On November 14th, I awoke to a sea of messages informing me that Anthony Rumble Johnson had died. One of ‘The Big Four’ of Light heavyweight, alongside Jon Jones, Daniel Cormier and Alexander Gustafsson, Rumble Johnson leaves an impactful legacy and memorable career. The Big Four, or Four Kings, depending on how you like your …
I was training in a sambo class. In Russia, Sambists are graded not with belts, but with sporting accolades. You may have heard Fedor Emelianenko and Khabib Nurmagomedov referred to as ‘international masters of sports’. This essentially means that they have won multiple recognised world championships in sport sambo and combat sambo respectively. However the …
Anthony Joshua lost for a second time against Oleksandr Usyk this weekend. Once again he found himself outboxed by the former cruiserweight. There a few takeaways: The First Takeaway, Usyk may genuinely be the best boxer in the world. It’s not very often a cruiserweight moves up and beats one of the top 3 best …
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Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira are finally confirmed to fight for the Middleweight title in November, making the first time two glory kickboxers will compete for a UFC title. Alex Pereira has beaten Adesanya twice before in kickboxing, but this time will have to deal with a new foe. The cage. Alex Pereira is unquestionably …
It took years of build up, but finally the biggest fight in kickboxing history, at least since the hey day of K1, finally happened. Tenshin Nasukawa fought Takeru Segawa, Takeru on a 35 fight win streak, and Tenshin being undefeated in 43 professional fights…. and for some reason it was booked for only three rounds. …
I first saw Joanna Jędrzejczyk compete late at night on December 13th 2014. Stipe Miocic would fight Junior Dos Santos, in his return fight after a brutal KO loss to Cain Velasquez. Joanna Champion, as she would become known, fought Claudia Gadelha on the under card of that fight, in a title eliminator for the …
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As someone who is primarily a striker, with very little interesting in grappling outside of catch wrestling and sambo, I’m usually far away from the hilarious and petty politics of brazilian jiu jitsu. BJJ is an interesting martial art as while it is no doubt effective for combat sports, and proclaims to be a modern …
Buckle up children, daddy’s taking us to the circus again. This is the fourth instalment of Andrew’s laments on freakshow novelty fights in combat sports. Here are the rest: Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Logan Paul | A Trip to the Circus Donald Trump Presents: The Florida Granddad Fights A Defence of Jake Paul The Build …
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Dieselnoi is the unappreciated Muay Thai GOAT, but why do fans choose not to see it. Today we take a brief look into the career of skypiercer Dieselnoi is the very fighter who inspired the name of Diesel Gym. Somewhere in Diesel’s vault we even have the signed shorts from him. Yet we’ve never actually …
Every martial art or combat sport has an associated stereotypical stance. Whether it’s the bladed side on stance of boxing and point based karate, or the square stance of MMA, everyone has an opinion on which stance works best for which sport. Of course in the real world there is no such thing as the …