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PARKER AND PROBIN TO GO HEAD-TO-HEAD AT NEF 31 IN PORTLAND
VIR ONMIDDELLIKE VRYSTELLING: Portland, Maine (Augustus 29, 2017) -Nuwe Engeland Fights (NEF) will make its long-awaited debut in Portland onVrydag, November 3, 2017 at Aura with “NEF 31: The Old Port.” Vroeër vandag, the fight promotion announced the addition of a professional mixed-martial-arts bout to the card. Josh Parker (6-9) sal voldoen “The Blackpool Ripper” Matt Probin (0-0) in a featherweight matchup.
Josh Parker is the founder and head coach of Ruthless MMA & Boxing. A two-sport athlete, Parker has split his professional career between the MMA cage and the boxing ring. He has won two of his last three fights for NEF, most recently dominating Andre Belcarris (0-2) for three rounds on his way to a unanimous decision victory in June. Parker will look to continue his winning ways when he meets Probin on November 3rd.
“I want to thank NEF for making this fight,” said Parker when reached for comment. “I’m excited to get back in there. We recently expanded Ruthless and moved to a new location. Our team keeps growing and they are pushing me every day. I look forward to putting on a show on November 3rd.”
Originally from Blackpool, England and now a Maine resident, Matt Probin divides his training between Central Maine Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Young’s MMA. Probin went 6-2 over the course of his amateur MMA career. While Probin has not competed in MMA in more than three years, he has been active as a professional boxer and kickboxer in recent years. In 2016, Probin had a stint training Muay Thai in Thailand where he competed at the world famous Bangla Boxing Stadium – one of Thailand’s most venerated fight venues.
“I’m pumped for this fight,” declared Probin. “I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited about fighting someone before. Thanks to NEF for making it happen. I guarantee this fight will not go the distance. I respect his game and experience, but that’s it. I’m coming out with bad intentions. Moenie knip!”
NEF se volgende gemengde martial-kuns gebeurtenis, “NEF 31: The Old Port,” will see the company debut in Portland, Maine at the brand new, state-of-the-art venue Aura. The event is scheduled to take place on Vrydag, November 3, 2017. Kaartjies is te koop nou op www.auramaine.com.
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Mayweather vs. McGREGOR TO PREMIERE ON SHOWTIME® THIS SATURDAY IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY ALL ACCESS: Mayweather vs. McGREGOR EPILOGUE
Networks’ Emmy Award-Winning ALL ACCESS Epilogue Takes Viewers Behind The Scenes Of The Blockbuster Event & Floyd Mayweather’s Final Fight
Foto Credit: Ester Lin / Showtime
The unprecedented Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor blockbuster, the final fight of Mayweather’s illustrious career, will premiere on SHOWTIME this Saterdag, Sewe. 2 by 9 namiddag. EN/PT. The showdown between the future Hall of Famer and the UFC superstar originally aired live on SHOWTIME PPV® Saterdag, Augustus 26 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Saterdag se SHOWTIME premiere of the main event will include the singing of the national anthems of the United States and Ireland by Grammy® nominated and multi-platinum artist Demi Lovato and Irish recording sensation Imelda May.
The SHOWTIME presentation of the exciting fight will be immediately followed by the premiere of All Access: Mayweather vs. McGregor Epilogue. The network’s’ distinctive Epiloog reveals the drama of fight night from a unique perspective and introduces viewers to the rarely seen aftermath of world championship prizefighting. All Access: Mayweather vs. McGregor Epilogue goes behind the scenes into the locker rooms, corners and inner circles as McGregor aimed to shock the world in his boxing debut and Mayweather exited the ring for the final time.
Khan and Newell in Sensational Knockout Form Reign Supreme in Bradford
Verslag: Gianluca Di Caro
The boxing scene in the North of England is really booming, especially around the cities of Leeds and Bradford. One of the main reasons for the increase of professional boxing events in the area is due to Bradford’s very own reigning World Boxing Union (WBU), Global Boxing Union (GBU) and World Boxing Confederation (WBC) World Champion Tasif Khan, who for the past couple of years has been working closely with Leeds based promoter Bridie Murtagh to bring stylish Boxing Dinner Shows to the area.
