Martial Arts News

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.