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There was no "Machida Era." Simple. Just as there was no "Evans Era", "Griffin Era", or "Rampage Era"... Shogun Rua put an end to such nonsense.

Quite simply, there have only been three eras in the UFC Light-heavyweight division -- "Shamrock Era", "Ortiz Era", and "Liddell Era" -- and with that said, there is no "Shogun Era." Only until Shogun defends his title several times does it earn the name era. ...

Forest Griffin, in his hilarious and must read book Got Fight?, states that there is a difference between a Fighter and a Martial Artist. He states clearly that a Martial Artist is one who wears pajamas and tells stories about how great they could be. A fighter is one who, simply, fights. He names Georges "Rush" St. Pierre as a martial artist with an identity crisis -- one who needs to find his pajamas quickly.

I disagree vehemently. However, I acknowledge that while they ...

Jeet Kune Do was created back in the 1960s by a very famous actor named Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was a formidable Martial Artist taught by Yip Man in Hong Kong in the art Wing Chun; upon Lee's return to America he taught Jun Fan Gung Fu, a modified version of Wing Chun. When he moved to Los Angel es, he and Dan Inosanto termed their new art "Jeet Kune Do" or Way of the Intercepting Fist. Bruce's kwoon or school was run by Inosanto and had many students -- some were even taught privately by ...

Martial Arts have evolved since their inception, which some would argue their origin. Regardless of this fact, Martial Arts have seen a variety of changes in the last ten years. With the intensifying magisteria of MMA, there seems to be no room for the traditional – unless we're speaking of children, then the traditional is the only way to go. But, this is an egregious circumstance on the view of traditional martial arts. Does their classification of "traditional" invalidate them? Here ...