Entries from December 2007
It’s been a long weekend in our sport, and I’m pretty exhausted. After the IFL Grand Prix and UFC 79, it’s enough to make you wonder how we got to this point from the days of tiny shows in civic center arenas that went straight to VHS tapes. How far we’ve come. Anyway, it’s Monday […]
We’re about an hour into the Grand Prix and have already been treated to some amazing fights. You can check out the play-by-play on IFL.tv, or if you’ve got HDNet you can watch it beginning at 9:30 pm EST. If you’re in Canada, we’re also on Fox Sports there.
In the preliminary fights, Tim […]
It’s been a busy couple of days in lovely Groton, Connecticut. Yesterday we spent about twelve hours interviewing fighters for web footage, and it was a journey, to say the least.
We started out with big dreams about the array of topics we’d get the fighters to talk about. That lasted about ten minutes. It’s harder […]
It’s a big weekend in MMA, which is only fitting considering the year we’ve had. I’m in Connecticut for the final round of the IFL Grand Prix, while across the country the UFC has one of their best offerings of 2007. That’s enough great MMA in one night to last you several months, but if […]
In just a few days the UFC will showcase two matches that could easily be main events by themselves, one of which is a dream match of two years ago that MMA fans thought they might never see. Ever since Chuck Liddell and Wanderlei Silva sat atop the 205-pound division in their respective […]