Diego Sanchez would beat BJ Penn at many things:

Biblical trivia
A foot race (over 100 meters)
Reading comprehension in Spanish
A body building contest
Mainland America Geography Bee

Unfortunately, Diego Sanchez will be fighting against BJ Penn tonight. His only chance is to push the pace, survive, go hyphy (see Urban Dictionary), and push the pace some more.
Our prediction: BJ [...]

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 [...]

Tonight on Spike TV, Nate Diaz will battle Melvin Guillard, in what many are calling an “elimination match.”
Diaz is coming off two losses in a row, to Clay Guida and Joe Stevenson.
So what? MMA isn’t baseball.
Diaz is still in his mid-20s. He needs time to develop, sure, but he’s an exciting fighter with a big [...]

The main event of Saturday night’s UFC 101 lightweight title fight between champion, BJ Penn, and top-ranked contender, Kenny Florian, has been deconstructed on MMA blogs all across the internet.
A number of experts are predicting that Florian will pull off the upset, but the emerging consensus is that BJ will win -  via decision or [...]

UFC 100 is less than two weeks away.
The co-main event between Georges St-Pierre and Thiago Alves is generating more buzz than Mark Sanford on a booze cruise through Argentina. The conventional online wisdom is bifurcated straight down the middle: St-Pierre will win by controlling the ground game, or Alves will win through the power of [...]

Nate Diaz is a badass.
He’s part of a new generation of grapplers, along with Dustin Hazelett and his older brother, Nick, who have given Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu an MMA reboot: Rubber Guard style!
Check him out for free this Saturday night, June 20, at the TUF 9 Finale on Spike TV. He’ll be fighting the always tough [...]

This is a true story, not a knock-knock joke.
I’m at a bar in the East Village – name doesn’t matter, they’re all the same – when I notice a super-cute brunette in a tight black Tapout T-shirt. Think Gina Carano. Think Meisha Tate.
I establish eye-contact for the requisite three seconds, walk up, throw a neg, [...]

Jake Shields will be fighting Robbie Lawler this weekend – Saturday night, June, 6, at Strikeforce on Showtime.
This could go either way, as Lawler is a big, strong kid with excellent takedown defense and knockout power in both hands. If Shields can get him on the mat, however, with a fair amount of time on [...]

Diego Sanchez will be fighting Clay Guida at the TUF finale on June, 20.
If you didn’t catch that, let me repeat it.
Diego Sanchez will be fighting Clay Guida at the TUF finale on June, 20.
Why isn’t anyone talking about this fight? These two guys are the most aggressive fighters in the lightweight division, if the [...]

It’s official.
Fedor Emelianenko, known in the MMA world as The Last Emperor, will square off against Josh Barnett at Affliction 3, on August 1.
Most are predicting a bloodbath, another easy win for Emelianenko, the pound-for-pound best in our sport, the toughest man on the planet.
I think Barnett has a chance.
Yes, I’m serious. Here is [...]