UFC 225 was a real pay-per-view. A honest, to goodness $60 or so dollars worth of entertainment was given to us by the UFC. In new world where ESPN and UFC join forces for the ultimate corporate spin on our beloved MMA, nights like these are rarer than you think. Not as rare as the
200 years from now when combat sports historians look back at 2018, Bare knuckle boxing and CamSoda Legends may be the highlights of the first six months of the year. Seriously. We all love a beautifully dumb sport and we also all the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill. Without MMA constantly tripping over itself, there may
Happy Memorial Day weekend. While the UFC and Bellator are across the pond in London, somehow, someway, Nick Diaz dominated the headlines this week in the never-ending story that is MMA. The Sunday Morning Rumor Mill is a lot like a Diaz brother. The rise, fall and rebirth of Nickolas Robert Diaz all happened within a
Was this a quite week in our favorite never ending reality show known as mixed martial arts? What gives? What are you trying to pull here MMA? If MMA is your real name, don’t worry the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill won’t dox you. So what happened this week in MMA? Weird shit went down per
Happy Mother’s Day. The best gift you can get your mom this year is unconditional love and the acknowledge that being a parent is tough as hell. The second best gift you can give the woman who gave birth to your MMA loving ass is the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill. Saturday was a glorious day
Bring on the chaos. If rumors hold true, and everything Dana White says should be taken at a rumor in 2018, Nate Diaz vs. Georges St. Pierre is being talked about for UFC 227 in August. A Diaz vs. a GSP fight in 2018 has to equal the winner facing off with Conor McGregor in
This morning Rizin officially lapped Dream for the best JMMA promotion of the Twitter era. Also Rest in Power to Sengoku and HDNet Fights. The Sunday Morning Rumor Mill is here for to cure JMMA hangover no matter which wild ass promotion arrives next. Rizin fight week and the build to Sunday’s card featured every
The GOAT lives. Whether you believe in the concept of organized religion or not, watching Fedor knock a dude out cold in the year of our Fight Lord 2018 is a religious experience. Long live Fedor. Long live the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill. The GOAT is alive, well and one win over an aging/much smaller
Destiny is a cage that eventually engulfs us all. This weekend the worlds of MiddleEasy, Fight Fist, 4/20 and to a lesser extent Earth Day fused together. The capper to all it is the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill. Check out our UFC Atlantic City coverage here and here Check out 4/20 coverage here Check out our Earth
Come again now? They wouldn’t? Would they? This is combat sports, it’s 2018, so everything is pretty much on the table but if even this is a stretch. If a few weeks from now you hear more rumors of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz fighting for a third time, don’t act surprised. UFC doesn’t want
Dustin Poirier and Justin Gaethje are MMA. Sometimes all you need in the sport of human cage fighting is a little Dustin Poirier and Justin Gaethje. A great fight from bell to bell is a cover all for the sport’s warts and power-up the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill. Tyrannical owners, underpaid workers, wild ass shit talk and horrible
Former UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo who suffered back to back losses to young champion Max “Blessed” Holloway will look to bounce back from the worst when he takes on Jeremy Stephens later this year in Canada. Last Month, Jose Aldo expressed his interest to fight “Lil Heathen” in Brazil, however, Stephens indicated on social
MMA you did it. You survived death by hand truck. The week of UFC 223 didn’t teach us anyhting new about the sport and the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill pretty much confirms that. No matter how big and well oiled the UFC machine looks and felt this week, MMA will still only go as far
Happy April Fool’s Day. Happy Easter. Moving forward all Easter celebrations should fall on April Fool’s Day. MMA also needs a yearly event held exclusively on April Fool’s Day for the sake of the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill. Maybe the last sport on Earth that needs April Fool’s Day shenanigans is MMA. The sport of human cage fighting provides
No UFC, no Bellator, no problem. Mixed martial arts is the greatest sport because there are no days off. For the 8,760 hours a year, MMA is online ready to download directly into your brain stem. Every week the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill releases a new update to improve your MMA operating system. Given a chance to
If you survived some St. Paddy’s Day Street MMA, congratulations you earned this edition of the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill. For those that watched UFC London bell to bell, you earned yourself a nice little under the radar Fight Pass event. As always these are rumors that have been talked about behind closed doors between MMA higher