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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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MMA in Lumpinee? On the 10th of September, Lumpinee Stadium held a press conference with some legitimately shocking announcements. Today we’re going to go through each of them and look at how they will change the Muay Thai scene. Gambling is No Longer Allowed & Three Round Fights Lumpinee has long stood alongside Rajadamnern Stadium