July 2009

Jake O'Brien doesn't talk a lot about fighting. He doesn't talk a lot about anything, really. But O'Brien is talked about and it's rarely good. Like a heavier Sean Sherk, online pundits trash O'Brien for grinding out wins with takedowns…

Frank Mir had an accident. Everyone knows about it; it’s old hat. When I ask Frank about it, I can see his eyes roll back in his head with boredom. “Another idiot with a pencil,” I can hear him think. He knows he has to talk about it.…

FIGHT! contributor Matt Burosh popped into American Top Team to talk with Thiago Alves, who seemed relaxed and supremely confident in advance of his title fight with GSP at UFC 100 on July 11.

Jacob “Stitch” Duran is known for closing cuts, not teaching guys how to open them up. But on a recent visit to Xtreme Couture, Duran found himself holding pads for an assortment of fighters. Martin Kampmann heard that Duran had…

Jon Fitch is feeling relatively carefree. On this autumn afternoon, the 29-year-old is driving to Friant, California. Although he keeps both eyes on the road while cruising down Pacheco Pass Highway, he spends a considerable amount of…

Any one who has spent a lot of time in fight gyms will recognize their familiar smell: of stale sweat, wet leather and something vaguely reminiscent of urine, (the imported leather, which finds its way into a lot of training gear, is…

The UFC wasn’t always the polished, glistening show it is now. On the road for most of the 1990’s, mixed martial arts was still the “wild, wild west” according to UFC announcer Bruce Buffer. Buffer recalled the night that iconic UFC bad…

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“There’s a huge question mark put on my back,” Lesnar acknowledges. “I think this next fight will prove exactly where I’m going to go in this sport. My first fight, I won in a minute and nine seconds and the guy was, you know, not the…

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