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Team Lakay not happy with Philippines bill banning minors from combat sports

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Bill 1526 has been proposed in the Philippines to keep minors from competing in mixed martial arts. The bill pertains to all full contact competitive combat sports meaning kickboxing, boxing, karate, and the list goes on. The question is still out there on whether or not minors should be competing in the first place and … Read more

Watch Sexyama brutally KO Sherif Mohamed at ONE: King of the Jungle

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44 year old Yoshihiro Akiyama aka “Sexyama” doesn’t seem to realize or care that he’s getting up there in age. He still gets in the cage and puts everything he has in to his punches like he hasn’t lost a step. Maybe his opponent at ONE Championship’s King of the Jungle, Sherif Mohamed incorrectly assumed … Read more

WOW: Eddie Alvarez looks like he hasn’t lost his quickness in footwork video

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Eddie Alvarez may not be a youngster anymore but he doesn’t appear to have lost a step. Eddie once held the UFC lightweight championship but famously lost it to Conor McGregor at UFC 205. From there he went 1-1-1 and decided to make the jump to the Singapore based One Championship. His first outing there … Read more

Rich Franklin visits and explores ‘tolerant’ Pakistan on his ONE world tour

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Former UFC middleweight champion, hall of famer, and current ONE Championship executive Rich Franklin has been busy. He is on a mission to find the best fighters across the globe. No matter how small or remote if it’s worth the trip he will go. If you follow him on Instagram then you have seen him … Read more

Cosmo Alexandre sends Sage Northcutt into the cosmos with 29-second KO (VIDEO)

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Cosmo Alexandre is a 37-year-old multiple time world kickboxing champion and former Bellator fighter. He’s been around the fighting game for a long time. However, he’s only been competing professionally in MMA since 2011 and has won eight straight (six by KO) since dropping a decision in his pro MMA debut. Alexandre returned to the … Read more

Ben Askren says ‘98%’ chance he signs with UFC

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UFC lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov isn’t the only undefeated MMA star in the game. Though now retired, former ONE Championship and Bellator welterweight champion Ben Askren ran up a dominant 18-0 record before hanging up his gloves after his last ONE title defense last November against Shinya Aoki. Recently there’s been talk of Askren signing … Read more

The Only Girl at the Try Outs

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ONE Championship, the Singapore-based Mixed Martial Arts, Muay Thai, and Kickboxing promotion launched in 2011, is home to an ever-lengthening list of fighters from New Zealand, and Nyrene Crowley looks set to join the ranks, and soon. Born and bread in Auckland, Crowley headed to Bali in September last year after leaving her trainers with … Read more

Rich Franklin says he’s busier than ever, ONE Warrior Series episode 1 video

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I was texting back and forth with one of the most respectful, hard working, and friendly people on the planet about his current projects and he said he was very busy, but loved every minute of it. Rich Franklin is the vice president of international MMA organization ONE Championship and stays in constant motion nowadays so getting texts from him means he’s at least taking an occasional breather. If you would like a road map to success just look at his path from math teacher, to UFC champion, and then a powerful player in today’s MMA climate. One of our favorite projects he’s been working on is the ONE Warrior series and we’ve got the video. Check it out.