The Legend Of Mitch Green
A note before starting: This piece contains a lot of conversations that took place many years ago. They’re not…
CM Punk's Second UFC Fight Was A Bizarre Joke
Until he stepped into the octagon, CM Punk was having a great week. His three-year legal battle against former WWE…
Nobody Seems To Know Whether Josh Emmett's Face Was Broken Legally
This weekend, featherweight hitters Jeremy Stephens and Josh Emmett met in the octagon and punched each other a whole…
Francis Ngannou Is The Most Exciting Talent In MMA
Talent, to paraphrase a Justice of the Supreme Court’s aphorism on the topic of pornography, is something you know when…
Vasyl Lomachenko Vs. Guillermo Rigondeaux Is Boxing Fuckery At Its Finest
Vasyl Lomachenko is a gizmo. “Hi-Tech” is a fitting sobriquet for the fighter whose ring style is a dizzying arsenal of…
Tony Ferguson, Conor McGregor's Perfect Opponent, Will Likely Never Get To Fight Him
Saturday, at UFC 216, the UFC awarded an interim 155-pound belt to Tony Ferguson following a third-round triangle choke…
Demetrious Johnson Is Still The Perfect Champion, And It Still Doesn't Matter To The UFC
The best fighter on Earth is a diminutive video-game enthusiast. He hasn’t lost a fight in six years. Along with…
Kickboxing Superstar Gökhan Saki Is Ready To Shake Up The UFC
There’s not a ton of top-line UFC talent fighting this fall. Mighty Mouse and Tony Ferguson are both fighting for…
Who Is Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez?
Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez may be the world’s most popular boxer, and yet he has a problem: He lacks credibility among the…
Daniel Cormier Is The UFC Light Heavyweight Champ Again, Whatever That Means Now
On July 29, Jon Jones completed his long redemption arc by knocking out Daniel Cormier with a vicious head kick in the…
Four Days In The Squall Of A Superfight
LAS VEGAS, Nev.—“Man, I’m usually in a suit, but it’s too fucking hot today,” a scalper told me a few hours before the…
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Works The Marks Again
“In the end,” tweeted the Times’s sports Twitter account, in the aftermath of Floyd Mayweather, Jr.’s 10th-round TKO of…
For The Love Of God, Do Not Pay For The Mayweather-McGregor Fight
There’s a fascinating boxing match on TV tonight between a faded, formerly great champion and a younger brawler with…
How Terry Funk Ended Up In A Match Even Weirder Than Mayweather/McGregor
Terry Funk, along with being a legendary professional wrestler, deserves recognition as a sort of godfather of the…
Conor McGregor Is Somehow Defending The Lineal WWE Brawl For All Title
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is boxing Conor McGregor this weekend, and the whole thing is completely awesome. While the…
What Will The Fight At The End Of The Mayweather Vs. McGregor Circus Look Like?
Everything about the leadup to Conor McGregor’s matchup with Floyd Mayweather this Saturday has been absurd. We had…
Daniel Cormier's Best Was Great, But Not Great Enough
“I guess if you win both fights,” said Daniel Cormier, “there is no rivalry.”
Tickets And Hotel Rooms Are Still Available For Mayweather-McGregor
If you’re the sort of maniac who’s into spending thousands and thousands of dollars to attend a boxing match between an…
UFC 214 Is The Best Fight Card Of The Year
At this point, 24 years after it held its very first event, the UFC is no longer a rough-and-tumble spectacle with …
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Vs. Conor McGregor Is The Second-Biggest Possible Fuck-You
I’ve never seen Conor McGregor fight. I don’t watch or care about MMA. That’s not a statement about, or condemnation…
