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It was just Manny being Manny last Saturday night.
October 4, 2007 not only was my 21st birthday completing my ascent into adulthood, but was also the day that Pride Fighting Championships officially terminated operations almost si
Let the Debate Begin: Strikeforce (2009-04-28 20:12:06)
Last year it was EliteXC, this year it’s Strikeforce. It is ironic that the promotion that purchased the assets to last year’s next big thing in the MMA world happens to be thi
Phil Clark discusses the rivalry between boxing and MMA as it relates to pay-per-view business.
Let The Debate Begin: Awards 2008 (2009-03-29 21:50:58)
Check out Phil Clark's 2008 MMA awards including Fight of the Year, Fighter of the Year, Worst Promotion, and more...
Fight of the year is a proclamation that might be a bit early. However, there are likely to be few fights that will reach the intensity, activity, and most importantly, the profess
Attendance and ratings have been slipping more and more the last few years with the Sakuraba/Funaki headlined NYE show last year doing only 25,000 for the around 50,000-seat Osaka
Let The Debate Begin: Consistency (2009-02-24 07:14:52)
In a sport whose parity is on par with any of the big four sports’ the stories are not always about title changes and upsets. The end of January saw Affliction: Day of Reckoning
Phil Clark takes a look at the controversial Margarito-Mosley fight as well as a look forward to the future of the welterweight division.
That twelfth round was the prototypical big bang finale that all fight fans want to see in the final round of a fight. Both fighters were spent, but left everything in the ring. Bo
Fights That Should Happen in 2009 (2009-01-07 11:20:36)
With 2008 now officially the past, it would be fitting to look forward and see if maybe my crystal ball is any better than anyone else’s and look at the fights that should take p
Pacquiao Humiliates Aging De La Hoya (2008-12-15 15:02:30)
De La Hoya’s beating on this night draws in my mind comparisons to Julio Caesar Chavez’s 1996 beating at the hands of De La Hoya. If any fight solidified the era of The Golden
After two tough losses to Kelly Pavlik, many questioned whether Taylor’s career had peaked at the age of 30 and whether a man who was among the best pound-for-pound still had “
In only his second career fight in the U.S., Calzaghe again wowed the American crowd with another technical marvel of a performance out boxing Roy Jones Jr. so bad that many have n
Let The Debate Begin: Couture/Lesnar (2008-11-19 17:00:55)
UFC 91 was certainly a historic night for Brock Lesnar, says staff writer Phil Clark, but his title reign will be full of chances for him to prove himself. Read Phil's take on Lesn
Inside Fights staff writer Phil Clark takes a detailed look at the state of the mixed martial arts middleweight division. Is there a legitimate challenger to Anderson Silva's thron
Inside Fights staff writer Phil Clark takes an extensive look at the death of EliteXC, including his take on where the major ProElite fighters could potentially end up.
Every time you think Bernard Hopkins is done, he does something to prove you wrong. Such was the case two weeks ago when Hopkins rebounded after a lackluster showing in a decision
When Pride Fighting Championships was bought by Zuffa Inc. and the Fertita brothers in 2007, nowhere was it felt more than in Japan. This was not just because Pride was based in Ja
Let the Debate Begin: Kimbo Sliced (2008-10-09 21:57:36)
The beautiful thing about this upset is it did what most MMA purists and people who take MMA seriously wanted to see happen at one point: it exposed Kimbo’s lack of experience in
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