UFC Fight Night 111: Arlovski’s Last Stand
The sight of Andrei Arlovski being cracked on the chin and collapsing to the canvas is no longer a shocking one, nor reason to stop [...]
Is saying goodbye the new UFC post-fight call-out?
It's hard to think of many things more tenuous than a fighter calling time on their career, especially minutes after a fight has ended, when [...]
Mark Hunt: Rumble, old man, rumble
“I'm all about the rumble, man,” Mark Hunt told me back in 2011, having finally ended an unsightly six-fight losing streak with a devastating walk-off [...]
The British Invasion: TUF 9 Revisited
Eight years ago I was tasked with ghostwriting UFC.com blogs for the cast members of The Ultimate Fighter 9: United States vs. United Kingdom. As [...]
Geordie Sure: James Mulheron says UFC move is perfectly timed
When James Mulheron was nineteen years of age, he did what many nineteen year olds do. He went to Ibiza, tested the durability of his [...]
Not So Soft: 8 fighters whose looks can be deceiving
As we gear up for a heavyweight showdown between big-boned punchers Derrick Lewis and Mark Hunt in New Zealand this Saturday (June 10), let's take [...]
Five More for Belfort – But Who?
You heard him. Vitor Belfort ain't done yet. In actual fact, he's sticking around, he says, for not one, not two, but five more fights. [...]
José Aldo: Will 13 seconds override 10 years?
Thirteen seconds, for José Aldo, changed everything. It changed his title from champion to former champion, it put an end to ten years of dominance [...]
Cathal Pendred’s acting up
Sometimes a defeat can be a good thing. Even the worst kind of the defeat: the sort of defeat that occurs inside the first round, [...]
Jose Aldo: The Force Awakens
By Nick Peet & Eduardo Cruz *** This feature originally appeared in the November 2016 issue of Fighters Only *** José Aldo is back [...]