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 ...