are joined once again by FloCombat's James Lynch to preview the upcoming UFC On Fox: Poirier vs. Gaethje event from Glendale, Arizona.
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It's chaos here in Brooklyn for the lead up to the UFC 223: Khabib vs. Holloway card, and we're joined by FloCombat's James Lynch to discuss what's left of the event following Conor McGregor's assault on the fighter bus.
Throughout the episode we also have exclusive one-on-one interviews with UFC 223 fighters Max Holloway, Rose Namajunas, Renato Moicano, Calvin Kattar, Kyle Bochniak, Paul Felder, and Karolina Kowalkiewicz.
We'll be back following the UFC 223 card with post-fight interviews from many of the fighters competing on the card.
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So we're on our way to Brooklyn for UFC 223 Fight Week, and the highly anticipated main event between Tony Ferguson and Khabib Nurmagomedov has just been cancelled. On April Fool's Day. Seriously.
Now instead there's an insane new main event of UFC Featherweight Champion Max Holloway vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov, for the UFC Lightweight Championship. This episode we're joined by Liam Dunlop to preview the entire card, which also includes a UFC Women's Strawweight Championship rematch between Rose Namajunas and Joanna Jedrzejczyk.
Check back later in the week for bonus episodes on location from Brooklyn, including interviews with many of the fighters competing at UFC 223.
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We start this week's episode discussing all of the news in MMA this week, including Josh Barnett winning his arbitration against USADA, Demetrious Johnson vs. TJ Dillashaw's superfight falling apart, the rumors of an Interim Welterweight Championship fight between Rafael Dos Anjos vs. Colby Covington, Floyd Mayweather's interest in an MMA license, and Dana White's interest in Anthony Joshua.
In the second half of the show we briefly discuss the results of Invicta FC 28, and then have our own version of the UFC Top 25 Fights Tournament.
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Alexander Volkov just punched his ticket into the top five of the UFC Heavyweight rankings, after knocking out former UFC Heavyweight Champion Fabricio Werdum in the main event of UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Volkov. We start off this week's show recapping all of the results from that event, including some of the best finishes of the year so far.
In the second half of the show we discuss the Oscar winning steroid documentary Icarus, and kind of stumble into a USADA argument, as well as discussing some recent UFC releases and suspensions, and a quick preview of the upcoming Invicta FC 28: Mizuki vs. Jandiroba.
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This episode we are joined by Bloody Elbow's Nick Baldwin to talk about the current youth movement taking place in the UFC. We discuss the value of young talent, the current viewing patterns of the UFC audience, and the potential for prospects like Sage Northcutt, Sean O'Malley, Mackenzie Dern, Paige VanZant, and Tai Tuivasa to thrive in the future.
In the second half of the show we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Volkov taking place in London next weekend, featuring former UFC Heavyweight Champion Fabricio Werdum taking on another up-and-coming Heavyweight in Alexander Volkov.
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UFC 222: Cyborg vs. Kunitskaya is in the books, and to no one's surprise Cris "Cyborg" Justino remains the UFC Women's Featherweight Champion. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss all of the results of that event, including Brian Ortega's incredible knockout victory over the previously unstoppable Frankie Edgar.
In the second half of the show we go over Jon Jones' California State Athletic Commission hearing, and the latest rumblings of Brock Lesnar's return to the UFC.
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Cris "Cyborg" Justino returns to the Octagon this weekend to defend her UFC Women's Featherweight Champion against her latest Bantamweight contender, Yana Kunitskaya, in the new main event of UFC 222. Can former Invicta Bantamweight Champion Yana Kunitskaya be the one to finally dethrone Cyborg? Probably not, but we preview that fight, and the entire UFC 222 card in the first half of this week's episode.
Then in the second half of the show we discuss all of the illegal-knee-and-elbows action of last weekend's UFC on Fox: Emmett vs. Stephens event.
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The UFC returns to the Fox Network this Saturday night for UFC On Fox: Emmett vs. Stephens, a fight card that looks to be high in action, and likely low in ratings. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including the main event between new Featherweight contender Josh Emmett, and the always dangerous Jeremy Stephens.
In the second half of this week's show we discuss the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Medeiros, Bellator 194, Will Brooks' signing with The Professional Fighters League, and Leslie Smith's Project Spearhead.
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UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold originally promised a new UFC Interim Middleweight Champion, but there was none crowned once Yoel Romero defeated Luke Rockhold after missing the championship weight limit. This week we're joined by Between The Cages' Shawn Antman, and in the first half of the show we recap all of the weight-missing, eye-gouging, beer-in-a-shoe action from the UFC 221 event in Perth, Australia.
In the second half of the show we discuss the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Medeiros and Bellator 194: Mitrione vs. Nelson cards, the recent changes to March's UFC 222 event, and the neverending rumors of more Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor fights.
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The UFC debuts in Perth, Australia this weekend with UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold, a show hastily headlined by a UFC Interim Middleweight Championship fight between Yoel Romero and Luke Rockhold. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire UFC 221 card.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders, an event that hit the grand slam of incompetence with poor judging, poor refereeing, poor weight-cutting, and poor athletic commission oversight. We also look at some of the week's biggest MMA news stories, including Max Holloway's injury, Anderson Silva's suspension, and Ronda Rousey's signing with WWE.
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UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders takes place this upcoming Saturday night, headlined with a somewhat surprising main event of former UFC Champion Lyoto Machida vs. up-and-coming Middleweight prospect Erik Anders. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of UFC On Fox: Jacare vs. Brunson 2, and the announcement of a Stipe Miocic vs. Daniel Cormier superfight.
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UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou was a good night for the defending champions, as UFC Heavyweight Champion Stipe Miocic retained his title against Francis Ngannou, and UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier retained against Volkan Oezdemir. In the first half of this week's episode, we discuss the results of all of the UFC 220 fights, as well as the Bellator 192 card.
In the second half of the episode we preview the upcoming UFC On Fox: Jacare vs. Brunson 2 event, and discuss some of the week's MMA news, including Francisco Rivera's four-year USADA suspension, Uriah Hall's weight cut issues, and what the hell is going on with the UFC Lightweight Championship?
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The upcoming UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou is headlined by the most intriguing UFC Heavyweight Championship fight in years. Stipe Miocic will attempt to be the first fighter to make three consecutive UFC Heavyweight Championship title defenses, but standing in his way is heavy-handed contender Francis "The Predator" Ngannou. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire UFC 220 card including the co-main event of Daniel Cormier vs. Volkan Oezdemir.
In the second half of the show we preview the upcoming Bellator: Lima vs. MacDonald card going head-to-head with the UFC show, recap the results of UFC Fight Night: Stephens vs. Choi and Invicta: Kaufman vs. Kianzad, and discuss Robert Whittaker's injury, Yoel Romero's new fight and new lawsuit, and Jimmy Smith's signing with the UFC.
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We're approaching the first UFC event of 2018, as UFC Fight Night: Stephens vs. Choi takes place on Sunday, January 14th. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the main card, including the likely all-action main event between Jeremy Stephens and "The Korean Superboy: Doo-Ho Choi, as well as the co-main event between Uriah Hall and Vitor Belfort.
In the second half of the show we preview the UFC Fight Night: Stephens vs. Choi preliminary card, as well as the Invicta FC: Kaufman vs. Kianzad card, and discuss some of the week's MMA news including Jessica Penne's USADA suspension, the Mayweather vs. McGregor buyrate, and the Jackson-Winklejohn losing streak.
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UFC 219: Cyborg vs. Holm, the final UFC event of the 2017, its over and Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino remains the UFC Women's Featherweight Champion after beating a very game Holly Holm. In the first half of this week's episode we recap the results of the entire 219 card.
In the second half of the show we discuss a quiet week in MMA news, including the retirement of MMA veteran Nate Marquardt, and also take a look at the divisional UFC title scenes for 2018.
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UFC 219: Cyborg vs. Holm takes place this Saturday night, an is headlined by the highest profile women's fight currently possible. UFC Women's Featherweight Champion Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino faces likely her most difficult opponent ever in former UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Holly Holm, and in the first half of this week's episode we preview that fight, as well as the rest of the UFC 219 main card.
In the second half of the episode we preview the UFC 219 preliminary card, as well as discuss the recent minor changes to the UFC Reebok sponsorship deal.
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This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Eighth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2017's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, and many more.
In the second half of the show we take a look back at the results of the next-to-last UFC event of the 2017, UFC On Fox: Lawler vs. Dos Anjos.
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This week we are joined by Winnipeg's own Nick Baldwin (Bloody Elbow) to preview this upcoming Saturday night's UFC On Fox: Lawler vs. Dos Anjos event in Winnipeg, which should determine the next UFC Welterweight title contender between former Welterweight Champion Robbie Lawler, and former Lightweight Champion Raphael Dos Anjos.
In the second half of the episode we discuss Georges St-Pierre vacating his UFC Middleweight Championship, Conor McGregor's latest rumored boxing fight against Manny Pacquiao, the temporary shutdown of the Edmonton Combative Sports Commission, the announced main events of January's UFC 220 in Boston, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega.
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It's our post-UFC 218 episode, and in the first segment we are joined by James Lynch (Fightful, Sportsnet, FloCombat) on location in Detroit to recap the entire main card, the post-fight press conference, and talking with CM Punk backstage.
In the second part of the episode we discuss the UFC 218 preliminary card including short interviews with most of the winners, including Paul Felder, David Teymur, Felice Herring, Amanda Cooper, Dominick Reyes, and Justin Willis.
Then we go back to the studio for preview of the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega event from Fresno, as well as Invicta FC 26: Maia vs. Niedzwiedz.
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We're still in Detroit for UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2, and this episode we are joined by MMA journalist James Lynch (Fightful, Sportsnet, Fansided) to discuss the UFC 218 Fight Week so far, immediately following the official weigh-ins.
We get into the weight cut struggles of Max Holloway, Jose Aldo and Henry Cejudo, which fights are flying under the radar so far, the current fight odds, and which non-UFC 218 competing fighters that James has interviewed this week.
Also check out the recent episodes in our feed for a full card preview of UFC 218, as well as interviews with each of the main card fighters.
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We are currently in Detroit for this Saturday night's UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2 event.
Throughout the episode we have exclusive one-on-one interviews with UFC 218 main card fighters Max Holloway, Jose Aldo, Alistair Overeem, Francis Ngannou, Eddie Alvarez, Justin Gaethje, Sergio Pettis, Henry Cejudo, Tecia Torres and Michelle Waterson, as well as our thoughts on each of their fights this Saturday night.
We'll be back with another episode tomorrow following the UFC early weigh-ins.
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We're on our way to Detroit for UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2, and this episode we preview the entire fight card including the UFC Featherweight Championship rematch between Max Holloway and Jose Aldo, the Heavyweight co-main event between Alistair Overeem and Francis Ngannou, and the highly anticipated battle between Lightweight contenders Eddie Alvarez and Justin Gaethje.
In the second half of the episode we preview the UFC 218 preliminary card, and discuss the latest MMA news including updated information on Volkan Oezdemir's battery charge, Tae Hyun Bang's prison sentence for attempted fight fixing, the likely retirement of ONE Welterweight Champion Ben Askren, and a brief history lesson on the current Ultimate Fighter Women's Flyweight season that no one seems to be watching.
Check back later in the week for a bonus episode on location from Detroit, including interviews with many of the fighters competing at UFC 218.
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UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Tybura wound up being overshadowed by the pre-fight build-up, when Fabricio Werdum threw a boomerang at Colby Covington. Although charges being filed, the show went on. And on. And on. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss all of the results from that event.
In the second half of the show we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Gastelum from Shanghai, China, and discuss the week in MMA news including the recently announced Cyborg vs. Holm fight, Volkan Oezdemir's arrest for battery, and a few recent UFC fighter cuts.
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We kick off this week's episode discussing a strange week in MMA news, including Conor McGregor's disruptive appearance at last Friday night's Bellator 187 event, another failed drug test for Anderson Silva, the announcement a star-studded Bellator Heavyweight Championship Tournament, and last minute main event changes including Max Holloway vs. Jose Aldo, and Kelvin Gastelum vs. Michael Bisping.
In the second half of the show we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Tybura card from Sydney, Australia, and discuss the results of the recent UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis.
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UFC 217: Bisping vs. St-Pierre is in the books and it turned out to be one of the most eventful MMA events in recent memory, including a record breaking three UFC title changes in one night.
In the first half of this longer than usual episode, we discuss brand new UFC Middleweight Champion Georges St-Pierre's win over Michael Bisping, TJ Dillashaw's reclamation of the UFC Bantamweight Championship, the unlikely new UFC Women's Strawweight Champion Rose Namajunas, and all of the rest of the fights on the UFC 217 card.
In the second half of the show we preview next weekend's UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis, a card with a somewhat jarring mix of exciting prospects and long-time journeymen.
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Former UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre returns to the UFC this Saturday night for the first time in over four years to challenge current UFC Middleweight Champion Michael Bisping. During the first half of this week's episode we preview all three of the UFC 217 title fights, which also include UFC Bantamweight Champion Cody Garbrandt vs. TJ Dillashaw, and UFC Women's Strawweight Champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Rose Namajunas.
In the second half of the show we preview the rest of the UFC 217 card. Finally, we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Machida from Sao Paulo, which included breakout performances from Derek Brunson and Colby Covington.
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This week's UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Machida features the return of Lyoto "The Dragon" Machida from his eighteen month suspension, to face top ten Middleweight Derek Brunson in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This episode we preview all of the fights on that card, which also includes a high level Welterweight co-main event between Demian Maia and Colby Covington.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Till including Darren Till's star-making performance, as well as Gegard Mousasi's debut in Bellator, and the week in MMA news.
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The upcoming UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Till event features a huge step up in competition for the undefeated prospect Darren Till, as he meets Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone in the main event from Gdansk, Poland. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, which will be airing on UFC Fight Pass this upcoming Saturday.
In the second half of the episode we catch up on the past week of MMA news, including Henry Cejudo's injury due to California wildfire, Mark Hunt's removal from the UFC Sydney event in November, and the UFC 217: Bisping vs. St. Pierre press conference from Toronto.
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UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee is in the books, and really had some of everything. During this week's episode we discuss the new UFC Interim Light Heavyweight Champion Tony Ferguson, Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson's record breaking title defense, some last minute card changes, and a touching tribute to the Las Vegas shooting victims.
Throughout this week's episode we discuss the results of all of the fights on the card, and we also look back on the history of the UFC's seven year relationship with the Fox Network, and what may be next as that deal nears it's conclusion.
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UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee is coming up this Saturday night, headlined by Tony Ferguson vs. Kevin Lee for the UFC Interim Light Heavyweight Championship, and a possible future title unification fight with Conor McGregor. In the first half of this week's episode we preview that fight, Demetrious Johnson vs. Ray Borg, and the rest of the main card.
In the second half of the episode we discuss the UFC 216 preliminary card, as well as the current Women's Flyweight season of The Ultimate Fighter, and last week's Bellator 183: Henderson vs. Pitbull results.
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This week we are joined by MMA Journalist Mike Russell (Real Fight Stories) to discuss the Edmonton Combative Sports Commission, and the issues surrounding the June 18th, 2017 passing of former UFC fighter Tim Hague.
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In the first half of this week's episode we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Saint Preux vs. Okami event from Saitama, Japan.
In the second half of the episode we have interviews with many of the winners from Oakville, Ontario's BTC 2: Valhalla event, including Scott Hudson, and Adam Assenza, as well as former The Ultimate Fighter contestant and World Series of Fighting contender Josh Hill.
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UFC 215: Nunes vs. Shevchenko just took place in Edmonton, and unfortunately without the originally signed main event of Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson vs. Ray Borg. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss Ray Borg's illness and subsequent removal from the UFC Flyweight Championship fight, the controversial updated main event of UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes defeating challenger Valentina Shevchenko, and all of the rest of the fights on the card.
In the second half of the show we preview next Saturday's UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Branch from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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The UFC heads to Edmonton, Alberta for the first time this Saturday night for UFC 215: Johnson vs. Borg. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire main card including UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson shooting for his record breaking eleventh title defense against challenger Ray Borg, as well as the long-anticipated rematch between UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes and Valentina Shevchenko.
In the second half of the show we break down the UFC 215 preliminary card, as well as briefly recap the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Struve.
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This week we are joined again by boxing journalist Shawn Smith (CanFight), and Ontario MMA jack-of-all trades Rob Veevers to discuss the aftermath of last weekend's Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor "Money Fight".
In the second half of the episode we preview this upcoming weekend's UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Struve event, The Ultimate Fighter Season 26 and Invicta FC 25, and then Rob fills us in on the details of BTC 2: Valhalla, taking place Saturday, September 9th, 2017 in Oakville, Ontario.
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The Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor "Money Fight" has been settled, and one of the wildest weeks in combat sports history is finally over.
We're joined in the streets of downtown Toronto by FloCombat's James Lynch for some quick and immediate post-fight thoughts on this surprisingly entertaining fight
We'll be back for a full length episode on our regular Wednesday night timeslot.
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We had originally planned to spend this entire episode talking about this Saturday night's Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor boxing match, but then UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones went and got himself provisionally suspended by USADA.
Thankfully we have Adam Martin (Draft Kings) and Timothy Bissell (Bloody Elbow) joining us to discuss the ramifications of Jones' provisional suspension. We even managed to get in some discussion about "The Money Fight".
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It's the first of our two Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor preview shows, and this episode we are joined by three combat sports media members to discuss the ins and outs of "The Money Fight".
First we're joined by MMA and boxing writer Shawn Smith (Vice, FloCombat, Sportsnet) to dissect the boxing side of this dream fight. Then we're joined for the first time by SevereMMA.com's Andy Cowan to discuss Conor McGregor's stardom in Ireland and what McGregor serves to gain and lose with this fight. Finally, BloodyElbow.com's Nick Baldwin returns to talk all of the hype surrounding Mayweather vs. McGregor.
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Now that the UFC is taking the rest of August off in order to clear the way for Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor, we're taking this last chance to talk some MMA before the ridiculous boxing hype really kicks into gear.
This episode we discuss the official signing of Georges St. Pierre vs. Michael Bisping, The Ultimate Fighter Women's Flyweight Tournament roster, Yoshihiro Takayama, The UFC 214 buyrate, and the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Pettis vs. Moreno.
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Last weekend's UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones felt like the biggest event of the year so far, and we start off this week's episode discussing all of the results and post-fight drama including Jon "Bones" Jones reclamation of the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship, Tyron Woodley's polarizing UFC Welterweight Championship defense, and the inevitable crowning of Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino as UFC Women's Featherweight Champion.
In the second half of the episode we preview this upcoming Saturday's less hyped UFC Fight Night: Pettis vs. Moreno from Mexico City.
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UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones 2 takes place this Saturday night, and is headlined by the ridiculously long-awaited rematch between UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones. We spend the first half of this week's episode previewing all three of the UFC title fights taking place at UFC 214.
In the second half of the episode we take a look at the UFC 214 preliminary card including Robbie Lawler vs. Donald Cerrone, and look back on the relatively unwatched UFC On Fox: Weidman vs. Gastleum event from last weekend.
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In the second part of this week's episode we discuss the recent Mayweather/McGregor press conference with Liam Dunlop who was on site at the Toronto stop, the announcement of Eddie Alvarez and Justin Gatheje as The Ultimate Fighter coaches, Gegard Mousasi's signing with Bellator, and also recap the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Nelson vs. Ponzinibbio.
Check out our feed for the first half of this week's episode, which includes our preview of this Saturday's UFC on Fox: Weidman vs. Gastelum.
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The UFC returns to Fox again this weekend for UFC on Fox: Weidman vs. Gastelum, as former UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman attempts to halt his three fight losing streak in a fight against contender Kelvin Gastelum. We begin this week's episode previewing that fight, as well as the rest of the major fights from that event.
Due to circumstances beyond our control, this podcast is only the first half of this week's live radio show. Look for the second half tomorrow, including our thoughts on the Toronto stop of the Mayweather/McGregor press conference series, UFC Fight Night: Nelson vs. Ponzinibbio results, and more.
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The UFC lost their International Fight Week main event for the third year in a row. Still, the new main event of Yoel Romero vs. Robert Whittaker for the UFC Interim Middleweight Championship delivered in a big way. During the first half of this week's episode we recap the entire UFC 213 event, as well as the fallout from the cancellation of Amanda Nunes vs. Valentina Shevchenko.
In the second half of the show we discuss the recent Fight of the Year contender between Michael Johnson and Justin Gaethje, and preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Nelson vs. Ponzinibbio coming up from Scotland this weekend.
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It's the UFC's annual International Fight Week in Las Vegas, and this week the company will be hosting two events, as well as their Hall of Fame ceremony.
We begin this week's episode previewing Saturday night's UFC 213: Nunes vs. Shevchenko 2 card, including the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship rematch between Amanda Nunes and Valentina Shevchenko, as well as an UFC Interim Middleweight Championship fight between top contenders Yoel Romero and Robert Whittaker.
In the second half of the episode we preview Friday night's The Ultimate Fighter 25 Finale: Johnson vs. Gaethje, as well as discussing Nick Diaz's latest issue with USADA testing.
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Last weekend Bellator MMA put on their first Pay Per View event in over three years, and it was a memorable one. We spend most of the first half of this episode recapping all of the weirdness of Bellator NYC, including Chael Sonnen vs. Wanderlei Silva, Aaron Pico's ill-fated debut, Michael Chandler's loss to Brent Primus, and more.
In the second half of the episode we discuss the results of last weekend's equally strange UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Lee, the announcement of a UFC Women's Featherweight title fight between Cyborg Justino and Tonya Evinger, and the unfortunate passing of UFC veteran Tim Hague.
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We begin this week's episode discussing the announcement of the long-awaited Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor boxing match, as well as Bellator's upcoming return to Pay Per View, Bellator NYC: Sonnen vs. Silva. We preview the long-awaited grudge match between Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva, the return of Fedor Emelianenko, three title fights, and the debut of Lightweight prospect Aaron Pico.
In the second half of the show we discuss the unfortunate news of Tim Hague's passing, Matt Hughes' hospitalization, the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Lee card, and the results of last Saturday's UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Correia event from Singapore.
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The UFC heads to Singapore again this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Correia, as former UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Holly Holm attempts to halt her three fight losing streak with a win over former title challenger Bethe Correia. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card.
In the second half of the show we discuss the recent dispute between UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson and UFC President Dana White, as well as the results of UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Hunt.
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Max Holloway is the new Undisputed UFC Featherweight Champion following an impressive finish of former champion Jose Aldo. We start this week's show recapping their UFC 212 headlining fight, as well as the rest of the fights from the UFC 212: Aldo vs. Holloway card.
In the second half of the episode we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Hunt from New Zealand, as well as discussing the future or lack thereof of the UFC Women's Featherweight division, and the latest round of UFC roster cuts.
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UFC 212: Aldo vs. Holloway is coming up this weekend, and during the first half of this episode we discuss the entire card, including a guest appearance by MMA Analyst Robin Black to break down the main event between UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo and UFC Interim Featherweight Champion Max Holloway.
We are then joined by UFC Middleweight Elias Theodorou to discuss the recent UFC fighter retreat in Las Vegas and his July 7th fight with Brad Tavares, and by former UFC Lightweight Shane Campbell to discuss last weekend's BTC 1: Genesis event in Toronto and his upcoming title fight against Tristan Connelly at Unified MMA 31.
Finally we run down the results of UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Teixeira event from Sweden and the rest of the week's MMA news.
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The UFC returns to Stockholm, Sweden next weekend for UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Teixeira. In the the first half of this week's episode we preview all of the fights on the card, including the main event featuring two-time Light Heavyweight title challenger Alexander Gustafsson returning to Sweden to fight former contender Glover Teixeira.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of Bellator 179: MacDonald vs. Daley, and continue our near weekly updates on the Bisping/St-Pierre/Romero UFC Middleweight Championship fiasco, and Conor McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
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This week we are joined by FloCombat's Shawn Smith. In the first half of the episode we discuss the results of UFC 211: Miocic vs. Dos Santos 2, breaking down the successful title defenses of UFC Heavyweight Champion Stipe Miocic and UFC Women's Strawweight Champion Joanna Jędrzejczyk, as well the entire night of exciting fights.
In the second half of the show we run down some of the week's MMA news including the cancellation of Michael Bisping vs. Georges St-Pierre fight, Anderson Silva opting out of next month's UFC 212 event, Dana White's Tuesday Night Contender's Series, Jessica Penne's biological passport, and the upcoming Bellator 179: Rory MacDonald vs. Paul Daley card.
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UFC 211: Miocic vs. Dos Santos 2 is coming up May 13th, 2017, and the event appears to be the most intriguing UFC card of the year so far.
This episode we preview all of the fights on the card including the UFC Heavyweight Championship fight between Stipe Miocic and Junior Dos Santos, a UFC Women's Strawweight Championship fight between Joanna Jędrzejczyk and Jéssica Andrade, and an undercard loaded with high action fighters competing in tough to call match-ups.
Although UFC 211 discussion takes up most of this week's airtime, we also briefly discuss the announcement and then following retraction of a UFC Women's Flyweight division, and the further delays in the scheduling of the Michael Bisping vs. Georges St-Pierre fight.
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In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the likely delay of the UFC Middleweight Championship fight between Michael Bisping and George St-Pierre, the next likely contender for Tyron Woodley, the announcement of the Bellator Women's Flyweight division, the seeming hold-ups in the Conor McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather fight, and the twitter rage of Al Iaquinta.
In the second half of the show we are joined by Ontario Lightweight "Handsome" Scott Hudson and Lauren Maharaj, to talk about the upcoming BTC 1: Genesis event, which will be the first local MMA event in Ontario in over two years. BTC 1: Genesis takes place May 27th, 2017 in Toronto, at the Metro Toronto Convention Center.
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We begin this week's episode discussing the results of UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov, an event that featured another memorable performance by Cub Swanson, as well as a couple of the most impressive knockouts so far this year by Al Iaquinta and Mike Perry.
In the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news, including the strange case of attempted fight fixing in 2015's Tae Hyun Bang vs. Leo Kuntz fight, and the rebranding of World Series of Fighting to the Professional Fighter's League in 2018.
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UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov takes place this weekend, as Cub Swanson returns to action for the first time since his Fight of The Year contending victory last December. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire event, including the somewhat surprising main event, as well as fights featuring long-term UFC veterans like Diego Sanchez, Joe Lauzon, Jake Ellenberger, and more.
In the second half of the show we look back at the results of last weekend's UFC on Fox: Johnson vs. Reis, and briefly discuss the recent happenings from the past week in MMA.
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We are back from UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2, and it's been a strange week in Buffalo. This episode we recap the entire night of fights, including post-fight comments from UFC 210 winners Cynthia Carvillo, Thiago Alves, Charles Oliveira, Myles Jury, Gregor Gillespie, Desmond Green, Kaitlyn Chookagian, as well as from UFC President Dana White.
In the second half of this episode we preview the upcoming UFC On Fox: Johnson vs. Reis card, as well as discuss the recent USADA test failure of UFC Middleweight Kelvin Gastelum.
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We are currently in Buffalo, New York for the upcoming UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2 event.
Throughout the episode we have exclusive one-on-one interviews with UFC 210 main card fighters Anthony "Rumble" Johnson, Cynthia Calvillo, Pearl Gonzalez, Thiago Alves, Will Brooks, and Charles Oliveira, as well as our thoughts on each of their fights this Saturday night.
In addition we have interviews with UFC 210 Fight Pass headliners Gregor Gillespie and Andrew Holbrook, and are briefly joined by FloCombat's James Lynch.
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We're on our way to UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2 in Buffalo, and this episode we preview all of the fights on that card including the Light Heavyweight Championship rematch between Daniel Cormier and Anthony "Rumble" Johnson, and a must-see co-main event between Chris Weidman and Gegard Mousasi.
Later in the show we discuss King Mo's victory over Quinton "Rampage" Jackson at Bellator 175, the announcement and implications of Bellator's upcoming Pay Per View event at Madison Square Garden, and the results of last week's Invicta FC 22: Evinger vs. Kunitskaya 2.
Check back later in the week for a bonus episode on location from Buffalo, including interviews with many of the fighters competing at UFC 210.
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UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Anderson featured some highlight reel performances from European fighters Jimi Manuwa, Gunnar Nelson and Mark Diakiese. This episode we discuss the results from that Fight Pass exclusive event, as well as the continuing trend of UFC fighters not being able to compete due to weight cutting issues.
In the second half of the episode we discuss the increasing likelihood that a Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor boxing match will take place this year, as well as preview the upcoming Invicta FC 22: Evinger vs. Kunitskaya card, and run down the latest list of UFC roster cuts.
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This week we are joined again by Adam Martin from The MMA Review Podcast to preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Anderson. The UFC's return to London features a main event between top ten Light Heavyweights Jimi Manuwa and Corey Anderson, and we preview all of the fights taking place on this Fight Pass exclusive event.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum, UFC Heavyweight Ben Rothwell's potential USADA violation, UFC Welterweight Albert Tumenov signing with Russian MMA promotion Absolute Championship Berkut, and Tony Ferguson's post-UFC 209 payment issues.
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The UFC heads to Brazil this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum, and former UFC Champion Vitor Belfort meets rising Middleweight contender Kelvin Gastelum in the main event. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire main card of that show.
In the second half of the episode we discuss the UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum preliminary fights, the results of last weekend's UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson, and the announcement of Michael Bisping vs. Georges St. Pierre.
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UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2 is coming up this Saturday night, and is headlined by a rematch of the excellent UFC Welterweight Championship fight between Tyron Woodley and Stephen Thompson. In the first half of this week's episode we preview that fight, as well as the highly anticipated UFC Interim Lightweight Championship fight between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Tony Ferguson, and the rest of the fights on the UFC 209 main card.
In the second half of the episode we discuss the UFC 209 preliminary card fights, more on the recent series of therapeutic use exemptions issued by USADA, and the hospitalization of former UFC fighter Terry Etim.
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Former UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre is finally returning to the UFC, and while that is obviously big news, we just can't help but start this week's episode discussing Derrick "The Black Beast" Lewis and his knockout victory over Travis Browne at UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Browne.
