Latest NewsEvans, Mir Crowned; Rampage Gets RevengeTuesday, 30 December 2008 | Edmund Phua
Four fights into his mixed martial arts career, Brock Lesnar is the UFC heavyweight champion.
The former NCAA wrestling champion, who cuts weight to pack his monstrous physique inside the heavyweight division’s 265-pound limit, stopped three-time UFC heavyweight titleholder Randy Couture on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
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Four fights into his mixed martial arts career, Brock Lesnar is the UFC heavyweight champion.
The former NCAA wrestling champion, who cuts weight to pack his monstrous physique inside the heavyweight division’s 265-pound limit, stopped three-time UFC heavyweight titleholder Randy Couture on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
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Four fights into his mixed martial arts career, Brock Lesnar is the UFC heavyweight champion.
The former NCAA wrestling champion, who cuts weight to pack his monstrous physique inside the heavyweight division’s 265-pound limit, stopped three-time UFC heavyweight titleholder Randy Couture on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
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Alves Takes Out Koscheck; Sherk Outpoints Griffin at UFC 90
26.10.2008 | Edmund Phua
Thiago Alves hurt Josh Koscheck early in their UFC 90 welterweight fight. The 25-year-old American Top Team product put a left hook on Koscheck’s ear, which sent him staggering. The end looked close, but Koscheck made a gutsy recovery while working for a takedown. He didn’t get the takedown, but he stayed in the fight and a minute later he was backing Alves into the cage with his own punches.
Alves regained control, though, a...
Diego Sanchez has been forced to withdraw from a highly anticipated welterweight showdown with Thiago Alves at UFC 90.
Sanchez representative Jeff Clark told Sherdog.com that the injury was sustained in a training session last week, and what was originally thought to be a ruptured spleen turned out to be damage to his ribs, possibly to an intercostal muscle or cartilage.
The Oct. 25 card sch...
Seth Petruzelli was supposed to fight Aaron Rosa, a light heavyweight from Texas you may not know, on the undercard of EliteXC “Heat” Saturday night in Sunrise, Fla. Instead Petruzelli found himself in the cage with Kimbo Slice, in a heavyweight fight, in the main event, on CBS.
A 28-year-old from Fort Myers, Fla., Petruzelli accepted the matchup after Slice’s scheduled opponent, Ken Shamrock, was cut over his left eye durin...
Clash Of The Gladiators by Punch EVENTS & Hilltop Muay Thai
03.11.2008 | Edmund Phua
Hi Guys,
There is an upcoming Muay Thai Event organized by Punch EVENTS & Hilltop Muay Thai in this coming November 2008 - "Clash Of The Gladiators".
Overview of the Event Details
Date: 29th November 2008
Venue: Jurong East Sports Hall
Time: 4PM - 8PM
For more information, check it out below!
Come Join Us in the Exciting Muay Thai Happening towards the end of the year.
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Singapore National Muay Thai Fighters @ World TreX Busan Games 2008!
04.10.2008 | Edmund Phua
FightSG is proud to be the only Fight Media to cover the return of our local Muay Thai heroes! We had the opportunity to welcome back our national fighters; Brenda Shee & Victor Chng of Punch Academy Hilltop, Louis Wong of Muay Thai Workshop and Wang Yu of Alvin Seet Fitness alongside the Singapore Team managers & trainers at the airport earlier this evening.
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Testosterone-filled weekend at S1 Muay Thai Championships!
30.09.2008 | Edmund Phua
FightSG was down at the S1 Singapore Muay Thai Championships on the 27th and 28th of September to cover the event that was proudly brought to you by FightWorks Asia Gym.
All you Muay Thai fans out there must have been wondering about what to expect from the “F1” of Muay Thai that was being held in Singapore on that weekend for the very first time in its history and what FightSG can tell you is if you missed it, you just missed 2 days of absolute testosterone-filled action and entertainment.
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We sent a team from Fight SG down to coverthe exciting “Return of the Contenders” Muay Thai event yesterday night (17thSeptember) over at Jurong East Sports Hall. It was one hell of a night filledwith non-stop testosterone spiked action and excitement put up by all theamazing fights we had at the show.We had a few undercard amateur fightscoming from AMAS member gyms like BXG, Punch Academy Alvin Seet Fitness, StormMuay Thai, etc. It was good to see the level of competition increasing with ourlocal fighters getting stronger with better technique, skill as well asconditioning. You could see the...
We are please and honour to have a phone interview with Yodsanklai before his fight in Singapore at Sept 17. We will have his manager, Ted and an interpreter to translate our question for him. Background on YodsanklaiYodsanklai Fairtex a.k.a. Yod (Thai: ยอดแสนไกล แฟร์เท๊กซ; born, July 1, 1985) is the reigning Light-Middleweight WBC Muay Thai World champion and former three time Lumpinee Stadium champion in 112, 147 and 154 lb weight classes. He trains out of Fairtex Gym ...
Just like in other sports, boxing has had its share of famous rivalries. Boxing rivalries can cause great interest among boxing fans due to many reasons. Usually, reasons involved for a rivalry between two particular boxers to become interesting to fans include: contrasting styles, ethnic background, boxer personalities, and general uncertainty as to which boxer is better than the other. Here are the top 10 rivalries in the boxing world
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For those who do not know what this designation means, the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world is the best boxer irregardless of weight
10 . Mike Tyson - 50 wins, 5 losses, 2 no contests, 44 KO
No other fighter has been called “the baddest man on the planet”. Mike Tyson could be said the most feared person in boxing history.
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Boxing also known as pugilism or the sweet science, has roots that go all the way back to ancient Greece and Rome. Boxing is considered to be one of the oldest known sports, with Two Thousand year old paintings on the walls of tombs in Egypt and stone carvings showing that ancient Sumerians, who lived in what is now Iraq, boxed at least Five Thousand years ago.
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It is the term used in boxing to describe a fighter’s value in relation to fighters of different weight classes.
The Best pound for pound boxers now
Miguel Cotto(30-0, 25 ko's) - Welterweight
His fight-of-the-year KO victory over Jab Judah has catapulted him into pound-for-pound status. However, his true talent and standing in this list
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This are the upset of the past 10 years in boxing
Eddie Sanchez over J.C. Candelo- It was hot August night back in 2004 and it looked like the fight fans were in for a treat as the undefeated prospected Joachim Alcine was set to take on J.C. Candelo, at that time the #5 ranked middleweight by the IBF. Candelo was fresh off of losses to Winky Wright and Kassim Ouma and needed a big performance to stay in the mix. Everything chanced quickly as Alcine failed his medical exam...
Interview with Gustavo “Guya” Machado (BJJ Blackbelt)
13.10.2008 | Edmund Phua
FightSG recently went down to Budo Academy to cover Gustavo Machado’s BJJ seminar.
It has been a wonderful experience there and we managed to have a short interview him.
We have put up some pictures of the seminar and the interview with Gustavo below.
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What happens, when a total noob for a certain sport is hauled down to witness a competition in his country? What happens when he knows nuts about this particular Sport before and he was asked to write a review just after watching it? What Hell would be unleashed? Well, that is exactly what happened when I was asked to witness and create a write-up on The Grappling Circuit, a Grappling/Submission wrestling competition held in the Budo Academy this ...
FightSG.com recently caught up with Tommy Blom (Krav Maga Global Instructor), one of the 9 High Level Expert Instructors of the International Krav Maga Federation Global Instructor Team at the Krav Maga Seminar conducted in Singapore earlier. It was held on the 1st of December, 2007 at Sascha’s Gym to collect his thoughts on how Krav Maga have helped inspired many of his students gain the s...
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