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Pakistan - Part 3

Bashir Ahmad takes us behind the scenes of Pak Fight Club 3, the latest in a series of big MMA nights he's orchestrated in Lahore. Full story

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Pakistan - Part 1

Pakistani MMA got its start in an apartment above a real estate office. Fightland travels to Lahore to meet Bashir Ahmad, professional fighter and founder of the country's first-ever mixed martial arts team, PAK MMA. Full story

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Before and After: Clay Guida - Part 2

Follow UFC featherweight, and proud Chicagoan, Clay "The Carpenter" Guida through the bowels of the United Center and into the Octagon, where he meets contender Hatsu Hioki. Full story

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Before and After: Clay Guida - Part 1

Follow UFC fighter Clay "The Carpenter" Guida as he returns home to Chicago to fight for the first time as a featherweight: from weight cuts to weigh-ins to reunions. Full story

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Fightland Worldwide - Macau

The world gets smaller and smaller as MMA pushes into China. Full story

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The Psychology of Submitting

Mixed martial arts is unique in sports in having a major percentage of its outcomes decided by a choice: to endure pain and risk injury or to tap out. The science of how pain works within the body is widely understood. What is less clear is what happens inside the mind in the dec… Full story

Julie Kedzie and the Early Days of Women's MMA

It's been a long time coming for the Indiana native, who started fighting back in 2004, when she was just 23 and women's MMA was barely in its infancy—a freakshow for some, but a world of possibility for a few. We called up Kedzie to ask her what it was like when she heard she ma… Full story

The State Representative Who Compared MMA to Child Porn

Steve Hickey, a right-wing Republican and ordained minister, called for a ban on MMA in South Dakota and compared the sport to child porn, meth, and feeding people to lions. "It is violent, and it isn't a sign of a healthy society that crowds gather to watch it," he wrote. Full story

MMA Fighter Ronda Rousey Gets It from Her Momma

Women are tougher than men are. This was evident during my conversation with MMA fighter Ronda Rousey's mom, Dr. Ann Maria Rousey DeMars, who was a fighter herself. I couldn’t help but think that all men are pussies compared to a Ann, who fought at an elite level and created anot… Full story

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MMA with the Bourdain Family

My husband likes to say that when we first met I was a delicate flower. I think he’s just trying to rationalize how he could find himself in a relationship with a woman who could kick his ass. Truth is, there was nothing delicate about me when we first met. Full story