I recently had the chance to sit down with one of the legends of MMA, wrestler Mark Kerr.  A former NCAA champion, Kerr won two consecutive UFC tournaments before jumping to PRIDE Fighting Championships.  Along the way he developed a crippling drug addiction, documented int he HBO film The Smashing Machine.  Kerr is back in the fight game, older, wiser, but seemingly not better.  The loser of four in a row, Kerr is hoping to turn things around in his upcoming fight for M-1 Global Challenge against "King" Mo Lawal.

With the death of Affliction, the fourth major MMA promotion to go out of business with Fedor Emelianenko as one of the top attractions (RINGS, PRIDE, and BoDog were the others), the Russian who is widely considered the top fighter in the world is looking for a new home.  He is negotiating with the Japanese, with Strikeforce, and most notably, with the UFC. 

Jonathan Snowden discusses Josh Barnett and the issue of performance enhancing drugs.

Jonathan Snowden looks at the best of the worst in MMA history.

It started as a spectacle, a gladiator contest in an octagon that promoters considered surrounding with a shark-filled moat rather than a steel-mesh fence.