Janet Walgren
Janet Walgren is the second oldest of ten children. She began studying cosmetology when she was sixteen years old. Still attending high school, she...
Kyuzo Mifune: “God of Judo”
Kyuzo Mifune was born on April 21, 1883 in Kuji City, Iwate Prefecture, on Honshu Island in Japan the youngest of seven children. It...
Lewis Lizotte: Isshin-Ryu Karate
Lewis Lizotte was born in Caribou, Maine on August 22, 1935. He began studying the martial art of Judo in 1947 when he was...
Dana White: I want to be in the fight business!
Dana White is an American businessman and the President of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the largest mixed martial arts organization in the world.
Dana White...
Willie Lim: Combat Tai Chi Master
9th degree Black Belt, Willie Lim was born into a Malayan family of Kung Fu practitioners, his uncle was Head of the Eagle Claw...
Taekwondo’s Own Jhoon Rhee
Jhoon Rhee was born on January 7, 1932 and died on Monday, April 30, 2018. He passed away after a long illness in hospice care...
Peter Aerts: Kickboxer
Peter Aerts was born on December 25, 1970 in the Netherlands. He is a Dutch kickboxer who won the K-1 WORLD GP tournament 3...
Bas Rutten
Bas Rutten Honored at International Sports Hall of Fame 2018
On Saturday, March 3, 2018 Bas Rutten was honored with induction into the International Sports...
Tino Ceberano: Goju Kai Karate
Tino Ceberano is a Gojukai Goju-ryu karate master (Japanese Yamaguchi-ha) who is a key figure in Australian martial arts history. He is a direct...
Ronald McNair
Ronald McNair was born on October 21, 1950, in Lake City, South Carolina. He became an MIT-trained physicist who specialized in laser research before...
Yukio Tani: Judo
Yukio Tani was born in 1881. He is known as one of the first Judoka to compete and teach outside Japan. A pioneering Japanese...
Richard Chun: Taekwondo
Richard Chun, Ph.D. began studying Taekwondo when he was 11 years old. His first instructors were two highly respected teachers in Seoul, Korea, Chong...
Frank Ordonez: Kajukenbo
Frank Ordonez was born February 15, 1927, in Puunene, Maui, Hawaii. As a teenager he trained in Jujitsu and judo from Sam Luke Sr.,...
Al Tracy: American Kenpo Karate
In 1957 Al Tracy and his brother, Jim, began studying Kenpo with Ed Parker and James Ibrao. The Tracy brothers were promoted to Black...
Malia Bernal: Champion of Women
Malia Bernal is a seventh degree Black Belt in Xiang Dai Kung Fu, an off shoot of her ex-husband’s art of Wun Hop Kuen...
Sid Campbell: A True Renaissance Man
Thank you for all your kind words, thoughts and prayers with the recent passing of my very best friend for over 40 years, Grandmaster...