Chuck Mindenhall

Ten years after the original Ultimate Fighter television show put the UFC on the map, one of its cast members fell off. So … whatever happened to Jason Thacker, the quirky Canadian that trained out of the old abandoned truck stop?    238 I’ve long…

The many lives of Douglas Crosby who, aside from being a Hollywood stuntman with a bombastic personality, is the man fans love to hate as an MMA official It’ll be well into the afternoon by the time we get around to the Russian Mermaid Spa in Sea…

On a given day, Brian Butler-Au, the founder and CEO of SuckerPunch Entertainment, will answer his phone a hundred times. It’ll be one of his company’s more than 200 fighters calling to get the status of something. To see if a fight is being made. To…

Back in 2013, I wrote a series of 20 pieces in 20 days for MMA Fighting as the UFC turned 20. Did I have six months to write them all ahead of time? No. I literally wrote one piece per day, for 20 days straight. It was like writing a book with a 20…

Copy LinkEmailPrint The year 2012 was supposed to be a christening in MMA. The UFC was in the first year of a long-coveted broadcast deal, which meant something like the first (big) step toward something like (actual) legitimization. Smaller fighter…