Month: April 2023

Apr 9, 2023 MIAMI — Israel Adesanya didn’t just exorcise his demons. He put them to sleep. Alex Pereira beat Adesanya three times, twice in kickboxing and twice by knockout. On Saturday night, Adesanya returned the favor and got the albatross off from around his neck for good. Adesanya knocked out Pereira with several brutal
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Apr 9, 2023 Mike CoppingerESPN MIAMI — Jorge Masvidal, one of the UFC’s top stars, announced his retirement on Saturday in his hometown following a lopsided defeat to Gilbert Burns in the co-main event of UFC 287. The unanimous-decision loss (30-27, 30-27 and 29-28) was Masvidal’s fourth consecutive defeat. The other three losses also came
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Apr 8, 2023 MIAMI — In a battle of prospects, Christian Rodriguez showed age does indeed matter. Rodriguez came back from losing the first round to win a unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) over the previously undefeated Raul Rosas Jr. to open the UFC 287 main card Saturday at Kaseya Center. Rosas has been one
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Apr 8, 2023 Robbie Lawler‘s UFC welterweight title defense against Rory MacDonald in July 2015 is widely considered one of the best fights in mixed martial arts history. The UFC will honor it as such when it inducts the bout into its Hall of Fame this summer. The UFC announced Saturday the 170-pound title bout,
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7:15 AM ET Mychal Denzel Smith THE EXACT NUMBER of punches that Emile Griffith landed on March 24, 1962, at Madison Square Garden, in the flurry that killed Benny “Kid” Paret, is in dispute. According to which expert you ask, it was anywhere between 17 and 29 clean shots, mostly uppercuts with a few hooks
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