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Yodcherry Sityodtong vs. Kaiting Chuang ONE Super Series Atomweight Title fight set for ONE: Battle for the Heavens *** The largest global sports media property in Asian history, ONE Championship (ONE), has just announced the main event of ONE: BATTLE FOR THE HEAVENS, set for Saturday, 7 July, at...
For the first time ever, the Cambodian martial art of Kun Khmer will be represented in ONE Super Series. At ONE: PINNACLE OF POWER, one of the sport’s best practitioners is ready to showcase Cambodia’s national striking art to the world, and against a celebrated Muay Thai World Champion to boot. ...
Rafael Fiziev is known around the world for his “matrix” defense against kicks. Fiziev, like many up and comers, will be given his chance this summer to compete on Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series. Rafael Fiziev: The Muay Thai Matrix One Step Closer to the UFC Though the 25-year-old on...
As more and more kickboxing is making its way on to my TV and computer screens, I can’t help but wonder: Why are all these fights not under Muay Thai rules? I see the lack of clinch work, knees, and elbows and shake my head. The rules are out there, as the Association of […]
The Eye of the Storm MMA Podcast is back with its biggest guest to date! After looking at various outcomes from UFC on FOX 18 and Bellator 148, hosts Justin Pierrot and Christiaan Allaart sit down for a deep conversation with #6 ranked UFC welterweight “The Immortal” Matt Brown. Whether it’s pare...
The Eye of the Storm MMA Podcast is back and hitting hard, like that kick to the face you took after that ill-advised spinning backfist attempt! We’re straying outside the cage and meandering over to the kickboxing ring for an interview with Glory Kickboxing’s Josh Jauncey! Justin and Christiaan ...
I’ve written a guide just in case you’ve never seen a Muay Thai fight. How to Watch a Muay Thai Fight The Basics: First, a Muay Thai contest has of 5, 3 minute rounds with a 2 minute rest in between rounds. Points are scored according to landed strikes; punches, elbows, kicks, knees and sweeps. […]
Located in Toms River, New Jersey, “Girl Fight” is America’s leading all-female Muay Thai Kickboxing academy. The academy was opened in 2009 by Prairie Rugilo, former WKA champ, who has become the first female to fight and win a title belt at MSG, been inducted into the NJ Martial arts hall of fa...
For fight fans and Las Vegas locals getting ready for the UFC International Fight Week extravaganza July 1-6, LION FIGHT today announced that its Friday, Fourth of July event, LION FIGHT 16, is carefully time-slotted so that fans can hit the UFC 175 weigh-ins inside the Mandalay Bay Events Center...
Scott Kent made the biggest and boldest move yet for the sport of Muay Thai and his LION FIGHT organization in joining with the UFC, for the first time ever, to present a world class full Muay Thai rules event, LION FIGHT 16, as part of the UFC’s International Fight Week taking place in Las […]
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...
Summer is upon us and what better way to stay cool than in a very cool tank top. Vancouver, BC based company Roots of Fight has released their Summer 2013 tank top collection and it features something for everyone. Roots of Fight releases Summer 2013 tank top collection The six different designs ...