Saturday, 25 May 2013 11:24

On December 17th at The Sand in Amsterdam It's Showtime will once again hold their holiday time event after last year's much-celebrated card. This year's main event features the 70kg MAX Championship on the line as Giorgio Petrosyan challenges the Champion Chris Ngimbi.

Saturday, 25 May 2013 11:24

It's Showtime will host the Kickboxing retirement fight of the young Badr Hari. Badr Hari is a sensational fighter with a very troubled past who has decided to move on to the Boxing world, at least for now. Watch the promo package put together by It's Showtime for Badr Hari.

Saturday, 25 May 2013 11:24

The MuayThai Premier League held their second event in Padova, Italy on the weekend and featured some great action. Unfortunately, there was no live stream or broadcast anywhere but videos are starting to be uploaded. The event will air on The Score in Canada on October 18th. From the looks of it, the event drew a pretty poor attendance. We'll update with more videos as they're uploaded. Here's what we have so far:

Kaoponlek vs. Charles Francois

Saiyok Pumpanmuang vs. Mauro Serra

Saturday, 25 May 2013 11:24

Jill is back with some more awesome highlight videos, this time of 3 of this year's Krush tournament champions; 55kg champ Shota Takiya, 60kg champ Hirotaka Urabe and 70kg Kenta. It's interesting to see the different style of fighter that emerged as the champion of each division. Takiya with his power and aggression, Hirotaka with his aggresive boxing style paired with flashy knees and head kicks, and Kenta dissecting his opponents offensively with his speed and accuracy  coupled greatly with his head movement and defensive speed.

Saturday, 25 May 2013 11:24

On OCtober 8th the MPL puts on their second show, this time coming from Italy. Head to http://www.TheMPL.tv for more information.

Saturday, 25 May 2013 11:24

Romania's SuperKombat has decidedly stood out over the year, coming from the Local Kombat shows of years past and building their own World Grand Prix tournament that stretches over multiple qualifying tournaments. While the level of talent within the qualifying tournaments is not great, the winners coming out are without a doubt top notch, including Sergeii Laschenko, Ismael Londt and now Pavel Zhuravlev. Zhuravlev is a guy that you might not know a lot about, outside of his lone K-1 fight which was against Gokhan Saki where he actually defeated Gokhan Saki in a Superfight by Unanimous Decision. Since then he has yet to appear in K-1 again, but the truth is, when he does he will be a force to be dealt with. His specialty over the past few years has been winning tournaments, it seems, not on the big world stage like K-1, but still really solid wins in tournaments, and it was no surprise when he took the SuperKombat WGP III by storm. Don't weigh against him for the loss to Igor Jurkovic at Utlimate Glory in May, that is one of only 6 career losses.

Video is from our good friends at Gladiatorium.ro.

Saturday, 25 May 2013 11:24

Mike Zambidis returned to the ring yesterday in Cyprus and faced Danila Utenkov from Russia. This was Zambidis' first fight since getting stopped by John Wayne Parr and he was looking to get back on track before his showdown with Batu Khasikov on November 5th. It's a good decision for "Zambo" to get a tune-up fight in before next month. Watch the video below.

Saturday, 25 May 2013 11:24

Mark Miller has been training his ass off since making his big comeback in May knocking out Nikolaj Falin in just under 9 seconds. It was one of those moments that was almost too perfect to sum up. Since then he has been training just as hard waiting for his next fight to come together, and this training also included making a special appearance at Rampage Jackson's training camp as a sparring partner and coach for Rampage in his upcoming fight. Regardless of the whole, ridiculous "spygate" non-scandal that has been talked about for Rampage's training camp, a lot of actual work was done and Mark helped push Rampage to his limits.

Since then he has been training using the Mass Suit, something almost out of a science fiction movie that was made to help athletes maximize their workouts by providing extra tension. This video is of Mark working out with the suit and they interview him for some background information as well. [source]

Saturday, 25 May 2013 11:24

It's Monday, which means you should watch some kickboxing to cheer yourself up as you deal with the doldrums of the work week or the world of education. This highlight reel is by one of our favorite readers, Jill and it is full of a lot of lost gems. [source]

Saturday, 25 May 2013 11:24

The Challenger Muay Thai debuts on AXN in Asia on September 15th. The show pits 16 Muay Thai fighters from around the world against each other, for the ultimate goal of winning The Challenger Muay Thai belt. Among the fighters featured are Marco Pique and the recently featured Vuyisile Colossa. The video briefly profiles each fighter and gives a nice preview of the show. It's not known if this will ever air in North America but if videos fo find their way online, we'll be sure to post them up.