13 Coins Training Footage, Sasiprapa Revisited and Chocolate Covered Bananas

As mentioned in my “Based in Bangkok” entry, I got myself an apartment right near 13 coins as I decided that it would be the gym that I’d be training at the most. Having spent about a month here, I’ve got to know the area pretty well so I’ll be putting together a detailed review [...]

Cain’s Victory Meal

Now that Cain Velasquez is the new champ, he’ll likely be doing a lot more publicity – which is good because he seems like a cool guy. Never talks trash, seems laid back and just gets the job done come fight night. Of course, the Mexican-American community has their new posterboy, and rightfully so, so [...]

On The Rise: Daniel Cormier

If you watched the UFC 121 primetime show, they showed Cain Velasquez working on his wrestling with an unnamed fighter at AKA (American Kickboxing Academy). At first sight, you wouldn’t think that a mid-sized, slightly chunky heavyweight would be able to prepare Velasquez for the mountain-of-muscle that is Lesnar but as we witnessed on Saturday [...]

“JZ” Cavalcante Training (Video)

// Genghis Con has recently made another video that gives us a behind the scenes look into a top fighters training camp. This time, the video is entitled “I just want to train” and it showcases Gesias “JZ” Cavalcate’s MMA workout routine. It seems as though he does his strength and conditioning workouts at the [...]

Sick Judo Throw in MMA (Video)

Last night, at the Bellator 33 event, Eddie Alvarez and Roger Huerta wern’t the only ones who put on a show. As a promotion, Bellator has been putting together some incredible shows and they always seem to get lucky with unbelievable highlight footage. Once again, the Bellator promotion got some viral marketing gold as former [...]

Velasquez on “Sports Science”

With Cain Velasquez being outsized in his fight with Brock Lesnar tomorrow night at UFC 121, he was invited into the “sports science” lab to put his other physical traits to the test. They measured his maximum heart rate, his lactate threshold, his punching power and the explosiveness of his takedowns. The results aren’t really [...]

Alvarez vs Huerta (Video)

Last night, at the Bellator 33 event, there was a non-title fight that featured the champion, Eddie Alvarez, against the “bully bashing” Roger Huerta. I actually figured this would be a close fight and a stand up WAR since both of these guys are great strikers. Roger Huerta even spent some time in Thailand training [...]

JWP vs Yodsanklai 3

// I’m currently training at “13 coins” in Bangkok, Thailand and as I mentioned in my “Based in Bangkok” entry, John Wayne Parr was training here to prepare for his third meeting with Yodsanklai Fairtex. He had fought Yodsanklai twice before and both times, he came up short. This time however, he was focused and [...]

Overeem in Thailand (Video)

Well, I didn’t get to meet him while I was at the Golden Glory gym about a week ago since he was in Korea for the K-1 event but luckily, his latest “The Reem” episode showcases his training in Thailand and his take on Pattaya. In the video, they talk about setting up the gym [...]

Based in Bangkok

So after a gruelling 30 hour journey, I’ve made it back to Thailand and once again, life is good. It’s only been about a week since I arrived but already, the past week has been more eventful than the past 5 months that I just spent back in Canada. There’s a reason why I don’t [...]