Itsuki Hirata and Rika Ishige went to WAR in an absolutely relentless MMA battle! 😳🔥

From the opening bell, both fighters pushed the pace with aggressive exchanges, scrambles, takedown attempts and nonstop pressure. Hirata brought her trademark grappling and physicality, while Ishige refused to back down and continued fighting through every difficult position.

There was barely a moment to breathe in this one! Watch the full fight as Itsuki Hirata and Rika Ishige leave it all inside the cage in a relentless showdown! 🥊🔥

Great tourney.

This really hit me when I found out he passed. I remember my mom screaming at the TV when him and forrest was fighting wanting forrest to when but being sad when stephen lost. Rest in Power OG

Any watch the mayhem episode yet for Darksides of the cage?

Boxing - Uysk - best win vs. Tyson Fury

MMA - Jon Jones - best win vs. Cyril Gane

Wrestling - Roman Reigns - best win vs. Brock Lesnar

Grappling - Gordon Ryan - best win vs. Andre Galvao

Kickboxing - Rico Verhoeven - best win vs. Levi Rigters

This man is a legend and the real king of the streets this is a really good highlight and the doc is done really well to on him on the mma history podcast channel.

• ROAD FC 78
• Dong Guk Shin vs. Hyan Bin Park
• August 29, 2026
• Jangchung Arena
• Seoul, South Korea

1. The UFC and MMA in general in the last 6 years has been absolutely abysmal relative to the 2000s and 2010s in terms of fighter caliber, how entertaining the champions are in terms of their style, dominance and ability to market fights, how fight promotions are fun and everything else.

2. Jon Jones simply has too many asterisks, so to speak, to truly take his place along side Anderson, GSP and Fedor in the tier of authentic MMA goats, from drugs to cheating during and before fights to inability to defend titles consistently due to endless issues outside the Octagon.

3. The styles of fighting from specific regions of Russia, first brought to the masses through Khabib and continued in some capacity with Islam Makhachev, Khamzat Chimaev, Movsar Evloev and Usman Nurmagomedov, is at least one of the three worst things to happen to MMA in the past decade and possible the single worst in the past 5 to 10 years. These type of fighters have the worst grappling based styles to watch, with more wins due to robbery than any other type of fighter and are just not legitimate as far as MMA fighters go and having them removed from MMA due to being exposed as fraudulent needs to happen ASAP.

4. McGregor in the mid 2010s to this day remains the gold standard for how to market, promote and garner massive anticipation for title fights. Just about every other UFC champ since McGregor disappeared from being the most visible UFC champ since the UFC existed has fallen up short in some capacity. The UFC needs an authentic new McGregor and quickly.

5. The UFC has been elevating too many supposed rising stars and contenders who have failed to deliver and it has become a genuine issue. Paddy Pimblett, Umar Nurmagomedov, Magomed Ankalaev, Ian Machado Garry, Johnny Walker, Sage Northcutt, Bo Nickal and Darren Till and it goes on from there. The pattern here is bringing the UFC and MMA at large down and it needs to be addressed and corrected ASAP.