Getting a read on a fighter is not always the easiest thing to do in combat sports. This especially rings true in the world of mixed martial arts where so many different styles, backgrounds, and personalities step into one cage and look to impose their wills. While the ultimate goal for most typically lies in […]
Getting a read on a fighter is not always the easiest thing to do in combat sports. This especially rings true in the world of mixed martial arts where so many different styles, backgrounds, and personalities step into one cage and look to impose their wills. While the ultimate goal for most typically lies in […]
Throughout his career in mixed martial arts, Frankie Edgar has been a difficult fighter to categorize. The undersized fighter with an oversized heart was a common descriptor in his days in the lightweight division as The Answer played the role of perennial underdog even in fights where championship gold was on his side of the equation. […]
Throughout his career in mixed martial arts, Frankie Edgar has been a difficult fighter to categorize. The undersized fighter with an oversized heart was a common descriptor in his days in the lightweight division as The Answer played the role of perennial underdog even in fights where championship gold was on his side of the equation. […]
It’s strange to think that 11 fights and nearly four years into her amazing MMA career, we still have no idea how to talk about Ronda Rousey. Through five appearances in the Octagon—capped by Saturday’s 14-second destruction of Cat Zingano at UFC 184—the women’s bantamweight champion has been so dominant that all our normal buzzwords […]
It’s strange to think that 11 fights and nearly four years into her amazing MMA career, we still have no idea how to talk about Ronda Rousey. Through five appearances in the Octagon—capped by Saturday’s 14-second destruction of Cat Zingano at UFC 184—the women’s bantamweight champion has been so dominant that all our normal buzzwords […]
Bleacher Report lead mixed martial arts writers Jonathan Snowden and Jeremy Botter have banded together—much like a modern-day version of Wham!—to take on the most important questions facing the MMA world. Welcome to The Question. In his last two fights, the once-great Anderson Silva was knocked unconscious and had his leg snapped into pieces. It seemed like an ignominious end to an […]
Bleacher Report lead mixed martial arts writers Jonathan Snowden and Jeremy Botter have banded together—much like a modern-day version of Wham!—to take on the most important questions facing the MMA world. Welcome to The Question. In his last two fights, the once-great Anderson Silva was knocked unconscious and had his leg snapped into pieces. It seemed like an ignominious end to an […]
Jose Aldo is the only featherweight champion the UFC has ever had. It has been nearly nine years since he gave up the only loss of his career, and truth be told, he has rarely been challenged since that night. He stormed into the WEC in 2008 and finished his first five opponents, then finished […]
Jose Aldo is the only featherweight champion the UFC has ever had. It has been nearly nine years since he gave up the only loss of his career, and truth be told, he has rarely been challenged since that night. He stormed into the WEC in 2008 and finished his first five opponents, then finished […]
Throughout the brief yet layered history of mixed martial arts, a handful of iconic figures have come along, but nothing casts a net of mystique quite like what we’ve seen out of the heavyweight division. There is something enigmatic about those who can dominate the largest collective across a chaotic landscape, and the greatest of those […]
Throughout the brief yet layered history of mixed martial arts, a handful of iconic figures have come along, but nothing casts a net of mystique quite like what we’ve seen out of the heavyweight division. There is something enigmatic about those who can dominate the largest collective across a chaotic landscape, and the greatest of those […]