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[notblox1]

This will be very interesting fight because it brings together two truly brutal champions and of course this fight will determine which of them deserves to be the true champion.
Demetrious Johnson vs Anatoly Malykhin and both are currently champions in their respective divisions, Demetrious himself is the ONE Flyweight MMA World Champion while Malykhin is the holder of 3 titles in 3 divisions who previously won his third title after defeating Reinier de Ridder.
Both of them will give really amazing fight because these two fighters both have quite tough fighting styles.

This is very interesting fighting format, but how can this two guys from different weight categories fight against each other?
Demetrious Johnson is Bantamweight category and Anatoly Malykhin is Light Heavyweigh category.
This is gigantic difference in weight and size, and I dont understand how this can be approved.

[TopTort777]

This will be very interesting fight because it brings together two truly brutal champions and of course this fight will determine which of them deserves to be the true champion.
Demetrious Johnson vs Anatoly Malykhin and both are currently champions in their respective divisions, Demetrious himself is the ONE Flyweight MMA World Champion while Malykhin is the holder of 3 titles in 3 divisions who previously won his third title after defeating Reinier de Ridder.
Both of them will give really amazing fight because these two fighters both have quite tough fighting styles.

This is very interesting fighting format, but how can this two guys from different weight categories fight against each other?
Demetrious Johnson is Bantamweight category and Anatoly Malykhin is Light Heavyweigh category.
This is gigantic difference in weight and size, and I dont understand how this can be approved.

I guess that is why they put grappling only as a first round rule (Johnson won some gold medals among bjj brown belts). This is where size does not matter when you can leg lock your opponent and end fight in less than 10 sec. The Internet is full of wrestling/grappling videos when smaller guys win much larger opponents. Starting from round two, I think it will be over for Demetrious, when Anatoly will be allowed to use his heavy punches. However, Anatoly now is a middleweight +30kg difference is still a lot, but not as if it was flyweight vs heavyweight. But what I dont understand is round 5 - capoeira As if it is a joke and promotion expect the fight not to last till that round

Or, it was April 1 joke

P.S. how is your mma video gaming experience ?

[notblox1]

PFL is finally back with another great event!
Main event is fight of big heavyweight guys Ante Delija and Valentin Moldavsky.
I watched Delija fight several times and I think he is training with legendary Mirko CroCop, and he is favorite to win in this fight.
He has a reach advantage and he is heavier than Moldavsky but anything can happen in heavyweight category with one good punch.


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[Hirose UK]

This will be very interesting fight because it brings together two truly brutal champions and of course this fight will determine which of them deserves to be the true champion.
Demetrious Johnson vs Anatoly Malykhin and both are currently champions in their respective divisions, Demetrious himself is the ONE Flyweight MMA World Champion while Malykhin is the holder of 3 titles in 3 divisions who previously won his third title after defeating Reinier de Ridder.
Both of them will give really amazing fight because these two fighters both have quite tough fighting styles.

This is very interesting fighting format, but how can this two guys from different weight categories fight against each other?
Demetrious Johnson is Bantamweight category and Anatoly Malykhin is Light Heavyweigh category.
This is gigantic difference in weight and size, and I dont understand how this can be approved.

Indeed, this is interesting because it brings together two great fighters who currently hold championship belts in their respective divisions, but you are right that they have difference in weight which will be difficult to meet in the near future.
And damn it turns out that all of this was an April Fool joke issued directly by the official ONE Championship account, many of us ONE Championship fans were fooled by the news about this joke.
Only time there is chance to bring them together is in the future when Demetrious Johnson decides to move up to the heavyweight division by moving up in weight.
But it will definitely take more than 2 years like what McGregor did now who has more weight, regarding that fight I consider really take it seriously.
I don't know what ONE Championship did on their official account regarding jokes like this, but it really surprised and confused many people.

