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November 2015: UFC 193 and the Humanization of MMA’s Biggest Star
56,2014 - that’s how many people were in attendance for UFC 193 in Melbourne, Australia on the 15th of November 2015, to see women’s MMA. Every once in a while you get a star from the world of combat ...
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October 2015: The Return of Del Rio and the Importance of Staying Fresh
This past weekend at WWE’s Hell in a Cell event we saw the return of Alberto Del Rio, who was the surprise challenger for John Cena’s United States Championship. The element of surprise is often times...
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September 2015: The Ghost of Wrestling Past
It seems more and more these days wrestlers are losing their jobs and getting in trouble for their past demons. It’s almost like in politics when during a presidential campaign you always see lots of ...
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August 2015: Roddy Piper, Dusty Rhodes and Life After Vince McMahon
When our heroes die, we suddenly realize that no matter how larger than life they were, or seemed to be, the grim, horrible stench of death humanizes them, if only for a minute, before they become imm...
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July 2015: Nagoya 2015 News and Notes
This year’s Nagoya Basho (July sumo tournament) has come and gone, and inspired by my recent podcast with Mike Wesemann (I’ll pronounce his name correctly one day) and Clancy Kelly of sumotalk.com I a...
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**FightBox Special Report** Scandal at Mercedes-Benz Frączak Boxing Night!!
In order to describe what I witnessed on Friday July 3rd, in Leszno I’m going to need several words: bizarre, disrespectful, entertaining, intriguing, uncalled for, over-the-top and many more first co...
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June 2015: The New Ronda Rousey?
I’ve never been a huge MMA fan, but I find that starting to change after watching the new UFC sensation, Poland’s own Joanna Jędrzejczyk. I use the term “new” loosely because although she only has fou...
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May 2015: Why Floyd Mayweather is the Smartest Man in Boxing
Whether you thought “The Fight of the Century” was boring or weather you thought it was a technical masterpiece of the “sweet science” you have to tip your hat to Floyd Mayweather for being on the...
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April 2015: Are you Tough Enough to Win? Does it Matter?
Open auditions are currently being held for the sixth season of Tough Enough, a reality show in which contestants vie for an opportunity to become a WWE superstar. Everyone loves a good wrestling...
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March 2015: What Are The Limits of Combat Sports Training?
The recent resignation of Bill DeMott as head trainer of the WWE Performance Center has me thinking a lot not only about my own wrestling school, but how I was trained and how wrestling has tradi...
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