Killing the King: Junior Dos Santos
The Killing the King series is my attempt to counter the notion that any one fighter is simply invincible at a certain point in their…
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UFC 155 – Cain Velasquez: Easy to Hit
There seems in this sport to be a great desire to overstate a fighter’s stand up competence based only on the result of his fights…
Jack Slack Breaks Down The Ultimate Fighter Finale: Barry vs. del Rosario and Nelson vs. Mitrione
As another series of a reality show most avoid watching limped over the finish line we were treated to a surprisingly exciting and heavy breathing…
UFC on FX 6 Sotiropoulos vs Pearson: The Jack Slack Breakdown
Last week we were treated to the familiar bizarre spectacle of B.J. Penn trying to fight a tall man’s fight against another opponent who had…
UFC on Fox 5 results: The Jack Slack Breakdown
It’s Sunday morning and there is a ton of stuff to talk about. The best boxer in the world got knocked out with a beautiful…
Jack Slack’s Cheat Sheet: Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua
Mauricio Rua, mostly known as ‘Shogun’, is a fighter whom I have written about at great length in the past but remains one of the…
Jack Slack’s Greatest Rivalries: Alistair Overeem vs Badr Hari II
Yesterday we examined the unusual ways in which the unlikely Alistair Overeem was able to throw off and upset kickboxing superstar, Badr Hari on New…
Jack Slack’s Greatest Rivalries: Alistair Overeem vs Badr Hari part 1
Few kickboxing rivalries have been as heated over the course of just two fights as that between Dutch mixed martial artist, Alistair Overeem and Moroccan…
Jack Slack’s B. J. Penn Cheat Sheet
B.J. Penn is perhaps one of the greatest mixed martial artists of all time and certainly one of the few men to this day who…
UFC On Fox 5 Preview: How Alexander Gustafsson beat Thiago Silva
Ahead of the biggest fight of his career in the coming weeks Alexander Gustafsson is the most commonly misspelled name on everyone’s lips at the…
Jack Slack’s UFC 154: St. Pierre vs Condit Breakdown
UFC 154 was an event that I had been looking forward to for some time as Georges St. Pierre made his return against a dangerous…
UFC 154 Jack Slack’s Cheat Sheet: Carlos Condit
If you have not read Killing the King: Georges St. Pierre – Do so now and share it with your friends! Carlos Condit is truly…
UFC on Fuel TV 6 Results Judo Chop: Jack Slack’s UFC Macao breakdown
There’s plenty to be talking about this week ahead of the return of Georges St. Pierre against public enemy number one, Carlos Condit, so I’ll…
Jack Slack’s Killing the King: Georges St. Pierre
Read ‘Killing the King: Jon Jones’ here. Georges St. Pierre is to my mind the most rounded fighter to ever compete in mixed martial arts…
UFC Macao Judo Chop: Cung Le and MMA’s Best Kickers
Kicking in mixed martial arts has gone through a great evolution since the early days when the only fighters who would attempt it were pure…
UFC 154: Talking shop with Carlos Condit’s coach Mike Winkeljohn
One of the wonderful things which has happened since I began writing technical pieces is that I have been able to speak with some of…
UFC Macao: Cung Le vs. Rich Franklin – The Striking
Cung Le and Rich Franklin are two fairly exciting fighters who are decent finishers and pretty competent in most areas of the game. They also…
UFC Macau Judo Chop: Anderson Silva, Cung Le, Bruce Lee and the Side Kick
The side kick is a thrust kick which in the 1970s and 80s, at the height of traditional martial arts popularity, was considered to be…
UFC 154 Judo Chop: Georges St. Pierre and the Jab
There are few more memorable instances of the jab being utilized so effectively and frequently in mixed martial arts as the technical clinic that Josh…
Anderson Silva and the art of rolling with punches
To celebrate the release of my brand new ebook Elementary Striking, I wanted to take a look at what is undoubtedly the most important element…