Also interviews with Saiyok, Master Toddy and a clip of the ceremony. For a breakdown of the 4-man 72kg Grand Prix tournament featuring Saiyok, Jordan Watson, Ilya Grad and Vuyisille Colossa, see FSA~ The WMC Tournament. Warning: spoilers, that was breaking news piece. Featured here are the full fight videos from the event for Jordan […]

Petchpanomrung (also known as eight different variations of that spelling – I go by the Lumpinee poster!) whose current representation via surname is Wor.Sangprapai, is a youngster who recently cracked the top 10 in the Lumpinee Stadium’s Super-Bantamweight division. He is obviously a talented young fighter, just by virtue of competing at one of Thailand’s […]

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 […]

Stefan “Blitz” Leko! The former WMTA, WKN, IKBO, IKBF world Muay Thai and kickboxing champion, K-1 Dream 1999 tournament winner, K-1 European Grand Prix winner, and two-time K-1 World Grand Prix in Las Vegas winner (and 3rd place WGP semi-finalist) is now current WKA World Super-Heavyweight kickboxing champion, his first title win in six years […]

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 […]

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 […]

Remember to keep checking FSA’s Japan MMA Calendar @ http://www.FightSportAsia./mma/Japan-MMA-Calendar Pancrase: Progress Tour 3 Results: Welterweight King of Pancrase Match: (c) Takenori Sato (DEC) x “Strasser” Kiichi Kunimoto “Windy” Tomomi Sunaba x Saori Ishioka (2R SUB)- Windy’s Retirement match Shintaro Ishiwatari (DEC) x Tashiro Nishiuchi Jon Shores (2R TKO) x Masakazu Takafuji Seiya Kawahara (1R TKO) x Yuta Nakamura Motonobu Tezuka (2R TKO) […]

Explosive! It didn’t take long before fans of worldwide Mixed Martial Arts began writing, with just a small dose of vitriol, “OneFC > UFC”. While there was a definite degree of knowing defiance in said vitriolic remarks, it must be said that in order for such remarks to be made, a promotion has to deliver […]

An ambitious promotion, they say they will be the next PRIDE, bringing a new age of prosperity to the world of Mixed Martial Arts in Asia. Victor Cui’s OneFC are only one event in, yet have already brokered a deal with FEG and officially partnered up with Japan’s current biggest Mixed Martial Arts organisation DREAM. […]

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