Kattar vs. Ige/ Figueiredo vs. Benavidez 2 Fight Predictions

Calvin Kattar vs. Dan Ige
Picking Kattar: All of us

Jimmie Rivera vs. Cody Stamann
Picking Rivera: Dr. Law, DJ Mark, Gooms
Picking Stamann: Kid P

UFC Flyweight Championship
Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Joseph Benavidez
Picking Figueiredo: All of us

Jack Hermansson vs. Kelvin Gastelum
Picking Hermansson: Kid P
Picking Gastelum:Dr. Law, DJ Mark, Gooms

It's MMAzing 2020 Standings (as of 07/13/2020)
1. DJ Mark with a "K" - (33-15)
2. Dr. Law- (31-17)
3. Lavender Gooms - (28-20)
4. Kid Presentable- (27-21)

UFC on ESPN 3: Ngannou vs. Dos Santos Fight Predictions

Francis Ngannou vs. Junior Dos Santos
Picking Ngannou: All of us

Joseph Benavidez vs. Jussier Formiga
Picking Benavidez: All of us

Demian Maia vs. Anthony Rocco Martin
Picking Maia: Dr Law, Kid P, DJ Mark
Picking Martin: Gooms

It's MMAzing 2019 Standings (as of 6/24/19)
1. Lavender Gooms - (30-23)
2. Dr. Law (28-25)
2. Kid Presentable - (28-25)
3. DJ Mark -  (27-26)

UFC on ESPN+1; Cejudo vs. Dillashaw Predictions

UFC Flyweight Championship
Henry Cejudo vs. T.J. Dillashaw
Picking Dillashaw: Kid P, DJ Mark and Gooms
Picking Cejudo: Dr. Law

Gregor Gillespie vs. Yancy Medeiros
Picking Gillespie: All of us

Joseph Benavidez vs. Dustin Ortiz
Picking Benavidez: All of us

Rachel Ostovich vs. Paige VanZant
Picking Ostovich: Dr. Law, Kid P
Picking VanZant: Gooms, DJ Mark

Donald Cerrone vs. Alexander Hernandez
Picking Cerrone: Gooms, DJ Mark, Dr. Law
Picking Hernandez: Kid P

Joanne Calderwood vs. Ariane Lipski
Picking Calderwood: Gooms
Picking Lipski: DJ Mark, Kid P, Dr. Law

It's MMAzing Final 2018 Standings
1. Kid Presentable - (79-52)-CHAMPION
2. Lavender Gooms - (78-53)
3. Dr. Law (77-54)
4. DJ Mark -  (72-59)

Ultimate Fighter 28 Finale, UFC Fight NIght 142 Fight Picks

Rafael Dos Anjos vs. Kamaru Usman

Picking RDA: DJ Mark

Picking Usman: Dr. Law, Kid P, Gooms

Joseph Benavidez vs. Alex Perez

Picking Joe B: All of us

Junior Dos Santos vs. Tai Tuivasa

Picking JDS: DJ Mark

Picking Tuivasa: Dr. Law, Gooms, Kid P

Mark Hunt vs. Justin Willis

Picking Hunt: All of us

Tyson Pedro vs. Shogun Rua

Picking Pedro: All of us

It's MMAzing 2018 Standings (as of 11/26/18)
1. Kid Presentable - (66-44)
1. Lavender Gooms - (66-44)
2. Dr. Law (65-45)
3. DJ Mark -  (62-48)

UFC Fight NIght 139: Korean Zombie vs. Rodriguez Predictions

Chan Sung Jung vs. Yair Rodriguez
Picking Zombie: All of us

Germaine De Randamie vs. Raquel Pennington
Picking De Randamie: DJ Mark
Picking Rocky: Kid P, Gooms, Dr. Law

Donald Cerrone vs. Mike Perry
Picking Cerrone: Dr. Law
Picking Perry: Gooms, DJ Mark, Kid P

Joseph Benavidez vs. Ray Borg
Picking Joe B: All of us


It's MMAzing 2018 Standings (as of 11/05/18)
1. Kid Presentable - (64-38)
2. Lavender Gooms - (62-40)
2. Dr. Law (62-40)
4. DJ Mark -  (58-44)

The Ultimate Fighter: Tournament of Champions Picks

Ahoy friends. No real predictions this week, but we still got picks. Sorry guys, sometimes life happens. The best fighter in the world is fighting though. Just enjoy it.

UFC Flyweight Championship
Demetrious Johnson v. Tim Elliott

Picking Mighty Mouse: All of us
Picking Tim Elliott: C'mon son

Joseph Benavidez v. Henry Cejudo

Picking Joe-ko-zuna: All of us
Picking (insert Cejudo nickname):

Jorge Masvidal v. Jake Ellenberger

Picking the man with the best sucker punch in Miami: Dr. Law, Kid P, DJ Mark
Picking Ellenberger: Gooms

Alexis Davis v. Sara McMann

Picking Ms. Davis: Dr. Law, Kid P, Gooms
Picking the Olympic silver medalist: DJ Mark

It's MMAzing 2016 Standings (as of 12/1/16)
1. Doctor Law - (124-73-1) - .626
1. Kid Presentable - (124-73-1) - .626
3. DJ Mark - (118-79-1) - .596
4. Lavender Gooms - (115-82-1) - .581

UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs. Thompson Predictions

If you haven't been keeping up with the MMA landscape you might be a little confused about what you're seeing right now. Wasn't Cain Velasquez suppose to get his rematch with Fabricio Werdum? Yes, this was true, but Cain suffered a back injury and had to pull out of fight. You may be asking, well couldn't they find someone to fight Werdum in Cain's place (great idea by the way, you're really on top of things today). They tried to match up Stipe Miocic with Werdum, but it turned out Werdum was injured himself this whole time and wasn't going to say anything...well until he found out Cain was also injured. With no main event it was the UFC that had to do some shuffling this weekend and now we're getting a pretty decent card on Fox Sports 1. Headlining is a really interesting fight between former UFC Welterweight Champion Johny Hendricks and rising star Stephen Thompson. We also get to see a couple of the big boys tussle when Roy Nelson throws down with Jared Rosholt.

