Alexander Volkanovski is a good hitter and strong in the clinch, which are the traditional must-haves for a shorter fighter, however the majority of Volkanovski’s bouts are won by his work on the outside in a slick game of footsie.

Triumphs of smaller men over larger ones are exciting anomalies in boxing on their own, but victories of smaller fighters over larger ones that do not comfortably conform to the “taller man boxes, smaller man infights” template are as rare as rooster teeth and well worth studying.

We examine MMA's greatest featherweight and three key applications of the pivot.

Igor straddled the final days of No Holds Barred competition and the coming of Mixed Martial Arts, and offered a glimmer of hope for "The Striker" when it seemed the sport would be dominated by grapplers forever. We examine the knockout artistry of MMA's most prolific tournament fighter.

Decades after it was thought all the main martial arts styles had been ticked off the list, fighting games are still finding ways to reinvent the classics. We examine Tekken's new Shotokan karateka, Lidia Sobieska and how Japanese karate became so far removed from the Okinawan tradition.

Shogun Rua had elevated grounded kicks and knees to an art form that worked time and time again against the best fighters in the world and now, in the modern age of MMA, that art form is essentially lost.

We examine the beautiful footwork and galloping jab of the Cuban great, Jose Napoles.

A ramble about when a move is just a gimmick, and how it can become something more. Ultimately, like all my work, a thinly veiled excuse to talk about Sakuraba.

A love letter to the hillbilly shoulder roll

Tommy Loughran was a pretend heavyweight. Yet at 5'11 and with a 73 inch reach, Loughran was able to out-jab just about every heavyweight he met.

There isn't much happening to write about, so I'm unlocking Advanced Striking 2.0: Anderson Silva, for the children.

After a while in copyright strike limbo on Youtube, The Hunger of Jack Dempsey is back.

With Rose Namajunas getting another crack at the UFC straw-weight crown this weekend, now seems as good a time as any to explore one of fighting’s more abstract concepts.

Adriano Moraes is the man who beat the man. We take a look at the fight, the finish, and how Moraes has been punishing the get up throughout his ONE Championship run.

The golden rule of footwork is “don’t cross your feet,” but with any rule there are exceptions and they tend to be eye-catching. We take a look at how Sean O'Malley cross steps his way to spin kicks and counters.

Switch hitting, upjabbing and infighting. We dive deep on the legendary career of an all time great, Marvelous Marvin Hagler.

We watch some multi-man fighting events. Some are awful, some are surprisingly good.

Whether you believe Adesanya’s striking is simply “levels above” Blachowicz’s or you delve into the minutia of their fighting habits, it is difficult not to see this as a tough match up for Blachowicz.

More clinch knees, more trips, more hand traps, and a surprisingly effective amount of rope-a-dope mark out this "build" of Alistair Overeem as he makes his last march for the UFC heavyweight title.

If Dustin Poirier bore any grudge about the way things went the first time he met Conor McGregor, he didn’t let it distract him for a moment on Saturday night.