February 2012
3 posts
UFC 143: I bloody love you, Nick Diaz
I thought I’d kick off this post by saying that I’ve never actually seen Nick Diaz lose a fight. Then I thought about it a bit more and decided that although I’ve seen Nick Diaz lose fights in the technical sense - being damaged more, taking more punches, having his skin cut open by his own tectonic-plate bone structure - I’ve never seen him end a fight not looking like...
UFC on Fox 2: Explode! Explode! Explode!
Ed’s note: Rather than dwell on Miller/Guillard - from which the only real lesson is that Guillard can’t seem to remember how to defend submissions under pressure - I’ve leapfrogged straight to Evans/Davis with a guest post from writer, MMA-lover and vicious leg-kicker Jon Denton. If you notice that this one’s more coherent and thorough than usual, that’s all him.
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UFC 142: Flex, you beautiful man
Well that was almost entirely brilliant.
To get the awkward bit out of the way, I think Rogan was totally wrong to keep saying that he didn’t agree with the Silva/Prater DQ, especially directly to Mario Yamasaki’s increasingly-despondent face. It’s sometimes nice that Rogan gets to say what the fans are thinking, and he did excellent work under pressure during bag-of-ice-gate,...
