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World Extreme Cagefighting bantamweight Joseph Benavidez wanted to be a professional volleyball player. He describes it as a “passion” and still plays in a park rec league and every chance he gets at the beach. But 10 wins into an…

Miguel Torres doesn’t need a sports psychologist or motivational speaker to get his head right for a fight. He just has to come home. Fightmagazine.com's Matt Burosh learns what motivates Miguel Torres.

Miguel Torres talk about his title defense against Brian Bowles.

Miguel Torres has come a long way in the last two years. In 2007, he was an urban legend, a spectre, the Keyser Soze of bantamweight fighters. Two years later he's a 'name,' World Extreme Cagefighting's 135-pound champion, a fixture on…

“I feel I’m a more complete fighter than and I’m bigger and more powerful,” offers Brian Bowles. But this fighter believes deep down that his chances for success where others have failed must lie within the mind, where people can’t…

By FIGHT! contributor Jeff Harder Proposing legislation was just the beginning. Now Matt Peterson had to convince Maine’s House of Representatives that mixed martial arts was worth regulating. “More often than not the most common…

Paulo Filho returns to the ring at DREAM.10 on Monday night to face Melvin Manhoef. The card will be broadcast live on HDNet at midnight, July 20 PST and 3 a.m. ET, July 21. The show will be replayed at 10 p.m. ET on Fri., July 24. Go…

Paulo Filho is one of the most talented middleweights in the world. He is also one of the most troubled personalities in mixed martial arts. Filho hasn't seen competition since his bizarre showing against Chael Sonnen at WEC 36 in…

Call him “Cowboy” – Donald Cerrone he hates to be called by his first name. Cerrone was looking to rope himself the WEC lightweight title in a January match with champion Jamie Varner but was down on all scorecards. Cerrone found some…

Mike Brown and Urijah Faber’s early careers were like the opening sequence in "Rocky": Balboa you get winner’s share, sixty-five dollars. That’s fifteen dollars locker and corner man, five dollars shower and towel and seven-percent tax,…