Silva vs GSP Looms, Like It or Not After yet another epic knockout, Anderson Silva is left standing alone atop the middleweight division, especially with Chael Sonnen out of the mix for the time being. The champ’s sudden, crushing stoppage of Vitor Belfort was a great ending, but one so abrupt that it begs the question: who is the next
Muay Thai
History Muay Thai history is intensively stamped within the history of Thailand itself. Due to invasions from neighbouring countries in the time when Thailand was forming, Thai people depended on their personal defence skills. During this kind of hand-to-hand combat, fighters had to quickly adapt and the body’s natural weapons such as the head, fists, elbows and feet had to
Mixed Martial Arts
History It is firstly important to have a look at the history of the Gracie family in Brazil to see how mixed martial arts initially emerged. George Gracie immigrated to Brazil in 1801 and settled in the Para province of north eastern Brazil. His family grew and flourished, and in the early 1900s, a Japanese man named Mitsuyo Maeda immigrated
Anderson Silva
Bio Anderson da Silva born April 14, 1975) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He is the current UFC Middleweight Champion as well as the promotion’s longest reigning champion. With 13 consecutive wins, Silva holds the longest active winning streak in the UFC and the record for the longest winning streak in UFC history. Silva holds a black belt in
Fedor vs. Silva
Antonio Silva delivered a shocking upset Saturday night, stopping Fedor Emelianenko after two rounds and possibly even retiring the Russian great. Silva’s win came on the heels of another potentially career-busting knockout, as Sergei Kharitonov took out former UFC champ Andrei Arlovski in their Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix quarterfinal. Strikeforce’s tournament was designed to take the promotion to another level
