Author: Dan Meehan

ONE Announces Additional Fights For ONE On TNT Series During the telecast of ONE: Fists of Fury on Friday, ONE president Chatri Sityodtong announced details of some additional fights on the upcoming ONE on TNT series, starting April 7th. ONE Championship announced plans for their American primetime debut with the four-event series. ONE on TNT 1, headlined by Demetrious Johnson vs Adriano Moraes, has added Thai superstar Rodtang Jitmuangnon, who takes on England’s Jacob Smith in a flyweight Muay Thai bout. The card also features Eddie Alvarez, who makes his third ONE appearance against former world title challenger, Iuri...

  ONE: Fists Of Fury Results & Recap ONE Championship returned to action on Friday with Fists of Fury, the first in another three-event series. The second and third instalments, having been filmed all on the same night, will air on March 5th and March 19th. The card was headlined by a world title encounter, with ONE Flyweight Kickboxing Champion Ilias Ennahachi retaining his title with a razor thin decision win over Thailand’s Superlek Kiatmoo9. The bout was a technical battle, with Ennahachi starting the stronger, while Superlek appeared to take control in the later rounds of the five...

  ONE: Fists Of Fury Preview ONE Championship is back in action at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on February 26th, when another three-event series goes down. Fists of Fury, the first of the three, will air live on the night, while the second and third instalments will go to air March 5th and March 19th respectively. The six-fight card features four kickboxing, one Muay Thai and just one MMA bout. That one MMA bout might just be the most intriguing bout on the card, as 16-year-old Victoria Lee makes her much anticipated debut. Lee, the younger sister of former...

The Ultimate Fighter Season 5 was a fruitful one for the UFC. The show spawned the careers of long time veterans Gray Maynard, Joe Lauzon, Matt Wiman, Manny Gamburyan, Cole Miller and current MMA superstar, Nate Diaz. However, among the star-studded cast was a quietly spoken young man from Moline, Illinois, Wayne Weems. In Weems’s most notable appearance during the season, he drew the ire of coach and former UFC lightweight champion Jens Pulver for his lack of experience. Pulver grew frustrated as his student struggled through drills and needed some extra technical instruction. He would eventually be eliminated...

(image credit: Matt Horwich Facebook) Matt Horwich is one of the quirkier characters in MMA, an industry littered with quirky characters. However, it would be easy to forget the skills that the man known as ‘Suave’ displayed in his 56-fight MMA career. Among Horwich’s accolades are a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt, the inaugural IFL middleweight title, as well as tenures in major promotions Bellator, KSW and the UFC. Among his 30-25-1 record is a slew of UFC veterans, including Thales Leites (twice), Terry Martin, Jake Rosholt (twice), Jason MacDonald, Jason Lambert, Brian Ebersole, Mike Pyle, Krzysztof Soszynski, Glover...

  ONE Championship’s ‘Unbreakable’ series is in the books, with the third and final instalment of the events filmed at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on January 22nd going to air on Friday. The main event ended in controversy, as Stamp Fairtex appeared to tap in the dying seconds of round three, the referee awarding Alyona Rassohyna the submission win. Stamp immediately protested, but replays appear to show a tap, in a result that will have the ONE Championship world talking for some time. The fight pitted a Muay Thai superstar in Stamp against submission specialist Rassohyna. For much of...