Watching instructor Brian Ashbrook spin on his shoulders, jump and kick his way through several routines at the Aikibudokan Academy in Danbury, it is easy to feel mesmerized by the martial art that ...

You don't want to mess with Conor McGregor. You don't even want to play fight with him. Things could get ugly real fast. That's a lesson Conan O'Brien almost learned the hard way. When McGregor made ...

Conor McGregor made an appearance on the Conan talk show on TBS back in 2015 ahead of his UFC 189 fight against Chad Mendes. McGregor is known for his dynamic moves inside the octagon and for the ...

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor has promised to hit UFC 196 opponent Nate Diaz with a half-moon capoeira kick, and said he will "ping it across his head" during the main event on Saturday in ...

McGregor first detailed why he’s going to beat Diaz – “I feel he is repetitive and his foot patterns, he’s almost stuck in a routine” – before telling O’Brien about a Capoeira kick he might unleash in ...

Julio Cesar “Morceguinho” Neves took on Dener Chuleta at WOCS 28 in Brazil over the weekend. The fight ended in the first round when Morceguinho landed this spectacular capoeira kick upside Chuleta’s ...

Punch, punches, arm bar, rear naked choke. When we look at a fighter's professional MMA record, these are often the types of finishes we are used to seeing in brackets next to KO, TKO or submission in ...

Capoeira is one of those martial arts that rarely feels like it has a truly functional place in modern combat sports. But, when it works, it provides one of the most remarkable meeting points of style ...

SANTA CRUZ — Two students kick and dance around each other while others drum and dance around them. Welcome to Alafia Capoeira, a new studio that teaches the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira. Owner ...