For Keeler, a title fight against Andrade could be used as leverage to entice McGregor into an all-Irish boxing world title fight in Dublin, next summer.
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Today we will focus on the women's strawweight title fight between Joanna Jedrzejczyk and Karolina Kowalkiewicz, and the hotly anticipated welterweight title fight between Tyron Woodley and Stephen Thompson.
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Tyson Fury heavyweight title fight on Saturday at Staples Center.
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Though I personally hold a profound respect for the career of Shane Mosley, any world title fight featuring this version of Mosley as one of its contenders is not a legitimate world title fight.
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Dillashaw immediately began lobbying for a title fight with Demetrious Johnson.
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Frankie Edgar featherweight title fight at UFC 240 later this month.
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The men's welterweight title fight takes place later in the day.
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BERNARD HOPKINS A title fight much too far at age 51.
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Faber, meanwhile, comes up short in his fourth UFC title fight.
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Tate Sleeps Holm with Late Rear-Naked Choke Though it was the first UFC title fight to co-headline under a non-title fight since UFC 51, UFC 196's co-main event was a big one.
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Baer was an aggressive crowd-drawer, making for an exciting title fight.
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He now wants to rematch Douglas Lima in a Bellator title fight.
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Wilder is aware of the borough's 115-year long heavyweight title fight drought.
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It was the scientific equivalent of a heavyweight title fight, but less conclusive.
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The Rousey-less bantamweight title fight between Tate and Nunes headlined UFC 200.
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Precedent also suggests the card could well include more than one title fight.
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Needless to say, Bellator's upcoming women's featherweight title fight is a good one.
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Despite losing his second title fight, Johnson hasn't felt a fall from relevance.
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British boxer Anthony Joshua seemingly went into Saturday's heavyweight title fight with supreme confidence.
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IN THE mining world the bout has the drama of a heavyweight title fight.
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In 2014, she became the first woman broadcaster to cover a live title fight.
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It will be a 3-round fight, but will NOT be a title fight.
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Once again in a close title fight scoring has to be called into question.
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It's all very Run For Cover, Title Fight circa Floral Green, Basement circa now.
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Tyron Woodley welterweight title fight, leaving Condit without a dance partner upon his return.
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Paul and KSI might be the headliners, but there are six other fights on the card, including a lightweight title fight between Devin Haney and Alfredo Santiago and a super middleweight title fight between Billy Joe Saunders and Marcelo Esteban Coceres. Yes.
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On the other hand, my brother beat the champ, but it wasn't a title fight.
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As many CS:GO fanatics will watch the final as boxing fans watch a title fight.
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Hearn has said a title fight in Saudi could be a game changer for boxing.
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They say we do not have a single partner or a title fight in Russia.
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It was the atmosphere of a world title fight, but it was my pro debut.
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This bizarre women's featherweight title fight will headline UFC 208 on February 11 in Brooklyn.
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Wilder took a fearsome knockout record into his 11th successive world title fight against Fury.
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In addition, Okamoto later confirmed the women's bantamweight title fight between champion Amanda Nunes and challenger Valentina Shevchenko will now headline UFC 213, with a freshly minted interim middleweight title fight between Yoel Romero and Robert Whittaker serving as the show's co-main event.
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Without the proper historical context, it's a ludicrous title fight to make in the year 2016.
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Well, boxer Anthony Joshua was pretty confident before losing his heavyweight title fight over the weekend.
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Dos Anjos and Alvarez's lightweight title fight will be refereed by the ever-capable Herb Dean.
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Werdum is looking for an opponent that will push him back into a heavyweight title fight.
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Until Pettis failed to make weight, this bout was supposed to be an interim title fight.
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But for as well as it sold, Saturday's title fight will be remembered for Thurman's passivity.
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Bellator's newly announced women's featherweight title fight will go down at Bellator 174, on March 3.
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The scuffles immediately dwarfed the title fight that was one of the most lucrative in UFC history.
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The promoters worried that working with me or my boss on a title fight would cause problems.
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Last week, a heavyweight title fight was canceled after the Russian challenger failed a test for meldonium.
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He was granted Mexican citizenship in 1969 after beating Texan Curtis Cokes in a world title fight.
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Flash forward to the present, and both men have much at stake in this climate title fight.
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Even after the announcement of the interim title fight the striking coach seems disappointed with the outcome.
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And so, Holm and de Randamie's looming women's featherweight title fight suddenly holds a bit more water.
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Cyborg retained her featherweight championship belt after winning a unanimous decision in the 5-round title fight.
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We went from hosting the light heavyweight title fight between Quinton Jackson and Dan Henderson in 2007 and the lightweight title fight between B.J. Penn and Joe Stevenson in 2008, to a series of fights with 'title implications', to Michael Bisping fighting whomever Michael Bisping seemed able to beat.
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And when she does, she will take on the winner of Holm and Tate's UFC 196 title fight.
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Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali challenges Sonny Liston to get up during their title fight on May 103, 1965.
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Liston brutally mugged Patterson in Chicago for the first heavyweight title fight ever decided in the opening round.
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Whether you think Cejudo beat Demetrious Johnson in their title fight or not, he certainly gave Johnson trouble.
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He wanted one of two things: a title fight against Kamaru Usman or a money fight against McGregor.
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He said he would relish a title fight from Ferrari's four-times world champion Sebastian Vettel this season.
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That would mean a fight with the winner of Robbie Lawler and Tyron Woodley's July 30th title fight.
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Croatian-American heavyweight Stipe Miocic duly accepted his opportunity to compete in the makeshift title fight against Werdum.
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Surely the fight would be called off, everyone thought, or at least changed to a non-title fight.
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A fudging of the rules to make sure a main-event title fight goes on as planned, perhaps?
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So, tacking a women's bantamweight title fight onto the UFC 2200 lineup makes a good deal of sense.
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My match was a full-rules title fight, meaning that elbows, knees, kicks, and punches were all included.
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There's the motive because Tupac and the Death Row contingency jumped him after the [Mike Tyson] title fight.
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Remember, Covington's jaw was broken during his scrap with Kamaru Usman in a super violent welterweight title fight.
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"Serena," a little girl shouted, seeing Williams practice on a side court three hours before the title fight.
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Diaz might, for example, be paired with Carlos Condit, who recently lost a razor-thin title fight with Lawler.
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If the title "Fight Night" didn't give it away, the theme of this Billions episode, dear children, is confrontation.
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Thankfully, Yoel Romerohas stepped in and created a matchup that has many more excited than the original title fight.
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In the January fight, Dillashaw was knocked out in the first round of the flyweight title fight by Cejudo.
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Of course, the UFC had been gunning to book Lesnar for a title fight with heavyweight champ Daniel Cormier.
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Whatever the outcome of the first post-Rousey-post-Tate title fight, the UFC's marquee women's division will survive.
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For a moment, he seemed to be interested in a possible time-killing interim title fight with Anderson Silva.
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The network has no boxing broadcasts scheduled beyond a middleweight title fight at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 2000.
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Spence -- who's from DeSoto, Texas -- just defeated Shawn Porter in a super high-profile welterweight title fight on Sept.
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With the help of a wily promoter (Russell Hornsby), the Dragos bait Adonis into agreeing to a title fight.
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He might be forced to seek victory in a non-title fight before being considered a title contender again.
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While this four-title-fight card gave the organization a nice opportunity for saber-rattling in the wake of the UFC's headline-dominating November debut in NYC, it's difficult to say how much the addition of a fourth title fight to the bill really helped in terms of ticket sales and viewership numbers.
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The second, and our focus today, is the Bellator 163 light heavyweight title fight between Liam McGeary and Phil Davis.
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And so his magical rise to the title fight went nearly unhindered—with a little help from his conniving team.
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So to roll to a heavyweight title fight, it was so exciting and felt like an event from the past.
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Mr. Davis, a superfeatherweight who retained his title, had brought the city its first title fight in nearly 50 years.
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The memorial service for "the people's champ" got off to a start worthy of the crowd at a title fight.
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While a title fight might be in his future, the bigger money might come against fellow foul-mouth Conor McGregor.
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Remember, Ben mercilessly mocked Usman by calling him "Marty from Nebraska" leading up to Kamaru's title fight with Tyron Woodley.
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The card will be headlined by a heavyweight title fight between Cleveland-based champion Stipe Miocic and decorated challenger Alistair Overeem.
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Just like he will against Dos Anjos, McGregor entered his December title fight against Jose Aldo with throngs of vocal doubters.
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Yes, no matter the outcome of Bellator 160's main event, Bellator gets a marketable lightweight title fight out of it.
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In 2013, she won her first World Boxing Council title fight in Lusaka, to become the African Boxing Union Bantamweight Champion.
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"You don't have to pick me to win the title fight / but I'ma wear that championship belt so tight," Wayne offers.
