Bellator Interim Champion Emanuel Newton: Looking for Unity Amber Boone March 20, 2014 Spotlight, UFC There is an almost universal urge for unity. Most humans seem to want their soulmate, and so do a lot of animals. When we want to get away, we say want to be “one with nature.” And physicists all around...
UFC’s ‘Super’ Steven Siler: An Unlikely Hero Amber Boone March 18, 2014 Spotlight, UFC There are guys who look like heroes. You know the ones. They’re in the gym lifting and flexing, and they can hardly walk because their muscles get in the way. To the untrained eye, they look tough. But in...
L.C. Davis: Bellator Fighter Solving the Puzzle Amber Boone March 18, 2014 Spotlight, UFC Putting together a puzzle can be, well, puzzling. The pattern and the picture have to line up just right. The more pieces in the puzzle, the more complicated it can be. Puzzle pieces are complex little things...
UFC 171’s Raquel Pennington: Pressure Makes Diamonds Amber Boone March 6, 2014 Spotlight, UFC Diamonds. You can’t listen to contemporary radio without hearing about them. You can’t watch television without celebrities wearing them or commercials praising them. “Diamonds are nothing more than...
Invicta FC’s Ashley Greenway: A Fighter That Gets What She Wants Amber Boone February 27, 2014 Spotlight, UFC There was a feral cat in Orlando, Fla. This cat was an adorable little calico and shouldn’t have had trouble finding a good home, but for some reason, that cat decided my home was her home. She greeted me...
Bellator 110’s Matt Bessette: Preparing a Surprise for Featherweight Tourney Opponent Nunes Amber Boone February 25, 2014 Spotlight, UFC Fighting is an interesting dichotomy. On one side, a fighter, and only that fighter, is in the ring with his opponent when it’s time to do work. Everything hinges on what that fighter does in the ring....
Delaney Owen: Unleashing the Monster in Women’s MMA Amber Boone February 4, 2014 Spotlight, UFC A fighter stands alone in the cage, facing an opponent who wants to do bodily harm to her, knowing that one wrong move could mean the difference between winning and losing, between next level or rebuilding....
Prize Fighting Championship’s Steele McCall: Adapting to Change Amber Boone January 28, 2014 Spotlight, UFC “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” — Henri Bergson Steele McCall has already experienced quite a bit of change in his early career as a...
Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde: The Two Faces of Sarah Alpar Amber Boone January 20, 2014 Spotlight, UFC In the case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a potion turned a good man into an evil creature. In the case of Sarah “Too Sweet” Alpar, stepping into a cage turns a sweet and respectful young woman into a...
UFC Fight Night 35’s Garett Whiteley: An Unlikely Hero Amber Boone January 7, 2014 Spotlight, UFC There is always a back story to every superhero’s power. Superman was an alien. Spiderman was bitten by a radioactive spider. Batman, Ironman, etc. all got their powers as they overcame some adversity....