In the second half of the show we do indeed get to the impending return of Georges St. Pierre, as well as the rest of the week in MMA including the cancellation of Fedor Emelianenko vs. Matt Mitrione at Bellator 172, Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino's USADA exemption, the announcement of The Ultimate Fighter: Redemption, and the most recent round of fighters who were not re-signed to UFC contracts.
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The UFC returns to Halifax this upcoming weekend for UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Browne. We spend the first half of this week's episode previewing this somewhat patched together card, including the heavyweight main event between Derrick Lewis and Travis Browne, the debut of Johny Hendricks as a Middleweight, and appearances by Canadian fighters such as Elias Theodorou, Nordine Taleb and Randa Markos.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of last weekend's controversial UFC 208: Holm vs. de Randamie event, the upcoming Bellator 172: Fedor vs. Mitrione, and the continuing series of UFC roster cuts.
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The upcoming UFC 208: Holm vs. de Randamie card introduces a brand new UFC title when Holly Holm faces Germaine de Randamie for the inaugural UFC Women's Featherweight Championship. We begin this episode by previewing all of the fights on that card including the most under the radar Anderson Silva fight in the last decade, against Derek Brunson.
In the second half of the show we discuss last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Bermudez vs. Korean Zombie event, as well as the long list of recently released and currently unsigned fighters on the UFC roster.
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Valentina Shevchenko became the next contender for the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship following her win at UFC On Fox: Shevchenko vs. Pena. This episode we recap all of the action from that event, which also included breakthrough wins for Jorge Masvidal, Francis Ngannou, and Jason Knight.
In the second half of the episode we preview next weekend's UFC Fight Night: Bermudez vs. Korean Zombie, featuring the return of "The Korean Zombie" Chan Sung Jung after more than three years away from The Octagon.
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The UFC returns to the FOX network again this week for UFC On Fox: Shevchenko vs. Pena. This episode we preview that event, including the main event of Valentina Shevchenko vs. Julianna Pena that will likely determine the next contender to Amanda Nunes' UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship, as well as an always welcome appearance of Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone on free television, when he meets Jorge Masvidal.
In the second half of the episode we discuss some recent MMA news, the results of Bellator 170: Ortiz vs. Sonnen, and the announced retirements of Tito Ortiz, Tim Kennedy, and Jocelyn Jones-Lybarger.
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UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs Penn is in the books, and UFC legend B.J. Penn went down hard to the up-and-coming Yair Rodriguez. We begin this episode by recapping all of the results from that event.
In the second half of the show we discuss last weekend's Invicta FC 21: Anderson vs. Tweet, the upcoming Bellator 170: Ortiz vs. Sonnen, Mark Hunt's lawsuit, and the announcement of yet another UFC Interim Championship.
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The UFC will be returning for it's first show of 2017 with UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Penn on Sunday, January 15th. This will be the long-promised return of BJ Penn, and this episode we preview all of the fights on the card. Some more in-depth than others.
This will also be the first UFC event to feature the 2017 changes to the MMA rules and judging systems, so we try to make sense of the changes in the second half of the episode, as well as previewing the
upcoming Invicta FC 21: Anderson vs. Tweet.
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We're kicking off the New Year on the scene in Las Vegas, breaking down the results of UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey.
This episode is sloppier than an Edmond Tarverdyan corner, but we have some fun discussing Amanda Nunes' first successful title defense, what may be next for Ronda Rousey following a second devastating loss in a row, the rise of Cody Garbrandt, some bad weight cuts, some rough judging, an illegal knee controversy, and more.
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Ronda Rousey returns this week following a thirteen month hiatus to face UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes at UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey. In the first half of this episode we preview all of the UFC 207 main card, that also includes a heated UFC Bantamweight Championship grudge match between Dominick Cruz and Cody Garbrandt.
In the second half of the episode we take a look at the UFC 207 preliminary card, as well as Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino, and the variety of proposed UFC headline fights that seem to have fallen apart in the last week or so.
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This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Seventh Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2015's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, and many more.
In the second half of the show we take a look back at last weekend's UFC On Fox: VanZant vs. Waterson, as well as some of the week's MMA news including the announcement of the new UFC Women's Featherweight division, and Brock Lesnar and Jon Jones' recently announced suspensions with the Nevada Athletic Commission.
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We're back from UFC 206: Holloway vs. Pettis in Toronto, and we have post-fight interviews with UFC 206 winners Emil Meek, Misha Cirkunov, Olivier Aubin-Mercier, Viviane Pereira, Matthew Lopez, Lando Vannata, Rustam Khabilov and Dustin Ortiz, along with discussion of the entire night of fights.
Later in the episode we briefly look at last Friday night's UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Abdurakhimov from Albany, and preview some of the more intriguing fights from the upcoming UFC On Fox: VanZant vs. Waterson.
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We are currently in Toronto covering the upcoming UFC 206: Holloway vs. Pettis event, and this is our massive episode full of pre-fight interviews with many of the fighters competing on the show.
Throughout the episode we have exclusive one-on-one interviews with UFC 206 competitors Anthony Pettis, Max Holloway, Donald Cerrone, Matt Brown, Cub Swanson, Kelvin Gastelum, Jordan Mein, Emil Meek, Misha Cirkunov, John Makdessi, and Lando Vannata.
Also, at the end of the episode we speak with renowned MMA coach Duane "Bang" Ludwig about "The Immortal" Matt Brown, who he has worked with for Brown's UFC 206 fight against Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone.
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The UFC returns to Toronto for the first time in over three years, and we're recording this week's episode a few days early because The Hammer MMA Radio will be there all week covering the event.
We start off with an extended preview of the UFC 206: Holloway vs. Pettis main card, including the UFC Interim Featherweight Championship fight between Max Holloway and Anthony Pettis, and exciting matchups between Welterweights Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone and Matt Brown, and Featherweights Cub Swanson and "The Korean Superboy" Doo Ho Choi.
In the second half of the show we preview the rest of the UFC 206 undercard fights featuring some of the best Canadian talent in the UFC, take a quick look at the upcoming UFC Fight Night from Albany, recap the results of The Ultimate Fighter 24 Finale, and briefly discuss last weekend's Bellator events and Tonya Evinger's successful appeal of her Invicta 20 title loss.
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The stream of weekly UFC events continues with the upcoming The Ultimate Fighter 24 Finale. We spend the first half of this week's episode previewing the event including Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson defending his title against the show's winner, the coaches fight between former former "Mighty Mouse" victims Joseph Benavidez and Henry Cejedo, and a solid Welterweight fight beween Jake Ellenberger and Jorge Masvidal.
In the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA, including Conor McGregor relinquishing his UFC Featherweight Championship, the newly promoted Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo, and all of the card changes to next week's UFC 206 event in Toronto. We also look back at the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Brunson.
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The UFC returns to Australia this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Brunson. The card was hurt by losing the originally scheduled main event, but the current main event of Robert Whittaker vs. Derek Brunson is an intriguing fight. During the first half of this week's episode we preview most of the fights on the card.
In the second half of the show we look back on one of the busiest MMA weeks in memory, including Rashad Evans' removal from UFC 206, Kelvin Gastelum's NYSAC suspension, the announced returns of BJ Penn and Fedor Emelianenko, and discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Mousasi vs. Hall 2, UFC Fight Night: Bader vs. Nogueira 2, Bellator 165: Chandler vs. Henderson, and Invicta FC 20: Evinger vs. Kunitsakaya.
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We begin this week's episode by breaking down the most interesting fights taking place this Saturday during the UFC double-header of UFC Fight Night: Mousasi vs. Hall 2, and UFC Fight Night: Bader vs. Nogueira 2.
In the second half of the show it's our UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor recap. It was an eventful night of fights that featured Conor McGregor becoming the first simultaneous two-division champion in UFC history, a rare draw in the UFC Welterweight Championship match, Yoel Romero's bloody victory over Chris Weidman, and Miesha Tate's retirement announcement.
Finally, at the end of the show we take a quick look at Jon Jones and Lyoto Machida's USADA suspensions, and even more solid MMA coming up this weekend with Bellator 165: Chandler vs. Henderson, and Invicta FC 20: Evinger vs. Kunitskaya.
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It took 23 years to the day, but the UFC is finally holding an event in New York City.
UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor is stacked with must-see fights and we spend the first half of the episode discussing the three title fights on the card including UFC Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor vs. UFC Lightweight Champion Eddie Alvarez, UFC Welterweight Champion Tyron Woodley vs. #1 contender Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson, and UFC Women's Strawweight Champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz.
In the second half of the show we preview the rest of the UFC 205 event including the likely Middleweight title eliminator of Chris Weidman vs. Yoel Romero, Donald Cerrone's next big Welterweight test against Kelvin Gastelum, top level Featherweight fight Frankie Edgar vs. Jeremy Stephens, Miesha Tate's comeback fight against Rasquel Pennington, Thiago Alves' first crack at the Lightweight division, the return of Khabib Nurmagomedov, and more.
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The UFC returns to Mexico this weekend for The Ultimate Fighter Latin America 3 Finale: dos Anjos vs. Ferguson. Raphael Dos Anjos vs. Tony Ferguson, Ricardo Lamas vs. Charles Oliviera, and the UFC debuts of Marcin Held and Alexa Grasso should be a welcome sight for MMA fans following the UFC's three week hiatus, and we preview the entire card this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we discuss some recent MMA news including Fabricio Werdum's broadcasting suspension, some recent USADA failures, and the upcoming Bellator 163: McGeary vs. Davis.
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It's the third week in a row with no UFC events, but it's been yet another newsworthy week in MMA. In the first half of the episode we talk Georges St. Pierre's declaration of free agency, the release of many UFC fighters and executives, and rumored changes to the UFC schedule going forward.
In the second half of the show we take a look back at last weekend's Bellator 162: Shlemenko vs. Grove, the announcement of World Series of Fighting's New Year's Eve event, more USADA test failures, Urijah Faber's retirement announcement and more.
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With a lack of major MMA cards for the next few weeks, we're taking this opportunity to spend an hour examining some recent MMA news and controversies.
We begin the show with the announced return of Ronda Rousey at UFC 207, the upcoming exit of UFC Vice President of Public Relations Dave Sholler, and the issues surrounding NFL player Greg Hardy's interest in MMA.
In the second half of the episode we break down recent beefs against the UFC held by Jose Aldo, Julianna Pena, Al Iaquinta, Anderson Silva and Khabib Nurmagomedov, discuss the unfortunate assault against Fedor Emelianenko's daughter, and take a quick look at the upcoming Bellator 162: Shlemenko vs. Grove taking place on Friday October 21st, 2016.
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This episode we are joined by UFC Hall of Famer Dan "The Beast" Severn to discuss how his fight with Ken Shamrock fell apart earlier this year, which opponents could bring him out of retirement, the early days of UFC, his pro-wrestling career including the origins of the infamous WWF Brawl For All Tournament, and his new book "The Realest Guy In The Room".
In the second half ofthe episode we we break down all of the results from UFC 204: Bisping vs. Henderson 2, and look at some of the biggest news in MMA this week including the cancellation of UFC Fight Night: Lamas vs. Penn, Conor McGregor's punishment for bottle throwing, and Nate Diaz's non-punishment for vaping.
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Seven years after their memorable first meeting, UFC Middleweight Champion Michael Bisping rematches Dan Henderson this weekend at UFC 204: Bisping vs. Henderson in Manchester, England. While the 46 year old Henderson is an unlikely contender, we can't help but be excited for that fight, and to preview the entire UFC 204 card.
But before we get to Manchester, we first discuss the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. Dodson, the new list of UFC celebity owners, the USADA test failure of UFC Heavyweight Ruslan Magomedov, and the very unfortunate passing of UFC Middleweight Josh Samman.
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It's a rare Sunday episode of The Hammer MMA Radio, and we are joined for the first time by Bloody Elbow and MMA Sucka contributor Nick Baldwin. We begin by running down the results of UFC Fight Night: Cyborg vs. Lansberg, and discussing what could be next for Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino.
In the second half of the show we get an early start on previewing next weekend's UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. Dodson, and also provide the least in-depth take on the Invicta FC 19 and the Rizin World Grand-Prix 2016: 1st Round results possible.
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Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino returns to the UFC this weekend to headline UFC Fight Night: Cyborg vs. Lansberg in Brasilia, Brazil. The first half of this week's episode is a preview of the entire card, including Cyborg vs. newcomer Lina Lansberg, a must-win Heavyweight fight between Roy Nelson and Antonio Silva, and the return of Renan Barao.
In the second half of the show we recap last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Johnson, take a look at the upcoming Invicta FC 19 card, and discuss some of the week's MMA news including Chael Sonnen's move to Bellator, Al Iaquinta's rage, and the merger the RFA and Legacy FC promotions.
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With UFC 203 and CM Punk in the rear-view mirror, the UFC moves on to Hidalgo Texas for this weekend's UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Johnson. We spend the first half of this week's episode previewing that event, including a promising Lightweight main event between Dustin Poirier and Michael Johnson, the Middleweight co-main event between Uriah Hall and Derek Brunson, and...some other fights.
Then in the second half of the show we recap all of the weirdness from last weekend's UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem.
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UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem takes place this Saturday night, and UFC Heavyweight Champion and hometown fighter Stipe Miocic defends his title for the first time against the always dangerous Alistair Overeem.
We spend the first half of this week's episode previewing that fight, as well as the Heavyweight co-main event rematch between Fabricio Werdum and Travis Browne, and the long-promised debut of former WWE pro-wrestler CM Punk.
In the second half of the episode we discuss the rest of the fights on the UFC 203 card, recap last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Arlovski vs. Barnett, and determine which of us most wanted to be carried to safety by Miesha Tate.
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The UFC debuts in Hamburg, Germany this weekend with the Fight Pass Exclusive UFC Fight Night: Arlovski vs. Barnett. During the first half of this week's episode we preview the main card fights including Andrei Arlovski vs. Josh Barnett, Alexander Gustafsson vs. Jan Blachowicz, and Ryan Bader vs. Ilir Latifi.
In the second half of the show we look back at the results of last weekend's UFC On Fox: Maia vs. Condit and Bellator 160: Henderson vs. Pitbull, and discuss some of the week's biggest MMA news including the impending retirement of UFC Matchmaker Joe Silva, and the UFC signing of former Bellator fighter Marcin Held.
Also we are sorry for the rough production this week. We experienced a comedy of errors getting this one hour of audio online.
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Following one of the best MMA fights in recent memory between Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz, the UFC returns again this Saturday night for UFC On Fox: Maia vs. Condit.
We spend the first half of this week's episode recapping some of the finer moments from UFC 202, but mostly we just argue about Conor McGregor.
In the second half of the show we preview the entire UFC On Fox event, as well as discuss Friday night's Bellator 160: Henderson vs. Pitbull, Rory MacDonald's move to Bellator, and some recent USADA suspensions.
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UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor is taking place this Saturday, August 20th. During the first half of this week's episode we preview the Welterweight main event rematch between Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz, as well as the Anthony "Rumble" Johnson and Glover Teixeira co-main event and Donald Cerrone's third crack at the Welterweight division.
In the second half of the episode we preview all of the preliminary fights on the UFC 202 card, and discuss the recent developments regarding a potential MMA fighters union, as well as the upcoming Michael Bisping vs. Dan Henderson UFC Middleweight Championship fight.
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With no major upcoming MMA events to discuss, and with Greg stuck in traffic for the first half of the show, we kill some time looking back at the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Cacares.
During the second half of the show we talk all of the recent news in MMA including the recently announced changes to the Unified MMA Rules, the increased USADA testing for UFC fighters, Georges St. Pierre entering the USADA testing pool, updates to the Official UFC Rankings system, Conor McGregor vs. WWE, and the release of Ben Saunders.
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We begin this week's episode by previewing the seventh UFC event in the last thirty one days. While UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Cacares isn't the highest profile UFC show, there are three Featherweight fights (Yair Rodriguez vs. Alex Caceres, Dennis Bermudez vs. Rony Jason, and Cub Swanson vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri) that give us more than enough to discuss.
Then in the second half of the episode we look back at the results of last weekend's UFC 201: Lawler vs. Woodley, featuring the 7th new UFC champion of 2016 so far, as well as the Invicta FC 18 and World Series of Fighting 32 results.
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While it may be flying under the radar compared to this summer's other big UFC events, this Saturday night's UFC 202: Lawler vs. Woodley gives UFC Welterweight Champion Robbie Lawler another chance to have the fight of the year against contender Tyron Woodley. This episode we preview all of the fights on the card, including a solid Women's Strawweight co-main event between Rose Namajunas and Karolina Kowalkiewicz.
In the second half of the show we recap last weekend's UFC On Fox: Holm vs. Shevchenko, discuss the
upcoming Invicta FC 18: Grasso vs. Esquibel and WSOF 32: Moraes vs. Hill 2, as well as even more
discussion of Brock Lesnar's USADA test failures.
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The UFC returns to Fox this Saturday night for UFC On Fox: Holm vs. Shevchenko. We begin this week's episode by previewing that event, which includes both the return of Holly Holm, and a high level Lightweight co-main event between Edson Barboza and Gilbert Melendez.
Then it's a whole lot of USADA drug test talk, what with Brock Lesnar and Jon Jones' provisional suspensions, Chad Mendes' two-year suspension, and the delayed UFC debut of Norway's Emil Meek.
Finally we look back on the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: McDonald vs. Lineker and Bellator 158: Lima vs. Daley.
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UFC International Fight Week, along with it's three consecutive nights of UFC events, is finally over. We spend most of this week's episode discussing the results of UFC 200: Tate vs. Nunes, The Ultimate Fighter 23 Finale, and UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Alvarez. Between the three newly crowned UFC Champions, the resurgence of Brock Lesnar, and the literally dozens of fights that just went down, we have no shortage of things to talk about.
Then we move right along to previewing the upcoming UFC Fight Night: McDonald vs. Lineker, a rare Wednesday night event that recently lost it's main event, but still has just enough interesting fights on deck to look out for.
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This week's episode is our huge UFC 200: Lesnar vs. Hunt preview, and it looks like Jon Jones has just been removed from the main event at the last minute.
We spend the first half of the show breaking down the UFC Interim Featherweight Championship match between Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar, and the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship match between Miesha Tate and Amanada Nunes.
In the second half of the show we break down the rest of the card including the new main event of Brock Lesnar facing Mark Hunt, some important comeback fights for Cain Velasquez, Johny Hendricks, TJ Dillashaw and Sage Northcutt, and some must-watch fights which will be featured on the UFC Fight Pass service.
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While we wait for the upcoming UFC International Fight Week, we've caught up with a few current and former UFC fighters for interviews. First up is former UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman who discusses his budding rivalry with Michael Bisping. Also this episode, we have interviews with Scottish UFC Lightweight Stevie Ray, and former WEC Featherweight Champion Mike Brown.
In addition we spend some time previewing the most intriguing fights from July 7th's UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Alvarez and July 8th's The Ultimate Fighter Finale 23: Jedrzejczyk vs. Gadelha.
Finally, we take a few moments to remember one of of favorite guests, Ryan "The Big Deal" Jimmo, following his tragic passing last weekend.
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We're back from UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Thompson in Ottawa, and this episode we recap all of the fights along with post-fight interviews with Misha Cirkunov, Krysztof Jotko, Joe Soto, Elias Theodorou, Randa Markos, Colby Covington and Johnathan Meunier.
We also discuss a couple of inescapable rumors from the past week, with the potential UFC sale and the increasingly likely return of former UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre.
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This is our last episode before UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Thompson takes place, and we have pre-fight interviews with co-main eventer Patrick Cote, UFC Women's Flyweight opponents Joanne Calderwood and Valerie Letourneau, and UFC Director of Operations for Canada, Tom Wright.
We are also joined by Sportsnet's James Lynch for a last minute breakdown of all of this weekend's fights, now that the weigh-ins have been completed.
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We're currently on the road in Ottawa covering the upcoming UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Thompson, and this is our first of two episodes of pre-fight interviews with many of the fighters competing on that event.
This episode we speak with Rory MacDonald and Stephen Thompson about how they feel about facing each other in Saturday's main event, Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone shoots straight about USADA, weight cutting, football, and how much he just hates Khabib Nurmagomedov, and Light Heavyweight Misha Cirkunov discusses his third fight in the UFC.
Keep checking back for more UFC Ottawa pre-fight coverage and interviews over the next few days.
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This week we are joined by Canadian MMA journalist Adam Martin to preview this Saturday night's UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Thompson. We break down the entire card including the Welterweight main event between Rory MacDonald and Stephen Thompson, the co-main event of Donald Cerrone vs. Patrick Cote, and the first ever UFC Women's Flyweight fight.
During the second half of the show we discuss some of the week's biggest MMA stories including the unfortunate passing of Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson, more on Brock Lesnar's return to the UFC, and USADA updates on Tim Means and Chad Mendes.
Also, we will be in Ottawa all week covering UFC Fight Night: Macdonald vs. Thompson, so check back regularly throughout the week for multiple bonus podcasts featuring behind-the-scenes stories and interviews from the fighters competing at UFC Ottawa.
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Last Saturday night's UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping event proved to be was an extremely newsworthy show, both inside and outside of the cage.
During the first half of this week's episode we discuss Michael Bisping's UFC Middleweight Championship win, the seeming end of the ten year Dominick Cruz vs. Uriah Faber rivalry, yet another instance of Dan Henderson turning back the clock, and more.
In the second half of the show we get into all of the MMA news from the past few days including Brock Lesnar's unexpected return to the UFC, the confirmed date of the Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz rematch, and the recent controversy surrounding MMA reporter Ariel Helwani.
Note: Between the recording of this week's episode and the podcast upload, we recieved news that Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson passed away today at age 42. We give our condolences to his family.
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UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping takes place this Saturday night, and we spend most of this week's episode previewing the entire event including the UFC Middleweight Championship fight between Luke Rockhold and Michael Bisping, and the UFC Bantamweight Champion rematch between Dominick Cruz and Uriah Faber.
In the second half of this week's show we look back at the results of last weekend's upset filled UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Garbrandt, as well as a few of the week's notable MMA news stories.
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It's our 300th episode, and we get right into previewing this Sunday's intriguing UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Garbrandt. We spend the first half of the show breaking down all of the fights on the card including the Bantamweight main event, the Featherweight debut of Renan Barao, and a strong Fight Pass exclusive between Aljamain Sterling and Bryan Caraway.
In the second half of the show we discuss BJ Penn's removal from UFC 199, the two title fights announced for UFC 201, what's next for Paige Van Zant, the retirement of UFC Middleweight James Te-Huna, and a few moments from last weekend's Bellator 155 and Venator FC 3 events.
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This week we are joined by fight journalist Shawn Smith (Sportsnet, Vice Sports) to discuss an extremely busy week in MMA. In the first half of the show we break down the UFC's updated weight cutting policy, Michael Bisping's just-announced Middleweight Championship fight at UFC 199, rumors of a UFC sale, details on the Flyweight season of The Ultimate Fighter, and some recent Bellator news including the release of "Ill" Will Brooks.
Then we take a look back on the results of last weekend's UFC 198: Werdum vs. Miocic event including Stipe Miocic's UFC Heavyweight Championship win, Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza's solid claim to a shot at the UFC Middleweight Championship, and the impressive UFC debut of Cristine "Cyborg" Justino.
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Rob is joined this week by Showdown Joe Ferraro, the former host of UFC Central on Sportsnet. Joe discusses his groundbreaking MMA show, his work with Titan FC, and life outside of MMA.
Also, Rob discusses the upcoming Global Warriors 3 event in Brantford, Ontario.
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UFC 198: Werdum vs. Miocic takes place this Saturday May 14th from Curitiba, Brazil. Although Anderson Silva was recently removed from the show, we still spend almost the entire episode previewing the UFC Heavyweight Championship main event between Fabricio Werdum and Stipe Miocic, a high level Middleweight co-main event with Jacare Souza vs. Vitor Belfort, and intriguing fights for Demian Maia, Shogun Rua, and Cyborg Justino.
In the latter half of the show we discuss last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Arlovski and Invicta FC 17, the upcoming Bellator 154, the unfortunate passing of Jordan Parsons, and the ludicrous Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor rumors.
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The UFC debuts in The Netherlands this Sunday with UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Arlovski. During the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including the Heavyweight main event between Alistair Overeem and Andrei Arlovski, a high level Welterweight fight between Albert Tumenov and Gunnar Nelson, and a couple of intriguing spotlight fights in the Women's Strawweight and Bantamweight divisions.
In the second half of the show we preview the upcoming Invicta FC 17: Evinger vs. Schneider event, and discuss all of the week's MMA news including more UFC 200 and Conor McGregor drama, the announcement of the first ever UFC Women's Flyweight fight, the UFC release of Diego Brandao, the sentencing of Lavar Johnson, and the current season of The Ultimate Fighter.
Note: This episode was recorded prior to the passing of Bellator fighter Jordan Parsons. We give our condolences to Jordan's family and friends.
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Last weekend's UFC 197: Jones vs. Saint Preux event featured the two top pound-for-pound fighters in the world competing on the same night, but providing two wildly different performances. In the first half of this week's episode we break down all of the results, including the long-awaited return of new UFC Interim Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones, and the latest dominating performance by UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrious Johnson.
In the second half of this week's episode we continue discussing the awkward online battle between the UFC and Conor McGregor, the results of Bellator 153: Koreshkov vs. Henderson, The Ultimate Fighter 23, the retirement of UFC Flyweight Patrick Holohan, a long list of recent UFC cuts, ongoing issues with the Ontario Athletic Commission, and more.
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Serious technical difficulties made yesterday's episode unlistenable. So we've just blown it up completely, and recorded a replacement episode focusing on Conor McGregor and UFC 197 discussion.
As you'd expect We begin this week's show discussing McGregor's original teased retirement, the multiple responses from Dana White, and the most recent Facebook statement made by McGregor.
Then we preview as many of the fights on this Saturday night's UFC 197: Jones vs. Saint Preux that we can, including Jon Jones vs. Ovince Saint Preux for the UFC Interim Light Heavyweight Championship, Demetrious Johnson vs. Henry Cejudo for the UFC Flyweight Championship, and a highly anticipated Lightweight fight between Anthony Pettis and Edson Barboza.
Finally, we break down the rest of the week's MMA news including the results of last weekend's UFC On Fox 19, Ben Henderson challenging for the Bellator Welterweight Championship, the short-lived suspension of Kimbo Slice, the arrest of Diego Brandao, some Bellator and Rizin results, and more.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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Sorry everyone. We had a corrupted file for Episode 295. I spent about five hours trying to it, and even uploaded a version of it Wednesday night, but I hated the sound of it so much that I just deleted it.
It's been an ongoing issue for the past month, but this week was too much to condone.
We'll be back next week to recap UFC 197, and hopefully it won't sound like garbage.
- Steve Jeffery
This week Rob is joined once again by "Big Win" Don Wilson from MMATopNews.com to preview coast-to-coast Canadian MMA, including this Saturday night's Elite 1 MMA event in Moncton, New Brunswick, and this Friday night's Hard Knocks Fighting Championship 42 from Calgary, Alberta.
Also discussed this week are the results of last weekend's eventful Xcessive Force Fighting Championship 9 card from last weekend, and a contest is announced to win apparel from Canada's own Marshall Law Clothing.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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The UFC returns to network TV again this weekend for UFC On Fox: Teixeira vs. Evans. While this show was hurt by losing the original main event of Tony Ferguson vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov, it still features big names in big fights including Glover Teixeira vs. Rashad Evans, Rose Namajunas vs. Tecia Torres, and a short notice replacement fight for Khabib Nurmagomedov. We preview the entire card during the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we discuss the past week in MMA including Lyoto Machida and Frank Mir's USADA test failures, the updated UFC 200 card, the return of BJ Penn, the cancellation of this month's Ultimate Fighter tryouts, the death of Joao Carvalho, the upcoming Bellator 152, and the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs. Dos Santos.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by P.E.I. Welterweight Matt Macgrath, who faces UFC veteran Jesse Ronson for the XFFC Welterweight Championship this Friday night at Xcessive Force Fighting Championship in Alberta, Canada.
Also we run down the results of last weekend's Fight Night: Medicine Hat event, also from Alberta, which featured big wins from Canadian fighters Ryan Machan, Josh Hill and Adam Assenza, as well as appearances from UFC and Bellator veterans Cody McKenzie and Emanuel Newton.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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This Sunday afternoon the UFC debuts in Zagreb, Croatia for UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs. Dos Santos, an event that is heavy on the heavyweights. We preview the entire card during the first half of this week's episode, or at least we attempt to.
In the second half of the show we look back on another busy week in MMA news including Daniel Cormier's injury, the announcement of UFC Interim Light Heavyweight and Featherweight Championship fights, an upcoming Flyweight season of The Ultimate Fighter, Yoel Romero's USADA suspension, some recent UFC cuts, some new Bellator acquisitions, and the World Series of Fighting 30 results from last weekend.
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Rob is back in studio,to discuss all of the news in Canadian MMA this week, and also to preview Saturday night's Fight Night: Medicine Hat taking place April 9th in Medicine Hat, Alberta.
Fight Night: Medicine Hat includes fights two Middleweight title fights, a Light Heavyweight title fight, and the return of TUF and WSOF veteran Josh Hill.
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This week we discuss the week in MMA news including Jon Jones' latest driving violation and arrest, the official UFC debut of Invicta FC Featherweight Champion Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos, the release of multiple UFC fighters, Fox Sports parting ways with MMA journalist Ariel Helwani, and more.
We also take a quick look at this upcoming weekend's only major national MMA card, World Series of Fighting 30: Branch vs. Starks, which features two-division champion David Branch defending his WSOF Middleweight Championship and Jon Fitch facing Joao Zeferino for the vacant WSOF Welterweight Championship.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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We begin this week's episode discussing a wide variety of MMA topics from the past week including the legalization of MMA in New York, the rumored McGregor vs. Diaz rematch at UFC 200, a whole bunch of drug test failures, Paige Van Zant on Dancing With The Stars, Randy Couture's heroism, and more.
In the second half of the episode we look back on the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Mir, an event that featured quick knockouts, unfortunate extended beatings, poor judging and even worse refereeing.
