Topic: Mixed Martial Arts

February 4, 2013

Yakkin' About Mixed Martial Arts: UFC 156

Tim Marchman

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

Tomas Rios

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?

November 17, 2012

St-Pierre The Provocateur

Tim Marchman

Georges St-Pierre has to fight Carlos Condit on Saturday night, even though the fight itself doesn't quite matter. But in fighting his way back from injury, and fighting his way to the match-up against Anderson Silva that everyone wants, St-Pierre is running up against the stubborn fact at the core of his career. That's this: the more the world’s greatest welterweight wins, the more he pisses people off.

May 14, 2012

Six Short Films About East Rutherford

Tomas Rios

The Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey is maybe 60 percent full for UFC on Fox 3, but that’s about how full the Izod Center should be for any event. The crowd that did show up is not satisfied with the offerings.  A fighter gets poked in the eye and the fans boo, for reasons known only to them. 

April 20, 2012

Escaping the UFC's "Surprise Van"

Tomas Rios

In some ways, Mixed Martial Arts has never been better. But those record revenues and must-watch fights come at a cost—and until the sport acknowledges and addresses its rotten culture, it will never be what it could and should be. That would be a shame. In fact, it already is.

January 5, 2012

The Great and the Large

Tomas Rios

Star power aside, Brock Lesnar never quite became what he could've been. Alistair Overeem, who ended Lesnar's career last weekend and added another major accomplishment to his own, could become something that no MMA heavyweight has ever been.

December 12, 2011

Jon Jones: Young, Gifted and Hated

Tomas Rios

Jon Jones just keeps on winning fights—most recently and spectacularly against Lyoto Machida—and making people angry. Isn't it time UFC started taking advantage of that last part?