MMA On Point - Podcast

UFC 314 turned out to be a super fun event with a lot of great finish. A star making performance for Jean Silva, Paddy Pimblett is a bonafide title contender now, Yair took out a Bellator legend, Reyes is on a hot streak again and of course, Alexander Volkanovski proved why he is the featherweight GOAT.

No shame in quitting if you've got nothing left and these instance are directly in the middle of the fight. Moments when UFC fighters when back their corners and said.... I've had enough.

Generally speaking in this sport, if you win that's good enough for fans. It's a fairly simple premise and for that reason a lot of fighters are happy to just saying kind of nothing most the time and not rock the boat. In this instances however, whether during the fight itself, the way they won or how they reacted to the win... fans were not happy. In fact, these fighters actively lost fans on these nights.

There is no single worse or more wild week in UFC history than that of UFC 223 in 2018. Everything went wrong. The card lost have of it's fighters, it had a major PR disaster on it's hands and the main event barely hung on after everything. This was the most insane week in UFC history.

They say hard work beats lazy talent. While you would call anyone lazy in this video minus maybe a few exceptions, there's no doubt that motivation and doggedness was the difference maker in these fights. Fighters where you thought you knew for sure who would win and it just went the other way.

MMA has always been full of shady characters and fight promoters are part and parcel of that. There have been so many incidents of promoters doing sketchy things to fighters over the years and these are the top moments. Dana White, Scott Coker, Bjorn Rebney, Donn Davis, you name it. They've all had a shady business tied to their promotions.

One thing you've probably heard about BJ Penn, if you've ever followed his career, is that "he should have gone down as the greatest ever". In this video, we explore the exact reason for that statement through his incredible achievements. He is an absolute legend of the UFC and MMA as a whole, who held a record for 15 years at lightweight. This is the story of BJ Penn .

Dana White has been up to A LOT these days. It's not just the UFC, it's not just Powerslap, but now it's all TKO Boxing. His roles with the UFC have increasingly become less and less over the years and his true passion has always been boxing. Will he be able to keep this all going or is this somehow all possible?

Winning is everything they say.... but is that always true? Especially when you really look at the stories, sometimes the story makes the win far bigger than what happened in the cage itself, for others is actually dimishes it quite heavily. These are the gigantic wins that are missing a massive part of the story when seen on face value.

Career declines are inevitable and a bit of sadness always comes along with them. Hopefully, they end in a well enough way where their retirement feels just as much a celebration of their accomplishments as much as it is a goodbye. Robbie Lawler's retirement was about as good as it gets for example. But in these cases, man it really hits you hard to see what these fighters go through.