[notblox1]

Legendary Fedor Emelianenko was at the PFL main event in corner of Valentin Moldavsky.
I expected Ante Delija to win in this fight but I was surprise by Moldavsky performance and quick KO win in the first round.
This was a total domination by Valentin Moldavsky and I want to see him fight again soon.
You can watch full video of this fight: https://youtu.be/R2BkzqynWa4

[pawel7777]

Legendary Fedor Emelianenko was at the PFL main event in corner of Valentin Moldavsky.
I expected Ante Delija to win in this fight but I was surprise by Moldavsky performance and quick KO win in the first round.

Moldavsky was actually a favourite of that fight with odds of around x1.7 (moneyline: -142), but yeah, Delija, despite being only 1 year older was much more experience, with almost twice as many fights on his record as Moldavsky (with similar win ratio). Plus, he had a height, reach and weight advantage, so looked like he could handle the Russian fighter.
And to be fair, it looked like Delija got hurt earlier in the round, either it was some unfortunate injury or a result of a leg kick in the first exchange. He suddenly backed against the fence and was looking at his corner as if something was wrong.
But still, a legit and important win for Moldavsky.

[notblox1]

Moldavsky was actually a favourite of that fight with odds of around x1.7 (moneyline: -142), but yeah, Delija, despite being only 1 year older was much more experience, with almost twice as many fights on his record as Moldavsky (with similar win ratio).

I like placing my bets more on underdogs and I never watches Moldavsky in the octagon so I didnt have the full picture.
Ante Delija was distracted by something in the beginning of the fight, he looked at his team members and he looked confused.
Maybe there was some personal issues with him, but he didnt look normal to me in this night.

Time to move on to the next event already, PFL 2 is scheduled for this weekend with Kasanganay vs Polizzi as main event.
Patricky Pitbull vs Clay Collard is on the same card, and there are other interesting fights, so I am expecting great MMA weekend with PFL and UFC 300.

[Hirose UK]

It looks like this year we will see one of the great Muay Thai fighters who has always been attached to ONE Championship able to fight again after previously suffering an injury which postponed his fight against Takeru Segawa.
He will return to training kickboxing and fighting to be able to show that he has completely recovered and will not experience any problems related to his previous injury.
If in this fight he can win, Rodtang will really be able to return to his postponed fight against Takeru Segawa.
This is great fight if it can be done because it will provide an opportunity to fight for the ONE Championship flyweight kickboxing championship belt, maybe the fight could be as brutal as when Rodtang faced Superlek.



source : https://twitter.com/Beyond_Kick/status/1776187228898685275?t=Ae4p-XoazGA9fjAEE4a4cg&s=19

[notblox1]

PFL is back this week with PFL3 regular season.
I am really interested to see more Magomed Umalatov in main event against Andrey Koreshkov.
He has a perfect MMA record 14-0 and he is not a young fighter but I never watched him before.
More good fights on this card with Neiman Gracie, Bubba Jenkins and few other fighters.

[cygan]

at the next ksw event there will be a total of 10 cage fights and two of them will be for the respective belts.
current champion Adrian Bartosiński (6-0-0) and Andrzej Grzebyk (5-3-0) will meet for the welterweight title and Robert Ruchała (6-1-0) and Patryk Kaczmarczyk (5-2-0) will face each other for the interim featherweight belt in the cage.
you can see all the other cage duels in the graphic:

[notblox1]

I just heard the latest news that Francis Ngannou 15 month old baby boy has suddenly died, so my condolences to him and his family 
This must affect him a lot with any upcoming events they planned for PFL Africa and his other fights but this is not important now, and I hope to see him back stronger from this.
Ngannou posted two heart breaking posts on his social media profile @francis_ngannou

[notblox1]

Bellator is back with another Champions Series event in Paris, France.
I really like the main event Patchy Mix vs Magomed Magomedov in bantamweight championship fight, but there are other interesting fights to watch on this fight card.
This is a nice warm up for upcoming UFC event and boxing mega fight Usyk vs Fury all happening this week.


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[TopTort777]

I hope MMA community is familiar with Mark Kerr. I have recently found that there is going to be release a film about him and MMA/UFC. The Smashing Machine. And the Dwayne Johnson is going to be performing as a Mark. Just check how similar he looks to Mark. Btw, current heavyweight boxing champion Olexander Usyk will also be performing in this movie. He will play a role of Igor Vovchanchyn, who was also an icon of early MMA.

