Alexa Grasso and magnificently bearded ref Mike Beltran.
Part one of the biggest weekend in women’s mixed martial arts history was the Invicta 11 fight card in Los Angeles.
Sarah recapped the bouts, including Cristiane ‘Cyborg’ Justino’s dominating victory, for Fightland in addition to kepting track of referee Mike Beltran’s magical beard.
To read about Cyborg’s victory and more, click here.
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DeAnna Bennett
The biggest weekend in women’s mixed martial arts history kicks off tonight with the Invicta 11 card.
Sarah spoke to DeAnna Bennett, one of the marquee fighters on the card, about her weight cut and the rough, tough world of… water polo.
To read the story head over to Fightland by going here.
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Basquiat’s crown
Jean-Michel Basquiat fever has taken over Toronto lately with the painter’s exhibit currently running at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
It turns out that Bsaquiat used the sport of boxing as an artistic and careerist muse throughout his career.
Sarah wrote about this intersection of art and fisticuffs for Fightland.
To read the story go here.
Filed under Art, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Homer Simpson can take a punch
There are a number of classic plots that pop up regularly in sitcoms — the broken-telephone episode, the grandpa-comes-to-visit episode, the high school reunion episode, etc — but one of the most entertaining ones is often X main character-takes-on-a-pro-fighter, hilarity ensues.
Sarah tracked down a number of these classic episodes from shows as wide-ranging as The Simpsons, iCarly, George Lopez and Ally McBeal.
To read about them, head over to Fightland by going here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion, Television
Malcolm X meets Muhammad Ali
In Sarah’s latest Fightland investigation into the intersection of fighting and culture she wrote about the short period where Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X were associates.
Their relationship, in modern terms, was “complicated.”
To read the story head over to Fightland by going here.
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I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 