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This might be one of the more interesting ONE Championship MMA events that is starting soon, maybe because it includes more fighters from Europe and North America.
There are mostly kickboxing, muay thai and grappling fights, but I think main and co-main title fights will be interesting to watch.
I am always super interested in watching heavyweight fights and in main card there is one of this between Marcus Buchecha and Oumar Kane.
If anyone finds this events available on crypto casinos please post it here.


http://www.onefc.com/

No I didnt watch it after I saw main event fighter was changed in last moment, and it was no surprise that Pitbull won.

Patricky Pitbull said recently that he is sad because of potential selling of Bellator but he is already thinking about PFL fighters in his category.
He probably knows more than us so we are probably going to see a lot of changes in next couple of months, and PFL could get other important signings like Sergio Pettis, Usman Nurmagomedov, Vadim Nemkov, Ryan Bader, Cris Cyborg and others.

I totally missed the Bellator X Rizin event but we are having a PFL event on Friday,

PFL 7: 2023 Playoffs

Friday 08.04.2023 at 06:30 PM ET

Promotion: Professional Fighters League
Venue: Boeing Center at Tech Port
Location: San Antonio, Texas, United States



MAIN EVENT
Bubba Jenkins VS Jesus Pinedo

CO-MAIN EVENT
Josh Silveira VS Ty Flores

MAIN CARD
Gabriel Alves Braga VS Chris Wade
Marthin Hamlet VS Impa Kasanganay
Elvin Espinoza VS Keoni Diggs

PRELIMINARY CARD
Thad Jean VS Ali Omar
Desiree Yanez VS Lisa Mauldin
Anthony Ivy VS Carson Hardman
Chelsea Hackett VS Ky Bennett
Billy Elekana VS Chuck Campbell

CANCELLED CARD
Gabriel Alves Braga VS Movlid Khaybulaev - Khaybulaev Injury Change Opponent to Chris Wade
Satoshi Ishii VS Danilo Marques - Cancelled

All information was from Tapology: https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/101462-pfl-2023-playoffs

There are not many Rizin fighters that I have seen but I guess it is just a collaboration or maybe previous Rizin fighters surely all are on Bellator's side now, but anyway
because AJ McKee Jr. has some medical issue Patricky Pitbull is fighting Roberto de Souza which is great because Roberto de Souza is a great grappler but Patricky Pitbull got the better of him with that KO/TKO Leg kick to ground punches was really a solid win for Patricky Pitbull, and because this event is only just 5 fights the Co-Main Event end up so sad with an eye poke and with a No Contest, and Magomed Magomedov have a Brilliant comeback win after that lost to Patchy Mix, so yeah many reputable recoveries for sure,


Great for you to have seen a betting platform for this fight but unfortunately the Main Event was posted late did you see it?

Well, the event was just a 5 fight event so maybe Stake just dump the idea on posting it I really don't know if there is no hype with the event and games they will likely just ignore it sometimes, but upon reviewing the Stake and Sportsbet gambling site I could say the Stake has some variety and they will likely post some event that is least expected like the WNBA if Sportsbet is not posting it or just totally ignores it Stake is posting it but some games where sometimes late so the Bellator X Rizin fight must be posted late aswell,

There is one big change for this Bellator-Rizin event after AJ McKee got injured and he wont be able to fight in main event against Patricky Pitbull.
Rizin quickly found replacement for him with Roberto de Souza, that has interesting nickname Satoshi  
Now we have two Brazillian fighters in main event and this will now be much harder to predict outcome.

I found this event on Stake casino for betting, but main event is not added yet:
https://stake.com/sports/mma/bellator/bellator-mma-vs-rizin-2

Wikipedia is always full of info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellator_MMA_x_Rizin_2

During previous collaboration, Bellator fighters won every fight against Rizin fighters, and as far as I remember, all the fights went full distance. Which means there are no obvious dominance of one promotion over other. Hope this time Rizin guy would get some victories. I would not call it a revenge for previous losses, lets better it be a reputation recovery.

