Bellator 283: Emerald Queen Casino; Tacoma, Washington It was far from “pretty”; however, Jason Jackson is closing in on his main objective. To win Bellator MMA gold at 170. The win streak he’s riding right now has improved to six. All by the way come via unanimous decisions. And those followed a pair of split-decisions, […]
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UFC on ABC 3: UBS Arena; Elmont, Long Island Taking the UFC featherweight title off of Alexander Volkanovski is going to be anything but a walk in the park. Especially since he’s now snatched the number one spot on the pound-for-pound list. He’s what you call locked in right now. However, the path to the […]
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UFC Vegas 58: UFC Apex, Las Vegas So it appears that the hype may be real on another surging young star in the making for the UFC. Rafael Fiziev passed his first real test by finishing Rafael dos Anjos. But where does Fiziev belong in the division. Ideally, you’d like the young to eat the […]
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UFC 276: T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas While it may not have been fireworks, or even looked pretty; the UFC’s Middleweight title will for now remain in Australia with Israel Adesanya. Yes; Adesanya’s a step better than the rest of the division. However; thanks to Jan Blachowicz the books been written how to beat him. It’s […]
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UFC Vegas 57: UFC Apex; Las Vegas, Nevada There’s a very good reason why American Top Team founder Dan Lambert wasn’t really looking forward to Arman Tsarukyan and Mateusz Gamrot fighting right now. He knew better than anyone just how mirror-like the teammates are. However, it makes the lightweight future looks as bright as the […]
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Bellator 282: Mohegan Sun; Uncasville, Connecticut It’s not that Gegard Mousasi did anything wrong per se. It’s just Johnny Eblen in doing everything right became the new king that arrived in dominating fashion. And with a clean sweep unanimous decision of 50-45 adds his name to the long list of American Top Team Champions. Half […]
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Hulu Theater: Madison Square Garden, NYC The fight was billed as “into deep waters”. But in the battle between Artur Beterbiev and Joe Smith Jr quite the antithesis happened. In just five-minutes 19-seconds total (2:19 of round two), Artur Beterbiev remained perfect TKO’ing the Long Islander. TWO ROUNDS. ALL IT TOOK #BeterbievSmith ? pic.twitter.com/9vy4anejQA — […]
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UFC Austin: Moody Center; Austin, Texas There sometimes comes a time in an athlete’s career when the bridesmaid becomes the bride. Or at least gets the opportunity to walk down the aisle. That’s looking like the case in the UFC’s Featherweight division, as it appears Josh Emmett is nearing a title shot. And he made […]
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UFC 275: Singapore Indoor Stadium Connecticut’s Glover Teixeira‘s run atop the UFC light heavyweight division has come to a hard fought end. And in Jiri Prochazka, there’s a new king at 205. The fifth round surprising submission came with just 28-seconds left in the fight. The instant classic back-and-forth battle has given the company it’s […]
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Marvel Stadium; Melbourne, Australia Game plans are sometimes hard to stick to. In sports, when one manages that feat, it means their opponent wasn’t as lucky. Hall Of Fame wrestler Ric Flair has a long time saying. It goes; “to be the man, you must beat the man. But to be the man and to […]
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UFC Vegas 56: UFC Apex; Las Vegas In an important heavyweight battle between seventh and eighth ranked fighters, Jairzinho Rozenstruik and Alexander Volkov it was a quick finish for the Russian. And with that Alexander Volkov holds his ground in the rankings. His seventh main event slot matches where he sits in the rankings, at […]
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Barclay’s Center; Brooklyn, New York One’s belief in oneself is a powerful machine. Like they say, “fake it till you make it”. Well despite his pre-fight prediction not coming true, and his night ending badly; Rolando Romero, has no reason to hang his head. For the first couple of rounds there was a combination of […]
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UFC Vegas 55: UFC Apex, Las Vegas Forty is not the new thirty, at least in the case of former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Holly Holm. Fighting for the first time in 19-months, she looked every day of her age. At least defensively in space. And when that starts to go in combat sports; the slide […]
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What Jermell Charlo‘s accomplished like him or not, is impressive. To go down the list of every champion ever at junior middleweight and realize he’s the only one to be undisputed in the four-belt era is also a tad shocking. But with this massive pinnacle being reached, what is Charlo’s plan now? Now that “Iron […]
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