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That fictional title fight, and resultant victory, materialized in front of our very eyes as it did on the big screen.
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And so a few days out from the title fight, Dos Anjos' opponent Eddie Alvarez is being largely overlooked and undersold.
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Costa Rican Fonseca's other loss came in his only previous title fight, to Gervonta Davis for the same crown in 03.
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So it was not a surprise that Pedroza's tactics became an issue shortly before his 12-round title fight against McGuigan.
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The event, headlined by the women's bantamweight title fight between Amanda Nunes and Ronda Rousey, would be reduced to 10 bouts.
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The organization also did so during last year's International Fight week, promoting a Fight Night card headlined by a lightweight title fight between Rafael Dos Anjos and Eddie Alvarez, then a TUF finale headlined by a strawweight title fight between Joanna Jedrzejczyk and Claudia Gadelha and finally, the blockbuster UFC 200 pay-per-view in a three-day span.
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The UFC was open to falling back on an interim title fight, but featherweight contenders Frankie Edgar and Jose Aldo both declined.
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UFC 208 will host the inaugural women's featherweight title fight between former bantamweight queen Holly Holm and Dutch kickboxer Germaine de Randamie.
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Speaking of which, Cormier also says his weight is PERFECT leading up to Saturday's title fight -- despite the fat jokes from Jones.
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He came back in 1993, fought a handful of soft opponents, and put in a losing effort in one last title fight.
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The wealthy landowners and oil prospectors in Shelby figured that a heavyweight title fight was a magnificent way to get national attention.
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The bout was the fastest title fight in U.F.C. history and improved McGregor's U.F.C. record to 7-0, with five straight knockouts.
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However, the Brazilian also backed out of the contest through injury—leaving UFC 196 without the heavyweight title fight it had promised.
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The title fight lasted just 46 seconds as Gonzalez applied an arm lock that Sabatani attempted to slam his way out of.
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Boxer Patrick Day has died after suffering a traumatic brain injury during his USBA super welterweight title fight in Chicago on Saturday.
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Attention in the welterweight division would turn to the July title fight between Usman and Masvidal, two men Edwards has history with.
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Only then did he secure a meeting with Mr Klitschko—his first opponent to have competed in more than one world-title fight.
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The winner of this pivotal showdown is expected to take on the winner of Robbie Lawler and Tyron Woodley's July 30 title fight.
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He absorbed 200,000 hits across his career, taking eight times the hits that he landed on his opponent in his last title fight.
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In fact, the Dagestan native went so far as to request an interim title fight with Tony Ferguson while McGregor took his break.
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Jones tested positive for a steroid prior to his July 29 title fight against Cormier, which he won in a third-round TKO.
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You might remember ... Liz broke the glass ceiling back in 2013, when she fought Ronda Rousey in the UFC's inaugural women's title fight.
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It seems like the best Ferguson might be able to hope for if McGregor beats Nurmagomedov is another interim title fight against Diaz.
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It marks the second time in seven months that a defending champion has pulled out of a title fight against the outspoken Irishman.
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The huge interest in Cyborg's debut is bringing almost as much attention as the main event on Saturday, a men's heavyweight title fight.
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The Ring magazine declared their first ferocious confrontation in 1982 the "Fight of the Decade" and later the eighth-greatest title fight ever.
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Wilder knocked out Luis Ortiz in the seventh round of their heavyweight title fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday.
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Lewis Hamilton of England beat Sebastian Vettel of Germany to win the Spanish Grand Prix in Montmelo, tightening Formula One's intense title fight.
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We traveled to beautiful Mount Charleston, Nevada to join Jessie's high-altitude boot camp in preparation for his interim WBO welterweight title fight.
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Days later British middleweight boxer Nick Blackwell retired, having emerged from a coma induced after a title fight against Chris Eubank Jr in March.
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The co-main event has not yet been finalized, but reports suggest that it could be a title fight in the interim featherweight division.
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Rocky Balboa will bag a title fight, train gruelingly (probably in the outdoors, definitely to lame music), and take a beating in the ring.
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In 2015, Cormier was called up to the title fight with Johnson on four weeks notice after Jon Jones was pulled from the bout.
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"He tapped," Nurmagomedov said at an event to promote his UFC 242 title fight against Dustin Poirier, according to ESPN MMA editor Greg Rosentein.
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The most widely watched live bout on HBO of 2018, a middleweight title fight between Gennady Golovkin and Vanes Martirosyan, drew 1.3 million viewers.
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His British title fight against Hawkins came only one month after he had knocked out Richard Bos Murphy of New Zealand to become Empire champion.
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BTW -- Porter is training for a huge title fight against Keith Thurman later this month ... by fighting a guy who sits down for a living.
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No doubt a victory over Edgar would be an enormous feather in Ortega's cap and set up an extremely intriguing title fight with Max Holloway.
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If he felt ready to race in Melbourne, he recognized there was still plenty of work to lay the "building blocks for a title fight".
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Shields was a BEAST in her title fight this weekend against then-undefeated Christina Hammer -- dominating every round en route to an obvious unanimous decision.
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This year, the company branched out to national VR streams of the PBC boxing title fight and the Daytona 500, which was sponsored by Toyota.
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Davis has been destroying his competition since he turned pro, but has his first title fight this weekend against IBF super featherweight champion Jose Pedraza.
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Alvarez landed a left-right late in the 11th round Saturday night, dropping Sergey Kovalev to the canvas and ending their light heavyweight title fight.
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The ultimate example of this was Naseem's 1995 WBO title fight against Welsh champion Steve Robinson, held in the open air at Cardiff Arms Park.
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In 1988, Trump paid eleven million dollars to host a heavyweight title fight between Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks, at Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City.
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In the three years that have passed, he has lost a boxing-rules contest to Floyd Mayweather and a UFC title fight to Khabib Nurmagomedov.
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One of the strongest features of the main card will pair Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar in an interim featherweight title fight—also a rematch.
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In the final two rounds, Murata recalls, he was thinking just how lucky he was just to be in a title fight, on this stage.
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The most major of these looming bouts, of course, is Cruz and Garbrandt's UFC 207 title fight, which we've been drooling over for some time.
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MbS may have enabled Saudis to see the latest title fight or WWE smackdown, but they may also be even less free than they were.
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" But, Chris knows he won't just be handed the title fight ... "I gotta fight some other guys first, but at some point, [Jon's] the goal.
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He did, after all, defeat Hendricks by a very thin margin in a 2013 title fight—a split verdict that is still debated to this day.
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Ali and Joe Frazier meet with Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos before the WBC/WBA Heavyweight Title fight — known as the Thrilla in Manila, in September 1975.
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Holloway was ruled medically unfit to compete on Friday, which forced U.F.C. to bump Iaquinta from an undercard bout against Paul Felder to a title fight.
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The cancellation of the title fight with dos Anjos should have dealt a serious blow to ticket and pay-per-view sales for Saturday's UFC 196.
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Welshman Doran is considered a significant underdog for the bout, which will be on the undercard of Anthony Joshua's IBF heavyweight title fight with Dominic Breazeale.
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We were talking about a catch-weight fight ... It would be a non-title fight, so after I whoop his ass he still keeps the belt.
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Jones, 30, was previously banned for a year after failing a doping test in the run-up to a title fight against Cormier in July, 2016.
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Tigers Jaw naturally gravitated towards Philadelphia's DIY scene, playing with their peers in bands like Balance and Composure and Title Fight, but never really fit exactly.
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Two days ago, Dana White announced that Jon Jones would meet sixth-ranked light heavyweight Ovince Saint Preux for an interim title fight in Cormier's place.
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Had things unfolded just a little bit differently back in early January, however, we could have a very different title fight on our hands this weekend.
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For example, the UFC used footage of a crime scene in the build-up to Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor's lightweight title fight at UFC 229.
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This is particularly true of a women's bantamweight title fight pairing new champion Miesha Tate with streaking challenger Amanda Nunes—the evening's expected co-main event.
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Another fact worth noting is that the title fight took place on the Fox, the first time the broadcaster headlined a prime-time card since 1998.
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If Dos Anjos wins, we'd probably see another lightweight title fight sometime in the latter half of 2016—still a long time to wait for Alvarez.
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But, that activity significantly ramped up in the lead-up to Joshua's IBF world title fight against Charles Martin, who he handily dispatched inside two rounds.
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In December 2015, he flattened the featherweight champ Jose Aldo with a single straight right hand, ending a heavily hyped title fight in just 13 seconds.
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Facing Rousey in a title fight is, after all, one of the things these two fighters have in common, even if the outcomes were wildly different.
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The bout between Tate and Nunes was elevated after a positive doping test saw light heavyweight Jon Jones withdraw from his title fight against champion Daniel Cormier.
