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Broken Dreams and Broken Hearts: MMA’s Olympians Try to Save Wrestling

Diego Diaz wants to be an Olympian.  At least he wanted to be an Olympian until 15 members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted on Tuesday to drop wrestling from the games starting in 2020. Who is Diego Diaz?  He’s a nine-year-old boy who trains under 2008 Olympic team captain and Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand […]

Diego Diaz wants to be an Olympian.  At least he wanted to be an Olympian until 15 members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted on Tuesday to drop wrestling from the games starting in 2020. Who is Diego Diaz?  He’s a nine-year-old boy who trains under 2008 Olympic team captain and Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand […]

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Legal No Holds Barred: The UFC Takes on New York in a Battle for MMA’s Future

The UFC is facing the fight of the company’s life this Wednesday in U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood’s Pearl Street courtroom, leading a group of plaintiffs contesting a 1997 law that made the sport of mixed martial arts illegal in the state of New York. It’s a battle that has raged for years, quietly […]

The UFC is facing the fight of the company’s life this Wednesday in U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood’s Pearl Street courtroom, leading a group of plaintiffs contesting a 1997 law that made the sport of mixed martial arts illegal in the state of New York. It’s a battle that has raged for years, quietly […]

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Melvin Guillard: Is He in Danger of Becoming MMA’s Zab Judah?

Back in early 2001, there were many big names in the world of professional boxing—Oscar de la Hoya, the up-and-coming Floyd Mayweather Jr., Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones Jr. and others—but one name kept on coming up, time and again, as the best n…

Back in early 2001, there were many big names in the world of professional boxing—Oscar de la Hoya, the up-and-coming Floyd Mayweather Jr., Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones Jr. and others—but one name kept on coming up, time and again, as the best new boxer out there: Zab Judah. With incredible hand speed, great reflexes, brutal […]

UFC Themed Deadmau5 Music Video Illustrates MMA’s Continued Mainstream Ascent

If one were to associate a particular music genre with the UFC, the most obvious choice would be heavy metal—with MMA fans being regularly greeted by the ultra-aggressive sounds of STEMM at the beginning of each PPV. Deadmau5 provides a little mu…

If one were to associate a particular music genre with the UFC, the most obvious choice would be heavy metal—with MMA fans being regularly greeted by the ultra-aggressive sounds of STEMM at the beginning of each PPV. Deadmau5 provides a little musical diversity for UFC fans in the video for his upcoming single “Professional Griefers”, […]

UFC Champ Jon Jones, Dana White and MMA’s Eternal Question: Sport or Spectacle?

Now that UFC 151 is dead—more importantly, now that we’ve had the appropriate amount of time to grieve—it’s our duty to look back with an unflinching eye at the decision that led to the UFC canceling the first event in the promo…

Now that UFC 151 is dead—more importantly, now that we’ve had the appropriate amount of time to grieve—it’s our duty to look back with an unflinching eye at the decision that led to the UFC canceling the first event in the promotion’s 18-year history: light heavyweight champion Jon Jones’s refusal to fight Chael Sonnen after […]

UFC 146 Preview: Roy Nelson and MMA’s 25 Most Colorful Characters

MMA is about much more than the action in the cage. The best fighters, or at least the most popular ones, understand that what happens outside the Octagon is just as important as anything that takes place within. Fighters are entertainers. As we’…

MMA is about much more than the action in the cage. The best fighters, or at least the most popular ones, understand that what happens outside the Octagon is just as important as anything that takes place within. Fighters are entertainers. As we’ve learned, they are competing for ever-tightening entertainment budgets, not just with boxers […]