By Jordan Newmark | 6 March 2021
Feed Me Fight Me is all about the Mission. For John Watkins and Brian Eayrs, who became friends while serving in the US Marine CORPS, their burgeoning business’ mission is a pincer attack: create high-quality sports apparel they believe in and pay it forward to their fellow veterans. “We’re about [...]
By Éireann Mannino | 19 February 2021
It is difficult not to feel the perpetual sting of loss when looking back on the shortened life and career of Brandon Lee. Lost to us at the mere age of 28 in 1993, indeed at the cusp of his ascendancy, Brandon fell victim to a fatal gun-prop error that [...]
By Éireann Mannino | 5 February 2021
Legend has it that 666 portals to the netherworld are scattered throughout our universe. While human beings remain blissfully unaware of these dimensional gateways, the 444th is nestled deep in Japan’s “forest of resurrection.” Strange things happen in this remote forest that unfortunately serves as a preferred dumping ground for [...]
By Marty Mulcahey | 4 January 2021
The association between boxing and Parkinson's Syndrome is usually negative, but former world bantamweight weight champion Paulie Ayala is changing that perception. In a gym decorated with boxing posters featuring the most elite athletes in the world, men and women in their middle ages up to septuagenarians train as diligently [...]
By Éireann Mannino | 27 December 2020
Three time World Boxing Council (WBC) World Bantamweight champion Jôichirô Tatsuyôshi, is the subject of Joe, Tomorrow: 20 years with Joichiro Tatsuyoshi (2015), directed by Junji Sakamoto and produced by King Records. Sakamoto is no stranger to the ring, having delved into the boxing world with three of his features, [...]
By Lewis Budden | 19 December 2020
In the vast world of MMA, if you were to name a style that uses both a combination of strikes and kicks you may immediately name, Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Karate. You may not Immediately picture French sailors competing at sea… welcome to Savate. What is Savate? It goes by many [...]
By Éireann Mannino | 12 December 2020
For those who came of age in the early 90’s, there is a good chance one of your first encounters with the martial arts world was Saban’s Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, a westernized reworking of the long-standing Japanese Super Sentai series which pits a group of teens against giant monsters [...]
By Éireann Mannino | 13 November 2020
With unmistakable kinship to his 2004 Judo film Throw Down (Yau doh lung fu bong) and more than a pinch of Fulltime Killer’s (2001) hyperactive swagger, Hong Kong cinema royalty Johnnie To returns from a three year hiatus with Chasing Dream (Chihuo Quan Wang), ending the longest stall in a [...]
By Jordy McElroy | 31 October 2020
Megan Anderson fears no woman. Even with a scheduled December bout against Amanda Nunes — a two-division UFC champion that napalms faces for a living — a dauntless Megan Anderson remains rooted and unflinching in the crosshairs of the baddest woman on the planet. There’s nothing about the fight that [...]
By Éireann Mannino | 9 October 2020
It seems peculiar to say, that with as impressive a frame as Bolo Yeung’s, he is somehow a transient figure. Even in his most iconic roles, Bolo has a tendency to silently appear and disappear, as if spliced into films solely for his alternately stoic, explosive or ominous affect. With [...]
By Jordy McElroy | 5 October 2020
As UFC middleweight contender Paulo Costa faded in and out of consciousness, he looked into the eyes of a killer. Stoic, cold and completely void of emotion—UFC middleweight king Israel Adesanya rained down a lifetime’s worth of punishment in the form of punches and elbows. It was a Category 5 [...]
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