Today we have a guest piece from James Budd, who attended Vinny Shoreman’s Seminar at Diesel last week. https://theshoremansolution.com/ Vinny Shoreman has a way with words, so much so that he’s made it his business. The former fighter and striking coach is now the most recognisable voice in European kickboxing, and one of the most
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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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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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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
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