Ronda Rousey Broke Rib of ‘The Expendables 3? Director with a Punch

He walked away with an unforgettable story, but The Expendables 3 director Patrick Hughes found out the hard way that nerves make UFC women’s bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey awfully feisty. During an interview with HitFix.com earlier this month, Hughes told the story of how Rousey, who played Luna in The Expendables 3, broke one of his ribs before filming […]

He walked away with an unforgettable story, but The Expendables 3 director Patrick Hughes found out the hard way that nerves make UFC women’s bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey awfully feisty. During an interview with HitFix.com earlier this month, Hughes told the story of how Rousey, who played Luna in The Expendables 3, broke one of his ribs before filming […]

GSP: ‘The Last Thing I Want Is to Hurt the UFC’

For once, Georges St-Pierre is finally enjoying a life without the nuances and personal obligations that come along with being a UFC champion. The former welterweight champ was just finishing an afternoon training session before picking up the phone to speak with MMA journalist Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour on Monday. One could tell […]

For once, Georges St-Pierre is finally enjoying a life without the nuances and personal obligations that come along with being a UFC champion. The former welterweight champ was just finishing an afternoon training session before picking up the phone to speak with MMA journalist Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour on Monday. One could tell […]

Mac Danzig, Former ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ Winner, Announces Retirement from MMA

Thirteen-time UFC veteran and The Ultimate Fighter Season 6 winner Mac Danzig announced his retirement from MMA via his blog.  Hinting that he lost his competitive fire and began to worry about his long-term mental health, Danzig said the following:  …my enthusiasm and motivation for competition definitely reached it’s peak around 2008 (after 7 years prior of […]

Thirteen-time UFC veteran and The Ultimate Fighter Season 6 winner Mac Danzig announced his retirement from MMA via his blog.  Hinting that he lost his competitive fire and began to worry about his long-term mental health, Danzig said the following:  …my enthusiasm and motivation for competition definitely reached it’s peak around 2008 (after 7 years prior of […]

Dana White’s ‘The Fighters’ Brings Raw Reality Back to Reality Television

There was a time when reality television was registered high on the list of potential fads about to break then vanish. Nevertheless, what once appeared to be a passing trend grew to become a ratings powerhouse. Fast forward 20-plus years and the pop culture landscape has become laden with programs based in “reality.” The term […]

There was a time when reality television was registered high on the list of potential fads about to break then vanish. Nevertheless, what once appeared to be a passing trend grew to become a ratings powerhouse. Fast forward 20-plus years and the pop culture landscape has become laden with programs based in “reality.” The term […]

Matt Serra: ‘The Fight Game Is Like Chess’ and Weidman ‘Made the Right Move’

Former UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra has been retired for over three years now but remains active in the fight game through coaching at the Serra-Longo gym in Long Island.  His star pupil? UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman, who scored his second victory over the legendary Anderson Silva in a roughly six-month time frame at […]

Former UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra has been retired for over three years now but remains active in the fight game through coaching at the Serra-Longo gym in Long Island.  His star pupil? UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman, who scored his second victory over the legendary Anderson Silva in a roughly six-month time frame at […]

MMA Meets Boxing: Looking at Dana White’s ‘The Fighters’

And so it begins. Or, perhaps it should be said: “And so it has finally happened.” As a longtime proponent of MMA, it is an often forgotten fact (dismissed as a notion of comfortable equitability, toward the end of granting a kind of safe harbor from which to criticize the sport of boxing) that Dana […]

And so it begins. Or, perhaps it should be said: “And so it has finally happened.” As a longtime proponent of MMA, it is an often forgotten fact (dismissed as a notion of comfortable equitability, toward the end of granting a kind of safe harbor from which to criticize the sport of boxing) that Dana […]