UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski returns this weekend at UFC 298, to his best weight class, to defend his title against up-and-coming star Ilia Topuria.  We preview that fight, and the rest of a pretty solid card in the first half of this week's episode.

Then in the second half of the show we run down the results of UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Pyfer.

Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-March 2014, where we were on location in Natal, Brazil, conducting some awkward post-fight interviews at UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Shogun 2.

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It's another week, and another Middleweight fight headlining a shallow UFC Fight Night at the Apex Center.  This week we're previewing the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Pyfer.

Then in the second half of this week's episode we look at the results of UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs. Imavov, and discuss the on-again-off-again Dustin Poirier vs. Benoit Saint-Denis fight.

Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to mid-March 2014, and our show that was recorded from Brazil, including our interviews at the time with Dan Henderson, CB Dollaway, and Jussier Formiga.

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This week's UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs. Imavov kicks off a run of a UFC event every weekend until mid-April.  We preview that card in the first half of this week's episode. 

Then in the second half of the show we discuss the PFL vs. Bellator press conference, Holly Holm vs. Kayla Harrison, and Jon Anik's experience with the shift in MMA discourse.

Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to March 2014, and our thoughts at the time on Hendricks vs. Lawler, a somewhat odd choice for the future of the Middleweight division, and we wonder if there may be something suspicious about Jon Jones.

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In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of UFC 297, including new UFC Middleweight Champion Dricus Du Plessis, new UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Raquel Pennington, and just kind of a bad night for Canada all around.

Then in the second half of the show we look at more UFC 300 news, Frankie Edgar's pending UFC Hall of Fame induction, and the announcement of the first PFL vs. Bellator event.

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The UFC finally returns to Toronto this weekend, for UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis.  It's maybe not the deepest card of 2024, but there are two title fights, a bunch of Canadian talent, and we preview the whole main card in the first half of this week's episode.

Then in the second half of the show we look at the UFC 297 preliminary card, where the UFC 300 card stands with a few months to go, and the results of UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2.

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UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 is the first UFC event of 2024, and we're back previewing the card in the first half of this week's show.  Well, the main card at least.

Then in the second half of the show we join in on the predictions for what April's UFC 300 card may look like, as well as the last few weeks of MMA news, and the huge announcement of Francis Ngannou boxing Anthony Joshua.

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This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Fourteenth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2023's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, Prospect of the Year, and many more categories.

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The last UFC event of the year fell a little flat, being big on trash talking, and a little light on action, especially in the main event, where UFC Welterweight Champion Leon Edwards solidly beat contender Colby Covington.  We recap the entire card in the first half of this week's show . 

Then in the second half of the show, we run down the week in MMA news.

Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to late January 2014, and the first time James Lynch co-hosted, previewing UFC 169 with us.

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This weekend's UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington is loaded up with two title fights, and a bunch of up-and-comer vs. veteran match-ups that make this one of the more interesting MMA cards of the year.  We spend a lot of this week's episode running down the card.

We also discuss the week in MMA news, as well as the results of PFL Europe, and UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Gutierrez.

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This weekend, UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Gutierrez takes a left turn at Shanghai, and winds up in Las Vegas, and hey...it's actually not a bad little card. We preview it in the first half of this week's show.

Then we run down the week in MMA news, including the arrest of Jamahal Hill, Sean Strickland taking care of business in his driveway, more depressing payout information from the UFC anti-trust class action suit, PFL's TV deal, and the results of UFC on ESPN: Dariush vs. Tsarukyan.

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