Fight Previews and Posts

UFC Fight Night:  Cannonier vs. Strickland   By Michael Jones - @keepingitrealmma &      Dave Manley - @mmabobblehead "Night after night, going 'round and 'round my brain, his dream is driving me insane" - Roger Waters  In an even more  bizarre  world where  Roger Waters is an MMA fan,  I would imagine this to be his reaction to UFC 282  and the plight now haunting Dana White going  forward.             1. Jared Cannonier (15-6) vs. Sean Strickland (25-4)                                W e must dig ourselves out of the strange dream that was UFC 282, we must venture forward and b ack to reality. This middleweight clash is the way, the truth. We can take solace in knowing that Jared and Sean will do absolutely everything in their power to  keep  this fight out of the  judges'  hands. We might expect 5 rounds of reckless abandon as Sean  relentlessly   marches  Jared  down , peppering him with jabs and straight punches. We might predict Sean to lower his  guard

 UFC 282 Preview:                                   Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev By Michael Jones - @keepingitrealmma & Dave Manley - @mmabobblehead Time Waits For No Man:                                                                                                  'Don't expect any sympathy from us.                                                                                     If you need extra time to game-plan,                                                                                       well that's just too damn bad.                                                                                                The show must go on Mr. Glover'                                                                                                 1. Jan Blcahowicz (29-9) vs. Magomed Ankalaev (18-1)                                     We often complain about the steady diet of immediate title-fight rematches fed to us by the UFC, but in this case, we were more th

UFC Fight Night:  Thompson vs. Holland   By Michael Jones - @keepingitrealmma &      Dave Manley - @mmabobblehead Coming off America's 401st Thanksgiving,  we find  ourselves  lethargically slipping right back  into the shuffle .  Headlining is a main course only made  curious  by the fact  one man  is coming off the sport's  shortest  retirement. S andwiched in  between  is  an accidentally very  important  middleweight bout. Finally,   hiding  deep  in  the  prelims, we had  a  necessary flyweight appetizer ,  but now there is   no hint  of a remarkable finish.         1.  Stephen Thompson (16-6-1) vs. Kevin Holland (23-8-1NC)          "Had a good run, 30 in a little over a month, got paid, I'm out". You might be asking yourself what does that even mean? The short answer... nothing really. Kevin Holland was trolling something similar to an old Conor Mac tweet. Sadly Kevin's Instagram post caught around 35 thousand likes, whereas Conor was pulling an aver