By Jordan Newmark | 14 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 is the promoters. Maybe, the doorbell is “Face the Pain” by the band Stemm. And the ornate molding running throughout the house, which catches the [...]
By Marty 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 a gym decorated with boxing posters featuring the most elite athletes in the world, men and women in their middle ages up to septuagenarians train as diligently [...]
By Jordy McElroy | 8 September 2020
Andre Pederneiras is no superman. You won’t see him patrolling the streets of Rio de Janeiro in tights, a bright red cape and a Jheri Curl. He can’t fly, see through walls or pick up objects 100 times his bodyweight. And no, he isn’t striking classic poses and flashing smiles [...]
By Jordy McElroy | 28 August 2020
The weight an inanimate object can hold on such a young soul is immeasurable in a poverty-stricken world where hopes and dreams are sometimes the only escape. So Jose Aldo clung to his soccer ball as tight as he could when the storms got rough. He still clings to it [...]
By Jordy McElroy | 27 August 2020
Thousands of miles away, across an endless stretch of land and water, Anderson Silva is reinventing himself as the baddest man on the planet. But the arena has changed for the former UFC middleweight champion. Gone are the thousands of screaming fans in sold-out arenas. Gone are the ritualistic backstage [...]
By Jordy McElroy | 27 August 2020
Judging from a distance is a commonality in human beings. There’s a hint of convenience in feigning understanding of a book without reading the contents on the pages. Royce Gracie, a Brazilian MMA legend and UFC pioneer, comes from a world where everything is a blank canvas. It’s a world [...]
By Jordan Newmark | 29 July 2020
Slap a kimura on your cup of joe with Ground Shark Coffee! Actually, Ground Shark Coffee co-founders Nick Lowary and Adam Romero, who met training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, would say something friendlier and more inspirational like, ‘coffee that gives you the morning jolt or the afternoon energy to make your [...]
By Jordan Newmark | 12 December 2019
He won’t quit. Whether it’s during eleven hours of hard sparring for charity, ten years as a teacher and small business owner or nearly two decades of grinding to become a Brazilian jiu-jitsu blackbelt, Chris Civello isn’t going to quit. If anything, the founder and head instructor of Sakura BJJ [...]
By Jordan Newmark | 2 March 2019
When director Patty Jenkins needed a stunt double to embody the preeminent Amazonian warrior, she found the ideal candidate who like the character had trained her entire life in martial arts and weaponry for such an opportunity - Caitlin Dechelle. “I started at six years old,” said Dechelle. “I was [...]
By Chris Davis | 8 February 2019
Every martial artist is looking to turn that corner where the ‘martial’ binds with the ‘art’ to become who we are rather than what we do. It becomes a part of how we move, speak to people, feel the world around us, and shake hands. We are automatically more vigilant, [...]
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