To no one's surprise, Jon Jones defended his UFC Heavyweight Championship against Stipe Miocic at UFC 309. We discuss that fight, the looming UFC Interim Champion Tom Aspinall, and the rest of the car ...
It's a big one this week in New York, as at UFC 309: Jones vs. Miocic, UFC Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones looks to defend his Heavyweight title for the first, and possibly only time, against former ch ...
Neil Magny continues along in his never-ending duty of defending a UFC Welterweight top 15 ranking spot against all up-and-comers. This week it's Carlos Prates taking a shot at him in the headliner of ...
Okay, so UFC 308 was nuts. Not only did UFC Featherweight Champion Ilia Topuria cement himself with a first his title defense, he also became the first man to knock out Max Holloway. And Robert Whitta ...
We start off this week's show looking at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Hernandez vs. Pereira, headlined by a solid fight between top 15 UFC Middleweights Anthony Hernandez and Michel Pereira. Then in ...
UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr. was a land of contrasts. One one hand a main event war where Alex Pereira defended his UFC Light Heavyweight Championship against game contender Khalil Rountree Jr. O ...
UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr. is coming up this weekend from Salt Lake City, and we get in the spirit by getting a little salty about some of the matchmaking, but there are a lot of fun fights for ...
In the first half of this week's show we discuss the happenings from UFC 306: O'Malley vs. Dvalishvili at The Sphere in Las Vegas, including two new champions and a whole lot of very fancy video packa ...
This weekend Saudi Arabia presents Riyadh Season Noche UFC 306: O'Malley vs. Dvalishvili at The Sphere in Las Vegas to celebrate Mexican Independence Day. Yes, it's a mouthful. We preview the card in ...
The UFC returns September 7th with UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Brady, as rising Welterweight Sean Brady looks for the biggest win of his career over former title challenger Gilbert Burns. We preview th ...
This week Dave and Greg recap the results of UFC on ESPN: Cannonier vs. Borralho, including a huge win for Caio Borralho over the highly ranked former title contender Jared Cannonier. Then in the seco ...
They took the long road getting there, but this weekend at UFC 305 we get the highly anticipated UFC Middleweight Championship fight between Dricus du Plessis and Israel Adesanya. We preview the card ...
The UFC Apex Center in Las Vegas really puts the term Apex to the test this weekend, hosting the UFC on ESPN: Tybura vs. Spivak 2 fight card. We reluctantly preview that event in the first half of t ...
In the first half this week's episode we run down the results of UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2 including UFC Welterweight Champion Belal Muhammad, another dominant performance from Tom Aspinall, and ...
UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2 is coming up this weekend from Manchester, England. We preview the UFC Welterweight Championship main event, the UFC Interim Heavyweight title fight between Tom Aspinal ...
Top five UFC Women's Strawweights headline this weekend as recent title contender Amanda Lemos tries to turn away former Invicta champion Virna Jandiroba. We preview that card in the first half of thi ...
This weekend's UFC card nearly all fell apart and they have turned lemons into, well maybe not lemonade, but at the very least some overpriced lemon water, by putting some decent fights together on sh ...
UFC 303: Pereira vs. Prochazka 2 saw Alex Pereira defend his UFC Light Heavyweight Championship against Jiri Prochazka in epic fashion, topping off a fight card that was changing right to the end. We ...
Conor McGregor may be out of this weekend's UFC 303 due to a toe injury, but as always, when your event is in trouble you call on Alex Pereira. So we're previewing the brand new UFC 303: Pereira vs. P ...
Former UFC Flyweight contender Alex Perez has taken a pretty quick turnaround to headline this weekend's UFC against hot prospect Tatsuro Taira. We preview UFC Fight Night: Perez vs. Taira in the firs ...
UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev retained his title against Dustin Poirier in a hell of a fight at UFC 302. It was pretty incredible. The rest of the card....not so much. We discuss it all in ...
UFC Lightweight Champion and current #1 Pound for Pound fighter Islam Makhachev returns this weekend to defend his title against Dustin Poirier at UFC 302. We preview that card in the first half of th ...
The UFC remains doing shows out of their Apex Center in Las Vegas, and you can kind of see why with the lineup on this upcoming UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Murphy. We preview that card in the first h ...
The UFC heads back to Rio this weekend, alongside The King of Rio himself, Jose Aldo. We preview Aldo's return fight, and the rest of that UFC 301: Pantoja vs. Erceg card in the first half of this w ...
It's Ariane Lipski vs. Karine Silva fight week! Maybe we're the only ones excited for that specific part of this week's UFC Fight Night: Nicolau vs. Perez card. We preview that event in the first half ...
Wow, Max Holloway. Most of this week's show is spent discussing the results of UFC 300, but we probably could have spent the entire hour talking about how awesome Max Holloway was in his victory over ...
We spend the entire episode previewing all of the fights on UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill. That's it. Let's go. Catch us Wednesday nights at 6:30pm on CFMU 93.3 FM, and online atthehammermma.com,The Itune ...
In the first half of this week's episode we take a look at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Curtis 2, while we wait patiently for the big fights of UFC 300. Then in our Hammer History segment w ...
This weekend is UFC on ESPN: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot, and the two hottest Women's Flyweight contenders out there are headlining, and we're all pretty excited about it. We preview the main event of Erin ...
Former UFC Strawweight Champion Rose Namajunas looks to get back on track against two division contender Amanda Ribas, this weekend at UFC on ESPN: Ribas vs. Namajunas. We preview that...not particula ...
UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera was a pretty fun night of fights, with a bunch of impressive performances that we're pretty excited to talk about in the first half of this week's episode. Then in the secon ...
These modern day UFC cards may be hit or miss, but when they hit, they hit big. This upcoming weekend's UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera is just full of great fights and solid matchmaking, and we spend almo ...
UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Gaziev card is... pretty underwhelming, but at least the fighters don't have to go all the way to Saudi Arabia anymore. We preview that upcoming event in the first hal ...
At UFC 298, the Volkanovski Era ended violently at the hand of new UFC Featherweight Champion Ilia Topuria. We discuss the new landscape at 145 pounds, as well as the results of the entire card, in th ...
UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski returns this weekend at UFC 298, to his best weight class, to defend his title against up-and-coming star Ilia Topuria. We preview that fight, and the ...
It's another week, and another Middleweight fight headlining a shallow UFC Fight Night at the Apex Center. This week we're previewing the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Pyfer. Then in the se ...
This week's UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs. Imavov kicks off a run of a UFC event every weekend until mid-April. We preview that card in the first half of this week's episode. Then in the second half of ...
In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of UFC 297, including new UFC Middleweight Champion Dricus Du Plessis, new UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Raquel Pennington, and just ...
The UFC finally returns to Toronto this weekend, for UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis. It's maybe not the deepest card of 2024, but there are two title fights, a bunch of Canadian talent, and we pre ...
UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 is the first UFC event of 2024, and we're back previewing the card in the first half of this week's show. Well, the main card at least. Then in the second half o ...
This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Fourteenth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2023's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, Prospect of the Year, and ma ...
The last UFC event of the year fell a little flat, being big on trash talking, and a little light on action, especially in the main event, where UFC Welterweight Champion Leon Edwards solidly beat con ...
This weekend's UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington is loaded up with two title fights, and a bunch of up-and-comer vs. veteran match-ups that make this one of the more interesting MMA cards of the year. We ...
This weekend, UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Gutierrez takes a left turn at Shanghai, and winds up in Las Vegas, and hey...it's actually not a bad little card. We preview it in the first half of this week' ...
With the holiday season upon us, the UFC is putting on deeper than average televised fight cards again, including this weekend's UFC on ESPN: Dariush vs. Tsarukyan. We preview that event in the first ...
This week we take a lap around the combat sports world, including the results of UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Craig, Francis Ngannou's WBC ranking, Bloody Elbow's fighter pay analysis stemming from the ...
UFC 295 was a hell of an event, with big title wins for Alex Pereira and Tom Aspinall, and a ton of exciting fights and finishes. We discuss all of the results in the first half of this week's episode ...
UFC 295 is looking pretty damn good, what with Jiri Procházka vs. Alex Pereira fighting for the vacant UFC Light Heavyweight title, and Sergei Pavlovich vs. Tom Aspinall for the UFC Interim Heavyweigh ...
It looks like we are The Hammer Boxing Radio for the first half of this week's episode, as we have a lot to say following former UFC Heavyweight Champion Francis Ngannou's impressive boxing performanc ...
UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev retained his title against Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 294, which was impressive, but not as impressive as the sheer number of No Contests, censorship, and st ...
It's been one of those wacky weeks in MMA, not the least of which is that this weekend's UFC 294 has been completely revamped on very short notice. In the first half of this week's episode we preview ...
Top fifteen UFC Featherweights Sodiq Yusuff and Edson Barboza headline this weekend's UFC Fight Night card, and we preview it in the first half of this week's episode. Then in the second half of the s ...
The UFC returns this weekend with UFC Fight Night: Dawson vs. Green. While it doesn't look so great on the surface, we do find a lot to like about it once we get to know it. We preview that card in th ...
Everything's coming up Gamrot, as Mateusz Gamrot picked up the biggest win of his career, beating fellow Lightweight contender Raphael Fiziev following an in-cage injury. We discuss that result, as we ...
UFC Lightweight contenders Rafael Fiziev and Mateusz Gamrot face off this weekend, and we preview that fight, and the rest of the UFC Fight Night: Fiziev vs. Gamrot card in the first half of this week ...
We're not sure what's more surprising. That Sean Strickland is the new UFC Middleweight Champion, or that the worst soundbites from UFC 293 may not have come from him. In the first half of this week's ...
UFC 293: Adesanya vs Strickland is coming up this weekend from Australia, and sure, it's maybe not the card everyone was hoping for, but we preview the fights in the first half of this week's episode. ...
The UFC heads to Paris this weekend for UFC on ESPN: Gane vs. Spivak, and while the Heavyweight main event is good, we're really into the co-main event of Rose Namajunas' moving up to Flyweight to fig ...
Sean O'Malley won the UFC Bantamweight Championship at UFC 292, and the division is looking pretty interesting right now. We discuss that main event, as well as the rest of the results from UFC 292, i ...
The first half of this week's episode is our preview of this weekend's UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley card, which includes the UFC Bantamweight and UFC Women's Strawweight title fights, as well as the ...
In the first half of this week's episode, we take a look at the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Luque vs. dos Anjos, headlined by welterweight contender Vincente Luque returning to fight former UFC Lightweight ...
Justin Gaethje just beat Dustin Poirier in the main event of UFC 291, and we're wondering whether he can parlay his brand new BMF title into an actual UFC title fight. We discuss that, and all of the ...
Dustin Poirier is fighting Justin Gaethje this weekend, how cool is that? Sure, it's for the BMF title, but you can't have everything. We preview that fight, and the entire UFC 291 card in the first h ...
To Fumble the Bag or To Not Fumble the Bag, that was the question everyone's been wondering about Francis Ngannou since he first decided to test the waters outside of the UFC. Well this week we ca ...
UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez was a hell of a fight card, and in the first half of this week's episode we discuss the night of big upsets, wild finishes, as well as Robbie Lawler's retirement fig ...
The upcoming UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez card looks to be the MMA card of the summer, with two title fights, great prospects, and Robbie Lawler's retirement fight. We spend most of this week's ...
It's another big UFC main event this weekend at UFC on ESPN: Strickland vs.... wait, what? Okay then... We preview UFC on ESPN: Sean Strickland vs. Abus Magomedov in the first half of this week's show ...
This weekend's UFC on ABC: Emmett vs. Topuria looks to be one of the better UFC events of the summer on paper, and we preview the card in the first half of this week's episode. Then in the second half ...
Amanda Nunes got the job done at UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana, then retired in the cage at the top of her game, vacating both the UFC Women's Bantamweight and Featherweight Championships. In the first ha ...
It took almost four years, but the UFC is finally returning to Canada this weekend. In the first half of this week's show we preview the entire UFC 289 card, including UFC Bantamweight Champion Amanda ...
Flyweights get to shine this weekend at UFC on ESPN: Kara-France vs. Albazi, and the winner may even be in line for a UFC Flyweight championship fight. We preview that card in the first half of this w ...
Francis Ngannou appears to have pulled it off. After leaving the UFC (and his UFC Heavyweight Championship) to test the waters elsewhere, he has now landed a substantial deal with PFL, and we have qui ...
The UFC's mid summer run of Fight Night cards continues with a transplanted Mackenzie Dern vs. Angela Hill fight, which was moved to this weekend to save the event. We preview that fight, and the r ...
UFC Bantamweight Champion Aljamain Sterling defended his championship at UFC 288, and while he gets less respect than Rodney Dangerfield, it's hard to fault a win over former champion Henry Cejudo. We ...
This weekend's UFC 288: Sterling vs. Cejudo has shaped up to be a fun little card. It's headlined by UFC Bantamweight Champion Aljamain Sterling defending his title against Henry Cejudo who is coming ...
This coming weekend's UFC card has a new main event of Song Yadong vs. Ricky Simon. On the plus side, that's a great fight. On the other hand, there's the rest of the fights. We sort of preview that c ...
The big boys are fighting this weekend at UFC Fight Night: Pavlovich vs. Blaydes, and the winner should be considered a deserving challenger for the UFC Heavyweight Championship. We preview that fight ...
at UFC 287, Israel Adesanya finally broke the curse of Alex Pereira, beating his long-time rival and winning back the UFC Middleweight Championship. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss ...
UFC 287: Pereira vs. Adesanya 2 is coming up this weekend, headlined by new UFC Middleweight Champion Alex Pereira's first title defense against former champion Israel Adesanya. We spend much of this ...
UFC On ESPN: Vera vs. Sandhagen wasn't the greatest night of fights ever, but Cory Sandhagen did impress in his main event victory over Marlon Vera. We discuss the results of that show in the first ha ...
At UFC 286: Edwards vs. Usman 3, Leon Edwards managed to defend his UFC Welterweight Championship against Kamaru Usman, and silence his critics. We discuss the entire event, including the wild Gaethje ...
The UFC heads to London, England this weekend for UFC 286: Edwards vs. Usman 3, for a show headlined with a UFC Welterweight Championship rematch between Leon Edwards and Kamaru Usman. We preview that ...
Following years of speculation, Jon Bones Jones finally moved up a weight class, and has won the vacant UFC Heavyweight Championship at UFC 285. We discuss that fight, Valentina Shevchenko's upset l ...
After three long years, Jon Jones will (hopefully) be back in the UFC cage this weekend at UFC 285: Jones vs. Gane, and fighting Cyril Gane for the vacant UFC Heavyweight Championship. We preview the ...
In the first half of this week's episode we take a look at this weekend's UFC Fight Night: Krylov vs. Spann, a show headlined by Light Heavyweight action fighters Nikita Krylov and Ryan Spann, and als ...
UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev defended his title against UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 284, and seems to have locked in his spot as the #1 pound-for-pound fighter ...
The UFC's top two Pound-for-Pound fighters meet this weekend at UFC 284: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski. It's an incredible fight that's going a little under the radar, with both Islam Makhachev's Lightwei ...
If you're looking for Heavyweight MMA at 1am, then UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Spivak is for you. We preview this weekend's late-night, South Korean focused, UFC card in the first half of this week's s ...
UFC 283 was a rough night for Brazil. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of that show, including big wins for new UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jamahal Hill, and new unif ...
UFC 283: Teixiera vs. Hill is coming up this weekend, headlined by a fight for the vacant UFC Light Heavyweight title between former champion Glover Teixiera, and knockout artist Jamahal Hill. We prev ...
We're back after the holiday break, and catching up on possibly the darkest couple of week's in memory, Dana White's physical altercation with his wife, the deaths of Stephan Bonnar, Victoria Lee and ...
This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Thirteenth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2022's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, Prospect of the Year, and ma ...
It's a short, podcast-only episode here before we take the holidays off, and in the first half of the show we take a look at the results of UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Strickland. Then we quickly d ...
UFC 282: Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev was so much fun, until it wasn't anymore. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of that show, from the great finishes, all the way to the UFC ...
UFC 282: Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev is not the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship main event that we were promised this weekend, but we're still pretty cool with it. We start off this week's episode prev ...
This week's UFC on ESPN: Thompson vs. Holland card has some solid fights, including the Welterweight main event between Stephen Wonderboy Thompson and Kevin Holland, and a monster Heavyweight fight ...
UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Spivak Nzechukwu vs. Cuțelaba was a mess of a card, but it was a mostly enjoyable mess. We start this week's show discussing the results of that event, as well as the result ...
UFC 281: Adesanya vs. Pereira certainly delivered, what with new UFC Champions Alex Pereira and Zhang Weili, a Fight of the Year contender between Dustin Poirier and Michael Chandler, and Frankie Edga ...
This weekend's UFC 281 features a UFC Middleweight Championship grudge match between Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira, Carla Esparza defending her UFC Strawweight Championship fight against Zhang Weil ...
UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Lemos is coming up this weekend, headlined by a fun Marina Rodriguez vs. Amanda Lemos fight, where the winner appears to be ready for a UFC Women's Strawweight title fig ...
UFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev was certainly eventful, and the first half of this week's episode we discuss all of the results, including new UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev, the trainwreck ...
The UFC heads back to Abu Dhabi this weekend for UFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev. It's one of the best looking fight cards of the year, and we spend most of this week's episode discussing it. Later in ...
This weekend Alexa Grasso and Viviane Araujo try to make their case for a shot at Valentina Shevchenko's UFC Women's Flyweight Championship, in the main event of UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Araujo. We ...
In the first half of this week's episode, we discuss the results of Mark Zuckerberg's favorite MMA card of the year, UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Yan. Then in the second half of the show we go over the w ...
We begin this week's episode previewing UFC Fight Night: Mackenzie Dern vs. Yan Xiaonan. Then we are joined by Invicta FC President Shannon Knapp to discuss her storied career in the MMA business, and ...
Following the unfortunate passing of Elias Theodorou, this week we look back on ten years of following his MMA career, including clips from the many times that we were lucky enough to be joined by Eli ...
Well that was a wild ride. UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson was one of the strangest UFC fight weeks in memory, with the top three fights getting rearranged literally the day before the event. We recap all ...
What a turn of events. The main event of UFC 279 is now, somehow, Nate Diaz vs. Tony Ferguson. The entire main card has been shaken up and reorganized with twenty four hours notice. With our last epis ...
So this is a weird one. UFC 279: Chimaev vs. Diaz is coming up this weekend, headlined by Welterweight contender Khamzat Chimaev vs. the departing Nate Diaz. We preview that wacky fight, and a card fu ...
For the first time in their almost thirty year history, the UFC is heading to France this weekend, for UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa. We preview the card in the first half of this week's episode. ...
UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards 2 turned into a pretty eventful night. capped off by underdog Leon Edwards beating Kamaru Usman to win the UFC Welterweight Championship. We take a look at all of the result ...
UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards 2 is coming up this weekend, headlined by UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman defending his title against Leon Edwards, a man who's last loss was to Usman himself seven y ...
