Opinion

2019

“No Exaggeration Needed” Sherdog, 6/10

“Cutting Losses by Cutting Winners” Sherdog, 5/27

“Same But Different” Sherdog, 5/20

“Following Fear” Sherdog, 5/13

“End Game” Sherdog, 4/29

“13 Ways of Looking at Fighting in One Week” Sherdog, 4/22

“It Is What It Is, and It Is Beautiful” Sherdog, 4/15

“Words of War” Sherdog, 4/8

“What’s Dehydration Got To Do With It?” Sherdog, 3/25

“Owning the Narrative” Sherdog, 3/18

“Why Some Careers Resurge and Some Don’t” Sherdog, 3/11

“Keep It Simple, Stupid” Sherdog, 3/4

“Man, Myth, Legend” Sherdog, 2/19

“What Fighting is All About” Sherdog, 2/11

“Don’t Call It A Comeback” Sherdog, 2/4

“What Fast Finishes Really Mean” Sherdog, 1/28

“A Little Bit of Everything” Sherdog, 1/21

“Talking the Talk” Sherdog, 1/14

“Lessons from The Real OC” Sherdog, 1/7

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” 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