As soon we get some kind of increase to the bitcoin price and looking like a slight bullrun, something else comes up in the news to take all those gains made in less than a day. Back down to where we started $25,900. There is some ETF news for the beginning of a new month starting tomorrow which looks rather bullish so who knows what this will bring to the markets:  https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1696392472832717259 |
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Namajunas still has it. She is still young and despite the long break, the skills won't fade that easily.
Like Zhang, Fiorot can knock her out once Fiorot can land a solid punch but as long as Namajunas has the agility she can get in and out quickly like she always does. This will be her strategy because Fiorot can strike with KO intention. Namajunas throw a combo and takedown if she has an opportunity and if she sees Fiorot is not back away, she'll get out quickly.
I think the fight will last til the 5th round because of this
Spent more time on this match-up then any other fight before. Watching footage, predictions, differences in fight style encountering past opponents. It seems that nobody really knows what to expect in this one since Namajunas will be up in a weight-class moving from straw weight to flyweight. So fighting with that extra 10 pounds will change her fighting style in uncertain ways. It will definitely make her slower and getting older does do that to everyone. So I don't expect the old Rose in there against Fiorot. Actually Manon will feel stronger since she just fought a larger opponent in her last fight so seeing Rose in there she will feel like the beast. Many have also said if Namajunas doesn't get a knock out in the 1st round then it won't happen and she will get worn down. Because Fiorot is not easy to take down and I believe she has only been taken to the mat once in her career in her first fight from what I heard from the reviews before the pre-press conference happening soon. Maybe wait until the weigh-ins to see how Namajunas looks putting on that extra weight and if she looks any stronger. Which I have doubts she will. There has been two fights on the card that have been changed. One earlier in the week and the other today: Taylor Lapilus vs Muin Gafurov(had to withdraw due to visa issues) replaced with Caolan Loughran Lucas Almeida vs William Gomis(withdrawn due to medical issues) replaced with Yanis Ghemmouri https://www.mmamania.com/2023/8/29/23851370/cursed-ufc-paris-fight-card-gets-last-minute-double-switcheroo-mma |
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Sportsbet MOTD Special has won twice in a row now. So ralle14 is on a roll with his predictions! Don't want to miss this one with Ajax as they are very strong side when it comes to these competitions. Noticed there is a new one available on the ClubhouseTV market as well for the sponsored team Newcastle United. So some might want to check out this one too.  https://sportsbet.io/sports/sportsbet-specials/matches/today |
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The match is over Inter Miami 0 - 0 Nashville who bet for Inter Miami? 70% ball possession didn't change anything the final result is not as expected
We're not saying it's bad maybe just unlucky Inter Miami have done what they can it's just that Nashville defense is too sturdy
Inter Miami has 11 matches left and is still in 2nd place from the bottom. Inter Miami has 11 matches left and is still in 2nd place from the bottom.
This was a dull performance from Inter Miami since Messi joined the club earlier last month. I watched every game from his debut and him not scoring was surprising because Lionel scored in each and every match played with them since signing on. But they are still unbeaten with this draw so this is an accomplishment from a team which was dead last before this run since league cup championship. There was another team who had broke their 13 game winless streak last night with Toronto FC winning 3-1 against Philadelphia Union. I think this team is in need of a player like Messi to give them a resurgence as he had done with Inter Miami. |
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Following Japan, another Asian team secured their first victory in the FIBA World Cup. China outplays Angola to nail 1st FIBA World Cup win
MANILA, Philippines -- China used a furious second half to pull away from a Jekyll-and-Hyde Angola team as they notched their first win in the FIBA World Cup, 83-76, Thursday at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.
With this, they are the second Asian country to win a game at the basketball meet.
