Sunday, 26 May 2013 00:26

Lion Fight is a rising promotion here in the United States that has been doing a lot to move Muay Thai forward in the country. That is a big deal, as Muay Thai and Kickboxing have sort of floundered there in the United States after the momentary rise and fall of Kickboxing in the late 80's/early 90's. Lion Fight have been securing their talent into exclusive fight contracts to ensure that they are on their upcoming shows and to help build their brand. There will always be pros and cons involved with this, but everyone is different and have different needs.

We've already seen Kevin Ross, Malaipet Sasiprapa and Tiffany Van Soest sign exclusive deals and now Ognjen Topic is the latest to do so. This comes a day after Joe Schilling announced via his Facebook that he was effectively "done" with Lion Fight due to them pushing him to sign an exclusive contract with them. While it is not official yet, it looks like this will be the second Lion Fight card in a row that Schilling will be removed from, this time probably not to return due to severing ties with the company.

Ognjen Topic will fight at Lion Fight 10 on July 26th against Coke Chunhawat live on AXS TV.

Sunday, 26 May 2013 00:26

Live from Southern California on May 16th will be the M-One Grand Muay Thai event: M-One Reborn: Team World vs. Team Thailand event. It goes down in Highland, California and has a pretty awesome card that you'll be able to see if you plop down $9.99 for the UStream PPV. The card is headlined by Can't Stop Crazy fighter Romie Adanza taking on Jomhod Sagami while also featuring the awesome bout between Sagetdao Petchpayathai vs. Tetsuya Yamato.

Romie Adanza vs Jomhod Sagami

Sagetdao Petchpayathai vs Tetsuya Yamato

Tarongdej Petchpayathai vs Charlie Boy Peters

Lukjaomaesaiwaree Superbon vs Craig Jose

Douglas Edwards vs Bryce Krause

Sunday, 26 May 2013 00:26

SuperKombat will put on yet another event in their SuperKombat WGP series this coming weekend in the city of Craiova, Romania. It will feature another four-man tournament in their WGP series between some of the world's most recognizable Heavyweights. To top it off there are also Superfights featuring Benny Adegbuyi as well as Catalin Morosanu, which are sure to please the hometown crowd in Romania.

The event will be streamed live on SuperKombat.com and by the looks of it, will be well worth it.

SUPERKOMBAT® World Grand Prix – Fight Card (May 18, 2013 – Craiova, Romania)

1. Super-fight (SUPERKOMBAT® World Title -65kg)

Stauros Exakoustidis (Greece) vs. Ionut Atodiresei (Romania)

2. Semifinal 1 (Heavyweight)

Nikolaj Falin (Germany) vs. Frank Munoz (Spain)

3. Semifinal 2 (Heavyweight)

Vladimir Toktasynov (Russia) vs. Sebastian Ciobanu (Romania)

4. Super-fight (SUPERKOMBAT® World Title -71kg)

Stelios Papadopoulos (Greece) vs. Claudiu Badoi (Romania)

5. Super-fight (Heavyweight)

Jairzinho Rozenstruik (Suriname) vs. Benjamin Adegbuyi (Romania)

6. Super-fight (Heavyweight)

Eduardo Mendes (Cape Verde) vs. Catalin Morosanu (Romania)

7. Final (Heavyweight)

Winner Semifinal 1 vs. Winner Semifinal 2

Sunday, 26 May 2013 00:26

Man. We all know and love Badr Hari's entrance theme, which is performed by Dutch rapper APPA, but it looks like the two of them have collaborated yet again, this time on a song called "KAMPIOEN" or "Champion" in English. Of course we all know of Badr's recent troubles with the law, but he seems to be training regularly now and has a fight coming up with Zabit Samedov that we are all looking forward to, so check out this new song. Hell, it even features Joeren Post at the beginning of it calling out Badr Hari's name. [Source]

Sunday, 26 May 2013 00:26

This was a pretty exciting weekend for Kickboxing fans and the hits just kept coming as the promotion that is known as probably the #2 Kickboxing promotion in the world, SuperKombat, held an outing in Vienna on the 10th. There were a few recognizable faces involved, as well as some fresh faces. SuperKombat always does a great job of bringing up new stars within their system, something that many other promotions have had problems with. Muamer Tufekcic had already won himself a spot on an upcoming SuperKombat WGP event, but his opponent this weekend, Agalar Sadikhadze fought an impressive fight, so much so that he was asked to participate in an upcoming event as well.

In attendance were international Kickboxing stars Remy Bonjasky, Semmy Schilt and Bogdan Stoica, who soaked in all of the action, being especially impressed by Sadikhadze. It should be noted that in what will serve as a warmup of sorts for his upcoming rematch with Badr Hari, Zabit Samedov made short work of the tough Wieslaw Kwasniewski with a big knockout in Round 1. It was another great event in the books for SuperKombat in 2013, with a big SuperKombat WGP event going down on May 18th in Craiova, Romania.

-64 kg: Turan Qafarov (Azerbaijan) def. Alexander Ramazotti (Italy) via Unanimous Decision

-91 kg: Vuqar Kazimov (Azerbaijan) def. Andreas Chomor (Hungary) via Unanimous Decision

-91 kg: Janos Nietlispach (Switzerland) def. Anar Mammadov (Azerbaijan) via Split Decision

-86 kg: Uros Bogojevic (Serbia) def. Etiram Rzayev (Azerbaijan) via Unanimous Decision

-75 kg: Husnu Sari (Turkey) def. Tural Bayramov (Azerbaijan) via TKO Round 3

-72 kg: Ramal Aslanov (Azerbaijan) def. Cristian Milea (Romania) via Split Decision

Heavyweight: Zabit Samedov (Azerbaijan) def. Wieslaw Kwasniewski (Poland) via KO Round 1

-72,5 kg: Parviz Abdullayev (Azerbaijan) def. Gabriel Bozan (Austria / Romania) via Unanimous Decision

-81 kg: Niels Wilmink (Holland) def. Kamil Sharifov (Azerbaijan) via Unanimous Decision

Heavyweight: Sam Tevette (Holland) def. Zamiq Atakishiyev (Azerbaijan) via Unanimous Decision

-72,5 kg: Alim Nabiyev (Azerbaijan) def. Adem Bozkurt (Turkey) via KO Round 1

Heavyweight: Muamer Tufekcic (Bosnia) def. Agalar Sadikhadze (Azerbaijan) via Unanimous Decision