UFC on ESPN: Vera vs. Cruz is coming up this weekend, headlined by a solid Bantamweight fight between the rising Marlon Vera, and former champion Dominick Cruz. We preview the card in the first half o ...
We start off this week's episode discussing all of the results from UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2, including Amanda Nunes regaining her UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship from Juliana Pena, and new UFC ...
This weekend's UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2 should answer a lot of questions about current UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Juliana Pena, and former champion Amanda Nunes. We preview that fight, the UFC ...
The UFC heads back to London, England this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Aspinall, which means it's another early afternoon fight card for North American viewers. We preview the entire card ...
The UFC returns to the ABC network for this Saturday afternoon's UFC on ABC: Ortega vs. Rodriguez card. In the first half of this week's show we preview the card, including the main event between UFC ...
There were a lot of interesting stories coming out of UFC 276: Adesanya vs. Cannonier, from Israel Adesanya's dominant win and likely next challenger, to the retirements of longtime UFC fighters, incl ...
The UFC has an has one of their strongest events of the year coming up this weekend at UFC 274: Adesanya vs. Cannonier. In the first half of this week's show we preview the main card, including UFC Mi ...
We start off this week's episode previewing the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Tsarukyan vs. Gamrot. The card itself isn't that deep, but there aren't many current prospects hotter in the UFC than the two guys ...
In the first half of this week's episode, we discuss the results of the really fun UFC 275: Teixeira vs Prochazka, including a fight of the year contender in the main event, a contentious UFC Women's ...
This weekend the UFC heads to Singapore for UFC 275: Teixeira vs. Prochazka. We preview the entire card in the first half of the show, including the Light Heavyweight Championship main event, and Vale ...
The UFC is back this weekend with top ten heavyweights headlining UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Rozenstruik. We preview that upcoming card in the first half of this week's episode. Then in the second ha ...
In the first half of this week's episode we start off with the results of UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Vieira. Everyone seems worked up about this Ketlen Vieira vs. Holly Holm fight, so we may as well ch ...
UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Vieira is coming up this weekend, and while it's not a particularly deep card, we should get a UFC Women's Bantamweight contender out of the main event. We preview the show i ...
UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje ranged from incredibly eventful, to depressingly non-eventful. In the first half of this week's show we discuss the newly vacant UFC Lightweight Championship, the likely ...
UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje is coming up this weekend, headlined by two big title fights. We preview the main card, including the UFC Lightweight Championship fight between Charles Oliveira and Just ...
We start off this week's episode taking a look at the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Font vs. Vera card coming up this weekend. Then we discuss the week in MMA, including a potential Tyson Fury vs. Francis Nga ...
Former UFC Strawweight Champion Jessica Andrade returns to the division where she was champion, to fight Amanda Lemos this weekend. We preview the UFC Fight Night: Lemos vs. Andrade card in the first ...
UFC 273 answered a lot of questions, and in the first half of this week's episode we discuss all of the results including Alexander Volkanovski's impressive title defense against The Korean Zombie, th ...
Most of our episode this week is discussing the upcoming UFC 273, headlined by UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie, as well as a heated UFC Bantamweight unification ...
In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Daukaus, the latest round of UFC Strike NFTs, and a trio of legal incidents involving Jorge Masvidal / C ...
The UFC is back on the road, and heading to Columbus, Ohio this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Daukaus, headlined by a big top ten Heavyweight fight. We preview the card in the first half of ...
It was a pretty wild weekend of fights, so in the first half of this week's episode we take a look at the results of UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Ankalaev, as well as the various Bellator, ONE Champion ...
In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of UFC 272: Covington vs. Masvidal, including big wins for Colby Covington, Raphael Dos Anjos, Bryce Mitchell, Marina Rodriguez, and mor ...
UFC 272: Covington vs. Masvidal is coming up this Saturday night, headlined by a grudge match between former Welterweight title contenders Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal. We preview the entire car ...
This weekend's UFC Fight Night has been shaken up in a big way, as Bobby Green is stepping in on short notice to fight one of the top contenders in the division in Islam Makhachev. We preview the card ...
In the first half of this week's episode, we discuss the results of UFC 271: Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2, including another successful UFC Middleweight Championship defense for Israel Adesanya, huge wins ...
UFC 271: Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2 is coming up this week, where UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya defends his title against the man he beat for it in the first place, Robert Whittaker. We prev ...
Although there's an upcoming UFC Fight Night, we chose to start this week's episode going over what was weird week in MMA, including Jake Paul buying some Endeavor stock, Neil Young taking his music o ...
We're now in the most interesting timeline coming out of UFC 270: Ngannou vs. Gane, as UFC Heavyweight Champion Francis Ngannou wrestled his way to victory, and now due to contract and pay disputes, h ...
This weekend at UFC 270, the heaviest and the lightest UFC men's championships get decided. In the first half of this week's show we preview all of the drama surrounding UFC Heavyweight Champion Franc ...
This week we start off the show previewing the first UFC event of 2022, UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Chikadze. This Saturday's event is headlined by an exciting matchup between Calvin Kattar and Giga C ...
This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Twelfth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2021's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, Prospect of the Year, and many ...
In the first half of this week's show we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus, Woodley vs. Paul 2, and the rest of the week in MMA news. Then in the second half of the show we tak ...
UFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier absolutely delivered, and we spend the first half of this week's episode discussing Charles Oliveira's first successful UFC Lightweight Championship defense, Amanda Nunes ...
This weekend's UFC 269 is looking to be one of the better MMA cards of the year, headlined by a UFC Lightweight Championship fight between Charles Oliveira and Dustin Poirier, and a UFC Women's Bantam ...
We begin this week's episode previewing the very promising UFC on ESPN: Font vs. Aldo and Bellator 272: Pettis vs. Horiguchi cards coming up this weekend. In the second half of the show we look at rec ...
In the first half of this week's show we quickly go over the results of UFC Fight Night: Vieira vs. Tate, as well as have adiscussion of how well the UFC appears to be doing financially in 2021. In th ...
UFC Fight Night: Vieira vs. Tate is coming up this weekend, featuring Miesha Tate's second fight since coming out of retirement, against the number seven ranked Women's Bantamweight Ketlin Vieira. We ...
UFC 268: Usman vs. Covington 2 was expected to be one of the best fight cards of the year, and it absolutely delivered. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results from the show, a ...
This weekend the UFC returns to New York City for the first time since the pandemic hit, and it's a pretty great looking card on paper. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the UFC 268: ...
Due to a family emergency, we've passed on recording an episode this week. Instead, we have a repost of our Greatest Fighter Ever episode from 2018. Who is the Pound For Pound Greatest MMA Fighter Of ...
UFC Fight Night: Costa vs. Vettori is coming up this weekend, and in the main event Paulo Costa and Marvin Vettori, the two most recent Middleweight title contenders, fight each other to try and get a ...
Just two weeks after being forced to pull out of a Bantamweight fight due to weight cutting issues, Aspen Ladd will replace an injured Holly Holm against Norma Dumont in this weekend's UFC Fight Night ...
UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Rodriguez is coming up, headlined by a fun fight between UFC Women's Strawweight contenders Mackenzie Dern and Marina Rodriguez. We preview that fight, as well as the rest of ...
We start of this week's episode discussing the results of UFC 266, including Alexander Volkanovski's incredible Featherweight title defense against Brian Ortega, yet another dominant win for Valentina ...
UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega is coming up this weekend. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski vs. Brian Ort ...
UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Spann is coming up this weekend, headlined by UFC Light Heavyweight contenders Anthony Smith and Ryan Spann, who should have a fun fight. We preview that card in the first h ...
We start off this week's show discussing the results of UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Till, including what's next for Derek Brunson in the UFC Middleweight division, whether oblique kicks are cool or n ...
UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Till is this weekend, headlined by a high stakes Middleweight main event between the streaking Derek Brunson, and former Welterweight contender Darren Till. We preview the ...
UFC on ESPN: Barboza vs. Chikadze is coming up this weekend, and we're pretty excited for the main event between Featherweight strikers Edson Barboza and Giga Chikadze, and we preview that card in the ...
It is Middleweight rehabilitation time at UFC on ESPN: Cannonier vs. Gastelum this weekend, where Jared Cannonier and Kelvin Gastelum are fighting to try to get back into title contention. We preview ...
Cyril Gane made a big impression in the main event of UFC 265: Lewis vs. Gane, winning the Interim UFC Heavyweight Championship, and setting up a future title unification fight with UFC Heavyweight Ch ...
UFC 265: Lewis vs. Gane is coming up this weekend. Sure, there's no real reason for the main event to be for an Interim Heavyweight Championship, and yeah the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship fig ...
UFC on ESPN: Hall vs. Strickland is this Saturday, July 31st, and it's...not the strongest card on paper. It is headlined by a pretty solid Middleweight contenders fight between Uriah Hall and Sean St ...
Former UFC Bantamweight Champion T.J. Dillashaw returns this weekend following a two year suspension, but will need to get past Bantamweight contender Cory Sandhagen on the way back to the title that ...
UFC 264: Poirier vs. McGregor 3 may have ended the Dustin Poirier vs. Conor McGregor trilogy in an anti-climactic way, but the fun didn't stop after the fight itself. In the first half of this week's ...
UFC 264: Poirier vs. McGregor 3 is coming up this weekend, headlined by the rubber match between Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss how much differe ...
With no major MMA cards coming up this week, we start off this episode just talking random MMA happenings from the last few days. Then in the second half of the show we discuss the results of UFC Figh ...
UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Volkov is coming up this weekend, headlined by a consequential Heavyweight fight between Ciryl Gane and Alexander Volkov, and we are previewing the card in the first half of ...
UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 was an eventful night of fights. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss Israel Adesanya retaining, Brandon Moreno winning the UFC Flyweight Championship, a ...
UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 is coming up this weekend, including Israel Adesanya vs. Marvin Vettori for the UFC Middleweight Championship, a UFC Flyweight Championship rematch, and the return of N ...
The UFC returns this weekend on ESPN+ for UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Sakai. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, and if you love Heavyweights floatng around the m ...
We start off this week's show catching up on the week in MMA news, including the UFC moving on from Francis Ngannou vs. Jon Jones, Derrick Lewis vs. a carjacker, more on Georges St-Pierre vs. Oscar ...
It took 28 fights in the UFC, but Charles Oliveira is the new UFC Lightweight Champion. In the first half of this week's episode we recap a pretty good night of fights from UFC 262, and run down the w ...
UFC 262: Oliviera vs. Chandler is coming up this weekend, and the main event features Charles Oliviera and Michael Chandler fighting for the vacant UFC Lightweight Championship. In the first half of t ...
Jiri Prochazka made a real impression with his spinning back elbow victory over Dominick Reyes. In the first half of this week's show we discuss that win, as well as the rest of the results from UFC o ...
Okay, so UFC 261 was pretty good, huh? In the first half of this week's show we run down all of the results from that card, including impressive title defenses from Kamaru Usman and Valentina Shevchen ...
UFC 261: Usman vs. Masvidal 2 is coming up this weekend, complete with three title fights and the first full crowd since the pandemic changed everything. In the first half of this episode we preview t ...
For the second week in a row, the UFC main events with an important fight in the MIddleweight division. In the first half of this week's show we preview the upcoming UFC On ESPN: Whittaker vs. Gastelu ...
The UFC returns to the ABC Network this Saturday afternoon for UFC On ABC: Vettori vs. Holland, a card that while lacking in big stars, appears to have a lot of intriguing fights. We preview the entir ...
Francis Ngannou finally achieved what seemed inevitable a few years back, by knocking out Stipe Miocic at UFC 260: Miocic vs. Ngannou 2 and becoming the UFC Heavyweight Champion. In the first half of ...
This weekend's UFC 260 is already down one title fight due to the forced rescheduling of Alexander Volkanovski vs. Brian Ortega, but we do have the UFC Heavyweight Championship rematch between Stipe M ...
The UFC returns to ESPN this weekend for UFC on ESPN: Brunson vs. Holland. In the first half of this week's episode, we preview that entire card. Then we discuss the apparent end of the UFC Women's Fe ...
TUFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya had a bit of everything in it's three UFC Championship fights, including the first time that a UFC Championship has ever changed hands due to disqualification. In the ...
There are a massive three UFC Championship fights coming up at UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya. In the first half of this week's episode we preview Jan Blachowicz defending his Light Heavyweight Cham ...
For the second week in a row, UFC Heavyweight contenders are in the main event, and this coming Saturday's UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Gane features two of the most promising contenders in the di ...
UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Lewis is this weekend, headlined by a rescheduled Curtis Blaydes vs. Derrick Lewis Heavyweight contenders main event. In the first half of this week's episode we preview t ...
UFC 258: Usman vs. Burns is coming up this weekend, headlined by the oft-delayed UFC Welterweight Championship fight between Kamaru Usman and Gilbert Burns. We preview the entire card in the first hal ...
UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor 2 is finished, and so was Conor McGregor. By Dustin Poirier. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss all of the results of UFC 257, including the main event, ...
It's the return of Conor McGregor this weekend at UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor 2, and Lightweight contender Dustin Poirier gets a chance to avenge his loss to McGregor back in 2013. In the first half ...
The UFC's first event of 2021 is coming up this weekend, and it's their first ever on the ABC network. In the first half of this week's episode, we preview UFC on ABC 1: Holloway vs. Kattar, a really ...
Our first episode of 2021 is spent looking back on the UFC in 2019. We run down all of the major UFC fights from last year, from the most improved fighters, to the biggest upsets. We also compare our ...
This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Eleventh Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2020's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, and many more categories. Also ...
The last UFC event of 2020 is in the books, and at least it was a good one. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Neal, including a great per ...
The last UFC event of 2020 is coming up this weekend, and it looks to be a good one if it doesn't get ravaged by COVID. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire UFC Fight Night: ...
UFC 256: Figueiredo vs. Moreno is coming up, headlined by one of the more exciting Flyweight fights in recent memory, as Deiveson Figueiredo tries to defend his UFC Flyweight Championship again, again ...
COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on the weekly UFC cards, and Jack Hermansson has lost yet another opponent for his second December 5th, 2020 main event. So now we're previewing the newly named UFC F ...
UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Lewis is coming up this weekend, and while the card isn't the strongest, the main event between Heavyweight contenders Curtis Blaydes and Derrick Lewis is a big fight, wit ...
MIt's Flyweight night coming up at UFC 255, as UFC Flyweight Champion Deiveson Figueredo makes his first title defence against Alex Perez, and UFC Women's Flyweight Champion Valentina Shevchenko looks ...
Minutes after uploading our last episode previewing UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. Dos Anjos, Islam Makhachev had to pull out of his main event fight, and has been replaced with Paul Felder. So we've ...
UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. Dos Anjos is coming up this weekend, and while the card is a little lacking compared to recent events, it will still be interesting to see how UFC Lightweight contender ...
In the first half of this week's episode we preview the upcoming UFC Fight NIght: Santos vs. Teixeira card featuring an important Light Heavyweight contender main event between Thiago Santos and Glove ...
We're joined this week by James Lynch (@LynchOnSports) to discuss the results of UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje, including Khabib Nurmagomedov's surprise retirement announcement following his successful ...
UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje is coming up this weekend, and it's a big one. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including the UFC Lightweight Championship fight between ...
This weekend the UFC continues their run of Fight Island shows with UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs. The Korean Zombie. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including the Fe ...
The UFC's staycation in Abu Dhabi continues, and in the first half of the show we preview the entire UFC Fight Night: Moraes vs. Sandhagen card, including the Bantamweight main event between Marlon Mo ...
We start this week's episode discussing the results of UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa, a pretty fun night of fights that resulted in another successful UFC Middleweight Championship defense for Israel Ad ...
Following a bit of venting at the start of the episode regarding the literal political elephant in the room, we are happy to use the remaining first half of this week's episode to preview the upcoming ...
Out of nowhere, the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Woodley is looking like one of the best overall fight cards of the year, and certainly for a free television event. In the first half of thi ...
UFC FIght NIght: Waterson vs. Hill is coming up this weekend, and with recent UFC cards getting torn apart by COVID, we have an unlikely main event in Michelle Waterson vs. Angela Hill. In the first h ...
In the first half of this week's episode we recap the results of UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Rakic, which due to the last-minute loss of the Ankalaev vs. Cutelaba fight, natually leads to talk of some ...
In the first half of this week's episode we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Rakic, but we get a little sidetracked talking about Jon Jones relinquishing his UFC Light Heavyweight Champ ...
UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3 is over, and Stipe Miocic is still the UFC Heavyweight Champion. We start of this week's episode previewing all of the results from that event, including almost assuredly ...
UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3 is coming up this Saturday on PPV, and the main event will complete the recent trilogy between current UFC Heavyweight Champion Stipe Miocic and former champion Daniel Co ...
The upcoming UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik card is headlined by a big crazy Heavyweight main event between Derrick Lewis and Alexsei Oleinik that we can't stop talking about. In the first half of ...
The UFC heads back to Las Vegas for another run of shows, and we start off this week's episode previewing the first of which, this upcoming Saturday night's UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Shahbazyan. Th ...
In the first half of this week's episode we preview the last of the UFC Fight Island cards, with UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till, which is coming up on Saturday, July 25th. Then we get into some o ...
UFC 251: Usman vs. Masvidal in in the books, and in the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of that card from Fight Island, including Kamaru Usman and Alexander Volkanovski defend ...
Jorge Masvidal has taken a short notice trip to Fight Island to face UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman at UFC 251. So since we've already recorded a show discussing the rest of the fights on UFC ...
The UFC is heading to FIght Island in Abu Dhabi for four straight events including UFC 251, and thanks to COVID-19 the Welterweight Championship fight between Kamaru Usman and Gilbert Burns is now off ...
We start this week's show previewing the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Hooker, which is the last of the UFC's June run of fight cards from Las Vegas. It looks to be a pretty fun card, includin ...
The UFC continues to run weekly shows from their Apex Center in Las Vegas, and we're starting off this week's show talking about the June 20th's UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Volkov card, headlined by ...
Amanda Nunes successfully defended her UFC Women's Featherweight Championship at UFC 250: Nunes vs. Spencer, and further solidifying her all-time great status. In the first half of this week's episode ...
In the first half of this episode we preview the upcoming UFC 250: Nunes vs. Spencer event coming up on June 6th, 2020, including Amanda Nunes defending her UFC Women's Featherweight Championship agai ...
Now that all three UFC events from Jacksonville are finished, we can reflect on how this most unique of fight weeks went. To start with, in the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results ...
UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje actually went ahead as planned, and rather successfully at that. Well, other than Ronaldo Jacare Souza testing positive for COVID-19. In the first half of this week's e ...
UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje has been rescheduled for May 9th, 2020 in Jacksonville, Florida, and it actually seems like it's going to happen this time. Coronavirus be damned. In this week's episode ...
As quickly as UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje was announced, it was just as quickly cancelled once the UFC was unable to run their April 18th event in Lemoore, California. In this week's episode we get ...
There may not be any MMA fights happening in the world due to the COVID-19 outbreak, but the usual players continue to keep things interesting. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss UFC ...
