About a week ago, it cost him a fight in Tehran, Iran. The Cambridge native was cruising through a Muay Thai tournament on the back of three straight wins when he came up limping.

The Uzbekistan Consulate-General marked 20 years of diplomatic relations with Thailand by staging an Uzbek cultural show at Central Festival Pattaya Beach.

THE only martial arts festival in the country gets underway today, Saturday, in three separate venues with some 250 martial arts practitioner converging in the one-day tournament.

COUNCIL leaders would commit “political suicide” if they overturned colleagues’ refusal this week to spend public money on a stadium at Truro.

The fifth Warpath Mixed Martial Arts event took place last Friday at Tzeachten Community Centre and featured seven mixed martial arts fights, two Muay Thai bouts, and even an exhibition wrestling match between a pair of eight-year-olds. The final fight of the night, between Perry Hayer and Bronson Petterson, ended up on the judges table.

While his name isn’t the same as his world famous uncle, there’s still some pressure if you’re getting into the fight game and are related to pound-for-pound MMA king Anderson Silva.