MMA News and Articles by Mike Sloan

Mike Sloan

Mike Sloan is one of the longest-tenured staffers of the Sherdog team. He’s been a part of the MMA media giant for over a decade and has covered hundreds upon hundreds of fight events in his adopted hometown of Las Vegas. The native of Chicago’s friendly South Side graduated near the top of his class from Robert Morris and has been published dozens of times in various magazines (Grappling, Ultimate Athlete, TapOut, the original FightSport, etc.) and newspapers (Las Vegas Review-Journal) throughout the years. Thousands of reports, interviews, features and columns into his career, he is just getting started. The creator of the popular Pros Pick features, Sloan’s work has also appeared many times on the mighty ESPN.com. Aside from working for Sherdog, Sloan recently founded Burning Horse Media, an independent publishing and media company with the goal of assisting aspiring authors and visionaries throughout the various underground genres who simply haven’t gotten their chance to shine yet. Sloan is himself in the midst of ghostwriting two autobiographies and will start on a separate biography and fiction novel later this year. On top of that, Mike Sloan is also one of leading contributors for SecondsOut.com (one of the world’s biggest boxing news sites in conjunction with maxboxing.com) and Blistering.com, one of the most powerful sites dedicated to the only music that matters: metal. With that in mind, be on the lookout for his new blog coming soon, which will coincide with the fight sites he writes for.

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Pros Pick: Silva vs. Bonnar

By: Mike Sloan Oct, 11, 2012
Most fighters, trainers favor Anderson Silva in his return to 205 pounds at UFC 153.
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Pros Pick: Benavidez vs. Johnson

By: Mike Sloan Sep, 21, 2012
Joseph Benavidez will enter his historic flyweight title bout at UFC 152 as a prohibitive favorite among peers.
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Pros Pick: Henderson vs. Edgar 2

By: Mike Sloan Aug, 09, 2012
Fighters, trainers favor Benson Henderson in UFC 150 rematch.
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Pros Pick: Shogun vs. Vera

By: Mike Sloan Aug, 02, 2012
It has become one of the more maligned main events in Ultimate Fighting Championship history: onetime light heavyweight champion Mauricio “Shogun” Rua meets Brandon Vera at...
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Pros Pick: Faber vs. Barao

By: Mike Sloan Jul, 19, 2012
Peers side with “The California Kid” by a 2-to-1 margin at UFC 149.
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Pros Pick: Silva vs. Sonnen 2

By: Mike Sloan Jul, 06, 2012
Their first bout was epic, complete with an ending even the best scriptwriter could not have crafted.
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Pros Pick: Silva vs. Franklin 2

By: Mike Sloan Jun, 21, 2012
Three summers ago, Wanderlei Silva lost a unanimous decision to onetime UFC middleweight champion Rich Franklin in Germany. It was the Brazilian...
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Pros Pick: Dos Santos vs. Mir

By: Mike Sloan May, 25, 2012
It was not the main event the Ultimate Fighting Championship had envisioned, but when Junior dos Santos meets Frank Mir in the UFC 146 headliner...
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Pros Pick: Diaz vs. Miller

By: Mike Sloan May, 03, 2012
The Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to the Garden State on Saturday for its third event on the Fox network. UFC on Fox 3 “Diaz vs. Miller” features a terrific main event between two world-ranked lightweights in “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 5 winner Nate Diaz and...
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Pros Pick: Jones vs. Evans

By: Mike Sloan Apr, 19, 2012
On Saturday night in the Philips Arena down in Atlanta, the UFC’s most marketable grudge match will finally take place. Former training partners Jon Jones and...
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