It was REALLY close to rousey. She easily was a better striker than rousey, but that was a beat-down in the sense that she took WAY more than she dished. Read more

It’s nothing like what happened last night. Read more

The ref had no reason to stop the fight until the sequence that ended it, though theinspector for the blue corner should have told him what Pennington said to her coaches. There was nothing—from a referee’s point of view as MMA officiating is taught—that would be considered fight-ending. Pennington was dropped and had… Read more

Wittman had actually tried to stop the Gastelum-Marquardt fight a couple minutes earlier when Marquardt collapsed against the cage (and the ref should have stopped in then, as well). The inspector that the UFC-aided Distrito Federal commission brought in for the card (incorrectly) told him that he couldn’t. Read more

GSP didn’t say he wanted out, though. Read more

In this particular case I disagree about Pennington taking noticeably egregious punishment before she tried to bow out. Until she started eating those repeated knees in round 4, she had done a pretty remarkable job rebounding from how badly the low kicks messed her up at the start of the fight. She won the second… Read more

It’s certainly possible (though it would be especially bad in this case because Pennington also does some work alongside them as a coach), but MMA already has a pretty bad culture about corner stoppages. Boxing is way ahead of MMA in that area, though there was a corner stoppage earlier on the card. Read more

If you call a play and that’s the play that they run, and you do it more accurately than anyone else, you win money. Read more

I feel like that’s impossible to know until we have a better idea of what exactly the sequence of events was. Read more

Fair. Read more

I’ve always wondered about that finish. No piledriver, sure. It’s not a no DQ match. But...why not have Lawler win with his trademark fist drop? Read more

Ask Luke on Twitter, he’ll probably respond. I’m not sure if he’s been denied credentials, or they’ve been uncooperative about interviews, or what. Read more

I literally just did a fawning Joey Janela’s Spring Break profile a few weeks ago. On a mainstream site, there will obviously be a healthy amount of WWE and, to an extent, NJPW, but since my notable pieces in 13 months here include fawning profiles of Keith Lee, Atsushi Onita, and the entire Dramatic Dream Team… Read more

Briefly while unmasked in WCW during the V—-e R—-o era and a couple blips in Mexico. It didn’t work. Read more

They made Cena look like such an asshole that night that I was incredulous that they still thought he was the ultimate good guy. Read more

You don’t seem particularly familiar with Deadspin or Gizmodo Media Group in general. Read more

How many shows did they do and in what cities? I’m surprised they’re not working any U.S. dates while they’re on this side of the pond (unless I missed it). Read more

For heavens sake, PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT THE WWE LIKE IT IS A REAL SPORT. Read more

He’s right there. Read more

Grado is done with ICW, apparently because of the WWE deal in some form. Read more