Honestly, I am very happy that his movie will be released. Because I like the spirit of early MMA, where there were more brutality, more huge guys, more of everything. And MMA wasnt all about money like it is today.

[inthelongrun]

I hope MMA community is familiar with Mark Kerr. I have recently found that there is going to be release a film about him and MMA/UFC. The Smashing Machine. And the Dwayne Johnson is going to be performing as a Mark. Just check how similar he looks to Mark. Btw, current heavyweight boxing champion Olexander Usyk will also be performing in this movie. He will play a role of Igor Vovchanchyn, who was also an icon of early MMA.

Honestly, I am very happy that his movie will be released. Because I like the spirit of early MMA, where there were more brutality, more huge guys, more of everything. And MMA wasnt all about money like it is today.

Wow that's cool. Dwayne Johnson is perfect resemblance since he's big and muscular. Glad to see 2-division undisputed champion, Oleksandr Usyk included in this movie. I will watch this one for sure.

I used to watch these old guys when I was still a kid. I watched Kerr winning the UFC tournament. I think it was prior to Mark Coleman winning the UFC tournament back to back, beating former tournament winner Dan Severn. I was curious why Coleman did not participate later but maybe him and Kerr were friends or stablemates. It would've been lit, Kerr was younger, bigger and most likely stronger but Coleman has the championship experience.

[TopTort777]

Btw, if you look on the picture at the guy wearing baseball cap backwards - that is Mark Coleman (performed by Ryan Bader - current Bellator heavyweight champion) He usually wore cap like that Actually, it is surprising how little MMA movies there are, since MMA and UFC are very popular in the US. There are so many fighters, that deserve a close to documentary-biographical movie. I would rather that kind of movies, instead of billion budget super heroes movies.

[cygan]

in 2 weeks the next ksw event will take place in poland. there will be 2 cage fights in which it is about a belt defense. on the one hand the champion Jakub Wikłacz (5-1-1) and Sebastian Przybysz (9-2-1) fight for the bantamweight title and the english champion Philip De Fries (10-0-1) tries to defend his heavyweight belt against the brazilian cage fighter Augusto Sakai.
more fights you can see from the graphic:

[notblox1]

Finally we have MMA back in action this weekend with very interesting PFL 4 event.
This is going to be third fight of Thiago Santos since he left UFC and he is a big underdog against Denis Goltsov.
Main event is another heavyweight fight Moldavsky vs Vassell and they are always interesting to watch.
I see more interesting fights in prelims so they are worth checking out.


http://pflmma.com/

[notblox1]

Bellator is back in action this weekend with another event from Dublin, Ireland.
I like the main event Kuramagomedov vs Jackson, but co-main fight will be special for home crowd when they support Paul Hughes against Bobby King.
There are 14 fights in total so plenty of MMA action to watch, and good time for everyone in Europe to watch live.


https://bellator.com/

[notblox1]

We have nice warmup for this week MMA events with PFL 6 in regular season.
I am interested in watch Magomed Umalatov that has perfect MMA record 15-0 against Brennan Ward, but there re other good fights on this card.
Main event is Loughnane vs Gonzales, with  Loughnane as heavy favorite to win.


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[Hirose UK]

Main event is Loughnane vs Gonzales, with  Loughnane as heavy favorite to win.

Main card between Loughnane vs Gonzales was really great fight, both of them fought with great ferocity and we can see how this fight ended more quickly even though there was controversy that occurred.
As expected in this fight, it shows that Loughnane won the fight, it all ended with knockout and we can see how hard Loughnane knee was when it hit Gonzales head and caused quite worrying wound.
Gonzales looked very disappointed with the referee decision which stated that he could not return to fight and there were protests but it was all in vain, the referee took measured decision which forced Gonzales to suffer another defeat.

However, the results of this fight reportedly eliminated Gonzales from the 2024 PFL featherweight tournament and Loughnane victory made him the featured fighter in featherweight for this regular season.