In terms of light heavyweight prospects in the UFC, there are no two better to be matched-up right now than Jon "Bones" Jones and Ryan "Darth" Bader. A look at their most recent fights enables us to conceptualize the magnitude of this upcoming fight both for the fighters and for the UFC's light heavyweight division:





Ryan Bader:

Win Antonio Rogerio Nogueira - Decision (Unanimous) UFC 119

Win Keith Jardine - KO (Punch) UFC 110

Win Eric… Continue

Being someone who could care less about "breaking MMA news," I would like to analyze this official match-up now that the immediate announcement frenzy has passed over us fans.



It will be interesting to see how the TUF show plays out, although I'm sure some of it will be rather predictable: with the likable good guy - Junior Dos Santos, versus the bearded bad guy - Brock Lesnar.  I see Lesnar embarrassing himself on several occasions during the course of the show, while JDS remains cool… Continue

It was recently announced that Mirko Cro Cop would be facing Brendan Schaub at UFC 128 in March. Schaub is coming off of a win over Gabriel Gonzaga at UFC 121, while Cro Cop was KO'd in his last fight by Frank Mir at UFC 119. Cro Cop claimed in a Croatian video interview that 2011 would be "better than 2006" for him, the year that he was crowned the PRIDE FC Open Weight GP Champion...



Each of these fighters have experienced "bumps in the road" in their respective UFC runs, but Schaub… Continue

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