GLORY series is looking to line up a HUGE 2013!   We will see more of the DREAM promotion this year, this according to sources close to AsianMMA.com. DREAM, who is now officially owned and operated by GLORY, has plans of hosting four more shows in 2013, not including the NYE show that already occurred.  […]

What a welcome bit of news, from our favourite promotion in the Land of the Morning Calm. Kickboxing & Cage Rage king Melvin “Marvellous” Manhoef, and the Super Hluk Open-Weight Champion of the World Ikuhisa Minowa (known and revered as Minowaman) have been added to a now stellar Road FC 9 card. Minowaman, who won […]

If you really want more, scream it out louder. Get on the floor, bring out the fire. And light it up, take it up higher. Gonna push it to the limit give it more! More, more, more. As insatiable as the human appetite is, so it is correspondingly for the fight fan and ‘one’ particular […]

Granted, it got progressively worse, and the infamous Minowa/Ishii card made me want to Columbine Fighting Entertainment Group’s staff in its entirety, not to mention half the internet. But DREAM was special, and in 2008 and 2009 every event was a wonderful spectacle that just about every fan of worldwide Mixed Martial Arts anticipated with […]

Having sat on this rumour for about three weeks, it’s good to finally put to paper. A bout between Evolve MMA’s superstar and the man with more top 10 wins at lightweight than any other, Shinya Aoki, versus pound-for-pound demi-God of Mixed Martial Arts and the pick of many longtime fans for the #2 spot […]

MMA’s best thighs return this month (unless you’re gay or female, and have a bunch of old Ken Shamrock tapes) when pocket rocket and undefeated MMA starlet Rin Nakai returns to the ring on May 20, in Pancrase. Nakai is not just a bonny little beauty from Matsuyama, Japan, she’s a damn fine fighter. A […]

DREAM are back in town. Co-promotion with ONE FC aside, Japan’s biggest post-PRIDE Mixed Martial Arts promotion will return in April. With Kawajiri signing his services to ONE FC in time for the March 31st card, we at least know of one name who will not be participating, but as for who will populate the […]

The Crusher! Tatsuya Kawajiri is a remarkable signing for One FC. The elite top 10 lightweight (only lower in the current scheme of things than Gilbert Melendez, Shinya Aoki, Ben Henderson, Michael Chandler and Frankie Edgar in my opinion) turned featherweight monster is known to fans of PRIDE FC, Dream and Shooto alike. He was the #1 […]

One was the former #1 lightweight, and one is the unofficial #1 featherweight. Takanori Gomi and Hatsu Hioki represented both their country and the Japanese MMA scene superbly with two displays of varying excellence. Hioki put on yet another grappling clinic, whereas the wilder Gomi showed considerable grit to come back from a combination of […]

This is obviously a pretty subjective issue and article… but lets take a look at (IMO) the top 5 MMA events in Asia. Notable mentions must also go to – Super Fight League, Dare Fc, URCC, Deep, Shooto, Pancrase, Rings, MFC, Rings, PXC and im sure many more. Below are (in no order) and (imo) the […]