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Thanks Wand. 

I had forgotten that Spence vs Garcia was this weekend. 

There's some live boxing on Sky Sports Arena at 7pm. 

Golden Contract Finals. 

I wouldn't mind if Rizin signed Anderson. He'd be a suitable special attraction for their NYE shows. 

I give a fuck about big Glenn. 

Oh dear. 

McCrory Tweeted out that Tyson should "grow up" when news broke about his comeback earlier in the year.

16 minutes ago, wandshogun09 said:

No way! Tokoro is still going? I was wondering what became of him in that Top 50 fights thread when I reviewed his fight with Abel Cullum. Was sure he must be done by now considering his age and near 50/50 record. 

He last fought in July of 2017. Horiguchi stopped him in less than 2 minutes. 

You know what Sakakibara is like. He'd book his own mother to fight a prime version of Fedor if it made him a quick buck. 

Shinobu Ota will make his MMA debut in Rizin on New Year's Eve. Ota won a silver medal in Greco Roman wrestling at the 2016 Olympic games,

His opponent will be 43 year old Hideo Tokoro. 

The line-up for next week's card.

Other than Magomedov's debut, I am pretty indifferent to this one.

Why didn't Bas Rutten vs Warpath make the list? 

I don't think today's casual boxing fans have much - if any - knowledge of Foreman's comeback in the 90s. From what I have read, uninformed boxing fans fall into two camps on Tyson. Namely:

1) "Even now, he would be able to beat Fury, Joshua, etc" - These fans may have watched a few of his fights on Youtube. They are probably unaware of Tyson's losses to McBride and Williams in the mid-2000s. 

2) "He was never that good to begin with" - These fans are just parroting what some dweeb on Twitter or Reddit has posted. 

ESPN are now ranking fighters on drawing power in addition to merit. 

Call me old-fashioned, but I preferred it when "star power" wasn't factored into these rankings. I have no issue with Izzy and Khabib's rankings, but other than those two as well as Usman and perhaps Figgy, none of the others would make my top 10 if these ranking were based on skill and recent achievements.

WMMA still has some way to catch up to the men's game, McGregor has done fuck all of note in MMA since 2016, Jones's last two fights saw him go to the wire with a pair of very ordinary fighters in Reyes and Santos, Chimaev is unproven at the highest level, and it took 3 fights for Miocic to get the best of an aging plodder in DC. 

Volkanovski would easily be in my top 5 if it was based on actual fighting. Cejudo would also be up there as well, whereas Whittaker, Gaethje and Yan would make my top 10. 

The heavyweight division is dire though. 

It has a very shallow talent pool, and the standard of competition hasn't evolved much over the years. So when a decent heavyweight does come along, once in a blue moon, they are able to maintain competitive at the top-end of their division for longer than fighters in more competitive divisions. That is why the likes of Arlovski, Kongo, Sergei, etc continue to be featured on the main cards of the two major US promotions into their 40s. 

That said, Overeem has done a very good job of turning his career around in recent years. I wouldn't begrudge him winning the title at all. 

34 minutes ago, Egg Shen said:

Ive been thinking myself. Randy Couture headlined UFC 43 and 44. There has to be others.

 

How the hell did I forget about that example? 

Ortiz also headlined both UFC 50 and 51. 

9 hours ago, wandshogun09 said:

F'n, sorry Ebb. 

Fixed. 

Here is my wanking material for the evening:

1 hour ago, Egg Shen said:

he could, i'll probably put money on Sanchez when that comes around cause hes the kind of guy who can beat anyone on his night.

That's Pitbull through to the final then 😉

Yan vs Sterling is set to be postponed. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CH4_XtzDQzM/?utm_source=ig_embed

Pitbull vs McKee would be the most exciting bout Bellator have hosted in years. 

Now that I have said that, watch Sanchez throw a spanner in the works.

Figgy rules:

I noticed that Caldwell couldn't lift his right shoulder after the fight. So, I figured out that the pressure had been applied to the shoulder before McKee confirmed that was the case in the post-fight press conference.