No Holds Barred: The Art of ONE FC

On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman discusses why the ONE FC: Kings and Champions card, held April 5, in Singapore, was perhaps their best card ever, and put the arts back in mixed martial arts.

This is contrasted with the vulgarity, ignorance, and hatred prevalent in North American sports, such as the current Rutgers basketball scandal, and the response by many to transsexual female MMA fighter Fallon Fox, who was just cleared of wrongdoing by the Florida commission.

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Id have to agree a simple google search shows that, ONE FC is starting to gain some serious traction in asia, they are getting coverage from everyone over there it seems.

Looking forward to this one. I'll be listening in soon.

A late commentary, but I had to say this:

1) Nice fight-by-fight commentary on Kings and Champions. I myself consider Pride of a Nation the best ONE card, but it was a good card nonetheless.

2) From your discussion on MMA and its community in North America (or to be more precise, the "UFC community"), from what I've experienced, it isn't completely restricted to North America. The UK MMA community is also in love with the UFC way of thinking, from promoting brawls (UCMMA), the inability to discuss MMA and its issues to the average dumb fan that worship the likes of Dana White and Joe Rogan.

One of the best podcasts I've listened to this year. Keep up the good work.

Thanks, I appreciate it. Even though ONE FC is in a cage, the rules and style of fighting are different from the North American barroom brawling we see here. People like Matt Hume understand this, and are producing a better product than the U.S. stuff.

nhbnews wrote:Thanks, I appreciate it. Even though ONE FC is in a cage, the rules and style of fighting are different from the North American barroom brawling we see here. People like Matt Hume understand this, and are producing a better product than the U.S. stuff.

ONE FC is great and I am a big fan of what they are doing and their vision of the sport but I really wish they would go to a white ring and add stomps. Asian MMA just belongs in a ring and full rules would be unreal.