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Fight Matrix Program – UFC Fight Night 107: Manuwa/Anderson (03-18-2017)

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Jason

Light Heavyweight (205)
[#9] Jimi Manuwa (16-2-0, -149) vs. [#13] Corey Anderson (9-2-0, +124)
Jimi Manuwa is the All-Time #46 ranked Light Heavyweight fighter.

Last 3 Fights: Jimi Manuwa (2-1-0)
2016-10-08: W vs. [#18LHW] Ovince St. Preux (19-10-0) via KO (Punches) in 2:38 of round 2
2015-09-05: L vs. [#2LHW/#8DD] Anthony Johnson (22-5-0) via KO (Punches) in :28 of round 2
2015-04-11: W vs. [#32LHW] Jan Blachowicz (19-6-0) via UD (30-27, 29-28, 30-27)

Last 3 Fights: Corey Anderson (2-1-0)
2016-12-09: W vs. [#60LHW] Sean OConnell (17-9-0) via TKO (Punches) in 2:36 of round 2
2016-05-14: L vs. [#8LHW] Mauricio Rua (25-10-0) via SD (28-29, 29-28, 29-28)
2016-03-05: W vs. [#52LHW] Tom Lawlor (10-6-0) via UD (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)

Days Since Last Pro Fight: Jimi Manuwa 161, Corey Anderson 99
Previous Match-up Record: No previous match-ups.
Wins Against Common Opposition: Even: Both have 1 win(s) against common opposition.
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Welterweight (170)
[#18] Gunnar Nelson (15-2-1, -327) vs. [#28] Alan Jouban (15-4-0, +253)

Last 3 Fights: Gunnar Nelson (2-1-0)
2016-05-08: W vs. [#46WW] Albert Tumenov (17-4-0) via Submission (Neck Crank) in 3:15 of round 2
2015-12-12: L vs. [#4WW] Demian Maia (24-6-0) via UD (30-26, 30-25, 30-25)
2015-07-11: W vs. [#356WW] Brandon Thatch (11-5-0) via Submission (Rear Naked Choke) in 2:54 of round 1

Last 3 Fights: Alan Jouban (3-0-0)
2016-12-17: W vs. [#51WW] Mike Perry (9-1-0) via UD (30-27, 29-28, 30-27)
2016-07-07: W vs. [#64WW] Belal Muhammad (11-2-0) via UD (28-27, 29-27, 29-28)
2016-03-19: W vs. [#623LW] Brendan OReilly (6-3-0) via TKO (Elbows and Punches) in 2:15 of round 1

Days Since Last Pro Fight: Gunnar Nelson 314, Alan Jouban 91
Previous Match-up Record: No previous match-ups.
Wins Against Common Opposition: Gunnar Nelson leads 1-0
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Bantamweight (135)
[#52] Brad Pickett (25-13-0, -137) vs. [#234FW] Marlon Vera (8-3-1, +115)

Last 3 Fights: Brad Pickett (1-2-0)
2016-12-17: L vs. [*] Urijah Faber (34-10-0) via UD (30-26, 30-26, 30-26)
2016-10-08: L vs. [#9BW] Iuri Alcantara (34-7-0) via Submission (Triangle Choke) in 1:59 of round 1
2016-02-27: W vs. [#53BW] Francisco Rivera (11-7-0) via SD (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)

Last 3 Fights: Marlon Vera (2-1-0)
2016-11-26: W vs. [#431FW] Guangyou Ning (5-4-1) via UD (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
2016-02-27: L vs. [#177BW] Davey Grant (10-3-0) via UD (30-26, 30-26, 30-26)
2015-08-08: W vs. [#479FW] Roman Salazar (10-5-0) via Submission (Triangle Armbar) in 2:15 of round 2

Days Since Last Pro Fight: Brad Pickett 91, Marlon Vera 112
Previous Match-up Record: No previous match-ups.
Wins Against Common Opposition: No common opposition or both are winless against common opposition.
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Current MMA Rankings Updated (03-12-2017)

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Jason

Featured Upcoming Bouts (Outside of UFC)

Thursday, December 31st 2026: Rizin FF Super Rizin 6: Shiwasu no Owarinagoya Gekokujo Matsuri

[#1 W105] Natalia Kuziutina

[#4 W105] Saori Oshima

Last Fight Date: 9/10/2026 [Rizin Fighting Federation]
Last Opponent: [#18 W105] Rena Kubota
Last 5: W W W W W

Last Fight Date: 7/18/2026 [Rizin Fighting Federation]
Last Opponent: [#13 W105] Ye Ji Lee
Last 5: L W L W W

Sunday, December 13th 2026: Deep - 135 Impact

[#3 SW] Sukai China

[#4 SW] Jo Arai

Last Fight Date: 5/04/2026 [DEEP]
Last Opponent: [#6 SW] Sora Sugiyama
Last 5: W W W W W

