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Canelo Álvarez Blames Tainted Meat For Positive Drug Test
Golden Boy Promotions announced today that Canelo Álvarez tested positive for clenbuterol last month. The Mexican fighter gave two urine samples to the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association on Feb. 17 and 20, both of which came back positive for the banned substance. Álvarez’s team blamed the result on ...
Now This Is An Old-School Hockey Fight
The argument for fighting in hockey is twofold: that the threat of a beating serves as a deterrent, policing dirty hits against skill players, and that a good, rousing rumble can fire up an uninspired team. That hockey has neither gotten more dangerous nor less inspired as fighting had decreased dra...
Boxing Is Going To Get Deontay Wilder-Anthony Joshua If It Has To Fix The Entire Heavyweight Division
On Saturday, March 3, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, Deontay Wilder, one of the worst heavyweight champions in boxing history, will successfully defend his WBC title by first-, second-, or third-round knockout of Cuba’s Luis Ortiz, the best and most dangerous heavyweight fighter today. Th...
Jon Jones: My Manager Took Those Mandatory Anti-Doping Classes For Me
The California State Athletic Commission held a hearing today to set former UFC champion Jon Jones’s punishment for testing positive for a banned steroid after beating Daniel Cormier last July. As many anticipated, he was fined $205,000 and stripped of his license for a year. However, Jones was not ...
Nobody Seems To Know Whether Josh Emmett's Face Was Broken Legally<em></em>
This weekend, featherweight hitters Jeremy Stephens and Josh Emmett met in the octagon and punched each other a whole bunch, before Stephens knocked Emmett out early in the second round and broke his orbital bone in three places. Emmett—whose entire game is based around landing meaty shots with his ...
Resourceful Soccer Teen Defends Himself From Angry Opponents By Weaponizing Corner Flag
As they so often do in South American soccer, things turned violent yesterday during a U20 Copa Libertadores match between Independiente del Valle and River Plate. Rather than get whaled on like another South American soccer teen we’ve seen recently, one Independiente player ran over to the corner f...
Ball Boy Gets His Ass Kicked By Soccer Player For Celebrating A Goal
Not every rivalry match is as internationally renown as Spain’s El Clásico or England’s North London Derby. Nevertheless, even the smallest of local derbies often include frankly ridiculous levels of feistiness and aggression. Which explains this video of a grown man pummeling a ball boy after takin...
Nate Diaz Enjoys UFC Fight
The best moment of last night’s UFC event (Sage Northcutt’s win aside) came shortly before the main event. After Derrick Lewis knocked out Marcin Tybura, popped a great victory celebration, then promised his wife, “I’m going deep,” cameras cut to the audience. And who should be there but UFC icon an...
Sage Northcutt Prepares For This Weekend's Fight By Transforming Into Beef Jerky
Sage Northcutt—an action figure brought to life—fights this weekend against some French guy who’s 1-3 in the UFC. Here’s how the Northcutt weight cut’s going....
Muay Thai Guy Destroys Other Muay Thai Guy With Impossible Head Kick
Earlier this month at Siam Warriors Superfights, an Irish Muay Thai event, Robby Drought defeated Mark Frazer in the first round by technical knockout. That doesn’t quite sum up how amazing it was. ...
UFC Vet Joe Lauzon Ruptured One Of His Teammate's Testicles In Training
UFC newcomer Devin Powell had to undergo surgery yesterday after Joe Lauzon busted him in the dick and balls with the “sheer power” of an unintentional knee during training. Powell’s all good, ball-wise, though he’ll need to recover for a bit....
Flames Pest Ryan Lomberg Takes On A Much Larger Opponent, Eats Many Fists
The reason why the tale of David and Goliath is notable is because most of the time, Goliath should win. Put a 5-foot-9, 175-pound AHL goon against a 6-foot-5, 235-pound counterpart, and who do you think will usually come out on top?...
We Got A Minor-League Hockey Goalie Fight
The Walleye no longer play at the Toledo Sports Arena, but the ECHL action tonight brought back memories of that smoke-filled brawlatorium as tonight’s game against the Kansas City Mavericks got feisty in the third period:...
Gabriel Landeskog Beat The Shirt Off Brayden Schenn<em></em>
Just three seconds into last night’s Avs-Blues contest, Colorado’s Gabriel Landeskog and St. Louis’s Brayden Schenn decided to randomly drop the gloves and have a brawl in open ice. The initial violence in itself was 20 seconds of intensity, but the fight really heated up and came to a climax when L...
Who Cares About The UFC In 2018?
The UFC has its problems, but one stands out as more serious and scary than the rest: Fewer and fewer people are interested in what it’s selling....
Stands Empty As Wild Brawl Breaks Out At Pittsburgh High School Game
Late in the fourth quarter of a game between Monessen High School and Clairton High School last night, players exchanged punches near the Monessen bench. The punch sparked an all-out brawl that an estimated 60 people were involved in before cops shut it down....
Before He Surrendered, Roberto Duran Was Looking To Harm
Originally published in Inside Sports (June, 1980), this story appears here with permission....
Infuriated Georgia Rugby Players Pause Rugby Game To Beat The Shit Out Of Each Other
Georgian Big 10 league rugby sides Kharebi and Armazi met last Friday in Rustavi, Georgia (the central Asian country, not the southeastern state) for a friendly brawl, and also apparently a rugby match. Armazi won the match, 22-17, though it’s a bit more difficult to suss out who won the fight....
MMA Fighter Knocks Himself Out Trying To Throw His Opponent Down
At last night’s CES 48, Timothy Woods secured a leg lock on Tim Caron and tried to toss him to the mat. He succeeded in doing so, only the thing is, he misjudged the landing and speared himself onto the mat, neck first....
The Very Real Daniel Cormier-Stipe Miocic Heavyweight Superfight Is Going To Rule So Hard
Daniel Cormier and Stipe Miocic both enjoy such dominance over their divisions (light heavyweight and heavyweight, respectively) that there aren’t really that many interesting opponents for either man to fight. Both won their UFC 220 title fights against overhyped power punchers with comical ease, a...