UFC Fight Night 139 Betting

The UFC returns to the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO Saturday night with a couple good fights and headlined by The Korean Zombie taking on Yair Rodriguez. Let's take a look at some lines and bets to make. Germaine de Randamie (-210 vs Raquel Pennington (+170) I'm all in on Raquel Pennington here. Germaine de …

Johny Hendricks’ opponent has pulled out of their bareknuckle fight

  https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp4c65olK-u/?utm_source=ig_embed So Johny Hendricks' opponent has pulled out of his bareknuckle fight set for Friday. According to MMAJunkie, the original matchmaker of this bareknuckle promotion left and Bas Rutten stepped in and realized they were paying this guy and some other way too much. I'm going to go ahead and side with Bas on …

Immediate Thoughts Post MFS World Championships 2018

First and foremost, I just want to say that I hope they sell Budweiser and good cigars in Budapest because world team title or not, Team USA deserves them. I'll get into more detail later, but those 10 guys put on a hell of a performance, the better team just won. It happens and there's …

US Open Preview and Picks

This upcoming Friday and Saturday is USA Wrestling's US Open. Especially with the new world team trials process, this is one of the best domestic wrestling tournaments of the year. The pre-seeds have been released and we can now speculate more on what will happen. Here's a little preview with some picks of men's freestyle. …

Cuban Wrestling

On Monday United World Wrestling was ranked fourth on social media among all international federations, which got me thinking about a lot of the cool stuff UWW does through their social media, especially their YouTube page. One cool thing they did recently was a short YouTube video with Cuban wrestlers talking about how much wrestling …

Israel Adesanya is his own fighter and person

Before Israel Adesanya's second UFC fight Saturday night, a lot of people in the media were comparing Adesanya to UFC great Jon Jones. While I do understand the comparison because of how creative both fighters are with their striking on their feet, I think a lot of the media made this connection mostly because the …

media

So I realized today even as a journalism major I'm still not a hundo p on media ethics. There aren't too many rumors in MMA that don't hold any merit, but it seems like that might be what happened today. Earlier today Terez Owens broke a story saying that the UFC was signing a new …

Column: a critique of final x

You’re going to be hard pressed to find a bigger wrestling fan than me. Ever since middle school I’ve been in love. So, when I heard about USA Wrestling’s new world team qualifying process, I had mixed emotions. Under the old format all weights were held the same day at the same location. The “challenge …

A few of my favorite insults to call my friends

PAB I'll let you urban dictionary this one if you so choose due to its NSFW nature and lack of political correctness. Pronounced like it looks, this insult is almost guaranteed to get my friends to do anything, and that's exactly why it's a staple amongst us. It's like a secret cheat code that forces …

ICE to hold more pregnant women in immigration detention

I'm not a very opinionated person, especially when it comes to politics. I'm pretty middle of the road and can see both sides to most arguments. I prefer to keep political conversations to a minimum, but when you're assigned to write a political commentary, you don't really have much of a choice. So, when I …