Last Fight Date: 9/13/2026 [DEEP]
Last Opponent: [#23 SW] Daichi Kitakata
Last 5: L L W L W

Sunday, December 13th 2026: Deep Tokyo Impact 2026 6th Round

[#6 SW] Sora Sugiyama

[#10 SW] Goal Makino

Last Fight Date: 9/20/2026 [DEEP]
Last Opponent: [NR] Musashi Musashi
Last 5: W W W L W

Last Fight Date: 9/06/2026 [DEEP]
Last Opponent: [#42 SW] Toshiya Takashima
Last 5: W W W W W

Featured Fighters

[#18 W125]	Lucia Szabova	[#1 WW]	Islam Makhachev
[#18 LW]	Renato Carneiro	[#1 FW]	Alexander Volkanovski
[#13 LW]	Tom Nolan	[#26 WW]	Jacobe Smith
[#102 W125]	Tainara Lisboa	[#1 LW]	Justin Gaethje
[#2 LW]	Ilia Topuria	[#8 HW]	Josh Hokit

Big Names – Big Fights, Anyone?

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Ked Becker

Most promotions are just dying for name fighters and especially like it when they can make fights between two fighters with recognizable names, even if these fights are not warranted based on the fighters current rankings, or the fighters are not in the same weight division (like Rampage’s, King Mo’s and countless others fights at Heavyweight), or the fighters are long past their prime (like Ken Shamrock’s last few fights).

The UFC is obviously in no such need for name fighters and fights as other promotions, as its roster is full of name fighters. Still, it seems baffling sometimes how they go out of their way not to book name fighters against one another, opting instead to put the over-the-hill name fighter against some up-and-coming prospect, or sometimes not even that.

One glaring example is Anderson Silva who was put against Derek Brunson not long ago. Another is BJ Penn’s fight against Yair Rodriguez. And I think now we have seen an especially good example of that: Last week Rashad Evans made his middleweight debut against Daniel Kelly. Rashad Evans didn’t fight for 2 years and then didn’t look good in his fights since his return. If his transition to middleweight wasn’t a successful one, this would probably be the end for Evans’ career.

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UFC 209 Review

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Oleg

It’s been a while since I did one of these event review blogs. I was actually going to write up a preview as I was very much looking forward to the event. Just as I was finishing up, the news got out that Khabib Nurmagomedov was hospitalized after a failed weight cut, cancelling his interim lightweight title bout with Tony Ferguson, which on paper was the most interesting matchup of the card. I was too bummed to re-write my preview, and decided to spend the evening playing video games instead.

Despite losing the co-main, and the main event which turned out to be a stinker, the card wasn’t bad overall. It had a couple of fun come-from-behind finishes, a good heavyweight scrap (in addition to two bad ones), and an early candidate for fight of the year in Vannata-Teymur. Here’s how the televised UFC 209 fights went down.

Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1)

[#72 HW] Mark Godbeer def. [#164 HW] Daniel Spitz by unanimous decision

A sloppy heavyweight striking battle to start off the night. Godbeer had the clear power advantage and landed some good shots but could not put Spitz away. Both fighters gassed badly halfway through the second round. Not much else to say about this fight.

Aftermath: Can we just pretend this fight didn’t happen? It’s pretty clear at this point that Godbeer will not make it past being a low-level gatekeeper in the UFC, if he doesn’t wash out in his next few fights. Spitz is young and has plenty of time to develop, but his career would be better served by doing this development in smaller leagues. But the UFC’s heavyweight division needs all the warm bodies it can get, so both guys are guaranteed at least one more fight in the Octagon. I have very little interest in watching their next fights, whoever the opponent might be, so I’ll take the lazy approach to matchmaking with a winner-loser matchup against the participants of the other sloppy heavyweight bout of the night (Tybura – Henrique).

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Weight Cutting Issues – Again

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Ked Becker

Once again a big fight fell through due to weight cutting issues. This time it was Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson, a fight that everybody have been looking forward to for a long time.

And once again the issue of weight-cutting comes up. There is enough criticism as it is against weight-cutting being very unhealthy for fighters, diminishing their fighting abilities come fight night and pitting different sized opponents against one another depending on how willing different fighters are to submit themselves to this dangerous process. On top of that, from time to time there is the even worse outcome of fighters going to hospitals because of bad weight-cuts and big fights getting canceled at the last moment (not to mention a few deaths that resulted from weight-cutting related complications).

Clearly the method of making sure fighters fight at the same weight these days is not ideal, and there have been a lot of clamoring for its revision. To try and decide how to change it, two important things need to be considered: why are fighters cutting weight, and what is the theoretically ideal solution.

