There are multitudes of promising fighters emerging every day. Regardless of the weight class, tremendously gifted athletes are surfacing left and right, which makes a piece like this difficult to assemble. That said, there is one man who cannot be denied, and that man is 24 year old Jon “Bones” Jones.

Jones is not only gifted athletically, he’s been afforded a physical gift that distances him from every man to compete at 205 pounds: an otherworldly reach of 84.5 inches. The range ...

Updated 12-15-2011 at 04:42 PM by Dayna Deruelle

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On November 26th Lodz’s Atlas Arena will host KSW 17 – Revenge as Europe's largest MMA promotion brings fight-fans another fantastic card. Polsat viewers will be able to watch seven exciting bouts featuring some of the best fighters from Poland and abroad.

In the co-main event, World’s Strongest Man Mariusz Pudzianowski will face Englishman James Thompson in a rematch as these two Goliaths met inside the ring at KSW 16 in May of 2011. Thompson ...

Immediately following his first successful title defense at UFC 135, friends and I began to discuss the most interesting/challenging match-ups available to Jones at 205lbs.

With convincing wins over top-ten mainstays Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson under his belt, it is clear Jones' range and wrestling ability will give fits to the division's elite strikers and wrestlers alike.

A powerful and aggressive ...

Updated 12-02-2011 at 11:49 PM by Dayna Deruelle

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​Longtime UFC fighter Quinton "Rampage" Jackson has gone on to become one of UFC's most valuable prize fighters, even defeating Chuck Lidell in 2007.
But how is he preparing for this Saturday's fight, UFC 135 at the Pepsi Center in Denver? We headed into his training facility to find out.

When I arrived at the "MusclePharm," the 35,000 square foot training facility that Jackson (record: 32-8 over twelve years in the UFC) has called his Denver home ...

Updated 09-24-2011 at 02:54 AM by Dayna Deruelle

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Former Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz spends little time apologizing to anyone, and the latest episode in the life of Stockton, California's favorite son has been no different from those previous; bounced from the UFC 137 main-event after failing to show up for a pair of press-conferences in Toronto and Las Vegas respectively, Diaz continues to point the finger at others when recalling the events of last week, including promotion champ Georges St. Pierre.

In an interview ...

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