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Artem Levin Wins WBC Muay Thai Title: Levin, the It's Showtime 77kg. champion, walked away from his bout with Kaoklai Kaennorsing this past Thursday as the new WBC Muay Thai light heavyweight world champion. Video here. Not to say that Kaoklai isn't an excellent fighter, but this brings the slightest bit more credibility to the belt. Many of the WBC's divisions have a long way to go and the organi...


Icon Kaoklai fights Russian Artem Levin for world title

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Simon Rutz says K-1 filing bankruptcy

It's Showtime! owner Simon Rutz has said in a recent interview that K-1 will be declaring bankruptcy. We all know of K-1 parent company FEG's recent financial travails, and namely their inability to pay their fighters on time; well, according to Rutz, this, as well as the cancellation of the ArenA event are because of K-1's situation. (more…)



Shakuta wants It’s Showtime World title back

It’s all started in 2008. There were two champions in the same weight division… (more…)



Artem Levin Scheduled to Fight Kaoklai Kaenorsing

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IT’S SHOWTIME Amsterdam ArenA?

Usually we start our presale for our Amsterdam ArenA event every year on December 1. This year we had postponed our presale to February 1 because we had a business agreement with K-1. This business agreement meant that the 2011 Amsterdam ArenA event would be a joint event between IT’S SHOWTIME and K-1, just like in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The organization of this event would be completely in our h...


2010 Ground and Pound MMA awards

The vote for the sixth annual Groundandpound Awards is over. Once again we are glad to have improved readership participation from previous years, registering a total of 59,957 votes from 39 different countries on all five continents. (more…)



Thai Boxe Mania 2011 Card Updated

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The 2011 K-1 Season: Middleweights (MAX)

The past two years in K-1 MAX have been transformation years for the K-1 MAX division. In 2009 an Italian fighter by the name of Giorgio Petrosyan looked poised to take the whole tournament, Japanese ace Masato decided not to participate in the World MAX tournament and instead announced he would retire by the end of the year. Yuya Yamamoto seemed poised and energized to take that "Masato spot" in ...


Who was the most impressive in 2010? Fightmag.net poll

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