To quote Sir Liam Gallagher, pre-closing song on live Oasis gigs (generally Live Forever, for a fun fact). This is one simply a feelgood one for the betterment of all. Sometimes you just need it. The Last Emperor, Fyodor Emelianenko – greatest fighter to have competed on Asian soil, greatest fighter to have fought under […]

Thank you for the memories. The greatest fighter in the history of combat sports retired last night, as FSA reported he would some weeks ago. For the eulogy to a truly glorious career, please refer to the following piece, The End of the Greatest: It Is God’s Will. Fedor lit Rizzo up like a Christmas […]

“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 […]

Reports premature: M-1 are far from dead! The promotion who claim dominion over Eastern Europe, and by virtue of Russia’s geography, northern Asia in its entirety, use a Russian domain and website as their primary official site, but have maintained an English language dot com domain for several years. Rumours flew in abundance as the […]

Maeda is back, and hopefully better than ever. The man behind K-1 Hero*s & The Outsiders has decisively resurrected what was arguably his most star-studded promotion in its early 2000′s heyday, Fighting Network RINGS. While Maeda’s RINGS comeback wont (initially, at least!) feature Fedor Emelianenko, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Dan Henderson, Randy Couture, TK, Gilbert Yvel, […]