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If MMA Doesn't Change, Someone Is Going To Die

No one needed to see Marlon Moraes continue beating on Josh Rettinghouse. Moraes had outclassed his opponent in every facet of the game for 15 minutes, piling on abuse and bludgeoning his lead leg. Rettinghouse could barely support his own weight, let alone continue to defend himself, and as he hobb...

UFC Training Looks Inhuman Up Close

The New York Times has a photo essay by Cooper Neill on UFC's Johny Hendricks, during his training regimen and subsequent fight against Robbie Lawler on Mar. 15. As usual, UFC training is crazy. Oh, no big deal, just carrying some barbells around a football field. Check out the whole set at the Time...

MMA Fighter's Mom Jumps Into Ring After He's Knocked Out

After Joe Fisher was choked out by Caleb Frasher in the third fight of an event in Columbus, Ohio, Fisher's mom went to great lengths to make sure her son was fine....

The Hell Happened To Teddy Atlas Tonight?

We have no idea what possessed Teddy Atlas to launch this bizarre rendition of Harry Nilsson's "Coconut" in the intro of tonight's Friday Night Fights episode, but it's very weird....

Hours after the Nevada State Athletic Commission banned the use of doctor-prescribed steroids, middleweight fighter/living Rob Liefeld drawing Vitor Belfort pulled out of a title fight in late May, citing his understandable desire to continue using doctor-prescribed steroids ahead of fights. [SBNati...

The FBI Believed Clay/Liston I Was Fixed

There has long been chatter that Clay/Liston II, in which Sonny Liston went down to a phantom punch, wasn't on the up-and-up. But documents obtained by the Washington Times show the FBI suspected that their first fight, in 1964, may have been fixed by the mob....

Ronda Rousey And The UFC's Long Con

A few thoughts, in no particular order, on last night's UFC fight card, which featured Ronda Rousey's successful defense of the bantamweight title against Sara McMann and Daniel Cormier knocking out a guy from off the street:...

The Trouble With Ronda Rousey

One year ago, Ronda Rousey made her heavily-hyped UFC debut, which was basically promoted as The Ronda Rousey Show, Featuring Ronda Rousey—The Girl Who's Just Like A Bro, Bro—And Some Other Lady, Who Will Be Fighting Ronda Rousey. With the UFC returning to this well ahead of Rousey's bantamweight ti...

UFC Books Match Between Number One Contender And Twitter User

Daniel Cormier is one of the most terrifying men on the planet, a former Olympic wrestling team captain and pro fighter who's the top contender at heavyweight and one fight away from a title shot at light heavyweight. Yesterday he was sad, because former light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans had ...

Promoter Calls Off George Zimmerman-DMX Fight

The man behind the George Zimmerman-DMX fight announced that he has cancelled the bout. Earlier today, Damon Feldman revealed on Twitter that he made the decision to forego "a lot of money" because people's feelings mean more to him than money....

A George Zimmerman-DMX Boxing Match Would Almost Certainly Be Fixed

The internet is all abuzz about the fact that child killer George Zimmerman has agreed to fight 43-year-old rapper DMX in a three-round boxing match on March 1. But before we enter into weeks of discussing how horrifying the idea of these people profiting off of Trayvon Martin's dead body is, one th...

UFC 169 And The Art Of Negative Marketing

Originally published at Nerd Raft....

Dead Boxer's Body Propped Up In Fake Boxing Ring For Wake

Puerto Rican boxer Christopher Rivera was shot and killed last week and pursuant to his last wishes, his family had his body embalmed and placed in a corner of a fake boxing ring. ...

Jay Glazer On UFOs, His Copy Of The Spygate Tape, And Gays In The NFL

I did a big profile of Jay Glazer for GQ this month, and for the sake of space we had to cut a handful of highly amusing stories from early in Glazer's career. Like this one......

MMA Fight Concludes In Eight Seconds With A Kick To The Head

Sure, it's an amateur MMA fight, so the eight-second knockout via head kick is devalued a bit, but it's still a sweet head kick. John Lohke was completely not ready, and his response—putting his hands down to try and catch David Maloley's leg—was poorly thought out. BOOM. Head kick....

How Greg Jackson Is Changing The Parameters Of Coaching

Last year, we spent a week with Greg Jackson, a top fight trainer, as he and his team prepared four athletes to compete in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. We were granted unusual behind-the-scenes access so that we could answer a fairly straightforward question: Just what does a great coach do, ...

Vitali Klitschko Sprayed With Fire Extinguisher During Kiev Protests

What's Vitali Klitschko up to these days? The retired boxer was trying to keep the peace during protests in Kiev, Ukraine's capital, asking demonstrators not to provoke police. In return, someone sprayed a fire extinguisher in his face....

HBO Boxing Extreme Closeup Is Really Gross [Not Safe For Stomachs]

HBO's airing a bout between Mike Perez and Carlos Takam on the undercard of a Bute-Pascal light heavyweight fight from Montreal tonight, and Perez suffered a nasty cut in the third round. Read on only if you want to see something pretty gross....

Chael Sonnen Gave An Olympian Money So He Could Go Train In Russia

One of the annoying things about Fox Sports pundit/middling professional fighter Chael Sonnen's troll routine is that if you talk to fight people, they'll swear that in real life he's actually a pretty good guy. Occasionally he'll even drop the pro wrestling heel bit in public and come off as unusua...

MMA Fighter's Nose Probably Shouldn't Look Like That

This here is a photo of cage fighter/tomato can Andy Eichholz, who was KO'ed 15 seconds into his fight against Wade Sauer over the weekend. I'm no doctor, but that nose looks like it wants to be an ear....