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Karate Combat returns this weekend with Karate Combat: Evolution featuring their first title fight in a "secret location" according to their initial announcement . Luis "Pitbull" Rocha faces Edgar "The Bearslayer" Skrivers in the main event with other familiar names on the Karate Combat roster. See the announced matches in the featured image above and Karate Combat Evolution trailer below: Karate Combat Evolution airs this Saturday, 9/21 at 7pm EST. For the full Karate Combat experience, the event can be streamed at karate.com and its Android and iOS apps and Roku channel.  Distribution partners have included UFC Fight Pass, FITE, USA Today, YouTube, Twitch, Titan and Eleven Sports.

Karate Combat launched at the beginning of the year and usually when folks hear karate now, they kind of brush it off as old and outdated. However, when MMA legends like Bas Rutten and Chuck Liddell attach their names to the brand, folks get interested. As an 11 year student of Isshin-Ryu karate myself, I was already interested to see what they brought to the table in terms of bringing a fresh look to full-contact karate . Since February of 2018 they have held events in Budapest, Miami, Greece, and on top of One World Trade in New York City. I watched their pre-season event with some skepticism as it was a unique rule-set that works really well for pacing and action. For some reason, I thought the rules they used would be perfect to make a fair fight between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather Jr. since deep down we all knew the boxer would win the boxing match. That along with my love for old-school karate got me really interested in what Karate Combat would offer in future e...

Karate Combat returns this weekend from Athens, Greece with their event entitled "Olympus" on Saturday, July 28. This time it streams live from the historic Zappeion Courtyard. The exotic locations and fighter entrances are part of what makes Karate Combat unique from what fight fans normally associate Karate with. Karate Combat streams at karate.com or you can watch it free on FITE TV by signing up here . If you want to see the scheduled line-up, check out the Karate Combat: Olympus fight card .

New York, NY (July 12, 2018):  Karate Combat, the first mainstream, professional, full-contact karate league, announced the date and location for its next event. Karate Combat: Olympus will live stream from Athens, Greece on July 28, 2018. Karate Combat’s distinctive rules and patented slope-sided fighting pit are optimized for action and the superior production values and innovative Heads-Up Display feature make for engaging viewing on all connected screens.  The fight will stream live in the evening local time from the historic Zappeion Courtyard, just steps from the Parthenon and the site of combat events at the first modern Olympics in 1896. The card features the UK’s 4x national champion Jerome Brown vs European Champion and 11x French national champion Davy Dona, and a co-main event with heavyweight World Champion finalists Achraf Ouchen of Morocco vs. Franklin Mina of Ecuador. Fighters from Greece, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Dominican Republic, and Brazil will compete. ...

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