The main reason that fighters cut weight is to be as big as they can on fight night. Meaning, of course, that they want to fight at a weight that is as close as possible to the weight they usually walk around at, but they want to weigh-in at the lowest weight possible – much lower than the weight they walk around at – planning to gain all that weight back after the weight-in so that there would be the biggest margin possible between their fight weight and official weight. This is of course the source of the danger – this discrepancy between the two weights.

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Fight Matrix Program – UFC Fight Night 106: Belfort/Gastelum (03-11-2017)

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Jason

Middleweight (185)
[#9] Vitor Belfort (25-13-0, +299) vs. [#10] Kelvin Gastelum (13-2-0, -377)
Vitor Belfort is the All-Time #21 ranked Middleweight and #28 ranked Absolute fighter.

Last 3 Fights: Vitor Belfort (1-2-0)
2016-10-08: L vs. [#6MW] Gegard Mousasi (41-6-2) via TKO (Punches) in 2:43 of round 2
2016-05-14: L vs. [#4MW] Ronaldo Souza (24-4-0) via TKO (Punches) in 4:38 of round 1
2015-11-07: W vs. [*] Dan Henderson (32-15-0) via KO (Punches) in 2:07 of round 1

Last 3 Fights: Kelvin Gastelum (2-1-0)
2016-12-10: W vs. [*] Tim Kennedy (18-6-0) via TKO (Punches) in 2:45 of round 3
2016-07-09: W vs. [#15MW] Johny Hendricks (18-6-0) via UD (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
2015-11-21: L vs. [#8WW] Neil Magny (19-5-0) via SD (48-47, 48-47, 47-48)

Days Since Last Pro Fight: Vitor Belfort 154, Kelvin Gastelum 91
Previous Match-up Record: No previous match-ups.
Wins Against Common Opposition: No common opposition or both are winless against common opposition.
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Lightweight (155)
[#5] Edson Barboza (18-4-0, -172) vs. [#9] Beneil Dariush (14-2-0, +144)
Edson Barboza is the All-Time #34 ranked Lightweight fighter.
Beneil Dariush is the All-Time #47 ranked Lightweight fighter.

Last 3 Fights: Edson Barboza (2-1-0)
2016-07-23: W vs. [#31LW] Gilbert Melendez (22-6-0) via UD (30-27, 29-28, 30-27)
2016-04-23: W vs. [#4FW] Anthony Pettis (19-6-0) via UD (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)
2015-12-11: L vs. [#3LW] Tony Ferguson (22-3-0) via Submission (Brabo Choke) in 2:54 of round 2

Last 3 Fights: Beneil Dariush (2-1-0)
2016-11-05: W vs. [#26LW] Rashid Magomedov (19-2-0) via UD (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
2016-06-04: W vs. [#32LW] James Vick (10-1-0) via KO (Punches) in 4:16 of round 1
2016-04-16: L vs. [#10LW] Michael Chiesa (14-2-0) via Submission (Rear Naked Choke) in 1:20 of round 2

Days Since Last Pro Fight: Edson Barboza 231, Beneil Dariush 126
Previous Match-up Record: No previous match-ups.
Wins Against Common Opposition: Beneil Dariush leads 1-0
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Light Heavyweight (205)
[#8] Mauricio Rua (24-10-0) vs. [#27] Gian Villante (15-7-0)
Mauricio Rua is the All-Time #6 ranked Light Heavyweight and #27 ranked Absolute fighter.

Last 3 Fights: Mauricio Rua (2-1-0)
2016-05-14: W vs. [#13LHW] Corey Anderson (9-2-0) via SD (28-29, 29-28, 29-28)
2015-08-01: W vs. [#11LHW] Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (22-8-0) via UD (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
2014-11-08: L vs. [#18LHW] Ovince St. Preux (19-10-0) via KO (Punches) in 0:34 of round 1

Last 3 Fights: Gian Villante (2-1-0)
2016-12-09: W vs. [#70LHW] Saparbek Safarov (8-1-0) via TKO (Punches) in 2:54 of round 2
2016-03-05: L vs. [#15LHW] Ilir Latifi (12-5-0) via UD (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
2015-11-14: W vs. [*] Anthony Perosh (15-10-0) via KO (Punch) in 2:56 of round 1

Days Since Last Pro Fight: Mauricio Rua 301, Gian Villante 92
Previous Match-up Record: No previous match-ups.
Wins Against Common Opposition: Even: Both have 1 win(s) against common opposition.
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Current MMA Rankings Updated (03-05-2017)

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Jason

MMA-themed online games

Posted on February 28, 2017 by A. J. Riot

Who doesn’t love MMA fights? There are few things that compare with the raw thrill of pushing your body to the limit against an opponent who is doing the same. But, if you can’t try this pastime out for yourself, the next best thing is to engage in MMA fight games online on your mobile device.

