MMA News
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Bellator 281 results and highlights: Storley wins interim belt over ‘MVP’, Daley scores farewell KO
Bellator 281 turned out to have a bit of everything, with some gritty performances mixed with thrilling submissions and electrifying knockouts. The top of the card could have been a true homecoming for title challenger Michael Venom Page, but it was not to be. Logan Storley used his wrestling skill…
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Video: Fistfight Festival from Guatemala brings some sensational Good Friday action
Regional customs vary from culture to culture for all sorts of human behaviors. This not only applies to enjoying meals or religious customs, or basic conversational etiquette. But some cultures engage in some form of combat, whether it is ritualistic in nature or recreational. And today, we’ll take a look…
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WTF: Wanderlei Silva watches fake No-Touch martial artist get exposed by MMA fighter
Welcome back, kids. We’ve got violence of all stripes for your perusal and some odd relics of the past as well. Not only that, but there’s some great technique on display, to boot. We begin with a classic of all martial arts videos, the Kiai master that got busted open…
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WTF: Can Aikido work in MMA? Practitioner put to test vs striking, judo, BJJ and MMA
So we begin again this week with Jerry over at Fight Commentary Breakdowns. No assistance this week, he’s doing this one solo with a look at Aikido action. While it’s not common to see Aikido around these parts, Jerry takes a look at internet personality Rokas, a Lithuanian Aikido practitioner:…
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MMA fighter loses testicle, has a sack of laughs with results
Who is the Michael Jordan of MMA? Who is the Barry Bonds of MMA? We ask questions like this all the time, because we seek parallels between combat sports and traditional “stick and ball“ sports. This is a story with no stick and a subtracted ball, where we at least…
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WTF? Lethwei fighter headbutts then yeets opponent out of the ring
After an exhausting week packed with quality MMA action, we’re back to the fringes with more of the wild, weird, and sometimes impractical. And we begin with Fight Commentary Breakdowns, with a Bajiquan fighter sparring with a kickboxer. This is a fun one to watch, plenty of back and forth…
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WTF: Double superman slap? Watch Indian slap wrestling, bare knuckle MMA, Dambe, more
I am once again asking that you show some love to our guy Jerry at Fight Commentary Breakdowns. If you’re a sucker for all kinds of absurd and non-effective martial arts quackery, he’s got a lovely spread for you to gorge on. My personal favorites are usually knife defense segments,…
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WTF? Dambe double duty, TKD in kickboxing, Indian wrestling and Russian bare knuckle
When we started publishing these features, we never really intended for most of the action to be the usual thing we see in pro MMA. Good technique, fighters putting on tactical and well-coordinated performances? Nah, we didn’t want that to take the lead with this. But this week, it’s kind…
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Mariusz Pudzianowski vs ‘Bombardier’ rescheduled for KSW 64
Earlier this year we almost saw one of the weirdest possible fights take place when The World’s Strongest Man was set to fight the Senegalese Lutte Menace. It was the volatile heavyweight fight to look forward to. Until it wasn’t. One of the most decorated Senegalese wrestlers alive, Serigne Ousmane…
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WTF? Jeet Kune Do mishaps and refs in bullet-proof vests
Time for your Weird Wednesday fix, and we’ve got plenty to plug right into your veins this week. As sommeliers of the obscure and less-organized forms of hand to hand combat, we focus a lot on things that exist on the periphery of mainstream combat sports here, but today we’re…
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