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World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali, left, and Ernie Terrell stand face to face during a weigh-in for the title fight tonight in Houston, Texas, on Feb.
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With the unanimous decision win, Thompson establishes himself as the clear-cut dance partner for the winner of Robbie Lawler and Tyron Woodley's UFC 201 title fight.
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Eubank Jr—bafflingly fighting for a British title when a world title fight had been open to him—seemed full of cold rage, throwing devastating combinations throughout.
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With no title fight in almost a year, and nothing on the horizon, Hearn believes the governing bodies will step in and Fury will lose his belts.
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Another exciting, but far more dangerous next choice for Rothwell would be a fight with the loser of Fabricio Werdum and Stipe Miocic's May 14 title fight.
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Though it's hard to imagine a bigger fight for Bader than a UFC title fight, he certainly has no shortage of compelling options in the Bellator cage.
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If I were Daniel Cormier I would demand April's title fight take place in a car, which seems to be the only place where Jones is vulnerable.
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In light of these rumours, Dillashaw immediately pressed for a flyweight title fight against the long-untouchable Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson in case the rumours became fact.
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When Johnson got injured, Reis stayed on the card and submitted his substitute opponent in the first round win but the title fight was never mentioned again.
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On Sunday, Cain Velasquez announced his withdrawal from his UFC 196 title fight with Fabricio Werdum, only to be replaced by Stipe Miocic in the subsequent hours.
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Pacquiao rebounded by beating Timothy Bradley, Lucas Matthysse, and, most recently, Adrien Broner, and now is days away from a WBA welterweight world title fight against Thurman.
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Then again, the world seems to be tiring of immediate rematches, and so Holm will probably be forced to turn her attention to a non-title fight.
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UFC star T.J. Dillashaw has just been hit with a 2-year suspension for failing a drug test before his January 19 title fight against Henry Cejudo.
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There have been plenty of fans petitioning to see the lightweight title fight booked for the main event of the Madison Square Garden show on November 12.
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Silva even went so far as to claim he'll retire if that title fight doesn't happen in June—pointing out that the specter of time is against him.
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That match-up between Werdum and Miocic now serves as UFC 198's headliner for the heavyweight title, following the middleweight title fight eliminator between Jacare and Belfort.
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In such an event, the next big step would probably be a title fight pairing the winner of Nunes and Shevchenko with the winner of Holm and Tate.
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Aldo and Edgar's interim featherweight title fight will be overseen by Marc Goddard, with Tony Weeks, Marcos Rosales and Junichiro Kamijo sitting cage-side to score the fight.
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Almost a decade after that, Leon and his Hall of Fame brother Michael, Cory's uncle, would be cornering their kin during a world title fight in St. Louis.
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Japan's first covered arena cost some $270 million to build and opened its gates in 1988 with a Mike Tyson title fight and Mick Jagger's debut solo tour.
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The WBO title fight was the second time Watson and Eubank faced each other in 1991, with the latter winning a contentious decision at Earls Court in June.
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But again in defiance of the odds, the stubborn Pazienza slowly trains himself back into the ring and lands a title fight against the boxing legend Roberto Duran.
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This was St-Pierre's 16th camp for a five-round title fight, and throughout the buildup he had made repeated references to an upcoming announcement after the event.
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Interestingly, before his return to UFC, Jon Jones claimed that "The UFC was very aware" that Vitor Belfort was "on steroids" before their title fight at UFC 152.
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This fight, which represents an incredible clash, will almost certainly provide us with the next opponent for the winner of Cruz and Garbrandt's co-main event title fight.
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The consensus number three man, Alexander Gustafsson, fights once every three years and either fights someone of no importance or loses a close decision in a title fight.
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Four days after being knocked unconscious in a super welterweight title fight, Patrick Day, a former New York Golden Gloves champion and Long Island native, died on Wednesday.
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In fact, Holmes knocked out Leon in the 3rd round of their 1981 title fight -- only to get beat TWICE by Leon's bro Michael later in his career.
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But Ray's new career ain't some hobby -- he's sparred with heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder and says he has his sights set on a a real deal title fight.
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In any case, if he loses you can be sure that this rivalry will be used to sell a title fight for Cody Garbrandt whenever that seems opportune.
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With this unforgettable title-swiping performance, which marks the first time we've seen the championship rounds in a UFC women's bantamweight title fight, Tate moves to 18-123 overall.
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Though emotive pop-punk bands diving into dreamier and more atmospheric territory is nothing new (see: The Sidekicks, Title Fight), Good Nature proves Turnover have really gone for it.
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But on Saturday night, in what was easily the best heavyweight title fight of the 21st century, Anthony Joshua (19-19, 19 knockouts) made himself champion of the world.
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If Freire betrays the odds, meanwhile, then we get a title fight with a built-in revenge narrative, as Chandler won the title by flattening Freire's older brother Patricky.
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Love had two producers at the helm—Arthur Rizk, the rifflord behind Sumerlands who's also worked with Title Fight, Prurient, and Inquisition, and punk/no wave legend Lydia Lunch.
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Controversial Irish fighter Conor McGregor announced his retirement from Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) on Tuesday, five months after losing to Khabib Nurmagomedov in a title fight in Las Vegas.
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How a pair of wins over the virtually unknown Patrick Lopez, and a 2015 version of Ricard Mayorga at middleweight somehow warrants a welterweight title fight is beyond me.
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They fed him another no-hoper in a non-title fight and then gave him half a year to build up to a rematch with Aurelio which he won.
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You said the Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury heavyweight title fight, which took place at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles in December, was your favorite thing you did last year.
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A title fight with Woodley-Thompson was fine and Gastelum was an okay consolation for losing Robbie Lawler, Cerrone's original opponent, but this was supposed to be a moment.
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He also enlisted his brother, Jamie, a professional superflyweight who was unbeaten in his first 19 bouts before being stopped in a title fight in November, to manage him.
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Potentially, in the future if I do well against one of those guys in a title fight, I would love to eventually have a rematch with Errol Spence Jr.
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The Duva family's big break came when Main Events won promotional rights to the Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns welterweight unification title fight in Las Vegas in September 1981.
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Three-times champion Hamilton had declared Ferrari the "quickest" after winter testing and his forecast of a title fight with the Italian glamor team appeared right on the mark.
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You'll hear Bruce Buffer call it out in his distinctive baritone when he introduces the UFC's first Swiss fighter for his title fight against Daniel Cormier at UFC 220.
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That said, in his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan, the Greg Jackson protégé expressed interest in returning to lightweight for a title fight with new champion Eddie Alvarez.
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Unlike the previous season that of Serra vs Hughes, both men managed to stay healthy and competed in their slated title fight at UFC 86 on July 5th, 2008.
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Welterweight is a weird and wonderful place in the wake of St-Pierre and doubtless that will carry on into this weekend's title fight between Robbie Lawler and Tyron Woodley.
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Garbrandt puts the bantamweight belt on the line when he fights T.J Dillashaw (23-22018) in what could be the fight of the night on a three title-fight card.
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On Saturday night, Brooklyn will host its first heavyweight title fight since James "The Boilermaker" Jeffries took on his former sparring partner James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett on May 12, 1900.
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He now finds himself on a two fight skid, having recently come up short in a last-minute interim title fight with Jon Jones, and sits at 19-9 overall.
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Nurmagomedov himself challenged McGregor to win a fight before getting a shot at a rematch, adding that fellow lightweight Tony Ferguson would be in line for a title fight first.
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Wow. Here's the deal, Becky came out to the ring after Rousey destroyed Bayley in a match on 'Monday Night Raw' -- and challenged Ronda to a title fight at Wrestlemania.
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Highlighted by a welterweight title fight between Robbie Lawler and Tyron Woodley, the rest of the card was undeniably lacking in big-name fighters—especially when compared to UFC 200.
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Frankie Edgar says Brian Ortega pissed off the wrong people by turning down a replacement fight at UFC 226 ... and now his chances at another title fight could be ruined.
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Valentina Shevchenko is callin' B.S. on the reason behind Amanda Nunes' UFC 213 title fight withdrawal ... telling TMZ Sports she's "not believing 100%" that Nunes pulled out over health issues.
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This event marks the second ever North American UFC show to be broadcast on UFC Fight Pass in its entirety and the first ever to showcase a UFC title fight.
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Bob Arum, CEO of boxing promotion company Top Rank, said the upcoming fight between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury could be the highest-grossing heavyweight title fight of all-time.
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Shockingly, Joanna says she was just informed the foot is NOT broken -- and she'll get back to training soon to get ready for a strawweight title fight with Zhang Weili.
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Silva has already stated that he believes he won that fight with Bisping (and, therefore, deserved that title fight with Rockhold) and that he wants a rematch with the now-champion.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua hit the scales nearly two stones heavier than Russian opponent Alexander Povetkin as the two weighed in for Saturday's title fight at Wembley Stadium.
