How does it feel to be the heavyweight world champ? Continue reading
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Peter Graham – World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Posted in Journalism, Martial Arts, MMA, Peter Graham, Real Men with tags Ben Edwards, Boxing, Jason Suttie, Julius Long, Kickboxing, Lucas Browne, Mark Hunt, MMA on March 10, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
The Straight View from the Middle of Mardi Gras
Posted in Journalism, Observation, Real Men, Ridiculous curiosity with tags Executive Style, Housewives on Fire, Mardi Gras, The Age Newspaper on March 4, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
Your humble narrator – and the Housewives on Fire – have made today’s Age newspaper.
Mardi Gras, bitches!
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Peter Graham – New WBF Boxing World Heavyweight Champion
Posted in Journalism, Peter Graham, Real Men with tags Boxing, heavyweight, Julius Long, Peter Graham, WBF, world title on February 28, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
Some things are stories; others are facts. The fact is Peter Graham is now the WBF world heavyweight boxing champion. He is the first Australian in history to hold a heavyweight boxing title.
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Benjey Zimmerman
Posted in Kickboxing, Martial Arts, MMA, Real Men with tags Alistair Overeem, Benjey Zimmerman, Breaking Bad, Cor Hemmers, Golden Glory, Junior Dos Santos, Kickboxing, Los Pollos Hermanos, Netherlands, Nick Hemmers, UFC, Walter White, World Series Boxing on February 8, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
When did you retire? What made you decide it was time?
I believe that passion is the main ingredient of being successful. I lost my passion after some heavy injuries and disappointment in decisions by management. Continue reading
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Wonder Woman Should Join the Lingerie Football League
Posted in Journalism, Love letters, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men, Ridiculous curiosity with tags ball gag, bondage, facebook, homophobia, Lingerie Football League, Matt Samartzis, NFL, The Atlhttp://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/11/wonder-womans-kinky-feminist-roots/380788/antic online, William Marston, Wonder Woman on January 27, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
I have come late to the Lingerie Football League. Like most things of this nature, it appeared on my Facebook feed courtesy of my good friend and arbiter of all things that ride the cutting edge of bad taste, Matt Samartzis. Continue reading
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Aamer Rahman
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags Aamer Rahman, Black Islam, Charlie Hebdo, Civil rights movement, Dr Yaaba, gun laws, John Howard, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Junior, Nikos Kazantzakis, Noam Chomsky, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Last Temptation, United States, Vice Magazine on January 13, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
Ahmer Rahman wrote a deeply provocative essay for ‘Vice Magazine’ on the anniversary of the Cronulla riots, attributing them to the inherent racism of the Howard Government. Continue reading
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Vale Lemmy Kilmister
Posted in Music, Obituary, Real Men with tags Lemmy Kilmister, Motorhead on December 29, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
Lemmy Kilmister, bass player and vocalist for Motorhead, has died aged seventy. We’d like to believe it is the cumulative result of too much of a good time.
See ya later, Lemmy, and thanks for the racket.
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Lion Fight 25: ‘John’ Wayne Parr versus Cosmo Alexandre
Posted in 'John' Wayne Parr, Journalism, Muay Thai, Real Men with tags 'John' Wayne Parr, Bangkok, Blackzilians, Boonchu, Caley Reece, CMT, Cosmo Alexandre, Elliot Compton, Fightlive TV, Jake Lund, Joe Rogan, Kevin Dick, Kickboxing, Las Vegas, Lion Fight, Lumpini Stadium, Melchor Menor, Michael 'Thomahawk' Thompson, Michael Schiavello, Muay Thai, Ramon Dekkers, Randy Couture, Rob Kaman, S1, Scott Kemp, Temecula, WMC on December 18, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
International Kickboxer Magazine, Nov/Dec 2015
‘John’ Wayne Parr is scheduled to take on Cosmo Alexandre at Lion Fight 25 in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 23. Continue reading
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Peter Graham Versus The World’s Strongest Man: KSW32
Posted in K1, Kickboxing, KSW, MMA, Peter Graham, Real Men with tags Boxing Works, Dancing with the Stars, Fedor Emelianenko, Golem, Japan, K1, Karol Bedorf, Kickboxing, Larry Papadopoulos, Maiqual Falcao, Mariusz Pudzianowski, mixed martial arts, Royce Gracie, Simon Haslam, SSE Arena, Stan 'The Man' Longinides, UFC on December 4, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
The entire SSE Arena in London seems poised above us; an immense sphere of mythological darkness, something dreamed, something imagined. Continue reading
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Mark Mullan Retires
Posted in Kickboxing, Real Men with tags Bobby Scrivano, Brendan Pardy, Daniel 'The Rock' Dawson, farang, Fitzroy Stars, Golden Glory, Holland, ISS Pattaya, James Roesler, K1, Kickboxing Arnhem, MMA, Rumble in the Jungle, Simon Coutsouvelis, Strikefit, Thailand, Underworld Gym on November 27, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
Mark Mullan has had more than thirty fights spread over a fifteen-year career. In that time, he has trained in the Netherlands at the toughest gym in the world and fought in Europe, Asia and Australia. The time has come to hang up the gloves and he intended to go out with a bang when he took on old rival Simon Coutsouvelis this Friday night. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 