Follow the money — This week the Association of Boxing and Combative Sports (ABC)decided to come at Colorado over their allowance of the Global MMA ruleset that ONE Championship uses. You can see the breakdown of the rules they use here on their website, but the main thing is knees to the head of…

It seems now more than ever, we see fighters who were the new hot contenders at one time hang up their gloves. This past weekend, Jung Chan-sung better known as “The Korean Zombie” hung up his gloves in Singapore when he lost to Max Halloway in the latest…

What you’re about to read is something I wrote for Frontproof Media. Joseph Correa, the outlet’s founder had asked me to write it since he did me a favor of coming on Coast-2-Coast Combat Hour to talk some boxing. We briefly mentioned Paul and he wanted to hear more, so…

I wouldn’t be surprised if another one popped up — What you’re about to read I wrote for MyMMANews after the Holm vs. Bueno Silva event. For folks that don’t know, I am one of many who Tweet about events while they happen whether I’m there as credentialed media or not. I like the sport, it’s been hard to watch…

All time? Maybe we meant up until now and we should retire “GOAT.” — I wish people would just say, “greatest of all time” instead of calling someone an animal (GOAT in all caps) but it’s been used enough, and I have to use it in this post since I’m writing this because of something I answered on Quora. The question was, “In your…

Maybe Ngannou and Dana White are both right — So Francis Ngannou has signed a historic deal with the PFL. It lets him box and continue pursuing MMA while giving him a chairman position of “PFL Africa” according to the New York Times piece that announced the deal a few weeks ago. Since, White, Ngannou, and even Jon Jones…

Again with the UFC over MMA — The above question came to me on Quora and having written about MMA being the sport and the UFC being a promotion so many times, it made me think about some names, so my answer wound up being… MMA Scribbles Newsletter — Soap Box Edition- Issue #59 Insert soap box here.carbazel.medium.com All of them. The fighting life, especially that of a professional fighter…

UFC and WWE will be one — I forget the name of the AEW event where he said it, but CM Punk once said ( and I might be paraphrasing here), “There are pro-wrestling fans, and there are WWE fans. They’re not the same thing.” The same can be said when it comes to mixed martial arts…

It certainly wouldn’t hurt. — The above question popped up on Quora and since I used to do concert security and was a bouncer in my younger days, I chimed in Times have changed since I frequented places that needed bouncers or have been requested to work as one, but generally, it seems you just…