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The issue is that neither Conor nor Cowboy currently hold a title -- so they would share the main event billing with whatever title fight would take place on the same card.
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Penn was in pursuit of being the first man to hold two UFC titles simultaneously before he lost to Georges St-Pierre in their welterweight title fight back in January 2009.
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Shannon Briggs did exactly what he does best throughout the last two weeks in the build up to Anthony Joshua's world title fight—getting under the skin of his heavyweight rivals.
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It was a move which was totally at odds with the responsible coaching from Eubank's father seen in Eubank Jr.'s March British middleweight title fight against the tough Nick Blackwell.
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But when Dillashaw came out of nowhere to ruin the Cruz—Barao title fight I had been holding out to see for years there wasn't an ounce of sadness in me.
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If World Wrestling Entertainment's CEO had been in charge of booking Saturday night's WBC heavyweight title fight at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, he couldn't have come up with a better script.
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But the catchweight also plays against Khalidov here—according to KSW's official card the bout is only going to be three rounds rather than five rounds as in a title fight.
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He set his sights on the lightweight belt, but when then-champion Rafael dos Anjos pulled out of their title fight due to injury, McGregor's career hit its first major obstacle.
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The Irishman's fight in November is, what he calls, a busy, no-risk fight so he can stay sharp while his team attempts to negotiate a world title fight shortly after.
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So, no great surprise then when Justino left the naturalization ceremony only to learn that the UFC had gone ahead and booked the women's featherweight division's inaugural title fight without her.
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As with any quick title fight, there are a few claiming "lucky punch," but a look at the FightMetric stats will clue you in on just how tricky Namajunas was being.
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Even in that performance, however, Bisping was hurt severely on two occasions so when The Count stepped in to replace Chris Weidman in a title fight with Rockhold things seemed bleak.
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LAS VEGAS — Khabib Nurmagomedov was the calm, glowering foil to Conor McGregor's antics for six months, letting the loquacious McGregor built a frenzy of hype around their U.F.C. lightweight title fight.
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Late last month, the UFC left us all scratching our heads by putting together its first ever women's featherweight title fight without including the world's premier female featherweight, Cris "Cyborg" Justino.
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The light heavyweight title fight between Sergey Kovalev and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez was delayed to accommodate the main event fight between Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz at UFC 244 in November.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's Robson Conceição and France's Sofiane Oumiha secured at least a silver medal on Sunday, advancing to a lightweight title fight between the two boxers on Tuesday.
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It's a big bummer for the South African boxing community ... the tilt between Visser and Fick was reportedly set to be the first heavyweight title fight in Cape Town since 2000.
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With Stephen Thompson and Demian Maia both so clearly deserving of their own shot at Tyron Woodley's belt it's time we got on with it and announced the next title fight.
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Headlined by a long-awaited title fight between reigning bantamweight king TJ Dillashaw and former champion Dominick Cruz, the 23-fight card featured action in 6 of the UFC's most exciting divisions.
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It came to a head in December when Stormzy played to 20,000 people at London's o2 Arena, standing inside a ring, introducing young London boxer Anthony Joshua for a heavyweight title fight.
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In 2009, during a news conference to announce a title fight with Klitschko he arrived in a T-shirt depicting him holding the severed head of the Ukrainian and his brother Vitaly.
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It is the second time he&aposll fight the technically-skilled Cuban having overcome a mid-fight scare to stop the veteran in the 10th round of a title fight last year.
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Both Frankie Edgar and Jose Aldo got their wishes of a featherweight title fight at UFC 200 on July 2003, but they won't be fighting the man that actually holds the belt.
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Dana White was the first to shake the boat when he revealed that McGregor would make an announcement "from left field" following the fight, days after the lightweight title fight was confirmed.
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"I have a world title fight at 147 in May and the exciting news is my trainer will be the great Robert Duran," Mosley said in an interview with World Boxing News.
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Amanda Nunes says she's hoping Holly Holm wins the 1st ever UFC featherweight title fight at UFC 208 ... so she can beat her ass and take the belt right away from her.
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About a year and a half ago, he traveled to Spain at the invitation of his friend Billy Joe Saunders, a middleweight who was training there in advance of a title fight.
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Joshua hit the scales at 16 stones and 13 pounds (107.5kg), the former champion's lightest ever weight for a world title fight, at the Diriyah venue near the capital Riyadh on Friday.
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In Saturday's co-main event, top light heavyweight contender Anthony Johnson knocked out Glover Teixeira with a thundering right uppercut to put himself into contention for a title fight against champion Daniel Cormier.
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Though he would lose this first crack at UFC welterweight gold, two additional wins would propel him into a second title fight with Hendricks, and this time around, he came out on top.
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The conciliatory tone of McGregor's tweet was at odds with an earlier string of abusive posts targeting Khabib Nurmagomedov, the Dargin who beat him in a fourth-round lightweight title fight in October.
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The lightweight title fight with Sherk at UFC 22011 was a unification bout of sorts, after Sherk had been stripped of the 22012-pound belt after failing a drug test a year earlier.
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In the women's strawweight title fight, Rose Namajunas won a unanimous decision victory over Joanna Jedrzejczyk to retain the belt the American won via knockout the last time the two met in November.
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UFC 206 in Toronto, anchored only by a light heavyweight title fight between Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson, looks like an afterthought between the Conor McGregor and Ronda Rousey fights closing out 2016.
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Whether they're touring with Title Fight, Lamb of God, or Napalm Death, Power Trip is ready to spread their message of dissent and Gale knows it will be the fight of their lives.
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EKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) - A super heavyweight title fight between Russian boxer Alexander Povetkin and Haitian-born Canadian Bermane Stiverne that was scheduled for Saturday has been canceled after Povetkin failed a drug test.
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In the weeks after Bisping's title win, former champ Chris Weidman has done his best to sustain a Twitter beef with Bisping in an obvious effort to secure a title fight for himself.
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During a super middleweight title fight, Jose Uzcategui knocked out Andre Dirrell but was subsequently disqualified after referee Bill Clancy determined Uzcategui's final flurry had come after the bell ending the eighth round.
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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Khabib Nurmagomedov stormed out of the final media conference ahead of his lightweight title fight against Conor McGregor on Thursday, in response to the Irishman not turning up on time.
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Now that Cyborg is out of the picture and the UFC's upcoming women's featherweight title fight is no longer completely devoid of legitimacy, the organization seems poised to monopolize the women's featherweight division.
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The potential of a world title fight between two of heavyweight boxing's greatest rising talents—Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker—is a welcome distraction to the unstable division created in part by Fury.
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Date: December 12, 2015What made the moment: Conor McGregor was already known as a magician heading into his title fight with Jose Aldo, but his 14-second knockout turned him into a superstar.
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Still, it's difficult to talk about the evening of that contested 1933 title fight, even as a stranger; even as a stranger separated from Rukeli by nationality, language, and many years of history.
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If the rumors are to be believed, the UFC is working hard to book a lightweight title fight between reigning champ Eddie Alvarez (28-4) and absentee featherweight king Conor McGregor (20-3).
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Rory, it was his punched-up nose when he first came out, and the noises he made in his sleep; something like a world title fight, but at least they knew he was alive.
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Celebrity boxing title fight announcer Michael Buffer gave his long and resonant call of 'Let's get ready to rumble', after announcing the drivers to the crowd one by one, and the battle was on.
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Overeem was out in Vegas recently when we asked about his big title fight with the UFC heavyweight champ in September ... a fight in which Alistair will be gunning for his 5th straight victory.
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When Nigel Benn tumbled from the ring just 38 seconds into his title fight with Gerald McClellan on 0003 February 1995, few would have expected the Englishman to come back and win the bout.
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Highlighted by an unforgettable middleweight title fight between English champ Michael Bisping and MMA legend Dan Henderson, as well as a whopping nine stoppages, the eleven-fight card was one for the history books.
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Even Showtime boxing analyst Al Bernstein says it is high time Davis is put in a competitive bout, and wants to see a super featherweight unification title fight with IBF belt holder Tevin Farmer.
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At a press conference for the Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury heavyweight title fight a month earlier, Lewis had reacted to meeting Freddie Roach the way some of her superfans probably react when meeting her.
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But even for an attention magnet like Fury this past weekend was especially busy, with a cancelled title fight, allegations of doping, and a supermassive bar tab keeping him squarely in the public eye.
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The film, promoted with the tagline and defacto title Fight the Future, slyly announced its place among summer blockbusters with a poster of Independence Day clearly visible in the background of an early scene.
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Much of the UFC's revenue comes from pay-per-view TV sales which take a hit when fighters like Jones, who tested positive ahead of a title fight last July, are banned from competition.
