Fighters come and fighters go, but sometimes they come again after re-building themselves, re-branding themselves, or just renewing their passion for the fight game. Just when you start thinking “whatever happened to that guy”, they re-emerge and re-introduce themselves to, at times, a whole new generation of fans. 2012 was no different as several fighters […]

Two fighters stand in the cage.  One throws a kick, a punch, a flying knee and the other drops unconscious.  To the loser, it is the most brutal aspect of MMA and to the winnner, it could be the highlight of their career.   There were many knockout highlights in 2012.  Here are Top MMA […]

The Top MMA News Rookie of the Year is an award that signifies excellence by a fighter who had his professional debut in 2012. There were relatively few fighters nominated for this award and those that were nominated fought primarily in Alberta.  Alberta has always been a hot bed of activity and a breeding ground […]

Welcome back MMA fans, I hope Santa Claus treated you all well. It seems all fans have come out of their turkey induced comas; too bad the Canadian MMA scene hasn’t with only  a single pro card scheduled in the great fight north this month. Luckily we have a couple international bouts that round out […]

2012 was a tremendous year for submissions by Canadians! The country’s MMA fighters pulled off heel hooks, club sandwiches, and flying inverse triangles. Number one and number two were rather easy to determine but it was tough to wade through all the submissions to get a number three, but we managed to do it. Here […]

On November 12th, 2011, the UFC’s heavily promoted debut on Fox aired. It was a Heavyweight clash of the undisputed best Heavyweights in the world. Through the years, the fall of Fedor Emelianenko, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Mirko Filipovic, Frank Mir and Brock Lesnar had paved the way for then champion, Cain Velasquez to defend his […]

With Canadian MMA winding down for a much needed holiday break, Top MMA News would like to wish all of our readers a happy holidays. Top MMA News is truly thankful that we are able to cover this great sport and that people actual want to come to the site to read what we write. […]

SLAMM, a new promotion created to fill the current void in Quebec’s MMA market, blasted off on a decidedly one-sided note Friday with an evening of easy, one-sided wins for a handful of young Tristar (and Tristar-affiliated) fighters, including Alex Garcia, Olivier Aubin-Mercier, and Aiemann Zahabi. With Interbox, the event’s promoter, working hand-in-hand with Tristar, […]

Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all the loyal TMN readers. With a tremendous 2012 now behind us, we have finally reached the doldrums of the winter months. With five shows planned but only three shows going down, we’ve had to shrink down the Top 10 to a Top 5 this month. […]

The UFC has not been to Montreal, Quebec in nearly two years, but the city could not have asked for a better event for the organization’s return. After a long stretch of injury prone UFC events, little has occurred to affect this major card. The UFC finally has their opportunity to move forward and it […]