Congratulations to China for defeating Angola. Now, I have doubts about whether the Philippines can truly win against South Sudan tonight, considering that South Sudan defeated China by a significant margin, and yet China managed to beat Angola—a team that had previously defeated the Philippines. Caught the last quarter of this match and since China didn't have a victory before this match. They atleast got one before bowing out of the tournament. I bet on the following matches today with Japan being the heavy favorites according to their very low odds. I took the -10.5 pts handicap instead. Also since it is the other host nations last match, don't think they won't put up a competitive match. So I went with the total of the match going over 162.5pts. Which I found quite low considering having showed they can come from behind. So they do have that fighting spirit in not just giving up also they would want to show the home crowd they will not just lay down and die even if they know their hopes have evaporated in this tournament already. |
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Who can replace Sainz right now ? I mean , sure , Ferrari will leave Sainz from next year , but who could join ? I don't see Ferrari taking another young driver just to let him go after 2 years again. In my opinion , they should let Sainz to finish his contract but on the same time Ferrari should be able to provide a decent car for both of their drivers because no matter what driver you put in that Ferrari right now , none of them will do great  . The more we look at Ferrari the more we can see that they have real internal problems that fans and media don't know about them. It's still hard to say who will replace Sainz, Ferrari won't take on a top driver in the current situation just to have driven a Ferrari once. At the moment Sainz and Leclerc still have a contract until the end of 2024, I don't think Hamilton will drive his last two years in a Ferrari, the car doesn't meet his expectations and Sainz would have to be paid a lot. So it's going to be difficult for Ferrari to get a good driver, Perez doesn't have a contract for 2024 yet, but there's no reason for either of them to do that. First and foremost, the Ferrari team needs to improve internally in all areas.Especially with their pitstops. I remembered briefly while watching the race over this past weekend seeing the mishap by the pit crew forgetting what they were doing out there. Causing Leclerc not get his tyres on his car in time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5WGWXqoVNAThis was the extended version showing exactly what happened. That is unacceptable for any team in the F1 to do. They have faster tyre changes during practice let alone during a live race. You really can't blame the drivers for all the errors the Ferrari team has done to themselves this season. |
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Namajunas is known as a thug for a reason so you just can't fade her being away for an extended length of time. Her form is timeless and the training she has done makes diamonds from glass. Just watch this mini film I just found of when she was going up against Joanna:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US3Im0iWdLUActually my favorite fight of hers was when she fought Michelle Waterson-Gomez back in 2017 remember the Karate hottie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfj_4AcKYpk |
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Saudi Arabian football federation is making wave in the sport. They are experiencing a major upgrade and boost this year, they had a plan and target when they decided to sign Christiano Ronaldo and ever since they have been having sucess in signing big names. They can now influence even the best players in the world to Join them now coaches too, I am really impressed by how quick they have turned their football league and business around no doubts having Roberto Mancini is a major boost.
From a business point of view this is good for Saudi Arabia as their league is in the spotlight of the world, but there are times when football no longer sees fairness in buying some players and in the end it is just a question of money. Of course not all players were bought at fantastic prices when they joined the club there and only a few big names got extraordinary value. What Saudi Arabia is doing will definitely have an impact on the football industry and we will be presented with whoever has the most money, they are in power. Regardless of the future of football and the great hopes for the younger generation of sports lovers, especially football in Saudi Arabia and the presence of several world football stars can spur their enthusiasm to redeem European football. Now they have a different spirit with the presence of some of the world's top players and the world's view of Saudi Arabian football will definitely change in the end. The Arab Football Federation is ambitious to "overthrow European football."They attract a series of big stars in this summer transfer window. After the presence of Cristiano Ronaldo is a series of famous names. I heard they are planning to buy Liverpool striker Salah. The Salah deal, if it takes place for a fee of 150 million euros, will set a new transfer record in the history of Saudi football. Salah is also promised a higher salary than Ronaldo. This is just the