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BRISBANE, Australia — It went all the way and ended in a contentiously bitter loss, the opposite of the outcome Manny Pacquiao's handlers predicted for his World Boxing Organization welterweight title fight against Jeff Horn.
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Today's 70-word puzzle by John Guzzetta features one of my favorite debuts in a while: MADE A BOO BOO, as well as OPEN BORDERS, STARTER HOME, ROUGHS IT, NAVEL GAZES and TITLE FIGHT.
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The title fight between the leading drivers, the three-time champion Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes and Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari, a winner of four titles, has been tight, with Vettel leading by 20 points.
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The bout has probably killed much of Rothwell's momentum and kick started Dos Santos' campaign for 2017's annual heavyweight title fight, but it's the heavyweight division and anything can happen between now and then.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Wladimir Klitschko told IBF world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua defeat was "nothing to be scared of" at a packed news conference ahead of their sell-out title fight at Wembley Stadium on Saturday.
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Ali's 20-year professional boxing career was over by then, and Lonnie had heard the rumors that Ali was damaged, particularly after the savage beating he'd sustained in a 1980 title fight against Larry Holmes.
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Hopefully this will start a trend, and maybe in the future we'll get to see Mike Kinsella be the backup QB of a future game, or Ned Russin from Title Fight make his UFC debut.
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This wild main event topped a card that featured action in 6 of the UFC's most popular divisions, including a women's bantamweight title fight between Holly Holm and Miesha Tate in the co-main event.
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The only downside of the Cody Garbrandt versus T.J. Dillashaw title fight at UFC 217 is that regardless of who wins, we are assured more Team Alpha Male related drama in their next title defense.
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Demetrious 'Mighty Mouse' Johnson was forced out of his UFC 201 title fight with Wilson Reis earlier this month, which saw the Brazilian drop to the preliminary card where he will now face Hector Sandoval.
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DJ's "political awakening" began late last month when rumors started circulating that bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt was going to pull out of his title fight with arch-nemesis TJ Dillashaw at UFC 213 in July.
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We got UFC Star Kelvin Gastelum -- who was in L.A. promoting his UFC 236 title fight against Israel Adesanya -- and he says if the rhetoric from both men has the potential to end up tragic.
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Randy Couture knocked Tim Sylvia flat on his rump in the first round of their title fight, hopped on his back, and spent the next four minutes doing nothing while Big Tim recovered his wits.
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Emanating from the city's Quicken Loans Arena, the card was headlined by a heavyweight title fight between champ Stipe Miocic and challenger Alistair Overeem, and highlighted the MMA debut of pro wrestling star CM Punk.
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Alternatively, it could be the bout which puts the small portion of the fight world not yet paying attention to Rothwell on blast, and to force the UFC's hand into giving him a title fight.
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The event pulled in a respectable 951,000 viewers during its NBC broadcast on the afternoon of December 31, but would it have done all that much less if it were a three-title-fight card?
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Walters did indeed retire from a world title fight in between rounds, but should he be harangued for making a decision he claims to have made for his wellbeing in the heat of the moment?
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Although the title fight against Cormier was later moved to the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Jones has got every chance of securing the card's top spot if he can reclaim his title on April 23.
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Given the presence of McGregor and a welterweight title fight between Tyron Woodley and Stephen Thompson, Meek followed the UFC's inaugural New York City show, UFC 205 at Madison Square Garden, with plenty of scrutiny.
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McGregor has not fought since a fourth-round lightweight title fight loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov in October 2018 that sparked an ugly post-fight brawl and led to a fine and a six-month ban.
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I wanted St-Pierre, one of the greatest fighters in the UFC's short history, to fight the winner of this weekend's welterweight title fight, but I could have lived with most of the superfight alternatives.
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What makes it more bizarre is that the aforementioned Cyborg Justino, the consensus number one in the world at featherweight and the apparent reason for this division to be created, isn't involved in the title fight.
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Formed in 2014 by childhood friends Christopher Adams and Nikolas Soelter, Never Young's furious cyclone of reverb and screeching guitars lands somewhere between Sonic Youth and Title Fight, which is truly a great place to be.
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When Kid withdrew from the bout with an injury, however, Beal was forced to shift his focus to Joe Soto—a man famous for taking a title fight with TJ Dillashaw on just 23 hours notice.
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Stipe Miocic says it "kinda sucked" when Brock Lesnar was in the mix for a UFC title fight with Daniel Cormier ... telling TMZ Sports he didn't think it was fair since Brock hadn't fought in years.
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Freire is far from your typical number-one-contender fight, however, it is certainly a compelling one in the way that, no matter who wins, Bellator will have an interesting lightweight title fight on their hands.
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When Banks first got word he was being offered a title fight against a Thai champion at Rajadamnern Stadium, he felt as if he were a football player whose team had just qualified for the Superbowl.
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Johnson, 32, said he sustained a "high-grade" tear of the lateral collateral ligament in his right knee during a split-decision loss to Henry Cejudo in their title fight at UFC 227 on Aug. 4.
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Or even, for that matter, another Khabib Nurmagomedov, the UFC superstar who, two weeks ago, spent a day in the hospital while trying (and failing) to make weight for his lightweight title fight at UFC 209.
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On Saturday, when UFC women's bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes fights Valentina Shevchenko, it marks the first time since 2011 that a title fight in MMA's premiere women's division hasn't featured either Ronda Rousey or Miesha Tate.
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Since McGregor's 10th round stoppage loss to Mayweather, he has fought just once — a lightweight title fight against Nurmagomedov, a bout he was conclusively beaten in, submitted because of a neck crank in the fourth round.
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The 40-year-old Cuban, with his southpaw stance, probing jab, and counter left hand, won rounds off of Wilder in their WBC heavyweight world title fight, but was eventually dropped and stopped in the 10th.
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Had Cyborg's career continued to motor along without running over this unfortunate spike strip, she probably would have been the next woman in line for the winner of Holm and De Randamie's looming featherweight title fight.
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Rose is happy to comply, for the title fight she was paid a meager 73,000 (120 USD) Baht, despite having agreed upon a 15,000 (400 USD) Baht purse, an all too common trope for Isaan fighters.
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But if Wednesday's House Financial Services session often had the feel of an alumni reunion party — even some Democrats couldn't resist getting chummy with their former colleague — today's hearing felt more like a heavyweight title fight.
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With the win, Velasquez rebounds from his career-low loss to Werdum, and could well have put himself in a position for a shot at the winner of Stipe Miocic and Alistair Overeem's looming heavyweight title fight.
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Kamaru Usman in addition to the headliner and Claudia Gadelha's return to the Octagon against Cortney Casey—the first time the Brazilian has stepped into cage since her losing effort against Joanna Jedrzejczyk in their title fight.
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The Main Card: Bisping Edges Henderson in Unforgettable Middleweight Title Fight The evening's main event saw England's Michael Bisping look to avenge the ugliest low of his career: a 2009 knockout loss to American legend Dan Henderson.
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The unsavoury trash-talk which precedes any professional title fight sits uneasily beside the famed assertion by Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, that "the important thing is not to win, but to take part".
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And finally, an aging Dan Henderson, fresh off a revivifying knockout of Hector Lombard, has made his own calls for a title fight with Bisping, evidently eager to repeat his historic 2009 knockout of the new champ.
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Watson endured a 40-day coma, six brain surgeries and years of slow and painful rehabilitation to be able to live his life as "normally" as possible following their WBO super middleweight world title fight in 1991.
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Dana White made it clear that the winner of the interim title fight would get the next crack at the Irishman's featherweight crown, and many believed that Edgar would be the man to gain the golden ticket.
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The UFC will host its first title fight of 2017 at UFC 208 in Denver on Saturday, with former bantamweight champ Holly Holm meeting Germaine de Randamie to decide who becomes the organization's first women's featherweight champion.
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George Foreman doesn't know who's gonna win the MASSIVE heavyweight title fight between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury on Saturday, but he does know one thing ... BOTH men woulda kicked the ass of a young George Foreman.
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In the other title fight on the card, Nunes' fellow Brazilian Jose Aldo took a step closer to reclaiming the featherweight title he lost to Conor McGregor at UFC 192 by beating Frankie Edgar in an unanimous decision.
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He already raised the possibility after losing a close title fight against then-champion Robbie Lawler back in January—before getting lured back for a contenders' bout against Maia—and his decision will ultimately be made in private.
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But the bout that may best exemplify his heart and grit is his 1995 title fight against the legendary Roy Jones Jr., in which he was pummeled to a bloody pulp and knocked out in the sixth round.
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If Henderson gets back on track with a win over Freire, as the odds suggest he will (he's a -240 favorite), then we get an exciting title fight between a former UFC champion and a current Bellator champion.
