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Fueling your body is the key to unleashing your maximum performance and recovery. Over the past few years, kale has become the edible darling of nutritionists, fitness professionals, and certified health nuts. With its versatility and…

// Data provided by Reed Kuhn at fightnomics.com / @fightnomics Of all the exhilarating things that can happen inside an MMA cage, a fighter dropping an opponent to the floor with a single strike is perhaps the most iconic. The fundamental…

//Illustrations By Tadd Trueb Fighting. Never Back Down. Supreme Champion. If you can sit through these recent “MMA movies” without scissor-kicking yourself in the face, you have the patience of Job, the attention span of a goldfish, or…

All-Star first basemen Prince Fielder hits hard on the diamond and in the cage. At first glance, 5’-11”, 275-pound Detroit Tigers first baseman Prince Fielder looks like he could go toe-to-toe with any UFC heavyweight. Watching him leap…

Country star Darius Rucker may not train MMA, but he absolutely loves the fight business. Rucker caught every glimpse of the UFC he could during its dark ages in the mid-1990s, but he became truly addicted when The Ultimate Fighter…

Name: Alicia Lei Age: 26 Height: 5’9” Hometown: Vancouver, Canada Twitter: @AliciaLeii How long have you been modeling? About four years. I’m internationally published in FHM and Maxim, but I really love the runway. What would you say is…

The UFC will celebrate its 20th birthday this year, and while that it something all MMA fans can be happy about, a milestone like this also means there are a few things that will sadden fans. The aging stars who have entertained us for so…

Photos By Paul Thatcher For years, people have claimed Gilbert “El Niño” Melendez to be the best lightweight in the world that isn’t in the UFC. Finally, he will get a chance to prove it. It’s lazy Sunday at the Melendez household on a…

FIGHT! Magazine’s T.R. Foley traveled to India to investigate the semi-monastic life of the Indian Pahalwans and experience their unique mixture of spirituality and aggression. You would be surprised how many armed soldiers show up to a…

Ballsy Moves Thiago Alves was a ballroom dancer and instructor in Fortaleza, Brazil, before moving to the United States when he was 19 years old. When you make your professional MMA debut in a bare-knuckle fight in Brazil at 16 years of…