Bowles Knocks Out Torres at WEC 42; Frank Mir on Suicide Watch
(Photo courtesy of Sherdog.) Nothing lasts forever — even cold November rain, and the seemingly untouchable bantamweight championship run of Miguel Torres. No, Torres did not ruin Brian Bowles’s boyish…
Andrei Arlovski May Have Recently Tried to Kill Himself
(Photo courtesy of MMA Mania.) Getting knocked out in two consecutive high-profile fights has to be a devastating blow to a fighter’s confidence. And the idea of Tim Sylvia banging…
Holy S**t! Alert: Fedor Emelianenko Signs With Strikeforce, Will Debut This Fall
(Prof. Fedor‘s freshman seminar on Chaucer, brought to you by St. Petersburg University in co-promotion with M-1 Global. Next week, “The Parson’s Tale”!) As Mike Goldberg would say, “It is…
The Unsupportable Opinion: Thank You, Josh Barnett, for Saving Mixed Martial Arts
(The universal symbol for “I’m choking, and I’m a habitual steroid user.”) On Friday’s edition of SIRIUS Fight Club, I referred to Josh Barnett as “the most notorious steroid-user in…
EA MMA Game Helps Send Hieron to Strikeforce, Will Fight Diaz For The Title
(‘Have you ever wanted to own a championship belt made of genuine snakeskin or whatever the hell this is? Hi, I’m Jay Hieron, and I’m offering you the opportunity of…
Overeem Out of Strikeforce Title Fight Thanks to Nagging Street-Fighting Injury
(‘If you see that son of a bitch Gallagher, tell him we need to talk.’) There’s something to be learned from the cautionary tale of Alistair Overeem, and it’s this:…