Several sequels in, the character based on the real-life Ip Man has been so throughly fictionalized that nothing is off-limits. He’s also good fun.

With ESPN as its new broadcast partner and its top fighters absent or in trouble, U.F.C. faces a crucial test of its ability to draw huge audiences.

The U.F.C. star was arrested and released without charges as the investigation continued.

The Asian action star, the Fred Astaire of outrageous mayhem, returns in his digitally restored breakthrough movies.

Thanks to an ardent practitioner, the New York State ban on the martial arts weapon, enacted in 1974, has been struck down in court.

Our reporter and photographer went to Permangolinha, a three-day retreat where capoeira meets sustainable farming.

All martial arts are a quest for beauty and transcendence. I found those not in doing karate but rather having karate done to me.

The retired champion has signed on to face 20-year old Tenshin Nasukawa, the eighth-best bantamweight kickboxer in the world.

The sport of moraingy, a brutal mixed martial arts tradition in Madagascar, has become commercialized over the years, but at heart, it remains a reflection of local culture.

He created widely popular panoramic fictional universes that inspired movies and video games and that have led some to compare him to J.R.R. Tolkien.