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WEC, KOTC and Gladiator Challenge title stints As the reigning KOTC bantamweight champion, Faber stepped up a weight division and made his WEC debut in a featherweight title fight against Cole Escovedo—a winning inaugural showing by TKO.
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Headlined by the rematch between welterweight champion, Nieky Holzken and his long-time foe, Murthel Groenhart, the event also boasted a four man middleweight contender tournament and a featherweight title fight between Gabriel Varga and Robin van Roosmalen.
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Klitschko has been living his best life since he passed the torch to Anthony Joshua in 2017, losing an up-and-down slobberknocker to a hulking fighter 13 years his junior in a title fight for the ages.
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Maybe. A week before the title fight, Murata told a Japanese reporter the importance of the middleweight class is an American idea—because Americans are physically middleweights by nature, they pay more attention to those guys on-screen.
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Beating McCreary on November 30 would be the first step in that process, but he won't have gone all the way until he books another world title fight, this time in uncharted territory, in the super featherweight division.
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The green-clad Irish fans of brash featherweight champion McGregor were out in force in mid-town Manhattan on Friday ahead of his lightweight title fight against Eddie Alvarez in UFC 205 at Madison Square Garden on Saturday.
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As for Waterson, we asked who she's eyeing for her next fight and she tells us Karolina Kowalkiewicz -- 'cause she thinks it'll put her next in line for a title fight with the UFC strawweight champ, Rose Namajunas.
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The winner of this prospective bout could well be awarded a fight with the winner of Michael Bisping and Dan Henderson's looming middleweight title fight—though that honor could also go to Jacare or a returning Luke Rockhold.
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In 2013, Chan Sung Jung—a great finisher with his fists, knees and submissions—was riding a three-fight winning streak in the UFC featherweight division when he got thrown into a title fight with the great Jose Aldo.
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The Teixeira knockout notwithstanding, Evans is a remarkably undamaged veteran, and his name still resonates: he headlined a Fox card six years after his non-title fight with Jackson became one of the UFC's best-selling pay-per-views.
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And he's not in a weight class that needs to relax its standards to keep the title fight conveyor belt moving either: once full of prey for Anderson Silva, middleweight is arguably the UFC's most interesting division right now.
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After the first fight with Rua in his third tour of duty, he injured his knee weeks out from a light heavyweight title fight with Jon Jones at the ill-fated UFC 151, and never found his old form.
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In recent years Lee has submitted Michael Chiesa and Francisco Trinaldo, technically knocked out Jake Matthews, and bludgeoned Edson Barboza into a mercy stoppage, with a solid performance against Tony Ferguson in an interim title fight in the middle.
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In over two decades of operation, SideOneDummy has amassed an impressive back catalog of albums by everyone from Title Fight to The Casualties to MxPx, and Armstrong says the label will continue to support these releases, domestically and internationally.
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The welterweight title fight between former UFC contender Lorenz Larkin and incumbent Bellator champion, Douglas Lima was not quite the firefight most had hoped for, but a thoughtful, technical showing from both with Lima coming out with the victory.
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This means he is now on the cusp of a massive world title fight against lightweight ruler Vasyl Lomachenko, 31, a three-weight world champion and one of the most impressive pound-for-pound athletes in world boxing today.
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Vettel had needed to be in the top two to have any chance of taking the title fight down to Brazil in two weeks' time but his already slim hopes seemed to have disappeared within seconds of the start.
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Headlined by a title fight between UFC lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos and former Bellator lightweight king Eddie Alvarez, the 12-fight card aired entirely on UFC Fight Pass, and featured impressive showings from prospects, veterans, and contenders alike.
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Though the card was rocked by the late cancellation of its originally planned main event—a light heavyweight title fight between Daniel Cormier and Anthony "Rumble" Johnson—it is still dominating most of the MMA discourse at the moment.
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Spinks, 66, an Olympic Gold medalist in 1976 best known for a memorable upset victory over Muhammad Ali two years later in a world heavyweight title fight, was battling for his life in a Las Vegas hospital last month.
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Besides always looking gaunt on the scales, Bigg Rigg didn't have any problems until his UFC 171 title fight against Robbie Lawler in early 2014, which saw him require an additional hour to make weight—which he barely managed.
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With dos Anjos' ring cutting, pressure fighting, body work, clinch attacks, and takedowns along the cage, this writer cannot help but feel robbed of that lightweight title fight with Conor McGregor which fell through when dos Anjos was injured.
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This weekend, when Brooklyn hosts a heavyweight boxing title fight for the first time in 2115 years, the big, bruising event will star a towering pugilist who's tailor-made for the occasion — even more than anything Hollywood itself could have conjured.
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Though it is still fairly recent in the grand scheme, Robbie Lawler and Rory MacDonald's UFC 189 title fight, which stained the pages of the history books red, would also be a sound inductee to the UFC Hall of Fame.
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Alvey underlined his belief that his training partner Dan Henderson would topple middleweight champion Michael Bisping in their title fight in his post-fight interview and campaigned for a spot on the card, which is expected to happen in Manchester.
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And on a title-fight-free evening in Vegas, Condit versus Maia is among the most characteristic bookings: two fighters denied a chance to fight for the 170-pound strap, fighting to determine the final curve of their careers instead.
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The underdog stings like a bee For his first heavyweight title fight, against the brutish Liston in 1964, he went a step further, renting a bus, and on the day he signed to fight the champ he went by Liston's home.
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After his loss to Stipe Miocic in a title fight last year many were struggling to see what was next for Alistair Overeem, but it was a fight in which he hurt the champion and came inches from the belt himself.
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Ahead of his UFC light heavyweight title fight against Jon Jones at UFC 237, Belfort described himself as an "old lion," and that was almost five years ago before the aforementioned run at middleweight which culminated with his title shot.
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Ever since McGregor jumped two classes to take on Nick's younger brother, Nate, arguments about who has the legitimate claim to which title fight have begun to sound small, like petty arguments over country estates in a Jane Austen novel.
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UFC 196 is scheduled for March 5 at MGM Grand Garden Arena where a female bantamweight title fight between Holly Holm, who last November handed unbeaten Ronda Rousey her first loss, and Miesha Tate is slotted as the co-main event.
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Jones, who was pulled from a light heavyweight title fight against Daniel Cormier days before UFC 200 earlier this month, tested positive for clomiphene and traces of letrozole in an out-of-competition sample provided on June 16, the report said.
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It did so with UFC 206, a 12-fight card headlined by an almost interim title fight between Max Holloway and Anthony Pettis, and featuring names like Donald Cerrone, Matt Brown, Cub Swanson, Doo Ho Choi, Tim Kennedy and Kelvin Gastelum.
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A career-threatening motorcycle injury sidelined Mir for a long time, but he remained in the heavyweight title conversation right up until 2012 when a loss to Junior Dos Santos in title fight began a stretch of four losses for him.
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During Ola Afolabi's 200-pound world title fight against Rakhim Chakhkiev in Russia, Reid stood in at the last minute to offer advice, shouting it from the side, in a voice that's hard to ignore even on a YouTube video recording.
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The one loss on his ledger came in a WBO title fight against the undefeated Dmitry Pirog, and it is worth mentioning that Jacobs's grandmother died a week before the bout; the funeral planned for the day after the fight.
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Sugar Ramos, a Cuban featherweight boxing champion who was best known for winning a title fight that led to the death of his opponent, Davey Moore, and that prompted calls to abolish the sport, died on Sunday in Mexico City.
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Terence Crawford started slow Saturday night in his WBO welterweight title fight against heavy underdog Egidijus Kavaliauskas at Madison Square Garden in New York, but he came on strong and scored a ninth-round knockout to keep his 147-pound title.
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This week saw the Nevada State Athletic Commission's (NSAC) decision to assign Herb Dean as the referee of the light heavyweight title fight, as he was before in their initial showdown at UFC 182 which saw Jones emerge as the victor.
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The New York Times Muhammad Ali Dies at 74: Titan of Boxing and the 20th Century by Robert Lipsyte Lipsyte, a novelist, sportswriter, and one time ESPN ombudsman, covered the Ali-Sonny Liston heavyweight title fight for the New York Times in 1964.
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If it wasn't for two title fight losses to Jose Aldo at UFC 156 and UFC 200, New Jersey native Frankie Edgar looked near-unstoppable in his featherweight run which has now spanned close to five years—dominating everyone else in his way.
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This context helps explain the mania that accompanies Myanmar-born Aung La Nsang (26-2000) on a Wednesday afternoon in Yangon, two days ahead of his ONE Championship middleweight world title fight against the undefeated Russian Vitaly Bigdash (214-22) on June 14.
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So that puts us in a weird position where most would feel like the two fighters competing for the title—in what is now the sole title fight on the UFC 200 card—aren't actually the best in the world at that weightclass.
