NZ has its first UFC world champion after Israel Adesanya knocked out Robert Whittaker in Melbourne yesterday. The victory was the final leg of an impressive treble from Auckland’s City Boxing Gym. Te Rina Kowhai was ringside and filed this report. From his entrance to the knockout in the octagon, Israel ‘The Last Style Bender’ Adesanya has made […]
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Biggest Fakers And Floppers In MMA
Pretenders, fakers, and floppers exist in every sport. Athletes will do anything they can to win, even if that means sometimes looking like a jackass. [Football commentator] “Clearly a flop there. No contact made.” This is a list of fighters who faked being hurt during a fight, either to win via disqualification or to have a point deducted. […]
Did Bruce Lee Smoke Weed?
Did Bruce Lee smoke weed? At some point, yes. That is so cool. It would be amazing to be him or like him. He’s famous for his hard body, martial arts skills, stunts, grueling schedule and the many movies he made. He was also a stoner. Oh, no, he wasn’t. You just said he smoked weed. I can’t […]
Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer (Ada Lovelace Biography)
What if I told you the world’s “first computer programmer” was born over two hundred years ago? And, what if that programmer was a she. Lady Ada Lovelace was her name — and her genius was nearly lost to history. Daughter to the famous Romantic poet Lord Byron, Ada was almost relegated as a footnote in her father’s […]
VS | Aang vs Korra
Earth Fire Air Water Elements all different and unique from one another. Yet there was always a need for a balance between them all. Earth complemented air as much as fire supplemented water. Without their halves. The elements and the world at large Would be thrown into chaos Out of balance. Only the Avatar could master all four […]
Rio 2016: Kim So-hui wins gold in women’s 49kg Taekwondo
Now,… let’s get our daily update from the 2016 Olympics in Rio. After a bad couple of days with loss after loss.. Korea finally added two medals from the country’s traditional martial art, Taekwondo, on Day 12. We have our Lee Un-shin with us. Unshin, Korea’s medal drought is finally over That’s right. Seems like Korea was longing […]
Jackie Chan Best Impersonation of Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee, back then in that age, was the first to kick. We everyday, everyday… at school, practiced kicking few hundred times, you know. And trained to kick 20 so times as a kid, no problem. But Bruce, was the first to put that on screen. Ah, “3 Legs Lee”, Boom, boom, boom. WOW! Awesome. To me, Bruce […]
Bruce Lee’s Challenger talks of Bruce’s death 1973
The way I see it, is… you can say is, it’s a kind of big loss for the Chinese Martial Arts world. I mean, Mr. Bruce Lee was, when he was alive… was able to bring to foreigners, not only talking about our Hong Kong… for so many years, introducing so many of our Chinese Martial Arts out […]
How Bruce Lee Helped Develop My Confidence
– So I was getting beat up in school. I was getting bullied and I was getting beat up, bullying not always physical, but I got beat up multiple times and I was just sick and tired of it. So one night I was watching cable TV, was flipping through the channel, and I saw this guy, this […]
Wait, Bruce Lee was Part Jewish?
You know Bruce Lee. Everybody knows Bruce Lee. Martial arts master… Movie star….Cultural icon…handsome devil But here’s something about him no one knows: Bruce Lee was descended from a Jewish butcher in Rotterdam, Holland! Yep, Bruce Lee is part Jewish! Okay maybe not THAT Jewish. Bruce’s secret heritage all started with his great grandfather, Mozes. Um not that […]