January 2011

You walk up to the corner of Western and Wilshire and join the line forming in front of the Hollywood Video, an archaic structure that is the remnants of the new Netfl ix generation. The sign reads “Everything Must…

The wrestlers are taking over MMA and they have big plans—score takedowns, lay and pray, win decisions, and take all the titles. Some of them even want to steal your girlfriends and wives. Non-wrestlers are literally being squeezed…

In the 1976 film Rocky, there’s a scene where Apollo Creed’s trainer Tony “Duke” Evers is watching Rocky Balboa on TV punching slabs of meat in Paulie’s meat locker. “Hey Champ,” Evers…

“Lesnar, Mayhem, and Joe Warren.” That’s what Mark Cuban answers when asked whom his favorite fighters are to watch. He doesn’t actually say this. He types it in an email, his favorite question/answer mode where…

When I watched Kazushi Sakuraba beat Renzo Gracie, as I referenced in my last article, it changed my life. I had spent most of my life in BJJ-based grappling gyms, learning, what I thought, was the most effective form of fighting in the…

Mixed martial arts is the fastest growing sport in the world. It garners more attention and new fans daily. The emergence of so many new athletes sometimes makes it hard for fans to notice some of the fighters on the verge of making it to…

Dana White & Co. will announce a plan to bring the UFC to MSG as soon as the New York legislature approves the regulation of MMA.

“I’m surrounded by good people and I’m away from the b.s. and the partying," Fickett said. "It’s made me want to fight.”

Lyman Good was on a roll in 2009 but it came to a screeching halt in 2010.

Not to be outdone by Strikeforce, the UFC puts its two best available heavyweights on TV each week all spring.