From its savage beginnings, Cage fighting has come a long way. Since 1993, the mongrel conglomeration of fighting arts—known as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)—has undergone something of an image refit. It’s a reinvention largely down to the efforts of the sport’s main organisation, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)—a group that wrote the rulebook for the sport we see today. Twenty-four years ago, when it started, the sport was a convenient whipping boy for politicians and lawmakers of all stripes looking …
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Masked and sometimes caped crusaders occupy mythic positions in society. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Batman – in fact any super-hero you care to think of – use anonymity to progress good against entrenched, begrudging power cliques. Onto the stage – the digital stage and this time in real-life, strides blogger and prolific Tweeter – Grog’s Gamut. He is a Twitter sub-culture phenomenon, blogging and tweeting anonymously and with undoubted journalism skill. The package is now in the open, his mask ripped off. The eagle …