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Should McGregor be able to fight again in UFC in the next few months, White told ESPN that McGregor wants a title fight and may be up to face Khabib Nurmagomedov – who won the belt which was vacated by McGregor due to inactivity.
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With that victory, Johnson scored the latest submission win in UFC history—a record that, unless the number of rounds in an MMA title fight changes or we stop measuring time in minutes and seconds when our extraterrestrial overlords arrive, will stand forever.
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Ever since then, 'The Notorious' has been followed by some of the most passionate fans in the sport, and there will definitely be some additional Dutch interest in next weekend's heavyweight title fight following on from UFC successful maiden voyage in the country.
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We spoke with the UFC interim lightweight champ in the lead-up to their long-awaited title fight ... and Tony told us Khabib's already shown his true colors by botching his weight cut days before they were scheduled to fight at UFC 209.
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"Fortunately for us and unfortunately for the insurance company, (Liev) said he was going to take real punches ... that made an enormous difference," the Canadian director told a press conference, adding particular effort went into portraying the 1975 title fight with Ali.
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A knowledgeable fan is well aware of this and can therefore understand why the UFC might slap a completely unnecessary interim title on the Max Holloway – Anthony Pettis meeting, or rush together a title fight for the still largely mythical women's featherweight division.
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No one encapsulates this more perfectly than Horiguchi: an ultra promising prospect who said himself that he didn't feel quite ready to fight for the title yet, Horiguchi fought zero top tier flyweights before being thrown into a title fight with Johnson.
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Though she was bafflingly left out of this new division's inaugural title fight—the honor will go to Holly Holm and Germaine de Randamie instead—at least the UFC had finally introduced the division where she's at her healthiest and her best.
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For Gustafsson, it is almost assured that we will see the Swede in another title fight within the next couple of years, and those questions raised by his brilliance in this fight will have us all eager to tune in for the answers.
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More recently he has held his stance well and shown neater, phasic movement, but the fights have been so short it's hard to know how well it will hold up—especially if he is dragged three rounds deep into a title fight.
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Max missed out on a late notice title fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov a few months back, but more than that there is the prospect of a rematch with Conor McGregor which would certainly garner great interest and provide Holloway with an enormous payday.
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We don't get to see Benavidez, Dodson, Cejudo, Horiguchi, Bagautinov and Moraga fight each other until well after they have been used to provide a quick title fight for Johnson (and you don't see many real flyweight contender match ups even then).
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The intention here is not to disparage the talent or championship quality of either De Randamie or Holm, but simply to emphasize that it was hard to take the UFC's inaugural women's featherweight title fight seriously without Cyborg in the red corner.
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Finnish team mate Valtteri Bottas, the only driver still with a chance of overtaking Hamilton in the drivers' standings, had the fifth-best time but will need something better if he is to have any hope of taking the title fight to Brazil.
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Today the Ohio Athletic Commission released their list of medical suspensions from UFC 203 last Saturday in Cleveland, and at the top of the list was Overeem, who suffered a knockout in his main-event title fight against heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic.
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From the first bell, 'Bendo' marched the Brazilian down and for the opening few seconds, it appeared as though he was about to go out of his way to show aggression following his loss in his promotional debut in a welterweight title fight.
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The Prelims: Peña Grapples Her Way to Unanimous Decision Win The prelims were wrapped up by a scrap between top-ranked bantamweights Cat Zingano and Julianna Peña, who were arguably battling for a shot at the winner of Tate and Nunes' main event title fight.
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Joshua said after dispatching Martin that he would "walk through" Fury, but the self-styled Gypsy King launched a counter-attack on his British rival at a news conference for his cousin Hughie Fury's forthcoming WBO intercontinental heavyweight title fight with American Fred Kassi.
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The Dempsey-Sharkey fight was to determine a number one contender for Gene Tunney's title after Tunney had bested Dempsey the first time and (entirely because Dempsey was involved) it was the first non-title fight to draw a million dollars at the gate.
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Charles Dickens was a spectator at the world's first ever title fight, in England, in 1860, while the likes of Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates and Norman Mailer, famously in The Fight, all wrote about the brutal lyricism of the sport.
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A women's world title fight had never even been staged in Toronto—with only a handful ever taking place anywhere in Ontario at large—before promoter Lee Baxter seized the opportunity and made Tsagouris-Torres happen, despite neither being a member of his roster.
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There was a mass uproar for days when Aldo pulled himself and his featherweight title out of UFC 189 all over social media threads, but this time, the news came and went without any notable mentions of people feeling cheated out of a title fight.
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Both men are knockout artists with plenty to prove having lost their last bouts—with OSP losing a late notice decision in an interim title fight against the disgraced Jon Jones, while Manuwa was knocked out upcoming title contender Anthony Johnson back in September 2015.
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It is likely that McGregor will compete in a non-title fight on March 5 and if Dos Anjos is fit by July, there is no way Dana and Co would turn down the appeal of that matchup for their marquee event, UFC 200.
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The second features an all-Russian world title fight, and the third includes a 6-foot-6 Chinese southpaw in Zhang who could open up massive events at the 80,000 capacity Beijing National Stadium or the gambling hotbed of Macau, in China, Hearn told us.
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Even before his upset victory against Joshua, the sport seemed to be on a comeback, with more television money coming in and fans looking ahead to a title fight between Joshua and the unbeaten Deontay Wilder, who holds one championship belt to Ruiz's four.
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And that would have been enough, I think, to secure him the title fight by the rules of today's game, but yesterday Nurmagomedov upped the stakes, telling Twitter that if he doesn't get the title shot next he "won't be fighting in UFC" anymore.
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Of course, there's also a chance that MacDonald could be scooped up by another opportunistic organization, such as Singapore's One Championship, where he could challenge Ben Askren for the welterweight belt, or World Series of Fighting, where a title fight with Jon Fitch would surely await.
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Given that Nurmagomedov will be unable to compete at UFC 200 due to Ramadan, and Rafael Dos Anjos and Eddie Alvarez are booked for a title fight on July 7, Ferguson will have to look elsewhere for a top-ranked opponent with which to keep busy.
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Fights can be preordered and also purchased up to four hours after the start time (in case you want to tune in late just for a title fight) and purchasers will also be able to rewind during the event and replay it within a 24-hour window.
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On Monday the Nevada State Athletic Commission announced that they had issued Jon Jones a temporary suspension pending a full hearing related to the former UFC light-heavyweight champion's failing of an out-of-competition drug test ahead of his scheduled title fight on July 9.
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As a result of their fight, Watson endured a 40-day coma, six brain surgeries and years of slow and painful rehabilitation in order to have the ability to live his life as "normally" as possible following their WBO super middleweight world title fight back in 1991.
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Weidman is as credible as any of his top-five peers, and in a choice of which vanquished fighter to reposition as contender, context matters: the one who lost the belt (Weidman) is generally an easier sell than the one who lost a non-title fight (Souza).
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In fact, Sulaiman had to defend Alvarez's last middleweight title defence against the much-lighter Amir Khan after the WBC had been harangued for not ensuring a fight between both Canelo and GGG, along with encouraging a meaningless title fight with such obvious weight discrepancies involved.
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As an aside it is frankly daft that fighters are still allowed to have title shots without ever having been scheduled in a five rounder before, giving champions in the divisions which cannot main event with anything but a title fight a huge advantage over their rivals.
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Given that McGregor and Diaz are not fighting for gold, and that Aldo and Edgar are fighting for the interim title, this would mean that UFC 200 would go down without a single legitimate title fight on the bill—not good for a card of its significance.
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Two major boxing events will occur simultaneously in New York: a heavyweight title fight between Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz at Barclays Center in Brooklyn and a light-heavyweight bout between Sergey Kovalev, the W.B.O. title holder, and Igor Mikhalkin at the Theater at Madison Square Garden.
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The light heavyweight champ -- who tied a record with his 13th title fight victory at UFC 239 -- was spotted partying it up after walking away with a split decision W. You can see Jon turning up at On the Record at the Park MGM casino and hotel.
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A five-round title fight is nothing if not an endurance event, but even more so are the months of training leading up to it, and the book offers many practical tips, drawn from high-performing athletes' personal experiences, to help overcome mental barriers to success.
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In the other title fight on the card, welterweight champ Tyrone Woodley thought he had seen off the challenge of Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson to claim a narrow split decision, but the result initially announced in the octagon was corrected after several minutes and changed to a majority draw.
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It started with the UFC making up their own measurement of punching power and awarding Francis Ngannou a world record just to hype a title fight, and ended with a doughy Floyd Mayweather beating the snot out of a fresh faced Japanese schoolboy who he outweighed by 288 pounds.
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Not only will the card pair UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier with former divisional king Jon Jones in one of the biggest rematches in UFC history, but it will also feature a flyweight title fight between dominant champion Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson and Olympic gold medalist Henry Cejudo.
