The names on the lips of those interested in the science of MMA in the last month were not Penn and Diaz, but Issa and Newton. Darryl Issa is one of the Congressmen demanding the National Football League initiate testing for Human Growth Hormone this season. Terry Newton is the British rugby player ...
There may be a no more certain trigger for fan outrage than an early stoppage. It includes the classic elements of high drama: injustice, theft and insoluble controversy. Referee Herb Dean’s decision in the Strikeforce/M-1 Global “Fedor vs. Henderson” main event is that rarest of e...
Another elite mixed martial artist has fallen to the Catch-22 of steroid use.
Zach Kirk knew he would be facing a dangerous opponent at his May 2009 fight at the National Guard Armory in Shenandoah, Iowa. He did not know that he would be facing the entire Iowa legislature.
Zach Kirk got hooked on mixed martial arts in March 2009. A longtime UFC fan, he picked up a promoter’s flyer at a local gas station, made a call, got briefed on the rules and strapped on the gloves.
Health insurers do their thinking with a calculator, summing risks and costs. Until UFC Chairman and CEO Lorenzo Fertitta’s breathtaking announcement of the UFC’s commitment to provide training-related health insurance to its fighters, the math has been solidly against mixed martial arti...
Bruises are as much a part of mixed martial arts as tattoos and cauliflower ears, but the bruise endured by Mark Hominick at UFC 129's featherweight title bout with Jose Aldo was of another degree entirely.
The well-executed armbar is like the well-executed checkmate: a position in which no harm is experienced but from which escape is impossible. Executing this -- gaining total advantage over an opponent -- involves a little more in MMA.
It was the chills that let Roxanne Modafferi know she had a problem. Most fighters have abdominal cramping and loose, irregular stools in the first few hours after their post weigh-in meal, but the chills were something new for her.
One figure in particular stands out among the beautiful sculptures of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum’s Greek antiquities wing. Amidst the marble beasts, eternally pouting graceful maidens and delicate youths, a hard faced man stares balefully at visitors. A hostile, unpretty face, he could ...
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