beginning. Arab Football Federation will surely attract more famous players from Europe as they are not as restrictive as the European Football Federation's Financial Fair Play law. With financial potential, they can easily attract prominent players. Toppling the dominance of European football is only a matter of time. Heard of this transfer while watching a livefeed of the last Liverpool match and hadn't heard of before that. So didn't take too much concern about it until I did a search of any news and seen this headline from a few hours ago: "Mo Salah ‘likely’ to leave Liverpool ‘this week’ as Liverpool are told £25m ‘would be accepted’ for replacement" source: https://www.football365.com/news/liverpool-salah-transfer-likely-al-ittihad-bakayoko-replacementBut this salary seems to be more closer to what was mentioned here for a full transfer fee instead of replacement: https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/mohamed-salah-to-al-ittihad-saudi-club-prepare-162-million-bid-in-attempt-to-persuade-liverpool-to-sellThey have until Friday to make this deal happen before European transfers are closed as I believe the transfer window closes on the 20th next month for the Egyptian league. |
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Some good news today which sent cryptocurrency markets into a frenzy. https://decrypt.co/154119/grayscale-wins-appeal-against-sec-to-convert-bitcoin-trust-to-etfNot sure why as it is not an approval yet. "The SEC and Grayscale have 45 days to appeal Tuesday’s court decision. If that happens, the case could either be sent to the U.S. Supreme Court or be subject to an en banc panel review, where all of the court’s judges would weigh in during a rehearing."But a win is a win while bitcoin's price was at $25,900 before this news was released then after $27,900 and keeping steady for the time being. |
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More match of the day promo.   I already placed my bet on Galatasaray's special @3.00. They're currently up by one goal after the first leg and should overpower Molde. Molde doesn't look that solid on the road, so Galatasaray should be able to score at least two and hope Icardi gets one of the two.   Nice win for the match of the day special @3.00x you managed to grab @ralle14 ! Tuned in right when Icardi was stepping up to take the penalty at the 6 minute mark at the beginning of the match. Luckly they scored at the 3 minute into injury time to take the victory scoring their 2 goal required for the Sportsbet Special to hit nicely! @YuginKadoya Nice lengthy line-up for the Wnba action to keep continuing on for tonight. Watched the tail end of the Aces vs Liberty match last night and surprised that was their second loss after winning so many games. They were down by so many points in the last quarter and seeing the final score they were battling back just like the Philippines did in their FIBA match against Italy. |
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Just watched the fight between Manon Fiorot and Tabatha Ricci and she does have punching power. That was two years ago but that kind of skill just doesn't go away and she has only one loss on her record.
Was a Rose Namajunas fan for quite awhile but that was before her last fight against Carla Esparza which took the wind out of her sails.
Don't know if it was her suffering exhaustion physically but she just didn't move in that fight for what she was known for in the past.
This one I am looking forward to see if Rose can come out of these problems and return to the old Namajunas we all have witnessed in those amazing fights such as @jakelyson has mentioned against the current champion Zhang Weili.
Gane vs Spivac should be a grappling matchup and see it either ending in a submission or a decision.
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Just by comparing their MMA records, it appears Spivac does have the advantage but it's not what the bookmakers are seeing. Gane is their favorite which I agree also despite how humiliating his performance with against Jones. Gane will still be using his reach advantage and he is still faster in my belief.
Fiorot has impressive KO power for a woman but I bet Namajunas will still submit her. She must have found it amusing to see Zhang whom she had beaten twice now hold the belt she won and defended many times. I think she is up to getting it from Zhang for the 3rd time.
Same with me. Jones just embarrassed Gane and him sitting on the mat in disbelief of what happened afterwards can't leave the minds of fans no matter how long ago the fight was. I will be going with Spivac due to the last time I saw him fight he was dominate and prepared as a fighter should be. About Rose, I don't know if she could come back from such a bad performance in her last fight. They basically didn't do much and if we get that same fight in the Fiorot fight, then I think she has just lost the passion to fight anymore. |
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Shavkat Rakhmonov has avoided this just fighting in March and I haven't seen him yet, I think that this has to happen Shavkat Rakhmanov needs to fight somebody anyone, and for me maybe Gilbert Burns because this guy is really asking for a fight or Colby Covington because Khamzat Chimaev have already goes up the division to fight Paulo Costa man no one wants to fight Shavkat Rakmanov.
