The Week in Quotes: August 23rd – 29th
UFC 102: PSYCHONOG, AIR MAIA, AND SEVEN SECONDS “For sure, that fight was one of the most important fight(s) of my life. It wasn’t…
Mike Fagan Archives: 08/2009
UFC 102: Couture vs. Nogueira Post-Fight Recap
-Regression to the mean. Learn it, live it, love it. Has Minotauro Nogueira slowed down since his Pride heyday? Of course. But world class athletes…
Learning From Kids: How Urijah Faber and Norifumi Yamamoto Relate to Brock Lesnar and Fedor Emelianenko
What a difference a year makes. Last July, I wrote this FanPost extolling the virtues of a Norifumi Yamamoto–Urijah Faber superfight. Here’s how I summed…
Float Like a Butterfly: A Look at Footwork Part 1
Good footwork. The term gets thrown around more than Stephan Bonnar fighting Jon Jones. It’s a vague and ambiguous piece of verbiage that paints an…
Women’s MMA Attacked From the Inside
When crusty curmudgeons from dying newspapers liken mixed martial arts to dogfighting, I don’t blink an eye. I take solace knowing MMA has shown no…
The Week in Quotes: August 9th – 15th
EVIL ALWAYS TRIUMPHS BECAUSE GOOD IS DUMB “I think Cyborg said it best – (the winner) is going to be determined by the person who…
Anderson Silva Does Whatever a Spider Can
If Anderson Silva’s deconstruction of Forrest Griffin didn’t impress you enough, FightMetric offers up some pretty impressive stats: * Silva landed 13 of 25 total…
The Week in Quotes: July 26th – August 1st
I PLAYED THESE GEESE LIKE DANA WHITE “Fedor and I are here in the States. If they want to come out and fly here, we…