Connor Mcgregor, a UFC lightweight champion is highly impressive with his fists in MMA. Through trouble and injury, against wrestler and striker, one thing held true in the world’s most chaotic sport: If McGregor put his fists to another man, that man would fall. His pull-back left-hand counter is widely acknowledged as the most dangerous
Maybe the true stars of UFC 221 were the Australian fans. And maybe Yoel Romero did want a salty snack after upper cutting Luke Rockhold to hell. From a random fan at UFC 221 with a bag of chips and a dream here it is. Whatever this is. We love chips and we think Yoel
Yes. MMA in Perth is a bit different. How so? Well, immediately after winning a fight, an audience member may offer you there shoe full of beer to chug. And of course, the commission will patiently wait to the side while it goes down. Yeah, that’s the kind of place where I’d like to party.
“The Style Bender” Isreal Adesanya made his promotional debut at UFC 221. He recovered from struggling in the first round, stuffing Rob Wilinson’s take downs and absolutely piecing him up along the way in the second. But his TKO finishing sequence was absolute must see savagery: "The rest of the strikers in this division…you're on
Respect to the Aussie dude on the bike. In life we’ve all been this random Aussie on a bike. UFC 221 is in Perth, Australia and it’s the perfect excuse for Luke Rockhold to walk around shirtless all fight week. On the latest episode of UFC 221 Embedded, this dude on a bike risks it
Feeling a bit down on UFC 221? Yeah, I was too… until while looking through prefight media, I stumbled upon this gem. Turns out the boys from Submission Radio in Australia asked Israel about his tattoos and things escalated beautifully from there. That couldn’t have gone more fantastically. Israel Adesanya is now my new favorite
It’s the end of the world as we know it and we feel fine. Living in a post Mayweather-McGregor world anything is really possible. A boxing match between YouTube gamers just sold out an arena in London and broke view records. Actually, we shouldn’t be surprised mother fuckers. Is combat sports next evolution having marginally
What did Brendan Schaub just say? No, seriously why would he say that? Who knows what Brendan Schaub was thinking. Or why he gave his take on race and the UFC on Fox panel for UFC Belem. Let’s just all agree we never want to hear Brendan Schaub about the topic of race ever again.
Most MMA sites are probably filling your news feed with their 3000 word UFC Belem Fight Pass prelims preview. So, we’re going to try and offer a different package, by content curating the finest and greatest MMA content on the internet into a playlist. It’s for loyal fans who don’t have time to read an
What separates world class fighters from the rest of us? Besides dedication, smarts, the willingness to compete, athleticism, training and a huge amount of courage, Alistair Overeem can be turned into a million memes and not blink. At UFC 218, Francis Ngannou hit one of the scariest KO’s in MMA history and within seconds The
Don’t ever slip when you are wrestling Brock Lesnar. At last night’s (Jan. 28) WWE Royal Rumble pay-per-view, Braun Strowman threw a knee strike that landed too flush. A pissed off Brock Lesnar is the best pro wrestling thing. Rather than talk about Strowman cutting it too close, Lesnar got back up and punched the
Very rarely does UFC Tonight put out content that I’d consider must watch, but goddamn did I love this. Check out Kenny Florian, Tyron Woodley, Rose Namajunas, and Pat Barry hit the Punching Machine. UFC Tonight: The Punching Machine Michael Bisping's punching machine record has fallen! But who broke it? Was it Tyron "The Chosen
Call it nostalgia, call it selective memory, call it CTE, but we here at Middle Easy have been feeling like something is lacking in MMA today. We aren’t quite sure what, but there is definitely a void left unfulfilled. And then we stubbled upon this gem of a video shared by Reddit MMA user ChronicxCough and
Dogs are awesome. 10/10 would train. Remember when Rose Namajunas brought her dog to the open workouts and it was awesome? MiddleEasy does. From episode 13 of the JRE MMA Show, here is Rose Namajunas and Pat Barry talking about training MMA with their dog. Rose Namajunas trained for a five-round fight against Paige Van
2018’s attempts to out freak show MMA in 2017 is going surprisingly well. With our jaws wide open, let’s watch 15-year MMA pro Tara LaRosa fight an Internet pro. Thankfully MiddleEasy has been on top of this story since December. Then again in early January. When it comes to freaky MMA shit, it’s always better
This would have been a really cool fight in 2003 when Roy Jones Jr. was a 49-1 boxing legend. Wait no, Anderson Silva was a relative MMA unknown back in 2003. Well this would have been a really cool fight in 2010 when Anderson Silva was reaching GOAT status and in the middle a 17