Since our radio station and studio are under quarantine, it looks like we're doing podcasts from a living room for the moment. In the first half of this week's episode we run down the effects that cor ...
The UFC heads to Brasilia, Brazil this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Lee vs. Oliviera. Headlined by a Lightweight fight between Kevin Lee and Charles Oliviera, this card looks to be about as a strong o ...
UFC Fight Night: Benavidez vs. Figueiredo is over, and we're recapping all of the results from Norfolk, Virginia including post-fight comments from Deiveson Figueiredo, Felicia Spencer, Kyler Phillips ...
We're on location in Norfolk, Virginia for UFC Fight Night: Benavidez vs. Figueiredo, and in this episode we have pre-fight interviews and comments with Joseph Benavidez, Deiveson Figueiredo, Felicia ...
The main event of UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Hooker was expected to be an exciting one, and it more than delivered. In the first half of this week's episode we recap the entire event including Dan Ho ...
The UFC heads back to New Zealand this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Hooker, featuring a main event between dark horse Lightweight contenders Paul Felder and Dan Hooker. In the first half of ...
There's more to the UFC Light Heavyweight division this week than just poorly judged title fights, but we do get into that this episode. First up though, the UFC heads to Rio Rancho, New Mexico this S ...
We unfortunately had to skip our regular weekly episode this week due to illness, but we just couldn't let a Jon Jones fight week go without at least some discussion. So here is a quick preview of UFC ...
Curtis Blaydes picked up a big win over former UFC Heavyweight Champion Junior dos Santos last weekend at UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. dos Santos. In the first half of this week's episode we recap tha ...
UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. dos Santos is coming up this weekend, and is the UFC's debut in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the first half of the episode we preview the entire event, including the main e ...
We're back in studio for our first live show of 2020, and it's just in time for Conor McGregor's return to the cage. This episode we preview the entire UFC 246 event, including the main event between ...
Our first episode of 2020 is spent looking back on the UFC in 2019. We run down all of the major UFC fights from last year, from the most improved fighters, to the biggest upsets. We also compare our ...
This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Tenth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2019's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, and many more. You can find us We ...
In the first half of this week's show we discuss The Korean Zombie Chan Sung Jung closing out the last UFC event of 2019 with a huge knockout win over Frankie Edgar, Bellator 235 and 236 from Hawaii ...
The upcoming UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. The Korean Zombie is the last UFC event of 2019. Sure it's in South Korea, and it's airing at 5:00am Eastern Standard Time, but it does have a must-see Featherw ...
UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington is coming up this weekend, and is headlined by a rare night of three UFC Championship fights. In the first half of this week's show we preview the entire card, including U ...
After a couple of weeks hiatus, the UFC is back on December 7th with UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Rozenstruik. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including the Heavyw ...
We start this week's show catching up on the week's MMA news, including the announcement of Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson, Jon Jones vs. Dominick Reyes, and Valentina Shevchenko vs. Katlyn Cho ...
The UFC's run of twelve events in twelve straight weekends did not end on the strongest note with last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Jacare. In the first half of this week's episode we rec ...
UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Jacare takes place this weekend in Brazil, and it's headlined by Light Heavyweight contender Jan Blachowicz welcoming yet another former UFC Middleweight to his divisio ...
The UFC heads back to Russia this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Magomedsharipov vs. Kattar, an event that looks a lot different today than when it was announced. In the first half of this week's episod ...
It almost fell through last week, but as of this recording, thankfully Nate Diaz will still be fighting Jorge Masvidal this weekend at UFC 244: Masvidal vs. Diaz for the BMF title, which is a thing th ...
The UFC returns to Singapore this weekend, for UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Askren, headlined by a grappling dream match of sorts between Welterweights Demian Maia and Ben Askren. We preview the entire c ...
It's a rare UFC event on a Friday coming up this weekend in Boston, as former UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman moves up in weight to fight Light Heavyweight contender Dominick Reyes. In the fir ...
While the UFC is heading to Tampa this weekend, the main event already appears to be in jeopardy due to issues with Joanna Jedrzejczyk's weight cut. So we're playing it safe and beginning this week's ...
The UFC heads to Melbourne, Australia this weekend for UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya, a stadium show headlined by a unification fight between UFC Middleweight Champion Robert Whittaker and UFC Inter ...
The UFC debuts in Copenhagen, Denmark this Saturday night, with UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Cannonier, and in the first half of this week's episode we preview most of the card, including the main ...
UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Gaethje is over, and we're recapping all of the results from Vancouver, including post-fight comments from that all of the winners on the card, including Justin Gaethje, G ...
We're on location in Vancouver for UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Gaethje, and in this episode we have pre-fight interviews and comments with Donald Cerrone, Justin Gaethje, Nikita Krylov, Jeff Hughes, ...
In the first half of this week's episode we run down the results of UFC 242, including UFC Lightweight Champion Khabib Nurmagomedov's dominating win over Dustin Poirier, who's next for Nurmagomedov, s ...
UFC Lightweight Champion Khabib Nurmagomedov returns after a nine month suspension to defend his title against UFC Interim Lightweight Champion Dustin Poirier. In the first half of this week's episode ...
In the first half of this week's episode, Steve and Greg preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Zhang while we wait for James Lynch (The Score MMA) to get here from the airport. Then after ...
It's a huge rematch this weekend at UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2 in Anaheim, as UFC Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier is defending his UFC Heavyweight Championship against former champion Stipe Mio ...
This weekend's UFC Fight Night: Shevchenko vs. Carmouche is the promotion's debut in Urugray, and is headlined by a UFC Women's Flyweight Championship fight between reigning champion Valentina Shevche ...
This weekend's UFC on ESPN: Covington vs. Lawler is kind of a strange event, as former UFC Interim Welterweight Champion Colby Covington still has to make a case for himself as a title contender by be ...
The UFC returns to Edmonton for the second time, and this time they've brought UFC Featherweight Champion, and honorary Canadian, Max Holloway to headline. In the first half of this week's show we pre ...
The UFC heads to Sacramento this Saturday, July 20th, for UFC Fight Night: dos Anjos vs. Edwards. In the first half of this week's show we preview most of the card, including the main event where fina ...
The UFC returns to Sacramento, California for UFC Fight Night: de Randamie vs. Ladd, and they're pulling hometown hero Urijah Faber out of retirement for the occasion. In the first half of this week's ...
UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos is this weekend, headlined by arguably the greatest male and female MMA fighters in the sport's history. In the main event, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones defends h ...
The UFC returns to ESPN this Saturday night for UFC on ESPN 3: Ngannou vs. Dos Santos. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the card, including a Heavyweight contender main event betwee ...
UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Korean Zombie is coming up this Saturday, June 22nd from Greenville, South Carolina, and this episode we preview the entire card, including fun fights like the main event, ...
UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes was one hell of a night of fights, and in the first half of this week's episode we discuss all of them, including brand new UFC Bantamweight Champion Henry Cejudo's victory ...
UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes is coming up this weekend, and in the first half of this week's double-length episode we preview all of the fights on the card, including UFC Flyweight Champion Henry Cejudo ...
The UFC heads to Sweden again for the this weekend's UFC Fight Night in Stockholm, as Alexander Gustafsson and Anthony Smith main event a show topped by three Top 15 Light Heavyweight fights. We previ ...
This episode we welcome back our former co-host and current BTC Fight Promotions matchmaker Rob Veevers, BTC Super Lightweight Championship contender Handsome Scott Hudson, and live event correspond ...
UFC Fight Night: dos Anjos vs. Lee takes place this weekend featuring a relatively important Welterweight fight between Raphael dos Anjos and Kevin Lee, as well as a rather large Neil Magny-shaped hol ...
UFC Women's Strawweight Champion Rose Namajunas returns this weekend at UFC 237 in Rio de Janeiro, following a one year layoff, to defend her title in enemy territory against Jessica Andrade. In the f ...
The UFC returns to Ottawa, Ontario this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cerrone, headlined by an incredible Lightweight contenders fight between Al Iaquinta and Cowboy Donald Cerrone. In t ...
This weekend's UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Hermansson may have been downgraded from ESPN to the ESPN+ app, but it's still looking like a night full of fun fights. In the first half of this week's epis ...
Two new UFC Interim Champions were just crowned at UFC 236: Holloway vs. Poirier 2, and it was in two of the most exciting fights in recent memory. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss ...
UFC 236: Holloway vs. Poirier is coming up this weekend, and it's just full of UFC Interim Championship fights. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card including UFC Feathe ...
The UFC is taking a weekend off for the first time in ten weeks. Ten weeks! So we start off this week's episode talking about some MMA news including the unfortunate Conor McGregor/Khabib Nurmagomedov ...
We start this week's show discussing the New York Times article detailing Conor McGregor's sexual assault allegation, Henry Cejudo vs. Marlon Moraes for the vacant UFC Bantamweight Championship, and C ...
In the first half of this week's episode we discuss what little is currently known regarding the adverse findings in TJ Dillashaw's post-fight drug test, and what his relinquishing of the UFC Bantamwe ...
Former UFC Welterweight Championship contender Darren Till gets a shot at the comeback trail this weekend by headlining UFC Fight Night: Till vs. Masvidal in London, England against Jorge Masvidal. In ...
UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Dos Santos is this Saturday night, and it's the first UFC event in Wichita, Kansas. It's a big one too, although mostly because Derrick Lewis is fighting Junior Dos Santos i ...
UFC 235: Jones vs. Smith is coming up this weekend, as Jon Bones Jones returns very quickly after his last fight to defend his UFC Light Heavyweight Championship against Anthony Lionheart Smith. I ...
The UFC heads to Prague for the first time for UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Santos, and it's headlined by an important Light Heavyweight fight between Jan Blachowicz and Thiago Santos, and supporte ...
The UFC debuts their first main card on ESPN this Sunday night, and it's literally a big one. Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez returns after almost three years away, to face the hard hit ...
This weekend the UFC heads to Melbourne, Australia for UFC 234: Whittaker vs. Gastelum, as UFC Middleweight Champion Robert Whittaker attempts to defend his title for the first time in his home countr ...
The UFC heads to Fortaleza, Brazil this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Assuncao vs. Moraes 2. In the first half of this week's episode we preview all of the fights on the main card, including a Bantamwe ...
It seems like it's been going on forever, but the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix wraps up this Saturday night at Bellator 214: Fedor vs. Bader. In the first half of this week's episode we preview tha ...
The UFC begins the ESPN era with a superfight in Brooklyn this Saturday night, when UFC Flyweight Champion Henry Cejudo defends his title against UFC Bantamweight Champion TJ Dillashaw. In the first h ...
Following a quick recap of the week in MMA news, including word of a Jon Jones vs. Anthony Smith fight at UFC 235, the rest of our first episodeof 2019 is spent looking back on 2018. We run down all o ...
This week's episode was recorded immediately following the conclusion of UFC 232: Jones vs. Gustafsson 2, and we're joined by a few friends including Sherdog's James Lynch. There's a ton to discuss be ...
It wouldn't be a Jon Jones fight week without a bunch of drama, and this week's UFC 232: Jones vs. Gustafsson is no different. Due to an abnormality in one of Jones' drug tests, the entire UFC 232 eve ...
This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Ninth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2018's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, and many more. In the second half ...
UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega is in the books, and featured an exceptionally exciting UFC Featherweight Championship defense by Max Holloway, and a brand new UFC Women's Flyweight Champion in Valentina ...
We're on location in Toronto for UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega, and in the first half of this week's episode we have interviews with UFC 231 fighters Eryk Anders, Kyle Bochniak, Brad Katona, and more. ...
The UFC heads to Toronto, Ontario this weekend for UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega, and in the first half of this week's episode we preview the main card, including the UFC Featherweight Championship fig ...
We start off this week's episode previewing next weekend's The Ultimate Fighter 28 Finale headlined by a Welterweight contenders fight between Raphael Dos Anjos vs. Kamaru Usman, and UFC's return to A ...
We start off this week's show discussing the results of UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Ponzinibbio, which was the UFC's debut in Argentina, and it was a successful one for hometown Welterweight Santiago P ...
The UFC celebrated it's 25th Anniversary in style with UFC Fight Night: Korean Zombie vs. Rodriguez, in Denver, Colorado. In the first half of this week's episode we recap the entire event, including ...
UFC 230: Cormier vs. Lewis is in the books, and should be considered successful for the card that was essentially held together with crazy glue and chewing gum. In the first half of this week's episod ...
The UFC returns to Madison Square Garden this weekend for the snakebit UFC 230: Cormier vs. Lewis event, a card that experienced many revisions before landing on the current main event between two-div ...
UFC Fight Night: Volkan vs. Smith, the UFC's first event in Moncton, New Brunswick, takes place this Saturday night, and we're joined by Liam Dunlop to preview the entire card during the first half of ...
The shadow of UFC 229 remains long, as we continue with the ongoing saga of the Khabib Nurmagedov and Conor McGregor, including early buyrate information, an update on athletic commission punishments, ...
UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor is now in the books, and it appears we will be talking about this one for a while. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of UFC 229, including Kh ...
UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor takes place this Saturday, October 6th, 2018, and we spend the entire first half of this week's show previewing the main event fight between UFC Lightweight Champion Khabi ...
We begin this week's episode discussing the UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor press conference from Radio City Music Hall, the abrupt end of Jon Jones' USADA suspension, the unfortunate passing of Japanese ...
We start off this week's episode discussing the results of UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Oleinik from Moscow, Russia. In the second half of the show we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Anders vs. San ...
This week we start the show off discussing the USADA suspension of former UFC Heavyweight Champion Fabricio Werdum, Michael Chiesa's lawsuit over the infamous UFC 223 bus attack, and a preview of the ...
The UFC heads to Dallas this weekend for UFC 228: Woodley vs. Till. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the UFC 228 main card, including UFC Welterweight Champion Tyron Woodley vs Darr ...
In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Gaethje vs. Vick, including the abbreviated main event, some wild submissions, and the retirement of ...
The UFC debuts in Lincoln, Nebraska this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Gaethje vs. Vick. The main event features Justin Gaethje vs. James Vick in a battle of exciting Top 15 Lightweights, we preview th ...
This week we spend the entire hour debating the most frustrating of MMA arguments: Who is the Pound For Pound Greatest MMA Fighter Of All Time? In order to solve this intricate puzzle, we've seeded th ...
UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2 is in the books, and in addition to TJ Dillashaw retaining his UFC Bantamweight Championship in the main event, we also saw the end of an era when long-reigning UFC ...
UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2 is coming up this weekend, and in the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire main card, including TJ Dillashaw defending his UFC Bantamweight Champi ...
We kick off this week's episode catching up on recent MMA news, including the announcement of Tyron Woodley vs. Darren Till at UFC 228, the result of Nick Newell's Contender Series fight, Cain Velasqu ...
The UFC heads to Hamburg, Germany on July 22nd, for the ever-changing UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Smith event card. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including the n ...
While not the biggest news in the UFC Heavyweight division this week, Junior Dos Santos vs. Blagoy Ivanoy headline the UFC's debut in Boise, Idaho on Saturday night, and in the first half of this week ...
While the UFC is heading to Tampa this weekend, the main event already appears to be in jeopardy due to issues with Joanna Jedrzejczyk's weight cut. So we're playing it safe and beginning this week's ...
It's International Fight Week in Las Vegas, and that means two UFC cards coming up next weekend. We start off this episode previewing the main card of UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier, including UFC Heavyw ...
We begin this week's show discussing the recently announced retirements of two of the all-time great MMA fighters; former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Rashad Evans, and former UFC Welterweight Champ ...
We start off this week's show previewing UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Edwards from Kallang, Singapore, headlined by a Welterweight fight between between Top 15 Welterweights Donald Cerrone vs. Leon Ed ...
UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2 was an eventful night of MMA, and we spend the first half of this week's episode discussing the controversial scoring of the UFC Middleweight main event between Robert ...
The UFC heads to Chicago this weekend for the loaded UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero card. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire UFC 225 main card, including the UFC Middleweigh ...
UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Till was the UFC's debut in Liverpool, and hometown fighter Darren Till won a surprising decision against the number one ranked Stephen Wonderboy Thompson. In the first ...
UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs Till comes from Liverpool, England this weekend, and features Liverpool's own Darren Till trying to take out top ranked Welterweight Stephen Wonderboy Thompson in the ma ...
In the first half of this week's episode, we discuss the results of UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington. While it was an exciting night of fights, the biggest stories coming out of the show revolved around ...
UFC 224: Nunes vs Pennington takes place this Saturday night from Rio de Janeiro, as UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes will attempt to defend her title for the third time, this time again ...
In the first half of this week's episode we discuss Fedor Emelianenko's win over Frank Mir in the Bellator 198 main event, the upcoming Invicta FC 29: Kaufman vs. more on Leslie Smith vs. the UFC, the ...
UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee was eventful both inside and outside of the cage. In the first half of this week's episode we recap all of the action from that card, including Kevin Lee and Frankie E ...
UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee goes down this Saturday night in Atlantic City, New Jersey, headlined by an intriguing fight between highly ranked UFC Lightweights Edson Barboza and Kevin Lee. In the ...
UFC 223: Khabib vs. Iaquinta is over, and we start off with a recap of all of the week's insanity from right here in Brooklyn, including Khabib Nurmagomedov beating Al Iaquinta for the UFC Lightweight ...
It's chaos here in Brooklyn for the lead up to the UFC 223: Khabib vs. Holloway card, and we're joined by FloCombat's James Lynch to discuss what's left of the event following Conor McGregor's assault ...
So we're on our way to Brooklyn for UFC 223 Fight Week, and the highly anticipated main event between Tony Ferguson and Khabib Nurmagomedov has just been cancelled. On April Fool's Day. Seriously. Now ...
We start this week's episode discussing all of the news in MMA this week, including Josh Barnett winning his arbitration against USADA, Demetrious Johnson vs. TJ Dillashaw's superfight falling apart, ...
Alexander Volkov just punched his ticket into the top five of the UFC Heavyweight rankings, after knocking out former UFC Heavyweight Champion Fabricio Werdum in the main event of UFC Fight Night: Wer ...
This episode we are joined by Bloody Elbow's Nick Baldwin to talk about the current youth movement taking place in the UFC. We discuss the value of young talent, the current viewing patterns of the UF ...
UFC 222: Cyborg vs. Kunitskaya is in the books, and to no one's surprise Cris Cyborg Justino remains the UFC Women's Featherweight Champion. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss all o ...
Cris Cyborg Justino returns to the Octagon this weekend to defend her UFC Women's Featherweight Champion against her latest Bantamweight contender, Yana Kunitskaya, in the new main event of UFC 222. ...
The UFC returns to the Fox Network this Saturday night for UFC On Fox: Emmett vs. Stephens, a fight card that looks to be high in action, and likely low in ratings. In the first half of this week's ep ...
UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold originally promised a new UFC Interim Middleweight Champion, but there was none crowned once Yoel Romero defeated Luke Rockhold after missing the championship weight limit ...
The UFC debuts in Perth, Australia this weekend with UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold, a show hastily headlined by a UFC Interim Middleweight Championship fight between Yoel Romero and Luke Rockhold. In t ...
UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders takes place this upcoming Saturday night, headlined with a somewhat surprising main event of former UFC Champion Lyoto Machida vs. up-and-coming Middleweight prospe ...
UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou was a good night for the defending champions, as UFC Heavyweight Champion Stipe Miocic retained his title against Francis Ngannou, and UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel ...
The upcoming UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou is headlined by the most intriguing UFC Heavyweight Championship fight in years. Stipe Miocic will attempt to be the first fighter to make three consecutive UF ...
We're approaching the first UFC event of 2018, as UFC Fight Night: Stephens vs. Choi takes place on Sunday, January 14th. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the main card, including t ...
UFC 219: Cyborg vs. Holm, the final UFC event of the 2017, its over and Cristiane Cyborg Justino remains the UFC Women's Featherweight Champion after beating a very game Holly Holm. In the first hal ...
UFC 219: Cyborg vs. Holm takes place this Saturday night, an is headlined by the highest profile women's fight currently possible. UFC Women's Featherweight Champion Cristiane Cyborg Justino faces l ...
This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Eighth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2017's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, and many more. In the second hal ...
This week we are joined by Winnipeg's own Nick Baldwin (Bloody Elbow) to preview this upcoming Saturday night's UFC On Fox: Lawler vs. Dos Anjos event in Winnipeg, which should determine the next UFC ...
It's our post-UFC 218 episode, and in the first segment we are joined by James Lynch (Fightful, Sportsnet, FloCombat) on location in Detroit to recap the entire main card, the post-fight press confere ...
We're still in Detroit for UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2, and this episode we are joined by MMA journalist James Lynch (Fightful, Sportsnet, Fansided) to discuss the UFC 218 Fight Week so far, immediat ...
We are currently in Detroit for this Saturday night's UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2 event. Throughout the episode we have exclusive one-on-one interviews with UFC 218 main card fighters Max Holloway, J ...
We're on our way to Detroit for UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2, and this episode we preview the entire fight card including the UFC Featherweight Championship rematch between Max Holloway and Jose Aldo, ...
UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Tybura wound up being overshadowed by the pre-fight build-up, when Fabricio Werdum threw a boomerang at Colby Covington. Although charges being filed, the show went on. And ...
We kick off this week's episode discussing a strange week in MMA news, including Conor McGregor's disruptive appearance at last Friday night's Bellator 187 event, another failed drug test for Anderson ...
UFC 217: Bisping vs. St-Pierre is in the books and it turned out to be one of the most eventful MMA events in recent memory, including a record breaking three UFC title changes in one night. In the fi ...
Former UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre returns to the UFC this Saturday night for the first time in over four years to challenge current UFC Middleweight Champion Michael Bisping. During t ...
This week's UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Machida features the return of Lyoto The Dragon Machida from his eighteen month suspension, to face top ten Middleweight Derek Brunson in Sao Paulo, Brazil. ...
The upcoming UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Till event features a huge step up in competition for the undefeated prospect Darren Till, as he meets Donald Cowboy Cerrone in the main event from Gdansk, ...
UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee is in the books, and really had some of everything. During this week's episode we discuss the new UFC Interim Light Heavyweight Champion Tony Ferguson, Demetrious Mighty Mou ...
UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee is coming up this Saturday night, headlined by Tony Ferguson vs. Kevin Lee for the UFC Interim Light Heavyweight Championship, and a possible future title unification fight w ...
This week we are joined by MMA Journalist Mike Russell (Real Fight Stories) to discuss the Edmonton Combative Sports Commission, and the issues surrounding the June 18th, 2017 passing of former UFC fi ...
In the first half of this week's episode we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Saint Preux vs. Okami event from Saitama, Japan. In the second half of the episode we have interviews with many of the ...
UFC 215: Nunes vs. Shevchenko just took place in Edmonton, and unfortunately without the originally signed main event of Demetrious Mighty Mouse Johnson vs. Ray Borg. In the first half of this week' ...
The UFC heads to Edmonton, Alberta for the first time this Saturday night for UFC 215: Johnson vs. Borg. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire main card including UFC Flyweigh ...
This week we are joined again by boxing journalist Shawn Smith (CanFight), and Ontario MMA jack-of-all trades Rob Veevers to discuss the aftermath of last weekend's Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGr ...
The Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor Money Fight has been settled, and one of the wildest weeks in combat sports history is finally over. We're joined in the streets of downtown Toronto by Fl ...
We had originally planned to spend this entire episode talking about this Saturday night's Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor boxing match, but then UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones went and ...
It's the first of our two Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor preview shows, and this episode we are joined by three combat sports media members to discuss the ins and outs of The Money Fight. First ...
Now that the UFC is taking the rest of August off in order to clear the way for Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor, we're taking this last chance to talk some MMA before the ridiculous boxing hype re ...
Last weekend's UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones felt like the biggest event of the year so far, and we start off this week's episode discussing all of the results and post-fight drama including Jon Bones ...
UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones 2 takes place this Saturday night, and is headlined by the ridiculously long-awaited rematch between UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier and former UFC Light Heavy ...
In the second part of this week's episode we discuss the recent Mayweather/McGregor press conference with Liam Dunlop who was on site at the Toronto stop, the announcement of Eddie Alvarez and Justin ...
The UFC returns to Fox again this weekend for UFC on Fox: Weidman vs. Gastelum, as former UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman attempts to halt his three fight losing streak in a fight against cont ...
The UFC lost their International Fight Week main event for the third year in a row. Still, the new main event of Yoel Romero vs. Robert Whittaker for the UFC Interim Middleweight Championship delivere ...
It's the UFC's annual International Fight Week in Las Vegas, and this week the company will be hosting two events, as well as their Hall of Fame ceremony. We begin this week's episode previewing Satur ...
Last weekend Bellator MMA put on their first Pay Per View event in over three years, and it was a memorable one. We spend most of the first half of this episode recapping all of the weirdness of Bella ...
We begin this week's episode discussing the announcement of the long-awaited Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor boxing match, as well as Bellator's upcoming return to Pay Per View, Bellator NYC: Sonn ...
The UFC heads to Singapore again this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Correia, as former UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Holly Holm attempts to halt herthree fight losing streak with a win ove ...
Max Holloway is the new Undisputed UFC Featherweight Champion following an impressive finish of former champion Jose Aldo. We start this week's show recapping their UFC 212 headlining fight, as well a ...
UFC 212: Aldo vs. Holloway is coming up this weekend, and during the first half of this episode we discuss the entire card, including a guest appearance by MMA Analyst Robin Black to break down the ma ...
The UFC returns to Stockholm, Sweden next weekend for UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Teixeira. In the the first half of this week's episode we preview all of the fights on the card, including the mai ...
This week we are joined by FloCombat's Shawn Smith. In the first half of the episode we discuss the results of UFC 211: Miocic vs. Dos Santos 2, breaking down the successful title defenses of UFC Heav ...
UFC 211: Miocic vs. Dos Santos 2 is coming up May 13th, 2017, and the event appears to be the most intriguing UFC card of the year so far. This episode we preview all of the fights on the card includi ...
In the first half of this week's episode we discuss the likely delay of the UFC Middleweight Championship fight between Michael Bisping and George St-Pierre, the next likely contender for Tyron Woodle ...
We begin this week's episode discussing the results of UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov, an event that featured another memorable performance by Cub Swanson, as well as a couple of the most impressi ...
UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov takes place this weekend, as Cub Swanson returns to action for the first time since his Fight of The Year contending victory last December. In the first half of this ...
We are back from UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2, and it's been a strange week in Buffalo. This episode we recap the entire night of fights, including post-fight comments from UFC 210 winners Cynthia C ...
We are currently in Buffalo, New York forthe upcoming UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2 event. Throughout the episode we have exclusive one-on-one interviews with UFC 210 main card fighters Anthony Rumb ...
We're on our way to UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2 in Buffalo, and this episode we preview all of the fights on that card including the Light Heavyweight Championship rematch between Daniel Cormier an ...
UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Anderson featured some highlight reel performances from European fighters Jimi Manuwa, Gunnar Nelson and Mark Diakiese. This episode we discuss the results from that Fight ...
This week we are joined again by Adam Martin from The MMA Review Podcast to preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Anderson. The UFC's return to London features a main event between top ten ...
The UFC heads to Brazil this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum, andformer UFC Champion Vitor Belfort meets rising Middleweight contender Kelvin Gastelum in the main event. In the first ...
UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2 is coming up this Saturday night, and is headlined by a rematch of the excellent UFC Welterweight Championship fight between Tyron Woodley and Stephen Thompson. In the ...
Former UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre is finally returning to the UFC, and while that is obviously big news,we just can't help but start this week's episode discussingDerrick The Black ...
The UFC returns to Halifax this upcoming weekend for UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Browne. We spend the first half of this week's episode previewing this somewhat patched together card, including the hea ...
The upcoming UFC 208: Holm vs. de Randamie card introduces a brand new UFC title when Holly Holm faces Germaine de Randamie for the inaugural UFC Women's Featherweight Championship. We begin this epis ...
Valentina Shevchenko became the next contender for the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship following her win at UFC On Fox: Shevchenko vs. Pena. This episode we recap all of the action from that eve ...
The UFC returns to the FOX network again this week for UFC On Fox: Shevchenko vs. Pena. This episode we preview that event, including the main event of Valentina Shevchenko vs. Julianna Pena that will ...
UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs Penn is in the books, and UFC legend B.J. Penn went down hard to the up-and-coming Yair Rodriguez. We begin this episode by recapping all of the results from that event. ...
The UFC will be returning for it's first show of 2017 with UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Penn on Sunday, January 15th. This will be the long-promised return of BJ Penn, and this episode we preview al ...
We're kicking off the New Year on the scene in Las Vegas, breaking down the results of UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey. This episode is sloppier than an Edmond Tarverdyan corner, but we have some fun discus ...
Ronda Rousey returns this week following a thirteen month hiatus to face UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes at UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey. In the first half of this episode we preview all o ...
This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Seventh Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2015's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, and many more. In the second ha ...
We're back from UFC 206: Holloway vs. Pettis in Toronto, and we have post-fight interviews with UFC 206 winners Emil Meek, Misha Cirkunov, Olivier Aubin-Mercier, Viviane Pereira, Matthew Lopez, Lando ...
We are currently in Toronto covering the upcoming UFC 206: Holloway vs. Pettis event, and this is our massive episode full of pre-fight interviews with many of the fighters competing on the show. Thro ...
The UFC returns to Toronto for the first time in over three years, and we're recording this week's episode a few days early because The Hammer MMA Radio will be there all week covering the event. We s ...
The stream of weekly UFC events continues with the upcoming The Ultimate Fighter 24 Finale. We spend the first half of this week's episode previewing the event including Demetrious Mighty Mouse John ...
The UFC returns to Australia this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Brunson. The card was hurt by losing the originally scheduled main event, but the current main event of Robert Whittaker vs ...
We begin this week's episode by breaking down the most interesting fights taking placethis Saturday during the UFC double-header of UFC Fight Night: Mousasi vs. Hall 2, and UFC Fight Night: Bader vs. ...
It took 23 years to the day, but the UFC is finally holding an event in New York City. UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor is stacked with must-see fights and we spend the first half of the episode discussi ...
The UFC returns to Mexico this weekend for The Ultimate Fighter Latin America 3 Finale: dos Anjos vs. Ferguson. Raphael Dos Anjos vs. Tony Ferguson, Ricardo Lamas vs. Charles Oliviera, and the UFC deb ...
It's the third week in a row with no UFC events, but it's been yet another newsworthy week in MMA. In the first half of the episode we talk Georges St. Pierre's declaration of free agency, the release ...
With a lack of major MMA cards for the next few weeks, we're taking this opportunity to spend an hour examining somerecent MMA news and controversies. We begin the show with the announced return of Ro ...
This episode we are joined by UFC Hall of Famer Dan The Beast Severn to discuss how his fight with Ken Shamrock fell apart earlier this year, which opponents could bring him out of retirement, the e ...
Seven years after their memorable first meeting, UFC Middleweight Champion Michael Bisping rematches Dan Henderson this weekend at UFC 204: Bisping vs. Henderson in Manchester, England. While the 46 y ...
It's a rare Sunday episode of The Hammer MMA Radio, and we are joined for the first time by Bloody Elbow and MMA Sucka contributor Nick Baldwin. We begin by running down the results of UFC Fight Night ...
Cristiane Cyborg Justino returns to the UFC this weekend to headline UFC Fight Night: Cyborg vs. Lansberg in Brasilia, Brazil. The first half of this week's episode is a preview of the entire card, ...
With UFC 203 and CM Punk in the rear-viewmirror, the UFC moves on to Hidalgo Texas for this weekend's UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Johnson. We spend the first half of this week's episode previewing th ...
UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem takes place this Saturday night, and UFC Heavyweight Champion and hometown fighter Stipe Miocic defends his title for the first time against the always dangerous Alistair O ...
The UFC debuts in Hamburg, Germany this weekend with the Fight Pass Exclusive UFC Fight Night: Arlovski vs. Barnett. During the first half of this week's episode we preview the main card fights includ ...
Following one of the best MMA fights in recent memory between Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz, the UFC returns again this Saturday night for UFC On Fox: Maia vs. Condit. We spend the first half of this w ...
UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor is taking place this Saturday, August 20th. During the first half of this week's episode we preview the Welterweight main event rematch between Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz, ...
With no major upcoming MMA events to discuss, and with Greg stuck in traffic for the first half of the show, we kill some time looking back at the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez ...
We begin this week's episode by previewing the seventh UFC event in the last thirty one days. While UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Cacares isn't the highest profile UFC show, there are three Featherwe ...
While it may be flying under the radar compared to this summer's other big UFC events, this Saturday night's UFC 202: Lawler vs. Woodley gives UFC Welterweight Champion Robbie Lawler another chance to ...
The UFC returns to Fox this Saturday night for UFC On Fox: Holm vs. Shevchenko. We begin this week's episode by previewing that event, which includes both the return of Holly Holm, and a high level Li ...
UFC International Fight Week, along with it's three consecutive nights of UFC events, is finally over. We spend most of this week's episode discussing the results of UFC 200: Tate vs. Nunes, The Ultim ...
This week's episode is our huge UFC 200: Lesnar vs. Hunt preview, and it looks like Jon Jones has just been removed from the main event at the last minute. We spend the first half of the show breaking ...
While we wait for the upcoming UFC International Fight Week, we've caught up with a few current and former UFC fighters for interviews. First up is former UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman who d ...
We're back from UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Thompson in Ottawa, and this episode we recap all of the fights along with post-fight interviews with Misha Cirkunov, Krysztof Jotko, Joe Soto, Elias The ...
This is our last episode before UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Thompson takes place, and we have pre-fight interviews with co-main eventer Patrick Cote, UFC Women's Flyweight opponents Joanne Calderwo ...
We're currently on the road in Ottawa covering the upcoming UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Thompson, and this is our first of two episodes of pre-fight interviews with many of the fighters competing o ...
This week we are joined by Canadian MMA journalist Adam Martin to preview this Saturday night's UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Thompson. We break down the entirecard including the Welterweight main ev ...
Last Saturday night's UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping eventproved to bewas an extremely newsworthy show, both inside and outside of the cage. During the first half of this week's episode we discuss Mich ...
UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping takes place this Saturday night, and we spend most of this week's episode previewing the entire event including the UFC Middleweight Championship fight between Luke Rockh ...
It's our 300th episode, and we get right into previewing this Sunday's intriguing UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Garbrandt. We spend the first half of the show breaking down all of the fights on the car ...
This week we are joined by fight journalist Shawn Smith (Sportsnet, Vice Sports) to discuss an extremely busy week in MMA. In the first half of the show we break down the UFC's updated weight cutting ...
Rob is joined this week by Showdown Joe Ferraro, the former host of UFC Central on Sportsnet. Joe discusses his groundbreaking MMA show, his work with Titan FC, and life outside of MMA. Also, Rob disc ...
UFC 198: Werdum vs. Miocic takes place this Saturday May 14th from Curitiba, Brazil. Although Anderson Silva was recently removed from the show, we still spend almost the entire episode previewing the ...
The UFC debuts in The Netherlands this Sunday with UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Arlovski. During the first half of this week's episode we preview the entire card, including the Heavyweight main event ...
Last weekend's UFC 197: Jones vs.Saint Preux event featured the two top pound-for-pound fighters inthe world competing on the same night, but providing two wildlydifferent performances. In the first h ...
Serious technical difficulties made yesterday's episode unlistenable. So we've just blown it up completely, and recorded a replacement episode focusing on Conor McGregor and UFC 197 discussion.As you' ...
This week Rob is joined once again by Big Win Don Wilson from MMATopNews.com to preview coast-to-coast Canadian MMA, including this Saturday night's Elite 1 MMA event in Moncton, New Brunswick, andt ...
The UFC returns to network TV again this weekend for UFC On Fox: Teixeira vs. Evans. While this show was hurt by losing the original main event of Tony Ferguson vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov, it still featu ...
This week Rob is joined by P.E.I. Welterweight Matt Macgrath, who faces UFC veteran Jesse Ronson for the XFFC Welterweight Championship this Friday night at Xcessive Force Fighting Championship in Alb ...
This Sunday afternoon the UFC debuts in Zagreb, Croatia for UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs. Dos Santos, an event that is heavy on the heavyweights. We preview the entire card during the first half of th ...
Rob is back in studio,todiscussall of the news in Canadian MMA this week, and also to preview Saturday night's Fight Night: Medicine Hat takingplace April 9th in Medicine Hat, Alberta.Fight Night: Med ...
This week we discuss the week in MMA news including Jon Jones' latest driving violation and arrest, the official UFC debut of Invicta FC Featherweight Champion Cristiane Cyborg Santos, the release o ...
We begin this week's episode discussing a wide variety of MMA topics from the past week including the legalization of MMA in New York, the rumored McGregor vs. Diaz rematch at UFC 200, a whole bunch o ...
This week Rob is joined once again by Marshall Law CEO Adam McEachern (@MLC_Empire) to talk current events in Canadian MMA, the troubled landscape of Ontario MMA, and MMA apparel, including the launch ...
UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Mir is taking placethis Saturday in Brisbane, Australia. Although a few of the fights fell through at the last minute, both the main event between Mark Hunt vs. Frank Mir and ...
This week Rob is joined by Saskatchewan's Kurt The Hurt Southern, who fights for the PFC Featherweight Title at Prestige FC 2 in Regina on Saturday, March 12th, 2016. They discuss Kurt's opponent Ni ...
UFC 196: McGregor vs. Diaz was a night full of upsets, most notablyNate Diaz beating Conor McGregor in the main event, and Miesha Tate finally winning the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship that ha ...
This Saturday night Nate Diaz steps in on short notice to take on Conor McGregor in the main event of UFC 196: McGregor vs. Diaz. As far as replacement fights go, this is about as good as it gets. We ...
Following some discussion of the newly announced Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz fight coming up on March 5th, we spend the first half of this week's episode previewing Saturday's UFC Fight Night: Silva ...
