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Germany-based MMA fighter @niko_samsonidse who fights on the @oktagonmma show, shares why throwing jabs is his favourite weapon in the ring!
Niko also talks about his fight journey, how he bounced back from a setback injury, which kept him out of the ring for 2 years and his most memorable MMA fight and his fight goals for 2024!
Germany's greatest black belt BJJ talent and champion of the world's biggest grappling and BJJ organization NAGA, who likes to get things done quickly. He has finished almost all of his fights before the 1st round limit. But in 2021, after 6️ wins in a row, he got injured. At OKTAGON 42 he made a victorious return to the cage after 2 years hungry for more quick finishes.
What an inspiring chat with this rising MMA star!
COMBAT RING Christmas 2023 exclusive: We chat with Cody Jerome - Muay Thai World Cup (Canada) Road to One Championship 2023 winner on his fight ticket to one of the world's biggest fight shows, what this win means for his career, the thrills and spills of his biggest fight of the year, his fight journey and what motivates him and his future fight plan for the year.
COMBAT RING has an exclusive interview with Liam Nolan, the WBC Muay Thai World Middleweight Champion 2021. The British Muay Thai Champion shares with us on winning one of his momentous fights - beating renowned fighter Youssef Boughanem in the prestigious title belt fight and his roller-coaster fight journey over the past 2 years - from training in Thailand and ending up without a fight to his motivation to remain in the ring in tough times. The WBC 2021 Fighter of the Year also looks back on his inspiring Muay Thai journey and his future plans including putting his focus on winning an ONE Championship belt.
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Combat Ring chats with Edgars Skrivers, who is Karate Combat’s inaugural Golden Belt Champion with an unbeatable 3-0 fight record, including spectacular KO wins against Myrza Tebuev and Luis Rocha. The Shotokan karate fighter, who hails from Latvia, is regarded as a tough as nails pressure fighter.
When it comes to the clinch, Skrivers is relentlessly clamping down on his opponent to rob them of the space to work. If he does have space to work, he inflicting collateral damage with his powerful short hooks in no time to clinch victory. No doubt, the ‘Bearslayer’ is one of the superior ground-and-pounders in Karate Combat.
Read his full story here.
In one of Combat Ring's most inspiring interviews, we chat with IMC Super Welterweight Champion, Niclas Larsen on his journey from a 'Destroyer' to 'Dreamchaser'. The former GLORY Kickboxer shares his experience giving up a golden opportunity of fighting on K1 World GP in Japan due to Covid concerns, fighting Muay Thai legend Buakaw in 2019 - traveling to Thailand just by himself and how his fight mentality has evolved from chasing from belts to how he is using his fights to not destroy his opponents but to be a better person from the process of preparing for his fight. Outside the ring, he is planting seeds as a mentor to troubled youths in Denmark and transferring life lessons learned from being a professional fighter to making a difference in their lives.
Read his story on Combat Ring here
Combat Ring speakers to Belgian Karate Combat Fighter Bryan Van Waesberghe. The former national athlete shares his passion for karate - from how he has to travel to another country just in order to use the gyms in light of gym closures in Europe, he also shares about his experiences fighting on the Karate Combat league - like how he accepted a fight against Franklin Mina - a mere 12 hours before the fight was due to start and how he is actually moulding the love for sport among children. Read the Combat Ring interview with Belgium's representative on the Karate Combat straight Bryan Van Waesberghe here.
Japanese Muay Thai fighter Yukinori Ogasawara shares his fight journey, from Japan to Canada to around Asia. He reveals his most memorable fights on ONE Championship and REBELS shows, how Muay Thai has transformed his life, being a big brother to a Kickboxing champion, and how fatherhood has changed his perspective as a fighter.
Read the full interview here