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Ten Turkeys: The biggest disasters in MMA
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.comThere's shame in labeling a Thanksgiving-themed blog post with any variation of biggest turkeys, roasted birds, stuffed this-or-that, etc. It's obviou...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 25, 2009DMX sued over celebrity boxing no-show
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.comThe world of celebrity boxing captivates me -- not the actual competition, which is a ludicrous and boring display of limp-fisted rejects...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2009Ortiz's cutting class, Koscheck's politics and more
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.comIf you believe Tito Ortiz's postfight confessional Saturday, it has become virtually impossible to defeat him without Ortiz starting the job himself. ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 23, 2009Old soldiers: Couture-Coleman set for UFC 109
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com...6 in Las Vegas. Couture prefers Greco-Roman tie-ups in the clinch, set up by his boxing; Coleman dives for legs. Both have rated among the most successful modified wrestlers in the sport. It...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 17, 2009ESPN primer: WEC 44
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com...for free. If the strategy is to do the exact opposite of the greedy financiers who stifled boxing in the 1990s, then the strategy is working. Wednesday's WEC event on Versus -- Zuffa's third...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 17, 2009Five Questions: UFC 105
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com...have to do it with arterial spray. 4. Is Dan Henderson still in Michael Bisping's head? Boxing trainer Freddie Roach has a telling explanation of the nature of knockouts "changing" fighters in Sam Sheridan...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 13, 2009Fight switch: Cro Cop shakes up camp
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com...not athletically, then mentally. Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic knows this, which is why the Croatian has dropped boxing coach Marjan Zizanovic and sparring partner Igor Pokrajac from his circle of training associates, per the reports...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 11, 2009Foreign intrigue: Dubai plans MMA, but at what cost?
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com...adopting that decidedly promoter-like trait of talking first and delivering later, also promised that women's boxing figurehead Laila Ali would be in Dubai soon to pick up a possible 25th career win. (No...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 11, 2009Russian Roulette, network exposure and more
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.comThe expectations created by Fedor Emelianenko's media profile make it impossible for him to perform in a way that pleases everyone: If he had crumbled...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 08, 2009Vera, Filipino fighters address typhoon
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.comI'm growing bored with HBO's "24/7" series -- it's about boxing, which I find numbing -- and it has been done over and over again. There are a finite...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 03, 2009The case for professional wrestling
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.comEarlier in the week, I dutifully reported the infection of MMA personalities and techniques in professional-wrestling theater: Sunday's TNA pay-per-vi...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 21, 2009'Big John' absent from UFC 104
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com...edicts about officials. It would be a lurid, cheap move by a promotion that often has bemoaned boxing's lurid, cheap moves. But if it did feel like squeezing, the promotion is in luck: The...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 21, 2009Kimbo fitted for training wheels at ATT
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com...man who may have no idea what he's doing. Sherdog.com spoke to Slice's current boxing coach, American Top Team's Howard Davis Jr., and Davis was candid about his protég...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 21, 2009Ray Mercer's trouble with MMA
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com...footnote in the history of this sport for "Merciless" Ray Mercer, who did a lot of fans -- boxing and non -- proud by bucking ageism and a near-total lack of mixed-fight skills to clock...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 15, 2009Kangaroo court: Australia chilly to UFC
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com...of bricks," said leading neurologist professor Mark Cook of St. Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne. "As in boxing, the nature of sport means that brain injury is inevitable and this cage fighting may be worse...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 14, 2009TOP SEARCHES IN OCTOBER
NFL Expert Picks tops ESPN.com searches in October. Did "boxing" make the list?
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