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The ninth instalment of the South Korea-based organization went down on Saturday, at the Wonju Chiak Gymnasium. Titled ROAD FC 009: Beatdown, the event’s main attraction featured a Middleweight bout between Strikeforce veteran Melvin Manhoef and Kim Jae Yeong. The South Korean showed lots of hear...
ONE Fighting Championship has confirmed, via Facebook, that South-Korean Soo Chul Kim is set to take on Brazilian-born Leandro ‘Brodinho’ Issa for the inaugural Bantamweight belt at ONE FC 6: Rise of Kings. Headlined by a Super-Fight between former DREAM Champion Shinya Aoki and Arnaud ‘The Game’...
Ole ‘Iron Fist’ Laursen will not be competing at ONE Fighting Championship’s upcoming ‘Rise of Kings’ event, which is set to go down on October 6th at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, in Singapore. Although it was reported earlier that Laursen would be facing Zorobabel Moreira for the 155-lbs title ...
Ken Pavia has officially resigned as CEO of the Super Fight League. The 46-year-old ends an 8-month relationship with the India-based MMA promotion. Raj Kundra, the Chairman and Founder of SFL, released a statement through the official SFL website which said: “Unfortunately as of 1st September 20...
Full Contact Championship, an MMA promotion that’s based in India, has announced via Facebook that Eddie Teel is set to make his professional Mixed Martial Arts debut at the organization’s upcoming FCC 7 event. An opponent, however, was not named. Having trained in MMA for the past couple of year...
RUFF, a Chinese-based MMA promotion, held its 5th event on September 8th at the People’s Stadium situated in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China. The entire event was streamed ‘LIVE’ on PPTV.com, and broadcasted on several TV stations across China. The main event saw Rodrigo Caporal defeat Hao Tian Wu ...
Evolve MMA, one of the region’s most prominent band of MMA academies, had a disenchanted outing at ONE Fighting Championship’s recent ‘Pride of a Nation’ event that went down on August 31st at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Manilla, Philippines. Mitch Chilson and Rodrigo Ribeiro were the only repr...
A Lightweight tilt between China’s Zhang Tiequan and Jon Tuck has been added to the main card of UFC on Fuel TV 6 (Also known as UFC: Macau). The match-up was first announced by MMA-In-Asia.com. Headlined by a Middleweight clash between former champion Rich Franklin and Cung Le, UFC: Macau is set...
Several regional MMA promotions took center stage this past week, including the Guam-based Pacific Xtreme Combat. An event that was anticipated by many, PXC 33 saw a total of 6 finishes on its fight card. Mark Striegl marked his promotional debut with a submission win over Robert Wusstig. The Fil...
SFL “Challengers” is a reality television series that follows a group of MMA fighters as they compete with one another in an elimination-style competition, where their lives and relationships with each other and their families are depicted. This unscripted drama follows 16 aspiring MMA fighters (...
After spectacular performances in front of their home crowd at the recently held ONE FC 5: Pride of a Nation event in Manilla, Philippines, ONE Fighting Championship announced that Eduard Folayang, Eric Kelly and Honorio Banario will all be involved in championships match-ups at the company’s upc...
30 August 2012 – Manila, Philippines: ONE Fighting Championship™ (ONE FC), announced today that all fighters have made weight and are ready for ONE FC: PRIDE OF A NATION which takes place tomorrow evening at SMART ARANETA Coliseum in Quezon City, Philippines. The entire card, which is headlined b...
Press Release: Mixed Martial Arts is a volatile and rough sport, where anything can and will happen. There will be a change in the Main Event of the upcoming PXC-33 Fight Card, as contender from Guam, Jon Tuck, has suffered an injury and has not been cleared by doctors to compete in next week’s P...
SFL “Challengers” is a reality television series that follows a group of MMA fighters as they compete with one another in an elimination-style competition, where their lives and relationships with each other and their families are depicted. This unscripted drama follows 16 aspiring MMA fighters (...
SFL “Challengers” is a reality television series that follows a group of MMA fighters as they compete with one another in an elimination-style competition, where their lives and relationships with each other and their families are depicted. This unscripted drama follows 16 aspiring MMA fighters (...
LFC 10, the tenth instalment of Hong Kong-based Legend Fighting Championship, took place on August 24th at the AsiaWorld-Expo. On a night that saw 6 finishes and 4 fights going the distance, the promotion crowned its first ever Middleweight Champion in Liu Wenbo, when he decisioned South Korea’s ...