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Derrick Lewis (25-7-0) has already gone down as one of the most interesting fighters to watch of all time in MMA. Derrick is essentially the kid who never studied, never did his homework, and calculated the minimal amount of effort he needed to pass. He would score better on tests than everyone who tried hard, but you still couldn't cheat off his paper because he only passed the tests he had to. It's great watching Derrick Lewis fight. He'll be on the ground, won't scoot to the cage or be technical. He will just decide - "Yeah, I wanna bring the fight back up." To then just stand right up and start swinging again. He's fought people who are far more technical and follow strict diets and travel the globe to train with the best. He knocks them out and then gives the hands down best post fight interviews ever. I think Derrick Lewis is Joe Rogan's favorite fighter to interview post fight. You never know what the hell Derick Lewis is going to say. - "I just gotta go number two that's all. It's not really hurt from the kick, I just gotta go booboo." - "I just eased out a little fart. tried to clear my stomach out a little bit. Once it did it was good. The second round it came back again, just started bubbling. I was like - I've got to end this fight." - "It was more my trying not to Sh*t on myself." when asked how he got the knockout. Derrick Lewis is probably my favorite fighter. Imagine getting knocked out and the guy acting like it was only because he had to take a dump.

Dagestan, officialy - the Republic Of Dagestan. Is a Republic of Russia. Dagestan translates to - "Land of mountains." That's exactly what it is and partially why it produces some of the best fighters in the world, if not THE BEST. Vice reporter Alzo Slade did a piece on Dagestan fighters and their training routines. What he learned is they train relentlessly. Their workout routine involves waking up as the sun rises. To then run 1-2 miles across rugged mountain terrain, with high altitudes that test your cardio. Running across icy water and anything in their way. They then do pad striking for about an hour, have breakfast and a nap. They then hike for miles up the mountain and wrestle at it's peak. Wrestling is kind of like a way to keep Dagestan's youth away from extremism that has plagued the country. So the Olympic gold medalists and world champion fighters from there, are very big on giving back to their community and bringing youth into the wrestling. Alzo Slade heavily noticed how enriched these people are with their culture. How important it is for them to give back and keep the youth out of trouble. It's awesome to see. To them fight culture is more than just sports. It's staying alive. Staying out of trouble. Giving the next generation something to look forward to. It's no secret that top competitors in combat sports are hailing from Dagestan. With the likes of Khabib Nurmagomedov and his posse. If you want to train like no other, truly put yourself to the test, and become the worlds best. It seems Dagestan is where you want to train and the type of fight culture you want to embrace.

Conor Mcgregor recently deleted some tweets he made in a twitter response to Khabib Nurmagomedov. Khabib tweeted "good always defeats evil." on Poirer's victory of Mcgregor. To which Mcgregor responded that Covid19 must be good and Khabib's father was evil. Which, calling someone evil is one thing but going for deceased family members just proves the assumption. Khabib was recently on Hotboxin With Mike Tyson where he touched up on the twitter conflict. - “When he talked about this, only evil can talk about your father, wife, kids, religion. If you’re normal human, you’re never going to talk about this stuff. For me, I think he post this tweet while drunk too much or he was doing something. Then the next day, he always delete these tweets. When he become normal life he looks at his phone and says, Oh, look what I did. Then he delete. This is my opinion what he do all the time. When someone is not with us, he is not even alive, this shows what you have inside. This shows how dirty you are. When you one of the best in the world and you come and you punch someone who is like 70 years old, like an old man in a pub, this shows your heart. This shows who you are inside, how dirty you are. When you have parents and you have kids, how can you show yourself like this? I don’t understand why his close people don’t go, Hey, what’s going on? When you become rich, when you become famous, some people they lose real people around them. They lose them. Real people who love you, they’re going to tell you the truth. But fake people? They always say - You’re good. They never say to you nothing because they don’t want to upset you because they know they’ll lose this comfortable spot. Real people, they don’t care about this. They were with you before you became famous and rich. They don’t care about your money. They just love you. I think he lose a lot of people around him. I don’t think he have people who were with him before when he become champion. Everybody needs someone who reminds you - This is good, this is bad." Khabib touches up on Conor's place and actually empathizes with the guy. Suggesting Conor is a victim to substance abuse and surrounding himself with yes men. We watched Khabib kick Conor's butt leave the sport undefeated and now going on as an undefeated coach. We're watching Conor fall apart. Animostiy aside it seems Khabib is still extending the olive branch - asking Conor to get help and surround himself with the right people.

There's a lot of banned substances in MMA, mostly based around performance enhancing drugs. We don't really want situations where one fighter has an immense advantage over the other, because they were taking anabolic steroids. We also don't want fighters becoming drug addicts, and harming their health. So we have the WADA or World Anti Doping Agency. What if we didn't have the WADA? Hear me out. What if we got to see fighters compete on any type of drug. Let some fighters take as much steroids as they want for a year before the fight, give them a bunch of PCP and Meth between rounds to see - how hard can humans REALLY punch!? There could be a fight card specifically for different kind of drugs. One bout would be like Nate Diaz vs some other stoner fighter, where they have a smoking competition before their MMA fight. Then we could get say two fighters to have a drinking contest before their fight, just watch two dudes smashed off their face missing hella punches. This will probably never happen, and shouldn't ever happen. Except the smoke contest stoner fight, that one should be allowed and wouldn't hurt anybody. Hell, you won't even notice the difference with Diaz.