UFC 187: Johnson v. Cormier Predictions

What a strange trip it's been to get to UFC 187. By this point you guys know what happened. Jon Jones was going to defend his title against Rumble Johnson. Then some things (allegedly) happened and Mr. Jones was stripped of his light heavyweight championship. We now have Daniel Cormier stepping in to take Anthony Johnson for the Undisputed (as our own Lavender Gooms would say, "Come on son") UFC Light Heavyweight Championship. In the co-main event we have the long awaited matchup between Chris Weidman and "The Phenom" (or is it the "Old Lion"...or maybe the "Young Dinosaur") Vitor Belfort for the UFC Middleweight Championship. Check out our predictions below. I went 6 for 6 last week. I'm basically a very good looking version of Nostradamus.

It's MMAzing 2014 Year End Awards

Winners can expect their trophies to
arrive in the mail in 4-6...years. Yea...
let's go with that.

For information on how we came up with these wonderful selections please listen to Episode 112 of It's MMAzing Radio.

Fighter of the Year (Male):

Doctor Law: Robbie Lawler
Kid Presentable: Robbie Lawler
DJ Mark with a K: Robbie Lawler
Lavender Gooms: TJ Dillashaw

Fighter of the Year (Female):

Doctor Law: Ronda Rousey
Kid Presentable: Carla Esparza
DJ Mark with a K: Carla Esparza
Lavender Gooms: Ronda Rousey

Team Alpha Male’s Plan for World Domination Starts Saturday

Image via Ryan McKinnell, Examiner.com

(**NOTE**: Joseph Benavidez let me know that I forgot to include that Justin Buchholz would be fighting for the Superior Cage Combat championship on February 16th in Las Vegas. Make that 4 possible championships for Team Alpha Male.)

This Saturday, Chad Mendes will try to be the man that takes the Featherweight championship away from Jose Aldo. Mendes fights out of Team Alpha Male, a fight team that operates out of the Ultimate Fitness gym in Sacramento, California. The team is lead by former WEC Featherweight champion Urijah Faber and is the home of many prominent MMA fighters including Faber, Mendes, Joseph Benavidez, Danny Castillo, Justin Buchholz and T.J. Dillashaw.

2012 looks to be a big year for Team Alpha Male. The cosmos/luck/fate/Jesus/Flying Spaghetti Monster seems to have lined up an opportunity for Team Alpha Male to become the only MMA team to have 3 UFC champions. General Faber and his troops have a chance to put a stranglehold on the MMA world and show their superiority over more publicized teams such as Team Jackson and Blackhouse. Here is the game plan for how they plan to take over this sport by the middle of year.

Step 1: Chad Mendes wins the UFC Featherweight Title

Chad Mendes is the undisputed #1 contender to the UFC Featherweight championship. “Money” Mendes has won all 11 of his professional fights and has victories over fighters such as Rani Yahya, Michihiro Omigawa and Javier Vazquez. Mendes has the unenviable task of trying to defeat Featherweight kingpin and Top 5 P4P fighter Jose Aldo in his home country. Aldo has some of the best standup in MMA and a black belt in BJJ to go along with that.

The gameplan for Mendes to beat Aldo can be summarized in 3 words: “take him down.” Mendes is going to have to put Aldo on his ass early and often. He doesn’t want to let the champ get a rhythm going with his strikes and allow him to put combinations together. More importantly, Mendes needs to avoid what happened to his teammate Urijah Faber and not get blasted with leg kicks. If Mendes is able to take Aldo down, beat him up and avoid submissions, he has a good chance of becoming the second UFC Featherweight Champion in history.

Step 2: Joseph Benavidez becomes the first ever UFC Flyweight Champion

Joseph Benavidez has been fighting in the “wrong” weight class for years. Benavidez (or Joe-B-Wan Kenobi) has been making his living fighting in the 135 lb weight class despite his frame being much better suited for the then-nonexistent UFC Flyweight division (125 lbs). Despite this, Benavidez has proven to be one of the best fighters in the world at bantamweight with his only 2 career losses being close fights against division champion Dominick Cruz.

Recently UFC announced a four man tournament to crown the company’s first flyweight champion. On one side of the bracket, Benavidez will take on Shooto 123 lb champion Yasuhiro Urushitani. A number of things favor Benavidez in this fight. Urushitani is primarily known for his striking. Benavidez fights out of Team Alpha Male…which means he can wrestle and will be able to dictate where the fight takes place. Urushitani is also kind of old (35) and Benavidez can put on a pace that is very difficult to keep up with. Finally, this is Urushitani's first UFC fight, which normally means octagon jitters…giving Benavidez another advantage.

If Benavidez gets past Urushitani, he would take on the winner of Demetrius Johnson and Ian McCall in a early summer championship fight. Demetrius is known for using his strikes to set up his takedowns while “Uncle Creepy” is the Tachi Palace Flyweight Champion. With either of this opponents, Benavidez would likely be the favorite given his big fight experience and overall skill set.

(STEP 3 After the jump)