It begins Saturday night. Years from now, if and when Mixed Martial Arts is a recognized mainstream power in the same category as Major League Baseball or the National Football League, you will look back at November 12, 2011 as a red-letter date in the history of MMA and the Ultimate Fighting Championship. That is [...]

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Win or lose, whether he fulfills the media obligations he doesn’t enjoy, or blows off his mandatory invite to the ball, watching Nick Diaz compete inside the cage – which will be the Octagon Saturday night in the main event of UFC 137 – is an absolute treat. The life and career of the Stockton, [...]

Nick Diaz

Melvin Guillard was brash and confident – and ultimately suffocated by Joe Lauzon and consumed by the moment. Frankie Edgar was being pummeled by a larger opponent. His nose was broken and, like in his second bout against Gray Maynard, seconds from losing his UFC lightweight title. Then “The Answer” did what he does best, [...]

Joe Lauzon

His whole life, “Big” John McCarthy has gone with his gut, or as eloquently put by Bas Rutten while writing the forward for McCarthy’s memoir, “Let’s Get It On,” he’s had the sense to both listen and follow omens and prophecies like the shepherd boy Santiago in The Alchemist. McCarthy has not only taken risks, [...]

Big John McCarthy

“Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.” – Bruce Lee Contrary to some revisionist history there was never a time the UFC wasn’t evolving and making adjustments to benefit its short and long-term future. A part of the group from Day 1, referee Big John McCarthy tells author Loretta Hunt in his memoir, “Let’s Get [...]

Big John McCarthy

In the 1970s and ’80s broadcast television promoted and aired major boxing main events. I became a boxing fan growing up watching Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini perform on CBS, his first-round smashing of Arturo Frias to win the WBA lightweight championship and successful title defense turned tragic with the death of Duk Koo Kim come [...]

Cain Velasquez, Junior Dos Santos

This is a guest post submitted by Jason Carib, who is actively training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and works as a fire fighter in Maryland. In his spare time, Jason enjoys designing wooden baseball bats and reading. If you are anything like me, there comes a time when you inevitably “hit the wall,” or “burn [...]

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