Cape Fight League 3 Review

It was fight day yesterday in Cape Town where fight camps from all around Southern Africa sent in their top warriors to compete in the Western Cape’s best MMA/K1 event. Cape Fight League is known for its mixture of bout styles including MMA, K1 Kickboxing and Muay Thai; all sticking to their respective rules. And [...]

EFC Africa 16 – It’s Fight Week in South Africa!

EFC AFRICA Heavyweight Championship RUAN POTTS vs. BERNARDO MIKIXI EFC AFRICA Featherweight Championship DEMARTE PENA vs. TERENCE GRIESSEL EFC AFRICA Welterweight Championship JADYSON COSTA vs. MICHIEL OPPERMAN Plus WADE HENDERSON vs. TUMELO MAPHUTA GARETH BUIRSKI vs. MARKUS TALJAARD FRANCOIS KABULU vs. NICHOLAS RADLEY ANDREW VAN ZYL vs. IAN VISSER JC LAMPRECHT vs. DANIEL SINCLAIR DANIE VAN HEERDEN vs. DAIN NEVELING FRANCOIS GROENEWALD vs. JEAN-LUC KAZADI RICKY MISHOLAS vs. WILHELM STRAUSS WADE [...]

EFC Africa 16 Full Fight Card Announced!

  Johannesburg (South Africa) – All thirteen bouts for EFC AFRICA 16 have been confirmed! Excitement is reaching fever pitch as the countdown steadily approaches 19 October and Africa’s biggest mixed martial arts event. Three title fights and Africa’s top MMA warriors make EFC AFRICA 16 an occasion not to be missed. Tickets on sale [...]

Garreth “Soldierboy” McLellan pulls out of EFC 16 due to an injury

Michiel Opperman Responds to Jadyson Costa For Their Title Fight At EFC16

Michiel Opperman is coming in as a huge underdog on a one way road to try and claim the EFC Africa werlterweight title from Jadyson Costa. It will be Jadyson’s first title defense while Opperman looks to add an 11th win to his pro-mma fight record by way of a hopeful knock out! Michiel Opperman has [...]

Rampage Jackson Talks Trash About Chael Sonnen

Just stumbled accross this MMA Elite video (thanks to BJPenn.com) where Rampage Jackson appears alongside King Mo. Quinton Jackson goes on to say ‘F*ck Chael’ after being asked about his views on Chael Sonnen. Rampage goes on to give Chael a piece of his own verbal poison but in the same breath announces that he’d [...]

Cape Fight League 2 – Light Heavyweight Title Fight!

Cape Fight League (CFL), an MMA Fighting league, based in Cape Town, debuted in February of this year with CFL 01. After a successful first event, the league is currently preparing for CFL 02. The Wynberg Military Base will host the second instalment of the Mother City’s Premier Mixed Martial Arts Fight League on Saturday, [...]

New online MMA store coming soon! | South Africa

We’ll be giving MMAHype.co.za a bit of an upgrade as we launch our very own online MMA store. The shop will offer high quality branded MMA gear such as Ju-jitsu gi’s, thai pads, MMA grappling gloves and various other fight apparel for the mixed martial artist. While we’ll start off small with a select few items, the store is [...]

Jadyson Costa to defend his title against Michiel Opperman

Now the main event makes for an even bigger anticipation for EFC 16 and we are damn well excited! But having shared a training floor with Jadyson Costa and with us being fans of Michiel Opperman, we can’t help but make more hype for their fight! We’ll have to stand aside this time and let [...]

Antonio Nogueira Opens New Orlando Training Center

Former UFC heavyweight champion Antonio ‘Minotauro’ Nogueira announced during an open training session in Florida the upcoming launch of Team Nogueira’s first-ever East Coast public training facility in Orlando. The new world class facility will give local athletes of all levels and ages the opportunity to train under the expert team created by MMA legends [...]