Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - Last, but certainly not least, we conclude the highly unofficial 2008 UFC awards with a celebration of the top ten fighters of the past year. This one was another close race, but by the time December 31st made way to January 1st, the choice was clear.
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Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - On January 17th, former UFC middleweight champion Rich Franklin gets an opportunity to stamp himself as a legitimate 205-pound contender when he takes on Dan Henderson in the main event of UFC 93 in Dublin. A win for Franklin will not only be his third in a row, but it will [...]
Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - On January 17th, former UFC middleweight champion Rich Franklin gets an opportunity to stamp himself as a legitimate 205-pound contender when he takes on Dan Henderson in the main event of UFC 93 in Dublin. A win for Franklin will not only be his third in a row, but it will [...]
Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - No explanation necessary for this one - this is a collection of the fights that got you up off your seat and cheering from beginning to end. And whether these fights were displays of high-level grappling, toe-to-toe standup battling, or a mix of both, they’re certainly ten for the 2009 [...]
Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - Everybody loves a good knockout - everybody. And for those aficionados of the sudden finish, 2009 was a better year than most. It was tough to narrow all of the UFC’s great knockouts this year down to a list of just ten, but hey, who wants to read a [...]
Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - Whether applied with the finality of a knockout punch, with speed and technical acumen, or as a last-ditch fight saving maneuver, a submission move is one of the most versatile weapons in mixed martial arts today. Just ask the fighters who landed on the list below of the top submissions [...]
Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - The beauty of sports is that there is a never-ending pool of talent that always replenishes each particular game, whether it’s football, baseball, basketball, or mixed martial arts. 2008 saw a talented group of newcomers make their way to the Octagon, and frankly, it was tough to narrow the field [...]
Was that something else or what? Sports betting fans had to be going crazy before, during and after UFC 92 when Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Rashad Evans gave online fight betting fans something to cheer about when winning bouts as overlays!
Jackson had lost to Wanderlei Silva twice before taking it out on his old [...]
Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - When it comes to upsets, 2008 was a slow year compared to 2007, but there were still enough surprises - some in the biggest fights of the year (and one at the end of the year) - to fill our list here and kick off this year’s unofficial award season.
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Saturday’s UFC 92—THE ULTIMATE concluded the online MMA betting season, and as promised, the dynamic event ended UFC 2008 with a bang, literally. All five fights on the main card resulted in a knockout or TKO. UFC 92 was arguably the best event of the year and a night that will be long remembered.
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Michael DiSanto, UFC - Rashad Evans desperately wanted to hear Bruce Buffer utter those words after his title fight against Forrest Griffin. Yet after two full rounds, it seemed more likely that he would succumb to a well-prepared, focused Griffin, as he found himself on the wrong end of brutal leg kicks and good [...]
Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - Despite his defeat at the hands of Frank Mir Saturday night at UFC 92, former interim UFC heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vows that fight fans have not seen the last of “Minotauro”.
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Japan’s Olympic Judo Gold Medalist, Satoshi Ishii, yesterday started exclusive negotiations to enter into a contract with the UFC.
Ishii, who won the gold medal in the men’s over 100-kilogram event at the Beijing Olympics, arrived in Las Vegas on Christmas day to experience UFC 92. Over the next two days, Mr. Ishii toured Las [...]
Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - For two rounds in Saturday’s UFC 92 main event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, it looked like Forrest Griffin’s height and reach advantage was going to be too much for Rashad Evans to deal with. But when you haven’t lost in your previous 18 pro fights, you find a [...]
Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - Take the word “former” away from Frank Mir’s name, as the Las Vegas native completed an amazing career comeback Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena by dominating and stopping Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira in the second round to regain a portion of the UFC heavyweight title he never lost in [...]
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