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Japan’s Ken Hasegawa (16-3-1) has the most important match of his career this weekend. At ONE Championship: A New Era on March 30, not only will he be tangling with “The Burmese Python” Aung La Nsang (24-10) for the ONE Championship middleweight title, he will be fighting in his backyard. He look...
In lieu of Edson Barboza taking on Justin Gaethje, we take a look at some of the best leg kickers in the game. An underrated strike in MMA, leg kicks, when used correctly can almost completely immobilize a fighter and massively hinder their game. The benefits of leg kicking in MMA are obvious, ob...
Like in most small towns, high school sports mean everything in Elizabethville, Pennsylvania. The Trojans of Upper Dauphin Area High School have tremendous support from the local community. Each year, the Trojans are successful in sports, relative to their competition. Upper Dauphin isn’t an area...
The hype surrounding UFC Fight Night 148‘s main event has not yet begun to die down. Following one of the most spectacular knockouts of the year, let’s reflect on Anthony Pettis vs. Stephen Thompson. How the Fight Came Together Anthony ‘Showtime’ Pettis went into his fight against Stephen ‘Wonder...
247 Fighting Championships‘s upcoming inaugural event Steeltown Throwdown will introduce many new faces to the Pittsburgh MMA scene. Several of the debuting fighters will be coming from New York, but the majority are from the Pittsburgh area. One of the debuting Pittsburgh fighters is is 22-year-...
Shooto 30th Anniversary Tour Round 2 – Results The anniversary tour celebration continues as Shooto Japan heads to New Pier Hall in Tokyo, Japan with a huge fight-card riddled with exciting Japanese prospects and veterans alike. Some of the names in action include RIZIN veteran Yusaku Nakamura, X...
Street-fighter integrity is a rare quality these days. As made clear this past Saturday in London, England, Jorge Masvidal stands alone in the UFC as a bearer of that flag. Jorge Masvidal’s Street-Fighter Mentality As fellow welterweight Leon Edwards now understands, Jorge Masvidal’s code is sim...
RISE 131 – Results Just two weeks after their fantastic RISE World Series 2019: 1st Round show, RISE takes over Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan with a solid RISE 131 fight card. The show features the RISE Queen Atomweight Tournament semi-finals featuring sister of Tenshin, Riri Nasukawa, as well as...
The UFC travels to Nashville, Tennessee this weekend for UFC Fight Night 148. The main event will feature a striking battle between two experienced strikers, Stephen Thompson and Anthony Pettis. For Pettis, he will be making his UFC welterweight debut against a very tough opponent in Thompson, th...
We are just two weeks away from the debut event of Pittsburgh’s newest MMA promotion. 247 Fighting Championships is a new promotion looking to establish itself in the western Pennsylvania MMA scene. Steeltown Throwdown, the promotion’s first fight card, is set to take place on April 6th. A lot ha...
KSW is set for another amazing show on Saturday March 23, 2019. KSW 47: The X-Warriors takes place from Poland, starting at 2:00pm ET. The card is stacked with three Olympic medalists and headlined by a champion vs. champion superfight. The legendary Satoshi Ishii is also set to make his KSW debu...
The Super Samoan Mark ‘Super Samoan’ Hunt is revered for many impressive traits. His inspirational comeback during the latter portion of his fighting career is a perfect example of said qualities. Prior to his resurgence in the UFC, Hunt was known to be one of many fascinating characters from the...
Kiichi Kunimoto signs with Bellator MMA Bellator MMA bolsters their welterweight roster with the addition on a big-time Japanese veteran in the form of “Strasser” Kiichi Kunimoto. He joins a stacked welterweight division featuring Rory MacDonald, Jon Fitch, Douglas Lima, Andrey Koreshkov, Michael...
The former UFC and WEC featherweight champion Jose Aldo was hospitalized Wednesday due to a severe bacterial infection. The 32-year-old fighter seemed to have had a small cut on his knee where the infection started. Antibiotic treatment was unsuccessful within the first 24 hours according to a re...
Luke Rockhold will be making his return to the Octagon on July 6th at UFC 239. The former UFC and Strikeforce middleweight champion will be stepping up in weight to face the number six light heavyweight contender Jan Blachowicz. Reported by ESPN’s Brett Okamoto on Instagram, this fight is expecte...
BJJ Mental Models is a podcast which explores the conceptual side of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Black belt brothers Steve & Matt Kwan discuss the mental models, or universal principles, behind the gentle art. What are mental models? Mental models are frameworks for understanding how things work. We use...