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Injured Rugby League Player Miraculously Healed Once Punches Start Being Thrown
Today’s English rugby league championship match between Oldham Roughyeds and Rochdale Hornets ended in fisticuffs sparked by a head injury to Rochdale’s Danny Yates—a blow levied by his own teammate’s elbow, left a visible hematoma on Yates’s skull, but one that didn’t keep the scrum-half from enter...
Russian MMA Fighter Knocked Out In The Cage, Slapped Silly By His Mom
The Kichigin family is full of MMA devotees. Brothers Georgy, Grigoriy, and Viktor are all professional fighters, and their mother Anna Azovskaya is responsible for their training. The three fighters have nicknames like “Crusader,” “Knight,” and “The Lion of Pyatigorsk,” and their father apparently ...
Claressa Shields Is The Real Million Dollar Baby
From the new anthology, Bittersweet Science, edited by Carlo Rotella and Michael Ezra....
Manchester City Defender Jason Denayer Regrets Kicking Man In Head During Street Fight
Manchester City back Jason Denayer, who played on loan at Sunderland this past season, was videotaped kicking a man in the head during a street fight outside a nightclub in Brussels over the weekend....
Korean Baseball Fight!
The KBO League’s Samsung Lions and Hanwha Eagles left their benches twice and fought in Sunday’s game. A total of six players and coaches have been punished for their roles....
12-Year-Old Fighter Chokes Out 24-Year-Old Opponent At Japanese MMA Event
Remember Momo, the 12-year-old who got booked for an MMA fight in Japan against an opponent twice her age? She choked out the 24-year-old in question in the first round....
Marlins, Dodgers Benches Clear
A late, uninteresting Marlins-Dodgers game got fiery after Ross Stripling threw behind Giancarlo Stanton, got ejected, and sparked a fight that saw former L.A. and current Miami skipper Don Mattingly front and center....
Joanna Jędrzejczyk Is The Greatest Female Fighter Ever
Joanna Jędrzejczyk fucking rules....
Wizards Fan Decks Celtics Fan
There’s not a lot to see in this short clip of a Wizards fan and Celtics fan getting into it at last night’s Game 7, just one quick punch to the nose and some half-hearted shoving....
What The Hell Happened At The End Of The Eddie Alvarez-Dustin Poirier Fight?
In retrospect, it’s amazing that Eddie Alvarez survived his fight against Dustin Poirier long enough for it to descend into madness....
Oakland Raiders Cheerleaders Receive $1.25 Million Settlement After Three-Year Legal Battle
A $1.25 million settlement was distributed to 90 former Oakland Raiders cheerleaders this week as part of a class-action suit for fair pay. ...
Kevin Lee's Joke About Michael Chiesa's Mom Sparks On-Stage <em></em>Brawl At UFC Press Conference
The UFC held their summer press conference this afternoon in Dallas, formally announcing the long-awaited Jon Jones-Daniel Cormier rematch and giving a host of fighters a platform from which to talk wild shit. It was a huge mess, and not quite as fun as press conferences past....
Julio César Chávez Jr.'s Wife Says He Was Robbed By Ladies Who Came To His Room And Showed Their Butts<em></em>
Julio César Chávez Jr. lost his fight against Canelo Alvarez this past Saturday, and he spent the next few days recuperating in Las Vegas. According to his wife, Frida, Chávez Jr. spent Monday night in his MGM Grand room with a British man and some women. Frida claims these people robbed Chávez of h...
The UFC Heavyweight Title Is On The Line Saturday Night. Does Anybody Care?<em></em>
There’s nothing wrong with Saturday night’s UFC heavyweight championship fight....
Julio César Chávez Jr. Lost So Much More Than A Fight<em></em>
Before this past Saturday’s fight, in which his son was thoroughly dominated by Saúl “Canelo” Alvarez, Julio Chávez Sr. assured anyone who would listen that his son had changed. Chávez Jr., he insisted, no longer was the apathetic boxer who woke up for an early evening bowl of cereal while wearing p...
Dumb Superfight Between Michael Bisping And Georges St-Pierre Called Off
Earlier this year, Dana White announced the nonsensical decision to pit UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping against retired all-timer Georges St-Pierre in a middleweight fight, a weight at which GSP has never fought. That misguided dream is, mercifully, dead....
Scott Wilson And Brooks Orpik Throw Hands In First Game 7 Fight In 24 Years
The Penguins kept a lid on the Capitals tonight, scoring two goals on Caps mistakes to win. Brooks Orpik tried to light a fire under his soggy team by tossing mitts with Scott Wilson late in the third period. As hockey fights go it was fine, but as the NBC broadcast noted, it was the first fight tha...
Footy Fight!
Tonight’s AFL matchup between Sydney Swans and Brisbane Lions featured a good-ass fight late in the third quarter, as Lance Franklin and Nick Robertson took some time out to beat up on each other. Yet another reason why this sport is superior to the NFL: while the Aussie announcers have themselves a...
Nate Diaz Talks Outrageous Shit, Shows Off His Bongs And Very Cool Dog
Deadspin hero Nate Diaz spent an hour with Ariel Helwani this afternoon on a special edition of The MMA Hour. It did not disappoint. Let’s run through the highlights....
Herschel Walker Doesn’t Tap Out
This article was originally published in the December 2011 issue of Playboy and is featured in Oney’s new anthology, A Man’s World. It appears here with the author’s permission. ...