Peter Rugg

  • The Pain and Sorrow of Learning Your Beloved Childhood Pizza Is Trash

    Quad Cities-style pizza rises to the level of legendarily terrible—like 'The Room' or the 'Troll 2' of bad pizza.

  • The King of Women Fighters

    Before he watched Amanda Nunes first step into a Strikeforce cage on a chilly winter night in Tennessee in 2011 and lay out the woman across from her in 14 seconds, Chris Vender just knew her as the girl who once picked him up from an airport in Brazil.

  • From NFL Cheerleader to MMA Fighter

    These days, when Rachel Wray's lips are red at work, it's not lipstick—it's blood. Wray talked to us about leaving cheerleading and how she's prepping for her upcoming fight at the Voodoo Lounge in Kansas City later this month.