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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An Original Who’s Seen It All There comes a time in every athlete’s career when they must take a hard look at the facts, and make changes. Angela Hill is now at that fork in the road. She’s 37-years old and in an underrated and tough strawweight division, the outlook isn’t as pretty as her […]
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UFC Vegas 54: UFC Apex; Las Vegas One-half of a possible light heavyweight rematch has his ticket punched after a tough injury. Aleksandar Rakic, who was doing slightly better than former champion Jan Blachowicz in their main event fight, took a step back and blew out his knee. With that twist of fate, Blachowicz now […]
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Bellator 281: OVO Arena; Wembley With Bellator’s welterweight champion Yaroslav Amosov still fighting for Ukraine against Russia; the company decided it was time for an interim strap. And for five-rounds what happened in the cage is hardly a shock. MVP was grounded by Storley. The 35-year old sniper switched stances and used his distance to […]
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UFC 274: Footprint Center; Phoenix, Arizona The only two-times Justin Gaethje has been submitted in his career have been in undisputed UFC lightweight title fights. First to Khabib Nurmagomedov, and now to Charles Oliveira. With the title being vacated because of the weight miss by “Do Bronx”, the belt belongs to nobody. Oliveira is as […]
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Bellator 280: Accor Arena; Paris, France To take a belt from a champion, one has to make a big statement. And in front of his Paris hometown crowd, Cheick Kongo didn’t make any statements, save one. He still can’t stop a solid wrestler, let alone an All-American champion. Ryan Bader‘s performance was dominant but not […]
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Madison Square Garden, New York City A lot of time fights just don’t live up to the hype. Especially when the term “making history” is thrown at them. But this time it did, and then some. In ten, fifteen, twenty years down the road THIS will be looked at as the fight that leveled up […]
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UFC Vegas 53: UFC Apex, Las Vegas If you placed this version of Marlon Vera next to his Ultimate Fighter Latin America self; you wouldn’t recognize him. The 29-year old Ecuadorian has grown leaps and bounds. Now the question becomes, just how high is Vera’s ceiling. After demolishing Rob Font for five-rounds the duo has […]
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Bellator 279: Blaisdell Center; Honolulu, Hawaii Well, it took the “GWOAT” to put an end to Bellator’s streak of champions dropping their belts at two. Cristiane Justino once again faced former two-division boxing champion, Arlene Blencowe. And although the statistics say one thing; make no mistake about it, Cyborg was pushed by Blencowe. For five-rounds […]
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Wembley Stadium: London, England In his first-time fighting back in the United Kingdom in nearly four-years, Tyson Fury ended his second WBC title defense in thunderous fashion. After pawing out his big left jabs, it was a right uppercut that floored Dillian Whyte at 2:59 of round-six. UNBELIEVABLE ? ? @trboxing #FuryWhyte pic.twitter.com/NNdGfiAs8g — DAZN […]
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Bellator 278: Blaisdell Arena; Honolulu, Hawaii The saying is the third times the charm, but that’s not always the case. For the former U.S. Marine “Girl-Rilla”, it took one more as Liz Carmouche is finally a champion. However, the third ever Bellator female flyweight champion does have some controversy involved. She needed to make the […]
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