Legend Fighting Championship, the Asia-Pacific Championship of MMA, has finally released the confirmed fight cards for Legend 11 today. Legend 11 will take place on April 27 at the Chin Woo Stadium in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Featuring twelve ... Read More »
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Feed SubscriptionONE FC: ‘Rise to Power’ set for Philippines on May 31
ONE Fighting Championship™ (ONE FC), in association with Universal Reality Combat Championship (URCC), returns to the fight capital of Asia on Friday, 31 May, with the highly anticipated first title defense of hometown hero ONE FC Featherweight World Champion Honorio “The Rock” Banario. Read More »
Road Fighting Championship announces Thierry Sokoudjou’s opponent to be Whi Seung-Bae
ROAD Fighting Championship is proud to announce that South Korean Whi Seung-Bae will face Thierry Sokoudjou at ROAD FC 011 at Seoul Olympic Hall in Seoul, South Korea on April 13, 2013. Whi Seung-Bae (7-3) is a Spirit MC Inter ... Read More »
Melvin Manhoef vs. Brock Larson added to ONE FC: Kings & Champions
ONE Fighting Championship (ONE FC) has announced that knockout specialist Melvin Manhoef will fight Brock Larson at ONE FC: KINGS & CHAMPIONS on April 5 in Singapore. Read More »
DramaFever Strikes Legend Deal for MMA
For the first time, millions of sports fans in the USA, Canada and Latin America will be able to watch some of the Asia-Pacific’s most elite mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters compete for free and online. New York-based DramaFever and Hong Kong-based Legend Fighting Championship have teamed up to make Legend’s Asia-Pacific Championship MMA events available online exclusively through DramaFever, starting January 15. Read More »
It’s official, the best lightweight in Asia, Shinya Aoki, has signed with ONE FC
Asia's largest mixed martial arts promotion, ONE Fighting Championship has confirmed they have officially signed the best lightweight in Asia, Shinya Aoki (30-6-1), to a multi-fight deal. Aoki is scheduled to make his debut with the promotion in the main event at "ONE FC: Pride of a Nation" in Manila on August 31. Read More »
ONE FC – Ruling Asian MMA and it’s not even been a year yet
It was almost one year ago now when ONE Fighting Championship was beginning its quest to bring back martial arts to Asia in the grandest fashion possible and to ignite the Bushido spirit of best mixed martial artists from around Asia. ONE FC had a very bold goal and it was simply to be the biggest and best mixed martial arts promotion in Asia. Read More »
The expert’s opinion: How champions are forged
Known for pushing a relentless pace and engaging opponents with unflagging aggression, Team Lakay fighters are ravagers of the ring, killers in the cage. Yet if you’ve met its founder, Mark Sangiao, you would never have guessed it. Read More »
It seems Arnaud Lepont and Brian Choi are ready to beat the crap out of each other
When we first found out that Eddie Ng was injured and couldn't face Muayfit's Arnaud Lepont, we were bummed. Bummed out like a Pacman fan who used his last 10 bucks to bet on Manny, 10 bucks which he could have used to buy beer. We didn't know why though. Maybe it's because both guys were two of the hottest prospects fighting out of Southeast Asia today, maybe it was because there was a certain mystique built around both of them or maybe it was because they both were kind of cool. Read More »
Renato Sobral vs. Tatsuya Mizuno to headline ‘ONE FC: Destiny of Warriors’ on June 23
Former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Renato "Babalu" Sobral will make his ONE Fighting Championship debut when he faces Judo black belt Tatsuya Mizuno in thet "ONE FC: Destiny of Warriors" (ONE FC 4) main event on June 23 at Stadium Negara in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Read More »
Interview: ONE FC’s CEO Victor Cui
Some know him as the CEO of ONE FC, some know him as the Most Powerful Man in Asian MMA. Some know him as Victor, and of course, some know him as that dude with the most awesome tailored suits. Regardless of what you want to call the head honcho of Asia’s biggest MMA promotion, ONE Fighting Championship, Victor Cui has done more for Asian MMA in one year than anyone could dreamed possible. Read More »
Murilo ‘Ninja’ Rua and Phil Baroni are looking to throw down in Asia
Phil Baroni and Murilo "Ninja" Rua took to Twitter this week saying they wanted to fight one another and called for either ONE FC or Super Fight League to make the bout happen. Read More »
Evolve Fight Team reminds you how badass they are with this video blog
Evolve Fight Team has released a new video blog capturing their victories at "ONE FC: War of the Lions". Team Evolve saw victories by Eddie Ng, Nicole Chua, Zorobabel Moreira and Fabricio Monteiro. Read More »
ONE Fighting Championship announces the ONE Asia MMA Summit
Singapore: ONE Fighting Championship™ (ONE FC) announced today that it will host the ONE Asia MMA Summit 2012 from 1-3 June 2012. Read More »
Jadamba to defend lightweight title in Hong Kong at Legend FC 8
Japan’s Yusuke Kawanago to face China’s Ji Xian for the featherweight title Hong Kong, March 15, 2012 (Thursday) — Legend Fighting Championship returns to Hong Kong for City of Dreams exclusively presents LEGEND 8, with Mongolian Jadamba making his first ... Read More »
URCC boss Alvin Aguilar releases statement on Legend FC situation
Alvin Aguilar, the founder of the URCC, the longest running MMA promotion in the Philippines, has filed suit against Legend FC regarding alleged "unethical and illegal hiring of fighters under contract with URCC." Read More »
Know this fighter: Zorobabel “Zoro” Moreira
They say that a smile can light up a room. Whoever said that was right especially in the case of Zorobabel Moreira (5-1). While for some fighters it’s rare for them to smile (hint: Nick “Stinky Face” Diaz), it’s rare ... Read More »
AJ Pyro – Setting the Asia MMA scene on fire
We talk with up-and-coming Malaysian MMA prospect AJ Pyro about his upcoming fight with Majee Overall taking place at DARE Championships this Saturday in Bangkok, Thailand, and streaming on ProMMAnow.com. Read More »
ONE Fighting Championship announces largest MMA network in Asian history
ONE Fighting Championship has signed exclusive partnerships with most major Asian MMA promotions and gyms in Asia as a part of its ONE Asia strategy to unify all key players in the sport of MMA in Asia. Read More »