Meet Edith Bosch, a judoka from the Netherlands who crushed Ronda Rousey's Olympic dream in 2008 by defeating her in the quarterfinals. Bosch said that her strategy going into the match was about viewing Rousey as an objective obstacle, one that needed to be conquered in order to get what she wanted.“I had short hair, I was looking…

On Sunday, Kakuryu took to the raised ring for the first time since his Autumn Basho win and lost shocker to giant-killer Yoshikaze in the…

Hakuho, the Mongolian sumo icon, marked his return to competition in style by defeating komusubi Tochinoshin on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament. It was Hakuho's first match since an injury to his left knee forced him to withdraw from the Autumn basho in September. Hakuho won comfortably, putting Georgian-born Tochinoshin down…

This weekend is the type that fighting fans live for. There is action across almost every discipline starting Friday afternoon and going through almost the…

The Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament will be a homecoming of sorts for Yoshikaze. The 33-year-old from Oita Prefecture considers the Kyushu Basho as a komusubi, the…

Hakuho's injury problems are seemingly behind him. According to a report from The Japan Times, the Mongolian yokozuna has recovered from injury and is ready to wrestle at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament that begins on Sunday.From the Japan Times:Hakuho pulled out early in the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament in September with a left knee issue.…

Two Israelis won medals at the Judo Grand Slam tournament in Abu Dhabi this week but you wouldn't know they were Israeli by watching them. That's because the…

Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson is such a prolific striker that Georges St-Pierre once called him the "best striker he'd ever trained with." Thompson, who trained with MMA greats like GSP and Chris Weidman to help them prepare for fights against dangerous strikers, stopped by FOX Sports' Deep Waters Podcast to talk about his Karate…

The power of sport often is one of the things that people lean on in times of crisis, in Nepal the nation is looking at a new, state-of-the-art Taekwondo Center…

The video above comes from 2012 when Anderson Silva was on top of the MMA world. At the time he was considered by many to be the best fighter in the world. From BJJEE.com:Appearing on the Brazilian network TV Globo’s Esporte Espetacular, Silva visited the Kamayurá Tribe in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, north of the Xingu…

Nearly 500 judoka will compete across 14 weight classes in the United Arab Emirates' capital city starting on Friday and each one of them has one goal in…

An interesting read from the minds at BJJ Eastern Europe today about how learning grappling skills, i.e. wrestling, can help Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners grow in their practice:Some of the most prominent figures in the martial arts community did it. Bruce Lee just loved to learn anything related to martial arts. The Gracies had quite a long…