Posts Tagged "UFC"
Heavyweight boxing in dire straights as UFC circles
By Liam Maguire, 6 May 2013
Who knew today Wladimir Klitchsko defends his heavyweight title against Italian Francesco Pianeta? Nobody.
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Does trash talk belong in the UFC?
By The Crowd, 30 Apr 2013
It always looks bad when someone in trash talk overdive – a random example might be Chael Sonnen – gets comprehensively binned by the trashee – in this case his UFC 159 opponent Jon Jones.
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UFC 159: Preview, picks and live blog
By Max Kenney-Herbert, 28 Apr 2013 UFC 159 will take place this morning. The Roar will cover it with a live blog keeping you up to date on everything happening inside the cage from midday AEST.
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Alexander Gustafsson and Gegard Mousasi may be unknowns to the casual UFC fan but, to hardcore fans, they are the real deal, and on April 7th we will see the future of the light heavyweight division.
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Two rule changes that the UFC needs to make
By Jason Tulio, 19 Mar 2013 The UFC 158 main event was a sure treat for the hometown Montreal fans.
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Who is the greatest MMA fighter of all time?
By Jason Tulio, 17 Mar 2013 Mixed martial arts has certainly come a long way, hasn’t it?
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UFC 158: Preview, tips and live blog
By Max Kenney-Herbert, 17 Mar 2013 After more build up than you can throw a stick at, including an expletive laced conference call, the fight that has been almost two years in the making is finally here.
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UFC 158: GSP vs. Diaz – who takes it?
By Jason Tulio, 15 Mar 2013 This Sunday, the city of Montreal will play host to UFC 158 as hometown hero Georges St. Pierre defends his welterweight title against Nick Diaz.
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Will Hector Lombard be cut from the UFC?
By Sam Brown, 6 Mar 2013 Hector Lombard’s short and disappointing stint in the UFC may well be coming to an end.
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This is it. Time to retire Wanderlei. It won’t get any better than Sunday for anyone in the sport of MMA. Wanderlei Silva defeated a very good opponent, Brian Stann, in a good fight, by his preferred method, in a place where he is considered a legend and near the end of a fifteen year [...]
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The UFC returns to Japan this afternoon with a welterweight showdown between Brazilian legend Wanderlei Silva and American Brian Stann headlining a six-fight card. We’ll have live updates from 2.00pm AEDT this afternoon.
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MMA: Coming to an Olympics near you
By Brad Cooper, 28 Feb 2013 Are Olympic honchos gearing up to embrace MMA by mid century? It’s not nearly as far-fetched as it sounds.
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WA government to ban ‘the cage’
By Sam Brown, 28 Feb 2013 In a grand move of political point scoring over good policy, the Western Australian coalition government has legislated that it will ban the use of ‘The Cage’ in all sporting events (read: MMA) from March 1st this year.
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UFC 157: women to fight in the UFC
By Sam Brown, 22 Feb 2013 This weekend the UFC takes its biggest and riskiest leap forward in a long time as it launches women’s MMA into the mainstream for the first time.
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Why you should watch local MMA live
By Sam Brown, 20 Feb 2013 Here is a bit of an embarrassing admission: before last weekend I had never seen a live MMA card in person.
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Dumping wrestling from Olympics will TKO MMA
By Sam Brown, 14 Feb 2013 Yesterday’s news that wrestling will be dropped from the Olympic roster at the 2020 Games has sent shockwaves through the mixed martial arts community.
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UFC 156 was a great card and provided viewers with some great fights.
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UFC 156: The Roaring Predictions
By Sam Brown, 3 Feb 2013 What a set of fights we have here. First, a super fight for a main event and a card filled with blockbuster match-ups, including the return of heavy weight contender Alistair Ovreem and a light-heavyweight showdown between two of the division’s elite veterans.
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The UFC’s Super Bowl super fight
By Sam Brown, 2 Feb 2013 Scrap Anderson Silva versus Georges St-Pierre and while you are at it forget Silva versus Jon Jones or any other dream combination you can think up.
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Yesterday we went through the first part of my top eight reasons to watch UFC in the upcoming weeks. Here is the next instalment: reasons one to four.
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THE ROAR ON