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ONE Championship is starting 2022 on fire. After ONE: Heavy Hitters begins the year on Friday, January 14. They will return with a massive card for ONE: Only The Brave two weeks later. ONE: Only The Brave Fight Card Announced The organization previously announced the main event for the ONE Interi...
Contrary to popular belief, combat sports in 2021 are not finished yet, as Rizin’s yearly New Year’s Eve show is happening tonight. The last major combat sports show of the year, Rizin 33, will go down live from the Saitama Super Arena. The show will feature MMA, the semifinals and finals of the ...
Photo credit: Jimmy Range Photography With the calendar set to flip to 2022, Missouri-based Shamrock FC is set to shift to the new year. For CEO Jesse Finney, the plan is for Shamrock FC to keep doing what it’s doing, but a bit better each time. Finney said the promotion sold out five of the […]
Fury Pro Grappling, the submission grappling subsidiary of CFFC, caps of its inaugural year of action with what some consider to be one of the most stacked cards in submission grappling history. Fury Pro Grappling 3 goes down tonight live from the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The mai...
Grand Sumo action will make its return in January 2022 at the Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan. This tournament will not only be the first of the year, but also the first tournament following Terunofuji’s zensho yusho in November. How might the top division look entering 2022? Here is what to expect in ...
ADCC has announced that Royler Gracie is the next inductee to its Hall of Fame. A member of the legendary Gracie family, Royler is a three-time ADCC champion with only one defeat in the premier submission grappling competition circuit. More impressively, his three ADCC championships came one af...
The originally-scheduled main event of Fury Pro Grappling 3 has undergone a change, as UFC women’s strawweight champion Rose Namajunas has been removed from the card due to COVID protocols. Luckily for Danielle Kelly and fans, a suitable replacement has been found in Namajunas’s presumptive next ...
If you are a huge fan of Mixed Martial Arts, you might wonder how to take your passion for it to the next level. Once you’ve watched enough fights online, kept track of your favorite fighters on social media, and learned more about the history of this exciting sport, it is probably time to find […]
ONE Championship will crown a new championship ONE: Only The Brave on Friday, January 28. With ongoing negotiations with ONE Heavyweight World Champion Arjan Bhullar, per ONE Chairman and CEO Chatri Sityodtong, an interim championship has been created and will be on the line. “Arjan and his manag...
Tenshin Nasukawa is true to his word and the day after the announcement of his long-awaited fight against Takeru being set for June he, and RIZIN CEO, Nobuyuki Sakakibara held another press conference to announce his opponent for promotion’s New Year’s Eve event. And so, one of Kickboxing’s bigge...
Fury Pro Grappling 3 is a gift that keeps on giving as another interesting matchup was added to the card. Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone will return on the grappling mat to take on fellow UFC competitor, Joe Solecki. Cerrone’s last MMA fight took place at UFC Vegas 26 in May, where he lost via first-r...
The UFC Strawweight division has an incredibly skilled top ten. With “Thug” Rose Namajunas sitting atop the 115 lb. rankings, young guns like Amanda Ribas and Mackenzie Dern are chasing close behind. In similar fashion, vets like Carla Esparza and Tecia Torres are eyeing their potential moves tow...
It looks like K – 1 and Rizin decided to give a very special Christmas present to the fight sports fans around the world, as at today’s presser long-awaited bout between Tenshin Nasukawa and Takeru was announced for June 2022. Both fighters were present as also was RIZIN FF CEO, Nobuyuki Sakakib...
It was announced by Iridium Sports Agency that Dustin Jacoby will face Michał Oleksiejczuk at UFC 272 on March 5, 2022. Jacoby made his return to the UFC through Dana White’s Contender Series last year. He defeated Ty Flores by unanimous decision to win a contract. Since then he won four of his l...
In 2021, 16 candidates competed for a $250,000 contract and a year-long job as the protege of ONE Championship CEO and Chairman Chatri Sityodtong on the inaugural season of “The Apprentice: ONE Championship Edition.” In 2022, fans in more than 150 countries will finally be able to watch the seaso...
ONE Championship will get the new year started off with a bang. On Friday, January 14, ONE: Heavy Hitters goes live with two World Championship main events with an exciting ten additional bouts filling the undercard. ONE: Heavy Hitters Fight Card Announced In the main event, ONE Strawweight World...