Opinion

2017

“The Final Tragic Stage of a Fighter’s Career” Sherdog, 6-27-17

“The Cost of Combat” Sherdog, 6-19-17

“The Old Man and the Beast” Sherdog, 6-12-17

“The Benefits of a Slow Boil” Sherdog, 6-5-17

“Down So Long It Looks Like Up” Sherdog, 5-22-17

“The Appeal of Relevance” Sherdog, 5-15-17

“Nostalgia is a Hell of a Drug” Sherdog, 5-1-17

“The Paradox of Perfection” Sherdog, 4-17-17

“The Most MMA Event of the Year” Sherdog, 4-10-17

“The Legitimacy of the Others” Sherdog, 3-27-17

“Life on Manuwa Island” Sherdog, 3-20-17

“View from the Fence” Sherdog, 3-13-17

“The Other Side of Anything Can Happen” Sherdog, 3-6-17

“A Meditation on Ethics in MMA” Sherdog, 2-21-17

“Cheating Pays” Sherdog, 2-13-17

“Korean Zombie in Context” Sherdog, 2-3-17

“The Myth of Mind Games” Sherdog, 1-23-17

“The Final Pass of the Torch” Sherdog, 1-17-17

“An Aging Prodigy” Sherdog, 1-10-17

“The Two Types of Defeat” Sherdog, 1-2-17

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