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I BET YOU COULDN'T BOY Read more

I am the average fan. I think the more you learn about the sport, the more you come to appreciate it. Or maybe you don't! Maybe it's not for you, and that's fine. But I wouldn't consider myself a sicko, and consensual fights with an agreed set of rules (as in boxing, or wrestling, or any mixed martial arts contest)… Read more

Ok, I'm gonna choose to take this seriously. Strangely enough, I wasn't a huge MMA fan before I started working on this, and my thoughts about the sport more or less lined up with yours in kind, if not in degree. It wasn't until I started researching the piece and talking to fighters that it really hit home to me that… Read more

whoa. Read more

Since it bothers you so, I'll just block you again. Read more

Burke is a shitty person, but we knew that. Read more

true Read more

Because he wasn't. And in any case, no one should have to die over cigarillos. Not even black folks! Read more

I'm just telling you what he and his coach told me. It's pretty easy to evade a person crawling across the ring. If it was strategic, everyone would do it. Read more

then you're not watching enough phub Read more

That's what I thought too, but he said it wasn't that. He can still be hit on the ground; we see it when people get hammer-fisted all the time, or like when Silva kneed Sonnen in the face in their rematch. And if he stands up, no one's going to kick him in the face when he's 6'4 and keeping his range seconds into the… Read more

Their exchange is maybe my favorite sports moment of the year. Read more

I actually thought Gustafsson won until I watched the fight without sound. Gustafsson clearly won 1 and 3, and Jones took 2, 4, and 5. It was a close fight, but without listening to commentators and crowd pulling for the underdog, it cleared up for me. Read more

Yea, I asked him, Jackson, and a few fighters about it. He doesn't try to actively poke people in the eye, but he's not going to pull back, either, if that makes sense. Chael Sonnen explained it best when he said that when you strip everything else away, Jones is in a cage fight with another highly-capable fighter. Do… Read more

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did you just...nominate yourself? Read more

you bastard Read more