MMA Life

The Strikeforce Women’s Bantamweight Champion is taking MMA by storm. What is it that makes a star in mixed martial arts? Is it an undefeated record or a 15-fight winning streak? Is it the ability to trash talk like Ric Flair or make…
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The all-heavyweight main card at UFC 146 in Las Vegas on May 26 is the perfect storm for taking a look at some of the best strikers in the division. The heavyweight class is a great place to hone in on striking stats. On average,…
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Professional skateboarder Jason Ellis has a new calling. Jason Ellis is washed up. Or so he claims. In fact, the 40-year-old says that he’s been washed up for the past two decades, but that’s difficult to believe when you see him in…
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Chicago Cubs outfielder Marlon Byrd is kicking his training up a notch. The whap and slap of roundhouse kicks and focus-mitt sparring can be heard constantly outside the front doors of Power MMA Fitness in Gilbert, Arizona. These are…
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9 Moves That Altered MMA Forever MMA evolves in leaps and bounds, tethered to the backs of the martial artists who turn countless hours in the gym into violent masterpieces in the cage. Here are nine moments that forever changed the MMA…
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Evans Blue is getting down with MMA. Evans Blue front man Dan Chandler has an MMA connection—the best kind—UFC ring girl Arianny Celeste. In 2007, 18 months before joining Evans Blue as their lead vocalist, the Missouri-based songwriter…
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Visiting Atlanta for UFC 145? Welcome to FIGHT!’s home base. If you want to see where Coca-Cola is made, take in some art at the High Museum, or go fishing at the Aquarium, we’re pretty sure you won’t need our help, but we wouldn’t be…
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Anthony and Ottavia Bourdain may have taken different paths to MMA, but meeting at that crossroads makes for some wild good times. On the night that Ronda Rousey became a star in women’s MMA, Ottavia Bourdain was blowing chunks. She was…
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Nashville, Tennessee, is a city where dreams thrive or die. It has long been famous as a proving ground for talented—and not-so-talented— musicians and singers to determine if they have what it takes to make it on the world’s biggest…
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Their nicknames may get you laughing, but LMFAO is training to party...and they know it. Sky Blu isn’t laughing right now. Actually, he’s in a little bit of pain. Home from an extensive tour in support of LMFAO’s gold-certified sophomore…
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