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Holly Holm Annihilates Ronda Rousey, Claims UFC Title

We told you Holly Holm was no match for Ronda Rousey, and the challenger made us look like idiots tonight in Melbourne as Holm knocked out Rousey a minute into the second round with a head kick —ripping the title from who we previously considered the world’s most dominant athlete....

Ronda Rousey's Latest Challenger Is Entirely Legit And Has No Prayer

Tonight in Melbourne, Australia’s Etihad Stadium, Ronda Rousey, the greatest women’s fighter ever, will defend her bantamweight title for the seventh successive time. In sports, and especially in fighting, it’s important to account for the impossible. Still, Rousey is all but certainly going to win,...

Ken Shamrock Talking About Getting Knocked Out By Kimbo Slice Will Make You Sad

After nearly five years without a fight, Ken Shamrock, 51, came out of retirement this summer to fight Kimbo Slice, a 41-year-old brawler who hadn’t fought in five years himself. From the start, it figured to be an ugly, bizarre affair. It was....

Emmanuel Mudiay Trades Shots With Byron Scott

Last night’s Nuggets-Lakers game wasn’t really anything worth getting excited about—both teams are bad, you see—except to see what Nuggets rookie point guard Emmanuel Mudiay was going to do or say about Lakers head coach Byron Scott’s pregame sniping....

Conor McGregor Fights The Mountain That Rides, Somehow Avoids Death

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson is a professional weightlifter and former silver medalist in the World’s Strongest Man competition. He also plays Gregor Clegane, aka The Mountain, possibly aka Ser Robert Strong (minor spoilerage, but not really) on HBO’s Game Of Thrones. He once declared himself the “future...

Eagles Fan Is Extremely Excited About His 2-3 Team

The Eagles drubbed Drew Brees’s deteriorating shoulder and the Saints Sunday, and gave Philadelphia’s media a week off from speculating that Chip Kelly’s racist, rabid, or a robot built by another NFL team that was designed to sabotage the organization. Regardless of Kelly’s purpose, at least one fa...

Is The Fight Game About To Destroy Yet Another Legend?

Fedor Emelianenko will be 39 years old when he returns to Japan to fight on New Year’s Eve. His comeback will be promoted by an organization so new that it only announced its name—Rizin Fighting Federation—after announcing the fight. His most recently rumored opponent is a relatively unknown, used-t...

The Quiet Century: How Osama Bin Laden Destroyed Baseball 

Reader: As you undoubtedly know, the play-offs will soon be upon us. These are heady days; days that call for reflection, reflection upon both our future and, yes, reader, our past. But before I unveil yet another world-historical revelation, I would like to take a moment to offer my readers a clari...

Michael Bennett Crashes Postgame Interview To Demand Kam Chancellor Be Paid

Since returning from his holdout, Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor hasn’t done anything but lead an outright destruction of the Chicago Bears and save his teammates’ asses with one of the more brilliant individual efforts you’ll ever see on a defensive play. In other words, it’s been a good two weeks ...

Wanderlei Silva Cites Sketchy Vitor Belfort Drug Test In UFC Fight-Fixing Suit

In July, the UFC filed a defamation lawsuit against legendary fighter Wanderlei Silva over two posts he made on Facebook, in which Silva alleged—ludicrously, it should be said—that the UFC fixed fights. Now Silva is trying to get that lawsuit thrown out of court, arguing that there is proof of his a...

MMA Fighter In Choke Taps Out, Shits Himself, Leaks Shit All Over Cage [NSFW]

Look, this video delivers exactly what it promises. You clicked on this. One poor MMA fighter—Travis Walford, according to our friends at Bloody Elbow—not only lost the match to Daniel Cooper at a Ruckus in the Cage event in West Virginia on Saturday, but pooped himself. It got everywhere....

Jon Jones Is Back

Last April, UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones ran a red light in Albuquerque, N.M. and crashed his vehicle into a pregnant woman’s. Jones fled the scene on foot, returned to the vehicle to grab a wad of cash, then ran off again. Jones was quickly arrested, stripped of his title, and suspended...

Uriah Hall Nails Spinning Back Kick In Outstanding Display Of Violence

Someday, when he’s an old man, Uriah Hall is going to remember the time he hit a spinning back kick-to-flying knee combination on Gegard Mousasi at the Saitama Super Arena and feel all warm inside. (Mousasi will also remember this when he is an old man, though he will presumably feel somewhat differ...

A Sketchy Drug Test Didn’t Stop Vitor Belfort From Fighting At UFC 152

Just more than 24 hours ahead of their Memorial Day fight this year, UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman stepped up to his opponent, Vitor Belfort, in public, ready to accuse him of cheating....

High School Football Player Removes Opponent's Helmet, Bashes Him With It

According to NJ.com, this happened last weekend during a game between New Jersey high schools Immaculata and Linden. In the video above, you’ll see a Linden defensive lineman pull the helmet off an Immaculata player, and then swing the helmet right into his head....

This Is How I Play Street Fighter

Demetrious Johnson And John Dodson Face The Pain, Step To This

There is an Ultimate Fighting Championship card scheduled for this Saturday, like many—probably too many—other recent Saturdays. What makes this one special is that it will be capped off by a main event of the highest caliber, with a dominant champion facing a threatening, wildly athletic challenger...

Soccer Lady Has Absolutely Zero Aiming Skills, Scores Awful Own Goal

The announcer had the correct reaction to Helén Eke’s foot mysteriously turning into jelly upon contact with the ball: “Nej nej nej!” As did Eke, who attempted to tear off her ponytail, no doubt to disguise her appearance so that she could creep out of the stadium and hide under a rock for the next ...

Wait, Floyd Mayweather Made <i>How Much </i>Money Last Year?

So a thing that’s been in the news recently is the ongoing exchange of sick burns between boxer “Fuckboy” Floyd Mayweather and mixed martial artist Ronda Rousey. This beef is verbal, with tension sparked and stoked by thickheaded, numbnutted clownmen who think that pitting an athlete of one sport ag...

Anderson Silva Says The Steroids Found In His System Are From Penis Drugs

For a time, Brazilian mixed martial artist Anderson Silva was the greatest fighter on Earth. He might be the greatest fighter of all time. But all things, even or especially the best things, come to an end, and Silva got knocked out by Chris Weidman, and then broke his leg in the rematch, and now we...