While UFC’s former strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk says she is ‘totally open’ to fight Valentina Shevchenko in the octagon, she gave quite the reaction when asked about her Muay Thai bouts with ‘The Bullet’. Polish MMA star Jedrzejczyk, who was in Moscow to attend the UFC’s debut event in Russia as a special guest, spoke […]
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Scottish Muay Thai fighter dies in Thailand attempting to cut weight for fight
Muay Thai boxer Jordan Coe, 20, from Scotland has died of a suspected heatstroke while trying to make the weight for a bout in Thailand. Coe died when he went out in a heavy tracksuit while attempting to shed 3kg to make the 61kg weight limit for a bout on Sunday in Bangkok. The young […]
‘I’d fight in UFC for free if Dana White asked me’: ‘Matrix’ Muay Thai fighter Fiziev
A superflexible Muay Thai fighter, who went viral when UFC President Dana White tweeted a video of him bending backwards in a 90 degree angle to dodge a roundhouse kick, says he would fight in the promotion for free given the chance. Twenty-three-year-old Rafael Fiziev from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan was competing in the ‘Thailand Toyota Marathon’ […]