As was noted last May, Affliction and TapOut shirts are now as ubiquitous as Yankees caps. That alone should suffice as evidence that the sport has, finally, gone mainstream.
This video offers even more corroboration, and does so in rather humorous fashion. How popular is MMA? So popular that even the Black Israelites, when standing on [...]

Floyd Mayweather says that MMA is for white boys.
In a recent interview, boxing’s pound-for-pound best goes on a RANT – talking about everything from economics to the dangers of cohabitation with a woman. Buried in the middle, he says that MMA was created by white dudes who don’t have the skills (or the balls?) to [...]

Continuing with our nostalgia week in honor of UFC 100, the Daily Scrap is proud to present “Top 3 Greatest Quotes in UFC History”.
This was a tough one, folks.
Here are the top three, in reverse order, plus context.
(3) The bronze goes to UFC President, Dana White. In his latest video blog, White is asked by [...]

In last Sunday’s New York Times, David Segal wrote on the death of Michael Jackson and the nature of his stardom:
“Fame on the level that Mr. Jackson achieved is all but impossible for pop culture heroes today, and quite likely it will never be possible again… Michael Jackson has sold an estimated 100 million copies [...]

Even before last Saturday night’s TUF 9 finale got underway, British papers were heralding the rise of fighters from the UK.  The Daily Telegraph sports columnist Gareth Davies wrote:
“Fans of the UFC in the United States had better be prepared for the UK invasion of the UFC, which is clearly coming. MMA has exploded on [...]

As we approach UFC 100, I think it’s an apropos time to wax philosophical about MMA.  Instead of offering up fight predictions, I want to tackle the big questions.  Questions like, why is MMA now widely accepted as the fastest growing sport in the world?
How do we explain this phenomenon? How did we move from [...]

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has evolved right alongside the sport of MMA. Its latest transition was sparked not by God, but by a bunch of stoners from California, led by Eddie Bravo, creator of the Rubber Guard.
In the last year we’ve seen a new generation of grapplers, most of them in their 20s and early 30s – [...]

My last post about Ben Saunders, aside from lowering my value as an MMA analyst, was littered with jargon from the pick-up community – neg, target – whose origins can be traced back to Mystery, the world’s greatest pick-up artist and subject of Neil Strauss’s seminal text, “The Game“. It’s interesting to note that Mystery [...]

Back in 2003, NBC came out with a reality dating show called “Average Joe“, the theme of which is both obvious and unimportant, for the purposes of this article.
Now, there was a contestant on that show who lied – artfully, but erroneously nonetheless, about his profession – to the producers, to the semi-hot blond chick [...]

Kevin Ferguson, the Florida streetfighter known as Kimbo Slice, will join the cast of TUF, Season 10, which begins filming next Monday, in Las Vegas.
Why do we care?
He’s not a great fighter, that’s for sure, but this is America, where one’s cultural significance is not determined by merit, nor by the quality of music [...]