Category: Simon Biyong

  • The painter and the fighter: the duality of Simon Biyong

    The painter and the fighter: the duality of Simon Biyong

    Who is Simon Biyong? A basketball player for an Italian team? A Bellator fighter? Or maybe he is a talented painter? What is sure, is that he hasn’t always been a mixed martial artist. Born in 1991 in YaoundĂ©, Cameroon, the Italian-based fighter recalls his early days as a sportsman. Before he eventually attended his […]

  • Simon Biyong is chasing Rizin gold

    Simon Biyong is chasing Rizin gold

    African mixed martial arts is definitely on the rise. Nigerian-born Kamaru Usman just defended his UFC welterweight title against Colby Covington, and fellow countryman Israel Adesanya unified the middleweight title by defeating Robert Whittaker just two months ago. Now, Italian-Cameroonian Simon Biyong (6-1 MMA) will look to continue that trend of success in his Rizin Fighting […]