Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-03-27, fight not particularly good between Ryan Couture and Dakota Cochrane: it gets two stars.Ryan Couture (son of the former UFC champion Randy Couture) entered this fight with a pro mma record of 9-3-0 (67% finishing rate) while his opponent, Dakota Cochrane, has an official record of 18-7-0 (67% finishing rate). Couture vs Cochrane is on the undercard of Joe Warren vs Marcos Galvao 2 – Bellator 135. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-03-21, fight not so exciting between Leonardo Santos and Tony Martin: it gets two stars.Leonardo Santos entered this fight with a mma record of 13-3-1 (69% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.45 lightweight in the world. He suffered his last defeat in 2009 when he faced Kazunori Yokota, since then he has collected seven victories and one draw, against Norman Parke (=Parke vs Santos); after this bout he fought once beating Efrain Escudero (=Santos vs Escudero).
His opponent, Tony Martin, has an official record of 9-2-0 (78% submission victory rate – he has never won via ko/tko), he fought three times last year losing to Rashid Magomedov and Beneil Dariush but then he came back to win defeating Fabricio Camoes. Santos vs Martin is on the undercard of Demian Maia vs Ryan LaFlare – UFC Fight Night 62. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-03-14, pretty good finish between Beneil Dariush and Daron Cruickshank but it is not enough to get three stars: it gets two (UFC Performance of the Night).The black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu Beneil Dariush entered this fight with a professional mma record of 9-1-0 (78% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.28 lightweight in the world; he suffered his only defeat last year when he faced Ramsey Nijem (=Dariush vs Nijem). After losing he came back to win beating Tony Martin and Carlos Diego Ferreira (=Ferreira vs Dariush).
His opponent, the black belt in tae-kwon-do Daron Cruickshank, has an official record of 16-5-0 (62% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.41 in the same weight class; he lost in 2014 as well, against Jorge Masvidal, but then he defeated Anthony Njokuani. After this bout he faced KJ Noons but the fight ended in a no-contest (=Daron Cruickshank vs KJ Noons. Dariush vs Cruickshank is on the undercard of Anthony Pettis vs Rafael dos Anjos – UFC 185. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-02-28, good exchanges between Tony Ferguson and Gleison Tibau: it gets three stars (UFC Performance of the Night).The TUF 13 winner (The Ultimate Fighter) Tony Ferguson entered this fight with a pro mma record of 17-3-0 (82% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.19 lightweight in the world; he suffered his last defeat in 2012 when he faced Michael Johnson, since then he has won four consecutive bouts, the last one against Abel Trujillo (=Ferguson vs Trujillo).
His opponent, the black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu Gleison Tibau, has a record of 33-10-0 (52% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.21 in the same weight class; he lost his last fight against Michael Johnson as well but after losing he came back to win collecting three consecutive victories. He has already fought in 2015 beating Norman Parke fourty days ago (=Tibau vs Parke). Ferguson vs Tibau is on the undercard of Ronda Rousey vs Cat Zingano – UFC 184. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-02-27, pretty good fight between Brennan Ward and Curtis Millender: it gets three stars.Brennan Ward entered this fight with a mma record of 9-3-0 (89% finishing rate) and he comes off two consecutive defeats: he lost to Alexander Shlemenko (bout valid for the Bellator Mw title Shlemenko vs Ward) and to Tamdan McCrory.
His opponent, the undefeated Curtis Millender, has an official record of 7-0-0 (29% ko/tko victory rate – he has never won via submission) and he makes his Bellator debut in this fight. Ward vs Millender is on the undercard of Emanuel Newton vs Liam McGeary – Bellator 134. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-02-14, close fight with a pretty good finish: Benson Henderson vs Brandon Thatch gets three stars (UFC Fight of the Night).The black belt in tae-kwon-do and Bjj and former Ufc lightweight champion Benson Henderson entered this fight with a professional mma record of 21-5-0 (52% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.4 lightweight in the world but he comes off two consecutive defeats: he lost to Rafael dos Anjos in 2014 (=Henderson vs dos Anjos) and to Donald Cerrone just one month ago (=Cerrone vs Henderson 3). In this fight Ben ‘Smooth’ Henderson makes his debut in the welterweight division replacing Stephen Thompson who suffered a rib injury.
