The Kata Beach BJJ Open is Wednesday the 24th beginning with registration at 1pm @ Phuket Top Team gym. The event features a Gi & No-Gi division, both held right on the beach front. Inbetween the brackets a Grappling Super-Fight has been matches up. 2 of Asia’s most exciting MMA fighters will compete for the […]

- – - – - – Andrew Leone is a 6-2 pro MMA fighter with notable wins over current ONE FC Bantamweight champion So Chul Kim Video Here and is 1-1 against the now UFC signed Hyung Ho Kang. Andrew is a trainer & fighter at Phuket Top Team & his brother Anthony Leone is […]

Ten Questions: With Phuket Top Teams Boyd Clarke I decided that I would write to some of the top figures in Asian Pacific MMA and send them the same ten questions and see what answers we got. Here’s the first in that series: Subject: Boyd “Gypsy” Clarke 1)    Tell me about your lowest point in […]

Road FC (로드 FC) is Korea’s strongest MMA organisation and a leader in Asian MMA along with One FC, Legend FC, PXC and to a lesser extent URCC, DEEP, Pro FC, Rings, RUFF and SFL. ROAD FC are now coming up on there 9th event – showing a progressive increase in the standard of fights and […]

Andrew ‘saja wang’ Leone aka 사자 왕 Andrew’s nickname is pronounced Saja Wang and translates from Korean as Lion-King. Before Andrew fought in Korea for Road FC his nickname was originally Andrew ‘Lion-heart’ Leone. Being a huge fan of his current home at Road FC (the Korean powerhouse of MMA), Andrew decided to adopt the […]

Whoomp – der it is! This is fantastic news for fans of both Korean and Asian MMA in general. Road FC are, it could be said, as popular in Korea as Oasis are in England – well, that’s not entirely true… let’s say they’re as well known as The Kaiser Chiefs. Or Franz Ferdinand. Prime-time […]

The Question we put to a bunch of high level Pro MMA fighters is this; Does MMA still have the Honor, integrity and Code of conduct that many followed in the early stage of MMA (Vale Tudo, Shoot, Pride) ? Or indeed was there ever a true sense of honor, was this always a sport […]

A fun bantamweight scrap! Kevin “The Silencer” Belingon was a Filipino rising star who blasted his way to the One FC stage with nine straight victories, until he ran into Japanese submission magician Masakazu Imanari, who applied one of his trademark leglocks to remind his 24yr old opponent that he was not quite the finished […]

After his vengeance over Andrew Leone to capture the Road FC Bantamweight Grand Prix tournament, it was perhaps inevitable that Kyung Ho Kang would sign to the UFC. His 11-6 record belies his talent – the vast majority of his career was campaigned at lightweight and then featherweight, and he has just beaten the sole […]

We got to see the flyweights enter the UFC finally this year. From my perspective it’s been great. Previous to the UFC introducing the 131lbs (57kg) weight division, we would see the best of these little men fighting in Tachi Palace and Shooto (Japan) Asia has always been the hub of Flyweight MMA fighters – […]