No Holds Barred: Lee Li On Big Lunar New Year For MMA In Asia

On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman speaks with the journalist, writer, and our Hong King-based Asian correspondent, Lee Li, who publishes the web site MMA in Asia (http://www.mma-in-asia.com).

After the festivities are over for the traditional Lunar New Year, which begins January 23, there will be an explosion of mixed martial arts events throughout Asia. ONE FC has an event on Saturday, February 11, in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Legend FC has an event the same day in Macau. The following week there are two cards in the Philippines. There are numerous other events scheduled all over Asia.

We spoke by Skype with Lee Li on Sunday about this upcoming series of events. She began by discussing the Dream card from December 31 in Japan, and went on to examine the many events and fighters in these upcoming shows, including ONE FC, Legend FC, ROAD FC, URCC, PXC, RUFF, and many more. We discussed the importance of establishing effective and professional governance of MMA in the many countries of Asia, the issues related to regulation and self-regulation of these promotions, the announcement of the formation of the Super Fight League in India, and much more.

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Asian MMA will be incredible in a couple of years.

Have the feeling Arndie is to biased against pro wrestling.

Pretty sure it did sell a lot of tickets.

Awesome. I will be listening to this later today.

Just listened. Awesome interview. Love the JMMA and Asian MMA interviews. I hope the One Asian Network turns out great and creates huge new MMA stars and champions and brings MMA in Japan at least close to where it once was. Hopefully MMA in Asia explodes. I wish they would unify Asian MMA rules which allow soccer kicks, knees, stomps, and hopefully elbows as well, similar to the ONE FC rules without the ref. instructed rule.

^ They should then marketing gimmick those rules with "Global rules" or "Full rules" or something like that
since "Unified rules" is taken.

Unified rules lol. I mean, who doesn't like unity.