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Koji Oishi becomes new ONE FC featherweight champion 20,000 fans attended ONE FC: RISE TO POWER in Manila, Philippines today to witness Koji Oishi become the new featherweight champion.The main event featured Honorio Banario defending his title for the first time. The first round was a back-and-forth slugfest that put the packed crowd on its feet. In the second...

Polish show KSW is like a smaller version of Pride FC and its next installment is just around the corner. KSW 23 takes place on June 8 and features Melvin Manhoef facing Mamed Khalidov and Kendall Grove challenging Michael Materla for his middleweight title.Also on the card is Mariusz Pudzianowski, five-time winner of the World’s Strongest Man competition. He faces...

Tom ‘Kong’ Watson has been matched with UFC returnee Thales Leites for the upcoming UFC 163 card in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.The British middleweight is coming off his demolition-job of Bulgaria’s Stanislav Nedkov on February 16. The second-round TKO win earned Watson two bonuses: Knockout of the Night and Fight of the Night.Leites (20-4) will be the hometown...

Nick Diaz’s new promotional venture is wasting no time in getting underway. Recent welterweight title challenger Diaz is lending his name and philosophies to a Californian show which will be known as ‘WAR MMA’.In keeping with Diaz’s own take on MMA, the fights will be held in a ring rather than a cage and there will be no elbow strikes on the ground. Diaz is...

Georges St. Pierre is the UFC’s most dominant champion ever and for many is the template of what a modern mixed martial artist should be - athletic, strong in the core disciplines, dominant in the cage and clean cut and well-mannered outside of it.Documentary makers have gathered years-worth of material on St. Pierre to make this documentary, which looks at where...

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The UFC is set to launch a 24-hour Spanish-language channel broadcasting to twenty countries in Latin America. The new subscription network will be available late 2013.Viewers all across Latin America, except Brazil, will have access to UFC fights and over 35 live events per year as well as the opportunity to experience legendary fights from the UFC, Pride FC, WEC...

Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva is complaining that Cain Velasquez landed illegal blows to the back of his head during the flurry which finished their UFC 160 clash in the first round.Silva’s second crack at Velasquez ended quicker than their first, with the Brazilian this time being taken out in under two minutes. He has now posted photos on Instagram purporting to...

The UFC is launching a dedicated Spanish-language channel for its Latin American fan base. The channel will be launched in Mexico, according to Marshall Zelaznik, the UFC’s International Head of Business Development.“New Deal Announced in Mexico - launching a channel for Spanish speaking Latin-America,” he revealed via Facebook earlier. Further details are not...

It isn’t often you find organizations celebrating when their brightest stars are continually picked off by the UFC.But that is in fact the business model of the Las Vegas-based Resurrection Fighting Alliance (RFA), which bills itself as “the premier Triple-A developmental league for fighters looking to get called up to the Ultimate Fighting Championship”.The...