For both Roman gladiators and modern-day mixed martial arts participants, physical contests become moral dramas about sacrifice and human limits. That has led today’s fighters to right-wing politics.
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It’s showtime! …Erecting a mixed martials arts arena at the White House and hinting that it might just become a permanent fixture is a nod to power that draws on force and spectacle.
Centuries-old conditioning techniques are remaking bone, muscle and skin at a cellular level. Modern science is only just catching up.
From elite athletes to amateurs, eating disorders are too often praised as ‘discipline’.
The hidden toll of hitting target weight.
From boxing to jiu-jitsu, practitioners know where the off-buttons are. Here’s the anatomy of how they work.
Female athletes are at increased risk of not eating enough. If energy intake is too low to meet training needs, there can be severe consequences for exercise performance, muscles and health.
How does extreme weight cutting affect MMA fighters, and do they actually benefit from it?
US and Japanese tech companies are building fighting megabots to kicktstart what they envisage as a sporting franchise on the scale of Formula 1.
Millions of dollars will be made by both sides from the fight but does boxing have more to lose than UFC in this big money head-to-head?
Mixed martial arts athletes are risking serious injury and death through crash dieting, a new report warns.
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