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China’s bantamweight fighter Song Yadong (centre) will take on Russia’s Umar Nurmagomedov at UFC Fight Night in Shanghai on August 29. Photo: AFP
China consumption

A Shanghai bout, a home-grown fighter – can the UFC repeat the NBA’s China success story?

Two months after the White House fight night, UFC will bring one of US President Donald Trump’s favourite sports to Shanghai.

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Ultimate Fighting Championship

Chinese MMA stars Song Yadong, Yan Xiaonan to headline UFC Fight Night Shanghai

Celebrity children

Meet Caroline Jones, who performed with the Zac Brown Band at a Trump event

Ultimate Fighting Championship

UFC Fight Night: Song raises spirits on bad night for Chinese fighters in Macau

Song Yadong submits Deiveson Figueiredo in second round, the only win among large number of local fighters on card.

Song Yadong celebrates after beating Deiveson Figueiredo by submission in their bantamweight bout in Macau. Photo: Getty Images
Ultimate Fighting Championship

Macau will be launch pad to Asia as promotion looks East, UFC boss Chang says

China’s Song Yadong, Zhang Mingyang headline event at Galaxy Arena this weekend, with the sport having ‘more room to expand in this region’.

Ultimate Fighting Championship

UFC Macau: China’s Song Yadong out for statement win against Brazil’s Figueiredo

Bantamweight fighter, who suffered controversial loss in his last bout, says he will not feel extra pressure performing before home crowd.

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Ultimate Fighting Championship

Chinese ‘fighting doctor’ Shi set for UFC foe – with ‘half the world’ watching

The MMA fighter, who faces India’s first female UFC fighter in Macau on Friday, also explains why being a doctor ‘is like rowing upstream’.

Shi Ming practices MMA at a club in her spare time. Photo: Shi Ming’s Weibo
Wellness

Why Hong Kong’s first pro female MMA fighter now battles for women’s health

Wellness entrepreneur Tricia Yap is helping reshape women’s health by focusing on areas like precision training and lifestyle medicine.

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ONE Championship

ONE Championship Thai chief outlines bold expansion plans after Lumpinee renewal

Jitinat Asdamongkol says Thailand remains promotion’s production hub as it explores roadshows, new formats and push for 4-ounce Muay Thai.

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Martial arts

International MMA body formed to unify governance, target Olympic inclusion

Federation of Mixed Martial Arts has held early discussions with the IOC and plans to ‘work very hard’ to advance process.

The new MMA federation’s vision draws from developments in Asia, where the sport has won inclusion into several multi-sports events, including the 2026 Asian Games. Photo: Handout
ONE Championship

ONE Championship: Thai star Stamp to make up for lost time against Morimoto

After more than two years away with injury, the first three-sport world champion returns to the spotlight with a kickboxing bout at ONE 173.

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Stamp Fairtex (left) will face Kana Morimoto in her least preferred discipline of kickboxing. Photo: Handout
ONE Championship

ONE Championship: Christian Lee vows to finish off Alibeg Rasulov in Tokyo rematch

Double champion focuses on legacy, family and finishing what he started after accidental eye poke ended first fight last year.

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ONE Championship

ONE Championship: Brooks faces crunch MMA crossroads against Malachiev

With the title ramifications spanning two divisions, former strawweight king vows to ‘out-wrestle’ the dangerous Russian.

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ONE Championship

ONE Championship: Myanmar icon Aung La to call it a day after Fight Night 36

The former MMA middleweight and light heavyweight world champion says he will do bigger things as a coach than as a fighter.

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Aung La N Sang, one of their first big stars in Asia and a former double champion, will have his last fight this weekend. Photo: ONE Championship
Ultimate Fighting Championship

UFC signs 4-year deal with Macau to host 3 fights at Galaxy hotel

UFC president Dana White says agreement with Galaxy Macau hotel could not have ‘come at a better time’.

The Galaxy Macau resort, which will host three UFC fight nights. Photo: Handout
Ultimate Fighting Championship

TCM doctor-MMA star Shi Ming vows to keep healing, fighting after tough UFC start

The 30-year-old says she will not ‘put all my eggs in one basket’ but might reconsider if she manages to climb up the UFC rankings.

ONE Championship

‘Smashed every metric!’: Miura says she is ageing backwards ahead of ONE 173 shot

Japanese fan favourite to face Denice Zamboanga for atomweight MMA gold in Tokyo after four straight wins, including three by submission.

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ONE Championship

Ham Seo-hee: Zamboanga must beat me before she can call herself a champion

South Korean veteran frustrated at two-year lay-off as ONE 173 looms, asking: ‘Am I too old to fight now?’.

South Korea’s Ham Seo-hee wants a shot at Denice Zamboanga’s atomweight title at ONE 173. Photo: ONE Championship
ONE Championship

ONE 173: Superbon and Masaaki Noiri set for title unification showdown in Tokyo

In other bout, MMA stars Oumar Kane and Anatoly Malykhin will battle it out in heavyweight world title rematch.

ONE Championship

Tonon eyes ONE title run after 18-month absence, but first Gasanov

Garry Tonon returns to the ring in August and faces a familiar foe in Russian Shamil Gasanov.

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Ultimate Fighting Championship

MMA star Zhang confident of UFC’s China future as first post-Covid event announced

First Chinese fighter to win a UFC title is ‘really looking forward’ to Shanghai Fight Night, one of two back-to-back events in August.

China’s Zhang Weili (right), here fighting against compatriot Yan Xiaonan in Las Vegas last year, said she was looking forward to the event in Shanghai. Photo: AFP
ONE Championship

ONE Championship: Stamp Fairtex vows to come back stronger after latest setback

Thai champion’s unification bout with Denice Zamboanga has been postponed after she suffers fresh injury during rehab from knee surgery.

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Stamp Fairtex, seen here fighting Ham Seo-hee in 2023, is out of ONE 173 in August after an injury during rehab following knee surgery. Photo: ONE Championship
Muay Thai

Hong Kong fighter chases late bout fee, as promoter threatens legal action

Muay Thai fighter Emily Chong says she and others owed tens of thousands of dollars. Promoter Space One says it is owed money by partners.

ONE Championship

Alipourandi ends Nolan’s ONE Championship return in just 59 seconds

Iranian secures stunning knockout after taking ONE Fight Night 31 bout at just a week’s notice.

ONE Championship

Soldic eyes Lee’s welterweight title after Kadestam’s ‘crazy’ weigh-in failure

Roberto Soldic says he should be next in line to take on Christian Lee after Zebaztian Kadestam misses weight for ONE Fight Night 31.

Roberto Soldic had some strong words for Zebaztian Kadestam. Photo: ONE Championship
Asian Games 2026

MMA to make Asian Games debut next year in Japan, cricket added to schedule

Olympic Council of Asia says there will be six mixed martial arts events, but there is uncertainty over where cricket will be played.

China’s Song Yadong (right) takes on Marlon Moraes of Brazil in a bantamweight bout. in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo: Zuffa LLC
Celebrity Families

Meet Joe Rogan’s estranged half-sister Rosa, who’s publicly criticising him

Joe Rogan’s half-sister says the podcaster hasn’t attempted to contact her or her father, but admits his interview with Donald Trump before the US election was an ‘influential moment’.

Celebrity Families

Who are Conor McGregor’s glamorous sisters, Erin and Aoife McGregor?

Joe Rogan recently suggested on his podcast that Conor McGregor has entered the Octagon for the last time after being found guilty of sexual assault – but what do the women in his life think?

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