It was already perhaps the most violent night in UFC history. Then came the main event at UFC 140 yesterday in Toronto; the first round, excitingly, looked like a Lyoto Machida fight. The challenger kept his distance and used his uncanny sense of timing to tag champion Jon Jones several times and do something no man has ever done in …
Junior dos Santos burst into tears after taking Cain Velasquez’s heavyweight belt in just over sixty seconds. After months of hype leading up to the championship tilt — the only fight from last night’s card to air on FOX’s broadcast — it was perhaps anticlimactic. But while new casual fans didn’t get to see the breadth of mixed martial arts, …
UFC 138 featured the first five round non-title main event, a middleweight showdown between bomb-droppers Mark Munoz and Chris Leben. Here are the results courtesy of MMA Mania: Mark Munoz def. Chris Leben via TKO (doctor stoppage) at 5:00 of round two Renan Barao def. Brad Pickett via submission (rear naked choke) at 4:09 of round one Thiago Alves def. Papy …