Tarec Saffiedine joins Evolve MMA
Evolve Mixed Martial Arts, Asia’s top martial arts organization, officially announced the signing of Strikeforce Welterweight World Champion and UFC Welterweight title contender, Tarec ‘Sponge’ Saffiedine, to its already impressive roster of world champions and Asia’s most decorated professional fight team. Saffiedine, who made a victorious debut at UFC Fight Night 34 in Singapore, will join Asia’s most decorated […]
UFC Singapore: Weigh-ins
After all the pre-fight events, the excitement and anticipation starts kicking in from the official weigh-in. Held at 6.00 pm at the skating rink of Marina Bay Sands, I suddenly found a greater reason to like MMA – because these fit guys start stripping down to their underwear. Ok, just kidding! Some of them even had […]
UFC Singapore: Square-offs
Pre-fight events continued on Thursday, for the inaugural UFC Fight Night Singapore. It was media day for selected fighters – Royston Wee, David Galera, Shunichi Shimizu, Kang Kyung-Ho, Sean Soriano, Tatsuya Kawajiri, Tarec Saffiedine and Lim Gyun-Hyu – as we went around interviewing whichever fighters we wanted. Closing the session were the square-offs between selected […]