Category: "In The Clinch"

In The Clinch – The Mis-education of Kimbo Slice

Kimbo losing? No big deal. He only has six professional fights under his belt. Kimbo losing because of the training he’s getting? That’s what we call a big problem. I know, American Top Team is one of the best places to train for mixed martial arts. I get that. But they have really dropped the [...]

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In The Clinch: Making the WEC disappear

The WEC just put on a stellar event, but you wouldn’t know it. There was nothing anywhere that had the letters “W”, “E”, or “C” on it. The UFC’s golden hand was all over it, from the production to the promotion to the commentators to the ring announcer.The event itself was renamed “Aldo vs. Faber”, [...]

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In The Clinch: The Spider squashed? Dana puts foot down

Anderson Silva has done it again. Win? Why yes. He’s won an unprecedented 11 in a row inside The Octagon. Defend his title? Of course. He now holds the record for most title defenses in UFC history with six, a mark which he shared with Matt Hughes and Tito Ortiz. That’s not what I’m talking [...]

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In The Clinch: A New Division

The Heavyweight division is unbalanced. Top-heavy, if you will. The top fighters are too large for the majority of the rest of the division to deal with. Changes need to be made. This got me thinking, what if there was another division. Something in-between Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight. The Ohio Athletic Commission, on May 1, [...]

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