PFL 3 2023 Regular Season: The Theater At Virgin Hotels; Las Vegas One of the things they say in sports is: “winning ugly is still winning”. And for the Professional Fighters League lightweight defending champion, Olivier-AubinMercier; “ugly” was the perfect game plan. The former UFC fighter Shane Burgos has always been dangerous until the final […]
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UFC 287: Kaseya Center; Miami, Florida Sometimes in athletics two- people are just the perfect foil for one another. And that can also change on a dime. A come from behind win, snatching a loss from the hands of victory. Both Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira doing their thing for the fourth-time overall. While the […]
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PFL 2: 2023 Regular Season: The Theater At Virgin Hotels, Las Vegas There’s been some changes in the Professional Fighters League as far as the women go. There’s no Kayla Harrison to deal with in the division. And the division is now ten-pounds lighter. The being said, their defending champ keeps her streak going. As […]
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PFL 1 2023 Regular Season, Season 5: The Theater At Virgin Hotels; Las Vegas They say in combat sports when you become champion, you automatically become 30% better. If that’s true the PFL may have some back-to-back champions at the end of the year. Week one saw both last years champions Rob Wilkinson and Brendan […]
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The O2 Arena: London After going 2-3 in his last five-fights, it would be expected that the returning Anthony Joshua would be hesitant. The former two-time unified heavyweight champion has a new coach and team trying to bring him back to the top of the big boy division. But in that journey, the first steps […]
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Bellator 293: Pechanga Resorts & Casino; Temecula, California When a fighter has power in his hands, a fight is never over. It’s the greatest equalizer. For two-rounds in his first-main event slot Marcelo Golm did everything right. He chopped away at Daniel James lead leg in hopes of making him a stationary target. When in […]
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PBC Boxing: MGM Grand Garden Arena; Las Vegas The problem when you’re at the top of the mountain is there is nowhere else to go. But despite Canelo Alvarez being a champion assassinator, there’s one specific fighter he hasn’t scrapped with. David Benavidez. Maybe it’s a Mexican thing. Perhaps it’s a feeling of not being […]
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UFC San Antonio: AT&T Center; San Antonio, Texas A leopard doesn’t change it’s spots. And athletes do what they do, no matter how hard they try to change. The book on Marlon Vera is to jump on him early and often because of how much of a slow starter he is. And that’s exactly what […]
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UFC 286: O2 Arena; London, England They say to be the man you must beat the man. But when you accomplish that in back-to-back fights, it’s quite the feet. Especially when you do it against a fighter like Kamaru Usman. The hype was getting to a high pitch on how high up the ladder of […]
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UFC Las Vegas: The Theater At Virgin Hotels, Nevada We have seen time and again in the history of combat sports where close friends refuse to fight one another. And if there was no agreement between champion Aljamain Sterling and Merab Dvalishvili we might see the UFC bantamweight title switch hands. Thanks in part to […]
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Bellator 292: SAP Center; San Jose, California There’s a time for all seasons. And in Bellator it’s safe to say legacies begin and end on this night. With UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev in his corner, Usman Nurmagomedov picked up his first title defense win. And he did so in a quick dominating way over […]
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UFC 285: T-Mobile Arena; Las Vegas If this was a court of law, the numbers are proof that you can’t argue. And they are all in Jon Jones favor. Making one think so much for ring rust. The walking through of Ciryl Gane he predicted came through. And the only damage he suffered was a […]
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UFC Vegas 70: UFC Apex, Las Vegas With light heavyweight Nikita Krylov coming down with what is reported as food-poisoning, the UFC needed to make some quick changes to its card. And the result from the new main event has created a small shakeup at 185-pounds. Brendan Allen in his first main-event slot showed just […]
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Bellator 291: 3Arena; Dublin, Ireland Every sports fan knows of something called rust. It’s usually what you have the first time back on the bike after a long time away. Well, Yaroslav Amosov was away from the cage for 624 days fighting to keep Vladimir Putin and Russia from storming through Ukraine. But in this […]
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