His opponent, Brandon Thatch, has an official record of 11-1-0 (100% finishing rate) but he is not ranked as he hasn’t fought since November 9, 2013 when he defeated Paulo Thiago (=Thatch vs Thiago). The only fight lost by Thatch was in 2008 when he faced Brandon Magana (via split decision) and he was at his second pro mma bout. Henderson vs Thatch is the main event of UFC Fight Night 60. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-02-14, pretty good fight between Neil Magny and Kiichi Kunimoto: it gets three stars (UFC Performance of the Night).Neil Magny entered this fight with a mma record of 13-3-0 (46% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.28 welterweight in the world, he suffered two consecutive defeats in 2013, against Sergio Moraes (=Moraes vs Magny) and Seth Baczynski, but after this fight he has won five bouts, the last one against William Macario.
His opponent, Kiichi Kunimoto, has an official record of 18-5-2 (61% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.103 welterweight; he suffered his last loss in 2012 when he faced Takenori Sato, since then he has won seven consecutive fights, the last one against Richard Walsh (=Kunimoto vs Walsh). Magny vs Kunimoto is on the undercard of Benson Henderson vs Brandon Thatch – UFC Fight Night 60. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-01-16, some good exchanges between Patricio Freire and Daniel Straus but it is not enough to get three stars: it gets two.The Black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu Patricio Freire entered this fight with a professional mma record of 22-2-0 (73 % finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.4 featherweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Jose Aldo); he suffered his last defeat in 2013 when he faced Pat Curran (via split decision Curran vs Freire), since then he has won five consecutive fights taking revenge on Curran in his last bout and winning the Bellator Fw title (Curran vs Freire 2).
His opponent, Daniel Straus, has an official record of 22-5-0 (41% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.10 in the same weight class, he won the Bellator Fw belt as well, against Pat Curran in 2013 (=Curran vs Straus 2), but then he lost it in their third bout (=Straus vs Curran 3); after this fight he came back to win defeating Justin Wilcox (=Straus vs Wilcox). ‘Pitbull’ Freire vs Straus 2, main event of Bellator 132, is valid for the Bellator featherweight title (Freire’s first dfense). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review: 2014-12-13, pretty good finish between Rick Glenn and Lance Palmer but it is not enough to get three stars. Rick Glenn entered this fight with a pro mma record of 15-2-1 (87% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.21 featherweight in the world, he lost his last bout in 2010 when he faced Lonnie Scriven, since then he has collected 12 victories and one draw winning the World Series of Fighting Fw belt in his last bout, against Georgi Karakhanyan (=Karakhanyan vs Glenn).
His opponent, Lance Palmer, has a record of 8-1-0 (50% submission victory rate – he has never won by ko/tko) and he entered as the No.66 in the same weight class, the only man who stopped him was Georgi Karakhanyan in 2013 (=Karakhanyan vs Palmer); after this bout he came back to win beating Nick LoBosco. Glenn vs Palmer is valid for the WSOF featherweight title (Glenn’s first defense); undercard of Rousimar Palhares vs Jon Fitch – WSOF 16. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review: 2014-12-12, great fight between Carla Esparza and Rose Namajunas: it gets three stars (UFC Performance of the Night). The Invicta Fc strawweight champion Carla Esparza entered this fight with a professional mma record of 9-2-0 (67% finishing rate) and she is ranked as the No.4 women’s strawweight in the world, she suffered her last defeat in 2011 when she faced Jessica Aguilar, since then she has won four consecutive fights.
Her opponent, the black belt in tae-kwon-do and karate Rose Namajunas, has an official record of 2-1-0 (100% submission victory rate) and she entered as the No.6 in the same weight class but she lost her last bout, against Tecia Torres. Esparza vs Namajunas, main event of the UFC – Tuf 20 Finale, is valid for the inaugural UFC women’s strawweight title; they also faced each other a second time on May 7, 2022 (Rose Namajunas vs Carla Esparza 2). Watch the video and rate this fight!
