Meet Filip Stoyanov, a Bulgarian-British software engineer who has a strong passion for Muay Thai. He recently won 2 fights in a row: Clash Championships and Combat Fight Series all in a short span of two months in late 2024.

Filip shares with us his spark that motivated him to transit into going into a competitor mode. In his words, he shares that it is solely his decision to step into the ring and that fuels him on to keep going, despite the challenges.

He also shares how Muay Thai has made him more disciplined and resilient - traits that he can apply in his day job.

Find out more about Filip in the first of COMBAT RING'S professional series, where we chat with people with day jobs and how they juggle them with their passion for combat sports.

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COMBAT RING: We Pound The Ground for Stories from Fighters.

Hailing from Denmark, Jon Stadil Palm is on the cusp of greatness as he prepares to take up his first professional MMA fight in 2025. The candid fighter shares his fight journey with COMBAT RING - his start with the sport was with Karate, before making the switch to MMA, and he hasn't looked back since.

The two-time Danish National MMA champion 2023/24 shares with us his most memorable fight, including those at MMA Galla, and how the Nordic Welterweight fighter is preparing to achieve his fight goals.

Germany-based MMA fighter @niko_samsonidse who fights on the @oktagonmma show, shares why throwing jabs is his favourite weapon in the ring!
Niko also talks about his fight journey, how he bounced back from a setback injury, which kept him out of the ring for 2 years and his most memorable MMA fight and his fight goals for 2024!

What an inspiring chat with this rising MMA star!

COMBAT RING Christmas 2023 exclusive: We chat with Cody Jerome - Muay Thai World Cup (Canada) Road to One Championship 2023 winner on his fight ticket to one of the world's biggest fight shows, what this win means for his career, the thrills and spills of his biggest fight of the year, his fight journey and what motivates him and his future fight plan for the year.

COMBAT RING has an exclusive interview with Liam Nolan, the WBC Muay Thai World Middleweight Champion 2021. The British Muay Thai Champion shares with us on winning one of his momentous fights - beating renowned fighter Youssef Boughanem in the prestigious title belt fight and his roller-coaster fight journey over the past 2 years - from training in Thailand and ending up without a fight to his motivation to remain in the ring in tough times. The WBC 2021 Fighter of the Year also looks back on his inspiring Muay Thai journey and his future plans including putting his focus on winning an ONE Championship belt. 

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Combat Ring chats with Edgars Skrivers, who is Karate Combat’s inaugural Golden Belt Champion with an unbeatable 3-0 fight record, including spectacular KO wins against Myrza Tebuev and Luis Rocha. The Shotokan karate fighter, who hails from Latvia, is regarded as a  tough as nails pressure fighter.

When it comes to the clinch, Skrivers is relentlessly clamping down on his opponent to rob them of the space to work. If he does have space to work, he inflicting collateral damage with his powerful short hooks in no time to clinch victory. No doubt, the ‘Bearslayer’ is one of the superior ground-and-pounders in Karate Combat.

Read his full story here. 

In one of Combat Ring's most inspiring interviews, we chat with IMC Super Welterweight Champion, Niclas Larsen on his journey from a 'Destroyer' to 'Dreamchaser'. The former GLORY Kickboxer shares his experience giving up a golden opportunity of fighting on K1 World GP in Japan due to Covid concerns, fighting Muay Thai legend Buakaw in 2019 - traveling to Thailand just by himself and how his fight mentality has evolved from chasing from belts to how he is using his fights to not destroy his opponents but to be a better person from the process of preparing for his fight. Outside the ring, he is planting seeds as a mentor to troubled youths in Denmark and transferring life lessons learned from being a professional fighter to making a difference in their lives. 

Read his story on Combat Ring here

Combat Ring speakers to Belgian Karate Combat Fighter Bryan Van Waesberghe. The former national athlete shares his passion for karate - from how he has to travel to another country just in order to use the gyms in light of gym closures in Europe, he also shares about his experiences fighting on the Karate Combat league - like how he accepted a fight against Franklin Mina - a mere 12 hours before the fight was due to start and how he is actually moulding the love for sport among children. Read the Combat Ring interview with Belgium's representative on the Karate Combat straight  Bryan Van Waesberghe here. 

Japanese Muay Thai fighter Yukinori Ogasawara shares his fight journey, from Japan to Canada to around Asia. He reveals his most memorable fights on ONE Championship and REBELS shows, how Muay Thai has transformed his life, being a big brother to a Kickboxing champion, and how fatherhood has changed his perspective as a fighter. 

Read the full interview here