The latest of these took place at the Royal Taj, formerly the Connaught Rooms, in Bradford, which not only featured the aforementioned Tasif Khan himself in action, against Tanzania’s Julias Kisarawe, but also heralded the return of unbeaten Lightweight prospect Justin Newell from Leeds, who faced Latvian Aleksandrs Birkenbergs
Besides the local lads on the card, exciting Super Welterweight prospect Chris Wood from Middlesbrough was in action against Belfast’s Marty Kayes, however two top class International bouts scheduled for the event, a ten round Middleweight contest between Ishmael Tetteh and Philip Kotey, as well as an eight round Welterweight contest between Frank Dodzi and Justice Addy, failed to materialise due to visas for three of the boxers failing to arrive in time.
Whilst disappointing that these two fights didn’t go ahead, there was more than enough action to keep the fans happy, as promoter Bridie Murtagh arranged for two exhibition bouts featuring local lads to replace the Internationals ahead of the pro element.
First up was Chris Wood against Marty Kayes in a four rounder.
What a cracking start to the pro section, it was all action right from the opening bell, Wood was clearly fired up and went on the attack, closing down his far more experienced opponent before letting rip with a vast array of combinations at every conceivable opportunity. Kayes though is as savvy as they come, would cover up and seemed more than content to let the fired up youngster get his shots off before countering.
After four scintillating rounds the referee’s scorecard unsurprisingly read as a 40-36 points victory for the Teesider Chris Wood.
Next up was unbeaten Justin Newell in a six rounder against the very tough Latvian Aleksandrs Birkenbergs.
Newell was on fire, slick movement and very fast hands – Birkenbergs was no walk over and landed a cracking right hand about midway through the round, which lit the blue touch-paper for Newell, who went hard on the attack throwing some tasty big shots to body and head, which ultimately led to Birkenbergs taking a visit to the canvas. This kid’s tough, he was straight up and going toe to toe with Newell until the end of the round.
Round two was fantastic to watch, both lads giving no quarter – beautiful boxing from both, but Newell’s class proved just too much for the plucky Latvian as the Leeds lad piled some serious pressure in the second half of the fight before letting rip with big double handed salvos that sent Birkenbergs to the deck in the dying seconds of the round, no matter how hard he tried Birkenbergs just couldn’t make the count – great win on his return to the fray for Newell who won by TKO, the time would you believe 2 minutes and 59 seconds of round two.
The headline fight see WBU, GBU and WBC World Champion take on Tanzania’s Julias Kisarawe in a ten round non-championship contest, instead of the scheduled twelve round World Boxing Confederation (WBC) Super Flyweight title defence for Khan, due to lateness of the visa arriving for Kisarawe to complete the necessary Championship paperwork for the contest to be sanctioned by the WBC.
First round started fast and see Kisarawe taking the fight to Khan, however the Bradford lad stood his ground and picked his shots for maximum effect
More of the same in round two, except this time it was Khan that took the fight to Kisarawe.
Round three see Khan really start to get in a flow, regularly backing his opponent up before letting rip with wickedly fast double handed salvos, the power and speed in Khan’s shots finally had the desired effect and the super tough Tanzanian took a very brief trip to the canvas.
On the restart Kisarawe went hard on the attack, throwing seriously solid lefts in an attempt to do unto Khan what the Bradford lad did to him moments before (met 14 KO wins on his record Kisarawe is very capable of doing just that)
Round four was an outright war and fascinating to watch, as was round five and six but for very different reasons. Khan stepped not just one gear but at least two or three and corralled the Tanzanian into a corner and just plain bombarded him with double handed Exocets throughout
More of the same in round seven but this time Khan managed to penetrate Kisarawe’s world class defence and sent him to the canvas for the second time.
Kisarawe managed to make the count but it was clear for all to see that he was in some distress, so much so that referee James Ancliff had no option but to stop the contest on the one minute twelve second mark.
What followed then was a good thirty minute celebration in the ring by Tasif Khan, his team AND many of the fans!!!!