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Still, the only man to defeat 'Mighty Mouse' when he claimed a decision over him in a bantamweight title fight back in September 2011, Cruz has campaigned for the contest quite a bit since his return to the sport after a long time on the sidelines with injury.
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Five years ago, in March 2011, a young and green Jon Jones found his way into the biggest fight of his career: what was considered to be a premature title fight against the long time PRIDE FC superstar and recently crowned UFC light heavyweight champion, Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua.
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Jon Jones was pulled days before his light heavyweight title fight with Daniel Cormier after testing positive for clomiphene and Letrozole, while heavyweight Brock Lesnar was revealed to have failed pre-fight and fight-night drug tests for hydroxyl-clomiphene after winning a unanimous decision over Mark Hunt.
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Headlined by the light heavyweight title fight between Daniel Cormier and knockout artist Anthony Johnson, an Upstate New York native in Jon Jones will be ruefully watching on from the sidelines as his rivals, namely Cormier, battle it out for the gold he had stripped from him by the UFC.
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Whether it's a shot at the interim title fight winner, McGregor, third-ranked Chad Mendes or someone beneath his ability—we can only live in hope that Max Holloway puts any thoughts of neglect stemming from UFC 200 behind him and makes his return to the Octagon in a timely manner.
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"Hodge sent it to that kid Shane from Title Fight, who I've met but I'm not really close with him, and he sent it to a booking agent called Brad Wiseman who happens to work in the office that Pure Noise is in, and that's pretty much it," Loporto says.
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On the other end of that, when Diaz throws his left hand he will often throw it overarm and lean well forwards at the waist, presenting his chin as Jose Aldo so famously did when he rushed to chase McGregor and gave McGregor an easy knockout victory in their title fight.
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With the UFC welterweight title fight between Tyron Woodley and Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson stinking out the joint in Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena last weekend, the promotion hopes to alleviate any boo-laden memories of UFC 209's main event with a surprisingly strong UFC Fight Night card on Saturday night.
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While everyone's talking about UFC 214 and its three title fights, UFC 213's fight card packs plenty of punch itself with a women's bantamweight title bout between champion Amanda Nunes and Valentina Shevchenko, while the middleweight interim title fight contest featuring Yoel Romero and Robert Whittaker is the support act.
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Kowalkiewicz Outduels Namajunas, Locks Up Bout with Jedrzejczyk When UFC flyweight champion Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson was forced out of his scheduled UFC 201 title fight with Wilson Reis, the evening's co-main event honors instead went to TUF 20 runner-up "Thug" Rose Namajunas and streaking Polish fighter Karolina Kowalkiewicz.
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Yet in booking a compelling women's featherweight title fight of its own—and scheduling it less than a month after the UFC's—Bellator is blasting a clear message out to the MMA world: that the UFC is not the only viable platform for the world's elite female featherweights to perform on.
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This was the guy, after all, who "went around the world twice" promoting his interim title fight with Chad Mendes and who was willing to play the role of a dancing "monkey in the zoo" to publicize his fight with Jose Aldo, all to increase the size of his paychecks.
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The match-up between the pair, set to take place in Las Vegas' new T-Mobile Arena, was met with plenty of controversy—so much so that the WBC was forced to defend its prized middleweight title fight in an unconventional move reflective of the chagrin expressed from boxing fans the world over.
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HBO's Seth Abraham was sick of it and when Don King inquired what it would take to have HBO televise his latest WBC title fight between Pinklon Thomas and Trevor Berbick, Abraham insisted that King be able to use the fight as part of a tournament with all three organizations' heavyweight champions.
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Whether he returns to the UFC for a bout with the winner of Cormier and Rumble's long awaited title fight, or he becomes the latest high profile addition to Bellator's stacked light heavyweight division, he's got plenty of excitement to look forward to as this next phase of his career gets underway.
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Shortly afterwards in February 194, the head of the New York State Athletic Commission, William Muldoon, tore through Rickard's earning potential by announcing that no heavyweight title fight would be held in his jurisdiction unless promoters stopped paying those damn fighters so well and opened up more seating to the common man.
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Pacquiao's longtime trainer, Freddie Roach, predicted a "short and sweet" knockout win for Pacquiao, the 22009-time world champion, in Sunday's so-called Battle of Brisbane, but Horn won a unanimous decision in his first world title fight, delighting the crowd of 217,052 — a record for Australian boxing — at his hometown Suncorp Stadium.
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After Kearns had publicly changed his mind half a dozen times, the fight finally did take place but the average person would not book their cross country travel and expensive ticket to a world title fight based on the off chance that it might happen "The Sack of Shelby" took place on July 4th 1923.
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At a 2012 post-fight press conference after Dereck Chisora had just absorbed 211 punches from a bigger and taller Vitali Klitschko in a gruelling world heavyweight title fight, the Londoner stepped toward David Haye, who was in the crowd at the time, and brawled with his rival in front of the world's media.
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It was the least likely of results — two fighters who had scored 219 straight knockouts between them and neither of them having heard the final bell of a fight in more than eight years — but no one who saw Saturday night's middleweight title fight between Gennady Golovkin and Daniel Jacobs left Madison Square Garden disappointed.
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As media-savvy in his own way as McGregor, Nurmagomedov surely knew that in 2016 any footage of him giving Michael Johnson career advice and laying out his plans for a title fight while in the actual throes of ground-and-pound would make it onto the Internet and thereby impress the UFC brass.
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No matter what your opinion may be concerning the headline fight slated for UFC 200 and how this featherweight interim title fight came about, the nature of the first bout between Aldo and Edgar and the stories both men have been a part of since makes this contest more than worthy of its prominent placing on the bill.
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Taylor was that ruler in last season's super lightweight competition, but he cannot claim to be the undisputed champion in his division until he takes on Jose Ramirez, a 27-year-old American who is a unified super lightweight world champion in his own right, having beaten Maurice Hooker in style in his most recent title fight.
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This Saturday at UFC 26, after a lifetime in combative sports and nearly 22012 years in MMA and so much damage both absorbed and rendered, 2205-year-old Dan Henderson—the oldest fighter in the UFC—offers his pugilistic swansong in a middleweight title fight against Michael Bisping at an ungodly local hour in Manchester, England.
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Though one could argue that their albums Jupiter and Antenna were just as influential on a different group of hardcore kids, as bands like Title Fight certainly took a cue or two from them, Until Your Heart Stops remains a work so influential it's been completely subsumed by a scene almost entirely devoted to replicating it.
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In the first heavyweight title fight to be held in the Middle East, Joshua toyed with an out-of-shape Andy Ruiz Jr. over 12 unspectacular rounds to win a unanimous points decision, reclaiming the World Boxing Association, World Boxing Organization and International Boxing Federation belts and avenging a stunning upset by his Mexican-American opponent six months ago.
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Based on the end of the first round of his title fight with Lesnar at UFC 116 in 2010, it looked like Carwin would be the one to do the chewing: he had fewer compunctions about hitting and getting hit, and another referee under other circumstances might have stopped the fight after seeing Lesnar shrink under so many punches.
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Shamrock took a beating in what's still maybe the most one-sided title fight the UFC has ever promoted, and yet through the sheer force of their personalities, they ran it back twice more and got a full season of The Ultimate Fighter, one in which Ortiz played the doting mentor and Shamrock was the aggro blowhard, to prop it up.
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Mousasi Stops Hall in the First, Asks for Elimination Bout or Title Fight Gegard Mousasi took just one round to get revenge over Uriah Hall in the main event of UFC Belfast after a tentative start that saw him take a calculated approach on the back of his second-round knockout via spinning kick at the hands of the Jamaican in September 2015.
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Although it doesn't appear as though there are as many Irish fans travelling over to Sin City ahead of the March 5 as there were when McGregor took to the Octagon at UFC 189 and UFC 194, the SBG frontrunner claimed that they were a big factor in him taking the interim title fight with Chad Mendes back in July.
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In addition to this, his Chechen roots—as well as his religious beliefs as a Sunni Muslim—could have provided the UFC a popular MMA name from Russia's South Caucasus region long before their belated efforts in promoting Dagestani lightweight Khabib Nurmagomedov, a man considered a key figure in the UFC's wishes to break into the Russian market, ahead of UFC 209 and before his failed weight cut which called off his interim lightweight title fight against Tony Ferguson.
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We have a welterweight title fight with Tyrone Woodley, an eloquent champion whose skin color and background would make the average Trump voter recoil, defending his title; the return of Khabib Nurmagomedov, a Muslim who would be subject to "extreme vetting," like that's an HGTV show or something; a pair of Polish women fighting for the title, but they're okay because they're white and capable of being inappropriately groped and stuff; and a ton of good fights underneath.
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