Finally, we actually watched that ridiculous UR Fight show that combined MMA, grappling, pro wrestling, and Roy Jones Jr. boxing a "fan".
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined once again by Marshall Law CEO Adam McEachern (@MLC_Empire) to talk current events in Canadian MMA, the troubled landscape of Ontario MMA, and MMA apparel, including the launch of the Spartan Elite brand, and the effect of the UFC's exclusive deal with Reebok.
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UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Mir is taking place this Saturday in Brisbane, Australia. Although a few of the fights fell through at the last minute, both the main event between Mark Hunt vs. Frank Mir and the co-main event between Neil Magny vs. Hector Lombard are currently still on track, and we preview all of the fights on the card during the first half of this week's episode.
In the second half of the show we discuss the current week in MMA including Chris Leben's medical condition, Ken Shamrock and Kimbo Slice's failed drug tests, Matt Mitrione signing with Bellator, the results of last weekend's Invicta FC: Hamasaki vs. Brown, and a quick preview of the incredibly strange UR Fight show featuring a Chael Sonnen vs. Michael Bisping grappling match, a Dan Severn vs. Tank Abbott MMA fight, Roy Jones Jr. boxing a fan, and more.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by Saskatchewan's Kurt "The Hurt" Southern, who fights for the PFC Featherweight Title at Prestige FC 2 in Regina on Saturday, March 12th, 2016. They discuss Kurt's opponent Nick Rhoads, training in Denver with coach Duane Ludwig, and more.
Also Rob takes a quick look at the other Canadian MMA events taking place this weekend, including Extreme Cage Combat 24 in Halifax.
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UFC 196: McGregor vs. Diaz was a night full of upsets, most notably Nate Diaz beating Conor McGregor in the main event, and Miesha Tate finally winning the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship that had eluded her for years. We spend the first half of this week's episode recapping the entire night of fights, and also try to figure out where the UFC goes from here in the build-up to the quickly approaching UFC 200 in July.
In the second half of the episode we take a quick look at the week in MMA news including Wanderlei Silva's deal with Rizin Fighting Federation, Paige Van Zant on Dancing With The Stars, and Greg previews the Invicta FC 16: Hamasaki vs. Brown event airing live this Friday night on UFC Fight Pass.
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This Saturday night Nate Diaz steps in on short notice to take on Conor McGregor in the main event of UFC 196: McGregor vs. Diaz. As far as replacement fights go, this is about as good as it gets. We spend most of this week's episode breaking down the entire UFC 196 card, including the highly anticipated co-main event of Holly Holm's first UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship defense against Miesha Tate.
In the second half of the show we look back on last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Silva vs. Bisping results, and discuss Wanderlei Silva's signing with Bellator.
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Following some discussion of the newly announced Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz fight coming up on March 5th, we spend the first half of this week's episode previewing Saturday's UFC Fight Night: Silva vs. Bisping card. This event is exclusive to the UFC Fight Pass service, and looks to be well worth it for the long-awaited Anderson Silva vs. Michael Bisping main event.
In the second half of the show we break down the results of last weekend's insane Bellator 149, including the controversial finish of the Ken Shamrock vs. Royce Gracie event and the hospitalization of Dada 5000, as well as a quick look back at UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Cowboy.
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It's a strange weekend of MMA coming up with both UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Cowboy, and Bellator 149: Shamrock vs. Gracie taking place. We start this episode previewing Sunday night's snakebit UFC Fight Night, which is now main evented by dueling cowboys. Although the card has lost a lot of interesting matchups due to injury, there are still enough interesting fights for us to break down.
In the second half of the show we take a look at this Friday night's Bellator event, a show headlined by a twenty year old grudge match between Ken Shamrock and Royce Gracie, along with a co-main event between Kimbo Slice and his apparent street-fighting rival Dada 5000.
Finally we try to find time throughout the show to discuss the week in MMA, including both Alistair Overeem and Aljamain Sterling re-signing with the UFC, Rampage Jackson returning to Bellator, the NAC suspension of Wanderlei Silva, and the unfortunate passing of UFC and Pride legend Kevin Randleman.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson solidified his place as a UFC Welterweight contender last weekend at UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs. Thompson. On this week's episode we break down Thompson's huge underdog win, as well as the rest of the fight results from that night.
In the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news including Jon Jones' most recent traffic issues, CM Punk's back injury, Tim Means' USADA violation, recent UFC roster cuts, Chris Leben signing with Bellator, and more.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This Saturday night's UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs. Thompson event has been changed from a Pay Per View event to a free television show following the cancellation of the UFC Heavyweight Championship fight. Although now lacking a title fight, the main event of Johny Hendricks vs. Stephen Thompson is an important fight in the UFC Welterweight division, and we spend the first half of this week's episode breaking down the entire card.
In the second half of the show we look back at the results of last weekend's UFC On Fox: Johnson vs. Bader and Bellator 148 events, and discuss all of the week's MMA news including Ben Henderson signing with Bellator, the suspension of Ronda Rousey's coach Edmond Tarvedyan, Chael Sonnen on Celebrity Apprentice, some recent UFC roster cuts, and Jake Shields' contract issues with World Series of Fighting.
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The UFC returns to the Fox network this Saturday night for UFC On Fox: Johnson vs. Bader, an event headlined by a high-level Light Heavyweight matchup between Anthony "Rumble" Johnson and Ryan Bader. We spend most of this week's episode previewing that card, which also includes the biggest showcase yet for Sage Northcutt.
In the second half of the show we look at the changes to UFC 196, Ronda Rousey's appearance on Saturday Night Live, the retirement of Anthony Perosh, the suspension of Gleison Tibau, and the upcoming Bellator 148.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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At UFC Fight Night: Cruz vs. Dillashaw, Dominick Cruz returned after a long hiatus to reclaim his UFC Bantamweight Championship from TJ Dillashaw in the most notable UFC Men's Bantamweight fight ever. On this week's episode we break down that highly competitive title fight, as well as all of the other results from last Sunday night's event.
In the second half of the show we discuss another busy week in MMA including the Invicta FC 15 results, the return of BJ Penn, the next season of The Ultimate Fighter, CM Punk's likely first UFC opponent, and Kenny Florian's suspension from FOX Sports.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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The main event of this Sunday night's UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs. Cruz features current UFC Bantamweight Champion T.J. Dillashaw facing former champion Dominick Cruz, a man who was never beaten for his title. This matchup is as good as it gets in the UFC Bantamweight division, and we spend the first half of this week's episode breaking down the entire event.
In the second half of the show we discuss an extremely busy week in MMA including Nick Diaz's settlement agreement, new fights for Conor McGregor and Holly Holm, updates on Mirko Cro Cop and Yoel Romero's USADA drug tests, Royce Gracie vs. the IRS, and a preview of this Saturday night's Invicta FC 15: Cyborg vs. Ibragimova.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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UFC 195: Lawler vs. Condit's main event featured an early Fight Of The Year contender, although the result of the UFC Welterweight Championship match wasn't without controversy. This episode we are joined by Fight Companions host and soon-to-be Fight Network Intern Kevin Ferreira to discuss Robbie Lawler's split decision victory over Carlos Condit, as well as the rest of the UFC 195 card.
In the second half of the show we run down all of the week's MMA news including Rizin Fighting Federation results, Martin Kampmann's retirement, and the announcement of Ronda Rousey hosting Saturday Night Live.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by "The Silver Lake Strangler" Ryan Machan, who is facing Cody McKenzie in the co-main event of Fight Night: Calgary, on January 23rd, 2016.
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UFC 195: Lawler vs. Condit takes place this weekend and we are joined by MMA journalist Shawn Smith (Fightland, The Globe And Mail, Sportsnet) to help us break down all of the fights. While not quite as high on star power as recent major UFC events, UFC 195 features an incredible Robbie Lawler vs. Carlos Condit fight for the UFC Welterweight Championship, as well as a ton of matches featuring some of the most reliable high-action fighters in the UFC.
In the second half of this week's episode we discuss Japan's Rizin MMA promotion, the announced return of Anderson Silva, and the latest group of fighters to be released from the UFC.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined once again by TopMMANews.com's "Big Win" Don Wilson for a look back at the last year in Canadian MMA, as well as what we can all look forward to in 2016.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Sixth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2015's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, and many more.
In the second half of the show we take a look back at last weekend's UFC On Fox: Dos Anjos vs. Cerrone 2, an exciting card that cemented Raphael Dos Anjos' place as UFC Lightweight Champion, and featured career rejuvenating performances from Alistair Overeem, Nick Diaz, Nate Marquardt and Tamdam McCrory.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by Keith from Z Promotions' Fight Night series, talking a couple of upcoming events in Calgary and Winnipeg, in early 2016.
Also, Rob takes a look back at the results of last weekend's Unified MMA card from last weekend.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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Following three consecutive nights of newsworthy UFC events last weekend, there is already another one coming up this Saturday night. We spend the first half of this week's episode trying to digest the fight results, the hype, and the two new champions crowned during UFC 194: Aldo vs. McGregor, UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. Mendes and UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. Van Zant.
Then we look forward to this coming weekend's UFC On Fox: Dos Anjos vs. Cerrone 2, where Donald Cerrone has his first UFC Lightweight Championship shot, as well as a chance to avenge his previous loss to current champion Raphael Dos Anjos. We preview the title fight, the long-awaited Junior Dos Santos vs. Alistair Overeem co-main event, and the rest of the card.
Also, check in next week for our annual MMA awards episode.
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This week Rob is joined by MMA journalist James Lynch, writer for Sportsnet and host of the long-running Parting Shot MMA podcast.
They break down the results of last weekend's XFFC 8 event from Grande Prairie, Alberta as well as look ahead to Unified MMA 25 and World Series of Fighting 26, both taking place on December 18th, 2015.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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It's finally here. UFC 194: Aldo vs. McGregor takes place this Saturday night, and it is possibly the deepest fight card in history.
The event is headlined by UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo defending against Interim UFC Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor in the definition of a grudge match, while UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman defends against the other best young Middleweight in the world, Luke Rockhold. We spend the first half of this week's episode previewing the two title fights.
In the second half of the show we continue our look at the rest of the UFC 194 card, including an important contender's matchup between Jacare Souza and Yoel Romero, as well as high-profile preliminary fights featuring Urijah Faber and Tecia Torres.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by XFFC Flyweight Champion Adrian "The Bully" Woolley, who will be defending his title against Yoni Sherbatov at XFFC 8 on Friday December 11th in Grande Prairie, Alberta.
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In order to free up next week's entire episode to preview the monstrous UFC 194 card, we spend this show previewing the other two UFC cards happening next week. UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. Van Zant is a rare Thursday night UFC event, and the next night's UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. Mendes not only has a marquee main event, but also has the finals of this season of The Ultimate Fighter.
Also, in the second half of the episode we look back on the results of the exciting UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Masvidal event from last weekend in South Korea.
Check back next week for our huge preview of UFC 194: Aldo vs. McGregor.
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Rob is joined this week by Matt MacGrath, who due to injury is currently without an opponent for his XFFC 8 Welterweight Championship match on December 11th in Grande Prairie, Alberta.
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This weekend the UFC heads to South Korea for the first time for UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Masvidal. While the event has had some major injury issues at the top of the card, it still features a Benson Henderson vs. Jorge Masvidal main event and a selection of the UFC's most exciting South Korean fighters, and the first half of this week's episode is a preview of the entire Fight card.
In the second half of the show we run down a few of the week's biggest MMA stories including an injury to Michelle Waterson, the retirement of Cathal Pendred, and the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Gastellum, Bellator 145, and World Series of Fighting: Lightweight Tournament.
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This week Rob is joined by TopMMANews.com's "Big Win" Don Wilson to cover as much of the week in Canadian MMA as they can in thirty minutes.
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Last weekend's UFC 193: Rousey vs. Holm featured a shocking upset in the main event when Holly Holm knocked out Ronda Rousey to win the UFC women's Bantamweight Championship in front of a record breaking 56,000 Australian fans.
Needless to say there is a lot to digest from that night, and it takes up a big part of this week's episode.
Although overshadowed a bit by the Rousey and Holm media explosion, the UFC does return to Mexico this coming weekend for UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Gastellum. We spend the last part of this week's show discussing the more interesting fights on this card, including the up-and-coming Welterweight contenders in the main event, and a likely number one contender fight between Jussier Formiga and Henry Cejudo.
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After a brief hiatus Rob is back, and he is joined by Saturday Night Fights 10 promoter A.J. Scales to discuss how the first ever Pro-MMA event in Regina, Saskatchewan went last weekend.
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Ronda Rousey returns to the Octagon this weekend for UFC 193: Rousey vs. Holm. This will be the first UFC event in Melbourne, as well as the first time that both the UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion and the UFC Women's Strawweight Champion will be defending their titles on the same show. On this week's episode we break down all of the fights taking place that night.
In the second half of the episode we discuss a ton of recent MMA news including the unexpected retirement of Mirko Cro Cop, the somewhat expected retirement of Alan Belcher, the insane announcement an upcoming Ken Shamrock vs. Royce Gracie fight, New Year's Eve Breakfast With Fedor, and the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Henderson and Bellator 145: Vengeance events.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This weekend begins an insane schedule of nine UFC events in the next nine weeks. The first of these is Saturday night's UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Henderson 3 from Sao Paulo, and we are joined by Kevin Ferreira from Fight Companions to help us break down the entire card.
Also this weekend is Bellator 145: With A Vengeance, a horribly titled event that looks to feature some exciting fights including Featherweight and Lightweight title matches, as well as showcase fights for Bobby Lashley and Michael Chandler.
Finally we break down some of this week's MMA news including unfortunate injuries to Khabib Nurmagomedov and Matt Brown, as well as the suspension of World Series of Fighting's Rousimar Palhares.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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We kick off this week's show by looking back at the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Smolka vs. Holohan, a show that still managed to be pretty fun despite losing both it's main event and the co-main event.
Then we get into some recent MMA news including the impending return of Jon "Bones" Jones, a new opponent for Paige Van Zant, legal issues in World Series of Fighting, and Bellator 144 results.
Finally, the last segment of this episode is devoted to The Hammer MMA Radio's "Worst MMA Nickname Tournament". We stage a 16 fighter single elimination tournament to determine which fighter owns the absolute worst nickname, in a business full of awful nicknames.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is back from vacation and looks back on the results of last weekend's Hard Knocks Fighting Championship 46 from Calgary, as well as the Prestige FC show from Weyburn, Sasktchewan.
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The UFC Fight Pass event taking place this coming Saturday has lost both it's main event (Dustin Poirier vs. Joseph Duffy), and it's co-main event (Ben Rothwell vs. Stipe Miocic) due to injury. On this week's episode we preview what's left of the newly titled UFC Fight Night: Holohan vs. Smolka. Yeah we know. It's not that exciting.
In the second half of the show we run down the long list of UFC fighters who were cut this week, Rick Hawn and Nick Newell's retirements, another Jason "Mayhem" Miller arrest, Reebok's controversial new Ireland t-shirt, the World Series of Fighting: Fitch vs. Okami results, and this weekend's Bellator 144: Halsey vs. Carvalho.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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With no major MMA events this week (other than WSOF: Fitch vs. Okami) and no major MMA news, we had ourselves a Ronda Rousey movie marathon. We forced each other to watch Furious 7, The Expendables 3 and The Entourage Movie, and it wasn't always a great time.
So in advance of next month's UFC 193: Rousey vs. Holm Pay Per View, check out this week's episode to get our thoughts on some of the bro-iest films of 2014 and 2015.
We'll be back with a regular-styled MMA show next week when we preview UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Duffy.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by Canadian Lightweight Alexi Argyriou, to discuss his upcoming fight at Calgary's Hard Knock Fighting 46 on October 23rd, 2015.
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While there are no major MMA events coming up this weekend, we do have the results of last weekend's UFC 192: Cormier vs. Gustafsson, an event that featured more than enough excitement, storylines and controversy to keep us busy for a while.
In the second half of the show we discuss some of the week's most notable MMA news including the likely opponent for Fedor Emelianenko's comeback fight, TJ Dillashaw's split from Team Alpha Male, CM Punk's injury issues, the taxation woes of Monte Cox, and we also make Greg watch a video of an MMA fighter taking a dump in the cage.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by top ranked Canadian Welterweight Matt Macgrath following his huge title victory over former The Ultimate Fighter contestant Mike Hill, at Elite 1 MMA: Fall Brawl in Moncton, New Brunswick.
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UFC 192: Cormier vs. Gustafsson takes place this Saturday night in Houston, and this week we preview the entire card, which is headlined by a UFC Light Heavyweight Championship fight between Daniel Cormier and Alexander Gustaffson.
Whoever wins the Light Heavyweight Championship match may have former champion Jon Jones to worry about in the near future, as Jones will not be going any jail time following his hit-and-run incident last April. We discuss that story, as well as the retirement of Rich Franklin, the latest attempt to legalize professional MMA in New York, and the implementation of the UFC's random drug testing initiative.
Finally, near the end of this week's show we take a look back at the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs. Nelson.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is on his own, and spends this episode looking ahead to three big upcoming Canadian MMA events.
There's this Friday night's Rumble In The Cage 51 in Lethbridge, Alberta, this Saturday night's Elite 1 MMA in Moncton, New Brunswick, and XFFC 7 taking place October 9th, 2015 in Grande Prairie, Alberta.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs. Nelson takes place in Japan this weekend, and the first half of this week's episode is a preview of that event. Well, most of it at least.
Even though the UFC are heading to Japan, it was actually last weekend's Bellator & Glory: Dynamite 1 event that really felt like the Japanese fight cards of old, and we recap the results of that monster sized MMA and kickboxing hybrid event.
Throughout the show we also give our thoughts on an extremely busy week in MMA including the return of Fedor Emelianenko, Henry Cejudo's protest against the Nevada Athletic Commission, and the story of an alleged 2012 test failure for Vitor Belfort.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by Canadian heavyweight Tanner "The Bulldozer" Boser (@BulldozerBoser) to discuss his number one contenders fight taking place this Friday September 25th, at Unified MMA 24 in Edmonton.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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Nick Diaz has been suspended by the Nevada Athletic Commission for an unprecedented five years, following his marijuana test failure back in January of this year. On this week's episode we obviously have a lot to say about the prospect of spending half of a decade without Nick Diaz.
Then we preview the enormous Bellator & Glory: Dynamite card taking place this Saturday night, featuring Tito Ortiz challenging for the Bellator Light Heavyweight Championship against Liam McGeary, a one-night only Light Heavyweight Tournament, and a bunch of Glory kickboxing fights in a completely seperate ring.
If that 20-plus fight behemoth of a show isn't enough MMA for this week, we also take a quick look at the upcoming itan FC and World Series of Fighting cards, as well as the results of last weekend's Invicta FC 14: Evinger vs. Kianzad.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by Scott Zerr, Director of Media & Fighter Relations for Maximum Fighting Championship & Prestige FC, and the guy's chat about The Prestige FC 1 event in Weyburn, Saskatchewan on October 24th, 2015.
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This week Rob is joined by Canadian MMA journalist Shawn Smith (The Globe and Mail, Fightland, Bloody Elbow and Sportsnet) to discuss a stacked month of September in Canadian MMA.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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This week we are broadcasting live right in the middle of a university campus, because there is nothing that random students are more interested in than Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson.
During this episode we discuss the results of UFC 191: Johnson vs. Dodson 2 from last Saturday night, preview some of the fights from the upcoming Invicta FC 14: Evinger vs. Kianzad event, and then break down some recent MMA news including Nick Diaz's brief prison stay, Ronda Rousey in the Roadhouse remake, the new season of The Ultimate Fighter, and the retirements of Sam Stout and Mike Brown.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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UFC 191: Johnson vs. Dodson 2 is coming up this Saturday night on Pay Per View, and the main event is a UFC Flyweight Championship rematch of the most competitive title defense that Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson has had so far.
On this week's episode we preview that fight, as well as the rest of the card including the Arlovski vs. Mir co-main event, Paige Van Zant's first fight on a major UFC show, and a series of promisng high-action fights in multiple divisions.
In the second half of the episode we discuss the new date for Ronda Rousey vs. Holly Holm, Chris Leben's sentencing, the retirements of Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Jordan Mein, and the results of last weekend's Bellator 141 show.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This week we are joined by UFC lightweight "The Quebec Kid" Olivier Aubin-Mercier, coming off of his third straight UFC win last weekend at UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Oliviera. Olivier discusses when he'd like to fight next, online criticism to his last fight, his Reebok sponsorship, the videogame he's currently hooked on, and more.
In addition to Olivier's fight, we also recap the rest of the fights from last weekend's card, including the strange esophagus tear in the main event, and a Fight Of The Night from Patrick Cote and Josh Burkman.
Finally we take a few minutes to discuss some of the week's MMA news including Anthony "Rumble" Johnson's awful Facebook rant, Alexis Davis' pregnancy, and this Friday night's Bellator event headlined by Melvin Guillard and Brandon Girtz.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by Jamie Champion, the President and CEO of the Prospects Amateur Fighting Championships in London, Ontario. The PAFC has their debut event this weekend in London, Ontario.
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The UFC is returning to Canada once again for UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Oliviera. This event from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan features a lot of the most promising Canadian UFC fighters, so we've asked The Parting Shot Podcast's Carlin Bardsley to help us preview the entire show from top to bottom.
We also briefly touch on some of the week's strangest MMA news including the latest on Anderson Silva's ridiculous plea to the Nevada Athletic Commission, the return of The Barncat to the UFC, as well as a female fighter who's been unknowingly fighting (and winning) for months while being pregnant.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, David Abraham and Greg Persson.
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Rob is flying solo this week, and covers the whole week in Canadian MMA, including a look back at the results of last weekend's Super Fight League 42 in Calgary, Alberta, as well as the CES MMA 30 event in Rhode Island featuring a 39 second knockout from Edmonton's Lenny "The Show Stealer" Wheeler.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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In a pretty big case of better late than never, here is the podcast of last week's live radio show with Canadian Bantamweight Roland Delorme prior to his Super Fight League 42 fight with Jesse Arnett.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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With Steve and Greg both unable to make it, Rob Veevers from the Hammer MMA Canada joins us in the first half of the show to review the exciting main event of Fight Night Teixeira vs Saint Preux - and the controversial split decision between Michael Johnson and Beneil Dariush.
In the second half of the show, Sean Smith joins us to finish off the Fight Night prelimins and then to discuss the always wonderful world of MMA news - Including Anderson Silva's ridiculous excuses to the Nevada State Athletic Comission.
Hosted by Dave Abraham, Rob Veevers and Sean Smith.
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UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs. Saint Preux is coming up this weekend, and we spend the first half of this week's episode previewing the entire card, including a high level Light Heavyweight main event between Glover Teixeira and Ovince Saint Preux, as well as a co-main event between two on-the-rise Lightweights in Michael Johnson and Beneil Dariush.
In the second half of the show we discuss the results of last weekend's UFC 190: Rousey vs. Correia, featuring yet another showcase win for UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey.
Finally, we get into the trainwreck that was World Series Of Fighting 22: Palhares vs. Shields, with all of it's unreleased submissions, eye-gouging, and brawls in the crowd.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This weekend is UFC 190, and the UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey takes a break from Hollywood to fly down to Brazil for a good old fashioned grudge match against Bethe Correia. This is an enormous seven-fight Pay Per View main card, so it takes most of this week's episode to get through it all.
After the break we return with a quick look at the upcoming World Series of Fighting 22: Palhares vs. Shields event, as well as the highlights from last weekend's UFC On Fox: Dillashaw vs. Barao 2.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by debuting Canadian Welterweight Johnny Sanguinetti.
Johnny fights out of Joslin's MMA in Hamilton, Ontario and Johnny looks to be having his first fight in Warrior Xtreme Cage Fighting 59 on August 8th, in Michigan.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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The much-delayed UFC Bantamweight Championshp rematch between TJ Dillashaw and Renan Barao finally takes place this weekend at UFC On Fox: Dillashaw vs. Barao 2. On paper this free TV event is full of intriuging and exciting fights, and we break down as many as we can during the first half of this week's episode.
During the second half of the show we discuss some of the week's biggest MMA news stories, including Jacob "Stitch" Duran's Reebok-related firing from the UFC, the possible return of Fedor Emelianenko, TUF 1 veteran Mike Swick's retirement, and the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Leites.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by Battlefield Fight League Middleweight Champion Ryan Janes, to discuss Ryan's upcoming title fight at Battlefield Fight League 37. The event takes place on July 25th, 2015 in Coquitlam, British Columbia.
Also joining the show is highly ranked Canadian Featherweight Kyle "The Monster" Nelson, who is newly signed to the Battlefield organization, and he discusses what led to him not competing on this weekend's card as expected.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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The UFC heads to Scotland this Saturday night for the first time ever with UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Leites. While not the strongest top to bottom card, we do find a lot to discuss with both the main event of Michael Bisping vs. Thales Leites, as well as the promising co-main event between Ross Pearson and Evan Dunham.
Then we discuss the news of Conor McGregor and Urijah Faber starring in the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter, as well as if even those two charismatic coaches can save the troubled reality show.
Finally, in the second half of the show we look back at the results of last weekend's UFC 189: McGregor vs. Mendes, The Ultimate Fighter 21 Finale, and Invicta FC 13.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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Rob is joined this week by Justin Donnelly of Five Star Fight League / Five Star Athletics, to discuss Team Canada's involvement in the IMMAF World Championships this weekend in Las Vegas.
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This week we are joined by Fight Network Analyst and Commentator Robin Black to discuss the upcoming UFC 189: Mendes vs. McGregor event.
Robin hosts an incredible series of fight breakdowns called Five Rounds, so there's no one better to help us predict a fight with as many variables as this upcoming UFC Interim Featherweight Championship fight between Chad Mendes and Conor McGregor. The fight itself is so intriguing that we spend the entire first half of our show talking about it.
In the second half of the episode we do our best to preview as many additional fights as possible from the rest of Saturday night's UFC 189, as well as from Sunday night's The Ultimate Fighter 21 Finale.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by Cat Clarke to discuss the Submission Series PRO event (which includes Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Grappling), that takes place in this Saturday, July 11th in Toronto, Ontario.
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Jose Aldo's rib injury has officially removed him from the main event of UFC 189, and now Chad Mendes is stepping up to face Conor McGregor for the UFC Interim Featherweight Championship. We start off this week's episode discussing this turn of events and what this new fight means for one of the biggest MMA events of 2015.
Then in the second half of the show we are joined by Invicta FC Bantamweight contender Tonya Evinger, who will be facing Irene Aldana for the vacant Bantamweight Championship at Invicta FC 13 on July 9th, 2015.
Finally, we look back on the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Romero vs. Machida, including the controversal post-fight interview with Yoel Romero, and also discuss the pros and cons of the first display of Reebok's new line of UFC apparel.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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For the second weekend in a row we have both UFC and Bellator events taking place. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Romero (a card which so far has already lost most of it's scheduled fights, as well as it's country of origin), and then recap last weekend's Fight Pass only event, UFC Fight Night: Jedrzejczyk vs. Penne.
In the second half of the show we look back at the results of last weekend's Bellator 138: Slice vs. Shamrock, which drew record ratings for the promotion. We'll also see if the momentum carries over into this Friday night's Bellator 139: Kongo vs. Volkov event on Spike TV.
During the show we also break down some of the week's MMA news including Jose Aldo's rib injury, big upcoming fights in Bellator, and Alexander Schlemenko's three year suspension.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by Saskatoon fighter Jose Rodriguez to discuss his last fight in World Series of Fighting, as well as the UFC's announcement of their first show in Saskatchewan.
There's also a look at the upcoming Hard Knocks Fighting Championship event on June 26th, as well as a recap of last weekend's Havoc FC 9 card from Alberta.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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The UFC returns to Germany this Saturday night for the fourth time for UFC Fight Night: Jedrzejczyk, a night headlined by Joanna Jedrzejczyk's first defense of her UFC Women's Strawweight Championship. This episode we preview the entire UFC Fight Pass exclusive card.
We also take a look at the first major Bellator event in a while, as Kimbo Slice and Ken Shamrock will presumably fight each other this Friday night at Bellator 138 in a fight literally years in the making.
Finally, Mexico City was not kind many of the fighters who competed at UFC 188: Velasquez vs. Werdum, but it did result in a brand new undisputed UFC Heavyweight Champion. In the second half of this episode we recap the fights from that event, as well as discuss the announcement of an upcoming UFC event in Saskatoon, and big changes with the Titan FC promotion.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by top Canadian Light Heavyweight Misha Cirkunov to discuss his newly announced signing with the UFC.
Then Havok Fighting Championship fighters Jesse Fox and Ryan Machan join the show to discuss Jesse's fight with Brent Harvie on Friday June 19th, at Havoc Fighting Championship 9 in Red Deer, Alberta.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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UFC 188: Velasquez vs. Werdum takes place in Mexico City this weekend, and UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez returns to face UFC Interim Heavyweight Champion Fabricio Werdum in order to unite the titles. This episode we preview the entire fight card, including the highly anticipated co-main event between Gilbert Melendez and Eddie Alvarez, as well as the latest Flyweight test for Olympic Gold Medalist Henry Cejudo.
Then we break down some of the week's MMA news including the likely Daniel Cormier vs. Alexander Gustafsson fight, Brian Ebersole's retirement, and a few other UFC roster cuts and additions.
Finally we take a look back at what was one of the most exciting fight cards in recent memory. UFC Fight Night: Boetsch vs. Henderson from last Saturday night was pure excitement and violence, and we have some fun reliving it.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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UFC Fight Night: Boetsch vs. Henderson takes place this Saturday night. We take the first half of this week's episode to preview the fight card, a night that looks to be a pivotal one for the future of the legendary Dan Henderson.
We also check in with UFC fighter Elias "The Spartan" Theodorou and former UFC fighter Jesse "The Body Snatcher" Ronson, both of whom were in town for last weekend's Global Warriors 2 show, as well as WSOF contender and TUF contestant Josh Hill, who was in the main event.
Later in the episode we run down this week in MMA including the UFC's updated drug testing procedures, the Jon Jones crime scene video, Leslie Smith's eventful night out, TJ Grant's status, some recent UFC roster cuts, and last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Condit vs. Alves results.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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It's a packed show this week as Rob recaps a couple of huge Canadian MMA events from last weekend.
