The probability of myself interviewing KJ Noons is directly influenced by the vicinity of KJ Noons’ father. Aside from attacking Nick Diaz in Hawaii and choking me at a downtown LA club, Papa Noons is a pretty chill guy — when he’s not trying to beat you up. Leave it to Papa Noons to teach
The anticipation for UFC 131 has dissipated. Junior Dos Santos ousted Shane Carwin for a title shot, Mark Munoz slammed his fist into Demian Maia’s skull for the win and Jon Olav Einemo showed finesse, but simply couldn’t finish Pee Knee Herman. You’ve awoken this morning with a hangover, and unfortunately there’s nothing I can
After years of endless debates over a half-empty keg and thousands of thread posts later, Junior Dos Santos vs. Cain Velasquez will finally go down — and it will be for the UFC heavyweight title. Rejoice, bake cookies — do whatever you deem fit in order to build up hype for one of the most
“Where’s your Jiu Jitsu now playboy?” Those famous words spewed from Anderson Silva’s mouth to the ears and brain of Demian Maia will forever be revered by me as some of the best smack talk ever. I repeat the phrase often and in out of context situations. For example, when a waiter (or waitress, I’m
It wasn’t in my plans tonight to watch our beloved Thug Jitsu master get brutally KOd ad infinitum (or at least for the rest of the night) in .GIF form, but this Sam Stout KO is so soul suckingly evil, you would think Sam was practicing demonology with his equally heavy handed teammates Mark Hominick
If I remember correctly, it took the entire MiddleEasy staff almost 2 months to name The Top Ten Cuts That Look Like a Womb Giving Birth…what an awful title. My submission was shot down: The Top Ten Cuts That Look Like Squid Mouths. Oh well, I will embrace the inferior, but chosen title, but only
[div class=”notice” class2=”icon”]The following is from an article on MMA-Japan, part of the MiddleEasy Network.[/div] You know when you make something for dinner and it looks delicious, then when you bite into it, it tastes like someone took a tire and sprinkled salt and cayenne pepper on it? Well that is the feeling that all
Now those of you who refuse to dabble in forced social interactions in a non offending user interface no longer have to fret over how you will view the UFC 131 prelims, you can watch em right here. While I was experimenting with the Youtube viewer for PS3 I came to the incredibly genius realization
[div class=”notice” class2=”icon”]The following is from an article on LiverKick.com, part of the MiddleEasy Network.[/div] After a lot of hard work and years of anticipation, Mark “Fightshark” Miller made his successful return to he ring a few weeks ago. It was a historic comeback if there ever was one, with Miller landing a big hook
The fact that Hatsu Hioki chose to speak English in his interview with Ariel Helwani simply justifies his placement in the official MiddleEasy Frate Trane List. Being a Frate Trane isn’t just about unstoppable physical tenacity. Barreling through an interview in a language that is not your own and still conveying your point is the
If the mechanics of time was reversed roughly two thousand years ago, Shane Carwin and Junior Dos Santos would be leading a tribe of axe wielding maniacs and nimble archers into some heavily wooded battlefield on an area of the North American continent now known as ‘Vancouver.’ Instead, we get these same maniacs armed with
Sometimes when you are wronged, the only honorable thing to do is challenge the offending party to a fight to the death, or if you are incarcerated in Oswald Maximum Security Correctional Facility you can shank the guy in his cell. Thankfully we don’t live in Oz, and just as well really because Adebisi was
It’s perfectly acceptable to have a man crush on an individual, however when you live in West Hollywood — that term takes on an incredible new meaning. ‘Man crush’ may denote some sort of sexually aggressive move that one would attempt in bed, and I want no part of it. Fortunately, I reside in East
It still blows my mind that Yves Edwards invites a live studio audience into his basement to film Ask a Thug Jitsu Master. Weirder still, he insists they stay and applaud at appropriate moments while he edits the show together using a dual VCR setup, one stacked on top of the other, connected by RCA
Shaq has been around MMA for a while now , the dude tranes. In fact, it’s been over a year since we broke the news that Shaq was going to be a playable character in UFC Undisputed 2010. I remember that night kind of, that was just a few hours before I downed a bottle