The UFC heavyweight division has been thrown in a state of flux over the past month and a half. Beginning with Cain Velasquez’s caveman beating of Junior Dos Santos at UFC 155 in December and ending with Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva’s monumental upset of Alistair Overeem at UFC 156 on February 2, things have not...
Join hosts Bryan Levick and Mitch Ciccarelli this Wednesday night beginning at 8pm. We will go over this past Saturday’s UFC on Fuel 7 card as well as preview this coming Saturday’s historic UFC 157 event featuring the first female fight in UFC history. Joining us will be World Series of Fighting welterweight Josh...
Former Strikeforce Lightweight Champion Josh Thomson rarely gets the credit he deserves or the acknowledgement of being one of the top lightweights in the world. It may be due to the fact that his first run in the UFC was very brief or because he has dealt with a lot of injuries through the...
Listen to internet radio with FIST TA CUFF RADIO on Blog Talk Radio This week we have our man back from this season of TUF, A man always killing the Mic for Bellator, A women running WMMA, & another looking to take the UFC title home to San Diego. Clint Hester is back on the...
The UFC is certainly spoiling mixed martial arts fans during the month of February. For the second time in two weeks the promotion has an exciting main event title fight scheduled. On February 2nd at UFC 156, Jose Aldo defended his UFC Featherweight Championship against former UFC lightweight kingpin Frankie Edgar. It’s safe to say...
Listen to internet radio with FIST TA CUFF RADIO on Blog Talk Radio This week we have our man back from this season of TUF, A man always killing the Mic for Bellator, A women running WMMA, & another looking to take the UFC title home to San Diego. Clint Hester is back on the...
To read part one of our exclusive interview with Josh Thomson click here: A few weeks back we had Gilbert Melendez on BJPenn.Com Radio and he alluded to the fact that Nate Diaz was poked in the eye during his UFC lightweight title fight against Benson Henderson, which may hindered his performance. Keep in mind...
Earlier today, BJPenn.com posted a quote from UFC president Dana White, in regards to wrestling being removed from the Olympics starting in 2020. The quote from White stated, “this sport draws, wrestling doesn’t”. While he did in fact say those words, it’s important to see all of what he said in the way it was...
Now that Strikeforce is over and done with, their roster of fighters can look forward to competing inside the Octagon and enjoying all the perks that come with it. The UFC is not wasting any time matching many of them up against some of the best fighters that they have to offer. One of...
In the few short years Daniel Cormier has been a professional mixed martial artist he has racked up wins against some of the best heavyweights MMA has to offer. Guys like former UFC heavyweight Champion Josh Barnett and current UFC #1 heavyweight contender have all felt the wrath of the former Oklahoma State University...
BJPenn.Com Radio returns tonight with another star studded cast of MMA personalities. Bryan Levick & Mitch Ciccarelli will also preview this Saturday’s UFC on Fuel TV: Barao vs. McDonald card that will held at the Wembley Arena in London, England. Michael McDonald and Renan Barao will battle for Barao’s UFC Interim Championship in what...
BJPenn.Com Radio returns this Wednesday night with another star studded cast of MMA personalities. Bryan Levick & Mitch Ciccarelli will also preview this Saturday’s UFC on Fuel TV: Barao vs. McDonald card that will held at the Wembley Arena in London, England. The two bantamweights will battle for Barao’s UFC Interim Championship in what...
Former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion BJ Penn has traveled to Utah after the UFC insisted on enlisting the service of famed eye surgeon, Dr. Alan Crandall, to repair a damaged eye suffering from cataracts. The Surgeon, based in Salt Lake City, is best known for his work with Boxing Champion Antonio Margarito and successfully...
Blog for BjPenn.com, Episode 3, “Embrace the suffering” By Adam Cella What’s going on everyone? Its Adam Cella here again with this weeks blog, and its a tough one for me to write….. I think everyone knows why! We will start from the beginning. The show starts off with the fight pick being myself...
To read part one of our interview with Anthony Pettis click here: To read part two of our interview with Anthony Pettis click here: MMA fans got to know a completely different side of Anthony Pettis and fighters in general when he appeared on the MTV series, “World of Jenks,” back in 2010. Camera...
To read part one of our interview with Anthony Pettis click here: The mixed martial arts world waits with great anticipation for August 3rd to arrive. Barring injuries we will witness what could possibly be one of the best fights of 2013 when UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo defends his title against Anthony “Showtime”...
Listen to internet radio with FIST TA CUFF RADIO on Blog Talk Radio BJPenn.com’s FIST-ta-CUFF Radio is back this week with a man who knows a thing or two about MMA and from then we head up North for a FIST full of MFC! Our first guest Danny Acosta has been in the MMA game...
26-year-old Anthony Pettis has accomplished quite a lot in his short time in mixed martial arts. The 3rd degree Taekwondo blackbelt holds an impressive 16-2 record with seven wins coming by way of knockout and six by submission. He was the last reigning WEC Lightweight Champion having defeated current UFC Lightweight Champion Benson Henderson...
Rich Franklin is highly regarded in the MMA community. He has held the UFC Middleweight Championship, put out fight of the night performances, knocked out Chuck Liddell with a broken arm, and the list goes on. He is respected by hardcore fans and casual fans alike. After a knockout loss to Cung Le at the...
This is my first time writing a blog so please bear with me. I’m looking forward to giving everyone a recap of each week’s episode. This week’s episode starts off with a recap of the team picks and the first fight that was chosen. Jon Jones had the choice for the first fight and...
Bellator standout Brent Weedman injured his hand in his last fight. Despite winning the bout Weedman now faces a significant layoff. In this exclusive video interview with BJPenn.com at last weekend’s Hardrock MMA event in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, Brent reveals the extent of his injury and how long he might be away from the Bellator organization.
To check out part one of our exclusive interview with Jim Miller click here: This past week it was announced that Jim Miller would be facing 45 fight veteran Pat Healy at UFC 159 in April in front of his friends and family at the Prudential Center in New Jersey. Healy is riding...
UFC welterweight fighter, Demian Maia, credit BJ Penn for his gameplan to beat Jon Fitch at last weekend’s UFC 156 event.
Tonight on BJPenn.Com Radio hosts Mitch Ciccarelli and Bryan Levick will discuss this past Saturday night’s UFC 156 event that produced a major upset and some exciting finishes. Joining Bryan and Mitch will be MFC Lightweight championship contender Mukai Maromo, UFC Featherweight Ivan Menjivar, UFC Light Heavyweight Ryan Jimmo, 19-year-old bantamweight Sergio Pettis and...
Most fighters will openly admit that they want to seek revenge on those they have lost to at some point in their careers. Some want to fight the man who defeated in their very next fight, they don’t see the need to wait around or have any desire to take on anyone else in the...
UFC lightweight Jim Miller has faced a who’s who of the best UFC lightweights. At 22-4 his only losses are to former UFC #1 lightweight contender Gray Maynard, former UFC Lightweight Champion Frankie Edgar, former UFC #1 Lightweight contender Nate Diaz and current UFC Lightweight Champion Benson Henderson. Diaz is the only one of...
To read part one of our interview with Mighty Mouse click here: Most fighters will tell you they’d like to fight a minimum of four times a year, but unfortunately between injuries and in Johnson’s case, the soon to be birth of his son, things don’t always go as planned. “My goal is to...
Fans in Chicago witnessed a fantastic, dramatic & exciting flyweight title bout on Saturday night at UFC on Fox 6. UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson & John Dodson battled for 25 minutes in a bout that seemingly put the division on the map. Dodson took the first two rounds on many people’s scorecards...