First it's a rundown of May 30th's Elite 1 event in St. John's, a night which featured big wins for Adam Hunter, Matt DesRoches and more.
Then David Abraham joins in to recap the events of last Saturday night's Global Warriors 2 event in Burlington, Ontario including post-fight interviews with Global Warriors 2 winners Alex Ricci, Adam Assenza and Dave Hale.
Finally Adrian Woolley, a fighter who should have been on the GW2 card, explains how his highly anticipated matchup with Brazilian import Cleber Junior fell through.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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We are joined this week by Stand And Bang Radio's Aaron Robbins to preview UFC Fight Night: Condit vs. Alves. Former UFC Interim Welterweight Champion Carlos Condit returns from more than a year on the sidelines due to a knee injury to face former title contender Thiago Alves in Brazil. We preview that fight, as well as the rest of the 12 fight Fox Sports 1/Fight Pass card.
Then we take a look back at one of the best MMA shows in years, as last weekend's UFC 187: Johnson vs. Cormier gave us a new UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, the end of the Weidman/Belfort rivalry, the next UFC Lightweight title contender, and also cemented Andrei Arlovski's UFC comeback.
Finally we take a look at the upcoming Global Warriors event taking place on May 30th, 2015 in Burlington, Ontario. This is the return of live MMA in our area, and the card features some of the most accomplished Ontario fighters out there including Josh Hill, Alex Ricci, Adrian Wooley, and Lyndon Whitlock.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This week host Rob Veevers has put together a double-sized show focused on this Saturday May 30th, 2015's Global Warriors fight card in Burlington, Ontario, as well as the Elite 1 event in St. John, New Brunswick the same night.
Guests on this week's show to discuss these events include Canadian Welterweight Johnny Sanguinetti, who is having his first professional fight this weekend at the Elite 1 in New Brunswick, Adam McEachern from Martial Law Clothing, and The Hammer MMA Radio's Steve Jeffery.
Also during this episode, find out how to win the grand prize of Global Warriors tickets for this weekend, as well as some sweet gear from Martial Law Clothing.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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Two UFC Championship fights take place on this Saturday night's UFC 187: Johnson vs. Cormier event. Anthony "Rumble" Johnson and Daniel Cormier will compete to determine the new UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, a title vacated by Jon Jones following his recent legal issues.
Then the UFC Middleweight Championship will be defended for the first time in almost a year when Chris Weidman meets Vitor Belfort. We spend most of this episode previewing those two huge matches, as well as the rest of a pretty stacked PPV card.
Later in the show we also discuss last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. Faber results, changes to the Nevada Athletic Commission drug testing penalties, Bellator 137 results, and Jessica Aguilar's free agent status.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This week host Rob Veevers is joined by Canadian Welterweight Ryan Dickson (10-3)to discuss his upcoming hometown fight with Jason Witt at the May 30th Global Warriors event in Burlington, Ontario.
Then Reed Duthie joins in to continue the discussion about Global Warriors. Reed is the media ambassador for the event, and is also the co-host of the MMA Cave television show in Hamilton, Ontario.
For fans in the Southern Ontario area, make sure to check out this week's show for the chance to win tickets to see Ryan's fight on May 30th, as well as some awesome gear from Martial Law Clothing.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. Faber takes place this weekend, as former WEC Featherweight Champion Urijah Faber heads back up to the weight class that he made famous to meet one-time UFC Featherweight title contender Frankie Edgar. We break down that exciting matchup, as well as the rest of the fights on this early morning event from The Phillipines.
Then we return to last week's discussion of the UFC and Reebok partnership, as many more UFC fighters have expressed their opinions on the implications of this deal in the last few days.
Finally, we spend some time recapping the results of the recent UFC Fight Night: Miocic vs. Hunt card, and previewing the Bellator Middleweight Championship fight between Brandon Halsey and Kendall Grove.
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This episode we have a long discussion debating the UFC's exclusive sponsorship deal with Reebok. We begin with a few words from Georges St. Pierre himself, before delving deep into the history of sponsorship in the UFC, the projected tiered payout system, and the pros and cons of what we know so far regarding this approach to fighter sponsorship.
We also spend some time previewing this weekend's UFC Fight Night: Miocic vs. Hunt event taking place in Australia, and breaking down some of the more notable UFC fight card changes from the past week.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by Canadian Lightweight Adam "Maverick" Assenza. Adam will be fighting on the Global Warriors event on May 30th, 2015 in his hometown of Burlington, Ontario. Adam discusses how it feels to fight so close to home, finding fights in Canada, and how it feels to train for a TBA opponent.
Also if you are in the Southern Ontario area, Global Warriors and Martial Law Clothing are giving away tickets and apparel to promote the May 30th event featuring Adam's fight. Listen to this episode for more details.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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The first half of this week's episode is focused on Jon "Bones" Jones and the hit-and-run that he was allegedly involved in last Sunday morning. So far it has cost him his UFC 187 headlining spot, his UFC Light Heavyweight Championship, and his Reebok sponsorship. We discuss what the suspension of one of UFC's biggest stars means for the company, to the Light Heavyweight division, and to Jon Jones himself.
Then we look back at last weekend's UFC 186: Johnson vs. Horiguchi PPV and it's fitting that we are joined by The Parting Shot Podcast's James Lynch, as well as The Hammer MMA Canada's Rob Veevers, both of whom were there with us in Montreal covering the event.
Spread throughout the show we also have post-fight interviews with many of the UFC 186 fighters including Patrick Cote, Alexis Davis, Sarah Kaufman, Chad Laprise, Olivier Aubin-Mercier, Nordine Taleb, Valérie Létourneau and Randa Markos.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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Rob is back from covering UFC 186: Johnson vs. Horiguchi in Montreal, and the Canadian MMA events just keep on coming. This week he's joined by Hybrid Combat 3 Lightweight "Daniel-San" Larivière prior to his fight with David Moon in Gatineau, Quebec this Saturday May 2nd.
Also top-three Canadian Flyweight Adrian Woolley dropped in for a candid interview at the UFC 186 host hotel to discuss his upcoming Global Warriors fight in Burlington on May 30th, and much more.
Global Warriors and Martial Law Clothing are giving away tickets and apparel to promote the May 30th Global Warriors event. Listen to this episode for more details.
Hosted by Rob Veevers.
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This is our last show from Montreal and we have a ton of interviews with most of the UFC 186 main card fighters. During this episode we speak with UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrious Johnson, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, Fabio Maldonado, Michael Bisping, CB Dollaway, John Makdessi, and UFC newcomer Shane Campbell.
We also give our last minute thoughts on Saturday night's UFC 186 card following the weigh-ins.
Join us again this Wednesday for a ton of post-fight interviews following UFC 186: Johnson vs. Horiguchi.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Rob Veevers.
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The Hammer MMA Radio is currently in Montreal for UFC 186: Johnson vs. Horiguchi. On this bonus episode we have interviews with UFC 186 fighters Patrick Cote, Sarah Kaufman, Alexis Davis, Chad Laprise, Olivier Aubin-Mercier, Nordine Taleb, Chris Clements, Jessica Rakoczy, Valérie Létourneau and Randa Markos.
Keep checking back all week for multiple bonus episodes on location from Montreal including interviews with all of the main card fighters competing this Saturday night at UFC 186.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Rob Veevers.
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The Hammer MMA Radio crew are on the way to Montreal for UFC 186: Johnson vs. Horiguchi. Joining us on that trip, as well as on this episode, are Fightland contributer Shawn Smith and The Hammer MMA Canada host Rob Veevers.
This is an extra-long two hour episode that begins with a huge preview of UFC 186. There hasn't been a ton of mainstream interest in this event but we break down the entire card from the UFC Flyweight Championship main event to the Fight Pass exclusive Women's Strawweight fights.
Following that Rob Veevers takes over the middle segment of the show to discuss MMA in Canada, including a likely Titan FC event in June, a Global Warriors event in Ontario next month, and some discussion as to why live MMA has essentially disapeared from the province of Ontario.
Finally we wrap up this massive episode with a full recap of last Saturday night's UFC On Fox: Rockhold vs. Machida, and a preview of Friday night's Invicta FC 12: Kankaanpaa vs. Souza.
Keep checking back all week for multiple bonus episodes on location from Montreal including interviews with many of the fighters competing at UFC 186.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This week the UFC heads to New Jersey for what appears to be one of the best free TV cards of the year. UFC On Fox: Machida vs. Rockhold is likely to produce the next UFC Middleweight Championship contender as Lyoto Machida, Luke Rockhold and "Jacare" Souza are all in the spotlight. We preview their fights, as well as the rest of the stacked undercard.
Then we take some time to look back at the results of last weekend's biggest MMA events, including UFC Fight Night: Gonzaga vs. Cro Cop, Bellator 136: Brooks vs. Jansen, and World Series of Fighting 20.
Finally we discuss the week's biggest MMA news including Phil Davis signing with Bellator, the final UFC 186 fight card, and some minor changes to the Official UFC Rankings system.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This Saturday night the UFC heads to Poland for the first time, for UFC Fight Night: Gonzaga vs. Cro Cop 2. We preview (most of) the matches on this Fight Pass-only event, featuring a large selection of the UFC's Polish fighters, as well as Women's Strawweight contender Joanne Calderwood.
We also preview two other fight cards competing for MMA fan's attention this weekend, as Bellator 136 and World Series Of Fighting 20 take place on Friday night.
In the second half of the show we look back at the UFC Fight Night: Mendes vs. Lamas results, as well as some MMA news including Bellator vs. Rampage, UFC vs. steroids, and Wal-Mart vs. literacy.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This week host Rob Veevers is joined by the Global Warriors promotion's Garnet Ace to discuss the Tapout Burlington gym, as well as some big news for Ontario MMA fans with the announcement of a new Global Warriors fight card taking place in Burlington, Ontario.
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UFC Fight Night: Mendes vs. Lamas is coming up this Saturday night and it looks to be an action-packed show with some of the most promising Featherweight and Lightweight fighters in the UFC. This episode we preview all of the fights happening during this very rare mid-afternoon event.
Afterwards we get into some of the week's MMA news including more changes to the UFC 186 card in Montreal, Ronda Rousey showing up at WWE Wrestlemania, Brendan Schaub's potential cut to Light Heavyweight, Conor MacGregor's World Tour, as well as a couple of Fight of the Year contenders that took place during last weekend's Bellator 135 and World Series Of Fighting 19 shows.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This week host Rob Veevers is joined by Elite 1 MMA Light Heavyweight Champion Adam Hunter to discuss his 30 second knockout victory in Moncton, New Brunswick, as well as his next fight for the promotion.
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In what is as close to a slow week in MMA that we get nowadays, this episode we recap last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. LaFlare and Titan FC 33 events, and take a very quick look at the upcoming Bellator 135: Warren vs. Galvao and World Series of Fighting 19: Gaethje vs. Palomino shows.
We also catch up with a couple of up-and-coming Ontario Featherweights. First up is Kyle Nelson, a 6-0 Featherweight who is heading to the upcoming The Ultimate Fighter tryouts in Las Vegas. Then we check in again with World Series of Fighting's Mike Malott to find out how his current training camp at Team Alpha Male in Sacramento is going.
Finally we get into some recent MMA news including what looks like the end of Brock Lesnar's fighting career, the future of the TAPOUT clothing brand, Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino's current status, and TJ Dillashaw's rib injury.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob is joined by Rebel Media TV's Aaron Avruskin to discuss his trip to Japan to produce the Fighter Xchange MMA documentary series.
Following that we take a quick look at some of the happenings in Canadian MMA this week.
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UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. LaFlare takes place this weekend in Rio De Janeiro, and Stand And Bang Radio's Aaron Robbins joins us once again to preview a show that has some interesting elements to it despite a few of the biggest fights having being cancelled due to injury.
We also check out some of the week's MMA news including some upcoming UFC matchmaking, a couple of high profile Bellator drug test failures, and World Series of Fighting signing their very own Superhero.
Finally we look back at last weekend's UFC 185: Pettis vs. Dos Anjos, an event that crowned two new UFC Champions and set the stage for many more big fights down the line.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This week host Rob Veevers is joined by Burlington, Ontario Welterweight Ryan Dickson, who will be facing Jason Fischer at HKFC 42 on Friday March 20th, 2015.
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UFC 185: Pettis vs. Dos Anjos is coming up this Saturday night, and while it may not have quite the hype of the last few UFC PPV events, there are more than enough intriguing match ups on the card. We break down all of the fights including the UFC Lightweight Championship fight between Anthony Pettis and Rafael Dos Anjos, and the UFC Women's Strawweight Championship fight with new Champion Carla Esparza vs. Joanna Jedrzejczyk.
Then our Titan FC 33 series continues as Titan FC Featherweight Championship contender Walel "The Gazelle" Watson joins the show to discuss his title fight with Brett Johns on March 20th, 2015.
Finally we get into some of the week's biggest MMA news including a somewhat surprising fight for Josh Koscheck, some UFC and Bellator business news, and the recent hospitalization of Mark Coleman.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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Host Rob Veevers is joined by Canadian Welterweight Cody Krahn prior to his Xcessive Force Fighting Championship fight against Spencer Jebb in Alberta, on March 20th, 2015.
Rob also looks at the possibility of more live MMA events coming to Ontario in the first half of 2015.
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Ronda Rousey did it again last Saturday night. This time she defended her UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship against number one contender Cat Zingano in a record breaking 14 seconds. We discuss what's next for the Women's Bantamweight division, as well as the results of the rest of the fights on the UFC 184 card.
Then we spend some time recapping last weekend's other big MMA events, Bellator 134, and Invicta FC 11: Cyborg vs. Tweet.
Finally, we run down some of the week's MMA news including the announcement of Ken Shamrock vs. Kimbo Slice in Bellator, Bellator vs. Rampage Jackson, Burt Watson leaving the UFC, and what's next for The Ultimate Fighter.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This week Rob recaps the events of last weekend's highly enjoyable Extreme Cage Combat 22, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and runs down all of the other happenings this week in Canadian MMA.
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UFC 184: Rousey vs. Zingano is coming up this Saturday night, and is the first UFC event to feature women fighting in both the main event and the co-main event position. We spend roughly the first half of this week's episode breaking down all of the fights on the card.
Then we continue our Titan FC interview series by welcoming Titan FC Lightweight Robert Washington, who is facing Luciano Dos Santos at Titan FC 33 on March 20th, 2015.
Following that we take a look back at the night of upsets that was UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs. Mir, as well as take a quick look at the Bellator and Invicta FC events coming up this Friday night.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This week host Rob Veevers is joined by Extreme Cage Combat Welterweight Champion Matt MacGrath, who will be facing Richard Arsenault at ECC 22 on February 28th, 2015 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Stick around following the interview with Matt, for Rob's breakdown of the rest of the fights on the ECC 22 event.
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Stand And Bang Radio's Aaron Robbins joins us again to preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs. Mir event, as well as to recap all of the happenings from last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Thatch.
Afterwards we continue our Titan FC interview series with Titan FC Lightweight Championship contender Kurt Kinser. Kurt is facing former UFC and Strikeforce veteran Pat Healy in one of the four title fights taking place on at Titan FC 33 on March 20th, 2015.
Finally, we take a quick look back at last weekend's Bellator 133 and World Series Of Fighting 18 results.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This Valentine's Day, former UFC Lightweight Champion "Smooth" Ben Henderson moves up to Welterweight to face rising star Brandon Thatch. On this episode we preview all of the fights on February 14th's UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Thatch card.
Then we continue our Titan FC 33 interview series with guest Chase Gormley, prior to his Titan FC Heavyweight Champion fight against Jon Madsen on March 20th, 2015.
We also discuss all of the week's news, including drug test failures for UFC's Hector Lombard, WSOF's Brendan Thatch, and preview this weekend's Bellator 133 event.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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Rob is joined by Fightland contributer Shawn Smith for an extended preview of World Series Of Fighting 18: Moraes vs. Hill.
The two break down all of the fights, including a great Bantamweight Championship fight between Marlon Moraes and undefeated Canadian fighter Josh Hill.
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Last weekend's UFC 183: Silva vs. Diaz was a wildly entertaining and successful event. Unfortunately, since their fight it has come out that both Anderson Silva and Nick Diaz have failed drug tests. On this week's episode we discuss all of the news surrounding these guys over the last few days.
Then we check in with Kurt Holobaugh, who is challenging Desmond Green at Titan FC 33 for the Titan FC Featherweight Championship on March 20th, 2015.
Finally we get into some of the week's MMA news including Chris Weidman and Raphael Assuncao's injuries, and Ben Henderson signing up for a fight at Welterweight.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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This week host Rob Veevers is joined by Josh Hill, the former Ultimate Fighter contestant, and current World Series of Fighting title contender. Josh will be facing Marlon Moraes for the WSOF Bantamweight Championship on the main event of WSOF 18 on February 12th, 2015.
Also during this episode, Rob previews the rest of the fights coming up on that WSOF 18 card.
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UFC 183: Silva vs. Diaz takes place on January 31st, 2015. Former UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva returns from a broken leg to face briefly retired former Strikeforce Welterweight Champion Nick Diaz. It's a strange fight, but an absolutely intriguing one, and this episode we discuss just where these two fighters are at going into Saturday night's main event.
Following that, we break down the rest of the UFC 183 card, including a high level Welterweight co-main event between Tyron Woodley and Kelvin Gastelum.
Finally, after a quick diversion to discuss the arrest of Brian Bowles, we spend the rest of the episode recapping last weekend's massive UFC On Fox: Gustafsson vs. Johnson show from Stockholm.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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The UFC returns to Sweden this Saturday for UFC On Fox: Gustafsson vs. Johnson. We begin by previewing all of the fights on the card, including the main event Light Heavyweight title eliminator between Alexander Gustafsson and Anthony "Rumble" Johnson.
Then we recap last weekend's record breaking UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs. Siver event, and last weekend's Bellator and World Series of Fighting cards.
Finally, we discuss a huge week in MMA news including BJ Penn's arrest, Dave Herman's arrest, Mirko Cro Cop re-signing with the UFC, Kimbo Slice signing with Bellator, Thiago Silva signing with WSOF, the retirement of Cung Le, Wanderlie Silva's lawsuit, and more.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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On this week's show host Rob Veevers welcomes Battlefield Fight League Featherweight Jeremy Kennedy, who will be facing Mario Pereira for the Featherweight title on January 24th.
Rob also runs down the rest of that card, as well as the January 30th, 2015 Hard Knocks event, and February's World Series of Fighting 18: Moraes vs. Hill.
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UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs. Siver is coming up this Sunday night, and We're back live in studio to break down all of the fights including the Conor McGregor vs. Dennis Siver main event, and the Donald Cerrone vs. Ben Henderson co-main event.
We also discuss all of the week's MMA news including more on the Jon Jones cocaine story, a ton of interesting fights booked for the UFC Welterweight division, title implications for the Anderson Silva vs. Nick Diaz fight, this weekend's Bellator and World Series of Fighting events, and more.
Hosted by Steve Jeffery, Dave Abraham, and Greg Persson.
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Rob Veevers is back discussing all of the news in Canadian MMA. This week he takes a look at upcoming Battlefield Fight League, Hard Knocks fight cards, the future of Maximum Fighting Championships, the return of New Brunswick MMA.
Also, even though it's not exactly Canadian Mixed Martial Arts news, Greg Persson joins the show to discuss the biggest news story of 2015 so far, the Jon Jones cocaine test failure.
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The news of UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones failing an out of competition drug test for cocaine broke right in the middle of broadcasting this week's episode.
So in addition to recapping the massive main event of last Saturday night's UFC 182: Jones vs. Cormier, we obviously have a lot to say about that surprise piece of news.
We also have breakdowns of all of the rest of the UFC 182 fights, Donald Cerrone's quick turnaround, more on the UFC's drug testing policies, the expansion of the Fight Pass library, upcoming Bellator specials, and Tim Syliva's retirement.
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This week, host Rob Veevers is joined by World Series of Fighting COO Darren Owens to discuss recent developments with WSOF, the best moments of 2014, as well as the promotion's plans for Canada in 2015
Afterwards, Rob takes a look forward at what else to look forward to in Canadian MMA in the New Year.
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The biggest UFC event of 2015 appears to be taking place during the very first week, as UFC 182: Jones vs. Cormier is coming up on Saturday, January 3rd. Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship has everyone talking, and we brought in Stand And Bang Radio's Aaron Robbins for a nearly hour-long preview of the entire card.
Following that, we run down some of this week's MMA news, as well as attempt to predict the future for some of today's hottest MMA stories including Brock Lesnar, Nick Diaz, and Scott Coker's new era of Bellator.
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This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Fifth Annual Awards Show. As usual we debate 2014's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, and many more.
There is also a ton of MMA news including Rampage Jackson returning to the UFC, unfortunate injuries to most of the top UFC Bantamweights, more class action lawsuits, Titan FC results, Canadian TV deals, and more.
Finally we take a look back at last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Brazil event, including big wins from former champions Lyoto Machida and Renan Barao.
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It was looking like a quiet fight week, right up until a handful of current and former UFC fighters announced a Class Action Lawsuit against the UFC this past Tuesday. While it's still early in the process, we spend the first part of this week's show discussing some of the allegtions.
Following that we look to Brazil for this weekend's UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Dollaway, a fun event that also includes Canadian Bantamweight Mitch Gagnon challenging the former contender Renan Barao.
Finally, we analyze the results of last weekend's The Ultimate Fighter 20 Finale, and UFC On Fox: Dos Santos vs. Miocic.
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Rob is joined this week by Canadian fighter "The Savage" Nick Hrabec, who will be facing Liam McGowan this weekend on December 19th, at Unified Fighting 21 in Edmonton.
In additional to the Unified MMA event, later in the show Rob also previews this weekend's promising Havoc FC 7 and Titan FC 32 events.
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This week we have UFC fighter Robert Whiteford on the show and he came to speak his mind. This is a fun one, so put the kids to bed and turn the volume down at work. We also invite a special co-host, Jade Elizabeth Morris, from the UK's Bay TV.
Topics this week include the new class action law suit brewing against the UFC, the whole Nate Diaz fight week fiasco, and the weight cutting issue that is plaguing the sport.
After hitting on the news we take a look at The Ultimate Fighter 20 finals, break down Fight Night Dos Santos vs Miocic, and just generally have a good time.
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So it's a pretty busy week in the MMA world. This episode we preview both of the weekend's upcoming UFC events, The Ultimate Fighter 20 Finale, and UFC On Fox: Dos Santos vs. Miocic.
Then we take a look back at last weekend's excellent UFC 181: Hendricks vs. Lawler 2 card, which was a night full of great fights, two Championship matches, a new Welterweight Champion, and the controversial announcement of former WWE wrestler CM Punk coming to the UFC that seems to have overshadowed everything else.
Finally, we try to squeeze in results from Invicta FC 10 show, including the Women's Atomweight title change.
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This week on Stand and Bang Radio we are joined by UFC fighters Colby Covington from American Top Team, and Mike Rhodes from Roufusport.
Colby gives us a review on his last fight, where he hopes to go in the UFC, and officially calls out CM Punk. Mike "Biggie" Rhodes lets us know that he is going to surprise everybody when he faces Erick Silva at the UFC Fight Night coming up on December 20th.
We also get a fighter's perspective on the Reebok deal from Colby and Mike, breakdown the fights from UFC 181, and preview UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs Miocic. As a special bonus I talk with Team Alpha Male's Lance Palmer about his fight with Rick Glenn coming up at WSOF 16 this weekend.
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This week Rob is joined by Canadian Welterweight MMA fighter Matt MacGrath, who is currently on a five fight winning streak.
Also, stick around until the end of the show as well for a quick discussion about the completely non-Canadian MMA news story of pro-wrestler CM Punk coming to the UFC in 2015.
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UFC 181: Hendricks vs. Lawler 2 is this weekend featuring Johny Hendricks vs. Robbie Lawler for the UFC Welterweight Championship, and Anthony Pettis vs. Gilbert Melendez for the UFC Lightweight Championship. This looks to be one of the most exciting MMA events of 2014, and we break down all of the fights on the card.
Then we spend some time on the biggest MMA news story of the week. The UFC has signed a deal with Reebok to create both a standard uniform for fighters, as well as a whole ton of controversy.
Finally we take a quick look at this Friday's Invicta FC 10 event, including an interview between guest host Aaron Robbins and "The Karate Hottie" Michelle Waterson, who will be defending her Atomweight Championship on that night.
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This week Rob is joined by Lightweight fighter Jose Rodrigeuz to discuss Jose's upcoming Havoc FC fight on December 19th against Derek Boyle.
Afterwards Rob takes a look at some of the recent MMA news including the already controversial implementation of a standard Reebok uniform for all UFC fighters.
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The Hammer MMA is hosting a brand new show. On the first episode of Stand and Bang Radio we welcome Bellator fighters Liam McGeary and Linton "The Swarm" Vassell, both of whom will be part of the British Invasion event at Bellator 133.
Liam is fighting for the Bellator Light Heavyweight Championship against Emanuel Newton, and Linton is facing dangerous striker Sokoudjou. We discuss the boys having fun back at Bellator 130, their training camps, and how Scott Coker's changes are putting these future stars in the spotlight.
Continuing the UK theme, BAMMA fighter Colin "Freakshow" Fletcher joins the show to discuss his upcoming fight with Michael Brightmon at BAMMA 17.
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As it's a rare weekend with no upcoming UFC or Bellator events, we spend some time this episode discussing the current state of the major MMA promotions. We touch on the growing competition between UFC and Bellator, the volume and presentation of televised fight cards, possible market oversaturation, and more.
Then we get into more of the week's news including newly signed UFC fights, the Roufusport controversy, and Vitor Belfort passing his first random drug test leading up to his UFC Middleweight Championship fight.
Finally we take a look back at last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. Swanson, a night in which Frankie Edgar made a statement, Bobby Green confused us, and Paige Van Zant quietly stole the entire show.
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Following last weekend's UFC 180: Werdum vs. Hunt, the UFC has a new Interim Heavyweight Champion. We discuss Fabricio Werdum's big win in front of a huge crowd in Mexico, as well as how the rest of the fights on a pretty solid card went down.
We also discuss the results of Bellator 131: Ortiz vs. Bonnar and World Series of Fighting 15: Branch vs. Okami, preview next weekend's UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. Swanson, and get into a bit of the week's MMA news.
Finally stick around until the end of the show as Aaron Robbins interviews UFC's Jake Matthew's, who is coming off of a big win in front of his hometown Australian crowd at the Fight Night event a couple of weeks ago.
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We have a packed show this week with UFC 180: Werdum vs. Hunt, Bellator 131: Ortiz vs. Bonnar, and World Series of Fighting 15 all taking place on Saturday November 15th, and we preview all of the major fights across all three events.
Also later in the show, our regular guest host Aaron Robbins has a lengthy interview with Jacob "Stitch" Duran, the cutman for the UFC.
Finally we discuss the big news stories of the week including the return of Anthony "Rumble" Johnson, and Wanderlei Silva vs. Dave and Busters, as well as a quick recap of the results from both of last weekend's international UFC Fight Nights.
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Rob is joined this week by Canadian Women's Strawweight Kara Kirsh, who will be fighting Katie Howard at Hard Knocks FC 39 in Calgary this coming weekend.
Following that is a recap of last weekend's Hybrid Pro Series 2 which took place in Gatineau Quebec.
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It's yet another weekend with two UFC cards within 24 hours. First up is UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Bisping from Australia, followed the next day by UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. St. Preux, airing live from Brazil. We've brought in guest host Aaron Robbins from Last Word On Sports again, to help us preview both shows.
We also have a few minutes with UFC Heavyweight Travis Browne prior to his upcoming with with Brendan Schaub, as well as a quick rundown of some of the week's MMA news, and the results from last weekend's Invicta FC 9.
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This week Rob is joined on-air by Yohann Dagenais to discuss Hybrid Pro Series 2 coming up on November 15th in Gatineau Quebec.
Later in the show we take a look at the Titan FC event from last weekend, particularly regarding the last-minute cancellation of a Lightweight Championship fight between Mike Ricci and Yoshiyuki Yoshida.
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With no UFC event coming up this weekend, we have time to look back at last weekend UFC 179: Aldo vs. Mendes 2 card in detail, including what may be next for Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo.
We also take a look at the upcoming all-women Invicta FC 9 card on UFC Fight Pass this Saturday night, last weekend's Bellator 130, and all of the week's MMA news (including the usual hirings, firings, matchmaking and drug failures).
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Rob is joined this week by Pat Wilson, the CEO of Ryse Management to discuss Michael Imperato's hiring and subsequent release from the UFC.
Also during the show we take a look at Excessive Fight Force event from Alberta, the possibility of amateur MMA coming to Ontario.
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This week we are joined in studio by UFC Middleweight and The Ultimate Fighter: Nations winner Elias "The Spartan" Theodorou. Elias dropped in to talk about his fight a couple of weeks back at UFC Halifax, and when we may see him back in the cage next.
Also joining us in studio is The Hammer MMA Canada host Rob Veevers, and we run down this week's MMA news, including the injury to Cain Velasquez.
To close out the show we all take part in a fun and innuendo-filled roundtable previewing this coming weekend's UFC 179: Aldo vs. Mendes 2 event.
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It's the 25th episode of The Hammer MMA Canada, and Rob has two guests join him this week. First up is Canadian MMA journalist Carlin Bardsley to discuss the results of last Saturday's Provincial Fighting Championships 3 event from London, Ontario. Amongst other things, that event was noteworthy for being the first post-UFC fight for Jesse Ronson.
Then Canadian Flyweight Eric Wilson joins the show to talk about his upcoming fight against Adrian Woolley at XFFC 5 on October 24th, 2014 in Alberta.
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This week we are joined by The Ultimate Fighter 20 competitor Randa Markos, who tells us about her quest to become the first UFC Women's Strawweight Champion, and the many obstacles that she has faced to get to where she is today.
Later in the show we also catch up with Tom Wright, UFC's Canadian Director Of Operations, and he speaks candidly as always about the company's current Canadian presence.
Finally we look at the week's MMA news including Jason "Mayhem" Miller's arrest, The Korean Zombie's hiatus, TUF 20 so far, and the recent Bellator and World Series of Fighting events.