The games that we play on our tablets and smartphones are usually more fun because we can play them anywhere and at any time. For instance, let’s say that you are hanging out with friends before going out for a night on the town. What’s stopping you from playing a fun MMA fight game while they’re getting ready? You could even check out one of the games on https://www.royalvegascasino.com/ and win a couple of dollars for your trouble.

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Fight Matrix Program – UFC 209: Woodley/Thompson II (03-03-2017)

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Jason

Welterweight Championship (170)
[#1] Tyron Woodley (16-3-1, +123) vs. [#2] Stephen Thompson (13-1-1, -147)
Tyron Woodley is the All-Time #8 ranked Welterweight fighter.
Stephen Thompson is the All-Time #22 ranked Welterweight fighter.

Last 3 Fights: Tyron Woodley (2-0-1)
2016-11-12: D vs. [#2WW] Stephen Thompson (13-1-1) via Draw (Majority) in 5:00 of round 5
2016-07-30: W vs. [#3WW] Robbie Lawler (27-11-0) via KO (Punches) in 2:12 of round 1
2015-01-31: W vs. [#10MW] Kelvin Gastelum (13-2-0) via SD (30-27, 28-29, 29-28)

Last 3 Fights: Stephen Thompson (2-0-1)
2016-11-12: D vs. [#1WW] Tyron Woodley (16-3-1) via Draw (Majority) in 5:00 of round 5
2016-06-18: W vs. [#13WW] Rory MacDonald (18-4-0) via UD (50-45, 50-45, 48-47)
2016-02-06: W vs. [#15MW] Johny Hendricks (18-6-0) via TKO (Punches) in 3:31 of round 1

Days Since Last Pro Fight: Tyron Woodley 112, Stephen Thompson 112
Previous Match-up Record: Even: 0-0-1
Wins Against Common Opposition: Stephen Thompson leads 1-0
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Lightweight Championship (155)
[#3] Tony Ferguson (22-3-0, +169) vs. [#6] Khabib Nurmagomedov (24-0-0, -206)
Tony Ferguson is the All-Time #26 ranked Lightweight fighter.
Khabib Nurmagomedov is the All-Time #27 ranked Lightweight fighter.

Last 3 Fights: Tony Ferguson (3-0-0)
2016-11-05: W vs. [#4LW] Rafael dos Anjos (25-9-0) via UD (48-47, 48-47, 48-47)
2016-07-13: W vs. [#88LW] Lando Vannata (9-1-0) via Submission (Brabo Choke) in 2:22 of round 2
2015-12-11: W vs. [#5LW] Edson Barboza (18-4-0) via Submission (Brabo Choke) in 2:54 of round 2

Last 3 Fights: Khabib Nurmagomedov (3-0-0)
2016-11-12: W vs. [#14LW] Michael Johnson (17-11-0) via Submission (Kimura) in 2:31 of round 3
2016-04-16: W vs. [#87LW] Darrell Horcher (12-2-0) via TKO (Punches) in 3:38 of round 2
2014-04-19: W vs. [#4LW] Rafael dos Anjos (25-9-0) via UD (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)

Days Since Last Pro Fight: Tony Ferguson 119, Khabib Nurmagomedov 112
Previous Match-up Record: No previous match-ups.
Wins Against Common Opposition: Khabib Nurmagomedov leads 4-3
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Middleweight (185)
[#16LHW] Rashad Evans (21-5-1) vs. [#28] Daniel Kelly (12-1-0)
Rashad Evans is the All-Time #39 ranked Absolute fighter.

Last 3 Fights: Rashad Evans (1-2-0)
2016-04-16: L vs. [#6LHW] Glover Teixeira (26-5-0) via KO (Punches) in 1:48 of round 1
2015-10-03: L vs. [#5LHW] Ryan Bader (22-5-0) via UD (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
2013-11-16: W vs. [#40LHW] Chael Sonnen (28-15-1) via TKO (Punches) in 4:05 of round 1

Last 3 Fights: Daniel Kelly (3-0-0)
2016-11-26: W vs. [#36MW] Chris Camozzi (24-12-0) via UD (29-28, 30-27, 29-28)
2016-03-19: W vs. [#48MW] Antonio Carlos Jr. (7-2-0) via TKO (Punches) in 1:36 of round 3
2015-11-14: W vs. [#163MW] Steve Montgomery (9-5-0) via UD (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)

Days Since Last Pro Fight: Rashad Evans 322, Daniel Kelly 98
Previous Match-up Record: No previous match-ups.
Wins Against Common Opposition: No common opposition or both are winless against common opposition.
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Current MMA Rankings Updated (02-26-2017)

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Jason