Dana White gets a lot of heat from some of his fighters and other folks in the MMA community, over whether or not he has their best interest in mind or is just greedy. Dana has a net worth of 500 million, he sold his last equity stake in the UFC of 9% back in 2016 and now just works on a annual 20 million dollar salary. I myself have been very critical of Dana over things like the Reebok deal. It was very upsetting to see fighters lose their sponsors in the cage. The deal was supposed to significantly increase fighters payouts and earn them more than their in fight sponsors can pay. This wasn't the case for many fighters, especially the newer ones still making a name for themselves. The Reebok deal is about to end and now UFC is doing a deal with Venum. We shall wait to see what all this entails and if it's any better than Reebok. A lot of folks crucify Dana for being so successful but paying some of his fighters measly sums. I actually don't agree with the crucifixion here. It's really hard to start a business, it's immensely risky. Even the most liberal socialistic folks like Bernie Sanders do a 180 degree turn after reaping rewards from their efforts. Go watch Bernie tell one of his followers to write their own book and become a millionaire when they question him about sharing his wealth. The fighters definitely generate more cash than they earn, but that can't all be blamed on Dana. Dana has built the biggest MMA promotion in the world and took MMA from a back alley sport that nobody took seriously to the fastest growing sport in the world. The guy took a lot of risks to get us here and he deserves a reward equal to those risks and effort. Whether it's from the kindness of his own heart or the logical analyzing that any business savvy person can see - the UFC is gonna have to start leading the game in fighter compensation as their competitors like Triller and Bellator may soon be stealing talent with larger PPV sales and benefits. I think Dana cares about his fighters and a lot of people forget that networth is tremendously more valuable than liquid capital. However, if Dana wants the UFC to stay on top he's gonna have to lead the industry in fighter rewards too.

For those of you that don't know, Calcio Fiorentino is basically what would happen if we took the NFL and made players stop wearing pads and told them they should actually fight each other throughout the game. This is what the NFL wishes it was. The game starts with each team of 27 players (No substiutes or backups or second string allowed) all just start beating the crap out of each other. Boxing, Kickboxing, Jiujitsu, Wrestling, nothing is really off limits here. Their goal is to incapacitate the other team and grab the ball in the middle to score in their opponents end zone. This is 100x cooler than football and you're wrong if you say otherwise. Imagine getting NFL tickets with complimentary MMA fights. Not that bullcrap where football players push each other and get fined or kicked out of the game. No. Full on knockouts and broken limbs from submissions and pure brutality. No padding, no helmets, just action. It's time we start an American League for Calcio Fiorentino, that way our culture at least knows it's a sport and not an Olive Garden entrée. This is America! We're just gonna let Italy have the coolest ball game sport ever? I think not. Move over Italy, we want to beat the crap out of each other during a sanctioned sport without refs throwing flags too.

With Sean Strickland going off about killing someone in a sanctioned bout this week, it's time to reflect on instances where fighters actually lost their lives in MMA. There's been 7 recorded deaths from sanctioned MMA fights, and more from non sanctioned. Professional boxing has had 923 deaths from 1890 - 2007. October 20th 2007, Sammy Vasquez at 35 years old was competing in Renegades Extreme. Sammy lost the fight via 3rd round knockout. He lost consciousness shortly after the fight and was rushed to the hospital where he underwent multiple surgeries for a subdural hemorrhage. He died November 30th from that fights injury. Micheal K Kirkham was 30 years old competing at Dash Entertainment's King MMA, on June 26th 2010. 41 seconds into the first match, the referee called for stoppage with Michael on the ground unable to defend against head strikes. Michael lost consciousness shortly after the fight was stopped, and died two days later to head trauma. He had a fight two months prior where he lost by KO, commissioners have since suggested he had second impact syndrome and shouldn't have been allowed to take another fight so soon. Tyrone Mims was a 30 year old competing at Conflict MMA Fight Night on August 11th 2012. The referee called stoppage in the second round with Tyrone seeming exhausted and unable to fight. Tyrone's corner checked him, and he seemed fine. He lost consciousness shortly after. Mims was pronounced dead on the way to the hospital. His autopsy revealed no head trauma or any type of conclusive reason for death. Booto Guylain a 29 year old fighter at EFC Africa 27 on February 27th 2014, sustained a head injury from his 3rd round knockout loss. He was taken to the hospital after fight showing signs of head trauma. Booto died a week later from brain swelling. Donshay White a 37 year old fighter competing at Hardrock MMA 90 on July 16th 2017. He lost by TKO in the second round and collapsed after the fight. He died on the way to the hospital and it was revealed that hypertensive heart disease was the culprit. As he didn't take his heart medication the day before the fight. Rondel Clark was a 26 year old fighter from Sutton Massachusetts. Cage Titans XXXV on August 12, 2017 would be his second and last sanctioned bout. By the 3rd round Clark was unable to defend himself and lost via TKO. His post fight exam showed him to struggle breathing, he was then sent to the hospital. He died August 15th. Autopsy showed that he had kidney failure, a sickle cell trait and mostly died to dehydration. Those are the 7 recorded deaths in sanctioned MMA matches. Sometimes it was direct injury from the fight or the fight just played a minor role. Regardless MMA is very dangerous and while it's a sport based around beating each other within an inch of our lives, we should treat it with immense respect. s the night before which may have impacted his death. He was part of a program that helps addicts recover through MMA.

