March 2013

Photos By Paul Thatcher For years, people have claimed Gilbert “El Niño” Melendez to be the best lightweight in the world that isn’t in the UFC. Finally, he will get a chance to prove it. It’s lazy Sunday at the Melendez household on a…

FIGHT! Magazine’s T.R. Foley traveled to India to investigate the semi-monastic life of the Indian Pahalwans and experience their unique mixture of spirituality and aggression. You would be surprised how many armed soldiers show up to a…

Ballsy Moves Thiago Alves was a ballroom dancer and instructor in Fortaleza, Brazil, before moving to the United States when he was 19 years old. When you make your professional MMA debut in a bare-knuckle fight in Brazil at 16 years of…

King for a Day “I think it was cockiness more than anything. He was so—I’m not going to say full of himself—but in his mind, there was no way I was going to beat him.” —Emanuel Newton to mmajunkie.com Hollywood Ending “I still have goals…

Get Grounded Ground-and-pound training with a heavy bag can improve your cardio and stamina while increasing your punching power. To get pounding, switch from full mount to side control to north-south position while you rain down punches…

Photo By Rick Lee What inspired you to grow your epic stache? It started because I tried to grow out this huge beard, but it didn’t really work. As a joke, I decided to keep the mustache and shave everything else. I thought it looked…

1. Hayabusa FLEX & Kasumi-S Fight Shorts Try on a pair of Hayabusa fight shorts and you’ll never go back to your old ones. Comfortable. Ultra light. Zero hardware. Stylish. The Flex and Kasumi-S fight shorts give you the freedom of…

By Mick Hammond // mmaweekly.com 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…

Daniel Cormier vs. Frank Mir UFC on Fox 7: 4/20/13 San Jose, CA Here’s a joke: How do you put an alligator in an armbar? Wait, we’ll get back to that. When Daniel Cormier and Frank Mir square off at UFC on Fox 7 on April 20, the…

By Doug Balzarini Bodyweight movements are effective and efficient exercise options, especially for MMA athletes. In a sport with weight classes, the goal of the strength coach is to help the athlete become as strong as possible for their…