It's a strange weekend of MMA coming up with both UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Cowboy, and Bellator 149: Shamrock vs. Gracie taking place. We start this episode previewing Sunday night's snakebit UFC F ...
Stephen Wonderboy Thompson solidified his place as a UFC Welterweight contender last weekend at UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs. Thompson. On this week's episode we break down Thompson's huge underdog ...
This Saturday night's UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs. Thompson event has been changed from a Pay Per View event to a free television show following the cancellation of the UFC Heavyweight Championship ...
The UFC returns to the Fox network this Saturday nightfor UFC On Fox: Johnson vs. Bader, an event headlined by a high-level Light Heavyweight matchup between Anthony Rumble Johnson and Ryan Bader. W ...
At UFC Fight Night: Cruz vs. Dillashaw, Dominick Cruz returned after a long hiatus to reclaim his UFC Bantamweight Championship from TJ Dillashaw in the most notable UFC Men's Bantamweight fight ever. ...
The main event of this Sunday night's UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs. Cruz features current UFC Bantamweight Champion T.J. Dillashaw facing former champion Dominick Cruz, a man who was never beaten for ...
UFC 195: Lawler vs. Condit's main event featured an early Fight Of The Year contender, although the result of the UFC Welterweight Championship match wasn't without controversy. This episode we are jo ...
This week Rob is joined by The Silver Lake Strangler Ryan Machan, who is facing Cody McKenzie in the co-main event of Fight Night: Calgary, on January 23rd, 2016.Hosted by Rob Veevers.Listen live We ...
UFC 195: Lawler vs. Condit takes place this weekend and we are joined by MMA journalist Shawn Smith (Fightland, The Globe And Mail, Sportsnet) to help us break down all of the fights.While not quite a ...
This week Rob is joined once again by TopMMANews.com's Big Win Don Wilson for a look back at the last year in Canadian MMA, as well as what we can all look forward to in 2016.Hosted by Rob Veevers.L ...
This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Sixth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the three of us debate 2015's Best Fight, Best Knockout,Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, and many more.In the second half o ...
This week Rob is joined by Keith from Z Promotions' Fight Night series, talking a couple of upcoming events in Calgary and Winnipeg, in early 2016. Also, Rob takes a look back at the results of last w ...
Following three consecutive nights of newsworthy UFC events last weekend, there is already another one coming up this Saturday night. We spend the first half of this week's episode trying to digest th ...
This week Rob is joined by MMA journalist James Lynch, writer for Sportsnet and host of the long-running Parting Shot MMA podcast. Theybreak down the results of last weekend's XFFC 8 event from Grande ...
It's finally here. UFC 194: Aldo vs. McGregor takes place this Saturday night, and it is possibly the deepest fight card in history. The event is headlined by UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo defe ...
This week Rob is joined by XFFC Flyweight Champion Adrian The Bully Woolley, who will be defending his title against Yoni Sherbatov at XFFC 8 on Friday December11th in Grande Prairie, Alberta.Hosted ...
In order to free up next week's entire episode to preview the monstrous UFC 194 card, we spend this show previewing the other two UFC cards happening next week. UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. Van Zant ...
Rob is joined this week by Matt MacGrath, who due to injury is currently without an opponentfor his XFFC 8 Welterweight Championship match on December 11th in Grande Prairie, Alberta.Hosted by Rob Vee ...
This weekend the UFC heads to South Korea for the first time for UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Masvidal. While the event has had some major injury issues at the top of the card, it still features a B ...
This week Rob is joined by TopMMANews.com's Big Win Don Wilson to cover as much of the week in Canadian MMA as they can in thirty minutes.Hosted by Rob Veevers.Listen live Wednesday nights at 6:00pm ...
Last weekend's UFC 193: Rousey vs. Holm featured a shocking upset in the main event when Holly Holm knocked out Ronda Rousey to win the UFC women's Bantamweight Championship in front of a record break ...
After a brief hiatus Rob is back, and he is joined by Saturday Night Fights 10 promoter A.J. Scales to discuss how the first ever Pro-MMA event in Regina, Saskatchewan went last weekend.Hosted by Rob ...
Ronda Rousey returns to the Octagon this weekend for UFC 193: Rousey vs. Holm. This will be the first UFC event in Melbourne, as well as the first time that both the UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion ...
This weekend begins an insane schedule of nine UFC events in the next nine weeks. The first of these is Saturday night's UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Henderson 3 from Sao Paulo, and we are joined byKe ...
We kick off this week's showby looking back at the results of last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Smolka vs. Holohan, a show that still managed to be pretty fun despite losing both it's main event and the ...
This week Rob is back from vacation and looks back on the results of last weekend's Hard Knocks Fighting Championship 46 from Calgary, as well as the Prestige FC show from Weyburn, Sasktchewan.Hosted ...
The UFC Fight Pass event taking place this coming Saturday has lost both it's main event (Dustin Poirier vs. Joseph Duffy), and it's co-main event (Ben Rothwell vs. Stipe Miocic) due to injury. On thi ...
With no major MMA events this week (other than WSOF: Fitch vs. Okami) andno major MMA news, we had ourselves aRonda Rousey movie marathon. We forced each other to watch Furious 7, The Expendables 3 an ...
This week Rob is joined by Canadian Lightweight Alexi Argyriou, to discuss his upcoming fight at Calgary's Hard Knock Fighting 46 on October 23rd, 2015.Hosted by Rob Veevers.Listen live Wednesday nigh ...
While there are no major MMA events coming up this weekend, we do have the results of last weekend's UFC 192: Cormier vs. Gustafsson, an event that featured more than enough excitement, storylines and ...
This week Rob is joined by top ranked Canadian Welterweight Matt Macgrath following his huge title victory over former The Ultimate Fighter contestant Mike Hill, at Elite 1 MMA: Fall Brawl in Moncton, ...
UFC 192: Cormier vs. Gustafsson takes place this Saturday night in Houston, and this week we preview the entire card, which is headlined by a UFC Light Heavyweight Championship fight between Daniel Co ...
This week Rob is on his own, and spends this episode looking ahead to three big upcoming Canadian MMA events. There's this Friday night's Rumble In The Cage 51 in Lethbridge, Alberta, this Saturday ni ...
UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs. Nelson takes place in Japan this weekend, and the first half of this week's episode is apreview of that event. Well, most of it at least.Even though the UFC are heading to ...
This week Rob is joined by Canadian heavyweight Tanner The Bulldozer Boser (@BulldozerBoser) to discuss his number one contenders fight taking place this Friday September 25th, at Unified MMA 24 in ...
Nick Diaz has been suspended by the Nevada Athletic Commission for an unprecedented five years, following his marijuana test failure back in January of this year. On this week's episode we obviously h ...
This week Rob is joined by Scott Zerr, Director of Media & Fighter Relations for Maximum Fighting Championship & Prestige FC, and the guy'schat about The Prestige FC 1 event in Weyburn, Saskatchewan o ...
This week Rob is joined by Canadian MMA journalist Shawn Smith (The Globe and Mail, Fightland, Bloody Elbow and Sportsnet) to discuss a stacked month of September in Canadian MMA.Hosted by Rob Veevers ...
This week we are broadcasting live right in the middle of a university campus, because there is nothing that random students are more interested in thanDemetrious Mighty Mouse Johnson.During this ep ...
UFC 191: Johnson vs. Dodson 2 is coming up this Saturday night on Pay Per View, and the main event is a UFC Flyweight Championship rematch of the most competitive title defense that Demetrious Mighty ...
This week we are joined by UFC lightweight The Quebec Kid Olivier Aubin-Mercier, coming off of his third straight UFC win last weekend at UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Oliviera. Olivier discusses wh ...
This week Rob is joined by Jamie Champion, the President and CEO of the Prospects Amateur Fighting Championships in London, Ontario. The PAFC has their debut event this weekend in London, Ontario.Host ...
The UFC is returning to Canada once again for UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Oliviera. This event from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan features a lot of the most promising Canadian UFC fighters, so we've asked ...
Rob is flying solo this week, and covers the whole week in Canadian MMA, including a look back at the results of last weekend's Super Fight League 42 in Calgary, Alberta, as well as the CES MMA 30 eve ...
In a pretty big case of better late than never, here is the podcast of last week's live radio show with Canadian Bantamweight Roland Delorme prior to his Super Fight League 42 fight with Jesse Arnett. ...
With Steve and Greg both unable to make it, Rob Veevers from the Hammer MMA Canada joins us in the first half of the show to review the exciting main event of Fight Night Teixeira vs Saint Preux - and ...
UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs. Saint Preux is coming up this weekend, and we spend the first half of this week's episode previewing the entire card,including a high level Light Heavyweight main event b ...
This weekend is UFC 190, and the UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey takes a break from Hollywood to fly down to Brazil for a good old fashioned grudge match against Bethe Correia. This is ...
This week Rob is joined by debuting Canadian Welterweight Johnny Sanguinetti. Johnny fights out of Joslin's MMA in Hamilton, Ontario and Johnny looks to be having his first fight in Warrior Xtreme Cag ...
The much-delayed UFC Bantamweight Championshp rematch between TJ Dillashaw and Renan Barao finally takes place this weekend at UFC On Fox: Dillashaw vs. Barao 2. On paper this free TV event is full of ...
This week Rob is joined by Battlefield Fight League Middleweight Champion Ryan Janes, to discuss Ryan's upcoming title fight at Battlefield Fight League 37. The event takesplace on July 25th, 2015 in ...
The UFC heads to Scotland this Saturday night for the first time ever with UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Leites. While not the strongest top to bottom card, we do find a lot to discuss with both the ma ...
Rob is joined this week by Justin Donnelly of Five Star Fight League / Five Star Athletics, to discuss Team Canada's involvement in the IMMAF World Championships this weekend in Las Vegas.Hosted by Ro ...
This week we are joined by Fight Network Analyst and Commentator Robin Black to discuss the upcoming UFC 189: Mendes vs. McGregor event. Robin hosts an incredible series of fight breakdowns called Fiv ...
This week Rob is joined by Cat Clarke to discuss the Submission Series PRO event (which includes Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Grappling), that takes place in this Saturday, July 11th in Toronto, Ontario.Ho ...
Jose Aldo's rib injury has officially removed him from the main event of UFC 189, and now Chad Mendes is stepping up to face Conor McGregor for the UFC Interim Featherweight Championship. We start off ...
For the second weekend in a row we have both UFC and Bellator events taking place. In the first half of this week's episode we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Romero (a card which so ...
This week Rob is joined by Saskatoon fighter Jose Rodriguez to discuss his last fight in World Series of Fighting, as well as the UFC's announcement of their first show in Saskatchewan.There's also a ...
The UFC returns to Germany this Saturday night for the fourth time for UFC Fight Night: Jedrzejczyk, a night headlined by Joanna Jedrzejczyk's first defense of her UFC Women's Strawweight Championship ...
This week Rob is joined by top Canadian Light Heavyweight Misha Cirkunov to discuss his newly announced signing with the UFC.Then Havok Fighting Championship fighters Jesse Fox and Ryan Machan join th ...
UFC 188: Velasquez vs. Werdum takes place in Mexico City this weekend, and UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez returns to face UFC Interim Heavyweight Champion Fabricio Werdum in order to unite th ...
UFC Fight Night: Boetsch vs. Henderson takes place this Saturday night. We take the first half of this week's episode to preview the fight card, a night that looks to be a pivotal one for the future o ...
It's a packed show this week as Rob recaps a couple of huge Canadian MMA events from last weekend.First it's a rundown of May 30th'sElite 1 event in St. John's, a night which featured big wins for Ada ...
We are joined this week by Stand And Bang Radio's Aaron Robbins to preview UFC Fight Night: Condit vs. Alves. Former UFC Interim Welterweight Champion Carlos Condit returns from more than a year on th ...
This week host Rob Veevers has put together a double-sized show focused on this Saturday May 30th, 2015's Global Warriors fight card in Burlington, Ontario, as well as the Elite 1 event in St. John, N ...
Two UFC Championship fights take place on this Saturday night's UFC 187: Johnson vs. Cormier event. Anthony Rumble Johnsonand Daniel Cormier will compete to determine the new UFC Light Heavyweight C ...
This week host Rob Veevers is joined by Canadian Welterweight Ryan Dickson (10-3)to discuss his upcoming hometown fight withJason Witt at the May 30th Global Warriors event in Burlington, Ontario.Then ...
UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. Faber takes place this weekend, as former WEC Featherweight Champion Urijah Faber heads back up tothe weight class that he made famous to meetone-time UFC Featherweight titl ...
This episode we have a long discussion debating the UFC's exclusive sponsorship deal with Reebok. We begin with a few words from Georges St. Pierre himself, before delving deep into the history of spo ...
This week Rob is joined by Canadian Lightweight Adam Maverick Assenza. Adam will be fighting on the Global Warriors event on May 30th, 2015 in his hometown of Burlington, Ontario. Adam discusses how ...
The first half of this week's episode is focused on Jon Bones Jones and the hit-and-run that he was allegedly involved in last Sunday morning. So far it has cost him his UFC 187 headlining spot, his ...
Rob is back from covering UFC 186: Johnson vs. Horiguchi in Montreal, and the Canadian MMA events just keep on coming. This week he's joined by Hybrid Combat 3 Lightweight Daniel-San Larivière prior ...
This is our last show from Montreal and we have a ton of interviews with most of the UFC 186 main card fighters. Duringthis episode we speak with UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrious Johnson, Quinton Ra ...
The Hammer MMA Radio is currently in Montreal for UFC 186: Johnson vs. Horiguchi. On this bonus episode we have interviews with UFC 186 fighters Patrick Cote, Sarah Kaufman, Alexis Davis, Chad Laprise ...
The Hammer MMA Radio crew are on the way to Montreal for UFC 186: Johnson vs. Horiguchi. Joining us on that trip, as well as on this episode, are Fightland contributer Shawn Smith and The Hammer MMA C ...
This week the UFC heads to New Jersey for what appears to be one of the best free TV cards of the year. UFC On Fox: Machida vs. Rockhold is likely to produce the next UFC Middleweight Championship con ...
This Saturday night the UFC heads to Poland for the first time, for UFC Fight Night: Gonzaga vs. Cro Cop 2. We preview (most of) the matches on this Fight Pass-only event, featuring a large selection ...
This week host Rob Veevers is joined by the Global Warriors promotion's Garnet Ace to discuss the Tapout Burlington gym, as well as some big news for Ontario MMA fans with the announcement of a new Gl ...
UFC Fight Night: Mendes vs. Lamas is coming up this Saturday night and it looks to be an action-packed show with some of the mostpromising Featherweight and Lightweight fighters in the UFC. This episo ...
This week host Rob Veevers is joined by Elite 1 MMA Light Heavyweight Champion Adam Hunter to discuss his 30 second knockout victory in Moncton, New Brunswick, as well as his next fight for the promot ...
In what is as close to a slow week in MMA that we get nowadays, this episode we recap last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. LaFlare and Titan FC 33 events, and take a very quicklook atthe upcoming ...
This week Rob is joined by Rebel Media TV's Aaron Avruskin to discuss his trip to Japan to produce the Fighter Xchange MMA documentary series.Following that we take a quick look at some of the happeni ...
UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. LaFlare takes place this weekend in Rio De Janeiro, and Stand And Bang Radio's Aaron Robbins joins us once again to preview a show that has some interesting elements to it de ...
This week host Rob Veevers is joined by Burlington, Ontario Welterweight Ryan Dickson, who will be facing Jason Fischer at HKFC 42 on Friday March 20th, 2015.Listen live Wednesday nights at 6:00pm on ...
UFC 185: Pettis vs. Dos Anjos is coming up this Saturday night, and while it may not have quite the hype of the last few UFC PPV events, there are more than enough intriguing match ups on the card. We ...
Host Rob Veevers is joined by Canadian Welterweight Cody Krahn prior to his Xcessive Force Fighting Championship fight against Spencer Jebb in Alberta, on March 20th, 2015.Rob also looks at the possib ...
Ronda Rousey did it again last Saturday night. This time she defended her UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship against number one contender Cat Zingano in a record breaking 14 seconds. We discuss wha ...
This week Rob recaps the events of last weekend's highly enjoyable Extreme Cage Combat 22, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and runs down all of the other happenings this week in Canadian MMA.Listen live We ...
UFC 184: Rousey vs. Zingano is coming up this Saturday night, and is the first UFC event to feature women fighting in both the main event and the co-main event position. We spend roughly the first hal ...
This week host Rob Veevers is joined by Extreme Cage Combat Welterweight Champion Matt MacGrath, who will be facing Richard Arsenault at ECC 22 on February 28th, 2015 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Follow M ...
Stand And Bang Radio's Aaron Robbins joins us again to preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs. Mir event, as well as to recap all of the happenings from last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Hende ...
This Valentine's Day, former UFC Lightweight Champion Smooth Ben Henderson moves up to Welterweight to face rising star Brandon Thatch. On this episode we preview all of the fights on February 14th' ...
Rob is joined by Fightland contributer Shawn Smith for an extended preview of World Series Of Fighting 18: Moraes vs. Hill.The two break down all of the fights, including a great Bantamweight Champion ...
Last weekend's UFC 183: Silva vs. Diaz was a wildly entertaining and successful event. Unfortunately, since their fight it has come out that both Anderson Silva and Nick Diaz have failed drug tests. O ...
This week host Rob Veevers is joined by Josh Hill, the former Ultimate Fighter contestant, and current World Series of Fighting title contender.Josh will be facing Marlon Moraes for the WSOF Bantamwei ...
UFC 183: Silva vs. Diaz takes place on January 31st, 2015. Former UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silvareturns from a broken leg to face briefly retired former Strikeforce Welterweight Champion Nic ...
The UFC returns to Sweden this Saturday for UFC On Fox: Gustafsson vs. Johnson. We begin by previewing all of the fights on the card, including the main event Light Heavyweight title eliminator betwee ...
On this week's show host Rob Veevers welcomes Battlefield Fight League Featherweight Jeremy Kennedy, who will be facing Mario Pereira for the Featherweight title on January 24th.Rob also runs down the ...
UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs. Siver is coming up this Sunday night, and We're back live in studio to break down all of the fights including the Conor McGregor vs. Dennis Siver main event, and the Dona ...
Rob Veevers is back discussing all of the news in Canadian MMA. This week he takes a look at upcoming Battlefield Fight League, Hard Knocks fight cards, the future of Maximum Fighting Championships, t ...
The news of UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones failing an out of competition drug test for cocaine broke right in the middle of broadcasting this week's episode. So in addition to recapping the ...
This week, host Rob Veevers is joined by World Series of Fighting COO Darren Owens to discuss recent developments with WSOF, the best moments of 2014, as well as the promotion's plans for Canada in 20 ...
The biggest UFC event of 2015 appears to be taking place during the very first week, as UFC 182: Jones vs. Cormier is coming up on Saturday, January 3rd. Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier for the UFC Light ...
This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Fifth Annual Awards Show. As usual we debate 2014's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, and many more.There is also a ton of MMA news including Rampage Jack ...
It was looking like a quiet fight week, right up until a handful of current and former UFC fighters announced a Class Action Lawsuit against the UFC this past Tuesday. While it's still early in the pr ...
