Mixed martial artist Keith "The Dean of Mean" Jardine has seen his share of ups and downs throughout nearly a decade of professional fighting. After career defining victories over Forrest Griffin and Chuck Liddell, the Albuquerque native suffered a stretch of losses that ultimately got him released from the UFC. Now, Jardine looks to rebound his career with an impressive performance against Aron Lofton at the Fresquez/Mean 1 "Double Threat" event on March 4.

While today’s media teleconference for UFC 127 Penn vs. Fitch was supposed to be to hype up the upcoming pay-per-view next weekend, more questions were answered as to how big the sport of mixed martial arts is really becoming.

Following Fedor Emelianenko’s second consecutive defeat, much has been made about the future of the Russian superstar. Will the greatest heavyweight the sport has ever seen retire, or does he have another run in him? While these are certainly important questions to fans, fighters, and promoters, this writer poses another question: is Fedor Emelianenko really the greatest heavyweight of all time?

The trend at the moment is to discredit Fedor Emelianenko and all that he hasaccomplished by attacking the quality of his competition. By reducing the argument into a matter of statistics and arbitrary numerical rankings assigned by internet bloggers. A lot of algebra. How did Vitor Belfort get a shot at Anderson Silva after winning a single catchweight fight against a declining Rich Franklin instead of Yushin Okami? Previous to returning to the UFC, Belfort had knocked out an aging Matt Lindland and UFC-exile Terry Martin. Okami had won 10 of his 12 fights for the UFC, but they gave it to Belfort, because the UFC clearly saw something special in Belfort. They believed in Belfort because of...

Sunday, February 13th, one of the most random sprees of violence in New York's recent memory was brought to a Hollywood-like ending, when mass murderer Maksim Gelman's rampage was stopped by MMA practitioner and Gelman's final attempted victim Joseph Lozito. As documented by the New York Times, Gelman underwent a 28 hour rampage of random murder and assault throughout New York City before pulling a knife on Lozito at a train in Pennsylvania Station. Lozito, according to the Times report, improvised a single leg takedown to immobilize his attacker until police inside the train were able to come to his aid and arrest Gelman. Lozito required several stitches after the attack, bu...