Opinion
2018
“MMA’s Modern Mythological Hero” Sherdog, 4/16
“Making Sense of Nonsense” Sherdog, 4/9
“The Best of a Bad Situation” Sherdog, 4/2
“Demotivating Factors” Sherdog, 3/26
“More Than A Fight” Sherdog, 3/19
“Making Sense of McGregor” Sherdog, 3/12
“In With The New” Sherdog, 3/5
“The Illusion of Control” Sherdog, 2/26
“The Cathartic Zen of the Cowboy” Sherdog, 2/20
“A Good Night For Heavyweights” Sherdog, 2/12
“A Blueprint to Unionize” Sherdog, 2/5
“Make UFC Hawaii Happen” Sherdog, 1/29
“Heavyweight Durability” Sherdog, 1/22
“What It Takes To Build A Star” Sherdog, 1/16
“What’s at Stake for the Korean Superboy” Sherdog, 1/8
2017
“Mixed Feelings for the Middleweight Division” Sherdog, 12/11
“A GOAT For All Seasons” Sherdog, 12/4
“What’s Legacy Got To Do With It?” Sherdog, 11/27
“The UFC’s Old Epidemic” Sherdog, 11/13
“Are You Not Entertained?” Sherdog, 11/6
“Getting Ahead by Getting People Mad” Sherdog, 10/30
“One Man’s Loss is Another Man’s Luck” Sherdog 10/23
“Violent Meditations” Sherdog, 10/16
“A Source of Pride” Sherdog, 10/9
“Respect Where Respect Is Due” Sherdog, 9/25
“In Defense of the Very Good” Sherdog, 9/18
“A Tale of Two Main Events” Sherdog, 9/11
“Self-Fulfilling Prophecies” Sherdog, 9/5
“Let’s Not Overthink This” Sherdog, 8/28
“The Simple Complexities of The Money Fight” Sherdog, 8/21
“The Dueling Insecurities of Boxing and MMA” Sherdog, 8/14
“Patience is a Virtue” Sherdog, 8/7
“What I Talk About When I Talk About MMA” Sherdog, 7/31
“The Dumb, Dizzying Depths of The Money Fight” Sherdog, 7/18
“A Half Empty Look at International Fight Week” Sherdog, 7/10
“The Final Tragic Stage of a Fighter’s Career” Sherdog, 6/27
“The Cost of Combat” Sherdog, 6/19
“The Old Man and the Beast” Sherdog, 6/12
“The Benefits of a Slow Boil” Sherdog, 6/5
“Down So Long It Looks Like Up” Sherdog, 5/22
“The Appeal of Relevance” Sherdog, 5/15
“Nostalgia is a Hell of a Drug” Sherdog, 5/1
“The Paradox of Perfection” Sherdog, 4/17
“The Most MMA Event of the Year” Sherdog, 4/10
“The Legitimacy of the Others” Sherdog, 3/27
“Life on Manuwa Island” Sherdog, 3/20
“View from the Fence” Sherdog, 3/13
“The Other Side of Anything Can Happen” Sherdog, 3/6
“A Meditation on Ethics in MMA” Sherdog, 2/21
“Cheating Pays” Sherdog, 2/13
“Korean Zombie in Context” Sherdog, 2/3
“The Myth of Mind Games” Sherdog, 1/23
“The Final Pass of the Torch” Sherdog, 1/17
“An Aging Prodigy” Sherdog, 1/10
“The Two Types of Defeat” Sherdog, 1/2
2016
“Watching Through the Rearview” Sherdog, 12-19-16
“A Fighter Forged from Conflict” Sherdog, 12-12-16
“Champion of Interims” Sherdog, 11-28-16
“The Role of Competition” Sherdog, 11-21-16
“Politics, UFC 205, and What it Means to Fight” Sherdog, 11-14-16
“UFC Fright Night and Other Spooky Musings” Sherdog, 10-31-16
“Emerging Markets and World Domination” Sherdog, 10-24-16
“Lies, Damned Lies, and Everything Else” Sherdog, 10-17-16
“A Beautiful Weird Twisted Reality” Sherdog, 10-10-16
“The Nature of the Beast” Sherdog, 10-3-16
“Cyborg a Missed Opportunity for the UFC” Sherdog, 9-25-16
“Money Fights and the Forgotten Art of Knowing Your Role” Sherdog, 9-19-16
“A Good Heavyweight is Hard to Find” Sherdog, 9-11-16
“Age Ain’t Nothin but a Number” Sherdog, 8-29-16
“Mixed Martial Artistry” Sherdog, 8-22-16
“When Chaos is OK” Sherdog, 8-3-16
“Time for a UFC-Invicta Merger” Sherdog, 7-24-16
“The Time Warp that was UFC 200” Sherdog, 7-10-16
“Money On Our Mind” Sherdog, 6-26-16
“Not Breaking the Bank” Sherdog, 6-19-16
“High Stakes in the Shadow of UFC 200” Sherdog, 6-12-16
“Exploring the UFC 199 Narratives” Sherdog, 6-5-16
“A Call for Recalibration” Sherdog, 5-23-16
“Putting Out Heavyweight Fires” Sherdog, 5-16-16
“The Costs of Control” Sherdog, 5-2-16
“The Many Faces of Pound for Pound” Sherdog, 4-25-16
“Pedestals and PED’s” Sherdog, 4-12-16
“The Intrigue of Newness” Sherdog, 4-4-16
“Fairytale Championships” Sherdog, 3-28-16
“Whose Stoppage is it Anyway?” Sherdog, 3-21-16
“The Slippery Nature of MMA Greatness” Sherdog, 3-14-16
“The Death of Imagination” Sherdog, 3-7-16
“Too Much of a Not Good Thing” Sherdog, 2-22-16
“Passing Torches Through Shrinking Windows” Sherdog, 2-8-16
“Sage Advice” Sherdog, 2-1-16
“The Prodigal Son Returns” Sherdog, 1-25-16
“Cyborg and the Post-Rousey World” Sherdog, 1-20-16
2015
“In Love with Useless” Sherdog, 11-24-15
“Lessons from UFC 193” Sherdog, 11-16-15
“More Superfights, Please” Sherdog, 11-2-15
“Money Matters” Sherdog, 10-26-15
“MMA Moralizing” Sherdog, 10-19-15
“Alpha Male Dilemmas” Sherdog, 10-12-15
“It Takes a Village to Educate a Child” Civil Beat, 10-5-15
“Alexander Gustafsson and the Dirk Nowitzki Parallels” Sherdog, 10-5-15
“Let Native Hawaiians Take the Lead” Civil Beat, 5-4-15