ONE Reign of Kings goes July 27th and the Friday card is stacked. Some of the prime features of this event include Lightweight bouts that could establish the next #1 contender. Shannon Wiratchai takes on legendary submission artist/ former ONE titlist Shinya Aoki and Eduard Folayang steps into the cage with the dangerous sambo practitioner…
ONE returns to Mall of Asia Arena and Manila will witness arguably the promotion’s biggest card of the year. Topping this marquee event is a title bout of tremendous importance. Concurrent two division titlist Martin Nguyen is vying for an unprecedented third ONE Championship belt in the main event. Also in the interim Bantamweight title…
This BTB episode saw the return of top Canadian Heavyweight/ one of ACB’s top contenders, Tanner Boser. On Bowks Talking Bouts #97, Tanner finds it odd that he’s ranked at #2 in ACB, the assessment of Tanner’s performance in beating Chase Gormley at ACB 88 (2:46), his desire to re-sign with ACB and what…
Friday, July 13th marks the second foray into Kuala Lumpur for ONE Championship in 2018. Hometown warrior Agilan Thani tops the card against knockout artist Zebaztian Kadestam. The ONE Super Series brand will also be spotlighted with several high level Muay Thai and Kickboxing bouts on the card. LMM’s Dylan Bowker was able to…
On Bowks Talking Bouts #96, I welcomed GZ/ DMS battle rapper Krome onto the program. We discussed catching a bit of the recent I Battle event, his Big Valley Battles match up with Jaws and the methodology of Krome’s writing process (2:59), being nominated for KOTD’s breakout battler of the year in 2017 (6:55), appreciating…
I caught up with battle rapper/ career killer Caustic on this BTB episode (Bowks Talking Bouts #95). We discussed the first time Caustic was exposed to battle rap, his goals to release an album this year (2:17), his recent efforts in standup comedy and with commentating fighting games (3:08), being offered a URL battle…
I had a great talk with Sarah McQuaid on this LM installment. We talked about early communal spaces for music fans in her area, sketching the art for her latest record If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous, the pros and cons of the modern system for musicians getting their material out there,…