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Rob is joined this week by Adam McEachern, owner of Martial Law Clothing, to discuss the MMA apparel industry in Ontario.
Afterwards there's a recap of last weekend's World Series of Fighting 14: Ford vs. Shields from Edmonton, as well as a look at this coming weekend's Provincial Fighting Championships 3 in London, Ontario, and featuring the first post-UFC fight of Jesse Ronson.
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This week's guest on The Hammer MMA Canada is WSOF Light Heavyweight Luke Harris, who will be facing Jared Hamman this weekend in a main card fight at World Series of Fighting 14: Ford vs. Shields, airing live from Edmonton.
After his talk with Luke, Rob previews the rest of the WSOF 14 card and looks back at the results from last weekend's MFC 41 and HKFC events.
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We're back from Halifax following UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine. We recap all of the fights from that night and also have post-fight interviews with many of the winners from that card, including Daron Cruickshank, Olivier Aubin-Mercier, Paul Felder, Chris Kelades, Albert Tumonov and Pedro Munhoz.
Earlier that same morning the UFC had another event, UFC Fight Night: Nelson vs. Story from Sweden. The last half of our show includes our rundown of all of those fights, as well as some recent MMA news, and quick looks at the upcoming Bellator 128 and World Series Of Fighting 14 events coming up this weekend.
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We are still in Halifax covering UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine, and it's the second of two episodes full of pre-fight interviews with many of the fighters competing on that event.
This episode we speak with main event opponents Rory MacDonald and Tarec Saffiedine, lightweight division opponents Chad Laprise and Yosdenis Cedano, and rising Canadian Bantamweight Mitch Gagnon.
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We are on the road in Halifax covering UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine, and it's the first of two episodes full of pre-fight interviews with many of the fighters competing on that event.
This episode we speak with co-main event opponents Raphael Assuncao and Bryan Caraway, The Ultimate Fighter Nations Middleweight winner Elias Theodorou, and both halves of an exciting looking preliminary fight between Jason Saggo and Paul Felder
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This week Rob Veevers is joined by Fightland's Shawn Smith to preview some of this coming weekend's non-UFC Canadian fight cards.
The guys run down MFC 41 in Edmonton taking place October 3rd, 2014, as well as the HKFC show out of Calgary on the same night. In between, they also get into The Hammer MMA Canada's favorite recurring topic, the Ontario Athletic Commision.
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We're on the way to Halifax to cover the first ever UFC event in Eastern Canada, UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine. Since we will be on the road, this week's episode is up a couple of days early. UFC Fight Night: Nelson vs. Story from Sweden also takes place the same morning, so we preview that card as well.
There's also big news coming out of last weekend's UFC 178: Johnson vs. Cariaso. We break down the Flyweight Championship fight, the ascension of Conor MacGregor, the debut of Eddie Alvarez, and the successful respective returns of Dominick Cruz and Cat Zingano.
We'll be posting new shows throughout the week on our podcast feed following the various media events in Halifax. .
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Our co-host this week is newly signed WSOF fighter Mike Malott, to talk about his October 11th, 2014 fight against Hakeem Dawodu at World Series Of Fighting 14: Ford vs. Shields. Mike also sticks around to help us preview the pretty stacked UFC 178: Johnson vs. Cariaso PPV coming up this Saturday night.
Later in the show we break down all of the week's MMA news including the fines and punishments coming out of the Nevada State Athletic Commission hearing, Thiago Silva's re-firing, Rumble Johnson's suspension, the return of Nate Diaz, as well as the results of Bellator 125 and UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Nelson.
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This week Rob is joined by Mark Drummond prior to his fight against Jarid Bussemakers at Unified MMA 20, on September 26th, 2014 in Edmonton.
There's also King of the Cage Canada and Prestige FC results, including the unfortunate cancellation of last week's guest Robin Black's retirement fight.
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All three of our regular hosts are back in studio this week to discuss UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Nelson, coming up this Saturday night from Japan. We preview what happens when the irrestible force meets the immovable object, and all of the rest of the matches on a really fun Fight Pass exclusive card.
Then we look back at all of the week's MMA news including Nick Diaz's DUI, a notable UFC release, UFC Fight Night: Silva vs. Arlovski results, a couple of Bellator events, World Series of Fighting and the first episode of The Ultimate Fighter 20.
Finally, last week's guest Aaron Robbins was at the Bellator 123 show last weekend, and we have audio of his scrum with Bellator Light Heavyweight Champion Emanuel Newton.
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This week Rob is joined by MMA fighter and Fight Network commentator Robin Black. They discuss Robin's September 19th, 2014 King Of The Cage fight against Adam Bodwell, his excellent web series "5 Rounds", and his recent appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast.
Afterwards, Rob takes a look at the booking strategies and talent development in some of the non-UFC promotions out there.
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Rob's guest this week is BJJ champion Sergio Cunha, from the Tapout Gym in Burlington Ontario. They discuss working with some of the best MMA fighters in Canada, as well as running a successful MMA gym.
There's also a look at the full lineup of October 11th's World Series Of Fighting 14 lineup, and the Havoc FC 6 results from Red Deer, Alberta.
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This week we are joined by Last Word On Sports writer Aaron Robbins to discuss roughly one million recent MMA events. First up we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs. Arlovski show from Brazil.
Following that we look back at last weekend's head-to-head UFC and Bellator shows. While there were great fights and some intriguing future matchups coming out of those shows, we had a hard time focusing on anything but the insane video packages, mysterious masked-men, and overall confusion coming out of Bellator 123.
Finally, we hit a bit of other news including the upcoming World Series of Fighting event, and Thiago Silva's return to UFC following some pretty intense legal issues.
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This week Rob is joined by Steve Jeffery, host of the regular weekly edition of The Hammer MMA Radio. They discuss the breaking news of the unfortunate injury to Josh Hill that took him out of the Bantamweight Championship match at next week's World Series of Fighting 13.
Then Rob breaks down the rest of the week's Canadian MMA news, as well as how UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine in Halifax is shaping up.
Note: This week's episode was recorded and broadcast live in a public courtyard, which is why there's the buzz of people in the background. It won't be a regular thing.
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Due to a live scheduling issue this week's episode is up a few days early. It's also a longer show than usual and the first half covers the results of this past weekend's cursed, but actually pretty solid, UFC 177: Dillashaw vs. Soto Pay Per View.
Later in the show we preview three upcoming fight cards all taking place on the same weekend including UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Mousasi, Bellator 123, and Invicta FC 8, as well as cover some recent general MMA news.
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UFC 177: Dillashaw vs. Barao 2 takes place this Saturday night. We preview the high-level main event rematch, as well as some of the more interesting fights to look out for on the less than hyped card.
Then we run down the week's news including the UFC Mexico lineup, The Korean Zombie's injury, recent Bellator hirings and releases, Titan FC, Lee Mein's arrest, as well as the fallout from last weekend's UFC events from Macau and Tulsa.
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This week Rob's joined by Marc-Andre Drolet to talk about his upcoming Winnipeg event, King of the Cage: Madness on September 19th. Joe Doerkson vs. Tony Lopez headlines that card.
There's also the latest on upcoming the upcoming Canadian fight schedule, and some recent fight signings and injuries.
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There are two UFC events this coming Saturday. The first is UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Le from Macau, China. It starts at about 6am if you have Fight Pass and are a morning person. Then there's UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Dos Anjos from Tulsa later that night. We do our best to preview all of the fights on both cards. Well, most of them.
Following that we discuss Eddie Alvarez finally making it to the UFC, changes to the Bellator schedule, a fighter retirement, War Machine finally being caught, and the aftermath of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Bader vs. St. Preux.
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This week Rob is joined by Woodbridge Ontario fighter Alex Ricci to discuss his lightweight fight with Darrell Horcher on August 23rd at CFFC 40.
Afterwards Rob runs down the next month or so in Canadian MMA events.
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Following weeks of mainstream hype, the Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier fight at UFC 178 has been delayed until 2015. We spend some time figuring out what impact this will have on the next few UFC cards (and it doesn't look good). There's also a bunch of other news including a rumored play for Gina Carano by Bellator, and War Machine being on the run yet again.
Also the UFC returns this Saturday night for the first time in three weeks. We preview all of the fights on the UFC Fight Night: Bader vs. St. Preux card, including some serious must-win matchups for established fighters like Gray Maynard and Tim Boetsch.
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Rob's guest this week is 8-2 Burlington Ontario current Lightweight Ryan Dickson, who is fighting Avery MCPhatter at King of the Beach on August 23rd in Maine.
They discuss changing weight classes, Ryan's World Series of Fighting experience, and training here in Ontario.
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With last Saturday's ill-fated UFC 176 show cancelled we are left with no UFC cards to discuss this week. That's a rare event these days.
We do have Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier mixing it up at a press conference, and spend the first half of this week's show discussing all of the pushing, set breaking and shoe-throwing that is currently leading up to UFC 178: Jones vs. Cormier on September 27th.
Following that we get into the rest of the week's news including Manny Pacquiao and One FC, Mark Bocek's retirement, injuries and replacements, WSOF, Bellator, recent UFC cuts and more.
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This week Rob is joined on-air by Jesse Fox and Ryan Machan of Havoc FC to discuss their next event out of Red Deer, Alberta on September 5th, 2014.
There's also some new information on the upcoming World Series of Fighting show in Edmonton including a Ryan Ford vs. Jake Shields main event.
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It was a big week in MMA news. Both Nick Diaz and Anderson Silva are returning to the UFC, and they are fighting each other. Also, Jon Jones is arguing with his new opponent Daniel Cormier, Aldo vs. Mendes 2 is still happening, Frankie Edgar may or may not be fighting Cub Swanson, Marlon Moraes is fighting Josh Hill on NBC, and Joe Riggs accidentally shot himself.
We also recap the mostly fun UFC On Fox 12: Lawler vs. Brown, including what's next for guys like Lawler, Brown, Rumble, Bermudez, and Green.
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Rob is joined this week by Chris Kelades, coming right off of his win over Adrian Woolley at Extreme Cage Combat 21 in Halifax last weekend. Kelades is currently the ranked as the #2 Flyweight in Canada.
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UFC On Fox 12: Lawler vs. Brown takes place this Saturday night, and obviously we are excited for the potential violence that the main event promises. We spend in the first half of this episode previewing all of the matches on the show.
Then we get into the week's MMA news including Vitor Belfort's conditional license to fight for the UFC Middleweight title, Bellator 122, last week's UFC results and Conor McGregor's next opponent.
Oh, and the Alexander Gustafsson injury came in right after our broadcast, so unfortunately we couldn't comment on it on air. What are our current thoughts on that? Well, it sucks.
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This week Rob is joined by Jay Peacock, owner of the Fight Planet store in Hamilton, Ontario, as well as the co-host of The MMA Cave.
The guys talk about MMA retail, the signature shirt market, the rumor of official UFC uniforms and the state of MMA in Ontario.
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The Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to Ireland for the first time in five years, for UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs. Brandao. We break down all of the fights and make our predictions on what looks like an action packed event.
We also cover all of the week's MMA news in the second half of the episode, including Demetrious Johnson's next opponent, Jose Aldo and Chad Mendes' war of words, Ali Bagautinov's drug test failure, the UFC vs. Bellator showdown on September 5th, and Holly Holm.
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We are joined this week by top Canadian Featherweight Lyndon Whitlock, who will be facing Michael Spoenlein in the main event of Extreme Cage Combat 21 in Halifax on July 26th.
Rob also talks about the rest of the fights on that card, the web series From The Cubicle To The Cage, and the lack of fight cards in Ontario this summer.
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UFC Champions Chris Weidman and Ronda Rousey retained their respective titles last weekend at UFC 175 and we discuss their matches, all of the other fights from that night, Stefan Struve's medical issue, and the event's biggest villain of all...the production truck guy.
We also recap The Ultimate Fighter 19 Finale, BJ Penn's likely retirement, the death of UFC 176, UFC events fleeing Canada, Dominick Cruz's return fight, and World Series Of Fighting 11.
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This week on The Hammer MMA Canada, we're joined this week by top Canadian Flyweight Adrian "The Bully" Woolley to discuss his upcoming fight in Halifax on July 26th, at ECC 21.
Also, Rob quickly discusses the retirements of BJ Penn and Jens Pulver, both announced last weekend.
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UFC 175: Weidman vs. Machida is coming up this Saturday night, and in addition to the Middleweight Championship fight, there's also a Ronda Rousey UFC Women's Bantamweight title defense against Alexis Davis. We brought in Bloody Elbow's Karim Zidan to help us preview the entire card, as well as get his thoughts on the latest Chael Sonnen drug test failure.
In the second half of the show we discuss an insane four events, including the upcoming Frankie Edgar vs. BJ Penn show, both UFC events from last weekend, and World Series of Fighting's debut on NBC.
Oh, please excuse the minor technical difficulties at the beginning of the show, we do solve the problem a few minutes in.
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Rob is joined this week by one of the busiest guys in the MMA business, Chad Elliott. Chad is the owner of Fighter's Edge Management, and CEO of the Fear The Fighter Training Academy in Kitchener, Ontario. They discuss a ton of various MMA-related projects that Chad is currently involved in.
Also there's a look at World Series of Fighting 11: Gaethje vs. Newell coming up this Saturday afternoon on NBC and TSN2.
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It's our 200th episode, and this Saturday the UFC is giving us two UFC events on the same day. Is it too late to send one back? Seriously though, there are a bunch of solid fights on UFC Fight Night: Te Huna vs. Marquardt, and UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Stephens, and we preview all of them. Some more in-depth than others.
Then we get into some of the week's news, including a ton of Bellator cuts, Hector Lombard's injury, and Louis Gaudinot's recent test failure.
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For the first time since the show started there are no local MMA events to discuss, but Rob is joined in studio by 3-1 Canadian Middleweight fighter Adam Hunter to talk about his current career, and the Canadian MMA scene.
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UFC 174: Johnson vs. Bagautinov is in the books and while it wasn't the most exciting event that the UFC has put on over the last couple of months, we have a lot to discuss coming out of it in regards to the Flyweight, Welterweight and Light Heavyweight divisions.
Then we spend a much longer amount of time than usual talking about Bellator due to the removal of Bjorn Rebney as CEO, the addition of former Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker, their updated matchmaking policies, and the (as of now) rumored addition of Kimbo Slice.
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Rob is joined this week by World Series of Fighting Canada fighter, and former The Ultimate Fighter contestant Josh Hill. They discuss Josh's big win last weekend at the WSOF Canada 2 event in Edmonton, as well as training both locally and with the guys at Team Alpha Male in Sacramento.
Afterwards there's a rundown of the rest of that WSOF Canada 2 card, and the Pro Fighting Series 3 event from Sarnia, Ontario, also from last weekend.
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The UFC returns to Vancouver this weekend for the first time in years, and we are joined by Dwight Wakabayashi from MMACanada.net to help us preview the entire UFC 174: Johnson vs. Bagautinov card. We also speak with Ryan Jimmo who will be facing Ovince St. Preux at the event.
Then we discuss various MMA news including multiple UFC Middleweights failing random drug tests, Jon Jones vs. Alexander Gustafsson, and the future of Invicta Fighting Championships.
Finally we take a look back at all of the robberies, eyepokes, freakouts, fishhooking, and firings that came out of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Khabilov.
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Pro Fighting Series 3 takes place on Saturday, June 14th in Sarnia, Ontario and Rob is joined in studio by two of the Canadian Lightweights competing that on that card.
Lightweights Adam "Maverick" Assenza discusses his co-main event matchup with Mike Sledzion, and Paul Jalbert talks his fight with the also-undefeated Matthew Socholotiuk.
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It's a completely stacked show this week, beginning with our preview of UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Khabilov coming up this Saturday night.
We also have an interview with Rory MacDonald discussing his upcoming co-main event fight against Tyron Woodley at UFC 174. Then we caught up with another Canadian fighter Mike Malott immediately following his knockout win at Ontario's Substance Cage Combat 2.0 last Friday night.
Finally there are recaps of last week's double-header of UFC Fight Night: Munoz vs. Mousasi and UFC Fight Night: Miocic vs. Maldonado, and some various MMA news.
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World Series Of Fighting Canada 2: Loiseau vs. Lewis is coming up this Saturday, and the WSOF Chief Operating Officer Darren Owen is on to talk about all of the big fights that night in Edmonton.
Then Dave Abraham joins Rob to discuss last weekend's Substance Cage Combat 2.0 in Ontario, including some of the more controversial issues coming out of the event.
Finally we have interviews with Substance Combat fighters Alex Ricci, Kyle Nelson and Adrian Wooley recorded immediately following their impressive wins last Friday night.
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For the first time ever the UFC is running two separate fight cards on the very same day. UFC Fight Night: Munoz vs. Mousasi from Germany, and UFC Fight Night: Miocic vs. Maldondo from Brazil are combining for roughly 12 hours of fights on Saturday, May 31st.
In addition to previewing the fights, we also have an interview with UFC's Francis Carmont, who will be facing CB Dollaway in the co-main event of the Berlin event.
Hopefully for the UFC, those cards will be as memorable as last weekend's UFC 173: Barao vs. Dillashaw event. Later in the show we discuss the new UFC Bantamweight Champion, World Series of Fighting, Bellator, and some recent interesting matchmaking.
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This week on The Hammer MMA Canada, Rob Veevers is joined by The Ultimate Fighter Nations fighter Matt DesRoches prior to his fight at the upcoming World Series Of Fighting Canada 2 event on June 7th.
Then there is a deeper look at this Friday night's Substance Cage Combat 2.0 event taking place in Toronto.
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UFC 173: Barao vs. Dillashaw is coming up and we spend the first half of this episode previewing the entire card, including the Bantamweight Championship main event, the Dan Henderson vs. Daniel Cormier title eliminator, and Robbie Lawler vs. Jake Ellenberger.
Then we take a look back at last weekend's Bellator 120: Rampage vs. King Mo. It was the company's first ever event on Pay Per View, and hopefully won't be the last. It was a night full of big upsets, crazy matchmaking, bad judging, and lots of profanity. At least it wasn't boring.
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The Hammer MMA Canada is back! This week Rob Veevers previews Unified MMA 19 in Edmonton, Alberta coming up on Friday May 23rd, 2014, and headlined by Chase Maxwell vs. Brandt Dewsberry.
Also, there's an early look at the upcoming Substance Cage Combat 2.0 event in Toronto, coming up May 30th, 2014.
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All three hosts are back in studio together for another episode discussing the week in basketball, baseball, football and hockey.
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We predicted that UFC Fight Night: Brown vs. Silva would be a night of violence, and it didn't disapoint. Matt Brown had a career defining performance and a possible match of the year contender, and we discuss what's next for "The Immortal".
Also Bellator has their first ever Pay Per View this Saturday night. While the announced main event of Eddie Alvarez vs. Michael Chandler 3 is off due to injury, there are still a ton of interesting matchups for us to preview.
Last but not least we have an interview with Bellator fighter (and former UFC title contender) John Alessio following his victory at Bellator 119 last weekend.
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The Hammer MMA Radio is expanding! As UFC, Bellator and World Series Of Fighting continue to promote more international events than ever before, it's been difficult to have airtime on The Hammer MMA Radio to cover the growing Canadian MMA scene.
Now every week Rob Veevers will cover the latest in Canadian MMA, including live events and interviews with Canadian talent.
This week's guests include Canadian fighters Diana Atkin and Behrang Yousefi (who is fresh off of a victory at Bellator 119 last weekend).
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UFC Fight Night: Brown vs. Silva is this weekend and on paper there are a lot of opportunities for impressive violence throughout the card. Rob Veevers from Banzuke Athletics joins the show to help us preview them all.
Then we discuss Bellator 119 which is coming to our neck of the woods this Friday night, as well as Junior Dos Santos' injury, Pat Barry's return to kickboxing, the UFC Rankings system, and Josh Thomson's stolen cell phone.
Finally UFC fighter (and former WEC Featherweight Champion) Mike Brown joins us to discuss his current hiatus, and his future in fighting.
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UFC 172: Jones vs. Teixeira is in the books, and Jon "Bones" Jones has yet again successfully defended his UFC Light Heavyweight championship. This episode we discuss the fallout from the main event as well as the rest of the fights on the card.
Then we run down recent MMA news including The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America announcement, The Ultimate Fighter women's strawweight tryouts, Bellator and World Series of Fighting updates, and an interview with the Director of Operations for UFC Canada, Tom Wright.
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Dan "The Doctor" Ryan returns to The Three Point Convert this week, and is joined as always by Jeff Hall to talk the week in NHL, NBA, and MLB. Later in the show, Mike Jeffery also calls in from the road to talk some NFL.
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Mike Bohn from USA Today joins us this week to preview the UFC 172: Jones vs. Teixeira card, and to look back on last weekend's UFC On Fox: Werdum vs. Browne main event.
Then in the second half of the show, brand new The Ultimate Fighter Nations winner Elias Theodorou talks about his huge win in Quebec, and his future in the UFC's Middleweight division.
Finally, we have post-fight interviews with eight UFC fighters (Oliver Aubin-Mercier, KJ Noons, Sarah Kaufman, Ryan Jimmo, George Roop, Nordine Taleb, Richard Walsh and Mitch Gagnon) recorded immediately after their fights last week.
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The Ultimate Fighter Nations Finale weigh-ins have just ended, so this episode we take a few minutes to discuss all of the pushing, shoving and wackiness that ensued.
We also have interviews with the two female fighters on the card, Sarah Kaufman and UFC newcomer Leslie Smith, discussing their big rematch. Also kind of randomly we are joined by Canadian Bobsledding Olympic Gold Medalist Kaillie Humphries, who has been around for all of the pre-fight festivities this week.
Last but not least, just we thought that we had an all-women guest list for our show today, Michael Bisping returned to the show to get in a few extra insults on his opponent Tim Kennedy.
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It is our second day in Quebec City for The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia Finale, and in this episode we have interviews with all of The Ultimate Fighter Nations contestants who are competing at the event.
In this nearly hour long bonus episode we speak with UFC fighters Elias Theodorou, Sheldon Westcott, Olivier Aubin-Mercier, Chad Laprise, Nordine Taleb, Vik Grujic, Richard Walsh, and Chris Indich about their UFC debuts, and their experiences on The Ultimate Fighter reality show.
Keep checking back at the locations below for more updates and interviews over the next few days.
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The Hammer MMA Radio are in Quebec City for The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia Finale, and this is the first of a handful of bonus shows that we'll be recording on location.
This episode has pre-fight interviews with all of the main event and co-main event fighters from the event: Michael Bisping, Tim Kennedy, Patrick Cote and Kyle Noke.
Keep checking back at the locations below for more updates and interviews over the next few days.
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The Hammer MMA Radio is headed to Quebec City for The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia Finale, and this episode is our full preview of all of the fights on the card.
Following that we recap the UFC Fight Night: Abu Dhabi results, talk some Bellator, and run down the rest of the week's MMA news.
Keep checking back at the locations linked below for multiple episodes this week including interviews with many of the fighters competing at the TUF Nations Finale.
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It's a two man show this week with Dan "The Doctor" Ryan busy saving lives, so Jeff Hall and Mike Jeffery are here to discuss this week in NFL, NHL, NBA, and MLB.
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After a couple of weeks off, the UFC returns this weekend with UFC Fight Night: Nogueira vs. Nelson from Abu Dhabi. This Fight Pass exclusive show has a handful of intriguing matchups, and we preview the entire card alongside guest host James Carlucci from Last Word On Sports.
There's also a ton of news to discuss including Gina Carano, Jake Shields, Nate Diaz, newly signed fights, injuries, Bellator and more.
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Last week's guest host Jeremy Murray returns and joins Jeff and Mike to discuss the week in baseball, basketball, hockey and football. Plus, Dan "The Doctor" Ryan calls in with a Doctor's Diagnosis segment from the road.
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It's rare in 2014 to see the UFC take a couple of weeks off from running events. Nevertheless, there are still The Ultimate Fighter: Nations, World Series of Fighting 9, and weekly Bellator shows to discuss this week.
We also check out some recent MMA news including the replacement UFC 173 main-event following Chris Weidman's injury, some newly signed and newly cancelled UFC matches, and Cyborg Justino's recent Muai Thai fight.
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The Three Point Convert has it's first guest host this week as Jeremy Murray joins regular hosts Jeff Hall and Dan "The Doctor" Ryan to discuss the week in the MLB, NBA, NHL, and NFL.
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UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson went down this past Sunday night from Natal, Brazil, and The Hammer MMA Radio crew were there in the building. On this episode we recap a great night of fights, including post-fight interviews with Jussier Formiga, Scott Jorgensen, Rony Jason, and Kenny Robertson.
We also discuss the upcoming Bellator and World Series of Fighting events, as well as the unfortunate injury of Chris Weidman that has delayed his UFC Middleweight Championship fight against Lyoto Machida.
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It is our last episode from Natal, Brazil before UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson takes place, and then we head back home to Canada.
Check out our final thoughts on the fights coming up Sunday night, some recent MMA news, Bellator results, the Brazilian MMA scene, and our bootleg show intro.
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The Hammer MMA Radio has arrived in Natal, Brazil for UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson. We have recorded this show immediately following the UFC Open Workouts.
Stay tuned throughout this episode for interviews with UFC fighters Dan Henderson, Jussier Formiga, Gian Villante, CB Dollaway and Cezar Mutante prior to their respective fights on Sunday, March 23rd.
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Steve and Greg check in from Brazil again, this time previewing the full fight card for the UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson 2 event coming up on March 23rd, 2014.
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This week brings us Shogun vs Henderson 2, a rematch of one of the great fights of all time. And for the first time in the history of the show we have a new Welterweight Champion! We look back at Johny Hendricks vs Robbie Lawler.
Also, with Steve and Greg still in Brazil, Rob Veevers and Shawn Smith return to co-host this episode.
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Our trip through Brazil continues in Manaus, the hometown of UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo.
Tomorrow we fly into the city of Natal for the build-up to UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson. In the meantime we are here discussing the fallout of UFC 171, and what all to expect for the coming week.
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Two-thirds of The Hammer MMA Radio hosts are still in Brazil, and Dave is still co-hosting the show with a few of the guys from Sportsnet. Look for the next episode around mid-week.
In the meantime, here is a bonus episode of The Three Point Convert, focusing on Major League Basebll pre-season predictions.
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This episode is preview of the upcoming Welterweight title fight between Johny Hendricks and Robbie Lawler, along with one of the best undercards of the year so far.
Then we review last Saturday's UFC Fight Night: Gustaffson vs. Manuwa event and discuss some news.
With Steve and Greg in Brazil and Dave somewhat loopy from a root canal, Rob Veers and Sportsnet.ca's James Lynch step in to save the show!
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Two-thirds of The Hammer MMA Radio hosts are on the way to Brazil, and Dave will be co-hosting the show with a few of the guys from Sportsnet. Look for the next episode around mid-week.
In the meantime, here is another episode of The Three Point Convert, talking the week in football, baseball, and basketball.
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This episode is up a few days early to recap UFC Fight Night: Kim vs. Hathaway from Macau, that aired at the ridiculous time of 5am. Although it was an online-only Fight Pass event, it may have been the most enjoyable show of 2014 so far.
Then we preview next weekend's UFC Fight Night: Gustaffson vs. Manuwa event, Bellator, The NSAC banning TRT use, and what it means for fighters like Vitor Belfort going forward.
Finally, Steve and Greg will be heading to Brazil shortly and Dave will be hosting The Hammer MMA for the next few weeks with various members of the Sportsnet.ca team, and it should should make for some fun shows.
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The Hammer MMA Radio hosts were up at 5am to watch UFC Fight Night: Kim vs. Hathaway, live on UFC Fight Pass from Macao. A new episode of The Hammer will be up soon, but in the meantime here is another episode of the general sports podcast The Three Point Convert.
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UFC 170: Rousey vs. McMann is over, and it was a much needed night of impressive victories and solid knockouts. This episode we recap all of the fights of a card that included amongst other things, early stoppages, late stoppages, fighting baristas and avocado-related injuries.
We also break down this coming week's UFC Fight Night: Kim vs. Hathaway and Bellator 110, discuss Gilbert Melendez's new big money deal, and interview this season's Ultimate Fighter: Nations contestant Matt DesRoches.
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This week we're joined by Sportsnet.ca's Adam Martin to preview Saturday night's UFC 170: Rousey vs. McMann. For the second time in two months UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey is defending her title, and we preview all of this Saturday night's card.
Also coming up this weekend is World Series of Fighting Canada: Ford vs. Powell. Joining us in the second half of the episode are two WSOF fighters competing on that card, Lenny Wheeler and Mark Drummond. We also fit in a bit of weekly MMA news, and the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Mousasi.
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Due to radio station pre-emptions and polar vortexes, we had to combine two episodes into one this week. The first half is a full preview of the UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Mousasi event coming up next Saturday night.
Then we discuss a ton of MMA news including a potential Jose Aldo vs. Anthony Pettis superfight, UFC 169 results, Jessica Eye's overturned victory, Anthony "Rumble" Johnson, Julianna Pena's injury, recent matchmaking, and Thiago Silva's arrest and subsequent firing from the UFC.
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For a variety of reasons the next episode of The Hammer MMA Radio has been delayed, but will be up tomorrow. In the meantime since people seem to be enjoying it, here's the latest episode of The Three Point Convert sports podcast with hosts Jeff Hall, Mike Jeffery, and Dan "The Doctor" Ryan.
Their third episode includes post-Super Bowl discussion, the latest MLB and NBA news, and some Sochi Winter Olympics analysis. Sort of.
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This week we are joined by Sportsnet's James Lynch (@lynchonsports) to help us preview Saturday night's UFC 169: Barao vs. Faber event. We discuss the Bantamweight title fight, Jose Aldo vs. Ricardo Lamas for the Featherweight title, Frank Mir. vs. Alistair Overeem for job security, and the rest of a pretty stacked card.
Then we look back at some of the week's biggest MMA news including the respective retirements of Chris Leben and Pat Barry, the 2014 Canadian UFC event schedule, some UFC Brazil drama, Bellator's latest tournament announcements, and last weekend's controversial UFC On Fox: Henderson vs. Thomson fight.