Holy crap! Conor Mcgregor isn't taking any downtime. The man is signing up for a September boxing match for charity. Except this time he will be boxing, from a wheelchair! Against not a fellow boxer but a... comedian? Well this couldn't get any cooler. Are we just gonna get to see Conor beat up a comedian? Or does the comedian get a handicap as well? No pun intended. Okay actually pun intended. Something really cool though is the charity event. All proceeds will go to the Irish Wheelchair Association and help disabled folk across their country. We hear Conor say a lot of crazy things online. We see him act very bold and outlandish. This seems like a goofy side we haven't seen before. Regardless of the turnout of the fight. We hope its successful and benefits many disabled folk across Ireland!

Sean Strickland wants to cook meth and kill people! Just kidding, we're not CNN or Fox news. His actual words were - "I would love nothing more than to kill somebody in the ring. Nothing more. It would make me super happy. I would own that sh*t too. I don't know if it would make me liable, I might have to say I'm sorry if the cops come, but I would own that shit. Own it. Be a psychopath, it's F***ing fun." He also said if it wasn't for the UFC he'd be "Cooking meth in a trailer." So there's a lot to unpack here but what is Sean Strickland really saying? Does he really want to be Walter White and cook meth and super hero style punch people to death in an octagon? Or does he just know like every other fighter, if he says some crazy off the wall crap that the media will talk about it. That it will raise his web traffick and PPV sales and make people want to watch him fight? That's probably it. Regardless, if Sean Strickland really does want to cook meth and kill people. The world may never know.

Bas Rutten claims his Body Action System is for full body training and all types of standup combat sports. We think he's right. You can watch some of your favorite fighters go at the Body Action System and it seems perfect for any high end gym or just what you need for your home gym. The head pad allows you to perform uppercuts and hooks, it really resembles and takes punches like a persons head. The deluxe and x2 models allow you to use focus pads to train your body and leg kicks as well. Throwing it all together and its the perfect mitts partner for when you don't have one. It's very affordable and the same price as most high tier punching bags. It even comes with training manuals from the man Bas himself, where he's your personal coach. So if you're looking to up your standup game, cardio, or just get some good exercise. look no further than the Body Action System.

Miyamoto Musashi was a artist, philosopher, writer, and warrior. He's arguably the most famed and influential swordsman from Japan. Miyamoto's mother died giving birth to him, so he was mostly raised by his father. His father was a fearsome samurai, who lead many victorious campaigns under the Shinmen clan across feudalistic Japan. His father Muni, taught Miyamoto swordsmanship, jiujitsu, and other combat skills. Miyamoto was very bold, even from a young age. He and his father often argued. Because of this disobedience, his father sent Miyamoto to live with his Uncle Dorin. Dorin was a Monk who was a reformed samurai, he left the life of violence to pursue religion and thought. It was where Miyamoto learned philosophy, art, and meditation. Miyamoto would study under his Uncle mid day, while venting his aggression in the mornings and evenings alone in the woods training combat. He used his aggression of resentment from his father to train and learn relentlessly, becoming one of the biggest badasses in history. At the age of 13 Miyamoto saw an open challenge posted in his a village. A samurai from a neighboring village was contesting he could best any swordsman from their village. Miyamoto openly accepted the challenge and on the day of their duel, he charged and killed the samurai with a staff. He would eventually join a group of Samurai under his father and fight with them to win many successful campaigns as he became a young man. He went on to challenge the best swordsman in Japan. Often changing his styles and techniques to win. He had some 50 odd fights, most to the death, and he never lost. Because of Miyamoto Musashi, samurai started using two swords instead of just one. Miyamoto wrote many successful books, that today are still best sellers like The Book Of Five Rings. His art is timeless. His quotes still full of wisdom today. If you ever want a mentor, look for one in Miyamoto Musashi.

Uriah Hall lost via unanimous decision to Sean Strickland in the main event of UFC Vegas 33. Both fighters entered this bout on a winning stream. It was even Uriah Halls 37th birthday. Sad that Hall lost on his birthday but both fighters put on one hell of a show. Strickland definitely controlled the fight from the start. Seriously hurting Hall in the 3rd and 4th rounds. Strickland went down as stating he stopped caring about getting hit in round 5. He was so tired he just didn't care and just wanted to fight at that point. Fight he did. Strickland's flurry of punches really stiffened Halls usual approach. We didn't get to see Halls flying kicks or his usual energy he brings to the fight as he was dominated by Strickland's striking. We loved this fight. What did you think?