How old are you and where are you from? I’m 23 years old and I’m from Pretoria What weight do you fight at? I currently fight at light weight. I walk around at 74kg’s but cut easily to make the cut off at LW.im planning on making the drop to feather weight in the [...]

How old are you and where are you from? 26 – Originally from Cape town, but currently based in Pretoria. What weight do you fight at? For now at middle but very soon at Welter How did you get into MMA I went to the local Spar, ha ha ha, no seriously, I went to [...]

  World number 6 and South African K-1 champion Nkosinathi “Tiger” Ximba roared back from the disappointment of his world title fight postponement to put his physical preparation to good use in a hastily arranged match up with Pretoria North based Kyokushin and Tae Kwon Do star Jan Moatse at the AltXsports festival.  The K-1 [...]

EFC AFRICA Heavyweight Championship RUAN POTTS vs. ANDREW VAN ZYL EFC AFRICA Lightweight Championship COSTA IOANNOU vs. ALEX CHEBOUB Plus JACQUES JOUBERT vs. TYRON RIGHTFORD And many more Johannesburg (South Africa) – For the last fight night of 2011, EFC AFRICA 11 promises fans the perfect end of year present: the best MMA action! EFC [...]

The most prestigious event in grappling, the ADCC Submission Fighting World Championships, will be taking place this weekend in Nottingham, England. Out of the 96 competitors there is only one grappler from Africa and that is South Africa’s very own Penny Thomas. This will be Penny’s third appearance at the tournament and she has had [...]

 “Great guy, amazing grappler” is normally a common sentiment shared by people who have trained with Wiekus Swart. He is somewhat of a walking contradiction. For a sweet guy, he can fold you like a lawn chair in seconds (on occasion I have been that lawn chair). Currently SA’s sole heavyweight BJJ black belt, Swart [...]

Johannesburg (South Africa) – In a deal that has been almost two years in the making, EFC AFRICA, Africa’s largest and most prestigious Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) promotion, has signed a landmark broadcast deal with the continent’s largest and most popular English speaking TV station,e.tv. The broadcast agreement for 2011 will see the best fights [...]

1. How old are you and where are you from? I’m 72 but use a good moisturiser so I’m actually 26. 2. What weight do you fight at? 84kg and walk around at 92kg. I start dieting very strictly about three weeks out and always amaze myself at how quickly I’m able to drop weight. 3. [...]

“I’m your neighbor.” To most, that benign and simple statement’s meaning has been lost on them. To the winner of the 11th season of The Ultimate Fighter, being a normal Joe in the suburbs of anywhere, USA is the living testament that Court McGee wants to pass on to others who look up to him [...]

Personal training is essential in our industry; we took some time to catch up with one of Jozi’s own hardcore elites… Richard Lazarus!   So Rich, outside of the hard exterior and street cred, tell us how this all began???   I began my personal training and life coach training in 1993 after being certified [...]

The look on Bob Dunham’s face said a thousand words, maybe even more. As he waited for the van to transport him back to a hotel in Killeen, Texas after watching his son’s second professional loss as a mixed martial artist, you felt for a man who was going through a father’s nightmare – the [...]

Two lightweight grappling specialists have verbally agreed to face off December 10 in Toronto as Nik “The Carny” Lentz takes on Canada’s Mark Bocek, confirmed UFC president Dana White today. The bout will mark Lentz’ return to action after an injury sustained in his UFC on Versus 4 Fight of the Night against Charles Oliveira. [...]

Johannesburg (South Africa) – On 1 September EFC AFRICA’s 10th event exceeded all expectations and delivered 12 incredible bouts of Africa’s ever-improving mixed martial arts action. Congratulations go to EFC AFRICA’s two new champions: Demarte ‘The Wolf’ Pena and Dallas Jakobi. Pretoria’s Pena won the vacant featherweight title using strenuous, gritty wrestling to negate Leo [...]

  Dare Fight Sports is proud to present the first Middleweight fight of the DARE 2/11 event, at Club Insomnia Bangkok on September 24th: XIMBICA – Rodrigo Ribeiro VS THE G.O.A.T – Wade Henderson. XIMBICA – Rodrigo Ribeiro, a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt from Evolve MMA (Evolve Fight Team) Singapore, who has a total [...]

Nearly 24 hours after his world changed, everything finally started to set in for the new challenger for Georges St-Pierre’s UFC welterweight title, Carlos Condit. “Little by little,” he chuckled as he wrapped up a day of media in Las Vegas to promote UFC 137’s new main event on October 29th. On Wednesday morning he [...]

These lads have had their names tossed around the crowds and critics a plenty over the last year and rightfully so. With clean records and personalities to go with them, we thought we’d bring them to you! They form half of the Shido fight team and half been carving their way through the competition all [...]

We took our shoes off and hit the Spring Show in Pretoria on Saturday evening for the ninth instalment of Rise of the Warrior! We thoroughly enjoy these events every time, the crowds were good, the cage and lighting rig were great for an amateur event and production.   2 of the 9 bouts went [...]