Rob is joined this week by Canadian fighter The Savage Nick Hrabec, who will be facing Liam McGowan this weekend on December 19th, at Unified Fighting 21 in Edmonton.In additional to the Unified MMA ...
This week we have UFC fighter Robert Whiteford on the show and he came to speak his mind. This is a fun one, so put the kids to bed and turn the volume down at work. We also invite a special co-host, ...
So it's a pretty busy week in the MMA world. This episode we preview both of the weekend's upcoming UFC events, The Ultimate Fighter 20 Finale, and UFC On Fox: Dos Santos vs. Miocic.Then we take a loo ...
This week on Stand and Bang Radio we are joined by UFC fighters Colby Covington from American Top Team, and Mike Rhodes from Roufusport.Colby gives us a review on his last fight, where he hopes to go ...
This week Rob is joined by Canadian Welterweight MMA fighter Matt MacGrath, who is currently on a five fight winning streak.Also, stick around until the end of the show as well for a quick discussion ...
UFC 181: Hendricks vs. Lawler 2 is this weekend featuring Johny Hendricks vs. Robbie Lawler for the UFC Welterweight Championship, and Anthony Pettis vs. Gilbert Melendez for the UFC Lightweight Champ ...
This week Rob is joined by Lightweight fighter Jose Rodrigeuz to discuss Jose's upcoming Havoc FC fight on December 19th against Derek Boyle.Afterwards Rob takes a look at some of the recent MMA news ...
The Hammer MMA is hosting a brand new show. On the first episode of Stand and Bang Radio we welcome Bellator fighters Liam McGeary and Linton The Swarm Vassell, both of whom will be part of the Brit ...
As it's a rare weekend with no upcoming UFC or Bellator events, we spend some time this episode discussing the current state of the major MMA promotions. We touch on the growing competition between UF ...
Following last weekend's UFC 180: Werdum vs. Hunt, the UFC has a new Interim Heavyweight Champion. We discuss Fabricio Werdum's big win in front of a huge crowd in Mexico, as well as how the rest of t ...
We have a packed show this week with UFC 180: Werdum vs. Hunt, Bellator 131: Ortiz vs. Bonnar, and World Series of Fighting 15 all taking place on Saturday November 15th, and we preview all of the maj ...
Rob is joined this week by Canadian Women's Strawweight Kara Kirsh, who will be fighting Katie Howardat Hard Knocks FC 39 inCalgary this coming weekend.Following that is a recapof last weekend's Hybri ...
It's yet another weekend with two UFC cards within 24 hours. First up is UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Bisping from Australia, followed the next day by UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. St. Preux, airing li ...
This week Rob is joined on-air by Yohann Dagenais to discuss Hybrid Pro Series 2 coming up on November 15th in Gatineau Quebec.Later in the show we take a look at the Titan FC event from last weekend, ...
With no UFC event coming up this weekend, we have time to look back at last weekend UFC 179: Aldo vs. Mendes 2 card in detail, including what may be next for Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo.We also t ...
Rob is joined this week by Pat Wilson, the CEO of Ryse Management to discuss Michael Imperato's hiring and subsequent release from the UFC. Also during the show we take a look at Excessive Fight Force ...
This week we are joined in studio by UFC Middleweight and The Ultimate Fighter: Nations winner Elias The Spartan Theodorou. Elias dropped in to talk about his fight a couple of weeks back at UFC Hal ...
It's the 25th episode of The Hammer MMA Canada, and Rob has two guests join him this week. First up is Canadian MMA journalist Carlin Bardsley to discuss the results of last Saturday's Provincial Figh ...
This week we are joined by The Ultimate Fighter 20 competitor Randa Markos, who tells us about her quest to become the first UFC Women's Strawweight Champion, and the many obstacles that she has faced ...
Rob is joined this week by Adam McEachern, owner of Martial Law Clothing, to discuss the MMA apparel industry in Ontario.Afterwards there's a recap of last weekend's World Series of Fighting 14: Ford ...
This week's guest on The Hammer MMA Canada is WSOF Light Heavyweight Luke Harris, who will be facing Jared Hamman this weekend in a main card fight at World Series of Fighting 14: Ford vs. Shields, ai ...
We're back from Halifax following UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine. We recap all of the fights from that night and also have post-fight interviews with many of the winners from that card, inc ...
We are still in Halifax covering UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine, and it's the second of two episodes full of pre-fight interviews with many of the fighters competing on that event.This epis ...
We are on the road in Halifax covering UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine, and it's the first of two episodes full of pre-fight interviews with many of the fighters competing on that event.This ...
This week Rob Veevers is joined by Fightland's Shawn Smith to preview some of this coming weekend's non-UFC Canadian fight cards.The guys run down MFC 41 in Edmonton taking place October 3rd, 2014, as ...
We're on the way to Halifax to cover the first ever UFC event in Eastern Canada, UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine. Since we will be on the road, this week's episode is up a couple of days ear ...
Our co-host this week is newly signed WSOF fighter Mike Malott, to talk about his October 11th, 2014 fight against Hakeem Dawoduat World Series Of Fighting 14: Ford vs. Shields. Mike also sticks aroun ...
This week Rob is joined by Mark Drummond prior to his fight against Jarid Bussemakers at Unified MMA 20, on September 26th, 2014 in Edmonton.There's also King of the Cage Canada and Prestige FC result ...
All three of our regular hosts are back in studio this week to discuss UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Nelson, coming up this Saturday night from Japan. We preview what happens when the irrestible force mee ...
This week Rob is joined by MMA fighter and Fight Network commentator Robin Black. They discuss Robin's September 19th, 2014 King Of The Cage fight against Adam Bodwell, his excellent web series 5 Rou ...
Rob's guest this week is BJJ champion Sergio Cunha, from the Tapout Gym in Burlington Ontario. They discuss working with some of the best MMA fighters in Canada, as well as running a successful MMA gy ...
This week we are joined by Last Word On Sports writer Aaron Robbins to discuss roughly one million recent MMA events. First up we preview theupcoming UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs. Arlovski show from Br ...
This week Rob is joined by Steve Jeffery, host of the regular weekly edition of The Hammer MMA Radio. They discuss the breaking news of the unfortunate injury to Josh Hill that took him out of the Ban ...
Due to a live scheduling issue this week's episode is up a few days early. It's also a longer show than usual and the first half covers the results of this past weekend'scursed, but actually pretty so ...
UFC 177: Dillashaw vs. Barao 2 takes place this Saturday night. We preview the high-level main event rematch, as well as some of the more interesting fights to look out for on the less than hyped card ...
This week Rob's joined by Marc-Andre Drolet to talk about his upcoming Winnipeg event, King of the Cage: Madness on September 19th. Joe Doerkson vs. Tony Lopez headlines that card.There's also the lat ...
There are two UFC events this coming Saturday. The first is UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Le from Macau, China. It starts at about 6am if you have Fight Pass and are a morning person. Then there's UFC ...
This week Rob is joined by Woodbridge Ontario fighter Alex Ricci to discuss his lightweight fight with Darrell Horcher on August 23rd at CFFC 40.Afterwards Rob runs down the next month or so in Canadi ...
Following weeks of mainstream hype, the Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier fight at UFC 178 has been delayed until 2015. We spend some time figuring out what impact this will have on the next few UFC cards ...
Rob's guest this week is 8-2 Burlington Ontario current Lightweight Ryan Dickson, who is fighting Avery MCPhatter at King of the Beach on August 23rd in Maine.They discuss changing weight classes, Rya ...
With last Saturday's ill-fated UFC 176 show cancelled we are left with no UFC cards to discuss this week. That's a rare event these days.We do have Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier mixing it up at a press ...
This week Rob is joined on-air by Jesse Fox and Ryan Machan of Havoc FC to discuss their next event out of Red Deer, Alberta on September 5th, 2014.There's also some new information on the upcoming Wo ...
It was a big week in MMA news. Both Nick Diaz and Anderson Silva are returning to the UFC, and they are fighting each other. Also, Jon Jones is arguing with his new opponent Daniel Cormier, Aldo vs. M ...
Rob is joined this week by Chris Kelades, coming right off of his win over Adrian Woolley at Extreme Cage Combat 21 in Halifax last weekend. Kelades is currently the ranked as the #2 Flyweight in Cana ...
UFC On Fox 12: Lawler vs. Brown takes place this Saturday night, and obviously we are excited for the potential violence that the main event promises. We spend in the first half of this episode previe ...
This week Rob is joined by Jay Peacock, owner of the Fight Planet store in Hamilton, Ontario, as well as the co-host of The MMA Cave.The guys talk about MMA retail, the signature shirt market, the rum ...
The Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to Ireland for the first time in five years, for UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs. Brandao. We break down all of the fights and make our predictions on what look ...
We are joined this week by top Canadian Featherweight Lyndon Whitlock, who will be facingMichael Spoenlein in the main event of Extreme Cage Combat 21in Halifax on July 26th.Rob also talks about the r ...
UFC Champions Chris Weidman and Ronda Rousey retained their respective titles last weekend at UFC 175 and we discuss their matches,all of the other fights from that night, Stefan Struve's medical issu ...
This week on The Hammer MMA Canada, we're joined this week by top Canadian Flyweight Adrian The Bully Woolley to discuss his upcoming fight in Halifax on July 26th, at ECC 21.Also, Rob quickly discu ...
UFC 175: Weidman vs. Machida is coming up this Saturday night, and in addition to the Middleweight Championship fight, there's also a Ronda Rousey UFC Women's Bantamweight title defense against Alexis ...
Rob is joined this week by one of the busiest guys in the MMA business, Chad Elliott. Chad is the owner of Fighter's Edge Management, and CEO of the Fear The Fighter Training Academy in Kitchener, Ont ...
It's our 200th episode, and this Saturday the UFC is giving us two UFC eventson the same day. Is it too late to send one back? Seriously though, there are a bunch of solid fights on UFC Fight Night: T ...
For the first time since the show started there are no local MMA events to discuss, but Rob is joined in studio by 3-1 Canadian Middleweight fighter Adam Hunter to talk about his current career, and t ...
UFC 174: Johnson vs. Bagautinov is in the books and while it wasn't the most exciting event that the UFC has put on over the last couple of months, we have a lot to discuss coming out of it in regards ...
Rob is joined this week by World Series of Fighting Canada fighter, and former The Ultimate Fighter contestant Josh Hill. They discuss Josh's big win last weekend at the WSOF Canada 2 event in Edmonto ...
The UFC returns to Vancouver this weekend for the first time in years, and we are joined by Dwight Wakabayashi from MMACanada.net to help us preview the entire UFC 174: Johnson vs. Bagautinov card. We ...
Pro Fighting Series 3 takes place on Saturday, June 14th in Sarnia, Ontario and Rob is joined in studio by two of the Canadian Lightweightscompeting that on that card.Lightweights Adam Maverick Asse ...
It's a completely stacked show this week, beginning with our preview of UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Khabilov coming up this Saturday night. We also have an interview withRory MacDonald discussing h ...
World Series Of Fighting Canada 2: Loiseau vs. Lewisis coming upthis Saturday, and the WSOF Chief Operating Officer Darren Owen is on to talk about all of the big fights that night in Edmonton.Then Da ...
For the first time ever the UFC is running two separate fight cards on the very same day. UFC Fight Night: Munoz vs. Mousasi from Germany, and UFC Fight Night: Miocic vs. Maldondo from Brazil are comb ...
This week on The Hammer MMA Canada, Rob Veevers is joined by The Ultimate Fighter Nations fighter Matt DesRoches prior to his fight at the upcoming World Series Of Fighting Canada 2 event on June 7th. ...
UFC 173: Barao vs. Dillashaw is coming up and we spend the first half of this episode previewing the entire card, including the Bantamweight Championship main event, the Dan Henderson vs. Daniel Cormi ...
The Hammer MMA Canada is back!This week Rob Veevers previews Unified MMA 19 in Edmonton, Alberta coming up on Friday May 23rd, 2014, and headlined by Chase Maxwell vs. Brandt Dewsberry.Also, there's a ...
All three hosts are back in studio together for another episode discussing the week in basketball, baseball, football and hockey.Find more episodes of The Three Point Convert atLast Word On Sports.Als ...
We predicted that UFC Fight Night: Brown vs. Silvawould be a night of violence, and it didn't disapoint. Matt Brown had a career defining performance and a possible match of the year contender, and we ...
The Hammer MMA Radio is expanding! As UFC, Bellator and World Series Of Fighting continue to promote more international events than ever before, it's been difficult to have airtime on The Hammer MMA R ...
UFC Fight Night: Brown vs. Silva is this weekend and on paper there are a lot of opportunities for impressive violence throughoutthe card. Rob Veevers from Banzuke Athletics joins the show to help us ...
UFC 172: Jones vs. Teixeira is in the books, and Jon Bones Jones has yet again successfully defended his UFC Light Heavyweight championship. This episode we discuss the fallout from the main event a ...
Dan The Doctor Ryan returns to The Three Point Convert this week, and is joined as always by Jeff Hall to talk the week in NHL, NBA, and MLB. Later in the show,Mike Jeffery also calls in from the ro ...
Mike Bohn from USA Today joins us this week to preview the UFC 172: Jones vs. Teixeira card, and to look back on last weekend's UFC On Fox: Werdum vs. Browne main event. Then in the second half of the ...
The Ultimate Fighter Nations Finale weigh-ins have just ended, so this episode we take a few minutes to discuss all of thepushing, shoving and wackiness that ensued.We also have interviews with the tw ...
It is our second day in Quebec City for The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia Finale, and in this episode we haveinterviews with all of The Ultimate Fighter Nations contestants who are co ...
The Hammer MMA Radioare in Quebec City for The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia Finale, and this is the first of a handful of bonus shows that we'll be recording on location.This episode ...
The Hammer MMA Radio is headed to Quebec City for The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia Finale, andthis episode is our full preview of all of the fights on the card.Following that we reca ...
It's a two man show this week with Dan The Doctor Ryan busy saving lives, so Jeff Hall and Mike Jeffery are here to discuss this week in NFL, NHL, NBA, and MLB.Find more episodes of The Three Point ...
After a couple of weeks off, the UFC returns this weekend with UFC Fight Night: Nogueira vs. Nelson from Abu Dhabi. This Fight Pass exclusive show has a handful of intriguing matchups, and we preview ...
Last week's guest host Jeremy Murray returns and joins Jeff and Mike to discuss the week in baseball, basketball, hockey and football. Plus, Dan The Doctor Ryan calls in with a Doctor's Diagnosis se ...
It's rare in 2014 to see the UFC take a couple of weeks off from running events. Nevertheless, there are still The Ultimate Fighter: Nations, World Series of Fighting 9, and weekly Bellator shows to d ...
The Three Point Convert has it's first guest host this week as Jeremy Murray joins regular hosts Jeff Hall and Dan The Doctor Ryan to discuss the week in the MLB, NBA, NHL, and NFL.Find more episode ...
UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson went down this past Sunday night from Natal, Brazil, and The Hammer MMA Radio crew were there in the building. On this episode we recap a great night of fights, i ...
It is our last episode from Natal, Brazil before UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson takes place, and then we head back home to Canada.Check out our final thoughts on the fights coming up Sunday nig ...
The Hammer MMA Radio has arrived in Natal, Brazil for UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson. We have recorded this show immediately following the UFC Open Workouts.Stay tuned throughout this episode f ...
Steve and Greg check in from Brazil again, this time previewing the full fight cardfor the UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson 2 event coming up on March 23rd, 2014.Listen to us Wednesday nights at ...
This week brings us Shogun vs Henderson 2, a rematch of one of the great fights of all time.And for the first time in the history of the show we have a new Welterweight Champion! We look back at Johny ...
Our trip through Brazil continues in Manaus, the hometown of UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo.Tomorrow we fly into the city of Natal for the build-up to UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson. In t ...
Two-thirdsof The Hammer MMA Radio hosts are still in Brazil, and Dave is stillco-hosting the show with a few of the guys from Sportsnet. Look for the next episode around mid-week.In the meantime, here ...
Steve and Greg are on the road in Brazil on the way to UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson. The fight is still about a week away, so this episode has a quick preview of UFC 171, as well as our early ...
This episode is preview of the upcoming Welterweight title fight between Johny Hendricks and Robbie Lawler, along with one of the best undercards of the year so far.Then we review last Saturday's UFC ...
Two-thirdsof The Hammer MMA Radio hosts are on the way to Brazil, and Dave will be co-hosting the show with a few of the guys from Sportsnet. Look for the next episode around mid-week.In the meantime, ...
This episode is up a few days early to recap UFC Fight Night: Kim vs. Hathaway from Macau, that aired at the ridiculous time of 5am. Althoughit was an online-only Fight Pass event, it may have been th ...
The Hammer MMA Radio hosts were up at 5am to watch UFC Fight Night: Kim vs. Hathaway, live on UFC Fight Pass from Macao. A new episode of The Hammer will be up soon, but in the meantime here is anothe ...
UFC 170: Rousey vs. McMann is over, and it was a much needed night of impressive victories and solid knockouts. This episode we recap all of the fights of a card that included amongst other things, ea ...
This week we're joined by Sportsnet.ca's Adam Martin to preview Saturday night's UFC 170: Rousey vs. McMann. For the second time in two months UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey is defendi ...
Due to radio station pre-emptions and polar vortexes, we had to combine two episodes into one this week. The first half is a full preview of the UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Mousasi event coming up ne ...
For a variety of reasons the next episode of The Hammer MMA Radio has been delayed, but will be up tomorrow. In the meantime since people seem to be enjoying it, here's the latest episode of The Three ...
This week we are joined by Sportsnet's James Lynch (@lynchonsports) to help us preview Saturday night's UFC 169: Barao vs. Faber event. We discuss the Bantamweight title fight, Jose Aldo vs. Ricardo L ...
The Three Point Convert Podcast will be launching it's own channel soon, but in the meantime here's the latest episode fromhosts Jeff Hall, Mike Jeffery, and Dan The Doctor Ryan talking this week in ...
After a rare week off we're back previewing this coming Saturday night's UFC On Fox: Henderson vs. Thomson show, as well as recapping a few of the more notable and ludicrous moments from last week's U ...
Due to unfortunate technical difficulties and timeslot pre-emptions, The Hammer MMA Radio had to miss this week's episode, but our next show will be up in a few days previewing UFC On Fox: Henderson v ...
Last weekend the UFC put on it's first international event using the UFC Fight Pass online subscription service, and we gave it a shot to watch UFC Fight Night: Saffiedine vs. Lim, from Singapore. At ...
UFC 168: Weidman vs. Silva is over, and 2014 looks to be a year of young champions and absent legends. Chris Weidman retained the UFC Middleweight title after Anderson Silva's leg shattered during a k ...
This week's episode is up a few days early due to the holidays, and it's some sort of Christmas miracle that the show even happened. Ice storms and blackouts couldn't quite keep us from previewing nex ...
It's the Fourth Annual Hammer Awards episode. As always we choose the winners and losers in eight categories such as Fighter of the Year, Fight of the Year, Submission of the Year and of course Douche ...
