Egg Shen

Yeah, it was probably the start time that I was happy about more than anything Another note, Boxxer did a great job of setting up the next fights last night. They clearly made a concious effort to plant seeds going forward. I saw some "what is this? Pro Wrestling" posts on Twitter, but it always works for. Its always a good thing to know where fighters are heading, especially the guys further down the card.

The draw cost me about a hundred notes at the bookies though Happy to see Ben Whittaker somewhat humbled. He clearly came in to try and create a bunch of new viral highlights but Leon Willings pretty much forced him into fighting conventionally by the end. Enjoyed it. Riley/Lawal was a dud. * from Meltzer. Sunday Boxing is great.

Fucking hell, I was looking forward to it, but I wasn't expecting it to play out like that. Absolute war. Give em 9 months off then lets seen it for Christmas, the rematch will be a big one.

Cheers for the headsup

Manon Fiorot looking like death warmed up on the scale:

It's another solid night of fights. Special mention to Marc Chamberlain, going from being a York Hall regular to landing what looks like regular spots on these Saudi mega cards. According to the broadcast last time out he's Uncle Turki's favorite fighter, the lad's landed on his feet.

Whatever the fella's name is, i'm behind him. Whittaker had a pop at the main man Andy Clarke at the presser and that's something you don't do:

The Hives are a tremendous live band. @textonlysucks to read about your Pixies experience though. The only time ive experienced anything close to that is the couple of times ive been to Hyde Park, but that's purely based on how quiet the shows are, i'll never go back there.

was some chat about it in the Boxing News thread, but big Boxxer show going down on Sunday evening, pretty deep looking card. Worth noting this is going to be on Sky Showcase too, so no Sky Sports subscription needed. Pretty much have interest in every fight on the card, cracking stuff from Boxxer. Not to be outdone, couple good shows taking place over in America. Top Rank with this tonight (on Sky Sports): then Amazon Prime presents their first PBC PPV offering on Saturday night (unfortunately not on Amazon over here, Fite TV has it). Some weekend of boxing. Happy Easter.

Watched it up until the Alfie Davis fight then got sidetracked and didn't go back to it, standard. I'll keep the thread alive though just to keep people upto date. One note though, they had completely altered the production and got shot of Big John and Josh Thomson which was a huge improvement (though Big John pops up in the Din Thomas role, which he's good at).

That's the thing though, they are running the same amount of shows now that they were running in 2014, same schedule. I dont have any issue with the contender style cards either, its the just the setting that sucks. Remember the Pearl at the Palms shows in Vegas? Put them back in there if they have to stay in Vegas, a little cauldron like atmosphere, with proper fans watching. There has to be thousands of venues like that in America the UFC can utilise. Do this: Instead, we get this: Its just depressing. More and more fighters are speaking out now, people have had enough. Keep the Apex for TUF and the actual Contender Series. Also, the UFC hasn't been in Milwaukee since 2018. You stick home town fighter Rose Namajunas on there and tweak the undercard and i'm sure they sell it out, the arena there holds 10,000

All it would take is a slight shuffling of the deck and they could hold every show in front of an audience again. They've done it before.

A man after my own heart:

Easy one for me, because i've been repeating it for years. Basically, lying down after i've eaten food. I know a food coma is coming, I know i'm not gonna get more than 20 minutes into the movie/sporting event i was planning on watching, but I do it anyway and I never finish anything. Stupid.

yeah, gonna grab a ticket on the weekend, cracking bill that.

Yep, like this one. Lots of crowd pleasers on this.

Yeah great win which topped a really good card. This whole trying to put together more 50/50 fights thing is working out well.

Yeah its on Easter Sunday too which is nice. Im also fancying Wardley to do abit of a number on Clarke.

Great stuff, I like the points system. Properly means they are going to lean into the bragging rights and all that. Cant wait

Had been thinking the whole time this was slumming it at the Apex, absolutely delighted to read it's not. This will do me just nice on Easter Sunday with a big bag of mini eggs.

Take Anderson/Moore out and I think you have a cracking main card. Just pretend Pitbull/Kennedy is the main event then hop into bed.

The official fight day graphic, few changes from the initial post:

A new era for Bellator. Thought i'd let the old thread go and start a new one for this new Championship Series the PFL are keeping together. Can't help but feel this is the promotion of unwanted toys now as a bunch of the Bellator roster has moved into the PFL for the upcoming seasons, and only a couple of up and coming PFL fighters appear on this show, it does feel like leftover fighters. Still, holding a Bellator belt now will lead you into the big Bellator vs. PFL shows so there's a goal beyond the belt now which I think is pretty cool. I'm interested to see if this is basically Bellator with PFL production which would be great, because I think Bellator's production was a big reason why the show wasn't translating well to TV (coupled with the fact that the fights rarely delivered). Hopefully they keep Big John off commentary too. The show has been moved to DAZN too, so I guess that means the BBC deal is toast. I'll double check that later in the week though. This really is standard Bellator Ireland fair, but they were always some of Bellator's best shows. Here's the skinny: A lot of the undercard looks like standard Bellator Europe matchmaking, just matching their English and Irish figthers up randomly but lots to like, and a very strong main card. Nice to see them squeeze Pitbull on here after his Saudi cancellation too.