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On Friday, ONE Fighting Championship returns with its 21st installment titled ‘Roar of Tigers’. Headlining the event will be “Ruthless” Rob Lisita (14-6) who will square off to face unbeaten Russian phenom, Marat Gafurov (9-0). While there’s no doubt the duo will put on a quite a show, for Lisita...
Later this month, the Malaysian Invasion Mixed Martial Arts (MIMMA) amateur promotion stages the finale of its season two tournament, which will see the 2014 winners lock horns with the champions from last year’s competition. As with season one, however, the finale will also host a couple of prof...
The card for ONE FC’s return to Malaysia is complete with nine fights. ONE FC 21: Roar of Tigers takes place October 17 at the Putra Indoor Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The entire event streams LIVE on pay-per-view for global MMA viewers. Fans in Asia, meanwhile, can catch the main card act...
While ONE FC and the UFC had their respective installments taking place over the weekend, South Korea’s ROAD Fighting Championship had another stellar event on show in Seoul. ROAD FC 018 went down at the Grand Hilton Convention Centre on August 30. As with ROAD FC 017, the event was streamed LIVE...
There are always young, up-and-coming fighters to watch around the world. Unfortunately, most mixed martial arts fans don’t get to know these diamonds in the rough unless they are in the UFC. That is where MMASucka.com decided to get involved to bring you this “Five fighters to watch from…” featu...
You might know him simply as the ex-partner of current TUF: 20 and UFC fighter Bec Rawlings, but Dan Enson Hyatt’s (8-4-1) impetus in the Mixed Martial Arts landscape extends much deeper. Unbeknownst to most fans outside the continent, along with co-heading and serving as matchmaker for a local p...
South Korea’s ROAD Fighting Championship promotion held its 17th installment this past weekend, August 17, at the Seoul Olympic Hall in Seoul. The entire event streamed on Epicentre.tv as part of a recently forged partnership. The running order featured a total of nine bouts, highlighted by a Lig...
Manny Pacquiao’s recent business shift to Mixed Martial Arts might have come as a surprise to many. Headlines were poured when it was announced that the popular world Boxing champ purchased a stake in ONE Fighting Championship, Asia’s premier Mixed Martial Arts outfit. But for ONE FC CEO Victor C...
For any fighter, going into a new territory expecting the unexpected can be an overwhelming prospect. It feels lonely. It feels like life, in a way, is at the heart of an impasse. Suffice to say, it takes heaps of confidence, courage, responsibility and a whole lot of passion to follow your dream...
A USD $50,000 bonus system, which is expected to take effect at ONE FC 18: War of Dragons this Friday in Taipei, Taiwan, has been implemented by ONE FC boss Victor Cui. The Canadian-Filipino first made the announcement on Twitter: #TheONEWarriorBonus for every event I’m awarding US$50,000 to figh...
If Taiwan’s Mixed Martial Arts pioneer Ming Yen Sung (2-1) thinks he’s set for an easy payday at ONE FC 18: War of Dragons later this week, Singapore’s Nicholas Lee (2-1) would love to have something to say about that. The two are set to meet on Friday in Sung’s backyard of Taipei, Taiwan. Both f...
As if holding 22 events in three years wasn’t enough, Pacific X-Treme Combat has gone a step further in launching its very own developmental league. PXC officials announced the imminent arrival of ‘Laban MMA’ this week, a provincial MMA development set-up that will provide a starting point for lo...
A conservative approach and a sure-fire will brought 23-year-old Swedish starlet Zebaztian Kadestam (6-1) his first major championship honor on Friday night. PXC 44 took place on June 27 at the UOG Fieldhouse in Guam. As with previous installments, the entire event can now be viewed, free-of-char...
The Pacific X-Treme Combat is noted for providing a platform for fighters to make it into the UFC, and on Friday night, as the promotion hosts its 44th installment at the UOG Fieldhouse in Guam, another solid line-up filled with starlets and veterans alike, will be on show with matchmakers Joe Si...
Zebaztian Kadestam at the PXC 44 Weigh Ins Zebaztian Kadestam (5-1) doesn’t agree with all the talk about Josh Calvo (8-3) potentially giving him problems in the grappling department in Friday night’s PXC 44 170-lbs Championship headliner in Guam. Zebaztian Kadestam at the PXC 44 Weigh Ins Kadest...
A capacity crowd of 20,000 people were in attendance at the Mall of Asia Arena on Friday night as ONE FC made another pit-stop in Manila, Philippines for its numbered installment. ONE FC 15: Rise of Heroes featured multiple new faces but it was the host country’s native fighters who took the spot...