As one Kang prepares to win two fights in one evening and rematch rival Andrew Leone, a more famous and heavier Kang will compete at the same event. Former Pride Welterweight (185lbs) Grand Prix finalist Denis Kang is no stranger to MMA tournaments, having failed at the final hurdle to win his own. The gifted […]

March-June 2012 is a great time to be a fan of Muay Thai, especially in Thailand! After the consecutive Saturday Lumpinee Stadiums cards Sam-A/Petchpanomrung & Saenchai/Sagetdao, we had several announcements, the three most eye-catching to me of which I will feature here, namely: *The Omnoi Stadium tournament. *The WMC 4-man 72kg title tournament *The WBC […]

From Omnoi Stadium on Saturday. We’ve already had a Muay Thai Clip of the Week (Unbreakable) which is extremely hard to top, given the prime Bovy/Eubank/Vitali-level chin that Phetchartchay displayed in it. So I didn’t try to! Here is a fight from Saturday’s Omnoi Stadium card, featuring Orono (Sor.Suriya, an upcoming Omnoi prospect not Por.Muang […]

Her voice rang loud through 80k seater stadia in Japan, and was heard by millions around the world. More, she added to every PRIDE event, the eccentricity of her announcing delivery increasing the unique feel of what made PRIDE special and extraordinary. Her introductions of PRIDE champions Fedor Emelianenko, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and most of […]

My friend Mike Hackler still breaking news; MMA-Japan article. Just to add a little colour to this mural, RUFF are sponsored by none other than Niké. Should they relax the Sino-centric regulations they have on who can fight for them, and actually allow ‘foreign’ fighters sans Chinese visas into their organisation, they would undoubtedly gain […]

Tonight I watched a film that represented the amoral greed of high society, wrapped up in the sugar-coating of capitalism’s mainstream myth and the so-called ‘American Dream’. A warped society, the social construct created by people and as such, flawed just as we are. It made me think. Yesterday I posted a story about the […]

Kanehara (18-10) is a man who teeters between elite and mid-tier. A mixed record, he nonetheless holds wins over Michihiro Omigawa, Korean Zombie and Kid Yamamoto. He also stumbles against mid-tier competition, and was memorably laid out in 38 seconds by Marlon Sandro in his first defence of the Sengoku Featherweight title he won via […]

Shooto: 3rd Round Nam Jin Jo W MD 3 BJ Kojima Kyoji Horiguchi W TKO 1 Tetsu Suzuki Junji Ito W MD 3 Yuki Shojo Yuji Hoshino W UD 3 Akitoshi Tamura Haruo Ochi W MD 3 Kiyotaka Shimizu Ryuichi Miki W UD 3 Yuya Shibata RINGS: Reincarnation Gennadiy Kovalev W TKO 2 Chris Haseman Ben Abbott def. Takayuki Kohiruimaki […]

UFC Japan saw the birth of one of MMA’s five greatest talents; Kazushi “The Gracie Hunter” Sakuraba. Several more events would be held in the country, before SEG were bought out by the Fertitta brothers, and Zuffa LLC’s era of the UFC began. For the fifth time in its near-twenty-year history, and the first time […]

A few days ago we brought you a story about young FW star Doo Ho Choi being reported missing. As of right now we can confirm he is still missing but my correspondents in both Korea (where he is reported to have went missing) and Japan that the search is continuing. As you would expect […]