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The Fighting Life

Ben Fowlkes

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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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...

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

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 of our culture’s most deeply committed weirdsmobiles.

In case you haven’t...

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The accountability gap

So there I was, doing clean and jerks in the garage gym while listening to The Daily podcast. Pretty normal Monday, really. Except this time the podcast made me very mad, which might have been good for my clean and jerks but bad for my spir...

a month ago
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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.

The other day I sent this meme to the big homie Chad Dundas so we could talk about it on our show. Actually, meme is too strong a word for i...

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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...

The other day I was in a craft store with my child. This is the thing about having artsy c...

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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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