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American Kickboxing Academy

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…

Brock Lesnar's Question Mark

“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…

Dan Henderson's Moment Of Truth

Temecula Valley, with its rolling hills and postcard-perfect vineyards, isn't where you'd expect to find one of the toughest men on the planet. But this idyllic patch of wine country southeast of Los Angeles just happens to be the place…

Frank Mir Rides Again

Frank Mir had always been the daredevil, the one who would pass people on the road doing 120 miles per hour, the unbreakable UFC heavyweight champion. But on that day, he was doing the right thing - riding his motorcycle, coasting really,…

Michael Bisping Re-Mixed

Club DJs get used to hearing the same things over and over. They live on a steady diet of looped instrumentals and break beats, playing the same platters week after week. Michael Bisping is no different; the UFC middleweight made ends…