Johny Hendricks: ‘My Mind Is to Kill GSP’

Johny Hendricks will be out for blood when he steps into the cage with Georges St-Pierre at UFC 167 on Saturday night. The top welterweight contender has been living in the shadows for far too long. While St-Pierre has maintained a perpetual stranglehold over the welterweight division, Hendricks has participated in an unending dog fight […]

Johny Hendricks will be out for blood when he steps into the cage with Georges St-Pierre at UFC 167 on Saturday night. The top welterweight contender has been living in the shadows for far too long. While St-Pierre has maintained a perpetual stranglehold over the welterweight division, Hendricks has participated in an unending dog fight […]

Jon Jones Not Very Impressed with Richie Incognito: ‘I’d Kill Him’

Add UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones to the list of people who are not overly impressed with Richie Incognito. In a radio interview Tuesday with The Junkies on Washington, D.C.’s 106.7 The Fan, Jones told interviewers he would “kill” Incognito if given the chance.  “I’d kill him,” Jones said, according to a transcript of the […]

Add UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones to the list of people who are not overly impressed with Richie Incognito. In a radio interview Tuesday with The Junkies on Washington, D.C.’s 106.7 The Fan, Jones told interviewers he would “kill” Incognito if given the chance.  “I’d kill him,” Jones said, according to a transcript of the […]

UFC 2012: The Age of Money-First Fighters Will Kill the Sport of MMA

If antics like those pulled by Jon Jones concerning UFC 151 become commonplace, the sport will die a sad, swift, unheralded death. As I wrote previously, Jones—as well as UFC welterweight champ Georges St.Pierre, to a lesser extent—has help…

If antics like those pulled by Jon Jones concerning UFC 151 become commonplace, the sport will die a sad, swift, unheralded death. As I wrote previously, Jones—as well as UFC welterweight champ Georges St.Pierre, to a lesser extent—has helped usher in what I call the age of the superstar, where fighters cease being true fighters […]

Thiago Silva Says He’s Going to Kill or Die in Gustafsson Fight

Oh, Thiago Silva. We may never quite understand what makes you tick. Silva, if you’ll recall, is making his return after a year-long suspension. He didn’t test positive for steroids, but that’s only because he substituted his own urin…

Oh, Thiago Silva. We may never quite understand what makes you tick. Silva, if you’ll recall, is making his return after a year-long suspension. He didn’t test positive for steroids, but that’s only because he substituted his own urine for something distinctly non-human during the actual test. Yep, Silva used a Whizzer. And not the […]

UFC Imperial Strategy: Buy Them Out, Then Kill Them Softly

The UFC Empire, in its quest for global domination, has effectively caused the expiration of one colony and the evisceration of another. One’s from another continent across the Pacific Ocean, the other more accessible in Northern California from …

The UFC Empire, in its quest for global domination, has effectively caused the expiration of one colony and the evisceration of another. One’s from another continent across the Pacific Ocean, the other more accessible in Northern California from UFC’s home base in Las Vegas. In the first quarter of 2007, the MMA world—with the exception […]