Welcome to South East Asian MMA

This is the first ever website specifically for mixed martial arts in the region. If you wish to use any articles or photos from this website, or if you want to add an article or event review yourself, get in contact with me.

Please note that the old Muay Thai Phuket Magazine issues and articles are still available in the MTP Magazine section.

Latest news:

Legend FC in Hong Kong announce the fight card for Legend FC 3 in September:

Martial Combat article from last month's Scrapp! magazine:

Tiger Muay Thai review from last month's Scrapp! magazine:

Angelito Manguray, the Filipino fighting dentist. Interview with the 42 year old professional dentist and fighter from the Philippines with an unusual Karate background:

Pinoy power - Filipinos dominate Martial Combat 8. Ole Laursen and Sabah Fadai record wins:

Joe Ray knocks out Chad Reiner at Martial Combat 7. Up and coming fighter Ray makes it two wins out of two for Martial Combat with a spectacular KO:

Vietnamese fighter Nam Phan announced as a cast member of the Ultimate Fighter 12:

Interview with Chad Reiner on his upcoming Martial Combat fight with fellow American Joe Ray:

Interview with South African MMA fighter and former Muay Thai World Champion Vusiyille Colossa:

A review of last weeken's URCC Havoc in the Philippines is now online:

URCC Havoc

Interview with Ole Laursen, the Muay Thai and K-1 fighter turned mixed martial artist:

Check out this slideshow of some of the fighters to emerge from ESPN Star Sports Martial Combat:

URCC XVII 'Havoc' results now online. Roy Docyogen wins by way of rear naked choke:

URCC XVII Results

My reviews of Martial Combat 5 & 6:

MARTIAL COMBAT 5 REVIEW

Martial Combat 6 Review

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Interview with Phuket based MMA fighter Ray Elbe:

Report from Legend FC 2:

Exclusive interview with up and coming Filipino fighter Eduard Folayang:

About me:

I am James Goyder and I have been writing about MMA for almost five years, I have been based in Thailand for the last three of them.

I have been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to interview famous fighters like Jon Fitch, Roger Huerta and Phil Baroni, mainly for my own publication, Muay Thai Phuket magazine, and you can find all these articles on this website.

I also write regularly about  worldwide MMA for a number of websites such as Five Ounces of Pain, Bloody Elbow and Bleacher Report. You can see a comprehensive list of these articles here.