You may know Katheryn Winnick from her role as Lagertha in Vikings, which Entertainment Weekly called the most exciting feminist character on TV. So if we weren’t excited already about the upcoming Wu Assassins series, this has tipped us over the edge. In the series, she will play Christine “C.G.” Gavin, an undercover cop who…
The most heavily promoted “Money In The Bank” match was with Ronda Rousey. This is the first time the WWE has had a woman as its biggest mainstream star. Although her fight with Nia Jax was not on last, it still was given the heaviest promotional push of the whole event. This was Rouseys’ second…
The film career of Jet Li very nearly didn’t happen. In 1979, when director Cheung Sing-Yim had cast the first ‘Shaolin Temple’ film, he had done so using Chinese Opera performers, with the aim of teaching the actors how to fight. He realized soon into production that this was clearly not working. At the risk of…
Tony Jaa, the Thai actor most famed for his role in Ong Bak – a Thai martial arts film that gained a cult following for is brutal and aggressive display of Muay Thai in cinema – is perhaps one of the most underrated martial arts movie heroes of all time. A stunt-man turned actor, Japanom…
Gather a lot of people together, and you’re bound to hear a lot of opinions. Take the question ‘what’s the best fighting style?’ – That’s sure to lead to a healthy debate! However, when it comes to the notion of the quickest way to end a fight, there’s a clear answer. Actual fights have proven…
Who knew that North Korea had their own martial art? I guess it’s obvious really, they have the best everything according to their propaganda machine, so why not own their own martial art created under the reign of the Kim family? Their fighting style is unsurprisingly well choreographed, and sends a clear message to their…
He’s Amazing, but quite possibly a total crackpot! Steven Seagal, the self-described Alpha Male, was born in Michigan in 1952. His parents Patricia and Samuel were a Medical Technician and a High School Maths teacher respectively, with a mixture of German, Dutch, Irish, Russian Jewish, English, and Mongolian Heritage. He was a frail child, who…
Korea has taekwondo, Brazil has capoeira, the Philippines has arnis – a martial art is a truly unique and inspired choice for a national sport. Turkey’s own choice of oil wrestling is no different – it traces its roots back to ancient times, when wrestling was very much a dominant sport in the region. Oil…
This is the story of the greatest samurai who ever lived. A samurai who faced many duels but never lost. The samurai who fought and beat the best martial arts expert in ancient Japan and the one samurai who lived to see the truth in avoiding death rather than facing it head on. Tsukahara Bokuden…
Jailhouse Rock, also known as 52 blocks or 52s is a collective term used to describe the fighting styles the evolved out of the US penal institutions…or in layman’s terms 52 hand blocks is basically a martial art created out of prison house brawls. If anyone has watched Prison Break, you’ll known how brutal prison…