Olympic Judo Champion and mat innovator Mike Swain graces the cover of the May 2005 issue of Black Belt Magazine . Photography by Rick...

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The January 1992 cover of Black Belt Magazine showed world-class martial artists Hiro Koda and Yuki Koda . Hiro Koda would later work...

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Tony Dorsett, the legendary "Hawk" and College and NFL Hall of Famer, appeared on the cover of Fighting Stars  in December 1981. Learn...

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