Robert Whittaker, the Happy Warrior
It ended up taking Robert Whittaker nearly 10 months to wash the taste of UFC 243—where he lost his middleweight championship by…
Henry Cejudo, the Attention Merchant
On Saturday night, Deiveson Figueiredo put a hellacious beating on four-time Ultimate Fighting Championship title challenger Joseph Benavidez, clinching the vacant 125-pound title in perhaps…
Opinion: No Matter How you Slice it, a ‘Gamebred’ win Would be Epic
If nothing else, MMA is a sport with no shortage of extremes. There are freak athletes, physics-defying displays of violence…
Opinion: When Should we Listen to Mike Perry?
With an Ultimate Fighting Championship event that offered a gold-studded main attraction in Dustin Poirier-Dan Hooker but little beneath the marquee of divisional consequence,…
Opinion: Cogs in the Machine
Heading into UFC on ESPN 11 on June 20 in Las Vegas, few people would have predicted that the very first fight…
Opinion: On Daniel Cormier, the Company Man
“It is possible that intelligent tadpoles reconcile themselves to the inconvenience of their position by reflecting that, though most of…
Opinion: Swings and Roundabouts
Something is happening in the ranks of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Bantamweight champion Henry Cejudo has called it a career after defending his…
Discussion of a post-COVID-19 World
Scott Colvin: Who could have predicted, even two months ago, that a global pandemic would capture so much of the world,…
Re-Writing MMA’s Script Part 3: A Conga Line of Sycophants
I started this series in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when it looked like fights might be on…
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