PFL 3: 2024 Regular Season: Wintrust Arena; Chicago, Illinois First it was at heavyweight. This time out the Russians dominate again but in welterweight. It’s far too early to say who will walk away with a gold belt and a million dollars, However, things do look interesting. Shamil Musaev stunned the Windy City crowd by […]
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UFC 296: T-Mobile Arena; Las Vegas, Nevada The 170-pound division across all combat sports is looked at as a legacy division. (Although in boxing, it’s 147-pounds). But after a dud of a main event in the UFC’s final act of 2023, welterweight could be in trouble. This is far from the first or last fight […]
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Bellator 301: Wintrust Arena; Chicago, Illinois They may have truly saved the best for last overall. Bellator 301’s main card ended where two-divisions flipped. But the welterweight one saved a record belonging to Khabib Nurmagomedov. As the title changes hands from Yaroslav Amosov in his second-defense to Jason Jackson we can learn some things right […]
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Combat Sports: Oh to be young again. Something no matter where you stand politically or otherwise, it’s the sole thing the entire planet can agree upon. It comes with a cost though. When you’re “young and dumb”, sometimes you just don’t know better. But pumping the breaks on rushing that talent to title contension is […]
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Bellator 298: Sanford Pentagon: Sioux Falls, SD Sometimes a fighter needs a lopsided win to get where he wants to go. It wasn’t a completely lopsided affair, but after a monstrous win for him, Logan Storley makes two statements. In front of his hometown crowd the 30-year old who has dropped two-decisions to champion Yaroslav […]
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PFL 6: 2023 Regular Season; Overtime Elite Arena: Atlanta, Georgia Well with the PFL 2023 regular season closing, the repeat chance is still alive for some defending champions. But closing the show was Olivier AubinMercier with a third-round knee. In doing so he crumbled fellow Canadian, Anthony Romero then put an exclamation point on it […]
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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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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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UFC 278: Vivint Arena; Salt Lake City, Utah In the world of thunderous head kicks out of nowhere, move over Holly Holm; you now have company. With the inevitable setting in Leon Edwards head kicked his way into the record books as well by grabbing victory from defeat. He avenged his loss to Kamaru Usman […]
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PFL 8: Motorpoint Arena; Cardiff, Wales We may have seen the end of a legend in MMA. Or at least the realization that that day is coming quickly. Rory MacDonald, fell shocking to 2-4 in the PFL. And it appears he has lost the zip to his fastball. Perhaps all the cage wars finally are […]
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Bellator 284: Sanford Pentagon; Sioux Falls, South Dakota Goiti Yamauchi, like many in the MMA community grew up idolizing the “Gracie” mystique. In his 33rd-fight he finally first main event slot and it came against Neiman Gracie. So what happens when a pair of Brazilian jiu-jitsu blackbelts clash? The fight pretty much stays on the […]
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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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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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AT&T Stadium; Texas Boxing’s welterweight division is now just one-fight away from being an undisputed division. Errol Spence is the kingpin at 147. However; should God duplicate the parting of the Red Sea, and actually allow Spence versus Terence Crawford to happen it might be the closest coin-flip fight ever. Although from early on Spence […]
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