UFC 157: Machida vs Henderson – Open Guard 101
Here we are, my last post event breakdown at Bloody Elbow. UFC 157 was a pretty decent night of fights all around – Kenny Robertson…
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UFC 157 Henderson vs Machida – The Minimalists
You don’t have to be a Ronda Rousey cynic to admit that by far the most exciting bout on the UFC 157 card is Lyoto…
UFC on Fuel 7: McDonald vs Barao – The Striking
This weekend’s event has somewhat caught me short because I have spent the majority of the last few days pushing out pieces by request of…
Jack Slack’s Greatest Strikers: Saenchai Sor. Kingstar
In continuing my series offering a brief glimpse into some of the finest strikers on the planet I have tried to include most of the…
Jack Slack’s Greatest Strikers: The Offensive Genius of Roy Jones Jr.
Continuing my series of most requested pieces I will be looking today at the great Roy Jones Jr. in brief. Just as with my Giorgio…
Jack Slack’s Greatest Strikers: A Brief Look At Giorgio Petrosyan
In the coming weeks I want to take the opportunity to thank the Bloody Elbow community for all of it’s support and encouragement by writing…
UFC 156 Judo chop: Alistair Overeem and Discipline in Striking
Forget what you have heard about combat sports being about passion and durability – it’s wrong. Fighting is a game of smoke and mirrors, and…
Killing the King: Jose Aldo
Once again it is time for me to overheat my brain by looking for weaknesses in the game of a proven champion. The Killing the…
UFC on Fox 6: The Jack Slack Breakdown
We have a good deal of ground to cover in the coming days with Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar meeting for the featherweight title at…
UFC on Fox 6: The Striking of Pettis and Cerrone
Donald Cerrone and Anthony Pettis meet at UFC on Fox 6 to decide who is next in line for a shot at the lightweight belt…
Pulling Back the Curtain on Muhammad Ali
Today I want to set aside a few moments to talk about the incredible and inimitable Muhammad Ali. Ali turned 71 at the weekend and…
UFC on FX 7: Belfort, Bisping and ducking into kicks
Vitor Belfort has always been pretty much a puncher with the single exception – his throwing of at least one left high kick a round…
The Tricks of Prince Naseem Hamed
Prince Naseem was a wonderful phenomenon in the boxing world – a featherweight fighter of the Roy Jones Jr. mold who fought with such flair…
UFC on FX 7 Vitor Belfort Judo Chop: A brawler not a boxer
Vitor Belfort is constantly credited as having elite level striking and boxing but in truth his level of technical ability and scientific boxing is a…
Jack Slack’s Strikeforce Breakdown: How Saffiedine Battered Marquardt
The debacle that was Zuffa-owned Strikeforce finally ended last night and we were all waiting to see how the promotion would go out. It could…
UFC on FX 7 Judo chop: Michael Bisping’s Problematic Chin
The chin is a vague term in combat sports – most use it to refer to a fighter’s ability to take punishment to the head…
UFC on FX 7 Edson Barboza Judo Chop: Style Vs Substance
Between the comments on my articles and the tweets and emails I receive, Edson Barboza has to be one of the most requested fighters for…
Jack Slack’s Greatest Rivalries: Floyd Patterson Vs Ingemar Johansson I
Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johansson represented polar opposites both in the ring and outside of it. Johansson, one of the few Europeans to win a…
Randy Couture Judo Chop: Boxing into the Clinch
Something which I have always found to be interesting about wrestlers is the longevity which their art can offer their mixed martial arts careers. Of…
UFC 155: Brad Pickett in Brief
It’s almost event time for UFC 155 but while there’s still a few hours to waste (unless you’re reading Killing the King: Junior dos Santos…