Have to say the Khan/Murtagh co-promoted shows I’ve attended have always been top class, however this event, even though a couple of fights short, was by far the best one yet, the fights were all beautifully matched all action affairs, what more could any fan of the pugilistic arts wish for. Can’t wait for the next, which I hear is going to be in December.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER TEKEN 10de RONDTE TEGNIESE UITHALINGSWIN OOR UFC STER CONOR McGREGOR OP SHOWTIME PPV® VANAF T-MOBILE ARENA IN LAS VEGAS
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Yordenis Ugas verdien besluit oor Thomas Dulorme in aksiebelaaide weltergewig-wedstryd wat op Mayweather vs.. McGregor Prelims op FOX & FOX deporteer Saterdagaand van T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas
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Hoe sal Mayweather vs. McGregor vorm die toekoms van kruisgevegte?
Deur: Rich Bergeron
Fight News Unlimited is deeglik bewus van die term “MMA vs. Boksdebat.” Ons het 'n hele radioprogramreeks oor die onderwerp gehad, kulmineer met 'n volwaardige argument tussen Iceman John Scully ('n Voormalige Pro-bokser en huidige boksafrigter) en Ken Shamrock ('n Pro-stoeier, UFC Fighter en MMA-afrigter). Die kantelpunt was toe vroue in boks en MMA. Shamrock het hul pogings ondersteun terwyl Scully die argument aanvaar het dat hy nie wou sien dat 'n vrou met die vuis in die gesig geslaan word nie.
Vanaand is ons op die punt om die grootste corsover-geveg in die geskiedenis van gevegsport te beleef. 'n Jong, honger, hondsdol MMA-gevegte uit die gemene strate van Ierland staar 'n braaf Amerikaner in die gesig wat uit sy aftrede kom na 'n professionele boksloopbaan vir die eeue. Die ervaring bevoordeel die kundige in sy vak, die mees talentvolle verdedigende vegter in die moderne era van boks. Floyd behoort na die oorwinning te beweeg, en die uitklop wat hy voorspel is iets wat baie aanhangers en spekulante in die 6de tot 7de rondte plaas.
McGregor kan wen in enige scenario waar hy die finale klok sien, of die besluit hom bevoordeel of nie. Al wat hy hoef te doen is om te vermaak, stoot Floyd na punte wat hy nog nooit tevore gedruk is nie, en kom onder Floyd se vel in. Al is dit in 'n verloorpoging, Conor moet 'n karakter wees wat nog 'n geveg kan verkoop. Floyd het herhaaldelik in pers-toergeleenthede gesê hy sal volgende met Conor in die Octagon veg. Dit is duidelik Mayweather wat net probeer dink oor die groot prentjie, maar 'n eensydige klop van McGregor sal aanhangers nie te veel oor 'n Octagon-gesig laat praat nie. Sommige spekulante hou vol dat Floyd doelbewus die gas sal afblaas en McGregor syne sal laat kry 12 rondtes van aksie. Hoe meer Floyd Conor soos 'n nar laat lyk, al, hierdie benadering kan op die lang termyn geen vegter goed doen nie.
Conor kan beslis sy eie uitklophou van Floyd Mayweather in die eerste vier rondes haal, soos hy voorspel het. Dit is binne die moontlikheid. Tog sal die groot uitklophou hoe dit ook al gaan, wees hoe Conor sy besigheid na hierdie geveg hanteer.
McGregor Sports and Entertainment het 'n handelsmerk geword wat selfs Dana White die ander aand by die laaste perskonferensie met 'n handelsmerkhemp verteenwoordig het. Ek het aanvanklik teleurgesteld gevoel dat White geen ander UFC-vegters op die onderkaart van hierdie megaboksgeleentheid geplaas het nie. Hoe meer ek oor die benadering gedink het, al, hoe meer ek my verbeel het dat White meer daarvan op die pad wil doen, maar net as McGregor die wêreld kan skok of ten minste die appelkar van boks op een of ander klein manier kan ontstel.
Veelvuldige boksers skree vir 'n kans om 'n MMA-vegter in kruisgevegte by elke groot afdeling te trotseer noudat May/Mac die tafel gedek het. David Haye en Anthony Joshua is net twee swaargewigte wat belangstelling in boks MMA-vegters uitspreek. Joshua sou selfs die hok ingaan as geen voorleggings toegelaat word nie. Tony Bellew wil 'n geveg met Michael Bisping hê. Roy Jones jr. wil Anderson Silva beveg en hengel nou al jare na daardie geleentheid.
