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Introduction To Muay Thai Boxing

In: Recreation & Sports

2 Oct 2010

Muay Thai is also known as Thai boxing and is ancient style of self-defense that was developed and employed within battles by ancient Thailand warriors. Due to its intense and damaging tactics countless worldwide military forces train their soldiers with this particular.

Carlos Palomino: Mexico’s Welterweight Boxing Legend

In: Recreation & Sports

11 May 2010

The US mainstream sports media likes to proclaim certain athletes as good or bad ‘role models’, but they’re almost single minded in their obsession with winning. Great NBA players like John Stockton, or NFL players like Dan Marino are criticized for never having won ‘the big one’.

End Of An Era: Pacquiao Demolishes De La Hoya

In: Recreation & Sports

14 Apr 2010

Age sneaks up on professional prizefighters, at least in terms of their competitive abilities. There are exceptions–Archie Moore, George Foreman, James Toney–but they are rare. Typically, a high level boxer can go from legitimacy to retirement in a matter of minutes. The most recent victim of ‘Father Time’ was Mexican Superstar Oscar De La Hoya, who looked completely outclassed in what would be his last bout–an 8th round TKO loss to Panamanian sensation Manny Pacquiao.

Boxing Great Alexis Arguello Remembered

In: Recreation & Sports

13 Apr 2010

Alexis Arguello, one of the greatest boxers to ever compete , was found dead in his Managua, Nicaragua home in early July of an apparent suicide. He was 57 years old. Arguello was found with a gunshot wound to his chest, but his high political stature in the country meant that an investigation would be forthcoming to verify that it was indeed self inflected. Arguello was the mayor of Nicaragua’s capital city at the time of his death.

Sweden’s Heavyweight Boxing Champ Ingemar Johansson

In: Recreation & Sports

28 Feb 2010

Ingemar Johannson died in a Swedish nursing home in January 2009 at the age of 76. He’d lived in the nursing home in the Swedish coastal city of Kungsbacka since the mid’90’s when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and dementia, and had suffered from a tough case of pneumonia immediately prior to his death.

The Historical Roots Of MMA: Muhammad Ali Vs. Antonio Inoki

In: Recreation & Sports

21 Dec 2009

While mixed martial arts fighting has only recently become popular in the United States, contests between fighters of different martial arts disciplines have taken place in Japan for many years. They weren’t called “mixed martial arts” until recently, but they were definitely an embryonic form of the now booming sport. Many of the most famous events of this type took place in Japan during the’70’s involving pro wrestling legend Antonio Inoki.

Learn To Fight And Protect Yourself In A Street Brawl

In: Recreation & Sports

25 Oct 2009

No one could anticipate for it to happen, but what out of nowhere you suddenly find yourself in a fight with another person who is bigger in order to protect yourself or your loved one? If that ever occurs, you wish you could have known a few self defense moves so you don’t land up in the emergency rooms of the hospitals. There are certain types of people that basically want to get into a fight with you. It may be for a good time or for fun, their only aim is to draw you into fighting.

The True Story Of The Ali/Inoki Fight

In: Recreation & Sports

4 Sep 2009

Decades before mixed martial arts became popular in the United States, events matching fighters of different fighting disciplines were very common in Japan. They weren’t called “mixed martial arts” at the time, but that’s essentially what they were.There’s an entire history of pro wrestlers fighting specialists from other martial arts (particularly judo) that were leaving out, but during the 1970’s Antonio Inoki began to put the concept of “mixed martial arts” on the map with his matches against fighters from other disciplines.

There are Two Kinds of Punches

In: Recreation & Sports

13 Aug 2009

When learning the martial arts, especially if you want to be effective, you need to learn the differences, the gains and limitations, of the two kinds of punches. Knowing these punches will dictate and proscribe your combat strategy. Knowing these punches will effect your training and enlighten you as to the True Martial Arts.

The Facts Boxing vs. MMA

In: Travel & Leisure

8 Jul 2009

Mixed martial arts has made a big splash with sports fans in recent years. A reality TV show about the UFC (the official organization of MMA fighting) brought a lot of publicity to the sport; leading many take an interest in the sport. There has been some concern on the part of boxing fans that the ever growing popularity of MMA has detracted from the attention paid to boxing. However, the two sports are very different from each other and there is no reason why the popularity of one should be in inverse proportion to that of the other. MMA isn’t boxing and doesn’t pretend to be. There’s no reason at all that the two sports (and their fans) can’t coexist.


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