Author Archive for Yehia El Behery
Yehia is not a good writer, not very smart and not that easy on the eyes either. It just happens that he loves writing (if you can call what he does writing) and is lucky enough to write for MMA Opinion. Also check out my blog MMAStaredown.com
MMA judges or legislatures
Observing action in the fight then scoring it based on a set of predefined rules, that should be the MMA judge’s job. Instead, judges in our beloved sport observe the action, make up the rules and then score that action based on those made up rules each fight…. (Full Story)
A mixed martial arts Utopia
Imagine if all the bouts in a card were all stand-up wars. Imagine if in almost every card you expect (and get) at least one head kick knockout and probably leg kick knockouts too. Imagine all the spinning back fists and spinning back kicks, knees , technical striking and/or brawls, imagine people getting knocked out with Axe kicks. No boring wrestlers or Jiu-Jitsu guys touching each other in inappropriate places and rolling with each other on the floor half naked. No more Lay and… (Full Story)
Henderson to Strikeforce: A lose-lose-lose situation
For Henderson: Will Strikeforce pay him the money he wants? Mousasi doesn’t think so. If Fedor doesn’t get an immediate title shot, Henderson doesn’t get one. Big fights (against big names) for Henderson in Strikeforce…,anybody? For the UFC: The UFC invested too much in Dan Henderson (who is probably a future UFC hall of famer) from the Ultimate Fighter to spot at UFC 100 main card. Henderson at 39 is probably one or two fights away from being the second “legend” in… (Full Story)
If Couture thinks UFC 102’s performance is not a disappointment, UFC 105’s probably will be
(No Staph this time, huh?) Ever since his fight with Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira at UFC 102, Randy Couture kept saying that the fight proved he can still fight and that he is not done yet. The fight (like every other Couture fight since the Tim Sylvia fight) really proved that Couture is ageless, still improvig (and has sick submission defense) but it also showed (shockingly) that The Natural actually comes up with bad game plans sometimes (not a single takedown attempt, come… (Full Story)
Ten simple sure fire ways to beat the UFC and be the best MMA promotion ever
1. Throw your big name fighters into meaningless catchweight match-ups that no body wants to see and wouldn’t do anybody any good. 2. Who said champions should defend their belts at least two, three times a year? I say once is enough. 3. If the champion wants to fight more than once a year, give him non-title fights. Don’t worry, they’re just as good as title fights. 4. But be firm, if a champion won’t defend his belt for more than a year because he is busy or just doesn’t feel like… (Full Story)
There is no “karate” in Machida
Now that Machida unofficially lost, it turns out that Karate is not back (or it was only back for a while and then gone again, I don’t know!). Vitor Belfort will have to toss his blue belt in Karate and start training in whatever style that this Shogun guy trains in. Why not? didn’t Machida’s success at the UFC highlighted by wins over Thiago Silva and Rashad Evans mark the “return” of Karate? No if you ask me, the way that Machida fights is not the way regular Karatekas fight. It… (Full Story)
He deserves a shot at the title, not a shot at the Spider
We all here at mmaopinion.com are big fans of Dan Henderson. After rumors about signing with Strikeforce, Curtis Clontz said it’s not a surprise. Josh Stein said the move is not that bad for Henderson. So I thought I would add my thoughts on the subject too. While the UFC didn’t do right by Henderson promising him with a shot after shot at Silva only to break their promise each time. What they did wrong was the promising itself not the fact that they didn’t give him the title… (Full Story)
The MMA chess match of the year.
You know that cliché “It’s gonna be a chess match” that a lot of fighters used in pre-fight interviews, only to make it more of a cliché (Anderson Silva for instance used it a lot where he should have gone with “it’s gonna be a massacre”). The closest we came to chess matches was with fighters like Randy Couture and GSP where their opponents seemed to have come to play checkers (sorry, but I couldn’t resist! ). Ben Henderson vs Donald Cerrone was the real thing. Cerrone knew that… (Full Story)
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