Islam Makhachev and Merab Dvalishvili continue to utilize Sambo while competing in the UFC. The martial art of Sambo originated in the Soviet Union in the early 1920s and continues to grow in ...

A NOTORIOUS Russian MMA fighter and convicted killer rapist has been freed from jail to bolster Putin’s struggling war effort ...

A practitioner of both judo and sambo, he started his martial arts journey at 12 and later even became a hand-to-hand combat instructor for the Russian KGB (Committee for State Security).

The fifth Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games were held in Turkmenistan ... kurash, muay thai and sambo. The Ashgabat Olympic Complex hosted 11 days of competition in its state-of-the-art ...