Opinion: GSP-Bisping Does Not Suck In some ways, this may fail as a successful archetype column. I'm not sure this qualifies as a “hot take,” even if my opinion seems to put me in a particular MMA minority. There's a reason this column is not called “A Defense of...

Opinion: Cash Versus Control Ahead of the Big Apple Eddie Alvarez has balked at the Ultimate Fighting Championship's offer to defend his lightweight title at UFC 205 against Khabib Nurmagomedov. He wants...

Opinion: How to Ruin Your Own Special Night (and Your Career, Too) The frustrating and discouraging drama surrounding Jon Jones is now such an expected part of his prizefighting career that it's hard to pick a...

Melvin Manhoef: Winning Bellator Middleweight Title Would ‘Complete My Career’ Melvin Manhoef isn’t ready to call it a career just yet, but even he admits that winning Bellator MMA gold would make for a nice cherry atop a...

Opinion: Demetrious Johnson’s Weighty Issues With his one-sided destruction of Henry Cejudo at UFC 197, Demetrious Johnson has officially and utterly conquered the flyweight division.

Opinion: Tapping and the Thoughtful, Progressive Philosophy of Nate Diaz Discussions of whether Conor McGregor should've tapped out or not are a reminder that somehow, in theory and practice, the Diaz brothers are...

Thoughts & Shots From UFC on Fox 18 When Anthony Johnson flattened out Ryan Bader and pounded him into a violent slumber in the UFC on Fox 18 main event on Saturday in Newark, New Jersey, all I could think about was the size of the chasm between...

Sherdog.com’s 2015 Beatdown of the Year Not a pairing for the fainthearted, Stipe Miocic put a beating of historic proportions on Mark Hunt in their UFC Fight Night main event in May.

Opinion: The Fedor Dilemma If this week’s report is true, then the long-awaited arrival of Fedor Emelianenko in the UFC is poetic.

The Walkmen: UFC 186 Walkout Songs A hit track from Atlanta rapper T.I. brought Demetrious Johnson to the cage prior to his historic performance on Saturday in Canada.