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Decision-Making and Muay Thai with Head Coach Arnas

I’ve been training Muay Thai at Diesel for seven months now. That’s seven months of combos one to ten, fourteen point defence, light leg, horns, the Seksan drill, and everything else that Head Coach, Arnas, incorporates into his system. Coach will be the first to say that there’s no secret to what he teaches – …

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So… do belts matter?

I was training in a sambo class. In Russia, Sambists are graded not with belts, but with sporting accolades. You may have heard Fedor Emelianenko and Khabib Nurmagomedov referred to as ‘international masters of sports’. This essentially means that they have won multiple recognised world championships in sport sambo and combat sambo respectively. However the …

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Jose Aldo Retires: A Look at His Finest Fights

It finally happened. Jose Aldo retired from mixed martial arts competition. Thus the last MMA Champion of ‘my era’ has retired. Today we are going to look at the almighty legacy of one of the finest fighters of all time. Aldo reigned as champion alongside Anderson Silva, GSP, Jon Jones and Demetrious Johnson – the …

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5 of the Greatest Kickboxers in MMA History

Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira are finally confirmed to fight for the Middleweight title in November, making the first time two glory kickboxers will compete for a UFC title. Alex Pereira has beaten Adesanya twice before in kickboxing, but this time will have to deal with a new foe. The cage. Alex Pereira is unquestionably …

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UFC 276 | What’s Next for Volkanovski?

Last November, I rated Alexander Volkanovski as the second greatest UFC featherweight, just after Jose Aldo. Putting him above rival Max Holloway, in a move that many would have found controversial. Since that article, Volkanovski has defended his title twice. Once against veteran Korean Zombie, in what is genuinely the most one sided fight Zombie …

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3 Steps to Out-Fighting

Out-fighting, is the most classical type of fighter there is in combat sports. Muhammed Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, Anderson Silva, Samart Payakaroon, all these legendary strikers all made their name through their great use of out-boxing. The techniques that outboxers need to rely on, closely overlap with what a counter fighter would typically need to …

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