UK and Irish Combat Sports, Interviews and Opinion
In this, the second part of my 3 part series, we look at the world of supplements. It is a minefield in the MMA world given the number of recent athletes testing positive for banned substances due to comtaminated supplements . For MMA fighters, who will be looking for anything that might give them…
In this, the second part of my 3 part series, we look at the world of supplements. It is a minefield in the MMA world given the number of recent athletes testing positive for banned substances due to comtaminated supplements . For MMA fighters, who will be looking for anything that might give them…
My interview with Micky was my first time, so I suppose it was natural to be nervous. Much to my relief he was very gentle with me. During the course of our conversation what struck me most was just how down to earth he was. I couldn’t detect any hint of the arrogance and self-aggrandisement…
If you sit down for a second and capture in your mind’s eye, the image of a Heavy Goods Vehicle driver, it probably won’t be the physique, of Welterweight Daniel ‘Obi Wan’ Olejniczak that pops into your brain. Yes it’s unlikely you’ll find Daniel hanging outta the end of a greasy breakfast roll and guzzling…
In Combat Sports, a lot of focus and energy during training camps are spent worrying about “making weight.” Naturally, if your walking around weight is reasonably close to your fighting weight, this leaves you a lot less work to do in the 6-8 weeks before the big night. The optimal off-season weight will depend…
Steve Earle of The Waterboy’s fame wrote ‘ The Galway Girl’ at the turn of the last century. He recorded it for his ‘Transcendental Blues’ album in 2000 with Sharon Shannon. A signature Galway anthem was born. If Ben Davis, Head Coach at Shaolin MMA gym in Galway and husband to amateur MMA fighter Indra…
At 6:45am this morning I had the usual one-sided conversation with my alarm clock. As per usual it didn’t respond to my “Fuck you and fuck working on Sundays” Alas my phone just kept sounding away in bursts of Short, high pitched warbling like a robin red breast announcing the arrival of winter. As I…
At 6:45am this morning I had the usual one-sided conversation with my alarm clock. As per usual it didn’t respond to my “Fuck you and fuck working on Sundays” Alas my phone just kept sounding away in bursts of Short, high pitched warbling like a robin red breast announcing the arrival of winter. As I…
If you are a man or a woman of a certain vintage you will probably remember the Jim Hensen created Children’s programme Fraggle Rock. Quite often the Fraggles of Fraggle Rock were in need of a little wisdom (every episode) and in their desperation quite often turned to Marjory – The Trash Heap. Marjory would…
So I was beavering away like a good worker bee yesterday – when a notification appeared on my phone from WordPress. For once it wasn’t a complaint about one of my cuckoo ideas or my grammatical incompetence. The reference is to a post I had written in July which basically outlined some reasons why Brexit…
Benjamin Bennett, 2017 IMMAF Gold medalist at the welterweight division will face Khamzat Chimaev from Allstars Training Center, Sweden. The bout is scheduled to take place at Brave 18 hosted on 16th November during the Brave International Combat Week 2018. Khamzat (2-0-0) will be joining the welterweight division of Brave Combat Federation and will make his…
In mid 2013 Ireland was buried to the balls , in a seemingly, little remembered old friend – the Global Recession. Emphasis on the Capital G. One of the most important consequences of this global financial meltdown (and quite frankly unreported by the Financial Times) was that yours truly was forced to re-locate from the…