by Ben Fowlkes on Aug 10, 2011 11:18 AM EDT
On Sunday night in Milwaukee, the internet would have you believe that bantamweight Joseph Benavidez will be participating in his 17th professional bout at UFC Live: Hardy vs. Lytle. The Internet would also have you believe that his first professional fight was against Brandon Shelton in June of...
by Ben Fowlkes on Oct 4, 2011 9:12 AM EDT
It wasn't supposed to happen this way for Kenny Florian. Back when he took up Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as a hobby in the late '90s, it wasn't because he was hoping to find himself here, just a few days from a UFC featherweight title fight. It was because he wanted to do jiu-jitsu, and not much...
by Ben Fowlkes on Oct 20, 2011 9:23 AM EDT
One look at Jason "Mayhem" Miller and you can tell he was probably never the prom type. Just picturing him doing something as normal as pinning a corsage on a date or squeezing into a rented tux seems wrong, like imagining a dog eating with a knife and fork. That's why it shouldn't surprise many...
by Ben Fowlkes on Nov 27, 2011 9:00 AM EST
No fight fan is in any danger of confusing Miguel Torres for Muhammad Ali. One's a skinny bantamweight MMA fighter with a mullet, and the other is Muhammad Ali. But even though they might be separated by a few decades and many, many pounds, both owe the genesis of their fight careers to a specific...
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