Die regte oorkruising wat Conor kan benut, is een wat ek vrees hy sal nie benut nie, al. Daar is geweldige potensiaal om die soort geld te kry wat professionele boksers maak om die oorskakeling na MMA-vegterkontrakte te maak. Daar is baie bespiegelinge oor hoe White kan wegkom daarmee dat die UFC 'n bokswedstryd mede-promoteer wanneer die UFC se bestuurstaktieke nie voldoen aan die standaarde wat in die Ali-wet uiteengesit word nie., wat sekere noodsaaklike beskerming vereis, moet aan professionele boksers verleen word.
Eerder as om terug te keer na die sport van MMA na hierdie geveg en al die kontant en pryse vir homself op te eis, Conor behoort die stygende gety te wees wat alle bote ophef. 'n Ware held van sy sport sal sorg dat hy nie die enigste een is wat geld maak nie, want hy het gehelp om MMA op die regte wêreldverhoog te plaas met sy vertoning vanaand. Hy kan 'n ongelooflike spreekbuis wees om die manier waarop alle vegters sake doen, te verander. Die UFC en Dana White is berug gulsig wanneer dit kom by die beheer van belange in hul vuisvoos werknemers. Dit is wat die voortslepende antitrust-geding teen die maatskappy so ingewikkeld maak.
Soos sekere vegters wat nie van die UFC se kontrak hou nie, bied springskip vir Bellator, White en die UFC het gereageer met die Instant Ultimate Fighter-konsep: Die Contender-reeks. Elke week kry 'n nuwe vegter 'n kontrak. Die weermag groei altyd, is hul ooglopende benadering hier. McGregor kan die aanklag lei van groter as lewensvegters wat nee sê vir die UFC en terugveg teen die maatskappy se drang om vegters so min te gee in ruil vir sulke groot pogings.
Vanaand se geveg kan dalk bepaal of White en die UFC ooit nog 'n kruisgeveg bevorder of nie. Elke keer as hulle dit doen, al, dit sal waarskynlik net een MMA-vegter vs. 'n bokser en nie 'n gestapelde kaart nie. Op hierdie manier kan hulle elke gebeurtenis 'n groot gebeurtenis maak, selfs al blyk dit 'n grap te wees soos baie voorspel vanaand sal blyk te wees.
Dit gaan alles oor hoe McGregor die nadraai in my oë hanteer. Sal hy optree en uitspreek vir die ander vegters wat hul UFC-kontrakte in die wiele kry? Sal hy daardie boksgeld op die tafel kan kry vir homself en sy mede-vegters in die UFC en regoor die MMA-landskap? Sy opsies sal sekerlik selfs in 'n mededingende verlies toeneem, wat maak afgaan deur KO, DQ of skewe klop die enigste maniere waarop hy nie soos rose uitkom nie. Maak nie saak wat gebeur, hy moet die aandag konstruktief gebruik om beide sportsoorte te verbeter.
Die debat kan opgelos word, maar ek glo die toekoms hou 'n kans vir 'n nuwe toernooi-formaat. Eers is daar 'n boksgeveg, dan 'n MMA-geveg. Ses weke uitmekaar, albei vegters het ses maande om voor die eerste geveg te oefen. Dit is die volgende logiese stap, en daar sal 'n bokser wees wat die uitdaging aanvaar.
Mayweather kan die puriste beïndruk met óf 'n sloping oor 12 rondtes of 'n KO binne die afstand. McGregor hoef net dapper te oorleef om meer koppe te laat draai en meer gewildheid te kry. As hy wen, kies hy sy eie lot en laat 'n ton kenners en kritici hul woorde eet. Die vraag is wat volgende gebeur? Sal die debat opgelos word wat ook al aan die einde van die nag gebeur?
VET KANS….
McGregor kan 'n groot hand hê in wat ook al volgende vir die oorkruismark uitskud. Sal dit aantreklik en winsgewend wees in die maande en jare wat kom, of sal hierdie geveg afgaan as 'n gier wat die meeste aanhangers bitter teleurgesteld gelaat het? As dit McGregor meer bekend maak as wat hy reeds is, dit is 'n wen, so ek sal graag wil sien hoe hy daardie wen iets beteken. As hy 'n manier kan vind om al die vegters op die UFC-lys te help om meer van die geld op die tafel te kry, Ek is in sy hoek.
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