There are two ways to become popular in combat sports….with your mouth or with your fists. Fighters like Chael Sonnen and Floyd Mayweather have done it with their mouths (Mayweather has a few KO finishes but most are decisions). Fighters like Manny Pacquaio and Anderson Silva became famous because of exciting fights and knockouts. I’ve seen people have...

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I was going to let this go. I really wasn't going to even talk about UFC 151 aka “The Jon Jones Debacle.” I planned to use this space solely to talk about this weekend’s fight between Andre Ward and Chad Dawson. So I woke up this morning, visited my Twitter page and noticed Ariel Helwani posted a 40-minute interview with Jones. I listened to it and I’ve honestly...

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So I moved into a new apartment last week and its great for two reasons. One, I moved in with my fiancé (had to make that #1 just in case she reads this). Two, my new apartment complex offers Verizon as a cable provider. This is big news for a MMA fan like me because Verizon carries Fuel TV (and AXS TV formerly HDNet) while Comcast (and other cable providers) does not. So you all...

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I’m back with another edition of Fight Week! The past two weeks, two young fighters have come into the combat sports spotlight. Here are my thoughts on both fighters.

Adrien Broner – I’ll be completely honest: The hair brushing is what originally made him stand out to me. It was June 2011 and I just witnessed him crush super featherweight contender Jason Litzau with a huge...

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Numbers don’t lie: 32-4, 15-0 in the UFC, 10 straight title defenses. 13 finishes in the UFC alone. Six years undefeated. Has only lost 6 rounds in the UFC. The numbers alone show arguably the greatest fighter the world of MMA has ever seen.

Your eyes don’t lie: No one fights in MMA’s top promotion and looks almost perfect. Everyone has multiple bad outings or loses...

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