Deadspin's Best Long Stories Of 2014

We wrote a lot of long stories this year that you probably didn't have time to read. Now is your chance to get caught up. How Jon Jones Became The Baddest Motherfucker On Earth The baddest motherfucker on Earth and I are in a posh restaurant in a poor city with two guys he picked up at some point or another to shoot guns and drink beer with whenever he isn't elbowing people in the face, and we're laughing, the four of us, hearty guffaws that crash around the table. I'm telling them a funny story I heard during my week here in Albuquerque, about a fighter who was knocked out the first time he fought on pay-per-view, with all his friends and family watching at home. It starts with him sprinting across an eight-sided chain link fence, chin out, fists low, and ends wit…