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The Three Point Convert Podcast will be launching it's own channel soon, but in the meantime here's the latest episode from hosts Jeff Hall, Mike Jeffery, and Dan "The Doctor" Ryan talking this week in Football, Basketball, Baseball and Hockey.
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After a rare week off we're back previewing this coming Saturday night's UFC On Fox: Henderson vs. Thomson show, as well as recapping a few of the more notable and ludicrous moments from last week's UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Philipou.
Then we get into one of the busiest MMA news weeks in recent memory including Georges St. Pierre's issues with UFC drug-testing, Bellator's latest matchmaking, why Khabib Nurmagomedov can't find a fight, and more.
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Due to unfortunate technical difficulties and timeslot pre-emptions, The Hammer MMA Radio had to miss this week's episode, but our next show will be up in a few days previewing UFC On Fox: Henderson vs. Thomson.
In the meantime we've uploaded a new sports podcast recorded in our studio: The Three Point Convert, talking this week in sports with hosts Jeff Hall, Mike Jeffery, and Dan "The Doctor" Ryan.
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Last weekend the UFC put on it's first international event using the UFC Fight Pass online subscription service, and we gave it a shot to watch UFC Fight Night: Saffiedine vs. Lim, from Singapore. At 9:00am. It was actually pretty good, and we recap all of the fights to kick off this week's episode.
Following that we discuss all of the week's news including Dominick Cruz's injury and subsequent vacating of the UFC Bantamweight title, Faber vs. Barao, Rockhold vs. Philippou, World Series Of Fighting vs. Bellator, and Tito Ortiz vs. a breathalyzer test.
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UFC 168: Weidman vs. Silva is over, and 2014 looks to be a year of young champions and absent legends. Chris Weidman retained the UFC Middleweight title after Anderson Silva's leg shattered during a kick. We discuss the aftermath of that fight, Ronda Rousey's continued streak of armbars, and all of the rest of the fights from last weekend.
Also we take a quick look at The UFC Fight Pass digitial service that launched this week, as well as the first event to be exclusively broadcast on it, UFC Fight Night: Saffedine vs. Lim from Singapore.
Finally, this week the Official UFC Rankings have now grown to include the Top 15 in each division. Check out our contribution at The UFC Rankings Page and Last Word On Sports.
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This week's episode is up a few days early due to the holidays, and it's some sort of Christmas miracle that the show even happened. Ice storms and blackouts couldn't quite keep us from previewing next weekend's UFC 168: Silva vs. Weidman, where two title fights (including Ronda Rousey's rematch with Miesha Tate) will headline one of the biggest shows of the year.
Following that we spend a few minutes discussing recent UFC cuts and the EA videogame box cover tournament. Also, you can check out Steve as a guest on The Parting Shot MMA Podcast this week with TSN's James Lynch and Sportsnet.ca's Adam Martin.
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It's the Fourth Annual Hammer Awards episode. As always we choose the winners and losers in eight categories such as Fighter of the Year, Fight of the Year, Submission of the Year and of course Douchebag of the Year.
Before we get to that though, we had a busy week of MMA news to discuss including Georges St. Pierre's retirement, the future of vacant UFC Welterweight Championship, the exciting new 115 pound women's division on The Ultimate Fighter, recent drug test failures, and last weekend's action packed UFC On Fox 9: Johnson vs. Benavidez event.
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After taking a rare week off, we're back to talk about a busy week of MMA including this upcoming Saturday night's UFC On Fox 9: Johnson vs. Benavidez. Although a few important fights fell through due to injuries, the card is still full of promising fights from top to bottom.
Afterwards we discuss last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Bigfoot which was a night of violence including one of the best heavyweight fights of all time, Invicta FC 7, and recent news including The UFC Digital Network, Ben Askren's new home, The Ultimate Fighter: Nations, and UFC Heavyweight Shane Del Rosario's unfortunate passing.
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Our live broadcast was pre-empted this week, so this is a shorter than usual episode previewing The Ultimate Fighter 18 Finale: Diaz vs. Maynard event. That card features the Men and Women Bantamweight finals, and more female fighters competing than on any Zuffa show so far.
We also have a few minutes with current UFC Champion Chris Weidman prior to his rematch with Anderson Silva, a recap of the last Bellator event of the season, an update on UFC fighter Matt Grice and new fight announcements from The UFC and World Series Of Fighting.
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The UFC just celebrated their 20th Anniversary with mystery and controversy. UFC 167: St. Pierre vs. Hendricks may have been a great night of fights, but the main event still has everyone scratching their heads days after it ended. We spend a lot of time this episode trying to make sense of the judging, the referees, the rumors, the future of the Welterweight division and everything in-between.
Following that we break down the rest of the UFC 167 fights, discuss Rampage Jackson's first night in Bellator, the value of Ben Askren on the free market and the possibility of a UFC Women's 115 lb. division.
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UFC 167: St. Pierre vs. Hendricks is coming up next weekend and in addition to the much anticipated Welterweight Championship fight, the event also celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. As this is one of the biggest cards of the year we've once again called on Fighters Only Magazine's Shawn Smith to help us preview the show, and also released the episode a few days early.
Also, the podcast version of this week's episode has an extra half an hour discussing the results of UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Henderson that couldn't fit on the live broadcast.
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This week we are joined by former UFC Middleweight contender Patrick Cote to talk about his role as a coach on the upcoming Ultimate Fighter: Canada vs. Australia reality show. He give us his thoughts on coaching against Kyle Noke's Australian team, the talent levels of both countries, and his current place as a UFC Welterweight.
We also have an extensive recap of the fights and fallout from Bellator 106, preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Henderson, and awkwardly discuss UFC Fight For The Troops 3 which was happening at the exact same time as we were on air.
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We have another packed show this week as we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Munoz from last weekend, preview the stacked Bellator 106: Chandler vs. Alvarez show coming up on Saturday, and run down some of the bigger recent MMA news.
We also have UFC's Executive Vice-President of Entertainment Don Gold, and nutrition expert Mike Dolce on to talk about the new UFC Fit program. Greg has been using UFC Fit for about a month and loves it, but we figured it was best for everyone to hear it from the guys behind the system.
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It's another big week of fights between the aftermath of last weekend's UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos, and our full card breakdown of this coming Saturday's UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Munoz from England.
While those two events take up most of the show, we also have a few words with highly ranked UFC Lightweight Khabib Nurmagomedov and some news including new UFC signings, and Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva being announced as the coaches for the next season of The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil.
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This week we're previewing UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos. Since it's such a big event (including three huge heavyweight fights and the return of Gilbert Melendez) we've brought in Sportsnet.ca's Shawn Smith to help us out.
We also have an interview with UFC 166 fighter Adlan Amagov just days prior to his fight with TJ Waldburger, and then a few thoughts on last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Shields, most notably the suspension, firing, and lifetime ban of Rousimar Palhares.
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As the UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Shields event was airing at exactly the same time as our live broadcast, we had to work with what we had. So we discussed some newly signed fights, the introduction of World Series of Fighting Canada, Ben Rothwell's suspension, and then caught up on The Ultimate Fighter. Sort of.
We also have some interviews recorded at a recent charity event including UFC Lightweight Contender TJ Grant, Middleweight Boxing Champion Daniel Jacobs, and actor Kevin Sorbo. When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When the UFC airs a show that you can't be watching, then you bring in Hercules.
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UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Shields takes place at exactly the same time that our live broadcast airs next week so we're previewing the entire card a whole week in advance. Following that we we get into all of the week's news including Michael Bisping's injury, a ton of recent fighter cuts including Yushin Okami, and the unfortunate death of a Brazilian fighter while cutting weight for a fight.
Finally, we have an interview with the current UFC Interim Bantamweight Champion Renan Barao talking about his home in Brazil, his public persona, and his inevitable showdown with Dominick Cruz.
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We're back from our week in Toronto covering UFC 165: Jones vs. Gustafsson. While we were excited for the show going in, we had no idea that the main event would turn out to be one of the greatest fights in Mixed Martial Arts history.
For this entire episode we talk about the incredible Jones vs. Gustafsson fight, as well as the other dozen fights on the card. Spread throughout the episode are post-fight interviews with UFC 165 fighters Francis Carmont, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Myles Jury, Wilson Reis, Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson, Mitch Gagnon, John "The Bull" Makdessi, Jesse Ronson and Alex "Bruce Leeroy" Cacares, all conducted backstage immediately following their matches.
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We've been in Toronto all week for the build-up to UFC 165: Jones vs. Gustafsson. In addition to our previous show previewing all of the matches, this is a bonus show now that we've attended the various media events (including a UFC Fit program hosted by Mike Dolce that Greg's still feeling).
In this episode we have interviews with competing UFC 165 fighters including UFC Light Heavyweight Championship contender Alexander Gustafsson, UFC Interim Bantamweight Championship contender Eddie Wineland, main-carders Brendan Schaub and Matt Mitrione, and one of our favorite recurring guests John "The Bull" Makdessi.
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This week's show is up a little bit early because we're on the way to Toronto for the week for UFC 165: Jones vs. Gustafsson. There's a lot for us to discuss between the two title fights, the multiple up-and-comers on huge win streaks, and the UFC debut of another of our local fighters Jesse Ronson.
Afterwards we talk some more about The Ultimate Fighter: Rousey vs. Tate, the coaches for next season's Ultimate Fighter, Bellator 99 and 100, World Series of Fighting 5, and more.
We've also included audio from the UFC 165 pre-fight conference call and we'll be posting more shows later this week following the various UFC media events.
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The Ultimate Fighter Season 18 is in full swing. Ronda Rousey and Meisha Tate are hating each other, women are in the TUF house for the first time, and our hometown fighter Josh Hill is in there too. We discuss what is and isn't working so far this season, and what we think of the cast and coaches now that we've seen the show.
We're also recapping UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs. Bader, Bellator's recent cursed events, Sean Sherk and Matt Riddle's retirements, Matt Grice's unfortunate auto accident, recent matchmaking, and all of the other MMA news going on.
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This week's episode is up a couple of days early so that we are able to preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Texiera vs. Bader, which is the second Wednesday night UFC card in a row.
Also we have a detailed recap of last weekend's UFC 164: Henderson vs. Pettis show featuring Anthony Pettis once against winning a title from Ben Henderson. As a result, we spend a lot of time analysing the future of the Lightweight and Featherweight divisions due to this development. Finally, we catch up on all of the latest Bellator news, some of which are completely infuriating.
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It's the first of our new longer show format, and we get to preview one hell of a main event for this Saturday night. UFC 164: Henderson vs. Pettis 2 is a rematch of one of our favorite fights of all time, and we spend a ton of time looking at their matchup. We also get into the rest of Saturday night's card, including the Mir vs. Barnett co-main event.
There's also a ton of Bellator news, some Rampage vs. Tito wrestling ridiculousness, and our real-time coverage of the UFC on FS 2: Condit vs. Kampmann show, which was going on at the exact same time as our live broadcast.
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It's our last half hour show before moving to a new one-hour format. We probably could have used the extra time this week to cover the aftermath of UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Sonnen, which was one of the best shows of the year, and certainly the best free TV card. We run down all of the knockouts, upsets, and controvery from last Saturday night's event.
Then we preview next week's UFC Fight Night: Condit vs. Kampmann 2 show, the revealed Ultimate Fighter Season 18 cast list (including our local star Josh Hill), Stefan Struve's unfortunate health problems, and recent UFC cuts.
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The UFC really knows how to make a first impression. To kick off the brand new Fox Sports 1 Channel this Saturday night, Chael Sonnen, Shogun Rua, Alistair Overeem, Urijah Faber, and a ton of the most exciting young fighters in the company are all fighting on a free TV show that shouldn't be missed. We break down all of the fights, and can't agree on any of them.
There's also a bunch of news including the return of Eddie Alvarez to Bellator, Bellator's insane new title challenger replacement system, and more unfortunate updates on Jason "Mayhem" Miller.
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UFC 163: Aldo vs. Zombie was a more interesting show than expected due to a pair of strange injuries in the main event, a controversial decision against an actual Brazilian in Brazil, and a couple of great knockouts and submissions. On this week's show we recap the whole card, and disagree on pretty much everything.
We also discuss the news of Bellator's first PPV featuring Rampage Jackson and Tito Ortiz, some of the highlights from last week's Bellator 97 show, this Saturday's World Series of Fighting 4 card, and an unfortunate injury to Sara McMann.
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UFC 163 is this weekend with The Korean Zombie stepping up to face Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo. It's not the deepest card, but between the exciting title fight and some much needed Flyweight and Women's Bantamweight action, there's a lot for us to discuss before the fights on Saturday night.
We also recap last weekend's UFC On Fox 8: Johnson vs. Moraga, a card notable for both a disapointing main event, and for a Flyweight Title fight that actually ended in a finish. Finally, we try to discuss Bellator's big secret PPV plans, but happen to fail miserably.
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UFC on Fox 8: Johnson vs. Moraga is this Saturday night headlined by a Flyweight Championship fight, and an even more intriguing Rory MacDonald vs. Jake Ellenberger match. In addition we also take an early look at next week's stacked Bellator 97 event, and some of the more interesting news of the week.
Also just as a heads up, there was a minor technical issue this week that we mostly fixed in post-production. The episode is still totally listenable, but either way we should have the problem worked out by next week's show.
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The first 30 seconds of this week's show are a real mess. It's worth it though, because with a lack of UFC events for a couple of weeks, we have time to really get into last weekend's Invicta FC 6: Cyborg vs. Coenen show. As always the all-women's promotion put on a great night of fights, and we're running down all of them.
Afterwards we talk about the newly signed Anderson Silva vs. Chris Weidman rematch, TJ Grant's injury and replacement, some recent injuries, and Brian Stann's retirement.
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Anderson Silva finally lost his UFC Middleweight title last Saturday night at UFC 162. It was pretty weird. We run down all of the wackiness involved in the crowning of the new UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman, as well as all of the other matches on a really entertaining show.
We also have a quick preview of the all-women's Invicta FC 6 show coming up this Saturday night. Invicta hasn't put on a bad show yet, and now they're even on pay per view.
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UFC 162: Silva vs. Weidman is this weekend and it's one of the biggest fights of the year. We're really hyped about this main event and we spend a ton of time debating it, as well as previewing all of the rest of the fights on the card.
Afterwards we recap last weekend's Substance Cage Combat event in Toronto, and stick around until the end of the show for interviews with the promoter Neil Forrester, as well as some of the competing fighters including Alex Ricci, Todd Stoute, Jayce Gould, and Pat Walsh.
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It's kind of a random show this week. First we talk a bit about the local Ontario MMA scene including the Substance Combat show coming up this Saturday night in Toronto. Then we recap Bellator 96 from last weekend featuring the revenge of "King Mo" Lawal and the retirement of "Babalu" Sobral.
We also discuss Anthony Pettis's attempts to move into the UFC 164 main event, the new UFC dress code, the Anderson Silva vs. Chris Weidman hype, and how to be bad at Twitter.
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It's a double-sized show for our 150th episode, and we start off by recapping the entire UFC 161: Evans vs. Henderson event which only felt like it was twice as long as usual. We also recap World Series of Fighting 3, and preview this week's Bellator 96 and Nick Diaz's WAR promotion.
Later in the show we discuss Anthony Pettis' injury and removal from the UFC 163 main event, look at Substance Combat in Ontario, and argue about everything we know regarding The Ultimate Fighter: Canada vs. Australia announcement.
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Greg is finally back from Australia, and it's just in time for our wackiest show in a while. First we catch him up on what he missed in the MMA world while he was gone. It takes about ten seconds. Then we preview this Saturday night's entire UFC 161: Evans vs. Henderson card.
We also have a quick word with UFC fighter Yves Jabouin, recap last weekend's fun UFC on Fuel submission-fest, and wonder how the World Series of Fighting 3 show featuring Jon Fitch will do this Friday night.
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UFC on Fuel 10: Nogueira vs. Werdum is happening this weekend, and you may not know that because it's the finale show to The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 2 reality show that no one seemed to watch. Fortunately a strong main event and some solid prospects on the undercard give us something to talk about.
There's also a ton of interesting news including Bellator signing of Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, the continuing saga of Shogun vs. Sonnen, big changes to the UFC's marijuana-testing policy, and a whole bunch of intriguing new fights have been signed.
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UFC 160: Velasquez vs. Bigfoot was a hugely entertaining show that included highlight reel knockouts by Cain Velasquez, Junior Dos Santos, and TJ Grant, and that was just the main card. We recap all of the fights from last weekend and try to figure out what's next for all of the fighters from here.
There's also a bunch of news such as Meisha Tate replacing Cat Zingano's as an The Ultimate Fighter coach and a Women's Bantamweight Title contender, Forrest Griffin's retirement and entry into the UFC Hall Of Fame, and rumors of an Anderson Silva injury.
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We're back to basics this week. Greg took off to Australia for a few weeks and we have no interviews or guests on the show for the first time in months, so we're just talking about a bunch of fights.
First off, Dave and Steve recap last weekend's UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold featuring headkick knockouts and the requisite awful judges call. Then we run down all of the matches on this coming weekend's UFC 160: Velasquez vs. Bigfoot event, which is about as stacked as a show can be nowadays.
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The UFC returns this weekend with UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold, live from Brazil. We discuss how the final Strikeforce Middleweight Champion Luke Rockhold will do in his first big test in the big leagues against a legend like Vitor Belfort. Unfortunately for everyone, the rest of the card is a lot less intriguing than the main event.
Then we check in with the highly-ranked UFC Lightweight TJ Grant, a week before the biggest matchup of his career against Gray Maynard. There's also a ton of weird MMA news this week including Pat Healy's costly drug failure, Mark Hunt being trapped in New Zealand, Nick Diaz wanting to start his own crazy promotion, and other wacky Bellator and Invicta FC news.
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Canadian UFC Fighter Month continues on The Hammer MMA Radio, and this week we're catching up with UFC Middleweight Nick Ring to talk about his recent career, and also about the assault that he stopped last year in Calgary.
We also have Las Vegas fighter and promoter Bill Smallwood on to speak about his recent win in the C3 Fights Promotion, and then we run down the latest round of UFC fighter cuts and the rumored list of female fights floating around for the co-ed season of The Ultimate Fighter.
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UFC 159: Jones vs. Sonnen is over and done with. Eyes were poked, fingers were bent, and toes were near-severed on a night full of crazy and ridiculous injuries. We recap all of the weirdness in depth, and also wonder where Chael Sonnen can possibly go from here.
After that we catch up with Canadian UFC fighter Mike Ricci for a really random talk about videogames and fashion, and then discuss everything that we know so far about the return of Ontario MMA with Substance Combat.
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UFC 159: Jones vs. Sonnen is coming up this weekend, and while the build-up to the main event is surprisingly lacking in excitement, the rest of the card is still full of interesting fights. One of those fights is Olympic Silver Medalist Sara McMann and we speak with her about her MMA career up to this point, her upcoming match with Sheila Gaff, and what it's like to enter the UFC for the first time.
We also recap last weekend's UFC On Fox 7: Henderson vs. Melendez. There's plenty to discuss in the aftermath between a somewhat controversial decision in the main event, a surprise wedding proposal, and a near-record amount of violent knockouts.
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It's a pretty stacked show this week with a couple of great guests. First we catch up with Canadian Featherweight Lyndon Whitlock to discuss the current Ontario fighting scene as well as the unfortunate death of one of our hometown fighters recently at an event in Michigan.
Later in the show we speak with Nate Diaz about a ton of subjects including his big fight with Josh Thomson coming up this Saturday night at UFC on Fox 7: Henderson vs. Melendez event. We also preview the rest of that incredible looking show, and recap last weekend's The Ultimate Fighter 17 Finale.
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This week we have top Canadian Bantamweight Josh Hill on the show for the first time in almost two years. Josh made his name in The Score Fighting Series promotion and is now on his way to Las Vegas to try out for the next season of The Ultimate Fighter. We talk about what the tryouts may be like, the Ontario MMA scene, and the current Bantamweight competition both in and out of the UFC.
After that we preview this weekend's The Fighter Finale headlined by Urijah Faber vs. Scott Jorgensen, and recap a ton of great fights from last weekend including Bellator 95, Invicta FC 5, and UFC on Fuel 9.
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Due to an unfortunate inury to Alexander Gustafsson, this Saturday's show has now been changed to UFC On Fuel 9: Mousasi vs. Latifi. Who is Latifi? We try to figure it out. We also preview the rest of the card including a great looking Bantamweight fight with Brad Pickett vs. Mike Easton.
After that we speak with Firas Zahabi, the head trainer of Georges St. Pierre and the owner of Tristar Gym, preview Thursday's Bellator 95 with an exciting Featherweight Championship fight, and run down Friday night's Invitca 5 show featuring most of the top female fighters in the world not currently signed to the UFC, and even one who actually is.
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It's kind of a different show this week. As you'd expect we start off with the latest Georges St. Pierre and Nick Diaz wackiness. Yes there's a conspiracy afoot and it involves scales and decimal points. We also talk GSP's new movie role, the latest World Series of Fighting 2 event, poor Melvin Guillard, and some bad luck for Dan Hardy.
The second half of the episode has our interviews with various UFC personnel recorded at one of their recent UFC Community Works Programs. We spoke with UFC legend Matt Hughes, current UFC fighters Francis Carmont, TJ Grant and Tyron Woodley, and UFC Head of Canadian Operations Tom Wright about the positive work that they accomplished at a local school.
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It's our first episode since we returned from UFC 158: St. Pierre vs. Diaz and we have our full recap of the entire card. Also stick around to the end of the episode for Dave's post-fight interviews with UFC 158 fighters Jake Ellenberger, Mike Ricci, Jordan Mein, John Makdessi, Patrick Cote, Antonio Carvalho, Darren Elkins and Rick Story, all recorded moments after each of their fights ended.
We're also previewing this Saturday night's World Series Of Fighting 2 on NBC Sports, the announcement of a co-ed Ultimate Fighter season starring Ronda Rousey and a woman to be determined, another set of recent drug-test failures, and the poor woman that now has to fight Cyborg Santos next weekend.
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The Hammer MMA crew were at the UFC 158: St. Pierre vs. Diaz weigh-ins, also known as the Nick Diaz Show. As expected, wackiness ensued, some of which even instigated by our own David Abraham.
Also, this episode has our interviews with UFC 158 fighters Jordan Mein, John Makdessi, Antonio Carvallo, TJ Dillashaw, and Dan Miller about their fights this Saturday night, as well as UFC Hall of Famer Matt Hughes' thoughts on the whole Nick Diaz situation.
So get your wolf tickets, and listen to us Wednesday nights at 7pm on CFMU 93.3 FM, and online at http://www.thehammermma.com, Last Word On Sports, and The Itunes Store, or just email us.
It's been a busy day in Montreal, and we're right in the middle of the build-up to UFC 158: St. Pierre vs. Diaz. In this bonus episode we discuss the Media Workouts featuring all of the main card fighters (except for Nick Diaz of course), as well as what was going on at the UFC Fan Experience event.
Also, stick around for the second half of this episode because we had sometime with most of the biggest names fighting at UFC 158 including Carlos Condit, Johny Hendricks, Jake Ellenberger, Nate Marquardt, Patrick Cote, and also a few words with UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre.
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The Hammer MMA Radio staff are in Montreal for UFC 158: St. Pierre vs. Diaz, and somewhat unexpectedly wound up watching professional athletes practicing some MMA with the owner of Tristar Gym, and Georges St. Pierre's right-hand man, Firas Zahabi.
So we caught up with former NHL greats Georges Laracque and Denis Gauthier, 3-time Olympic speed-skater Isabelle Charest, and 2-time Olympic speed-skater Marianne St. Gelais to talk about their brief foray into MMA, and what they are looking forward to seeing at the fights this weekend.
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This episode is a few days early since we're on our way to Montreal for the week to cover UFC 158: St. Pierre vs. Diaz. We run down the entire card, and while that takes up most of the show we also discuss all of the weirdness surrounding the Junior Dos Santos vs. Mark Hunt announcement this week.
We've also included audio from the highly entertaining, and completely crazy media conference call featuring a riled up Georges St. Pierre and Nick Diaz. Also, we'll be posting new shows this week from Montreal, following various media events.
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UFC On Fuel: Silva vs. Stann was this past weekend in Japan, and while most of the card was kind of hard to watch, the two main fights more than made up for it. We recap all of it, including all of the violence, the boredom, and the horrible judging.
There's also a (brief) look at recent Bellator shows, Anderson Silva's next fight, and some various UFC ratings and network news. Also, we'll be doing multiple online-only shows next week live from Montreal for UFC 158: GSP vs. Diaz, so subscribe now.
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This week we are joined by former WEC Bantamweight Chad "Savage" George to talk about the fascinating new documentary about his life, "Occupation: Fighter".
Afterwards we spend some time recapping the apparently quite successful UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche card from last weekend, preview the upcoming UFC on Fuel: Silva vs. Stann show, marvel at the recent violence in Bellator, and discuss the current state of Jose Aldo and Anthony Pettis.
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It's a packed show this week (our longest ever), and we're discussing the first ever UFC Women's fight coming up this weekend. UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche headlines a pretty stacked card that also includes Dan Henderson, Lyoto Machida, Urijah Faber, and Josh Koscheck.
Then we recap last weekend's UFC on Fuel: Barao vs. McDonald, Bellator, Rory MacDonald's injury, Cyborg Santos in Invicta, the new UFC Rankings, and a ton of surprising fighters cut this week, including Jon Fitch.
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We're back to recording the show live after a month or two of studio-hopping. This week we are previewing all of the fights on Saturday night's UFC on Fuel: Barao vs. McDonald, including the first defense of Renan Barao's UFC Interim Bantamweight Title.
This week's news includes the surprising end of Olympic Wrestling, new additions and subtractions to the UFC's women's division, and who's next for Cain Velasquez.
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UFC 156: Aldo vs. Edgar was one of those shows full of surprises. There were controversial decisions, incredible upsets, bad karma for Jon Fitch, you name it. We recap the entire night of fights, especially the ramifications of Jose Aldo's successful UFC Featherweight Championship defense.
Then we discuss recent Bellator fights, all of Randy Couture's new TV shows, The World Series of Fighting, drug failures in Brazil, and the new official UFC Fighter Rankings system.
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It's another double-sized episode because the UFC and Bellator keep cranking out fight cards. We start off by previewing this weekend's UFC 156: Aldo vs. Edgar. It's a UFC Featherweight Championship superfight and we can't stop talking about it.
Then we look back at last weekend's successful UFC on Fox: Johnson vs. Dodson card including what looks like the end of Rampage Jackson, the most recent Bellator shows, what's up with Matt Hughes and Randy Couture, and some bad news for Canadian MMA.
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It's a double-sized episode this week, and we needed it. This Saturday night is UFC On Fox 6: Johnson vs. Dodson. Between the Flyweight Championship Title Fight, Cerrone vs. Pettis, and what may be Rampage Jackson's last fight ever, this free TV card gives us a lot to talk about.
Then we recap last weekend's UFC On FX 7: Bisping vs. Belfort, look at the first two Bellator shows on Spike TV, and hit up some of the week's MMA news including shady sponsors, a bunch of UFC fighters who were cut, and some recent unfortunate injuries.
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UFC on FX: Bisping vs. Belfort is this weekend live from Brazil, and while the card is hit or miss, the main event is about as good as you can hope for on free TV. We analyze Michael Bisping vs. Vitor Belfort, as well as most of the fights on the card.
After that, we recap the last ever Strikeforce show from last weekend, and what's next for the fighters that will now migrate into the UFC, and a few of the ones that may not. Then we preview Bellator's debut on Spike with two huge title fights, talk about some drug suspensions, and for some reason Dana White's ears.
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It's the end of an era. It wasn't always a good era, but Strikeforce is having it's last show ever this weekend, featuring Nate Marquardt, Daniel Cormier, Josh Barnett and Jacare Souza. So we have kind of a wake for the company with a full preview of the card, discuss where we think all of the fighters will wind up, and talk about some of our best and worst Strikeforce moments.
Then we recap last weekend's all-women's Invicta FC 4 card, and look at what's turning into the feud of the year...Eddie Alvarez vs. Bellator.
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UFC 155: Dos Santos vs. Velasquez was an interesting night of fights that included a new UFC Heavyweight Champion, a fight of the year contender, a few boring fights and some legally blind judges. We run down all of the fights from the main event to the prelims.
Afterwards we do a quick recap of Dream 18's New Year's show from Japan, and the upcoming Invicta FC 4 show featuring the best up-and-coming women's MMA fighters.
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It's the last episode of the year, and it's been a pretty quiet one for MMA news. At least we have UFC 155: Dos Santos vs. Velasquez II coming up this weekend, so we spend the whole show previewing the really deep card, most notably the UFC Title Heavyweight rematch.
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It's the Third Annual Hammer Awards episode. Pretty much we just choose the winners and losers in categories like Fighter of the Year, Fight of the Year, Submission of the Year and of course, Douchebag of the Year. Check it out.
We also go overtime with full recaps of last weekend's UFC on FX 6, The Ultimate Fighter 16 Finale and the Bellator show.
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Not only did the UFC put on one of the best fight cards of the year last week in UFC on Fox 5: Henderson vs. Diaz, but they are following it up with two promising Ultimate Fighter finales on this weekend. As a result, our show is going a little long this week.
We also cover all of the week's MMA news including the first ever UFC women's fight in February and all of the drama surrounding it already, some Bellator news, and the unexpected retirement of top Canadian fighter Mark Hominick.
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The UFC is giving us possibly the best card of the year on free TV this weekend, and we can barely contain our excitment. UFC on Fox 5: Henderson vs. Diaz is full of action-packed fights that we can't agree on at all. Luckily UFC fighter Mark Bocek makes a quick appearance to give his thoughts on the main event.
We also look some recent injury news including a terrible one to Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz, and a promising Bellator show coming up on Friday night.
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It's a packed show this week and we lead off with all of the week's MMA news including yet another Strikeforce disaster, some serious changes to Bellator's matchmaking policies, Thiago Silva's latest drug test failure, and what looks like the unfortunate end to Nick Denis' UFC career.
