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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?

Both fighters started kind of slow. Engaging each other with kicks and trying to establish a range. When McKee landed a nasty head kick on Pitbull. McKee then went in for a guillotine, ending the fight in the first minute and 57 seconds of the first round. Pitbull actually didn't tap and slumped to the submission. Where McKee had to inform the referee that Pitbull was fast out. "We're not done. We're just the beginning. We're just getting started!" McKee proclaimed after the fight. This very well may not be the last we've heard of Pitbull either. As he's on of the best fighters in their promotion. He will likely earn a rematch after only 2 or 3 more fights. AJ will have to defend his title and really establish himself as champ.

Nothing stirs up more controversy in athletics than transgender athletes. There isn't a status quo that most athletes agree with on this matter. Many athletes feel highly opposed to competing against transgender folk, while many athletes support it, or just downright don't care. Joe Rogan puts it somewhat along the lines of - We divide athletics by gender because cisgender men have a biological advantage, which translates over to trans women having an advantage over cis women. Where cisgender women are the real victims here. Then you have transgender athletes and their supporters who put it as - trans people shouldn't have to prove their biological sex and be allowed to compete so long as their hormones are similar to those they're competing against. The rebuttal from the opposing side is along the lines of disregarding the developmental advantage that biological men have over women in muscle mass, fiber density, things of that nature. There is a popular trans female MMA fighter who is often used as a metric when either side wants to argue. The anti trans athlete side will cite their fight where they fractured their cisgender female opponents skull. The pro trans athlete side will cite their fight where a cisgender female knocked out said transgender female fighter. Then you have fighters in-between who just want to see people fight and don't really care about the advantages. Which I think is the inevitable path this will take. If you look at both men and women, every generation - men produce less testosterone while women produce less estrogen. Our sexual differences are lessening with each generation and we're growing closer to resembling each other. There very well may come a time when the biological advantages men have over women in terms of athleticism, don't really exist anymore. A time where we don't divide athletes by biological sex. It will likely be a long ways away. This is kind of an outfield suggestion but I think we should strive to have more leniency on both sides by kind of meeting in the middle, hear me out. What if we have transgender divisions? Not to further segregate people but to bring us together. Imagine if transgender folks growing up can have role models and watch them competing on TV. They get to go to school the next day and talk about it without hearing "Yeah well they only won because they're trans." and hear "Yo that knockout was wild!" We have transgender women setting world records in sports like weightlifting and track. Then backlash from the public causes those records to be taken away. There's a lot of animosity around transgender athletes right now. I think a good stance to have is for us to realize that we won't be chasing herds of mammoth to survive anytime soon, where some of us are biologically niched to chase mammoth and protect while the other half is niched to give birth and nurture. We as a species are growing less athletic and becoming more dependent on technology. Eventually there will be less biological differences between cisgender and transgender people. Transgenders will be able to have surgeries with real living flesh specifically grown for them, the post op suicide rate will go down. We will socially agree on a proper age and level of subject matter to address what transgender is. It will become normalized and people will eventually treat it like being left handed. I don't claim to have all the answers but I think a trans athletic division for MMA, Boxing, even the Olympics would help normalize trans people and even allow those growing up who are trans to openly have role models they can talk about without hearing backlash over it. I think it's a step in the right direction that could eventually lead to fights not divided by sex but just hormones. Some men have very little testosterone, some women have it very high. Maybe one day we can have divisions just based off weight and hormones. Then everybody can shutup, stop arguing, and just enjoy the sport. What do you think?

So we just saw Jeff Bezos go to space. Hear me out, why not MMA fighters. I think the world would much rather watch Mcgregor VS Poirer 4 in space, than Bezos playing space cowboy. Maybe that's just me. There's no gravity. Each dude would just kind of be floating around trying to strike each other. Maybe this would stop Conor from getting injured. Who knows!? It would be cool as hell though. Imagine some crazy fully enclosed dodecahedron that has Ultimate Ninja Warrior esque stuff for the fighters to climb around and push off of. A flying superman punch would look cool as hell. These are the types of space pirates I want to see. We could literally get to watch our favorite fighters grappling in space. Every armbar would be a flying armbar. Side control would probably not be the best position anymore. Oddly enough I feel like North-South might be the new meta? It might even be safer for fighters because there's less resistance. Or would it be more dangerous? Regardless you cant say a space MMA battle in a dodecahedron battle arena wouldn't be the coolest thing ever. What do you think?

Apparently UFC's Darren Till is under police investigation over a meme that many consider transphobic. The meme depicts a "pregnant" transgender woman, likely mocking the biological inabilities for such events to occur. Darren went onto his Instagram and proclaimed - "As everyone knows I’m always posting very controversial things right, I’m never going to change ever, ever, ever. So the other day I posted this transgender meme, I thought it was funny and I knew it was going to get a backlash. I’ve actually got transgender friends, they thought it was hilarious. You can’t cancel someone who doesn’t give a s**** and I don’t give a s***." Till is scheduled to fight Derek Brunson this summer. He hasn't competed in over a year. Will Till experience social backlash for this? Will he become censored or will this instance be one of those things that kind of just gets forgotten about? Tell us what you think!

UFC 268 Just added Gaethje V Chandler to their fight card. Justin is 22-3 while Michael is 22-6, they both have the same amount of wins and are excellent fighters so its gonna be hard to call the winner ahead of time here. One thing is for sure, this fight will be explosive and a great addition to UFC 268! The contracts haven't been signed yet and the date / location is still being determined but the more we learn about this event the better it's looking. Many are suggesting the fight will be November 7th. Chandler's record in the UFC is 1-1. After suffering his 2nd round knockout loss to Oliveira. Gaethje hasn't fought since his second round loss to Khabib in their fight last year. Which Khabib announced his retirement after. So fight fans be ready to watch this one! The closer we get to the action the better its looking! please stay tuned with us for more fight news and analysis! Who do you think is going to win? Let us know and why!