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Quinton Jackson and I weren't supposed to share a flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo, but circumstances demanded it. He was headed to Japan for the first time; this trip was my fourth. Jackson was nothing if not curious, which is among the many thi...

Frankie Edgar's UFC lightweight title defense in Tokyo against Benson Henderson, the main event for UFC 144 on Saturday, screams "action fight." While we've heard that tune aplenty in the run-up to UFC events, including, disappointingly, the recen...

TOKYO -- Nearly 14 years after its debut in the country, the Ultimate Fighting Championship will finally return to Japan. In a Tuesday news conference at Shinjuku Wald 9 Theater -- the same locale used to screen UFC Live and Fight Night events on...

An undisclosed injury has forced Todd Duffee out of a scheduled heavyweight bout against Nick Gaston at DREAM 17 in Tokyo this weekend.

Physically imposing fighters don't usually live up to their billing. Bob Sapp had a good run at smashing Tokyo, but cardio and technique issues caught up with him. Mariusz Pudzianowski might actually explode in the ring one day, with bits of ove...

Physically imposing fighters don't usually live up to their billing. Bob Sapp had a good run at smashing Tokyo, but cardio and technique issues caught up with him. Mariusz Pudzianowski might actually explode in the ring one day, with bits of overheat...

Korean newspaper JoongAngDaily carries word that Yoshihiro Akiyama, fresh off a victory against Alan Belcher at UFC 100, has just opened his own gym in Tokyo. As much as you and I would like for him to have named it "Sexy Time Akiyama's," the Judo pr...

Unfairly dwarfed by announcements of ex-MLB whistle-blowers potentially getting into heaps of cranial trouble in bizarre mismatches, Saturday's Sengoku 8 card -- which aired stateside on HDNet from the Yoyogi National No. 2 Gymnasium in Tokyo -- wa...

Three fights into his MMA career and Muhammed Lawal is already turning heads -- inside the cage and outside of it. Lawal struck his way past Ryo Kawamura at Sengoku's "Seventh Battle" on Friday.

Olympic gold medalist Satoshi Ishii is giving up judo to take up a career in mixed martial arts, according to a published report.

If flexibility is the key to successful career, Shinya Aoki can look forward to a long, successful tenure inside the cage.

When you've been the heavyweight division's top dog before, an Olympic gold medal in judo doesn't intimidate you. Just ask Josh Barnett, who slammed Hidehiko Yoshida into exhaustion and forced the Japanese fighter to tap out in three rounds.

After almost turning in the towel, or rather, the mop, Vladimir "The Janitor" Matyushenko is cleaning up again. This time he is fighting with the Tokyo Sabres in the IFL.

Tengiz Tedoradze smeared Eric "Butterbean" Esch in the octagon retaining his Cage Rage belt while bodogFIGHT debuted in New Jersey in a weekend filled with title fights, writes Josh Gross.

The good news is this weekend has three quality cards on tap in Tokyo. The bad news? An injury epidemic is on the loose.

For years, Fedor Emelianenko has left his mark on competitors from around the globe. But now, the Ukrainian-born star he wants to represent in the U.S.