The Fighting Life

What do you like about this UFC and MMA stuff anyway?

Here's why I'm not gonna sit here and let people sneer at an entire sport just because the UFC White House event is ... whatever it is

Jun 9 • Ben Fowlkes

Is the UFC prepared for the backlash to its White House event?

So a weird thing happened last week and it exposed a blind spot in my thinking that I am going to attribute to having my brain gradually melted by…

Jun 1 • Ben Fowlkes

'The license to go straight up the devil's ass, smile at him, and survive'

The case for Nic Cage as the most aggressively fearless artist of our time

May 27 • Ben Fowlkes

The accountability gap

Political violence may be on the rise. Have we considered that it might be partly because we've created a society where some people are effectively…

May 16 • Ben Fowlkes

Time portals, vampires, and regret

The other day I sent this meme to the big homie Chad Dundas so we could talk about it on our show.

May 3 • Ben Fowlkes

I would like to learn how to be kinder to people

Wait, no. I would like to learn how to become the type of person who does not have to try so damn hard to make myself be kind to people. Wait, no...

Apr 21 • Ben Fowlkes

What happens if we stop believing good things are possible?

A while back I was talking with a friend about the ongoing horrors.

Apr 3 • Ben Fowlkes

Some notes on the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender

If you don’t have a close personal relationship with someone in the performing arts there is a very good chance you totally missed the comments that…

Mar 14 • Ben Fowlkes

The Fighting Life

More or less weekly musings about whatever, man. Sometimes dovetailing with my long sports writing career focused on the world of professional fighting. Mostly other stuff, though.

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