Karate exercises for Muay Thai is something we spoke about in a previous Diesel Article, which I recommend you read before looking at this one. Last year we spoke with Bellator and Glory kickboxing champion Gabriel Varga about his life and career. One topic we spoke about in particular was his background in karate and …
Throughout the month of February we’ll be seeing former Lumpinee Champion Damian Alamos at Diesel Gym. Ahead of his first lesson this month (February 10th) we’ll be giving a brief rundown on who he is, and why he’s such a good boxer. Damien started off martial arts training at the age of 8, a similar …
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Continuing from last time, we are going to be looking at the 5 greatest heavyweights in MMA history and ranking them to decide who the best really is. At first we were going to look at light heavyweight – but we’re gonna go ahead and skip that division for now because it is so strange …
Continuing from last time, we are going to be looking at the 5 greatest welterweights in MMA history and ranking them to decide who the best really is. The welterweight division isn’t as stacked as lightweight, but has a crazy amount of history behind it. Let’s see who the greatest of the division are. Number …
Happy New Year Diesel Crew! 2021 was 20 years since Jen’s Pulver was crowned the first ever UFC Lightweight Champion. It’s also marked 20 years since Davie Menne was crowned the first ever UFC Middleweight Champion. Now we go into 2022 we’re going to look back at the 5 best fighters of each division in …
Muay Thai is the art of eight limbs, but in the West we don’t get nearly enough practise with elbows. Unless you’re fighting under full Thai or MMA rules, you’re not allowed to use them in competition. Because elbows are sharp and can easily lead to cuts, some coaches are reluctant to let their students …
The best base for MMA is Combat Sambo. Anyone who argues otherwise is being foolish, as Combat Sambo trains you everything from striking, to wrestling to grappling. The best striking base for MMA however has been up for debate for years. In ye olden times, the idea was you either focused on boxing and wrestling, …
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Who are the top 5 featherweights in UFC history? In a short span of time, we now find ourselves looking at our fourth UFC Featherweight Champion, sporting multiple defences. The featherweight division was always stacked with great competition, so today it’s time to rank the best featherweights in MMA history and why. Number 5: Urijah …
This weekend Kamaru Usman will rematch Colby Colvington for the welterweight title. Their first fight was an unexpected banger between two fighters generally considered to be pretty boring competitors. Which got me thinking about the welterweight division and the strange limbo it has been in since GSP left it years ago. The early 2010s was …
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Kung Fu fans dream of MMA representation, but will it ever happen? The played out cliché is that the early UFC tournaments demonstrated that BJJ was the most effective martial art in style vs style competition. That cliché is obviously not true, Royce Gracie was one of two grapplers in that first tournament, the other …