by Stew Boyd on 9 December 2008 In truth, the bar (ergo, expectation levels) wasn't exactly set very high for the literary account of Chuck Liddell's thirty-something years, by virtue of the exceedingly poor quality of ghost written MMA autobiographies that have surfaced to date (see: Matt Hughes and Tito Ortiz), coupled with the staggeringly pathetic "Ultimate Iceman", the official UFC DVD dedicated to their one time posterboy...

by Paul Kelly on 9 August 2008 ‘This Is Gonna Hurt’… the first thing that crossed my mind was if the book was prescient, could it tell the future? Was the title of Tito’s autobiography a warning for non fans of Mixed Martial Arts to stay away? Well…

by Stew Boyd on 29 January 2008 Long time cornerstone UFC Welterweight Matt Hughes is irrefutably cocksure, as anyone who has seen as much as a snippet of one of his pre-fight interviews or Ultimate Fighter coaching turns will attest to, and this seems to rub a lot of folks up the wrong way. In certain people, this can acquaint to an intangible likeability, and right off the bat I have to admit to being something of a Hughes fanboy, as much for his understatedly unapologetic arrogance as his rugged, powerhouse fighting style...