Also last Friday night we were at The Score Fighting Series 7 in our hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, and we have interviews with The UFC's Antonio Carvalho, Strikeforce's Jordan Mein, and The Score Fighting Series' Jesse Ronson, all discussing the event.
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We are back from Montreal with a full recap of UFC 154: St. Pierre vs. Condit, including highlights from live in the building, the post-fight press conference, and what we learned from conversations with UFC staff and fighters following the event.
Also we have some exerpts of Dave speaking with Anderson Silva, a preview of The Score Fighting Series coming up this weekend in Hamilton, Ontario and updates on some of the recent injuries in the UFC.
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The Hammer MMA Radio is still down in Montreal, and we've recorded another show following the UFC 154 Open Media Workouts. Check it out for our updated predictions on the fights this weekend, with all of the additional (and sometimes irrelevant) information that we've learned over the last few days. Also, stick around to the end for some extra audio from Martin Kampmann and Johny Hendrix.
Enjoy the fights this weekend.
We're on site in Montreal for UFC 154: St. Pierre vs. Condit. Check out this episode for our thoughts on the pre-fight press conference, and a batch of fighter interviews including Mark Bocek, John Makdessi, and Mark Hominick.
This week's episode is up a day early, as Dave and Greg are on the way to Montreal for the rest of the week to cover UFC 154: St. Pierre vs. Condit.
On this week's show we preview the entire UFC 154 card, recap last weekend's UFC on Fuel: Franklin vs. Le, and give our early thoughts on the closing of Strikeforce and the upcoming introduction of a UFC women's division.
Check back online all this week for bonus episodes on location following various UFC 154 media events, and we'll be back live next Wednesday night at 7pm on CFMU 93.3 FM, http://www.thehammermma.com, Last Word On Sports, and The Itunes Store.
We're gearing up towards UFC 154: St. Pierre vs. Condit in Montreal on November 17th. This week we discuss the UFC 154 Media Conference including the complete audio from the event.
Then we preview this Saturday's UFC on Fuel: Franklin vs. Le, talk this week's latest drug suspensions, give our thoughts on the latest trainwreck episode of The Ultimate Fighter, and recap all of the MMA cards from last weekend.
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UFC fighter and The Ultimate Fighter alumni TJ Dillashaw is on the show this week to talk about his career. Then with no UFC cards this weekend and the Strikeforce show being cancelled, we preview some of the smaller MMA shows including The World Series Of Fighting, Resurrection Fighting Alliance, and Bellator shows coming up on Friday and Saturday night.
We also hit up all the week's news such as Stephan Bonnar's retirement, The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 2, the current TUF season, and what's going on in Bellator.
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With no major MMA cards this week, and with so much recent talk about Anderson Silva vs. Georges St. Pierre and Jon Jones, we decided to see just how super some of these proposed superfights would actually be.
We also run down all the week's news including the Bellator events, The Score Fighting Series, Anthony Pettis' injuries, a couple of drug test failures and the unfortunate passing of Jeff Blatnick.
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While the current season of The Ultimate Fighter is floundering, things look a lot more interesting for the new year, as Jon "Bones" Jones and Chael Sonnen will be hosting the show and then fighting in the new year. We discuss whether this matchup, and a new timeslot, can help save the whole TUF concept.
Then we run down the rest of this week's news, including yet another cancelled Strikeforce show, the completely ridiculous UFC 153: Silva vs. Bonnar results, and the latest on Eddie Alvarez and Bellator.
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It's MMA overload this week. We start the show previewing UFC 153: Silva vs. Bonnar (yes, that fight is really happening, and we kind of love it), as well as the rest of the card coming live from Brazil this Saturday night.
Then we hit up a bunch of news, including the weekly Strikeforce debacle, Mayhem Miller's latest meltdown, fighters who've been fired, fighters who are now in jail, fighters who should be in jail, Bellator ballshots, and another extremely fun all-women's show from Invicta FC.
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UFC on FX: Browne vs. Bigfoot is coming up this Saturday, and the main event looks like a pretty violent heavyweight affair. It has a lot to live up to to top last weekend's UFC on Fuel: Struve vs. Miocic though. We discuss both cards in depth on this week's episode.
Then we hit up some of the week's MMA news, the Bellator heavyweight tournament, and close out the show with an interview with UFC Heavyweight Brendan Schaub.
Check back online all this week for bonus episodes following various UFC 152 media events, and we'll be back live next Wednesday night at 7pm on CFMU 93.3 FM, http://www.thehammermma.com, Last Word On Sports, and The Itunes Store.
UFC 152 is over, and things are getting back to normal. After one final rundown of last Saturday's card, we preview this coming weekend's UFC on Fuel: Struve vs. Miocic from Nottingham, England. We would preview the Strikeforce card on the same night, but it's been cancelled!
Also, we end the show with a quick interview with top UFC Welterweight, Rory MacDonald.
Check back online all this week for bonus episodes following various UFC 152 media events, and we'll be back live next Wednesday night at 7pm on CFMU 93.3 FM, http://www.thehammermma.com, Last Word On Sports, and The Itunes Store.
UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort is over, and so is our week long coverage of all of the UFC 152 events taking place around Toronto for the past week. Check out this episode for our thoughts on all of the fight results from live in the building, as well as what went down at the post-fight press conference. Spoiler: Dana White yelled at Dave.
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Dave and Steve are still in Toronto covering UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort. Since the last time they checked in, there's been the UFC 152 pre-fight press conference, and the weigh-ins, as well as a UFC Community event for underpriviledged youths featuring Rory MacDonald and Brendan Schaub.
Check back online all this week for bonus episodes following various UFC 152 media events, and we'll be back live next Wednesday night at 7pm on CFMU 93.3 FM, http://www.thehammermma.com, Last Word On Sports, and The Itunes Store.
Dave and Steve continue their week in Toronto covering UFC 152. This bonus episode covers the UFC 152 Open Workouts, where we got a good look at the fighters and play some highlights from the media including quotes from Brian Stann, Demetrious Johnson, Michael Bisping, and Joseph Benevidez.
Also relieve our shame, as the two of us spent time at the Media Workouts learning the most basic of MMA techiques from Rory MacDonald, Sean Pierson and Mark Bocek, and failed miserably as expected.
Check back online all this week for bonus episodes following various UFC 152 media events, and we'll be back live next Wednesday night at 7pm on CFMU 93.3 FM, http://www.thehammermma.com, Last Word On Sports, and The Itunes Store.
The Hammer MMA Radio is on location all week in Toronto for UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort. This episode we're previewing the entire UFC 152 card from top to bottom, including both the Light Heavyweight and Flyweight Championship fights.
We also run down all of this week's MMA news including the bizarre new main event for UFC 153, the first episode of The Ultimate Fighter Season 16, recently signed women's fights in Strikeforce and Invicta FC, and Bellator losing another champion.
Check back online all this week for bonus episodes following various UFC 152 media events, and we'll be back live next Wednesday night at 7pm on CFMU 93.3 FM, http://www.thehammermma.com, Last Word On Sports, and The Itunes Store.
It's another slow news week, and it's mostly bad news. Pretty much the entire main card of UFC 153 in Brazil has fallen apart, so we try to come up with ways to save it.
Also, since a three month onslaught of continuous major MMA events kicks in next week, we spend the calm before the storm analyzing the current state of each of the UFC title scenes.
Finally, we will be in Toronto next week covering UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort, so check back all next week for a ton of bonus episodes in all of the regular places, including live Wednesday night at 7pm on CFMU 93.3 FM, http://www.thehammermma.com, Last Word On Sports, and The Itunes Store.
We're not live in studio this week, and since the UFC 151 show has been cancelled we are just doing a shorter episode to recap all of the week's news.
Topics include Jon "Bones" Jones vs. Twitter, Jose Aldo vs. Frankie Edgar, Jose Aldo vs. A Car, One FC from The Phillipines, recently signed Strikeforce matches, some recent injury statistics and more.
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UFC 151 was supposed to happen this Saturday night but it's been cancelled. Or murdered, depending on who you ask. Instead of skipping Episode 108 of our show entirely, we decided to show up and recap the entire sequence of events, and Dave uses his math skills to distribute blame to everyone who deserves it.
We also find some time to discuss GSP's return, last weeks Bellator, Score Fighting Series and Titan FC shows, as well as the dangers of champions taking fights outside of their home promotion.
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Ronda Rousey retained her Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Championship with yet another consecutive first round armbar victory. It's amazing. We discuss the title fight, the future of women's MMA, and the rest of the Strikeforce card from last Saturday night.
Then we run down this Saturday night's Bellator show, The Score Fighting Series in Hamilton Ontario, Frankie Edgar dropping to Featherweight, Jon "Bones" Jones getting picky with his fights, Miguel Torres' release from the UFC, Uncle Creepy's arrest, a bunch of upcoming fights, and what Brock Lesnar has been up to.
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The UFC Lightweight Championship rematch between Ben Henderson and Frankie Edgar at UFC 150 was even closer than their first fight, and may have left just as many questions. Was the fight scored correctly? Who gets the next shot at the belt? Should Edgar drop to a lower weight class? We discuss it all on this week's show, including all of the prelim fights.
We also preview Strikeforce: Rousey vs. Kaufman, Mayhem Miller's legal problems, the future of the UFC Heavyweight title, UFC on Fox 5 updates, Pat Curran's injury and more.
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The UFC 150: Henderson vs. Edgar 2 Pay Per View is this weekend, and if their last fight is any indication then Ben Henderson vs. Frankie Edgar's Lightweight Championship rematch should be an exciting one. We preview all of the fights on the show, as usual.
We also discuss the latest drama in the UFC Heavyweight division, yet more injuries ruining big fights, and the surprisingly incredible UFC on FOX 4 show from last weekend.
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It's an extra-long episode of The Hammer MMA Radio this week. We use the extra time to preview UFC on Fox 4 coming up this Saturday, featuring two Light Heavyweight fights that will determine the next number one contender.
We also run down all of the week's news as usual, but the real benefit to our double-length show is that allowed us to do a full recap of last weekend's excellent all-women's Invicta FC show.
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Let's be honest, UFC 149: Faber vs. Barao was a pretty lackluster event. Still there were some highlights, and even the lowlights were kind of interesting failures. We run through the whole card, including all of the preliminary fights, which actually provided the best action of the night.
We also recap Bellator 72, preview The Invicta Fighting Championships 2 coming up this Saturday, and talk all of the recent MMA news including UFC 152 in Toronto.
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UFC 149: Faber vs. Barao is coming up this weekend, and it's not exactly the card that was originally promised. Still, between the UFC Interim Bantamweight Title fight, Hector Lombard's debut, and a heavyweight fight that's sure to be fun, there still looks to be some excitement left in this card.
We preview the whole event (including the fights that no one wants to see), as well as Friday night's Bellator 72, and recap last weekend's Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Kennedy.
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UFC 148: Silva vs. Sonnen 2 is now in the books, and Anderson Silva is still the UFC Middleweight Champion. We analyze the fight, including the wild finishing sequence, and then try to figure out where both of the fighters go from here.
Then we run down the rest of the card, preview Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Kennedy, and discuss a bit of news, including Rampage Jackson's next fight.
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Not only is this week our 100th episode, but it's also the biggest MMA event of the year. UFC 148: Silva vs. Sonnen is coming up July 7th, and we dedicate the whole show to previewing the most anticpated rematch in MMA history between Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen. We also make our predictions for the rest of the card, including what looks to be Tito Ortiz' retirement fight.
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Well that was disapointing. Between UFC on FX 4's disapointing main event, and UFC 147's thrown together Brazilian card, the UFC didn't deliver the most exciting double-header last weekend. We spend a lot of this week's show ripping on Clay Guida vs. Maynard though, which can't be any worse than the actual fight.
We do find some diamonds in the rough though, including a handful of solid fights, Anderson Silva's fired-up conference call, Fedor's latest retirement, and some unfortunate changes to the UFC 152 card in Toronto.
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Due to a series of ridiculous circumstances, the UFC is running shows on two consecutive nights this weekend. First there is UFC on FX 4: Maynard vs. Guida on free TV Friday night. Then Saturday night there's UFC 147: Franklin vs. Silva on PPV, featuring one of the most unfortunate lineups in company history.
We preview both of these shows, and get into a bit of news including another Strikeforce drug failure, and a relatively big new Bellator signing.
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The UFC really is running too many shows lately, but it's hard to complain when the main cards are as action packed as UFC on FX 3: Johnson vs. McCall was. There were great knockouts, submissions, and someone finally advanced to the next round in the UFC Flyweight tournament.
Following the show recap, we discuss Tito Ortiz' induction to the UFC Hall of Fame, the future of The Ultimate Fighter, the worst week in major fighter injuries in recent memory, and a bunch of big matches signed including two big shows in Canada.
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This weekend at UFC on FX, it's the rematch of Ian McCall vs. Demetrious Johnson's first-round Flyweight tournament fight, after it was horribly botched the first time in Australia. Luckily their first match was incredible, so it's a battle worth seeing again.
Then we discuss the career of the recently retired Kenny Florian, BJ Penn's comeback fight, the death of Dream (again), a whole bunch of recent UFC cuts, and a full rundown of last weekend's The Ultimate Fighter Live Finale.
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UFC 146: Dos Santos vs. Mir featured an all-heavyweight main card, and didn't fail to deliver violence and exciting finishes. We run down all of the matches from the show, as well as try to put in perspective the current state of the UFC heavyweight division.
This weekend also has the Ultimate Fighter 15 finale, including a potential match of the year contender in the five-round Jake Ellenberger vs. Martin Kampmann main event.
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We discuss the night of heavyweights - A card that seems somewhat predictable, but a ton of fun.
Also a very TMZ episode of the Hammer as misadventures by Jon Bones Jones and Arianny Celeste make their way through the news cycle.
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Steve is on the road, but joins us by phone for the news, including King Mo's recent career moves.
We review the Chan Sung Jung vs Dustin Poirier fight and go over the rise of the Korean Zombie in another fight of the year contender. We also discuss Zaromski vs Spiritwolf 2 - As ridiculous as the first time.
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Last weekend's UFC on Fox 3 card was as enjoyable as we predicted. Unfortunately for the UFC, it also did a rating lower than anyone's worst possible estimates. We break down the night of great fights, as well as try to figure out the future of UFC on network TV.
We also have our live thoughts on Bellator 67, including another dominant Michael Chandler performance, next week's UFC on Fuel 3: Korean Zombie vs. Poirier predictions, and what's next for the UFC Bantamweight division following Dominick Cruz' injury.
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The UFC returns to network television for the third time this Saturday night, with UFC on FOX 3: Diaz vs. Miller. On paper it's an all-action show that shouldn't be missed, so check out our fight picks for every match.
Also, Bellator Lightweight Champion Michael Chandler is in action this coming weekend at Bellator 67. We run down the biggest matches from the show, that we'll be in attendance at in Rama Ontario. Finally, we have a pretty awkward recap of last week's Ultimate Fighter Live.
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Jon "Bones" Jones defended his UFC Light Heavyweight title yet again last weekend at UFC 145, and continues to look unstoppable. We give our thoughts on the fight, including who's next for Jones, as well as all of the rest of the fights from that night.
We follow that with a long look at Alistair Overeem's ridiculous visit to the Nevada State Athletic Commission, the ever-changing UFC 147 in Brazil, last week's Bellator 66 card, and some brand new UFC acquisitions and matchups.
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UFC 145 is this weekend, and Jon "Bones" Jones vs. his former teammate Rashad Evans is one of the most anticipated fights of the year. Will Evans be the man to finally take the fight to Jones? We break down this match, as well as all of the others on the card.
Then we recap last weekend's UFC on Fuel 2 show, as well as all of the recent Bellator news and results.
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The UFC returns after an unprecidented six week hiatus, and it's all the way from Sweden. UFC: Gustafsson vs. Silva is looking like an all-action card on the Fuel network, and we break down all of the fights.
We also continue last week's discussion about Alistair Overeem's drug failure, Todd Duffee's big comeback in India, and everything that's been going on in Bellator.
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So Alistair Overeem failed his random drug test, and is out of the UFC 146 main event title fight. We go over what we know so far about the situation, including who we think may get the vacant title shot against Junior Dos Santos in May.
We also discuss The Ultimate Fighter and Bellator from this past weekend, preview next week's shows, Brock Lesnar's return to the WWE, big moves for Bellator on Spike, and whatever craziness Chael Sonnen's been up to this week.
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Its another week with no major fight card, but the new Friday Night MMA War continues. First we take a look at Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber's solid coaching and underwhelming pranks from The Ultimate Fighter Live, then cross the dial to Bellator 62 for a fight of the year candidate.
There's also this coming weekend's fights, some recent drug tests and failures, what's up with Jake Shields, and of course, the return of Kimbo.
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The Ultimate Fighter Live and Bellator have been keeping things interesting on Friday nights. On this week's show we're recapping the first Team Cruz vs. Team Faber fight from TUF, as well as the first round of Bellator's middleweight tournament at Bellator 61.
We also look at what both shows have on tap for this Friday, ponder the remainder of Rampage Jackson's career, discuss some newly signed UFC fights, and share our experience watching some of our best local fighters live in Hamilton, Ontario last weekend at The Score Fighting Series 4.
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The Ultimate Fighter Live, and Bellator Season 6 both started last Friday night, and brought some serious violence with them. Between the late stoppages, and the hideous toe injury, it gave us a lot to talk about.
There's also some news including Rampage going a little crazy again, UFC's upcoming all-heavyweight Pay Per View, and The Score Fighting Series coming to Hamilton, Ontario (the home of The Hammer MMA Radio) this Friday night.
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It was a great weekend for two of the most under-appreciated divisions in mixed martial arts. First off, UFC On FX 2: Alves vs. Kampmann featured the first two Flyweight fights in UFC history. The UFC Flyweight Championship tournament had great fights, but also some controversy.
The next night, women's MMA had it's most important event in over two years at Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey. Meisha Tate, Ronda Rousey, Sarah Kaufman, and Alexis Davis stole the show, and are all anyone was talking about the next day. Except for one male fighter, who proved that there actually is such a thing as bad publicity.
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UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson had a lot to live up to and it didn't disappoint. There were great knockouts, crazy upsets, and a brand new UFC Lightweight Champion. We review all of the fights from UFC's impressive return to Japan.
There's also a couple of interesting cards coming up this weekend including Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey, headlined by a women's title match that is probably the most important fight in women's MMA since Gina Carano. Also, the UFC returns to Australia with UFC on FX: Kampmann vs. Alves, which features the first round of the UFC Flyweight tournament.
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It's UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson, live from Japan this Saturday night. The event is a stacked 4 hour PPV with a UFC Lightweight Championship fight, Rampage Jackson vs. Ryan Bader, and some of the most promising all out action fights in ages. We're pretty excited.
So yeah, we spend the entire show previewing the card. Enjoy.
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It's been just over a week after Carlos Condit became the new UFC Interim Welterweight Champion, and Diego Sanchez and Jake Ellenberger had a war at UFC on Fuel 1 which may have determined the next title contender. We recap all of the night's fights including one of the best single rounds this year, and a filthy looking Dave Herman.
Then we get further into last week's discussion on Nick Diaz, including his drug test failure and possible suspension, The Ultimate Fighter Brazil, Gina Carano's next movie role, Octagon Girls making bad life choices, and some big upcoming fights that have been signed.
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Well, we expected a hard fought battle in the main event of UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit, and we got it. Although the real fight seems to be between MMA fans, who are still arguing over the result of new UFC Interm Welterweight Champion Carlos Condit's big victory. We break down the controversial title fight including how we scored it, and where the fighters should go from here.
We also recap the rest of the fights from last Saturday night including why Josh Koscheck was flat, the future of the heavyweight division now that Werdum has returned, and all of the prelims on FX. Oh, and it wouldn't be an episode of The Hammer without some injury news and an MMA fighter going to prison.
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It's another week, and another live UFC card. What sets this show apart from the rest is that UFC: Diaz vs. Condit is headlined by an Interim Welterweight Championship fight between two of the most exciting fighters in MMA. We get hugely sidetracked a bunch of times while debating the main event, GSP's unification fight with the winner, the Primetime hype special, and all of the undercard matches.
Eventually we also get to Alistair Overeem's legal troubles, and the extremely important, but terribly boring UFC on FOX 2 broadcast from last Saturday night.
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The never-ending string of Zuffa events continues with this Saturday night's UFC on FOX 2: Evans vs. Davis. This is the second time that UFC fights will air on the FOX network, and we break down the three televised match-ups, including two important number one contender matches.
Following that we discuss the incredible Nick Diaz interviews from the Diaz vs. Condit special, the not-so-great Jon Jones commercial, Academy Award-nominated "The Warrior", and a full recap of last weekend's exciting UFC on FX 1 show.
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UFC 142: Aldo vs. Mendes PPV had everything you could want in a fight card. A hot crowd, crazy knockouts, brutal submissions, cheating, controversy, and one of the best post-fight celebrations in history. We run down all of the matches of the show and try and figure out the next step for the fighter's involved.
Afterwards we talk all of the week's news including the totally revamped UFC on FOX 2 card, the cancellation of UFC 145 in Montreal, King Mo's drug test failure, and a preview of this Friday night's UFC on FX 1.
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The UFC returns to Brazil for the second time in six months, this Saturday night. UFC 142: Aldo vs. Mendes looks to make up for a lack of star power with a bunch of high action fights, including a the Featherweight Championship match, and Vitor Belfort vs. Rumble Johnson, and we preview the whole card on this week's show.
There's also a bunch of news, including the results of last weekend's Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Jardine show, Alistair Overeem passing drug tests, Cyborg Santos failing drug tests, new matches being signed, and fighters going to jail. As usual.
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It looks like the Brock Lesnar era is over. After a crushing defeat by Alistair Overeem, the UFC's biggest star announced his retirement following the fight. We look back at Lesnar's career, what this means for Alistair Overeem, and recap all the rest of the events from last Friday night's UFC 141 show.
We also do a really short review of the NINE HOUR LONG Dream New Year's Eve show, and preview this Saturday night's Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Jardine card on Showtime.
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UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem is coming this Friday night, and it's ending the year in a big way. Brock Lesnar is returning after more than a year away, to face Alistair Overeem, the enormous former champion of Strikeforce, K-1, and Dream. The whole card is loaded, so we spend a ton of time previewing all of the fights, including the highly anticipated Cerrone vs. Diaz match.
We also sneak in a look at Dream: Fight For Japan! New Year! 2011, a show that looks like it could just be as bloated and ridiculous in execution, as it is in name.
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It's our Second Annual Hammer Awards show! We spend a big part of this week's episode discussing our choices for 2011's Best Fight, Best KO, Best Submission, Favorite Fighter, Best Prospect, Worst Fight, Biggest Robbery, and of course, Douchebag of The Year.
There's also some Strikeforce news, including the continued existence of the promotion, and a recap of last weekend's Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal card.
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The Hammer MMA Radio was live in Toronto at UFC 140: Jones vs. Machida, and it was quite the show, including great fights, huge knockouts, broken arms, and the quickest finish in UFC history. We recap all of the matches from the main card and the prelims.
Not only that, but it's been a huge week in MMA news, with Alistair Overeem's issues with drug testing, the introduction of the UFC Flyweight division, The Ultimate Fighter coming to Brazil with huge stars as coaches, and Miguel Torres screwing up and getting fired. All this plus the fastest show preview in history this Saturday's Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvadal.
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The audio quality's a little rough, but The Hammer MMA Radio was at the UFC 140 Weigh-Ins in Toronto, as well as a Mark Munoz Q&A, and an odd surprise videogame battle between Frankie Edgar and Ben Henderson.
We run down the whole card in more depth than on last week's show, and discuss what the mood's like for the second ever Toronto UFC card. Come back next Wednesday for our full thoughts on the live show, as well as our usual studio production.
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UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre is injured and will be out for a year. We lead off this week's show discussing this unfortunate news, and examining where the UFC goes from here. We also have issues with the newly announced UFC on FOX 2 card, love the next season's coaches for The Ultimate Fighter, and debate Bellator's new timeslot.
Following that, we preview the top matches coming up this weekend at UFC 140: Jones vs. Machida from Toronto, and recap last Saturday's Ultimate Finale: Mayhem vs. Bisping, featuring one of the best fights from 2011, as well as one of the worst.
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The non-stop run of UFC events continues with The Ultimate Fight Finale: Mayhem vs. Bisping coming up this Saturday night on Spike TV. We analyze the coaches fight, our thoughts on the Featherweights and Bantamweights fighting for a UFC contract, and all the rest of the fights filling out the card.
In other news, we recap Bellator 59 from last weekend including one of the worst finishes of the year, discuss Chris Leben's latest drug suspension, rant on Anderson Silva for a while, and more.
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Two of the best fights in all of 2011 happened last Saturday night. UFC 139 had an epic Dan Henderson vs. Shogun Rua epic that headlined an amazing card.
Not to be outdone, Bellator lightweights Eddie Alvarez and Michael Chandler had a completely different, but equally as exciting war at Bellator 58. We discuss all of the action from both shows.
Then we hit up all sorts of news from around the world, including the UFC Middleweight title scene, The Ultimate Fighter Brazil, Fedor vs. Jeff Monson ridiculousness in Russia, and Ronda Roussey's arm-barring of all the women in Strikeforce.
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UFC debuted on the FOX network last Saturday night. Millions and millions of viewers tuned in to watch just over a minute total of action. We run down the pros and cons of the show, including both the American and the international versions of the broadcast, as well as all of the fights that aired only on Facebook.
Meanwhile, on that very same night, the Hammer MMA Radio was also live at Bellator 57. Check out our thoughts on another fun card from the growing organization. Finally, we briefly preview the UFC 139: Shogun vs. Henderson event, coming up this weekend.
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The UFC debuts on the FOX network this Saturday night, when Cain Velasquez faces Junior Dos Santos for the UFC Heavyweight title in a free one-hour special that may be the most important MMA fight ever. As you'd expect we spend most of our show analyzing the title fight, the new television deal, and the Facebook-only preliminary card.
Afterwards we recap last weekend's UFC 138: Leben vs. Munoz, preview the upcoming Bellator 57, and discuss some of the new matches and injury news that's come up this week.
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Last weekend's UFC 137 show was nothing if not eventful. Nick Diaz got his title shot against GSP back, BJ Penn and Mirko Cro Cop say they've retired from MMA, Donald Cerrone put the lightweight division on notice, and Roy Nelson was less fat than usual. We run down these events, as well as all of the fights on the card.
We also discuss this weekend's unfortunate looking UFC 138, Carlos Condit's disasterous week, new matches in Bellator, and some exciting upcoming fights for the New Year.
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Georges St. Pierre may be injured, but UFC 137: Penn vs. Diaz looks to be a solid show even without a title match. We run down the whole card and make our picks for all of the fights.
There's also a ton of news including Viacom buying Bellator, the future of the Silva/Sonnen rematch, the disapointing buyrate for UFC 136, the slow painful demise of K-1 in Japan, and more.
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We're joined this week by top Canadian featherweight, Will Romero. We discuss his huge victory at The Score Fighting Series last weekend, his continuing Bellator career, training, rivalries, the current Canadian MMA scene, and more.
Afterwards, we get into all the week's news, including Georges St. Pierre's injury and withdrawal from UFC 137, more Chael Sonnen ridiculousness, and some big upcoming Bellator fights.
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Frankie Edgar and Jose Aldo proved why they are two of the best pound for pound fighters in the world at UFC 136 last Saturday night, and it was a great night of fights. We run down all of the matches from that show, including Chael Sonnen's amazing performance and his infamous interview afterwards.
We also discuss weight cutting, pound for pound rankings, UFC 140 in Toronto, The Score Fighting Series, The Ultimate Fighter, and Chad Mendes' facial hair.
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This Saturday's UFC 136: Edgar vs. Maynard is a loaded night of fights. Frankie Edgar meets Gray Maynard for the UFC Lightweight title, Jose Aldo defends his Featherweight title against perennial contender Kenny Florian, and Chael Sonnen and Brian Stann battle for a likely number one contender's slot. We discuss these fights, and the rest of the card, on this week's episode.
We also talk a new potential main event for UFC 140 in Toronto, the upcoming Score Fighting Series, and recap the Dominick Cruz vs. Demetrious Johnson title fight from last weekend.
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It's rare that a UFC Championship match is given away on free TV, but The Hammer MMA Radio favorite Dominick Cruz defends his UFC Bantamweight Championship against Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson in the headlining match of a great looking card this Saturday night.
We also take a look back at last week's UFC 135: Bones vs. Rampage event, the new season of The Ultimate Fighter, and discuss Dan Henderson vacating his Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Title to meet Shogun Rua in the UFC.
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The Hammer is joined by special guest host Josh Hill!
Josh is one of the rapidly rising stars in the Ontario MMA scene and will share with us some insight about training for MMA, cutting weight and trying out for the Ultimate Fighter.
We also make our predictions for the upcoming Bones Vs Rampage PPV.
Greg chose a good week to be in Australia, because UFC Fight Night: Shields vs. Ellenberger is this Saturday night, and it's threatening to be the lowest rated UFC television show in recent memory. At the very least, the rest of us will be watching, and we preview all of the fights on this week's episode.
Afterwards, we run down the results of last weekend's eventful Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Kharitonov card, including both Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix matches and the Middleweight title change. We also give our thoughts on some newly signed matches, including new fights for Vitor Belfort and Tito Ortiz.
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It's pretty much the biggest MMA news week in a while. Nick Diaz lost his UFC Welterweight title shot for no-showing a press conference. Carlos Condit had the best phone call of his life. Brock Lesnar's returning. Alistair Overeem's returning. Josh Koscheck's returning. Fedor's returning (sort of). And Zuffa announced events in pretty much every country you can think of.
There's also the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix and Bellator Season 5 premiere this Saturday. You can also check further down our Itunes feed for an extra show reviewing the new MMA movie, Warrior.
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It's our seventh special edition of The Hammer MMA Radio, where we review MMA related media and special events seperate from our weekly show. This time we managed to get a sneak preview of the new MMA movie Warrior starring Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, and uh...Nate Marquardt and Rumble Johnson.
We debate whether it was a good MMA film, if it was a good movie overall, and end up giving away tons of spoilers despite trying not to, so you may not want to listen to this one until you've already seen it.