Was also thinking of this fighter after watching ONE over the weekend, due to somebody in the sports chat room I was in during UFC having mentioned about this MMA championship with mostly Thai and some Russian fighters. Shavkat hasn't fought somebody in the UFC for a very long time and there has been talk of him fighting soon. Another name which I haven't heard of was Rose Namajunas since she fought Carla Esparza back in May 2022. She is headlined in the UFC event for France in September which was mentioned during the promotions for this past weekend. Now that is something for the thug Rose fans to be looking forward too coming up. |
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Noticed the qualifiers for TI happening earlier today with Team Secret up against OG. It was a fairly short match ending in a 2:0 result for Team Secret as @passwordnow has mentioned above. Plenty more matches to come before October. For those who are Valorant fans look who decided to make an appearance at one of their tournament matches: https://escorenews.com/en/valorant/news/50348-elon-musk-and-ben-affleck-spotted-visiting-valorant-champions-2023Didn't know Elon and Affleck were big enough fans of any Esports to attend a live event. Maybe some interest in purchasing a team such as Shaq had done. |
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There was no shock at the end result, Max got the win as always, no matter what happened during the race, he kept his lead and just won it as expected. I am guessing that as long as he finishes the races with no crash, he will just keep on winning. This makes it 10 for the season if I am not wrong, and that breaks the record Vettel had, and that's another record Max broken. Unless something major happens, this dude could get to 8 titles as well, he will have just 5 left after this, and 2026 is the season big changes will happen, if Red Bull can stay even just a bit decent during that time, I bet that he will break that 8 title record without a doubt, he is unreal.
Truth be told he will surpass Vettel having the record with the next race. This one was a real mess from beginning to end with Leclerc retiring his car from an earlier incident. And Perez getting a penalty from the restart of the remaining 5 laps to conclude the race after the red flag from the collision into the barrier. Gasly moving into the podium place due to that 5 second penalty to Checo moved him out at the checkered flag of getting a third place finish. Overall, no one can say it was a boring race. Because if you saw it that way you are certainly not watching the race and just going by the podium and finishing places. |
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Wow! Didn't expect both matches in the special to fall flat with a draw from Arsenal and Brighton to lose like that. Very frustrating day yesterday for any bettors in the EPL who backed the favorites. Today has Newcastle and they haven't disappointed so far with being the newly sponsored team for Sportsbet,io! So let's back them in today's match to put up a good fight against Liverpool! Here are the Match of the day markets for the ClubhouseTV & Sportsbet specials:  https://sportsbet.io/sports/sportsbet-specials/matches/todayWill be backing a Newcastle win for today's match! |
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I forgot this event was starting really early because it was in Singapore, so I only managed to watch main event between Max Holloway and Korean Zombie.
It was amazing KO win by Holloway but I think Zombie was really good up until third round when he started to attack without thinking or defense.
This was amazing carrier for Korean Zombie and I am sad to see him officially announcing retirement.
I completely forgot that it was in singapore so I was exposed to a lot of spoilers until I watched the whole main event. It was a really good event. The main match Max Halloway - Korean Zombie match was really great and it was a dramatic ending. Korean Zombie ended his UFC journey by having two heavy defeats, first with Volkanovski and then with Max, by fighting fearlessly in the halloway fights and even knowing that he would lose. In this event, Max really showed a lot of respect but in the last round Korean Zombie had nothing to do but attack. Max Halloway never shy away from such fights and provided a very hard TKO hit. Surprised many forgot the time difference and not realizing it started so early then completely missed it. Here the early prelims were 5 in the morning. The main event was around 9, so it was understandable many were already out the door beginning their day. Great for Max Holloway saying how hard he was and being graceful in his post fight interview with standing up toe to toe with the Korean Zombie: Max Holloway reflects on KO win against 'The Korean Zombie' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5UDub_kDkHere was the "long ass walkout song" Max was telling everybody about from the above interview but it was the best in the business: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y02RfA63KmEIt was like being at a rock concert and was a really great thing to witness. Greatness from TKZ even if not getting the outcome he wanted but a career to remember going against the best of the best. |
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