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Tomas Rios

Tomas Rios has written for ESPN, Sherdog and Fighters Only. He tweets @TheTomasRios.

  • April 10, 2013
    Make Me Feel Pretty, War Machine — The Clog

    War Machine washed out of both the UFC and the porn business because of his constant, unwavering rage issues and violent bro-tendencies. But he's still on Twitter, challenging our own Tomas Rios to fights. So he's got that going for him.

  • February 7, 2013
    The Messenger, The Message and Jason Whitlock — The Clog

    Jason Whitlock doesn't deserve a Pulitzer, of course. And precisely because there's a modicum of hard truth under all that Whitlockian vanity, goofiness and grandiosity, we all deserve a lot better than Whitlock.

  • February 4, 2013
    Yakkin' About Mixed Martial Arts: UFC 156

    UFC 156 was one of the best cards the company has ever put on. Tim-Tom have the event's good, bad and -- because someone let an angry person use a webcam -- the ugliness of a YouTube diss video, plus much much more in this edition of Yakkin' About Mixed Martial Arts. 

  • December 7, 2012
    You, Me, and Jay Dee: The Ballad of B.J. Penn

    Thanks in large part to his virtuosic talent as a fighter, B.J. Penn could have been one of the greatest mixed martial artists ever. He didn't. But as Penn gears up to fight on Saturday, the old squandered-potential line doesn't feel quite right. No, he hasn't done everything he could have with his abilities. Have you?

  • October 11, 2012
    Yakkin' About Mixed Martial Arts: On The Lam with Jeremy Stephens

    What if we told you that former WWE champion Dave Bautista had a possibly rigged fight against a Maytag repairman this weekend and that didn’t even register on the scale of absurdity next to what Tim and Tomas have on their minds? Come, denizens of Yak country, and hear tales of Dana White, Jeremy Stephens and the logistics of transporting possible felons across state lines. 

  • October 5, 2012
    Beating Your Wife is Not ‘Family Turmoil’ and Other Line Edits — The Clog

    MMA fighter Brett Rogers beat his wife in front of his kids, which is awful. He also had the strange, nauseating gall to try to spin the experience into a redemption narrative, which is also awful. The least that anyone writing about him can do is not help him out.

  • October 3, 2012
    Exclusive Television Preview: Sean Avery and Ryan Callahan Hate Your Clothes

    The NHL lockout looks likely to go on for some time. Based on this (imaginary) pilot, the exceedingly nasty and fraught fashion critique television show featuring unemployed NHL buds Sean Avery and Ryan Callahan may not last very long at all. But have you ever had an imaginary television show? Like, even one episode of one?

  • September 25, 2012
    Yakkin' About Mixed Martial Arts: What's Going Down with "The Count"

    UFC 152 is in the books; but what do Hall & Oates and Super Soldier Serum have to do with the NFL replacement referee of fighting promotions?

  • September 14, 2012
    Yakkin' About Mixed Martial Arts: The Bones Jones

    With the Jon "Bones" Jones fight only a week away, and an Anderson Silva-Stephan Bonnar fight coming up at UFC 153, MMA fans can anticipate a lot of ... something. Tim Marchman and Tomas Rios are sure of that, and also, what Dana White looks like teaching Boxercize classes. 

  • August 13, 2012
    Analyzing Awesome: Breaking Down The Korean Zombie/Corgi/Chan Sung Jung

    It's easy to get grumpy with the UFC's shenanigans. So, to lift your spirits and better understand one of the sport's stranger and more endearing fighters, we present this GIF-aided examination of what makes rising star Chan Sung Jung, "The Korean Zombie" to some and a savage Corgi to others, so very awesome to watch.