All the big hitters come out to take a swing. First up, we have the Legend FC event headlined by Lisita vs. Kawanago for the featherweight title belt. Then, One FC Pride of a Nation, and what a tremendously stacked event that is. And then, we follow up with PXC, the day after One Fighting […]

I’ll bet that when the fifty-eighth DEEP card on June 15th was booked and scheduled, Shigeru Saeki didn’t imagine that it would be the most high profile event in Japan. The death of DREAM is perhaps the final death knell in the chronically stagnant scene of kakatougi in Japan. Not PRIDE, not K-1 in its […]

With a ban on professional Mixed Martial Arts in Thailand, the time is ripe! The progress of MMA in non-Japanese Asia has grown exponentially in recent years, as the spread of support combined with PRIDE’s death and the stagnation of the Japanese market, to the point where a relatively new promotion in One FC can […]

He is a Phuket Top Team standout, former NY state wrestling champion, 10-1 fighter currently contracted to One FC and about to take part in the finals of the Road FC Asia Bantamweight Grand Prix. His name is Andrew Leone. As for a nickname, we’re not sure. He once went by “Robin Hood”, but as […]

He holds more top 10 wins than any lightweight past or present, and his résumé stands him in good stead to be considered the #1 lightweight of all time. The “Tobikan Judan”, Master of Flying Submissions, Shinya Aoki. He is obviously on the brink of becoming a fully fledged One FC fighter, not merely participating […]

Say what you will about Chatri, the Harvard educated fighting entrepreneur has carved a niche for himself in the annals of Asian MMA with his Evolve camp and involvement in the One FC network, in which he holds some obvious sway. He spoke articulately and at times combatively at the summit, outlining his own views […]

“It is God’s Will”, says Fedor, the greatest Mixed Martial Arts fighter to have ever competed professionally. That was how he justified his fall from the top, as his decade of destruction and 32-fight-unbeaten streak of terror was finally ended by Fabricio Werdum. And so it is now, as he prepares to end his career […]

Two juicy matchups for Phuket Top Team stars at One FC IV: Destiny of Warriors! It is heavily rumoured that the fights to be signed for Messrs Adam Kayoom and Rodrigo Praxedes are to be all-black-belt affairs. Kayoom, from Malaysia, is a former WPMF middleweight World Muay Thai champion, and a decorated Brazilian Jiu Jitsu […]

DARE are not a promotion prone to quiet marketing. With bare-knuckle fights announced, statements pronouncing that ‘mornings after DARE are sweet hangovers’, and signings such as Mark Striegl and Irshaad Sayed, the Bangkok organisation refuse to exist in silence. Last night the results from Bangkok were as follows; Arnaud LePont def Cris Haja, round 1 guillotine Andre […]

Legend FC returns! Indonesia’s premier Mixed Martial Arts organisation hosts its eighth event in March, and here is the official press release and breakdown of the card from the promotion themselves. (From http://legendfc.com) Legend makes its first trip to Southeast Asia with Legend Fighting Championship 8 in Jakarta on Friday, March 30! For the first […]