In truth, the bar (ergo, expectation levels) wasn’t exactly set very high for the literary account of Chuck Liddell’s thirty-something years, by virtue of the exceedingly poor quality of ghost written MMA autobiographies that have surfaced to date (see: Matt Hughes and Tito Ortiz), coupled with the staggeringly pathetic “Ultimate Iceman”, the official UFC DVD dedicated to their one time posterboy…
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Woooo!!!! Brock Lesnar is the new UFC Heavyweight Champion! Brock Lesnar has beaten returning champion Randy ‘The Natural’ Couture. Not only that he has made history by being the only person to win a WWE Heavyweight Championship title and the UFC Heavyweight Championship. This is huge news for the world of Pro Wrestling and Mixed […]
Press Release: British UFC superstar Michael Bisping will be signing copies of new UFC book ‘UFC Octagon’ at 5:30pm on Thursday 4 December at zavvi Oxford Street. Michael Bisping is the face of British MMA and after bursting onto the American scene by winning series three of The Ultimate Fighter, Bisping’s career has gone from […]
Surveys conducted amongst audience members at the UFC’s previous three events in the UK established that the highest volume of long distance travellers to their events came from the North East…. justification or reward, as it were, for the Octagon touching down at the Metro Radio Arena on January 19th…
No one has yet won the WWE title and then gone on to become the UFC World Heavyweight champion but that could all change when Brock Lesnar challenges Randy ‘The Natural’ Couture for the title at UFC 91 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on November 15th…
Anyone still scratching their noggin over Brock Lesnar being granted a UFC Heavyweight Championship shot with an MMA record of 2-1 would do well to take a gander at Zuffa’s final event of 2007 (December 29th, to be precise) from the Mandalay Bay…
What a show to return with, the UFC’s…. um…. lets be honest here, Zuffa’s New Jersey soiree on 17th November 2007 was one of the first of what are fast becoming recognisable as UFC “B” shows (their equivalent “In Your House”, if you will), with the only real selling point to the masses being the main event which pit two TUF Champions against each other for the first time…
Not even three or four deep into the long list of featured knock outs, I endeavoured to count the number of times UFC commentator, Joe Rogan would flex his expertise and proclaim ‘On the button’. Unfortunately a few KO’s later, I had given up. It was simply too much for one man to take, sometimes several repetitions per highlight. And considering my childhood affinity with counting, I felt I had let myself down. Whether it was counting how long I could hold my breath or generally just counting for counting sake, I loved it and never before had I been beaten. Dam you Rogan…
‘This Is Gonna Hurt’… the first thing that crossed my mind was if the book was prescient, could it tell the future? Was the title of Tito’s autobiography a warning for non fans of Mixed Martial Arts to stay away? Well…
Having heard much about The Ultimate Fighter 6 series before watching it, I was half expecting this year’s search for new talent, which has almost single-handedly catapulted the UFC into American mainstream and the very reason the Fertitta’s and White can churn out series after series, to take a back seat to the Serra – Hughes pantomime…