Author: News Desk

Team Bahrain’s run at the 2019 IMMAF World Championship started with a blast. The athletes representing the Kingdom secured five wins over six bouts and turned the Day 1 of the tournament into a huge success for the hosts, holders of the first position of the international rankings, a feat that will be on the line throughout the competitions. The first fighter entering the 2019 IMMAF WC cage was Abdulla Alyaqoob, who scored a unanimous decision over Cristiano Ottaviani, from Italy. The win came with a dominant performance by the Bahraini prospect. The same scenario was seen in the…

BRAVE International Combat Week is the yearly, and much-anticipated, return of BRAVE Combat Federation to its home, the Kingdom of Bahrain. This time around, though, the event could also use the tagline “Brazilian Army”, given the strong presence of Brazil representatives. Four of the six Brazilians featured on BRAVE 29 got to the Bahrain International Airport together and ready to make history in just a few days. Star of the main event of the evening, a Flyweight inaugural title bout against Jose “Shorty” Torres, Marcel Adur shared his thoughts on the upcoming challenge. “Just landed here in Bahrain and got…

The Middleweight division will have a crowned champion on December 7th, as BRAVE Combat Federation returns to South Africa for BRAVE CF 31. Chad Hanekom will look to become the first-ever BRAVE CF Middleweight world champion in home soil, as he takes on KO artist Daniel “Gaucho” Souza in the main event. “Superman” is one of South Africa’s biggest names and will look for international recognition as he battles “Gaucho”, who is coming off one of the most impressive knockouts of the year in his BRAVE CF debut, last August, when he put former top contender Bruno Assis to sleep…

The 2019 BRAVE International Combat Week is officially open. In a breathtaking ceremony featuring two main attractions and speeches by IMMAF president Kerrith Brown and BMMAF president Mohammed Qamber, His Highness Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa opened the proceedings with a speech of his own, alongside the visionary for BRAVE CF and the man behind Team Bahrain’s groundbreaking success, His Highness Shaikh Khaled bin Hamad Al Khalifa. The sporting world convened at the Khalifa Sports City Arena for the beginning of MMA’s premier amateur competition and the incredible scenes that await fans throughout the week were also put in…

A towering “Baby Trump” balloon — which has become a popular symbol for critics of the president — was knifed and deflated in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Saturday during President Donald Trump’s visit to watch a collegiate football game. A few dozen people were gathered in Monnish Park protesting the president’s visit to the Alabama-LSU football game a half-mile away and holding various anti-Trump signs when a disapproving man approached the helium-balloon with a knife and slashed an 8-foot-long gash in its back. There were still two hours to kickoff in the college town when “Baby Trump” quickly deflated out and the balloon-stabbing suspect…

Oleg Sokolov, 63, was drunk and fell into the river as he tried to dispose of body parts, Russian media said. Police then found the decapitated body of Anastasia Yeshchenko, 24, at his home in the city of St Petersburg. Prof Sokolov is a Napoleon expert who has received France’s Légion d’Honneur. “He has admitted his guilt,” his lawyer Alexander Pochuyev told AFP, adding that he regretted what he had done and was now cooperating. Prof Sokolov reportedly told police that he killed his lover during an argument and then sawed off her head, arms and legs. He is said…

BRAVE 29 will showcase two of the best Flyweights in the world as Jose Torres and Marcel Adur clash for the inaugural world title in a blockbuster of a bout. As if their professional records and styles weren’t enough for BRAVE Nation to be excited about this Friday’s co-main event, then Road to BRAVE is what is needed. This edition’s episode cuts deep into both men’s personal tragedies and how they relate to fighting. Last month, Jose Torres lost his father right after accepting to fight Marcel for the title. He has decided to fight on regardless of his grief…

The instructions for lamb stew read more like a list of ingredients than a bona fide recipe: “Meat is used. You prepare water. You add fine-grained salt, dried barley cakes, onion, Persian shallot, and milk. You crush and add leek and garlic.” But it’s impossible to ask the chef to reveal the missing pieces: This recipe’s writer has been dead for some 4,000 years. Instead, a team of international scholars versed in culinary history, food chemistry and cuneiform (the Babylonian system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia) have been working to recreate this dish and three…

In front of a global audience of millions, the YouTube boxing grudge match between Britain’s KSI and his American rival Logan Paul on Saturday produced, perhaps surprisingly for some, a superb sporting spectacle in Los Angeles on Saturday. KSI won on a split decision in a tear-up that was dripping in controversy after Paul has deducted two points for hitting his opponent on his way down. Here’s how the entertaining – and sometimes surreal – night unfolded in LA. KSI edges it First, the fight. Fury-Wilder it wasn’t, but it was an entertaining bout from the first bell to the…

More than two million people in India and Bangladesh have been evacuated as Cyclone Bulbul hits the Bay of Bengal. The storm made landfall at midnight local time (18:30 GMT) on Saturday, near Sagar Island in Indian West Bengal, and is expected to unleash surges as high as 7ft (2m). Two people have already been killed by the cyclone, local media report. Services at many seaports and airports in the region were also suspended – including at the busy Kolkata airport. Bangladesh’s two biggest ports, Mongla and Chittagong, were closed and flights into Chittagong airport were stopped. Shah Kamal, Bangladesh’s…