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The path, from Princeton University to Wall St., with a comfortable living and the perks of NYC available to a not-unattractive Ivy Leaguer fitness buff, sounds like a guaranteed recipe for happiness for many. Not so Jake Butler. At his desk at Th...

Javier Loya is being flown to New York on Thursday morning, and being put up in a Long Island hotel, to lose. He's a 27-year-old man who lives in Phoenix, still exulting in the Feb. 6 birth of his second son, Javier II, but let's put the facts on ...

On the outside chance you only come to ESPNNewYork.com for the NYFightblog, you may not have seen the story posted on the home page earlier, which touched on the letter sent by the Association of Boxing Commissions to the top politicians in New York,...

You could tell who were the writers and who were the fighters during an intimate media luncheon put together by the UFC at Carmine's in NYC's Theater District on Wednesday. As pound-for-pound ace Jon Jones, the 25-year-old Ithaca, N.Y., resident and ...

The UFC was on a roll there for a spell, with standouts like Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell having some success breaking out of the Octagonal holding pen and getting on the radar of more casual sports fans. But Liddell retired at the end of 2010 and...

Dana White has felt somewhere between cautiously optimistic and quite optimistic in the last few years that New York politicians would see the light, and see the economic bounty that the UFC could bring to the state, never mind the state of inequalit...

Sandy has been on Marcus Browne's mind -- how could it not be, since the severe storm did its best to kayo his Staten Island home base? But Browne is intent on not letting the storm surge remove him from the task he has in front of him Friday night...

People in the fight game tend to move slowly, even when faced with hard, irrefutable evidence. That's not always a bad thing; to be knee-jerk is to ensure you leave out evidence when making a move. But more and more, promoters are realizing that figh...

I am a fight fan. I like to watch 'em. Boxing, MMA, two knuckleheads soaked in suds throwing down outside The Dew Drop Inn, settling an argument on who's the hotter Kardashian. And you know this is the NYFightblog, which was pitched to you a...

It's fair to say that most fight fans would prefer for boxing to have more of an MMA mentality and for the powers that be, who include promoters and managers, would make a concerted effort to make pick-'em matches more regularly than they do. Too ...

You either "get" boxing or you don't. It isn't like olives, where you can periodically taste one to see if it appeals to you. Either you see the upside to two people in shorts punching each other in the head, or you don't. I do. I have since...

It has been more than a century since a bareknuckle boxing match was sanctioned in the United States. And in light of Friday's bare-fisted bout between Bobby Gunn and Richard Stewart, some believe that isn't long enough.

UFC 119 left Dana White seeing red. It had nothing to do with Evan Dunham's bloody face and everything to do with the fighter's loss, courtesy of three blind judges.

Kimbo Slice will leave MMA for the boxing ring.

Frank Mir, Anderson Silva, Andre Berto and Kermit Cintron are all top fighters in their respective sports. But they could all make the jump to the other side.

Story | Conversation | July 06, 2009

Even as UFC strives for respectability, it can't quite lose its outlaw nature. Gee, wonder why?