In mixed martial arts, M-1 Global is holding events across the globe to find the world's best fighters. This month's event in Moscow saw the pick of Eastern Europe settling scores.
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A Russian select - Team Legion - have been crowned the 2009 M-1 Challenge world champions once again. The local favorites sweeping team USA East 5-nothing in Russia's Northern Capital to successfully defend their crown. Robert Vardanian had a ring-side seat.
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It is fast, furious and one of the fastest growing martial arts in Russia. It is also one of the planet's youngest martial arts combining a number of ancient fighting techniques. With the World Kudo Cup coming up this weekend in the Russian capital, RT's Robert Vardanian explains more about the sport. Most martial arts have histories that stretch back centuries. This one, however, is just 30 years old. The mixed martial art of Kudo, also known as "furious karate", claims to have incorporated all the major fighting techniques -- punches from boxing, kicks taken from muay thai, throws and submissions gained from judo, sambo and jiu-jitsu. That is how the human body turns into a perfect tool of unarmed self-defense according to the Kudo handbook. The sport was founded and developed in Japan, although it is Russians who have dominated the Kudo mat in recent years. In particular, the country's undisputed five-time world champion Sergey Arzhakov. RT caught up with him demonstrating his stunning combat skills in downtown Moscow. "People may get a little confused, thinking Kudo is just a combination of different techniques -- saying its boxing plus wrestling plus something else -- it's not," says Arzhakov. "Kudo is much more complicated. It fine-tunes various styles -- both wrestling and stand-up fighting -- for use within the framework of Karate, to design a specific martial art, a very efficient and universal one." Moscow was spoiled further on Thursday when the originator of <b>...</b>
We continue our profile of clubs from Europe's strongest Hockey League, the KHL, where this season has been a baptism of fire so far... For Slovakian newboys, Lev Poprad. But, as RT's Robert Vardanian reports the "Lions" are as fired up as their team song.
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