You’ve been quiet. What have you been up to since you lost the Oz Heavyweight boxing title to Peter Graham? Continue reading
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The Return of ‘Bangin’ Ben’ Edwards
Posted in Ben Edwards, fighting, Glory, K1, Kickboxing, MMA, Peter Graham, Real Men with tags Andrew Machin, Australian Elite Fight Team, Ben Edwards, Boxing, cage, CTE, Dan Kelly, Duke Didier, Glory, jiu jitsu, Kickboxing, MMA, Resilience Training Centre Australian Elite Fight Team, Simon Foscorini, Steve Rudic, UFC, UFC Fight Pass on April 4, 2017 by Jarrod Boyle
Peter Graham – World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Posted in Journalism, Martial Arts, MMA, Peter Graham, Real Men with tags Ben Edwards, Boxing, Jason Suttie, Julius Long, Kickboxing, Lucas Browne, Mark Hunt, MMA on March 10, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
Peter Graham – New WBF Boxing World Heavyweight Champion
Posted in Journalism, Peter Graham, Real Men with tags Boxing, heavyweight, Julius Long, Peter Graham, WBF, world title on February 28, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
Some things are stories; others are facts. The fact is Peter Graham is now the WBF world heavyweight boxing champion. He is the first Australian in history to hold a heavyweight boxing title.
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Peter Graham Versus The World’s Strongest Man: KSW32
Posted in K1, Kickboxing, KSW, MMA, Peter Graham, Real Men with tags Boxing Works, Dancing with the Stars, Fedor Emelianenko, Golem, Japan, K1, Karol Bedorf, Kickboxing, Larry Papadopoulos, Maiqual Falcao, Mariusz Pudzianowski, mixed martial arts, Royce Gracie, Simon Haslam, SSE Arena, Stan 'The Man' Longinides, UFC on December 4, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
The entire SSE Arena in London seems poised above us; an immense sphere of mythological darkness, something dreamed, something imagined. Continue reading
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Peter Graham – Professional Fighter
Posted in fighting, Journalism, Peter Graham with tags ACDC, Badr hari, Barry Raff, bone scan, Daniel Trifu, Jedrzej Macklowak, K1, Karol Bedorf, Kickboxing, KSW, Kyokushin karate, Larry Papadopoulos, Maciej Jewtuszko, Marcin Rozalski, MMA, Peter Graham, Peter Graham’s IMC, Poland, Semmy Schilt, Stalin, Thunderstruck, Tomasz Drwal, Warsaw Palace of Science and Culture on September 17, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
Fight! Magazine, July 2015
Peter Graham has had more than one hundred fights – full-contact karate, kickboxing, boxing and mixed martial arts – and never broken a bone. Continue reading
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Hagiography
Posted in Ben Edwards, Journalism, Kickboxing, Observation, Peter Graham, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags art, Badr hari, Ben Edwards, BJJ, Boxing, facebook, Glory 16, IMC Prospect, International Kickboxer Magazine, Karate, Kempo, Kickboxing, Kyokushin, Peter Graham, Ralph Waldo Emerson, sport on May 31, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
“What a night. What can I say? Badr Hari is an animal. I was just too banged up to keep going. To my loving wife Silvia, my now-two little girls; you keep me strong.
“To my friends who have always been there for me, thank-you as you are all awesome. To my students at IMC Prospect: train hard and always do your best.
“Last, but not least, my fans; from the Kyokushin and Kempo karate people and the BJJ, MMA, Boxing And kickboxing fans who follow me and even the ones who do not or cannot, thank-you from the bottom of my heart.
“You are all part of who I am.”
Post-fight dedication from Peter Graham, taken from facebook, 30/05/14
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I logged a post about Ben Edwards previously to this one. I was assigned to interview him for the most recent International Kickboxer Magazine and, towards the end of our conversation, he came out with something profound. Continue reading
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Peter Graham
Posted in Journalism, Kickboxing, Peter Graham, Real Men with tags Adam Watt, Alexei Ignashov, Apidech Moekunthod, Badr hari, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Daniel Dawson, Draka, Fedor, Francisco Filho, Glaube Feitosa, Honbu, Hunter Sam, Ikebukuro, ISS Gym Pattaya, Jan Nortje, Jason Suttie, K1, kakutogi, Karate, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kempo karate, Kickboxing, Kyokushin karate, Mark Hunt, Mark Kerr, Mas Oyama, Mirko Crocop, MMA, Moise Rimbon, Nicholas Pettas, Nick Kara, Paul Slowinski, Peter Graham’s IMC, Remy Bonjasky, Rolles Gracie, Sam Greco, Semmy Schilt, Sengoku, Stan Longinidis, Stefan Leko, Tae Kwon Do, Uchi Deshi on February 13, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
Blitz Magazine, December 2012
The day I talked to Peter, he was managing multiple tasks and unsure I’d be able to get any sense out of him.
“I’ve just come from ten rounds of sparring!” Continue reading
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Rolling Thunder: Peter Graham
Posted in Journalism, Kickboxing, Peter Graham with tags Alexei Ignashov, Badr hari, Jason Suttie, K1, Kyokushin karate, Mas Oyama, Nicolas Pettas, Peter Graham, Remy Bonjasky, Semmy Schilt, Sengoku, Stan Longinidis, Stefan Leko on September 14, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle
The 11th hour knockout delivered when Peter Graham fought Badr Hari at the K1 WGP in New Zealand, 2006.
International Kickboxer Magazine, Vol.18, No.2
“Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a coward for life. The Way to find courage is to seek it on the field of conflict.”
~Mas Oyama~
Peter Graham was big as a teenager, but not the biggest. He was also tall, but not the tallest. In fact, other than some experience playing Rugby League as a kid growing up on the North Shore of Sydney, he’d done very little in the way of athletics by the age of eighteen.
There was no history of outstanding sporting performance to let anyone, much less the young Peter Graham, know exactly what was in store when he finally walked into the Kyokushin Karate dojo near his home. Continue reading
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