After taking a rare week off, we're back to talk about a busy week of MMA including this upcoming Saturday night's UFC On Fox 9: Johnson vs. Benavidez. Although a few important fights fell through due ...
Our live broadcast was pre-empted this week, so this is a shorter than usual episode previewing The Ultimate Fighter 18 Finale: Diaz vs. Maynard event. That card features the Men and Women Bantamweigh ...
The UFC just celebrated their 20th Anniversary with mystery and controversy. UFC 167: St. Pierre vs. Hendricks may have been a great night of fights, but the main event still has everyone scratching t ...
UFC 167: St. Pierre vs. Hendricks is coming up next weekend and in addition to the much anticipated Welterweight Championship fight, the event also celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Ultimate Figh ...
This week we are joined by former UFC Middleweight contender Patrick Cote to talk about his role as a coach on the upcoming Ultimate Fighter: Canada vs. Australia reality show. He give us his thoughts ...
We have another packed show this week as we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Munoz from last weekend, preview the stacked Bellator 106: Chandler vs. Alvarez show coming up on Saturd ...
It's another big week of fights between the aftermath of last weekend's UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos, and our full card breakdown of this coming Saturday's UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Munoz from ...
This week we're previewing UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos. Since it's such a big event (including three huge heavyweight fights and the return of Gilbert Melendez) we've brought in Sportsnet.ca's S ...
As the UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Shields event was airing at exactly the same time as our live broadcast, we had to work with what we had. So we discussed some newly signed fights, the introduction of ...
UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Shields takes place at exactly the same time that our live broadcast airs next week so we're previewing the entire card a whole week in advance. Following that we we get into ...
We're back from our week in Toronto covering UFC 165: Jones vs. Gustafsson. While we were excited for the show going in, we had no idea that the main event would turn out to be one of the greatest fig ...
We've been in Toronto all week for the build-up to UFC 165: Jones vs. Gustafsson. In addition to our previous show previewing all of the matches, this is a bonus show now that we've attended the vario ...
This week's show is up a little bit early because we're on the way to Toronto for the week for UFC 165: Jones vs. Gustafsson. There's a lot for us to discuss between the two title fights, the multiple ...
The Ultimate Fighter Season 18 is in full swing. Ronda Rousey and Meisha Tate are hating each other, women are in the TUF house for the first time, and our hometown fighter Josh Hill is in there too. ...
This week's episode is up a couple of days early so that we are able to preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Texiera vs. Bader, which is the second Wednesday night UFC card in a row.Also we have a de ...
It's the first of our new longer show format, and we get to preview one hell of a main event for this Saturday night. UFC 164: Henderson vs. Pettis 2 is a rematch of one of our favorite fights of all ...
It's our last half hour show before moving to a new one-hour format. We probably could have used the extra time this week to cover the aftermath of UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Sonnen, which was one of ...
The UFC really knows how to make a first impression. To kick off the brand new Fox Sports 1 Channel this Saturday night, Chael Sonnen, Shogun Rua, Alistair Overeem, Urijah Faber, and a ton of the most ...
UFC 163: Aldo vs. Zombie was a more interesting show than expected due to a pair of strange injuries in the main event, a controversial decision against an actual Brazilian in Brazil, and a couple of ...
UFC 163 is this weekend with The Korean Zombie stepping up to face Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo. It's not the deepest card, but between the exciting title fight and some much needed Flyweight and ...
UFC on Fox 8: Johnson vs. Moraga is this Saturday night headlined by a Flyweight Championship fight, and an even more intriguing Rory MacDonald vs. Jake Ellenberger match. In addition we also take an ...
The first 30 seconds of this week's show are a real mess. It's worth it though, because with a lack of UFC events for a couple of weeks, we have time to really get into last weekend's Invicta FC 6: Cy ...
Anderson Silva finally lost his UFC Middleweight title last Saturday night at UFC 162. It was pretty weird. We run down all of the wackiness involved in the crowning of the new UFC Middleweight Champi ...
UFC 162: Silva vs. Weidman is this weekend and it's one of the biggest fights of the year. We're really hyped about this main event and we spend a ton of time debating it, as well as previewing all of ...
It's kind of a random show this week. First we talk a bit about the local Ontario MMA scene including the Substance Combat show coming up this Saturday night in Toronto. Then we recap Bellator 96 from ...
It's a double-sized show for our 150th episode, and we start off by recapping the entire UFC 161: Evans vs. Henderson event which only felt like it was twice as long as usual. We also recap World Seri ...
Greg is finally back from Australia, and it's just in time for our wackiest show in a while. First we catch him up on what he missed in the MMA world while he was gone. It takes about ten seconds. The ...
UFC on Fuel 10: Nogueira vs. Werdum is happening this weekend, and you may not know that because it's the finale show to The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 2 reality show that no one seemed to watch. Fortuna ...
UFC 160: Velasquez vs. Bigfoot was a hugely entertaining show that included highlight reel knockouts by Cain Velasquez, Junior Dos Santos, and TJ Grant, and that was just the main card. We recap all o ...
We're back to basics this week. Greg took off to Australia for a few weeks and we have no interviews or guests on the show for the first time in months, so we're just talking about a bunch of fights.F ...
The UFC returns this weekend with UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold, live from Brazil. We discuss how the final Strikeforce Middleweight Champion Luke Rockhold will do in his first big test in the big l ...
Canadian UFC Fighter Month continues on The Hammer MMA Radio, and this week we're catching up with UFC Middleweight Nick Ring to talk about his recent career, and also about the assault that he stoppe ...
UFC 159: Jones vs. Sonnen is over and done with. Eyes were poked, fingers were bent, and toes were near-severed on a night full of crazy and ridiculous injuries. We recap all of the weirdness in depth ...
UFC 159: Jones vs. Sonnen is coming up this weekend, and while the build-up to the main event is surprisingly lacking in excitement, the rest of the card is still full of interesting fights. One of th ...
It's a pretty stacked show this week with a couple of great guests. First we catch up with Canadian Featherweight Lyndon Whitlock to discuss the current Ontario fighting scene as well as the unfortuna ...
This week we have top Canadian Bantamweight Josh Hill on the show for the first time in almost two years. Josh made his name in The Score Fighting Series promotion and is now on his way to Las Vegas t ...
Due to an unfortunate inury to Alexander Gustafsson, this Saturday's show has now been changed to UFC On Fuel 9: Mousasi vs. Latifi. Who is Latifi? We try to figure it out. We also preview the rest of ...
It's kind of a different show this week. As you'd expect we start off with the latest Georges St. Pierre and Nick Diaz wackiness. Yes there's a conspiracy afoot and it involves scales and decimal poin ...
It's our first episode since we returned from UFC 158: St. Pierre vs. Diaz and we have our full recap of the entire card. Also stick around to the end of the episode for Dave's post-fight interviews w ...
The Hammer MMA crew were at the UFC 158: St. Pierre vs. Diaz weigh-ins, also known as the Nick Diaz Show. As expected, wackiness ensued, some of which even instigated by our own David Abraham.Also, th ...
It's been a busy day in Montreal, and we're right in the middle of the build-up to UFC 158: St. Pierre vs. Diaz. In this bonus episode we discuss the Media Workouts featuring all of the main card figh ...
The Hammer MMA Radio staff are in Montreal for UFC 158: St. Pierre vs. Diaz, and somewhat unexpectedly wound up watching professional athletes practicing some MMA with the owner of Tristar Gym, and Ge ...
This episode is a few days early since we're on our way to Montreal for the week to cover UFC 158: St. Pierre vs. Diaz. We run down the entire card, and while that takes up most of the show we also di ...
UFC On Fuel: Silva vs. Stann was this past weekend in Japan, and while most of the card was kind of hard to watch, the two main fights more than made up for it. We recap all of it, including all of th ...
This week we are joined by former WEC Bantamweight Chad Savage George to talk about the fascinating new documentary about his life, Occupation: Fighter. Afterwards we spend some time recapping the ...
It's a packed show this week (our longest ever), and we're discussing the first ever UFC Women's fight coming up this weekend. UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche headlines a pretty stacked card that also i ...
We're back to recording the show live after a month or two of studio-hopping. This week we are previewing all of the fights on Saturday night's UFC on Fuel: Barao vs. McDonald, including the first def ...
UFC 156: Aldo vs. Edgar was one of those shows full of surprises. There were controversial decisions, incredible upsets, bad karma for Jon Fitch, you name it. We recap the entire night of fights, espe ...
It's another double-sized episode because the UFC and Bellator keep cranking out fight cards. We start off by previewing this weekend's UFC 156: Aldo vs. Edgar. It's a UFC Featherweight Championship s ...
It's a double-sized episode this week, and we needed it. This Saturday night is UFC On Fox 6: Johnson vs. Dodson. Between the Flyweight Championship Title Fight, Cerrone vs. Pettis, and what may be Ra ...
UFC on FX: Bisping vs. Belfort is this weekend live from Brazil, and while the card is hit or miss, the main event is about as good as you can hope for on free TV. We analyze Michael Bisping vs. Vitor ...
It's the end of an era. It wasn't always a good era, but Strikeforce is having it's last show ever this weekend, featuring Nate Marquardt, Daniel Cormier, Josh Barnett and Jacare Souza. So we have kin ...
UFC 155: Dos Santos vs. Velasquez was an interesting night of fights that included a new UFC Heavyweight Champion, a fight of the year contender, a few boring fights and some legally blind judges. We ...
It's the last episode of the year, and it's been a pretty quiet one for MMA news. At least we have UFC 155: Dos Santos vs. Velasquez II coming up this weekend, so we spend the whole show previewing th ...
It's the Third Annual Hammer Awards episode. Pretty much we just choose the winners and losers in categories like Fighter of the Year, Fight of the Year, Submission of the Year and of course, Doucheba ...
Not only did the UFC put on one of the best fight cards of the year last week in UFC on Fox 5: Henderson vs. Diaz, but they are following it up with two promising Ultimate Fighter finales on this week ...
The UFC is giving us possibly the best card of the year on free TV this weekend, and we can barely contain our excitment. UFC on Fox 5: Henderson vs. Diaz is full of action-packed fights that we can't ...
It's a packed show this week and we lead off with all of the week's MMA news including yet another Strikeforce disaster, some serious changes to Bellator's matchmaking policies, Thiago Silva's latest ...
We are back from Montreal with a full recap of UFC 154: St. Pierre vs. Condit, including highlights from live in the building, the post-fight press conference, and what we learned from conversations w ...
The Hammer MMA Radio is still down in Montreal, and we've recorded another show following the UFC 154 Open Media Workouts. Check it out for our updated predictions on the fights this weekend, with all ...
We're on site in Montreal for UFC 154: St. Pierre vs. Condit. Check out this episode for our thoughts on the pre-fight press conference, and a batch of fighter interviews including Mark Bocek, John Ma ...
This week's episode is up a day early, as Dave and Greg are on the way to Montreal for the rest of the week to cover UFC 154: St. Pierre vs. Condit. On this week's show we preview the entire UFC 154 c ...
We're gearing up towards UFC 154: St. Pierre vs. Condit in Montreal on November 17th. This week we discuss the UFC 154 Media Conference including the complete audio from the event.Then we preview this ...
UFC fighter and The Ultimate Fighter alumni TJ Dillashaw is on the show this week to talk about his career. Then with no UFC cards this weekend and the Strikeforce show being cancelled, we preview som ...
With no major MMA cards this week, and with so much recent talk about Anderson Silva vs. Georges St. Pierre and Jon Jones, we decided to see just how super some of these proposed superfights would act ...
While the current season of The Ultimate Fighter is floundering, things look a lot more interesting for the new year, as Jon Bones Jones and Chael Sonnen will be hosting the show and then fighting i ...
It's MMA overload this week. We start the show previewing UFC 153: Silva vs. Bonnar (yes, that fight is really happening, and we kind of love it), as well as the rest of the card coming live from Braz ...
UFC on FX: Browne vs. Bigfoot is coming up this Saturday, and the main event looks like a pretty violent heavyweight affair. It has a lot to live up to to top last weekend's UFC on Fuel: Struve vs. Mi ...
UFC 152 is over, and things are getting back to normal. After one final rundown of last Saturday's card, we preview this coming weekend's UFC on Fuel: Struve vs. Miocic from Nottingham, England. We wo ...
UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort is over, and so is our week long coverage of all of the UFC 152 events taking place around Toronto for the past week. Check out this episode for our thoughts on all of the f ...
Dave and Steve are still in Toronto covering UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort. Since the last time they checked in, there's been the UFC 152 pre-fight press conference, and the weigh-ins, as well as a UFC C ...
Dave and Steve continue their week in Toronto covering UFC 152. This bonus episode covers the UFC 152 Open Workouts, where we got a good look at the fighters and play some highlights from the media in ...
The Hammer MMA Radio is on location all week in Toronto for UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort. This episode we're previewing the entire UFC 152 card from top to bottom, including both the Light Heavyweight a ...
It's another slow news week, and it's mostly bad news. Pretty much the entire main card of UFC 153 in Brazil has fallen apart, so we try to come up with ways to save it.Also, since a three month onsla ...
We're not live in studio this week, and since the UFC 151 show has been cancelled we are just doing a shorter episode to recap all of the week's news.Topics include Jon Bones Jones vs. Twitter, Jose ...
UFC 151 was supposed to happen this Saturday night but it's been cancelled. Or murdered, depending on who you ask. Instead of skipping Episode 108 of our show entirely, we decided to show up and recap ...
Ronda Rousey retained her Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Championship with yet another consecutive first round armbar victory. It's amazing. We discuss the title fight, the future of women's MMA, an ...
The UFC Lightweight Championship rematch between Ben Henderson and Frankie Edgar at UFC 150 was even closer than their first fight, and may have left just as many questions. Was the fight scored corre ...
The UFC 150: Henderson vs. Edgar 2 Pay Per View is this weekend, and if their last fight is any indication then Ben Henderson vs. Frankie Edgar's Lightweight Championship rematch should be an exciting ...
It's an extra-long episode of The Hammer MMA Radio this week. We use the extra time to preview UFC on Fox 4 coming up this Saturday, featuring two Light Heavyweight fights that will determine the next ...
Let's be honest, UFC 149: Faber vs. Barao was a pretty lackluster event. Still there were some highlights, and even the lowlights were kind of interesting failures. We run through the whole card, incl ...
UFC 149: Faber vs. Barao is coming up this weekend, and it's not exactly the card that was originally promised. Still, between the UFC Interim Bantamweight Title fight, Hector Lombard's debut, and a h ...
UFC 148: Silva vs. Sonnen 2 is now in the books, and Anderson Silva is still the UFC Middleweight Champion. We analyze the fight, including the wild finishing sequence, and then try to figure out wher ...
Not only is this week our 100th episode, but it's also the biggest MMA event of the year. UFC 148: Silva vs. Sonnen is coming up July 7th, and we dedicate the whole show to previewing the most anticpa ...
Well that was disapointing. Between UFC on FX 4's disapointing main event, and UFC 147's thrown together Brazilian card, the UFC didn't deliver the most exciting double-header last weekend. We spend a ...
Due to a series of ridiculous circumstances, the UFC is running shows on two consecutive nights this weekend. First there is UFC on FX 4: Maynard vs. Guida on free TV Friday night. Then Saturday night ...
The UFC really is running too many shows lately, but it's hard to complain when the main cards are as action packed as UFC on FX 3: Johnson vs. McCall was. There were great knockouts, submissions, and ...
This weekend at UFC on FX, it's the rematch of Ian McCall vs. Demetrious Johnson's first-round Flyweight tournament fight, after it was horribly botched the first time in Australia. Luckily their firs ...
UFC 146: Dos Santos vs. Mir featured an all-heavyweight main card, and didn't fail to deliver violence and exciting finishes. We run down all of the matches from the show, as well as try to put in per ...
We discuss the night of heavyweights - A card that seems somewhat predictable, but a ton of fun.Also a very TMZ episode of the Hammer as misadventures by Jon Bones Jones and Arianny Celeste make their ...
Steve is on the road, but joins us by phone for the news, including King Mo's recent career moves.We review the Chan Sung Jung vs Dustin Poirier fight and go over the rise of the Korean Zombie in anot ...
Last weekend's UFC on Fox 3 card was as enjoyable as we predicted. Unfortunately for the UFC, it also did a rating lower than anyone's worst possible estimates. We break down the night of great fights ...
The UFC returns to network television for the third time this Saturday night, with UFC on FOX 3: Diaz vs. Miller. On paper it's an all-action show that shouldn't be missed, so check out our fight pick ...
Jon Bones Jones defended his UFC Light Heavyweight title yet again last weekend at UFC 145, and continues to look unstoppable. We give our thoughts on the fight, including who's next for Jones, as w ...
UFC 145 is this weekend, and Jon Bones Jones vs. his former teammate Rashad Evans is one of the most anticipated fights of the year. Will Evans be the man to finally take the fight to Jones? We brea ...
The UFC returns after an unprecidented six week hiatus, and it's all the way from Sweden. UFC: Gustafsson vs. Silva is looking like an all-action card on the Fuel network, and we break down all of the ...
So Alistair Overeem failed his random drug test, and is out of the UFC 146 main event title fight. We go over what we know so far about the situation, including who we think may get the vacant title s ...
Its another week with no major fight card, but the new Friday Night MMA War continues. First we take a look at Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber's solid coaching and underwhelming pranks from The Ultimat ...
The Ultimate Fighter Live and Bellator have been keeping things interesting on Friday nights. On this week's show we're recapping the first Team Cruz vs. Team Faber fight from TUF, as well as the firs ...
The Ultimate Fighter Live, and Bellator Season 6 both started last Friday night, and brought some serious violence with them. Between the late stoppages, and the hideous toe injury, it gave us a lot t ...
It was a great weekend for two of the most under-appreciated divisions in mixed martial arts. First off, UFC On FX 2: Alves vs. Kampmann featured the first two Flyweight fights in UFC history. The UFC ...
UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson had a lot to live up to and it didn't disappoint. There were great knockouts, crazy upsets, and a brand new UFC Lightweight Champion. We review all of the fights from UFC' ...
It's UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson, live from Japan this Saturday night. The event is a stacked 4 hour PPV with a UFC Lightweight Championship fight, Rampage Jackson vs. Ryan Bader, and some of the mos ...
It's been just over a week after Carlos Condit became the new UFC Interim Welterweight Champion, and Diego Sanchez and Jake Ellenberger had a war at UFC on Fuel 1 which may have determined the next ti ...
Well, we expected a hard fought battle in the main event of UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit, and we got it. Although the real fight seems to be between MMA fans, who are still arguing over the result of new ...
It's another week, and another live UFC card. What sets this show apart from the rest is that UFC: Diaz vs. Condit is headlined by an Interim Welterweight Championship fight between two of the most ex ...
The never-ending string of Zuffa events continues with this Saturday night's UFC on FOX 2: Evans vs. Davis. This is the second time that UFC fights will air on the FOX network, and we break down the t ...
UFC 142: Aldo vs. Mendes PPV had everything you could want in a fight card. A hot crowd, crazy knockouts, brutal submissions, cheating, controversy, and one of the best post-fight celebrations in hist ...
