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1 week ago | themmadraw.com | Nate Wilcox

Dana White was way off his game at UFC 314 fight week in Miami. The Dana White MMA fans are used to was nowhere to be seen. Where was the Dana White who can sell snow during a blizzard? Where was the Dana White who effortlessly commands press conferences before rowdy fight crowds? The lion tamer who handles roaring reporters with his ringmaster’s bullwhip and chair?

1 week ago | themmadraw.com | Zach Arnold |Nate Wilcox

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -24:56Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. UFC 314 was heralded as a card worthy of hardcore attention. Finally, a modern UFC fight card that was respectable. Intriguingly, early Google Trends revealed good but not great numbers — which may or may not serve as a form of confirmation bias that if you’re into the current UFC product, you’re into it. If you’re not, you’re not.

2 weeks ago | themmadraw.com | Tim Bissell

Did Christmas come early? This Saturday we have a STACKED UFC card! I know, shocking, right? UFC 314 has Alexander Volkanovski vs. Diego Lopes for the vacant UFC featherweight title in the main event. That’s awesome. And the co-main is Michael Chandler vs. Paddy Pimblett. That’s bonkers. Rounding out the rest of the main card is Yair Rodriguez vs. Patricio Pitbull, Bryce ‘Seat-belts cause cancer, the world is an inverted ziggurat and Hitler is my fishing buddy’ Mitchell vs.

2 weeks ago | themmadraw.com | Zach Arnold |Nate Wilcox

Can buying off the UFC buy you political protection? This week’s edition of The MMA Podcast takes a closer look at Meta's sponsorship deal with the UFC and whether or not buying Dana White’s loyalty can help persuade the inner circle around Donald Trump not to aggressively pursue new antitrust action against Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire. It this sounds like House of Cards, it’s because this is the new world that TKO has created in fight sport.

3 weeks ago | themmadraw.com | Tim Bissell

The UFC is back at the APEX this weekend after some pretty fun trips to the UK and Mexico. This weekend’s main event is a meaningful one for the Featherweight division. And it might be pretty entertaining, too. Lerone Murphy is going try and continue to pad his resume and make a case for a title shot when he meets Josh Emmett. Emmett, who had a shot at the interim 145 lbs. strap, will be fighting to show he deserves to remain near the top of the division. The co-main sucks on name value.