Muay Thai News

PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian muay thai team are hoping for a memorable outing and a fair judging system at the Myanmar SEA Games.

Invicta Fighting Championships pitted undefeated Lauren Murphy against Muay Thai specialist Miriam Nakamoto at the promotion's seventh event on Saturday to crown an inaugural bantamweight champion.

Miriam Nakamoto, who faces Lauren Murphy for the inaugural bantamweight title at Invicta FC 7 on Saturday night, discusses her outspoken ways, muay thai vs. MMA, a potential fight with Cris Cyborg, her childhood, what led her to combat sports, and much more during a recent appearance on The MMA Hour on Monday.

Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and former Pride middleweight grand prix champion Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua was following in his brother's footsteps with regards to martial arts.

While former Bellator Women's 115-pound champion Zoila Frausto Gurgel is only a couple of days away from her fight against fellow Brazilian fighter Vanessa Porto, at Invicta FC 7, "The Warrior Princess" is already looking adding a new title to her combat sports resume.

One Fighting Championship is back on pay-per-view this week with another stacked mixed martial arts fight card from Manila.

Rather than go party in Las Vegas as friends had done, the mother of three left her husband to hold the fort so she could fly to the outskirts of Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, and live for two weeks like a regular Muay Thai fighter.

As we mentioned last week in our profile of Muay Thai coach Said Hatim , Andrei Arlovski competed in his homeland of Belarus on Friday night, taking on German journeyman Andreas Kraniotakes in the headliner of Fight Nights: Battle on Nyamiha .

Ahead of her Ultimate Fighting Championship debut, Jessamyn "The Gun" Duke promised she would be a "100% different" fighter than she was during her time on the 18th season.

NOVEMBER 29: Opponents Gray Maynard and Nate Diaz face off during the weigh-in for The Ultimate Fighter season 18 live finale inside the Mandalay Bay Events Center on November 29, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Scottish champion Muay Thai kickboxer Helen Wilson of Linlithgow took on double UK champion, Jacqui Bogart, at a fight night in Leeds and won by a unanimous decision.

Pregnant Crystal Green's clients aren't the only ones kicking in her Muay Thai sessions as the karate champion, 31, hasn't let being eight months pregnant stop her running her all-female kickboxing bootcamp Crystal, who runs the 'Foxy & Fierce' workouts from her Hollywood gym, fell pregnant in March while she was training for a body-transforming ... (more)

By Sakini Mohd Said SEREMBAN -- With her long hair, attractive face and sweet voice, Farah Melina Ismadi, 18, is the picture of femininity.

"In this E:60 season finale episode, watch Jeremy Schaap's journey to Thailand where he reports on the nation's national past time, Muay Thai, a martial art, where children as young as seven are allowed to compete in arenas controlled by organized crime and gambling syndicates.

Hong Kong's 'Wonder Kid' has a remarkable record of never having been knocked down in a fight ahead of Sunday's bout with Muay Thai convert Hong Kong's "Wonder Kid", Rex Tso Sing-yu, will be out not only to extend his unbeaten professional record when he takes on Thai fighter Susu Sithjadeang on the undercard of The Clash in Cotai, he wants to ... (more)

THE great grandson of a former Atherton amateur boxing champion is following in his family's footsteps after winning a martial arts world championship belt in Italy.

NOT satisfied with donating his prize money after winning the One Fighting Championship national featherweight championship in Kuala Lumpur November 15, Malaysian AJ Lias Mansor this time wants to help out in typhoon-ravaged areas in Leyte.

Men enter the ring over the top rope, women go in under the bottom ropea I have to crawl under that bottom rope so not as to affect the magic of the ring.

Brave fighter: Yeap, the woman who "fought off" a snatch thief in a recent viral marketing video, explaining what a woman should do during a robbery.

Lights Out Promotions' hybrid combats sports series will return to the Hollywood Park and Casino on Saturday for "Chaos at the Casino 3." Former "The Ultimate Fighter" contestant Sevak Magakian of Glendale will fight in the mixed-martial-arts main event against another former Ultimate Fighter, Chris Saunders, on a card that features MMA, boxing and ... (more)