Tag: Submission

UFC 146: Frank Mir and the 25 Most Accomplished Submission Artists in History

Submissions are what make MMA MMA. So it doesn’t get much more MMA to talk about great submissions. And when you’ve got one of the sport’s greats in this area challenging for a title, as Frank Mir will do this weekend when h…

Submissions are what make MMA MMA. So it doesn’t get much more MMA to talk about great submissions. And when you’ve got one of the sport’s greats in this area challenging for a title, as Frank Mir will do this weekend when he fights Junior Dos Santos for the heavyweight belt at UFC 146, the talk gravitates toward […]

UFC on Fox 3: Lavar Johnson Must Improve His Submission Defense to Be Contender

Lavar Johnson is a powerful and dangerous striker, but his submission defense better improve if he wants to challenge the elite fighters. He narrowly escaped a weak Americana attempt from Pat Barry at UFC on Fox 3 on Saturday night. Barry is not a grea…

Lavar Johnson is a powerful and dangerous striker, but his submission defense better improve if he wants to challenge the elite fighters. He narrowly escaped a weak Americana attempt from Pat Barry at UFC on Fox 3 on Saturday night. Barry is not a great submission artist—OK, he is a terrible submission fighter. He has […]

UFC on Fuel TV 2: Predictions for Fight, Knockout and Submission of the Night

After almost two months of no UFC shows, it returns this Saturday on Fuel TV with a 12-bout card that will be shown live from the Ericsson Glove Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, and be headlined by light heavyweight contenders Alexander Gustafsson and Thiag…

After almost two months of no UFC shows, it returns this Saturday on Fuel TV with a 12-bout card that will be shown live from the Ericsson Glove Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, and be headlined by light heavyweight contenders Alexander Gustafsson and Thiago Silva. Silva is coming in as a late replacement for Antonio Rogerio […]

UFC on FUEL TV: Predicting KO, Submission and Fight of the Night

Don’t adjust your TV sets or your computer screens: UFC on Fuel TV 1 is coming to you this Wednesday, not this coming Saturday, live from the Omaha Civic Auditorium in Omaha, Nebraska and exclusively on Fuel TV. “The Viper” TJ Dillish…

Don’t adjust your TV sets or your computer screens: UFC on Fuel TV 1 is coming to you this Wednesday, not this coming Saturday, live from the Omaha Civic Auditorium in Omaha, Nebraska and exclusively on Fuel TV. “The Viper” TJ Dillishaw starts the card off opposite Walel Watson (pronounced akin to “Y.L. Watson”), followed […]

UFC 143 Fight Card: Predicting KO, Submission and Fight of the Night

UFC 143 is this Saturday night, if you can believe it, and the stakes could not be any higher for Nick Diaz and “The Natural Born Killer” Carlos Condit. The pair will do battle for the UFC interim welterweight title, which will then be unif…

UFC 143 is this Saturday night, if you can believe it, and the stakes could not be any higher for Nick Diaz and “The Natural Born Killer” Carlos Condit. The pair will do battle for the UFC interim welterweight title, which will then be unified with the real welterweight belt in a bout opposite the […]

UFC on FX: Predicting KO, Submission and Fight of the Night

The inaugural UFC event on FX is set to take place at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., this Friday, and it will feature a main event between two of the most exciting lightweight fighters in Melvin Guillard and Jim Miller. Both are coming off …

The inaugural UFC event on FX is set to take place at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., this Friday, and it will feature a main event between two of the most exciting lightweight fighters in Melvin Guillard and Jim Miller. Both are coming off losses to top competition and will look to get back […]