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Kimbo Slice returns to fight in UFC 113

Tuesday, 09 March 2010 16:25 |

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Kimbo Slice is getting his second UFC bout on May 8 in Montreal against former NFL player Matt Mitrione.

The mixed martial arts league confirmed the matchup Monday. Slice and Mitrione will meet on the undercard of UFC 113, headlined by Lyoto Machida's rematch with Mauricio Rua.

Slice is the burly, bearded former Miami strip club bouncer who became the unlikely face of MMA three years ago when CBS began showing his bouts for the EliteXC promotion, which subsequently folded.

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Johnson's TaeKwonDo & Leadership Academy teaches its students to walk the walk.

Monday, 08 March 2010 15:34 |

WAKE COUNTY, N.C.

The ten tenets of TaeKwonDo Honor, Courtesy, Integrity, Perseverance, Self-Control, Courage, Community, Strength, Humility, and Knowledge are taught and stressed in each taekwondo lesson that the academy instructors teach. However, one tenet that is often overlooked in the martial arts industry is Humility.

Parents have gotten the wrong idea about martial arts lately as mixed martial arts (The UFC) has become more prevalent. For some reason, parents think that if I am a mixed martial artist, I am laden with tattoos, I fight in a cage, and am extremely arrogant and full of pride. While this may be what you watch on television, this is not the martial arts experience you seek for your children.

Mixed martial arts for Olympics?

Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:10 |

SYDNEY, Australia — Ultimate Fighting Championship executives say they'd support a move for mixed martial arts to become an Olympic sport.

UFC president Dana White, in Sydney ahead of Sunday's sold-out UFC 110 at Acer Arena, said while his company would not actively lobby the International Olympic Committee, he would support their inclusion in the games.

Although UFC matches feature caged fighting, the different disciplines of mixed martial arts - boxing, wrestling, taekwondo and judo - feature in the Olympics as individual events.

"It would be a huge benefit to us if mixed martial arts became an Olympic sport," White said. "It would create instant awareness around the world, and it would be huge.

"I would support it 100 per cent. I personally am not out there trying to get mixed martial arts as an Olympic sport ... but if it popped and they said, 'Yes, we're thinking about it,' I would go guns ablazing and try to make it happen."