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3 hrs ago | Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Discipline, determination fuel the 'karate kid'

When Henry Liu was 6 years old, he nearly quit karate. He'd started at MassDojo in Shrewsbury a year earlier and was growing tired of the sport.

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Related Topix: Karate

8 hrs ago | CNN

Transgender Fallon Fox attracts extra attention ahead of fight

It's just another fight, say Fallon Fox and Allanna Jones, the two women competing this Friday at Championship Fighting Alliance 11 in Coral Gables, Fla.

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Related Topix: Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting), Sports, Olympics

Thu May 23, 2013

CBC News

Province mulls creation of prize-fighting commission

The provincial government may get into the fighting ring as officials consider the pros and cons of establishing a combative sports commission.

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Related Topix: Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting)

Cincinnati.com

MMA fighter Hamill returns to Loveland

Loveland High School graduate Matt Hamill, a current UFC fighter, will appear June 8 at Master Sun Park's martial arts school in Loveland.

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Related Topix: Mixed Martial Arts, Matt Hamill, Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting), Mark Coleman

Examiner.com

Top ten best fight outfits in women's mixed martial arts

According to a May 22 report from MMA Junkie , transgender MMA star Fallon Fox wants fight fans to start focusing on her skill inside the cage, rather than her breathtaking good looks.

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Related Topix: Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting)

MMA Mania

Oklahoma tornado 2013: UFC's James Head to donate next fight purse to victims of tragedy

Four-fight UFC veteran and Oklahoma-born fighter James Head has announced he will donate the money he makes from his next fight purse to those affected by the recent tornado in Moore.

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Related Topix: Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting)

BleacherReport

John Cholish Explains How Much It Costs to Be a UFC Fighter

The subject of fighter pay in the sport of mixed martial arts has been an ongoing debate for several years with no one coming to a consensus on whether the salaries are good, bad or otherwise.

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Related Topix: Mixed Martial Arts, John Cholish, Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting), Gleison Tibau, Jon Fitch, Georges St-Pierre

BleacherReport

The Career-Defining Moment of Every UFC 160 Main Card Fighter

In looking ahead to this weekend's UFC 160 fight card, we revisit that one special moment in the career of each main card fighter that best defines him as a mixed martial artist.

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Related Topix: Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting)

Salon

Before FBI shooting man implicated self, Tsarnaev in triple murder

Question marks hang over the shooting by an FBI agent in Orlando Wednesday of a young Chechen man with connections to the late Boston bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

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Related Topix: Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting)

Beverage Industry

Xyience Xenergy has the power to win

Xyience Xenergy, the official energy drink of the Ultimate Fighting Championship , launched its nationwide promotion "Do You Have the Power to Win?" this month.

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Related Topix: Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting)

Philly.com

Henry Clay Smith 3d, dance pioneer

Henry Clay Smith 3d, 67, of Gladwyne, a pioneering force in the fusion of dance, theater, mind-body fitness, and martial arts, died Sunday, May 12, while swimming in the Mediterranean Sea off Alanya, Turkey.

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Related Topix: Aikido

Wed May 22, 2013

Penarth Times

Welsh Karate League at Mid Glamorgan

EARLIER this month Mid Glamorgan held the second event of this year's season of the Welsh Karate League at Bridgend Recreation Centre.

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Related Topix: Karate

NEWS.com.au

Fight team jousters, not jesters

Grayson Tawhai and Kit Houston have just returned from Aigues-Mortes, France, where they competed in the international medieval full-contact event, Battle of the Nations.

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Related Topix: Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting)

CNN

Man killed by FBI agent knew Tsarnaevs, official says

Ibragim Todashev, shot dead early Wednesday by the FBI in Florida, had been acquainted with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev at a mixed martial arts center near Boston, according to a source briefed on the bombing investigation.

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Related Topix: Outdoor Recreation, Marathon, Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting)

The Orlando Sentinel

Man shot by FBI had links to MMA

Ibragim Todashev, the man who was shot and killed by an FBI agent Wednesday while being questioned about the Boston Marathon bombing , was a member of the Central Florida mixed martial arts community.

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Related Topix: Outdoor Recreation, Marathon, Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting)

Post and Courier

Man fatally shot by FBI in Florida regarding Boston bombing interview

A man being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation, FBI officials said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting)

Detroit News

FBI: Man in Florida fatally shot in Boston bombing probe

A man being questioned in the Boston Marathon bombing case was shot to death at his home by an FBI agent Wednesday after turning violent, officials said.

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Related Topix: Outdoor Recreation, Marathon, Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting)

Fox News

Boston Bomber Link: Man Shot Dead by Fbi Part of Marathon Probe

A former mixed martial arts fighter who was fatally shot by an FBI agent in Florida following a "violent confrontation" knew one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, a friend of the victim said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Outdoor Recreation, Marathon, Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting)

Patch.com

BlueClaws Hosting Shore Sports Hall of Fame Induction

When the Lakewood BlueClaws take on the West Virginia Power in a Friday night game next month the team will also help welcome the newest class to the Shore Sports Hall of Fame.

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Related Topix: Little League, Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting), New Jersey High School Football, High School Football, New Jersey High School Sports, High School Sports, Mixed Martial Arts, Frankie Edgar

BleacherReport

Sean Sherk: 'I'd Like to Be Recognized as a UFC Hall of Famer'

Former UFC lightweight champion Sean Sherk has been out of the Octagon for nearly three years, but he maintains that he has not retired from mixed martial arts.

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Related Topix: Mixed Martial Arts, Sean Sherk, Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting), Matt Hughes, Georges St-Pierre, B.J. Penn