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UFC 175 preview show
MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani and Chuck Mindenhall break down the top storylines for Saturday's event.
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Human face shaped by millions of years of fighting, study finds
Human faces have evolved to minimise the damage caused by fist fight over millions of years, study finds
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Falling in love with medieval armed combat
Dressing up in uniforms from the past and re-enacting battles is a pastime in many parts of Europe and North America. But, until now, there had never been a world championship for medieval knights. Standing on the great 15th Century battlements of Belmonte - a castle so flamboyantly medieval the Hollywood epic El Cid starring Charlton Heston was filmed there in the 1960s - the view is still one that Cervantes might have recognised.
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Twilight of an enforcer
A hockey player fights to stay in the game he loves.
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Mayweather improves to 46-0 with majority decision over Marcos Maidana
Marcos Maidana did everything Saturday night but beat Floyd Mayweather Jr., taking him 12 tough rounds before losing a majority decision.
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Wladimir Klitschko Drops Alex Leapai in 5th Round
Wladimir Klitschko retains all for of his World Heavyweight Title belts with his dominant defeat of Leapai.
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Why I Fixed Fights
Writing about boxing sometimes adopts a heroic perspective on the sport. This seems especially common in a certain kind of popular journalism. When a boxer gets into the ring, he's seen as entering a magic theatre of virtue and vice cut off from the rest of the world. For the fight's duration his actions assume a kind of moral transparency, defining him as noble or ignoble.
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If MMA Doesn't Change, Someone Is Going To Die
No one needed to see Marlon Moraes continue beating on Josh Rettinghouse. Moraes had outclassed his opponent in every facet of the game for 15 minutes, piling on abuse and bludgeoning his lead leg. Rettinghouse could barely support his own weight, let alone continue to defend himself, and as he hobbled back to his corner at the end of the third round, you could only hope that someone would stop this...
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