[7][8][9] Thomas was born in 1979[1] in the Republic of India[10][11] to an American foreign service officer father and a Syrian-Armenian mother who lived in Lebanon.
[18] While in college he started training in Judo, and while serving in the military he participated in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program.
[16] Between February 2006[21] and May 2007[22] (inactive between July 2006 and March 2007[23]), Thomas founded and wrote commentary on his MMA dedicated blog Mad-Squabbles.com,[22][24][25][26] with his online identity known as Mad Squabbles.
[33] Between 2008 and late 2010,[19] Thomas was color commentating live broadcast fight cards for the regional MMA promotion Ultimate Warrior Challenge.
[39][40][41][42] Between 2007 and 2011,[19] contrary to a common misconception,[24][43][44] Thomas was not the founder or co-founder of SB Nation's first MMA sports blog Bloody Elbow (launched February 15, 2007[45]).
[50] From 2011 to 2019,[19] Thomas was an MMA senior editor at SB Nation[51] and senior editor at MMAFighting.com[52] (acquired by SB Nation November 2011 from AOL[53]); a 2 million unique users per month website in 2011,[53] and currently the #3 most popular MMA media & news website worldwide according to Alexa Internet.
[59] Thomas stated he likes MMA fighting because "Struggle and fear tackled by athleticism, technical know-how and innate desires for self-preservation brings out a side in humanity that exists only in the deepest recesses of our being.
According to Thomas "One need not train five days a week to be a competent analyst of MMA, but experiencing the rigors of physical punishment certainly informs your judgment.
"[20] Thomas,[64][65][66] and other MMA journalists and fans,[67][68][69][70][71][72][73] have criticized the UFC for putting on too many shows and thus diluting the quality of their product.
When another Twitter member confronted White, tweeting " if nobody gives a shit what [Thomas] thinks, then why is he on @ufc countdown shows?"
In January 2014, following the reported suicide of MMA female fighter Cat Zingano's husband, Thomas shared that his mother took her own life when he was 23 years old (2003).