Social enterprise Capoeira For All performed a collection of Afro-Brazillian music, dance, and martial arts at Sankofa Dock on Sunday,

Setting big stages, feeding eager mouths and kitting out the toughest fighters – Tanko are taking combat sports in the North-West to a whole new level.

Rochdale lawyer devotes his time to getting Rochdale youth off the streets and into the Rochdale Leisure Centre with his Brazilian jiu-jitsu classes.

The 21-year-old will be looking to get back to winning ways after losing in the final to Spain’s Eva Calvo Gomez Grand Prix’s inaugural event last December.

Billy and Stephen Collinge were awarded the superstar award from the Sandee School of boxing after excelling in Muay Thai and overcoming very different challenges

Martial arts fans witnessed a spectacle of technique and heart as one of the UK’s biggest amateur MMA events put on a show to remember for its landmark tenth event.

Javonne Morrison (5-2-0), from Manchester, is hoping notch another victory on his record by defeating Aaron Robinson (2-2-0), taking the Liverpudlian’s FCC Amateur Flyweight belt in the process

Musclebound mixed martial arts fanatic Lloyd Seddon, 23, vanished last October while on early parole from a five year jail term for an ‘adrenaline-fuelled’ armed robbery spree

A whopping 21 fights took place on the night, including seven title fights with four of those being professional bouts

Troy Swanick trains at Kaizen-Do karate Black Belt Academy

Ashton Atemi Ju Jitsu will hold the classes