Before Shogun vs. Machida went down at UFC 104, I tirelessly drew every comparison that I could to Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon. When I first mentioned it, people said it was genius. No, genius would be finding the guy that convinced Kawajiri to rock a fish-net, black hoodie at Dream 15. That guy should get a
It’s been about three years since we’ve seen the video of Wanderlei Silva threatening Chael Sonnen in the backseat of a car. Since that day, Chael Sonnen received three title shots, a coaching job on The Ultimate Fighter, a hosting gig with FOX Sports — and he was married to his longtime girlfriend. Wanderlei Silva
I’ve personally witnessed a French guy drop an entire lit shot of Absinthe on his pants and casually brush the fire off as he repeated a Dave Chappelle joke. This same French guy was also friends with this other French guy who used to rob parked cars on the streets of Pontypridd, Wales solely for
You gotta admit, not many people on this planet would take a fight against Shogun Rua on twelve-days notice — surely not Jon Jones as we’ve seen with UFC 151. This Chael Sonnen, fearlessly paving his way in MMA history by not giving a single [expletive] who and when he fights. The temporal and spatial
If it were up to me, we would have Gary LaPlante record an audio commentary over the Pride Middleweight GP Quarterfinal between Shogun Rua and Rogerio Noguiera. Sure, most of the commentary would be Gary grunting at the non-stop action between the two legends mixed in with the crinkling of his Baconator wrappers collecting beside
Tonight at UFC on FOX: Henderson vs. Diaz — there’s a high probability that your favorite fighter lost. There’s nothing the universe can do to prevent the new blood from eventually replacing the old blood. It even happens inside your cardiovascular system. If your blood was never refreshed, you would just keel over and die
Imagine being someone that doesn’t follow combat sports and looking at the banner pic of Shogun, Bendo, BJ, and Mike Swick. There’s no way those big shiny happy smiling faces would conjure up images of the pummeling brutality and bloody violence that’s about to go down in just a few short hours. Look at BJ
The concentration of MMA champions in Curitiba, Brazil is exponentially larger than any other city on the face of the Earth. That’s not a scientific statistic… It could be entirely made up like those ‘binders of women’ Mitt Romney said he had in his desk; but until someone proves it wrong, I’m sticking to it.
Sign spinning street corners advertisements are everywhere here in Atlanta and it appears that all it takes to get hired to spin signs on street corners is a couple of misdemeanor possession charges and a glass pipe in your jeans pocket. I’m not sure what kind of patrons a business is hoping to attract by
There’s a song by Of Montreal with the words ‘Let’s pretend we don’t exist’ followed by ‘Let’s pretend we’re in an Octagon.’ That’s a lie. The lyrics are actually ‘Let’s pretend we’re in Antarctica,’ but if you listened to the song you could never tell the difference. That needed to be expressed through words, so
Alexander Gustafsson spells his last name with three consonants in a row and it’s not even grammatically incorrect. That’s the power of the Nords — they have the power to assemble letters however they see fit and no one will tell them if they’re making a mistake. For all we know, Alexander Gustafsson is an
The reigning DREAM light heavyweight champion. Never forget. Alright, you forgot. Just never forget it again. Gegard Mousasi is like the hottest thing right now. That’s a pretty ignorant way to start off a story but when it comes to a 6′ 1″ tall Armenian dude that has the power of the entire Fantastic Four
I can see Anderson Silva riding off into the sunset of his MMA career and mingling amongst the European ultra-elite and their ridiculously fast automobiles. Come to think of it, that’s a dumb word. Automobile denotes that there could be something called a ‘Manualmobile,’ which in essence would be a pair of shoes. My Pumas
Look at that mug, tangible evidence of your visceral fear that one day you will be on the opposite end of a cage with a Brazilian that is known world-wide as ‘The Axe Murderer.’ The damage he inflicts on human beings is so thorough and violent, that the only description one could attain is to
If Shogun Rua has a heart of a lion, then he must have the will of a subterranean kraken. So who won the Jon Bones Jones sweepstakes tonight between Lyoto Machida and Shogun Rua? If you said Dan Henderson is going to completely wreck everyone’s plans — then you could be correct. Contrary to popular
In a perfect world, everyone’s Muay Thai skill would be as elegant to watch as Shogun Rua. Elbows would drop opponents and well-placed knees would swiftly end fights. It’d be like the polar opposite of what happened in the main card of UFC 149. In that same utopia, sporting venues would serve free nachos and