October 2009

Toughness comes naturally to Muhammed “Mo” Lawal, or King Mo, as the fighting world has come to know him. It never occurred to him to be anything but tough, so when he shredded his ACL during a Sengoku fight against Ryo…

“Rags to riches” stories are a dime a dozen. It’s almost cliché to wax poetic about a determined soul who worked his way out of austere conditions to hit the big time. But your mother always taught you that hard work…

The scene is set, the lights have been tested. Now there’s nothing left to do but wait. We sit in the Aegean Room , a small meeting space on the second floor of the Argosy Casino Hotel & Spa, an extravagant monument to an imagined…

So Natasha, were you ever expecting to be a UFC girl? Oh no, absolutely not. It was definitely something that you would love to do and you see and you go, ‘oh, that would be fun!’. How did that happen, did you just show up for…

Nine Seasons, 108 Episodes, Nine Finales, 15 Winners, and even more careers made and improved by the experience of being on the most important and influential television show in mixed martial arts history: UFC and Spike-TV’s The…

You might expect the American Kickboxing Academy to be a sleek, state-of-the-art facility. With all the elite fighters it has produced, you probably wouldn’t expect to find it sitting between a Big Lots and a craft store, in a strip…

Its technical name is “Sambo.” While it’s not incorrect to translate it as “Sombo” or even “Sam,” it is actually an acronym that stands for SAMozashchita Bez Oruzhiya, meaning “self-defense…

TUF 8 champ Ryan Bader returns to the Octagon on Oct. 24 to face veteran fighter Eric "Red" Schafer.

Larry Pepe hosts a WEC-heavy edition of Pro MMA Radio.

Jaco makes shirts out of bamboo but they promise you won't be attacked by pandas if you wear one. But you might want to get a pair of their shorts just in case.