This Saturday, the world's largest MMA organization makes its dramatic return to Brazil for UFC 134. The card, headlining middleweight champion and all time great Anderson Silva in a title defense against Yushin Okami, appears to be stacked in favor of the local boys. Below is the Mid-Atlantic staff picks for the event:

In the last installment of the Problem with Self Defense editorial series, I started to discuss the recent surge in discussion over the Real Life Superhero trend in New York. Last week, HBO aired a documentary called Superheroes following members of the recent phenomenon of private citizens dressing in costumes to engage in everything from from charity work to vigilante justice. Among the groups featured in the documentary is a make-shift team of Avengers who operate out of the New York boroughs known as the NY Initiative. In part one of this two part series*, I discussed the charity work and general positive side of these adventurous cosplayers. But the obvious problem with trying to be ...

This Saturday, XFE mixed martial arts series Cage Wars returns to Chester, Pennsylvania for its ninth iteration. The main event of the Cage Wars 9 card puts a rising prospect to the test as Ohioan young gun Chris Curtis takes on Mid-Atlantic gatekeeper Douglas Gordon.

Over the last decade, mixed martial arts has gone from a fringe interest to the American combat sport. Other martial pursuits that have served as bases for up and coming athletes have also gained popularity in the wake of the MMA boom. Judo, once the most practiced Japanese art to come to the west, has not seen quite the same gain in traction from MMA practicioners. Master Eugene Kim, a Judo instructor at Kim’s Martial Arts and Fitness in Freedom, Pennsylvania, seeks to bring this fighting form back to the top where it once was.

This Saturday, the world's largest MMA organization returns to the City of Brotherly Love for UFC 133. The event headlines the unexpected rematch between former light heavyweight champions Rashad Evans and Tito Ortiz. Below is the Mid-Atlantic staff picks for the main card of the event: