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Martial Arts Instructor (World Leisure News)
We are looking for people with Martial arts teaching experience to work on US children’s summer camps. Positions are varied to suit candidates’ level of skill and certification.
Bruce Gilden's best shot (Guardian Unlimited)
In 1998, I met an ex-professional boxer and martial-arts expert in Japan, and we became friendly. He introduced me to these two yakuza, and we went for dinner in a small tempura place in the Ginza district of Tokyo.
London trader tries life as professional fighter (Reuters )
Steven Hopwood has traded the cut and thrust of financial markets for the jabs and kicks of cage fighting -- a fast growing mix of martial arts and an old-fashioned pub brawl.
Workshop goes down well with regional Jujitsu enthusiasts (Tavistock Times Gazette)
The sixth Open Jujitsu Workshop, organised by Ju Jitsu Tavistock, took place in Tavistock and gave martial artists from the South West the chance to take part in a top class event.
Whitehaven News (The Whitehaven News)
WHITEHAVEN mixed martial artist James St Leger picked up a win in his first ever bout at the weekend. The welter weight fighter, of Hybrid MMA, took on Carlisle’s Lee Richardson in an amateur contest at Cage Carnage II in Carlisle on Saturday.
He scores, he dances, he wins £10,000 (Independent)
There could well be a spate of speculative long shots in the early moments of tomorrow's 3pm Premier League kick-offs after the online sports betting company Betfair yesterday announced that it is offering £10,000 to the first player to celebrate a goal by doing a dance that will promote its new product. Should it happen it will be the world's first commercial goal celebration.
Malignaggi Fires Hatton Broadside (Sporting Life UK & Ireland Sport)
Paulie Malignaggi has labelled Ricky Hatton a spoiler ahead of their light-welterweight showdown in Saturday night.
Students complete gradings (Lynn News)
THE Kuk Sool Won traditional Korean Martial Arts School held a promotion ceremony to recognise and promote 45 junior students, who took part in a grading at the beginning of the month. (18/11/2008)
‘Worse than death’ for victim (Oldham Chronicle)
Loved-up salesman Steven Hogg had got the girl, a good job and had a dream wedding and honeymoon to look forward to. Yet just weeks before he was due to marry, his life and that of his bride-to-be was ruined by a vicious martial arts thug on a drinking binge in Chadderton.
MALIGNAGGI FIRES HATTON BROADSIDE (Sporting Life)
Paulie Malignaggi has labelled Ricky Hatton a spoiler ahead of their light-welterweight showdown in Saturday night. The fast-talking New Yorker (25-1, 5 KOs) is challenging Hatton (44-1, 31 KOs) for the Englishman's Ring Magazine Championship belt, which recognises the division's best fighter.