Is earning a black belt on your life list? Then this elderly woman in San Francisco just might be your ultimate hero. Just two years before her 100th birthday, Sensei Keiko Fukuda has become the first ...

This past weekend in Columbus, Ohio, former UFC women's champion Ronda Rousey was promoted to 6th degree black belt in judo alongside her mother, AnnMaria DeMars. The ceremony was held in part with ...

Sensei Keiko Fukuda has become the first woman to achieve a tenth-degree black belt in judo - at the age of 98. The highest rank in the martial art and combat sport, Fukuda joins just three other ...

Putin is the first Russian to have been awarded the eighth dan, joining a handful of judo fighters in the world who have achieved such status. Russia's Alexander Mikhaylin, who has won three world ...

Vladimir Putin is out on video as a judo master. On Tuesday, he presented an instructional judo DVD that bears his name and shows him throwing an opponent to the mat. ST PETERSBURG: Vladimir Putin is ...

Judo black belt and Russian leader President Vladimir Putin hopes to go to the London Olympics to watch his favorite sport, a spokesman said on Monday. In a meeting with British Prime Minister David ...

The Russian president's favorite sport - judo - was long banned in the Soviet Union. Today Russia's style of the martial art is one of the strongest schools in the world. If it had not been for this ...