By Jordan Newmark  |  14 May 2021

Imagine the sport of Mixed Martial Arts is a house.The foundation is the rules, the walls and floors are the fighters, and the roof is the promoters. Maybe, the doorbell ...

Chris Rini Finds Art in MMA Violence

By Marty Mulcahey  |  4 January 2021

The association between boxing and Parkinson's Syndrome is usually negative, but former world bantamweight weight champion Paulie Ayala is changing that perception. In a gym decorated with boxing posters featuring ...

Paulie Ayala Provides Puncher’s Chance Against Parkinson’s Syndrome

By Jordy McElroy  |  8 September 2020

Andre Pederneiras is no superman. You won’t see him patrolling the streets of Rio de Janeiro in tights, a bright red cape and a Jheri Curl. He can’t fly, see through ...

Andre Pederneiras an Unlikely Hero During a National Pandemic

By Jordy McElroy  |  28 August 2020

The weight an inanimate object can hold on such a young soul is immeasurable in a poverty-stricken world where hopes and dreams are sometimes the only escape. So Jose Aldo ...

Failing at Soccer Was the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Jose Aldo

By Jordy McElroy  |  27 August 2020

Thousands of miles away, across an endless stretch of land and water, Anderson Silva is reinventing himself as the baddest man on the planet. But the arena has changed for ...

Anderson Silva From Baddest UFC Fighter To Baddest Twitch Streamer

By Jordy McElroy  |  27 August 2020

Judging from a distance is a commonality in human beings. There’s a hint of convenience in feigning understanding of a book without reading the contents on the pages. Royce Gracie, ...

BJJ legend Royce Gracie Tackles Pocatello’s Crime as a Police Officer

By Jordan Newmark  |  29 July 2020

Slap a kimura on your cup of joe with Ground Shark Coffee!Actually, Ground Shark Coffee co-founders Nick Lowary and Adam Romero, who met training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, would say something ...

Colorado’s First Gi-Trained Coffee

By Jordan Newmark  |  12 December 2019

He won’t quit.Whether it’s during eleven hours of hard sparring for charity, ten years as a teacher and small business owner or nearly two decades of grinding to become a ...

Civello Teaches BJJ To Help Himself And Others

By Jordan Newmark  |  2 March 2019

When director Patty Jenkins needed a stunt double to embody the preeminent Amazonian warrior, she found the ideal candidate who like the character had trained her entire life in martial ...

Caitlin Dechelle Kicks Butt from Stage to Screen Stunt Performer

By Chris Davis  |  8 February 2019

Every martial artist is looking to turn that corner where the ‘martial’ binds with the ‘art’ to become who we are rather than what we do. It becomes a part ...

The Truth Behind Real Emotional Content in Combat Sports

By Chris Davis  |  2 February 2019

Action movie stuntmen and women are elite athletes. The dangers they endure, especially on a martial arts movie set, rival and surpass the risks of any extreme athlete across any ...

What it Really Takes to be a Martial Arts Stunt Person

By Carlos Alberto Romay  |  1 February 2019

The key to a high-performance sport is the mentality, more than physicality. Paula Pareto’s general training method is based on specific circuits of judo, a few minutes and very explosive. ...

Olympic Judoka Conquers Mountain in Argentina

By Marty Mulcahey  |  25 January 2019

An intelligently structured nutritional plan is the foundation of any athlete's success; so, when an elite champion tries something new it raises questions. That was the case with two-division world ...

The Vegan Ways of Boxing Champion Tim Bradley

By Nicholas Vrchoticky  |  1 December 2018

Sparring, wrestling, and martial arts seem far removed from the quiet farm life. Yet, these pastimes seem tame when compared to men and women who routinely operate machines large enough ...

Cornfield Sparring – An Iowa Pastime

By Jordan Newmark  |  3 August 2018

In the Internet age, you can talk with a professional fighter, challenge them in combat, and, promptly lose all without leaving your own living room.Arguably, the leading deliverer of digital ...

Demetrius Johnson Reigns Supreme in the Cage and Online