MMA Techniques – Countering the Jab Countering the jab is something that all fighters involved in striking based systems need to learn in their training. However, Stand up fighting in MMA has changed a lot over the last few years. The advent of more karate style practitioners such as Gunnar Nelson, Lyoto Machida and Stephen […]
MMA Versus Boxing: UFC 118 The upcoming match between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather has fans of both MMA and boxing talking in gyms and around water coolers all over the world. No matter where you go, everybody has an opinion on how this monumental showdown of MMA versus boxing is going to play out. […]
ARNOLD ALLEN MMA TUTORIAL PT1 While visiting his home in Colchester England, our UK fight aficionado Alex Wright, caught up with UFC star Arnold Allen at his original team gym BKK fighters. Arnold, at only 23 years old, is one of the most technical fighters in his UFC featherweight division and now training much of […]
Andy Thrasher Since his retirement in 2013, straight-talking Muay Thai legend Andy Thrasher has been dreaming of reentering the fray. Revgear Sports’ Tom Billinge caught up with him at his cosy gym, The Dog Pit, in Bury to find out more about the man. How did you get started in Muay Thai? “I started quite […]
GLORY 43 NEW YORK – Mo Abdurahman at Madison Revgear athlete Mo Abdurahman is preparing to make his GLORY debut on GLORY 43 NEW YORK at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on July 14th. Fighting on the SuperFight Series card of GLORY 43, Mighty Mo will take on Chinese prospect Chenchen Li in the […]
McGregor vs Mayweather: Should it Happen? MCGREGOR VS MAYWEATHER: This match may well be responsible for one of the biggest changes in fight promotion history since Mixed Martial Arts entered the combat sports arena. We ask not whether this bout will happen (It’s happening!) but whether it should. As the relatively new sport of Mixed […]
New York Muay Thai and the City New York City is a metropolis that enthrals millions of visitors each year. Rudy Giuliani’s zero tolerance policy turned the Rotten Apple into a tourist-friendly destination, but the old New York still simmers away under the surface. The no-nonsense character of residents of the Five Boroughs comes from […]
Although there is no doubt it’s the fighters of any combat sport who have always taken the limelight in the media age. However it is now very much the social media age which is allowing us to see behind the scenes of great fight teams and get to know about the people who build the […]
By securing a coveted GLORY Kickboxing contract, the 21-year-old “golden boy” of UK kickboxing, “Mighty” Mo Abdurahman began to build his fame. In reality, his career eight years in the making, the young Southampton based fighter has now begun to reap the rewards of his commitment to his craft. Mo Abdurahman first started training with […]
The world’s premiere kickboxing organization, GLORY, announced the headline bout for GLORY 40 Super Fight Series. This as the organization returns to Forum Copenhagen in Denmark on Saturday, April 29. We’re stoked to report that our very own Jamie Bates is the poster boy squaring up against the tough American kickboxer, Richard Abraham. Fight Network […]