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UFC Fighter Says He Didn't Lose Fight Because He Tired Himself Out Doing Unnecessary BackflipsTop-level MMA can be an extremely technical sport, with fighters adjusting to their opponents’ habits every minute and doing their best to pick up on the smallest quirks in timing and technique. That said, it can also be a hilarious dumb-guy ballet, which brings us to UFC fighter Michel Pereira....

No, The Backflip Was Not Banned In Figure Skating Because Of Surya Bonaly<em></em>It’s the Winter Olympics, the brief period every four years when everyone on earth cares about figure skating. Maybe too much, if this viral tweet from Thursday is any indication. ...

Man Breaks Record For Most Backflips On A Pogo StickWe throw the word "hero" around a lot on the internet, but sometimes there is simply no other word for doing more backflips on a pogo stick than any other person in the history of human-and-pogo-stick coexistence. ...

MLS Player Breaks Leg on Backflip Celebrating an Offsides Goal

Fabian Espindola plays for Real Salt Lake of the MLS. His patented move, or so I'm told, is a backfilp after he scores goals. Just six minutes into the game against the LA Galaxy, Espindola scored an apparent goal off a header and began his celebration. There were only two problems: first he was of...