UFC on FOX: Rashad Evans vs. Phil Davis

Well, let’s hope the Ultimate Fighting Championship and FOX learned its collective lesson from the Cain Velasquez-Junior dos Santos debacle. Appears on the surface that they have. Sure, company president Dana White came out against all the naysayers about…

Will They or Won’t They? 10 Movie Franchises (Maybe) Coming to a Theater Near You

Hollywood loves to make a franchise. Any time something hits big, they flog that horse long after she’s dead. So now The Rugged takes the opportunity to look into its film crystal ball at some of the rumored franchises on…

5 Most Inappropriate Uses of Taxpayer Money in 2011

The United States government dealt us all a monumental screw-job in 2011 by getting our country’s AAA credit rating downgraded. Congress bickered back and forth like a couple of second graders. Republicans wanting to slash programs, Democrats not seeing…

Why Showtime’s Super Six Boxing Series was a Disaster

Showtime’s Super Six World Boxing Classic featuring the “top 6 super middleweights in the world” ended without much fanfare despite a raucous and interesting start. The winner, Andre Ward, took a decision over Carl Froch to secure the WBA,…

6 Worst Dallas Cowboys Teams of the Last 6 Years

  The Dallas Cowboys—“America’s Team”—have seen better days. (But then, so has America.) You don’t have to be from Dallas to see there is trouble in East Texas, and whether it’s the fault of Jerry Jones, Wade Phillips, Jason Garrett,…

5 Top Stories from 2011 We Couldn’t Care Less About

  With each new year, you’ve always got some hungover bunch of asses low on content trying to dream of Best Of/Worst Of Lists for the year before. Very rarely do you see a site or publication take the approach…

UFC: RIO Predictions: Aldo vs. Mendes

It’s that time of the month again, kids. No, Aunt Flo is nowhere in sight, but Uncle Dana and his traveling carnival of brutes are. UFC 142 will find the whole troupe heading to Rio for what promises to…

5 Reasons Movie Ticket Sales Plummeted in 2011

According to CBS News, movie ticket sales have “fallen sharply in 2011.” What that translates to for us little people is a $10.22 billion take, fueled by a handful of movies. The old adage that most movies lose money…