With 110 movies under his belt, Afghan filmmaker Salim Shaheen finally made it to the red carpet in Cannes as the star of a charming and hilarious documentary portrait by French journalist Sonia Kronlund

French striker scores twice in impressive performance at the Emirates

Mayweather will try to make his opponent feel lost and lonely in the boxing ring

UFC fighter has been happy to stick with trusted team ahead of Las Vegas bout

His circle of trusted friends, his father and former boxing coach, tell McGregor’s story

Get your fill of cult horror, kung-fu, spaghetti westerns, Blaxploitation and whatever Troll 2 is

Viewers shocked as traditional champion pummelled by mixed martial arts expert

DIT lecturer uses Korean martial arts to impart understanding of mass and velocity

Suogugong, or body shrinking, is one of the most challenging forms of kung fu

Baz Luhrmann breaks the bank with $10m an episode in Netflix’s hip-hop odyssey, while John Oliver has the last word

Paralympics Ireland’s appointee is one of a kind in martial arts

British actor appeared in three Bond films and BBC comedy Last of the Summer Wine

Limerick woman has not let the negative opinion of others detract from her passion

As a kid Eoin O’Brien had to face down a bully in a karate competition. Now he squares up to his heroes in martial-arts films

Tony Leung is properly enigmatic in this vandalised bio-pic of Ip Man, the maestro who trained Bruce Lee

Shaw built up a TV and film empire in a 90-year career

Can art boost mental health? Lauren Murphy speaks to artists taking part in January’s First Fortnight Festival to find out whether creating a song, a play – or a smiley-face cloud – is cathartic