By Schwan Humes Rose Namajunas, the UFC Strawweight Champion, has long been seen as a mixed martial arts prodigy, someone who had been tapped as part of the future of women’s mixed martial arts, and one of the faces of the sport as a whole. But unlike many other fighters marked as potential stars or…
By Schwan Humes On December 11 in the UFC 269 co-main event, we have a UFC Bantamweight Championship fight between two-division champ Amanda Nunes and the former TUF winner and top-five-ranked 135-pounder Julianna Peña. This isn’t a fight anyone has demanded, or even asked for, What Do You Think of This Fight/Event?
By Schwan Humes Jake Paul started out as a social media influencer, a YouTuber who, although he possessed an impactful and far-reaching presence, was still better known as Logan Paul’s younger brother. Jake was a celebrity in the loosest sense of the word, but nonetheless he was still a celebrity, making money and gaining fans…
By Schwan Humes The issue of UFC fighter pay isn’t unique to that combat sports organization; any entity that has found a way to make money for the athletes, the owners, the sponsors, and other employees in various levels and capacities has to deal with issues of fair compensation. But since mixed martial arts has…
From the “Stargirl” television series: Yolanda Montez aka Wildcat vs. Paula Brooks aka Tigress. In this fight we revisit some of the most common tropes in comic book combat, as well as in real life combat sports: veteran vs. rookie, ability vs. skill, aggression vs savvy. Let’s take a closer look:
By Schwan Humes After 56 episodes on the CW network, the Black Lightning series reaches its series finale this week. And although we may yet see these characters again in the spinoff series for Painkiller (who was the focal point of the first Black Lightning breakdown), it’s important to note the end of the Pierce…
By Schwan Humes The story around Valentina Shevchenko is that she is an elite talent, a dominant fighter, a generational fighter; someone who has been able to compete with and oftentimes dominate the best fighters in two weight classes. And while everything I said is completely true, the fact of the matter is that these…
By Schwan Humes Three years ago the CW added a new property to their group of live action comic-based properties. That show was Black Lighting. Much like other CW properties (Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, etc), the show was focused on a titular superhero, Jefferson Pierce, and dealt with the protagonist’s reintroduction to the world, how it…
By Raphael Garcia UFC 260 ended with thunderous shots that were viewed around the world, as Francis Ngannou stopped Stipe Miocic to become the UFC Heavyweight Champion. And as fans as far away as Cameroon cheered on their champion, their eyes shifted to Jon Jones and what he would do. In typical Jones fashion, he…
By Schwan Humes On March 19, 2021, we saw the continuation of the Captain America trilogy, as two of Cap’s most popular supporting characters were put into the spotlight as the stars of the Disney Plus series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. It’s a story that is built around the legacy of Steve Rogers,…
By Schwan Humes On March 18th, fans of the DC film universe crafted by Zack Snyder finally got their wish when Warner Bros released Zack Snyder’s Justice League, aka “The Snyder Cut” where fans got to finally see the film as envisioned by the polarizing director. Oftentimes in circumstances like this we get DVDs with…
By Adam Martin This past Saturday at UFC 259, pound-for-pound great Amanda Nunes had yet another dominant performance inside the Octagon, a performance so good that it might end up shutting down the entire division. After previously defeating Cris Cyborg to win the women’s 145-pound title in 2018 and then defending it against Felicia Spencer…
By Schwan Humes Combat sports are often considered the world’s toughest due to the nature of the competition, i.e. getting kicked, punched, elbowed, kneed, wrestled, and grappled. Of more importance is the fact that it’s not a team sport — when you step into that cage you are out in no man’s land by yourself….
By Adam Martin This past weekend’s UFC Vegas 19 card featured four heavyweight bouts, which is something you just don’t see very often at the highest level of the sport. Usually, you’ll have one or two heavyweights on a UFC card. The fact there were four big-boy fights on this card showed that the promotion…
By Adam Martin UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman continued to clean out the 170-pound division with a dominant knockout win over Gilbert Burns in the main event of UFC 258. After overcoming a quick strike by Burns early in the fight, Usman survived the initial onslaught only to come back stronger and finish the fight…
By Adam Martin Following his incredible flying knee knockout over Frankie Edgar in the UFC Vegas 18 co-main event, bantamweight contender Cory Sandhagen once again called for a title shot. Considering he’s the #2 ranked fighter in the division with an impressive 7-1 UFC record and a current two-fight streak of spectacular finishes over Edgar…
By Adam Martin Unless something miraculous changes his mind, UFC Lightweight Champion Khabib Nurmagomedov is due to announce his retirement from MMA yet again. The legendary Russian first said following UFC 254 last October that he intended to walk away from the sport that he excels at, but UFC President Dana White told him to…
By Raphael Garcia The UFC 257 main event ended in a fashion that was not highly predicted, as Dustin Poirier, in under ten minutes, left Conor McGregor laying on his back as the referee waved off the fight. Now that the surprise has subsided, the questions around what comes next are starting to pick up….
By Raphael Garcia Max Holloway is a rare talent. Against Calvin Kattar in the main event of UFC on ABC 1, he displayed a level of skill that was both exceptional to see and should have been stopped before it went as far as it did. In twenty-five minutes of action, Holloway landed 445 significant strikes…
By Adam Martin We are now officially into 2021 and MMA fans are getting prepared for yet another crazy, unpredictable year in this sport that we all know and love. It’s such an interesting sport to follow, and that’s because there are always interesting storylines to follow. Let’s take a look at the top five…