Where We're Headed Archives

Chris Rini’s Art Classes up Cage-Fighting

Jordan Newmark | 13 May 2021 Imagine the sport of Mixed Martial Arts is a house.The foundation is the rules, the walls and floors are the fighters, and the roof ...

Americas, Where We're Headed

Paulie Ayala Provides Puncher’s Chance Against Parkinson’s Syndrome

By Martin Mulcahey | 4 January 2021 The association between boxing and Parkinson's Syndrome is usually negative, but former world bantamweight weight champion Paulie Ayala is changing that perception. In ...

Europe, Where We're Headed

Savate – ‘The Unconventional Fighting Art of the French’

By Lewis Budden | 19 December 2020 In the vast world of MMA, if you were to name a style that uses both a combination of strikes and kicks you ...

Oceania, Where We're Headed

A Title Bout Looms, but Mental Health Remains Megan Anderson’s Biggest Fight

By Jordy McElroy | 31 October 2020 Megan Anderson fears no woman. Even with a scheduled December bout against Amanda Nunes—a two-division UFC champion that napalms faces for a living—a ...

Oceania, Where We're Headed

Being a Bullying Victim Turned Israel Adesanya Into a UFC Destroyer

By Jordy McElroy | 5 October 2020 As UFC middleweight contender Paulo Costa faded in and out of consciousness, he looked into the eyes of a killer. Stoic, cold and ...

Europe, Where We're Headed

Bataireacht – The Lost Art of Irish Stick Fighting

By Lewis Budden | 2 October 2020 Bataireacht is the art of fighting with a traditional weapon in the form of the Shillelagh, a wooden club, and training in strikes, ...