Friday, April 27, 2018

MMA Fights to Look Forward to in May 2018

MMA Fights to Look Forward to in May 2018
April 27, 2018
By Ryan Porzl

Note that at the time I release these, the full card of certain events have not been released so there may be other fights I would recommend but aren't announced until after I complete this. Also, card subject to change.

Saturday, April 21, 2018

MMA Stars/Legends Who Never Fought In The UFC

MMA Stars/Legends Who Never Fought In The UFC
April 20, 2018
By Ryan Porzl

The UFC has been around since 1993 where it's been consistently the number one North American MMA promotion and since 2007, the number one in the world. Since UFC became the top promotion, many fans and the media have constantly said for someone to be "for real" or mean something, they had to be in the UFC. However, that isn't and never should be the case. Many fighters have had great careers with a lot of them becoming legends without ever stepping foot inside the octagon. Here now are MMA stars and/or legends who never fought in the UFC. For the record, I won't include Fedor Emelianenko because everybody already knows he hasn't and he's usually the first person people think of.

Friday, April 20, 2018

Monday, April 16, 2018

Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll (with lyrics)

Off by week but Happy Belated 40th Anniversary to the Rainbow album Long Live Rock n' Roll. The final album to feature Ronnie James Dio on vocals. What a line up with Blackmore, Dio, Cozy Powell, and Bob Daisley played bass on some of the songs. Talk about a dream team.



Sunday, April 15, 2018

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

MMA Fighters Who Transitioned to Pro Wrestling

MMA Fighters Who Transitioned to Pro Wrestling
April 10, 2018
By Ryan Porzl

Back in January, former UFC & Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey made her WWE debut at the Royal Rumble PPV. Despite Rousey being a huge pro wrestling fan and the fact it's been rumored for some time, many MMA fans can't see why anyone would go from MMA to the "fake" world of Professional Wrestling. The interesting thing is that many big MMA names and legends have begun in MMA and did wrestling at some point. With Rousey having just debuted at Wrestlemania, we'll take a look at MMA Fighters who later dabbled in pro wrestling. Keep in mind that this list will only feature fighters who started in MMA and then did pro wrestling whether it be short term or long term. That means that wrestlers who then did MMA like Brock Lesnar, Ken Shamrock, Kazuyuki Fujita, Masakatsu Funaki, Kiyoshi Tamura, Minoru Suzuki, Dan Severn, & Kazushi Sakuraba don't count.

Monday, April 2, 2018

Tag Teams Where The Breakout Wrestler Wasn't Who Everybody Thought

Tag Teams Where The Breakout Wrestler Wasn't Who Everybody Thought
April 2, 2018
By Ryan Porzl

Wrestling is like everything else in life in that not everything goes as you expect. After the rise of Bret Hart & Shawn Michaels in the early 90s, people have usually speculated on which member of a team would be the breakout star and which would fade to obscurity. While many cases, promotions and fans have been right on which would go farther, they're not right all the time as there have been teams where one was expected to go the farthest but the partner would end up doing better. We'll take a look at teams where the breakout star wasn't who people thought it would be.