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Three decades in the Octagon: 30 years of the UFC

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Feb 15, 2023

The fall and rise of the world's biggest sports franchise. What a long, strange trip it's been, but it shows no sign of stopping.The UFC. Three letters. Thirty years. The biggest sports franchise on earth. Worth four and a half billion dollars seven years ago, and growing.Their television deal with ESPN, worth $1.5 billion, comes to an end this year,......

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Chuck Liddell: The great 'Ice Age'

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Feb 15, 2023

He’s the first MMA megastar, adored by millions. Gareth A Davies squares up to chilled legend Chuck Liddell to discover ‘The Iceman’s origin.


Super-Coach or Spoilsport?

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Feb 15, 2023

Like, love or loathe the methods of trainer Greg Jackson, his strategies get results for his top-level fighters. his strategies get results


A disaster waiting to happen

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Feb 15, 2023

A disaster waiting to happen One of the aspects of a journalist’s job is to prepare stories for ‘in the event of’ moments.


Dana White gets it right: It’s time to force ‘friends’ to fight each other

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Feb 15, 2023

When did MMA transition into becoming a team sport? It didn’t. Dana White gets it right: It’s time to force ‘friends’ to fight each other.


Celebrate Dana White, MMA will miss him when he’s gone…

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Feb 15, 2023

Celebrate Dana White, MMA will miss him when he’s gone… Whether you’re from the Tank Abbott /Frank Shamrock old school or you belong to MMA’s new wave


The Fedor Factor

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Feb 15, 2023

In 2009, the Ultimate Fighting Championship gathered even more momentum globally but, regardless of what they say, the UFC needs the ‘Fedor Factor’.


Rampage Is Back

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Feb 15, 2023

Rampage is back, but does the UFC really need ‘major name’ headliners? A new generation of fighters now outsells the ‘major names’ in pay-per-view.


Judgement call

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Feb 15, 2023

MMA judging is in the spotlight. Good, because it needs clarification. Late last year, two MMA contests highlighted the pitfalls of the system


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Three decades in the Octagon: 30 years of the UFC

Fighters Only
Feb 15, 2023

The fall and rise of the world's biggest sports franchise. What a long, strange trip it's been, but it shows no sign of stopping.The UFC. Three letters. Thirty years. The biggest sports franchise on earth. Worth four and a half billion dollars seven years ago, and growing.Their television deal with ESPN, worth $1.5 billion, comes to an end this year,......

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Feb 15, 2023

Kimbo Slice remains an unexplained phenomenon in MMA. His fight with Roy Nelson became the most watched MMA fight ever in television ratings.


How the UFC contract has become the Holy Grail of MMA

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Feb 15, 2023

Day-in, day-out, ‘Judo’ Jimmy Wallhead puts his body through the mill with Nathan Leverton,


Gareth A Davies

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Feb 15, 2023

It’s a myth that UFC are exporting weaker fight cards abroad. If I had a dollar for every sneer on internet chat forums that the Ultimate Fighting


Building on UFC 100

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Feb 15, 2023

The dust has settled after UFC 100. The bloodied Octagon canvas has been segmented into 100 slithers and framed for posterity.


Even toffs can get TUF

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Feb 15, 2023

Who would have thought that a blue-blooded public schoolboy from an elite fee-paying boarding school in the English countryside would wind up as a UFC fighter?


'The Spider' vs. Jones Jr? Thanks, but no thanks

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Feb 15, 2023

Ed Soares wants a UFC-sanctioned fight between his man Anderson Silva and Roy Jones Jr in the Octagon. This could only be seen as a farce.


UFC should finally get a bite at the Big Apple

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Feb 15, 2023

What is it with the UFC still not being welcome in New York?


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