It’s just been announced that superstar Floyd Mayweather will be fighting 20-year-old Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawaon New Year’s Eve in a Rizin Fighting Federation bout. The fight will take place at the Saitama Super Arena on Dec. 31, between the once retired Mayweather, who held world titles in five different weight classes and has a 50-0…
Given the chaos surrounding the end of the McGregor VS Khabib fight, you would imagine, given his past history, that McGregor’s first words on the loss would be slightly more feisty than they’ve actually turned out to be. The Irish fighter seems to be in a reflective mood, analyzing the fight bit by bit to…
Thai superstar Rika Ishige has struck again and this time the victim of ‘tiny doll’ is Myanmar fighter Bozhena Antoniyar. From the beginning of the fight, Antoniyar seemed to be more in attack mode than her opponent, Rika, who seemed content to keep back, throw fewer punches and be more calculating in her moves. This strategy…
It always a controversial topic for outsiders looking into the Thai community. They see these little kids, sometimes as young as 10 years old, being forced to fight each other in a ring in order to earn money to support their families. To a western point of view, this is hard to get our heads…
As bizarre and made-up as this sounds, Attorney Michael Avenatti wants to fight Donald Trump Jr in a charity match. Avenatti is not exactly a Trump Clan favorite, having represented Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Donald Trump. The fight was first suggested by Avenatti while he was having lunch with media reporter Dylan…
Founded by MMA professionals, the Enbo Fight Club aims to train poor children and orphans from the Ngawa Tibetan Prefecture. Its HQ is in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The concept is to not only teach these children how to fight but also train them to be mentally strong in the hopes of helping them exceed their…
Up until UFC 229, one of the weirdest and most bizarre endings in recent MMA history resulted in a suspension for, and an apology from, the winning fighter. Actually, heavyweight Drew Chatman quickly became the losing fighter, after he was disqualified for doing a front flip off the body of his opponent, Irvins Ayala, who…
For those few who have been living in a dystopian bomb shelter, eating packets of dehydrated spaghetti bolognese for the past few months, there was a little fight on October 6th between Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov. Run-ups to UFC fights usually involve a lot of showboating and trash talk, to the point that you…
Discussions about the honorary black belt have risen again after the World University Taekwondo Federation (WUTF) bestowed a black belt to none other than Philippines President, Rodrigo Duterte and his special assistant Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go. The offering happened during President Duterte’s official visit to South Korea earlier this week, after the WUTF governor, Kim…
A while back, we stumbled across what may be the stupidest comment in the online world of martial arts we have ever come by. It simply read “Why do people practice martial arts when people use guns in real life?” We’ll let that hang in the air for a second, just to get you really…