The UFC returns to Brazil for the second time in six months, this Saturday night. UFC 142: Aldo vs. Mendes looks to make up for a lack of star power with a bunch of high action fights, including a the ...
It looks like the Brock Lesnar era is over. After a crushing defeat by Alistair Overeem, the UFC's biggest star announced his retirement following the fight. We look back at Lesnar's career, what this ...
UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem is coming this Friday night, and it's ending the year in a big way. Brock Lesnar is returning after more than a year away, to face Alistair Overeem, the enormous former cha ...
It's our Second Annual Hammer Awards show! We spend a big part of this week's episode discussing our choices for 2011's Best Fight, Best KO, Best Submission, Favorite Fighter, Best Prospect, Worst Fig ...
The Hammer MMA Radio was live in Toronto at UFC 140: Jones vs. Machida, and it was quite the show, including great fights, huge knockouts, broken arms, and the quickest finish in UFC history. We recap ...
The audio quality's a little rough, but The Hammer MMA Radio was at the UFC 140 Weigh-Ins in Toronto, as well as a Mark Munoz Q&A, and an odd surprise videogame battle between Frankie Edgar and Ben He ...
UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre is injured and will be out for a year. We lead off this week's show discussing this unfortunate news, and examining where the UFC goes from here. We also h ...
The non-stop run of UFC events continues with The Ultimate Fight Finale: Mayhem vs. Bisping coming up this Saturday night on Spike TV. We analyze the coaches fight, our thoughts on the Featherweights ...
Two of the best fights in all of 2011 happened last Saturday night. UFC 139 had an epic Dan Henderson vs. Shogun Rua epic that headlined an amazing card.Not to be outdone, Bellator lightweights Eddie ...
UFC debuted on the FOX network last Saturday night. Millions and millions of viewers tuned in to watch just over a minute total of action. We run down the pros and cons of the show, including both the ...
The UFC debuts on the FOX network this Saturday night, when Cain Velasquez faces Junior Dos Santos for the UFC Heavyweight title in a free one-hour special that may be the most important MMA fight eve ...
Last weekend's UFC 137 show was nothing if not eventful. Nick Diaz got his title shot against GSP back, BJ Penn and Mirko Cro Cop say they've retired from MMA, Donald Cerrone put the lightweight divis ...
Georges St. Pierre may be injured, but UFC 137: Penn vs. Diaz looks to be a solid show even without a title match. We run down the whole card and make our picks for all of the fights.There's also a to ...
We're joined this week by top Canadian featherweight, Will Romero. We discuss his huge victory at The Score Fighting Series last weekend, his continuing Bellator career, training, rivalries, the curre ...
Frankie Edgar and Jose Aldo proved why they are two of the best pound for pound fighters in the world at UFC 136 last Saturday night, and it was a great night of fights. We run down all of the matches ...
This Saturday's UFC 136: Edgar vs. Maynard is a loaded night of fights. Frankie Edgar meets Gray Maynard for the UFC Lightweight title, Jose Aldo defends his Featherweight title against perennial cont ...
It's rare that a UFC Championship match is given away on free TV, but The Hammer MMA Radio favorite Dominick Cruz defends his UFC Bantamweight Championship against Demetrious Mighty Mouse Johnson in ...
The Hammer is joined by special guest host Josh Hill!Josh is one of the rapidly rising stars in the Ontario MMA scene and will share with us some insight about training for MMA, cutting weight and try ...
Greg chose a good week to be in Australia, because UFC Fight Night: Shields vs. Ellenberger is this Saturday night, and it's threatening to be the lowest rated UFC television show in recent memory. At ...
It's pretty much the biggest MMA news week in a while. Nick Diaz lost his UFC Welterweight title shot for no-showing a press conference. Carlos Condit had the best phone call of his life. Brock Lesnar ...
It's our seventh special edition of The Hammer MMA Radio, where we review MMA related media and special events seperate from our weekly show. This time we managed to get a sneak preview of the new MM ...
It was a good night for Brazilian fighters, when Anderson Silva, Shogun Rua, and seemingly every other local fighter on the card brought their A-games at UFC 134. We discuss the card in-depth, includ ...
The UFC returns to Brazil this Saturday night for the first time since the 1990s. UFC 134: Silva vs. Okami is full of great matchups including Anderson Silva vs. Yushin Okami, and Shogun Rua vs. Forr ...
UFC put on a great free TV card with UFC Live 5: Hardy vs. Lytle, and we spend a good part of this week's show sending off Chris Lytle, pondering Dan Hardy's future, and praising the incredible Ben H ...
UFC 133: Evans vs. Ortiz made chicken salad out of chicken shit, as Brock Lesnar might say. This card full of injuries and substitutions wound up being pretty damn good. We begin this week's show run ...
UFC 133: Evans vs Ortiz is this Saturday, and we're previewing the whole card, one that's had more than it's share of unfortunate events leading up to it. A rotating main event, a dropped co-main even ...
Bellator came to Canada for the first time last week, and The Hammer MMA Radio was there. We recap all the fights, including both featherweight title tournament fights, and the ridiculous Neil Grove v ...
Hey, it's our 50th episode, and Mark The Hammer Coleman helped us celebrate. There's also a lot of news surrounding August's UFC 133 card including Tito Ortiz stepping into the main event, Lyoto Mac ...
With no major cards this week, this is probably our most random show yet. Some of the topics we discuss include the return of Chael Sonnen, drug testing in the big leagues, if UFC Featherweight Champi ...
UFC 132: Cruz vs. Faber more than lived up to expectations with an amazing title fight, tons of huge knockouts, new stars being made, and legends returning to greatness. We run down the entire card in ...
UFC 132: Cruz vs. Faber is this Saturday night is looking like one of the most exciting cards of the year. We run down the card and give our picks on the Featherweight Title match, Leben vs. Silva, an ...
We spend a surprising amount of time discussing last weekend's Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum card, specifically the disappointing main event, strange Grand Prix brackets, and baffling commentary.The ...
There's a new number one contender in the UFC Heavyweight division following UFC 131: Carwin vs. Dos Santos. We give our thoughts on the huge main event, as well as the rest of the mostly entertaining ...
The Hammer MMA Radio was at The Score Fighting Series in Mississauga, Ontario this weekend to see fights featuring current Dream Welterweight Champion Mariusz Zaromskis, former UFC fighters Joe Doerks ...
The big story this week is UFC 131: Dos Santos vs. Carwin, which should have the most hard-hitting main event in years. It's live on PPV this coming weekend, and we run down the card from top to botto ...
There are two UFC cards for us to discuss this show. First we run down last week's lackluster UFC 130 card, including what's next for Rampage and Frank Mir after winning their fights. Then we preview ...
UFC 130: Jackson vs. Hamill is this Saturday, kicking off a month full of high profile MMA cards. Although this show was plagued with injuries, there are still some interesting matches to predict and ...
It's another week with no major fight cards, but there is a ton of news, including Brock Lesnar's health problems, Jon Bones Jone's non-injury, and Brendan Schaub's aggressive career strategy.We als ...
This week we are joined this week by Jerry Langden, the author of the new book Fighter: The Unauthorized Biography of Georges St. Pierre. We talk to Jerry about his book, GSP, UFC 129, and the sport ...
It's our review of UFC 129: St. Pierre vs. Shields, which we were fortunate enough to be in attendance for. We run down the results, including how they came across in the live environment.The rest of ...
Steve, Greg, and friends are at UFC 129 in Toronto this weekend, and did an on location show from the UFC 129 Fan Expo, Weigh-Ins, and a special first time ever Q&A with all seven current UFC champion ...
UFC 129 is in Toronto this weekend, and we'll be there. The first major MMA show in Ontario has GSP vs. Jake Shields for the Welterweight title, the first ever UFC Featherweight title fight, Randy Cou ...
With no MMA cards this week, we just go off and argue about a whole bunch of topics, including Nick Diaz and his boxing aspirations, Randy Couture's latest retirement talk, the return of Dream, UFC Ri ...
We begin the show by discussing the results from Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley, a great show with some big star-making performances. There was a ton of talk that night about UFC/Strikeforce title unific ...
The big news this week is Strikeforce's first major show since being purchased by Zuffa (last week's Strikeforce Challengers show doesn't count). It's a good one too, headlined by Nick Diaz vs. Paul D ...
The very first MMA show ever in Ontario, Canada was on April 2nd, 2011 and The Hammer MMA Radio was there to cover it. MMA: The Reckoning was headlined by former UFC and WEC stars such as Chris Horode ...
There's a lot of shows to discuss this week, including UFC: Nogueira vs. Davis, a show where a lot of the best fights were actually shown on their Facebook page before the show. We run down all of the ...
The Jon Bones Jones era began this past Saturday at UFC 128, as he finished Shogun Rua to win the UFC Light Heavyweight title. We discuss all of the fights from what turned out to be a pretty great ...
So the UFC came out of nowhere and announced that they purchased Strikeforce, their biggest competition. And we were complaining last week about a lack of interesting news to discuss. We go over all o ...
We're reviewing three MMA cards from the past week on this episode, including Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Feijao, UFC Live 3, and the season premiere of Bellator. It's a good thing there were so many r ...
We start the episode discussing UFC 127: Penn vs. Fitch, a show which gave us a lot to talk about due to the second main event draw this year, as well as controversial fouls and decisions on the un ...
UFC 127 is airing from Australia this Saturday night, and we discuss the fights that we're looking forward to most, including the BJ Penn vs. Jon Fitch main event.Then we hit up the news of Tito Or ...
Former UFC Lightweight Champion Sean Sherk joins The Hammer this week for an interview. We ask him about his future, his training, the current state of the lightweight division, and more.We also di ...
We start the show off discussing last weekend's UFC 126: Silva vs. Belfort, including the surprise announcement of Jon Bones Jones vs. Shogun Rua for the UFC Light Heavyweight title.Then we previ ...
This weekend brings the long awaited UFC Middleweight title match between Anderson Silva and Vitor Belfort. We preview that fight, as well as the entire stacked UFC 126 card on this week's episode. ...
It was a star-making night at UFC: Fight For The Troops last weekend as Melvin Guillard, Matt Mitrione, Mark Hominick, and Matt Wyman all raised their profiles immensely. We run down all of the fig ...
It's UFC's latest Fight For The Troops show, this weekend for free on Spike TV. It's a real fighter's card with a lot of young talent, and we run down the lineup in anticipation. Then we turn the ...
Brock Lesnar and Junior Dos Santos are the new coaches for The Ultimate Fighter. We discuss whether this is a good idea, and what it holds for the UFC heavyweight division now that Cain Velasquez o ...
We start the show with our rundown of UFC 125: Edgar vs. Maynard, including the main event which went to a draw and left Anthony Pettis out in the cold.There's also a ton of news to discuss, includ ...
UFC 125: Edgar vs. Maynard is happening on New Years Day, and we give our thoughts on what to expect from the first MMA show of 2011. We also hit up some news including what's up with Chuck Lidde ...
It's our Best And Worst of 2010 show. The three of us debate our picks in categories including Best KO, Best Submission, Fight of the Year, Least Favorite Fighter, Worst Fight, Biggest Robbery, a ...
Georges St. Pierre destroyed challenger Josh Koscheck last weekend, and we're here to survey the damage and see where the fighters go from this point forth. Also, tons of discussion on UFC in Tor ...
There's so much going on that we had to do a double-sized episode to contain it, and we start with ourpreview of UFC 124: St. Pierre vs. Koscheck. Other topics include The Ultimate Fighter Finale ...
UFC and Strikeforce are going head-to-head this Saturday night. It's The Ultimate Fighter 12 Finale and Strikeforce: St. Louis both on Dec. 4th. Which card looks more promising? Then the show turns ...
We begin the show by recapping last weekend's UFC 123: Rampage vs. Machida, and debating what the big wins for Rampage, Penn, and Sotiropolous means for them now.Plus,which fighters were cut fromthe U ...
There are a ton of shows to cover this week. First off, we preview the upcoming UFC 123: Rampage vs. Machida PPV, giving our fight picks and predictions for the entire card. Then we quickly look bac ...
It's a double-preview show this week, as we discuss the upcoming UFC 122: Marquardt vs. Okami, and WEC 52: Faber vs. Mizugaki shows. There's not a ton of hype for these cards, but the main events will ...
There are no major fight cards this week, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to talk about. Our favorite promotion, WEC, is merging with the UFC, so we get into a lengthy discussion about what this ...
It's the third of our bonus shows where we review MMA products from other types of media. This time, Dave and Steve (and eventually Greg), discuss the EA MMA video game for Xbox 360 and PS3. We run ...
We start the show by running down last weekend's UFC 121: Lesnar vs. Velasquez. Discussion includes what's next for Brock and Cain, whether Shields deserve a title shot, and if it's time for Tito to r ...
As you would expect, we start the show running down this weekend's UFC 121: Lesnar vs. Velasquez card, which is looking to be one of the biggest MMA shows in history. Then we recap last weekend's UF ...
We start the show off with an in-depth discussion about this Saturday night's UFC 120: Bisping vs. Akiyama, from London. All in all, it looks like a pretty interesting card for a free show on Spike TV ...
It's a pretty good week for non-UFC MMA. First we review last week's WEC 51: Aldo vs. Gamburyan, a card that was full of action.Then wepreview the upcoming Strikeforce: San Jose show headlined by Nick ...
The show begins with the required verbal beatdown of last Saturday's UFC 119: Mir vs. Cro Cop. To say that we were let down by this show would be an understatement. On the other hand, we do get to p ...
It's a pretty packed show this week. The big story this week is Chael Sonnen's drug test failure and subsequent suspension from the UFC. Then we discuss the future of the middleweight division, includ ...
It's our Ultimate Fighter review show. In honor of The Ultimate Fighter: St. Pierre vs. Koscheck beginning this week, we decided to run down the list of previous TUF winners and evaluate how their ind ...
We start off the show discussing all of the biggest stories in MMA this week, including Karo Parisyan's return to the UFC, Todd Duffee's firing, and the financial troubles of Japanese promotions K-1 a ...
We spend the first half of the show discussing last weekend's UFC 118 from Boston, including Frankie Edgar's successful title defense, James Toney's epic failure, andthe stack ofyawn-inducing fights t ...
It's a really packed show this week.We begin by discussing last week's WEC 50 and Strikeforce: Houston events, and as usual, we rage out on Strikeforce for far too long. Then we preview the upcoming U ...
It's the second of our bonus shows where we review MMA products from various types of media. This time, Dave and Steve discuss The A-Team (featuring Quinton Rampage Jackson), and The Expendables ( ...
A lot of Strikeforce this week, including our recap of last weekend's Strikeforce Challengers show centered around the women's 135 lb Tournament. Then we look at thelineup for the upcoming Strikeforce ...
Welcome to the first episode of the new Hammer MMA Radio. It's a huge week with tons of cards to discuss. First we recap the epic Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen title fight, as well as the rest of ...
This week's show starts with a rundown of UFC On Versus 2: Bones vs Matyushenko. We discuss some news, including a Roger Huerta knock out of the night. Then we preview the upcoming UFC 117: Silva v ...
This week's show starts with a rundown of last weekend's Strikeforce Challengers 9 card, and we mostly talk about the women's title fight from that show. Then we finallyhave a new UFC card to discuss, ...
It's another week with no UFC cards to discuss, so we decide to review last weekend's Impact FC show from Australia headlined by Ken Shamrock and Pedro Rizzo, as well as previewing the upcoming Strike ...
Amazingly there is not a single UFC, Strikeforce or WEC show to talk about this week. That's never happened before. So we're left with a mixed bag of topics, including the Japanese promotion Dream, MM ...
UFC 116:Lesnar vs. Carwinwas one of the most entertaining cards in recent memory, so we spend a big part of this week's show talking about the fights, and the fallout. Then we hit up some news inclu ...
It's one of the biggest weeks in MMA history. Last weekend, Fedor Emelianenko lost his first MMA fight in nearly a decade, causing shockwaves throughout the industry. Meanwhile, this Saturday, Brock L ...
There are way too many shows this week. We plow through last week's The Ultimate Fighter Finale, WEC 49, and Strikeforce: Los Angeles, before previewing this Saturday's Strikeforce:Fedor vs. Werdum ca ...
It's our follow-up to UFC 115: Liddell vs. Franklin, a show that managed to be pretty average, despite an arm-breaking in the main event.We alsopreview this weekend's Ultimate Finale 11 and WEC 49. ...
It's the first of ourbonus showswhere we review MMA productsfrom other typesof media. This timeDave and Steve discussthe brand new UFC Undisputed 2010 video game for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. ...
We mix up the formula and start with the news. The struggle to bring GSP to Toronto continues, Ricardo Arona says he's coming to the UFC and MMA fighters turn to crime and the movies. We review UF ...
We start the show with a quick review of last week's Strikeforce Challengers, a show that didn't suck, much to our surprise. There's also a bunch of news, including UFC's new Canadian office, and a ...
It's a whole lot of Strikeforce this week, as we recap last weekend's Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery and preview the upcoming Strikeforce Challengers show. We continue with a lot of talk about Fedor ...
It's the fallout of UFC 113. Shogun slays the Dragon, and Daley kills his own career. Also we discuss the controversial fight between Koscheck and Daley, and have a long discussion on Kimbo getting cu ...
The HAMMAR predictions for Shogun vs Machida 2. Tito reunites with Jenna, Kongo suffers an injury and Tennesse mails some letters. Fedor is back in Strikeforce, but will it last? The upcoming UFC ...
The HAMMAR reviews WEC 48, a great success. David mistakes the date. It really is the April 28 show. Dana White guarantees Jake Shields. A former UFC fighter goes insane. And Tito's last match i ...
The HAMMAR predicts the death of Strikeforce MMA as a promotion. We review the crowning of King Mo, the downfall of Dan Henderson, and a bizarre post show brawl live on CBS. In addition, Dana White ...
We review UFC 112 in depth, most notably Anderson Silva's baffling performance in the main event. There's also a lot of talk about BJ Penn's upset title loss to Frankie Edgar, and what this means t ...
We preview UFC 112 - Invincible featuring BJ Penn vs. Frankie Edgar and Anderson Silva vs. Demian Maia,and recap last week's Ultimate Fight Night 21 and The Ultimate Fighter. There's also some discu ...
We run down the post-UFC 111 press conference and injury reports, as well as a quick recap of Strikeforce Challengers 7. There's also a bunch of news, including updates on the Strikeforce Heavyweigh ...
It's our review of UFC 111 - St. Pierre vs. Hardy. Check out our thoughts on the matches, and what's next for the winners and losers. ...
We review last Sunday night's UFC on VERSUS 1 - Vera vs Jones! Also, we take a look at the upcoming UFC 111 - St. Pierre vs. Hardy, a huge card which is coming up this Saturday night. Also, a bunc ...
A comprehensive preview of the upcoming UFC on VERSUS 1 - Vera vs Jones! Including our fight picks and calls for fights to watch! Also, in the news, more on the coveted April 17th timeslot. As wel ...
We review WEC 47 - Bowles Vs Cruz. Also news, including the brewing conflict between Strikeforce and the UFC/WEC for the coveted April 17 show date! ...