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Pat Barry (8-7) announced his intentions to step away from MMA last week, but it looks like the former UFC Heavyweight isn’t taking a break from combat sports indefinitely. Barry appeared on the February 3rd edition of The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, and fans soon learned what was in store in th...
The final fight card is in for Saturday’s Ultimate Beatdown 13: Road to Glory event, which is set to take place at the KSL City Mall Hotel & Resort in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Officials announced the match-ups via Facebook. Final fight card for Ultimate Beatdown 13, tourney format kicks off Ultimat...
Ultimate Beatdown has been a spectacle in the Asian MMA scene since 2011, showcasing twelve events to date in Malaysia. The promotion is known to showcase a wide array of Martial Arts practices in its installments, most notably Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Kickboxing and Mixed Martial Arts con...
The BC Government has just passed Order in Council 2013-342 which expands the BC Athletic Commissioner’s powers to regulate all amateur MMA, kickboxing, pankration and Muay Thai events. In addition to the BCAC’s powers to regulate pro boxing and MMA, they will apparently now also regulate “any am...
Twenty-seven year-old martial arts fighting superstar Tyrone “King of the Ring” Spong (69-6-1 43 KOs) of Boca Raton, Fla. via Suriname will compete in the one-night, single-elimination GLORY 9 New York tournament featuring a lineup of the world’s top light heavyweight (209 pounds/95 kilograms) ki...
While people around the globe are preparing to usher in the New Year, there’s a huge spectacle that awaits Mixed Martial Arts fanatics on New Year’s Eve. DREAM, a promotion that’s based in Japan, is set to showcase its 18th event at the Saitama Super Arena situated in Tokyo, Japan. Fans were left...
GLORY 4 Tokyo – Heavyweight Grand Slam, a one night single-elimination kickboxing competition featuring 16 of the world’s hardest hitting KO artists, will be televised on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:00 p.m. EST on CBS Sports Network. Unprecedented and historic in the sport of kickboxing, GLORY 4 ...
Press Release: December 19, 2012 TOKYO, Japan (Dec. 19, 2012) – Brazilian heavyweight upstart Jhonata Diniz (7-2) has been given the opportunity of a lifetime after being brought in to the GLORY 4 Tokyo – Heavyweight Grand Slam event as a replacement for an injured Fabiano ‘Cyclone’ Aoki, and wil...
Press Release – TOKYO, Japan (Dec. 12, 2012): World No. 2 ranked lightweight (154 pounds/70 kilograms) Robin van Roosmalen (37-14-3, 12 KO’s) has been confirmed for a Superfight with colorful Japanese fighter Yuichiro Nagashima (17-5, 12 KO’s) at the GLORY 4 TOKYO – Heavyweight Grand Slam event ...
A couple of bouts have been added to the DREAM.18 fight card, that’s set to go down on New Year’s Eve alongside ‘GLORY 4 TOKYO’ at the Saitama Super Arena situated in Tokyo, Japan. Georgi Karakhanyan (19-3-1) will face veteran Hiroyuki Takaya (17-9-1) in a Featherweight tilt, while American Will ...
2 stellar bouts have been added to DREAM 18, which is set to go down on New Year’s Eve at the Saitama Super Arena situated in Tokyo, Japan. Former DREAM Bantamweight and Featherweight title-holder Bibiano Fernandes is set to square off against former WEC veteran Yoshiro Maeda. A Light Heavyweight...
Former PRIDE veterans Phil Baroni (15-15) and Hayato Sakurai (36-12-2) are set to face one another at DREAM 18, an event brought to you GLORY Sports International. BloodyElbow.com first made the announcement of the match-up. DREAM 18, along with GLORY 4 TOKYO, takes place on New Year’s Eve at the...
Heavyweight superstars Remy Bonjasky (77-14, 40 KO’s) and Tyrone Spong (68-6-1 42 KO’s) will collide in the main event of GLORY 5 London at the British capital’s Excel Arena on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Also confirmed for the kickboxing mega-card are lightweight (70 kilograms/154 pounds) British ...
Press Release : Thursday – November 15th, 2012 Tokyo, Japan (Nov. 15, 2012) – Glory Sports International (GSI) announced today the top eight seeds for the star-studded GLORY 4 TOKYO – Heavyweight Grand Slam, 16-man, single-elimination tournament at Saitama Super Arena on December 31. Heavyweight...
Press Release – November 9th, 2012 Tokyo, Japan (Nov 9th, 2011) – Following the recent GLORY Sports International (GSI) announcement that it will be producing DREAM 18 at Saitama Super Arena on New Year’s Eve, the company has now announced it will merge GLORY 4: Tokyo Grand Slam with DREAM 18 to...
Press Release – November 9th, 2012 Tokyo, Japan (Nov 9th, 2011) – Following the recent GLORY Sports International (GSI) announcement that it will be producing DREAM 18 at Saitama Super Arena on New Year’s Eve, the company has now announced it will merge GLORY 4: Tokyo Grand Slam with DREAM 18 to...