Opinion Column
2020
Small Cages and Squash Matches 6/18
Fighting Together 6/10
When You Run Out Of Lessons To Learn 6/3
The Trouble of Selling Tragedy 5/20
Risk and Consequence 5/13
Watching Fights Like an Analyst pt. 4 5/6
Watching Fights Like an Analyst pt. 3 4/29
ONE of a Kind 4/22
Then and Now: 10 Years of the Lightweight Division 4/15
Watching Fights Like an Analyst pt. 2 4/8
Watching Fights Like an Analyst pt. 1 3/31
A World Without MMA 3/28
Fighting in the Age of Coronavirus 3/18
A Night of Returns 3/10
A Lament for Joseph Benavidez 3/4
Different Sides of Violence 2/28
Untangling 205 2/18
The Complexities of Grieving Someone You Didn’t Know 1/28
On Fighters as Role Models 1/21
Low Hopes for McGregor’s Redemption 1/8
2019
More Pounds, Same Problems 11/20
The Best Division in the Sport 11/12
When Risks Pay Off 11/5
GOAT-for-Bust swap still the right move 10/30
Why UFC Hawaii Probably Won’t Happen Any Time Soon 10/19
Cub Swanson and the Moment He Needed 10/15
Lightweight’s Best-Case Scenario 9/17
A Different Kind of Dominance 9/10
Why Do We Interview Fighters? 8/27
Everybody Sucks, and Other Reasons to be Patient 8/20
The Downside of Dominance 8/15
Colby Covington Knows What He’s Doing 8/5
UFC 239 as an Educational Experience 7/11
A Zombie Realized 6/25
Cutting Losses by Cutting Winners 5/27
Same But Different 5/20
Following Fear 5/13
End Game 4/29
13 Ways of Looking at Fighting in One Week 4/22
It Is What It Is, and It Is Beautiful 4/15
Words of War 4/8
What’s Dehydration Got To Do With It? 3/25
Owning the Narrative 3/18
Why Some Careers Resurge and Some Don’t 3/11
Man, Myth, Legend 2/19
What Fighting is All About 2/11
What Fast Finishes Really Mean 1/28
A Little Bit of Everything 1/21
Talking the Talk 1/14
2018
Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals Sherdog, 12/24
Ragin’ With the Best of Them Sherdog, 12/17
Don’t Sweat the Technique Sherdog, 12/10
Age Is Much More Than A Number Sherdog, 12/3
Just A Moment Sherdog, 11/12
Making Middleweight Great Again Sherdog, 11/5
Eighty Pounds of Thinness Sherdog, 10/29
Heavy Truths Sherdog, 10/16
We Are Who You Thought We Were Sherdog, 10/8
Don’t Forget About Bellator Sherdog, 10/1
The Conundrum of Patience Sherdog, 9/10
High Stakes on Multiple Fronts Sherdog, 9/3
Violence, Money, and John McCain Sherdog, 8/27
When Superfights Lose Their Luster Sherdog, 8/20
Let’s Not Get Ahead of Ourselves Sherdog, 8/10
Three Former Champs, Three Different Stories Sherdog, 7/30
Score One for the Good Guys Sherdog, 7/16
The Daddest Man on the Planet Sherdog, 7/9
Stay Weird, MMA Sherdog, 7/2
What It Means to Make a Mistake Sherdog, 6/25
Four Takeaways from UFC 225 Sherdog, 6/11
When History Rhymes Sherdog, 6/4
Casualties of the UFC’s Quest for Legitimacy Sherdog, 5/29
We Learn Nothing Sherdog, 5/21
Knowing When To Quit Sherdog, 5/14
O Kyoji, Where Art Thou? Sherdog, 5/7
Back To The Future Sherdog, 4/30
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 12/11
What’s Legacy Got To Do With It? 11/27
The UFC’s Old Epidemic 11/13
Getting Ahead by Getting People Mad 10/30
One Man’s Loss is Another Man’s Luck 10/23
Violent Meditations 10/16
A Source of Pride 10/9
Respect Where Respect Is Due 9/25
In Defense of the Very Good 9/18
A Tale of Two Main Events 9/11
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies 9/5
The Simple Complexities of The Money Fight 8/21
The Dueling Insecurities of Boxing and MMA 8/14
What I Talk About When I Talk About MMA 7/31
The Dumb, Dizzying Depths of The Money Fight 7/18
A Half Empty Look at International Fight Week 7/10
The Final Tragic Stage of a Fighter’s Career 6/27
The Cost of Combat 6/19
The Old Man and the Beast 6/12
The Benefits of a Slow Boil 6/5
Down So Long It Looks Like Up 5/22
Nostalgia is a Hell of a Drug 5/1
The Paradox of Perfection 4/17
The Most MMA Event of the Year 4/10
The Legitimacy of the Others 3/27
View from the Fence 3/13
The Other Side of Anything Can Happen 3/6
A Meditation on Ethics in MMA 2/21
Cheating Pays 2/13
The Final Pass of the Torch 1/17
An Aging Prodigy 1/10
2016
Watching Through the Rearview 12/19
A Fighter Forged from Conflict 12/12
Champion of Interims 11/28
The Role of Competition 11/21
Politics, UFC 205, and What it Means to Fight 11/14
UFC Fright Night and Other Spooky Musings 10/31
Emerging Markets and World Domination 10/24
Lies, Damned Lies, and Everything Else 10/17
A Beautiful Weird Twisted Reality 10/10
Cyborg a Missed Opportunity for the UFC 9/25
Money Fights and the Forgotten Art of Knowing Your Role 9/19
A Good Heavyweight is Hard to Find 9/11
Age Ain’t Nothin but a Number 8/29
When Chaos is OK 8/3
Time for a UFC-Invicta Merger 7/24
The Time Warp that was UFC 200 7/10
Money On Our Mind 6/26
High Stakes in the Shadow of UFC 200 6/12
Exploring the UFC 199 Narratives 6/5
Putting Out Heavyweight Fires 5/16
The Many Faces of Pound for Pound 4/25
Pedestals and PED’s 4/12
Whose Stoppage is it Anyway? 3/21
The Slippery Nature of MMA Greatness 3/14
Too Much of a Not Good Thing 2/22
Passing Torches Through Shrinking Windows 2/8
Sage Advice 2/1
Cyborg and the Post-Rousey World 1/20
2015
In Love with Useless 11/24
Lessons from UFC 193 11/16
Money Matters 10/26
MMA Moralizing 10/19
Alpha Male Dilemmas 10/12