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It was a good night for Brazilian fighters, when Anderson Silva, Shogun Rua, and seemingly every other local fighter on the card brought their A-games at UFC 134. We discuss the card in-depth, including potential Middleweight title contenders, why Forrest Griffin looked so bad, and what was up with the judging.
Later on in the show we talk about the return of Pro-Elite, some interesting new UFC matches signed, and some wacky Rampage Jackson news, as if there's any other kind.
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The UFC returns to Brazil this Saturday night for the first time since the 1990s. UFC 134: Silva vs. Okami is full of great matchups including Anderson Silva vs. Yushin Okami, and Shogun Rua vs. Forrest Griffin. We run down all the fights and give our predictions.
Other topics this week include more on the UFC's network deal with Fox, Ultimate Fighter going live, Bellator 48, and Josh Koscheck possibly moving up to middleweight.
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UFC put on a great free TV card with UFC Live 5: Hardy vs. Lytle, and we spend a good part of this week's show sending off Chris Lytle, pondering Dan Hardy's future, and praising the incredible Ben Henderson vs. Jim Miller fight. We discuss the rest of the card too, but those guys get most of the love.
Then we get into all of this week's news, including UFC's deal with The Fox Network, Rich Franklin's new mindset, Golden Glory's contract issues, Bellator 48, and the unfortunate passing of local MMA trainer Shawn Tompkins.
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UFC 133: Evans vs. Ortiz made chicken salad out of chicken shit, as Brock Lesnar might say. This card full of injuries and substitutions wound up being pretty damn good. We begin this week's show running down all the great performances, the retirements, and the unfortunate clothing choices that occured last weekend.
Then we preview this coming Sunday's free UFC card, UFC Live: Hardy vs. Lytle, a show full of entertaining fighters, and what may possibly be the last stand for Dan "The Outlaw" Hardy.
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UFC 133: Evans vs Ortiz is this Saturday, and we're previewing the whole card, one that's had more than it's share of unfortunate events leading up to it. A rotating main event, a dropped co-main event, and more injuries and substitutions than we can count. Do we think it's still worth buying? Check out our show and see.
We also recap last weekend's Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Henderson card, a show that's especially noteworthy for the awesome main event, and a former champion being fired following the show.
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Bellator came to Canada for the first time last week, and The Hammer MMA Radio was there. We recap all the fights, including both featherweight title tournament fights, and the ridiculous Neil Grove vs. Zak Jensen battle. Stick around till the end of the show too, where we interview Neil Grove about his victory.
Then we preview Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Henderson, a card headlined by what some would call a dream match between two former Pride legends. We run down that fight, the women's title fight, and everything else.
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Hey, it's our 50th episode, and Mark "The Hammer" Coleman helped us celebrate. There's also a lot of news surrounding August's UFC 133 card including Tito Ortiz stepping into the main event, Lyoto Machida demanding ridiculous money to fight, and the co-main event falling apart completely.
We also run down the current UFC Welterweight contenders scene for a while, quickly mention this weekend's Strikeforce and Bellator shows, and wonder how it took this long for the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix to fall apart.
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With no major cards this week, this is probably our most random show yet. Some of the topics we discuss include the return of Chael Sonnen, drug testing in the big leagues, if UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo should try other weight classes, Carlos Condit vs. BJ Penn, Bellator in Ontario, Dream in Japan, and who Rashad Evans will be fighting now that Phil Davis is injured.
Then stick around to the end of our show for our interview with former UFC middleweight Joe Doerksen.
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UFC 132: Cruz vs. Faber more than lived up to expectations with an amazing title fight, tons of huge knockouts, new stars being made, and legends returning to greatness. We run down the entire card including all of the great moments, and what's next for everyone involved.
There's also some news including upcoming shows from ProElite and Bellator, the latest on five round UFC main events, and as usual another MMA star has been arrested for something awful.
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UFC 132: Cruz vs. Faber is this Saturday night is looking like one of the most exciting cards of the year. We run down the card and give our picks on the Featherweight Title match, Leben vs. Silva, and fights featuring Carlos Condit, Melvin Guillard, Tito Ortiz, and more.
Then we discuss what little we know so far about Nate Marquardt's firing from the UFC, just a day before headlining UFC Live 4 last weekend, and just how well that show went without him.
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We spend a surprising amount of time discussing last weekend's Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum card, specifically the disappointing main event, strange Grand Prix brackets, and baffling commentary.
Then we preview this Sunday night's free UFC Live 4: Marquardt vs. Story card on Versus. As far as free TV shows go, there are a lot of fun matches, and we run them down and make our picks. We also try to squeeze in some MMA news before the show ends.
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There's a new number one contender in the UFC Heavyweight division following UFC 131: Carwin vs. Dos Santos. We give our thoughts on the huge main event, as well as the rest of the mostly entertaining card.
Then we preview the upcoming Strikeforce: Werdum vs. Overeem show, the second part of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix. That doesn't leave us a lot of time for news, but we do debate the merits of all UFC non-title main events getting 5 rounds, and the idea of Jon "Bones" Jones vs. Rampage.
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The Hammer MMA Radio was at The Score Fighting Series in Mississauga, Ontario this weekend to see fights featuring current Dream Welterweight Champion Mariusz Zaromskis, former UFC fighters Joe Doerkson and Sokoudjou, and rising Canadian star, Jordan Mein.
We recap the show, and have interviews with some of the fighters on the card.
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The big story this week is UFC 131: Dos Santos vs. Carwin, which should have the most hard-hitting main event in years. It's live on PPV this coming weekend, and we run down the card from top to bottom.
We also take a look at last weekend's Ultimate Fighter Finale, as well as GSP vs. Diaz, Gina Carano's medical failure, Rampage Jackson harrassing reporters, as well as a few local MMA cards coming up.
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There are two UFC cards for us to discuss this show. First we run down last week's lackluster UFC 130 card, including what's next for Rampage and Frank Mir after winning their fights. Then we preview the upcoming Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale, which has the on-paper most exciting fight of the year headlining, Clay Guida vs. Anthony Pettis.
That doesn't leave much time for news, but we do briefly get into Brock Lesnar's surgery, and the announced coaches for the next Ultimate Fighter season.
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UFC 130: Jackson vs. Hamill is this Saturday, kicking off a month full of high profile MMA cards. Although this show was plagued with injuries, there are still some interesting matches to predict and discuss, including Mir vs. Nelson and the return of Brian Stann.
We also discuss other news, including the end of Nick Diaz's boxing aspirations, even more Chael Sonnen garbage, some potential Ultimate Fighter coaches, and two seperate incidents of former UFC stars arrested for assault, just to make up for there being none last week.
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It's another week with no major fight cards, but there is a ton of news, including Brock Lesnar's health problems, Jon "Bones" Jone's non-injury, and Brendan Schaub's aggressive career strategy.
We also take some time to discuss what's going on in the business side of MMA, such as the falling ratings for The Ultimate Fighter, UFC's current relationship with Spike TV, the new "Twitter Bonus", and Chael Sonnen's latest interaction with the California State Athletic Commission.
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This week we are joined this week by Jerry Langden, the author of the new book "Fighter: The Unauthorized Biography of Georges St. Pierre". We talk to Jerry about his book, GSP, UFC 129, and the sports media industry.
Then we discuss this week's news, including Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard's injuries, Zuffa's new health insurance policy for fighters, Nick Diaz boxing, and crazy Maiquel Falcao.
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It's our review of UFC 129: St. Pierre vs. Shields, which we were fortunate enough to be in attendance for. We run down the results, including how they came across in the live environment.
The rest of the show is mostly us arguing about a potential GSP vs. Nick Diaz fight. Sorry about any production problems this week, and don't forget to check out our internet only episode discussing the UFC Fan Expo, weigh-ins, and fighter Q&A's.
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Steve, Greg, and friends are at UFC 129 in Toronto this weekend, and did an on location show from the UFC 129 Fan Expo, Weigh-Ins, and a special first time ever Q&A with all seven current UFC champions.
We run down an entire day of pre-show events, including our interactions with various UFC fighters, and some last minute predictions.
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UFC 129 is in Toronto this weekend, and we'll be there. The first major MMA show in Ontario has GSP vs. Jake Shields for the Welterweight title, the first ever UFC Featherweight title fight, Randy Couture's likely retirement match, and a pretty stacked card overall. We run the whole thing down from top to bottom.
We also sneak in some news, including Jon "Bones" Jone's injury, The Ultimate Fighter, and some interesting fights that were signed this week.
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With no MMA cards this week, we just go off and argue about a whole bunch of topics, including Nick Diaz and his boxing aspirations, Randy Couture's latest retirement talk, the return of Dream, UFC Rio, Thiago Silva's favorite website, hirings, firings, and all sorts of ratings news.
We also talk about the new book about GSP, "Fighter: The Unauthorized Biography of Georges St. Pierre", available on Amazon right now.
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We begin the show by discussing the results from Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley, a great show with some big star-making performances. There was a ton of talk that night about UFC/Strikeforce title unification matches, so we give our thoughts on that as well.
Then we get into a huge week of news, including a potential Dan Henderson vs. Fedor fight, declining Ultimate Fighter ratings, BJ Penn's injury, more Chael Sonnen ridiculousness, and a ton of other topics.
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The big news this week is Strikeforce's first major show since being purchased by Zuffa (last week's Strikeforce Challengers show doesn't count). It's a good one too, headlined by Nick Diaz vs. Paul Daley, and we discuss the whole main card.
Following that, there's a ton of news that we try to cram in, including who will be BJ Penn's mystery opponent, Chael Sonnen's latest issues, Dan Hardy's luck, who gets Wanderlei Silva, and more. Also, our thoughts on The Ultimate Fighter: Lesnar vs. Dos Santos so far.
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The very first MMA show ever in Ontario, Canada was on April 2nd, 2011 and The Hammer MMA Radio was there to cover it. MMA: The Reckoning was headlined by former UFC and WEC stars such as Chris Horodecki and Josh Burkman, and it was a fun warm-up for UFC 129 in Toronto on April 30th.
We discuss the fights, the production values, the post-show press conference, where the event will be broadcast, and everything else surrounding the show.
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There's a lot of shows to discuss this week, including UFC: Nogueira vs. Davis, a show where a lot of the best fights were actually shown on their Facebook page before the show. We run down all of the fights, and debate the futures of Phil Davis, Dan Hardy, and The Korean Zombie.
We also get into some news, including The Ultimate Fighter, Urijah Faber's title shot, Meisha Tate's cake, Bobby Lashley in Titan FC, last week's Bellator card, this week's Strikeforce show, and the first ever MMA event in Ontario, Canada (and it's not UFC 129).
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The Jon "Bones" Jones era began this past Saturday at UFC 128, as he finished Shogun Rua to win the UFC Light Heavyweight title. We discuss all of the fights from what turned out to be a pretty great show.
Then we run down some news, and preview this weekend's UFC Fight Night: Nogueira vs. Davis, which looks to be about as solid free show as we've seen on paper, in a long time.
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So the UFC came out of nowhere and announced that they purchased Strikeforce, their biggest competition. And we were complaining last week about a lack of interesting news to discuss. We go over all of the details regarding the sale, and what it means for the future of both brands.
Then it's preview time, as this weekend has UFC 128: Shogun vs. Jones, which top to bottom has the potential to be the best card so far this year. We run down all of the fights and make our predictions.
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We're reviewing three MMA cards from the past week on this episode, including Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Feijao, UFC Live 3, and the season premiere of Bellator.
It's a good thing there were so many recent shows, because there's so little news to discuss, that all we've got is Matt "The Law" Lindland allegedly getting busted for stealing marijuana plants from his own yard. Awesome.
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We start the episode discussing UFC 127: Penn vs. Fitch, a show which gave us a lot to talk about due to the second main event draw this year, as well as controversial fouls and decisions on the undercard.
Then we run down this week's news, including the upcoming UFC Live 3, and Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Feijao cards.
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UFC 127 is airing from Australia this Saturday night, and we discuss the fights that we're looking forward to most, including the BJ Penn vs. Jon Fitch main event.
Then we hit up the news of Tito Ortiz's injury, and a ton of Strikeforce news including last week's Challengers card and what's next for Fedor and the rest of the heavyweights.
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Former UFC Lightweight Champion Sean Sherk joins The Hammer this week for an interview. We ask him about his future, his training, the current state of the lightweight division, and more.
We also discuss last weekend's Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Silva card which was a night full of exciting heavyweight fights, as well as run down all of the recent MMA news.
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We start the show off discussing last weekend's UFC 126: Silva vs. Belfort, including the surprise announcement of Jon "Bones" Jones vs. Shogun Rua for the UFC Light Heavyweight title.
Then we preview the first night of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix, coming up this Saturday night, with five heavyweight fights headlined by Fedor's big return following his huge loss last June.
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This weekend brings the long awaited UFC Middleweight title match between Anderson Silva and Vitor Belfort. We preview that fight, as well as the entire stacked UFC 126 card on this week's episode.
Then something rare happens on The Hammer MMA Radio, as we have nothing but positive things to say about Strikeforce following last weekend's excellent Diaz vs. Cyborg show.
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It was a star-making night at UFC: Fight For The Troops last weekend as Melvin Guillard, Matt Mitrione, Mark Hominick, and Matt Wyman all raised their profiles immensely. We run down all of the fights from that night, and what we think is next for everyone involved.
Then we get into a bit of news including more GSP vs. Anderson Silva talk, UFC trying to make break into Japan, and some recent matchmaking info.
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It's UFC's latest Fight For The Troops show, this weekend for free on Spike TV. It's a real fighter's card with a lot of young talent, and we run down the lineup in anticipation.
Then we turn the show over to our listeners, as we answer a bunch of mailbag questions about current events in MMA.
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Brock Lesnar and Junior Dos Santos are the new coaches for The Ultimate Fighter. We discuss whether this is a good idea, and what it holds for the UFC heavyweight division now that Cain Velasquez out of action.
Then we get into the UFC Featherweight title scene, Jacob Volkmann vs. Barack Obama, last week's Strikeforce Challengers show, and a 20 minute run-down of the entire UFC lightweight division.
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We start the show with our rundown of UFC 125: Edgar vs. Maynard, including the main event which went to a draw and left Anthony Pettis out in the cold.
There's also a ton of news to discuss, including a serious injury to Cain Velasquez, Chael Sonnen's latest legal problems, Fedor and the Strikeforce Heavyweight tournament, and the state of Japanese MMA.
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UFC 125: Edgar vs. Maynard is happening on New Years Day, and we give our thoughts on what to expect from the first MMA show of 2011.
We also hit up some news including what's up with Chuck Liddell, Dominick Cruz, Mirko Cro Cop, and Alistair Overeem, and then just for fun we discuss just what the hell went wrong with Strikeforce in 2010.
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It's our "Best And Worst of 2010" show. The three of us debate our picks in categories including Best KO, Best Submission, Fight of the Year, Least Favorite Fighter, Worst Fight, Biggest Robbery, and more.
Also we recap the events of last weekend's WEC 53, a night that certainly had some of the best moments of 2010 itself, as well as the crowning of the first ever UFC Bantamweight Champion.
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Georges St. Pierre destroyed challenger Josh Koscheck last weekend, and we're here to survey the damage and see where the fighters go from this point forth.
Also, tons of discussion on UFC in Toronto, potential Ultimate Fighter coaches for 2010, Alistair Overeem crushing Japan like he's Godzilla, the ups and downs of Bellator, and the end of WEC.
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There's so much going on that we had to do a double-sized episode to contain it, and we start with our preview of UFC 124: St. Pierre vs. Koscheck.
Other topics include The Ultimate Fighter Finale, Strikeforce: St. Louis, UFC 124 in Toronto, Bellator news, Chael Sonnen's steroid hearing, and a week full of inefficient referees, insane judges, and clueless commissioners.
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UFC and Strikeforce are going head-to-head this Saturday night. It's The Ultimate Fighter 12 Finale and Strikeforce: St. Louis both on Dec. 4th. Which card looks more promising?
Then the show turns into a kind of "State of Strikeforce" rant, as we evaluate where the company is at this stage, and all of the many things that currently infuriate us about the organization.
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We begin the show by recapping last weekend's UFC 123: Rampage vs. Machida, and debating what the big wins for Rampage, Penn, and Sotiropolous means for them now. Plus, which fighters were cut from the UFC in the aftermath?
Then we get into a long discussion regarding lay and pray fighting, and the sheer amount of fights that have gone to decision lately. What, if anything, can be done to make the current MMA scene more exciting?
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In our upcoming Episode 16, we'll be discussing the complaints that too many UFC fights are going to decision. We did some research, and you can download our statistics in an Excel document.
Our discussion will include:
1) What percentage of UFC fights have gone to decision in 2010.
2) What percentage of UFC fights in years past have gone to decision.
3) How often are Greg Jackson's fighters actually going to decision.
4) What, if anything, could be changed in the UFC rule set to make for more exciting fights.
Feel free to email us if you have any comments on the subject that we can use on the show.
There are a ton of shows to cover this week. First off, we preview the upcoming UFC 123: Rampage vs. Machida PPV, giving our fight picks and predictions for the entire card.
Then we quickly look back on last week's UFC 122 and WEC 52 shows and examine where the winners and losers go from here. And finally, we discuss the surprising news of Roy Nelson's contract issue, and where he goes from here.
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It's a double-preview show this week, as we discuss the upcoming UFC 122: Marquardt vs. Okami, and WEC 52: Faber vs. Mizugaki shows. There's not a ton of hype for these cards, but the main events will mean big things for the future of the UFC middleweight and bantamweight divisions.
Then the show turns into a sort of MMA version of TMZ, with tons of wacky backstage shenianigans and gossip about Donald Ceronne, The Diaz brothers, Mayhem Miller, Cain Velasquez, and more.
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There are no major fight cards this week, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to talk about. Our favorite promotion, WEC, is merging with the UFC, so we get into a lengthy discussion about what this means for the future of the UFC.
Also there's a ton of other news including what's in the future for Brock Lesnar, Roy Nelson, Randy Couture, and Jon Fitch, as well our thoughts so far on this season of The Ultimate Fighter.
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It's the third of our bonus shows where we review MMA products from other types of media.
This time, Dave and Steve (and eventually Greg), discuss the EA MMA video game for Xbox 360 and PS3. We run down the features, how it compares to UFC Undisputed 2010, and also tell the tale of "The Wrecking Ball" Rex Payne.
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We start the show by running down last weekend's UFC 121: Lesnar vs. Velasquez. Discussion includes what's next for Brock and Cain, whether Shields deserve a title shot, and if it's time for Tito to retire or not.
Also, there's news on Strikeforce, Shane Carwin, and somehow pro-wrestling sneaks into the conversation due to the surprising showdown Lesnar had with The Undertaker immediately following his title loss.
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As you would expect, we start the show running down this weekend's UFC 121: Lesnar vs. Velasquez card, which is looking to be one of the biggest MMA shows in history.
Then we recap last weekend's UFC 120: Bisping vs. Akiyama, including our thoughts on Bisping and Condit's big victories, and quickly discuss the future of the WEC promotion.
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We start the show off with an in-depth discussion about this Saturday night's UFC 120: Bisping vs. Akiyama, from London. All in all, it looks like a pretty interesting card for a free show on Spike TV.
Then we run through last week's Strikeforce: San Jose, including the newsworthy Diaz vs. Noons battle, and the drama that occured behind the scenes following the fight.
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It's a pretty good week for non-UFC MMA. First we review last week's WEC 51: Aldo vs. Gamburyan, a card that was full of action. Then we preview the upcoming Strikeforce: San Jose show headlined by Nick Diaz vs. KJ Noons.
There's also a ton of news including the signed Bader vs. Jones fight, some Chael Sonnen stuff, various injuries, and Dana White's thoughts on UFC overexposure.
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The show begins with the required verbal beatdown of last Saturday's UFC 119: Mir vs. Cro Cop. To say that we were let down by this show would be an understatement.
On the other hand, we do get to preview the upcoming WEC 51, which looks to be one of the best cards of the year. Also, some news on Chael Sonnen, Stefan Struve, Gegard Mousassi, and more.
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It's a pretty packed show this week. The big story this week is Chael Sonnen's drug test failure and subsequent suspension from the UFC. Then we discuss the future of the middleweight division, including last weekend's Fight Night 22 winner, Nate Marquardt.
The last half of the show is spent previewing this upcoming weekend's UFC 119: Mir vs. Cro Cop.
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Last month, Chael Sonnen put on the performance of his life, losing to Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva. Sonnen dominated Silva in a way that no one has ever done before, until he was caught by a submission in the 5th round.
Now according to The Calfornia State Athletic Commission and Sherdog, Sonnen has tested positive for performance enhancing drugs after a test following his fight last month.
This obviously puts the Silva vs. Sonnen rematch in February in jeopardy, especially if Sonnen gets a year suspension. It's likely that the winner of Belfort/Okami in November will get the title shot now early in 2011.
It's our Ultimate Fighter review show. In honor of The Ultimate Fighter: St. Pierre vs. Koscheck beginning this week, we decided to run down the list of previous TUF winners and evaluate how their individual careers have gone so far, and what we see for them all in the future.
We also mention a few news updates including the signing of another BJ Penn vs. Matt Hughes match, and Steve takes a quick look at last weekend's Shark Fights 13 card, because it was ridiculous.
We start off the show discussing all of the biggest stories in MMA this week, including Karo Parisyan's return to the UFC, Todd Duffee's firing, and the financial troubles of Japanese promotions K-1 and Dream.
Then we run down the matches on the upcoming Ultimate Fight Night 22: Marquardt vs. Palhares, and the Shark Fights 13 cards. Finally, we end the show with a quick look at the upcoming Ultimate Fighter season, and some reader mail.
We spend the first half of the show discussing last weekend's UFC 118 from Boston, including Frankie Edgar's successful title defense, James Toney's epic failure, and the stack of yawn-inducing fights that preceded them.
Then we get into some random news, including updates on Vitor Belfort, Kimbo Slice, and Arianny Celeste, among others.
It's a really packed show this week. We begin by discussing last week's WEC 50 and Strikeforce: Houston events, and as usual, we rage out on Strikeforce for far too long. Then we preview the upcoming UFC 118 card headlined by BJ Penn vs. Frankie Edgar, and Randy Couture vs. James Toney.
We also fit in a little news, including info on an Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen rematch, and some domestic issues with Rumble Johnson.
It's the second of our bonus shows where we review MMA products from various types of media.
This time, Dave and Steve discuss The A-Team (featuring Quinton "Rampage" Jackson), and The Expendables (featuring Randy "The Natural" Couture).
It's a Meathead Movie Marathon.
A lot of Strikeforce this week, including our recap of last weekend's Strikeforce Challengers show centered around the women's 135 lb Tournament. Then we look at the lineup for the upcoming Strikeforce: Houston card.
In between we discuss recent news including Nogueria's injury, Shane Carwin's steroid scandal, and MMA being sanctioned in Ontario, Canada.
Welcome to the first episode of the new Hammer MMA Radio.
It's a huge week with tons of cards to discuss. First we recap the epic Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen title fight, as well as the rest of a great UFC 117 card. Then we preview the upcoming Strikeforce Challengers 10 and WEC 50 cards.
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Just letting everyone know that we're making some changes to The HAMMAR over the next week or so. These changes may briefly affect the website, and the Itunes stream. If this address eventually stops working, then you can try http://www.thehammermma.com .
Really cool stuff coming over the next few weeks.
Enjoy Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen tonight, and we'll try and do a post-UFC 117 show early Sunday morning.
This week's show starts with a rundown of UFC On Versus 2: Bones vs Matyushenko.
We discuss some news, including a Roger Huerta knock out of the night. Then we preview the upcoming UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen with our calls for the event.
This week's show starts with a rundown of last weekend's Strikeforce Challengers 9 card, and we mostly talk about the women's title fight from that show. Then we finally have a new UFC card to discuss, with UFC on Versus 2 coming up on August 1st.
In addition, there's a mixed bag of stuff including great soundbites from Chael Sonnen and James Toney, pro wrestling's influence on MMA, and the unfortunately named Shark Fights promotion.
It's another week with no UFC cards to discuss, so we decide to review last weekend's Impact FC show from Australia headlined by Ken Shamrock and Pedro Rizzo, as well as previewing the upcoming Strikeforce Challengers 9 show.
There's also a bunch of news including updates on Rampage, Jake Shields, Kimbo, and our first ever listener mailbag segment.
Amazingly there is not a single UFC, Strikeforce or WEC show to talk about this week. That's never happened before.
So we're left with a mixed bag of topics, including the Japanese promotion Dream, MMA in Australia, Brock Lesnar, Frank Mir, Two Nogueria's, Strikeforce's Fedor problems, and Korean Zombies.
UFC 116: Lesnar vs. Carwin was one of the most entertaining cards in recent memory, so we spend a big part of this week's show talking about the fights, and the fallout.
Then we hit up some news including recent updates on Shogun Rua, Rashad Evans, Fedor, and....Dave Batista?
It's one of the biggest weeks in MMA history. Last weekend, Fedor Emelianenko lost his first MMA fight in nearly a decade, causing shockwaves throughout the industry. Meanwhile, this Saturday, Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin are fighting to unify the UFC Heavyweight Championship at UFC 116.
Obviously, we spend most of this week's show discussing these two events.
There are way too many shows this week. We plow through last week's The Ultimate Fighter Finale, WEC 49, and Strikeforce: Los Angeles, before previewing this Saturday's Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Werdum card.
We also manage to sneak in some news on Wanderlei Silva, and Rampage Jackson. It's a good, packed show this week.
It's our follow-up to UFC 115: Liddell vs. Franklin, a show that managed to be pretty average, despite an arm-breaking in the main event. We also preview this weekend's Ultimate Finale 11 and WEC 49.
In between, we discuss this week's news including Chael Sonnen's shenanigans, Lesnar's referee issues, and what the A-Team box office means for Rampage Jackson.
It's the first of our bonus shows where we review MMA products from other types of media.
This time Dave and Steve discuss the brand new UFC Undisputed 2010 video game for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
We mix up the formula and start with the news.
The struggle to bring GSP to Toronto continues, Ricardo Arona says he's coming to the UFC and MMA fighters turn to crime and the movies.
We review UFC 114, a long card of decisions and upsets. Almost all our picks were wrong, but new stars reveal themselves in the fray.
We start the show with a quick review of last week's Strikeforce Challengers, a show that didn't suck, much to our surprise.
There's also a bunch of news, including UFC's new Canadian office, and a bunch of wacky stuff including a TUF contestant getting attacked by wild dogs, and Krazy Horse and Frank Shamrock's conflicting values on treating women.
Finally, we preview this weekend's UFC 114: Rampage vs. Evans. Can it possibly live up to the trash-talking hype?
It's a whole lot of Strikeforce this week, as we recap last weekend's Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery and preview the upcoming Strikeforce Challengers show.
We continue with a lot of talk about Fedor Emelianenko, and how long we think it will be before Strikeforce goes out of business.
We also sneak in some UFC news, including new match signings, recent firings, and the upcoming Rampage Jackson vs. Rashad Evans.
It's the fallout of UFC 113. Shogun slays the Dragon, and Daley kills his own career. Also we discuss the controversial fight between Koscheck and Daley, and have a long discussion on Kimbo getting cut.
Also, The HAMMAR's predicions for Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery. Alister Overeem, the least fighting Champion in MMA, faces Brett "The Grim" Rogers. Is he really a champion, or is Fedor Emelianenko the real king of Strikeforce's Heavyweight Division.
The HAMMAR predictions for Shogun vs Machida 2.
Tito reunites with Jenna, Kongo suffers an injury and Tennesse mails some letters. Fedor is back in Strikeforce, but will it last?
The upcoming UFC event in Montreal, featuring a slew of Canadian fighters and of course the Dragon vs Shogun 2. Who's the real undisputed champ of the Light Heavyweight Division?
The HAMMAR reviews WEC 48, a great success.
David mistakes the date. It really is the April 28 show.
Dana White guarantees Jake Shields. A former UFC fighter goes insane. And Tito's last match in the UFC - Versus Jenna Jameson?
The HAMMAR predicts the death of Strikeforce MMA as a promotion. We review the crowning of King Mo, the downfall of Dan Henderson, and a bizarre post show brawl live on CBS.
In addition, Dana White comments on BJ Penn's book "Why I Fight", BJ Penn fights a Fox News Anchor, and Tito Ortiz wants to fight you. Finally, a quick preview of the upcoming WEC 48 Pay Per View, including our recommendation: Give WEC a chance!
We review UFC 112 in depth, most notably Anderson Silva's baffling performance in the main event.
There's also a lot of talk about BJ Penn's upset title loss to Frankie Edgar, and what this means to the lightweight division.
Finally, we run down the week's news, including the altered main event of UFC 115, and a preview of April 17's Strikeforce: Nashville card.
We preview UFC 112 - Invincible featuring BJ Penn vs. Frankie Edgar and Anderson Silva vs. Demian Maia, and recap last week's Ultimate Fight Night 21 and The Ultimate Fighter.
There's also some discussion about recent MMA news including Fitch vs. Alves, crazy fighters, and the futures of Cain Velasquez and Junior Dos Santos.
We run down the post-UFC 111 press conference and injury reports, as well as a quick recap of Strikeforce Challengers 7.
There's also a bunch of news, including updates on the Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship, Liddell/Ortiz, MMA in Vancouver, and Thiago Alves.
It's our review of UFC 111 - St. Pierre vs. Hardy.
Check out our thoughts on the matches, and what's next for the winners and losers.
We review last Sunday night's UFC on VERSUS 1 - Vera vs Jones!
Also, we take a look at the upcoming UFC 111 - St. Pierre vs. Hardy, a huge card which is coming up this Saturday night.
Also, a bunch of Strikeforce news including the future of Jake Shields, Gegard Mousassi, and Fedor.
A comprehensive preview of the upcoming UFC on VERSUS 1 - Vera vs Jones!
Including our fight picks and calls for fights to watch!
Also, in the news, more on the coveted April 17th timeslot. As well, a few rumours from the upcoming season of the Ultimate Fighter!
We review WEC 47 - Bowles Vs Cruz.
Also news, including the brewing conflict between Strikeforce and the UFC/WEC for the coveted April 17 show date!