The Fighting Life
Ben FowlkesMore 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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I could be wrong but I swear social media wasn't always this terrible
Back in early 2010 there was this new thing called Twitter. I was a bright-eyed young sportswriter, working for a website owned by AOL Sports (!!!), when my friend and coworker Ariel Helwani was telling me I needed to get on this growing ne...
What do you like about this UFC and MMA stuff anyway?
So a weird thing happened after I wrote about how a weird thing happened. This post about the brewing backlash to the UFC’s event on the White House lawn is now by far my most read Substack post, supplanting this one about why you shouldn’t...
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 20(!!) years of covering fight sports for living.
The weird thing was this: Early in the we...
'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
The other day I was driving around listening to this recent interview with Nicolas Cage, because there’s simply no way I’m going to miss any chance to hear from one...
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 above the law?
So there I was, doing clean and jerks in the garage gym while listening to T...
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Sports writer for Yahoo and Uncrowned. I talk on the Co-Main Event Podcast and I've covered fight sports for The Athletic, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, MMA Fighting, and others. But on here I'm mostly writing about ... other stuff.
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