Eric Stinton

Hailing from Kailua, Hawaiʻi, Eric has been contributing to Sherdog since 2014. He received his BFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University and graduate degree in Special Education from University of Hawaiʻi. He is an occasional columnist for Honolulu Civil Beat, and his work has also appeared in The Classical. You can find his writing at ericstinton.com. He currently lives in Seoul, South Korea with his fiance and dachshund.

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Back to the Future Bellator 198 on Saturday in Rosemont, Illinois, disrupted MMA’s space-time continuum in wonderful ways, writes Eric Stinton.

Eric Stinton

Apr 30, 2018

MMA’s Modern Mythological Hero Much like Achilles, Justin Gaethje will leave behind a legacy that will last the ages, writes Eric Stinton.

Eric Stinton

Apr 16, 2018

Making Sense of Nonsense UFC 223 was chaotic but ended up delivering and serves as a reminder of just how absurd this sport can be, writes Eric Stinton.

Eric Stinton

Apr 09, 2018

Stinton: The Best of a Bad Situation Max Holloway, Khabib Nurmagomedov and the UFC should be commended for putting together a blockbuster main event on such short notice, writes...

Eric Stinton

Apr 02, 2018

Stinton: Demotivating Factors The roaring success of the UFC as a business starts to look less impressive and more nefarious once you realize it has been built on the back of...

Eric Stinton

Mar 26, 2018

Stinton: More Than A Fight The stick-to-sports crowd fails to recognize or willfully overlooks the fact that no sport, including MMA, exists in a vacuum of purity, writes...

Eric Stinton

Mar 19, 2018

Stinton: Making Sense of Conor McGregor The absent Irishman is like an only child who upon meeting his cousins for the first time is shocked that he is no longer the center of...

Eric Stinton

Mar 12, 2018

Stinton: In With the New Winter abruptly evaporated into spring at UFC 222, where Brian Ortega continued to reshape the featherweight division, writes Eric Stinton.

Eric Stinton

Mar 05, 2018

Stinton: The Illusion of Control As witnessed in the UFC on Fox 28 main event, the very thing that makes MMA so dynamic and exciting also makes it unmanageable, writes Eric Stinton.

Eric Stinton

Feb 26, 2018

Stinton: The Cathartic Zen of the ‘Cowboy’ The sheer joy Donald Cerrone has for the sport and his occasional indifference toward ambition is an oasis of honesty, writes Eric Stinton.

Eric Stinton

Feb 20, 2018