Interesting weekend is coming for MMA with cross promotion Bellator vs RIZIN 2 and main event McKee vs Pitbull.
With more talk of Bellator ownership change I am starting to think that we could see this two companies merging into one in future.
This is not a big fight card with only five fights but main event is very interesting and I am expecting revenge from AJ McKee Jr, after his only loss in carrier was from Patricio Pitbull in 2022.
I cant find this event for betting anywhere, so I would appreciate if you guys can post if you find something.


https://www.bellator.com/event/316

Even though I have posted this event I totally missed it now watching the replay of Superlek Kiatmoo9 against Tagir Khalilov and Superlek is really on another level  watching the fight I was like watching the movie Ongbak it has precision and there is to Superlek's Muay Thai that I love to watch and you will want to watch it again and again, the accuracy for sure Tagir Khalilov doesn't stand a chance against him, and I totally missed it,

While Garry Tonon VS Shamil Gasanov fight for me was boring, even though I know that Wrestling is incorporated with MMA and I surely learn to watch MMA with the ground game the boring part can not get over me, I was bored in a sense because it was pure wrestling, but still, it is OK


It was a fast fight, it ended in Round 2, and it is good that the Mustaches Boy won via Submission rear naked choke on Elijah Johns, and it was a win for Javier Garcia who took the UNF Featherweight Championship it was really amazing, and surprising at the same time, and this will be the same ring where we will see Francis Ngannou for sure let's just wait for that part where Francis Ngannou would just going inside that stage and for sure we will see another great fight,

It it possible that owners of Bellator that is Paramount Global wants to sell their business and they are looking to find a buyer.
First it was UFC in speculations, but Dana White denied that and said they will never buy Bellator, now next on the line is PFL because they have a lot of money now.
I dont think PFL will buy Bellator, but maybe someone from Asia or Arabian countries will do it.

Brock Lesnar last official fight for UFC was against Alistair Overeem in 2011

Good luck trying to go against UFC, you end up on their black list like many others.
Only guy who managed to escape this modern gladiator prison on his own terms in Francis Ngannou, that is why Dana hates him.  

I know Khabib was always clean, but he was exceptional fighter, for everyone else I suspect they used something.
McGregor tried all possible drugs he could, and main junky in UFC is Dana White

Of course we longer have sport, but have pharmacology companies competing among each others Tbh, I also care little, but fighters should be informed that their opponent isnt clean enough, so that they should not struggle cleaning also Pharma vs pharma seems fair to me In the end, both of the fighters enter octagon or ring to finish the opponent.

But what I dont like in competitive sport is weight cutting. If you like to eat and is getting bulky easy, stay in a proper weight division. Cutting 5-15kg before the fight, just to get back to being huge in next 24h is cheating.

This Friday will be juicy for the MMA fans of the LFA in my opinion

LFA 163: Johns vs. Garcia



Friday 07.21.2023 at 09:00 PM ET

Promotion: Legacy Fighting Alliance
Venue: Bell County Expo Center
Location: Belton, Texas, United States

MAIN EVENT
Elijah Johns VS Javier Garcia

CO-MAIN EVENT
William Starks VS Johnny Hopper

MAIN CARD
Landry Ward VS Matheus Pereira
Angel Alvarez VS Milko Tucto
Kevin Fernandez VS Javier Cepeda
Kyler Fairchild VS Alik Lorenz

PRELIMINARY CARD
Erique Owens VS Jota Ninomiya
Zumarr Archer VS Oseyiomon Oiyemhonlan
Ian Engbrock VS John Beckett
J.J. Smith VS Chico Olvera
Lundon Dibrell VS Alex Apodaca
Cailean Pahl VS Alex N'Goran

CANCELLED CARD
Erique Owens VS Angel Atoigue
Valerie Ann Marie Soto VS Kathryn Paprocki

All information was from: TAPOLOGY

^  The thing with competitive sports is, it has become a huge business with athletes getting paid hundreds of millions of dollars in the whole duration of their careers and we still think that these athletes are 'clean'?  I think the lot of them are not.  Take cycling, everybody thought Lance Armstrong was this role model, but no...  Got caught for doping.  So it's just a matter of getting caught.  Does everybody really think the fighters in the UFC, Bellator and these other organizations are clean?  Lol.

But tbh, I don't really care.  I just want to watch these guys throw leather.  If anything, I think it should be regulated.

My social media is now full of "Bellator is now on sale, and PFL is the possible buyer" rumours. What do you think about that? Is it possible that these two promotions gonna merge? This is not the first time I hear about Bellator being on sale or have problems with financing.


UFC signed with USADA only in 2015, and Lesnars era was in 2008-2009 Even if there were some tests, I think Dana forced them to close eyes on Lesnars results, as he was UFCs main milking how that time. It was clear the he was pumped with roids all the time, same as Overeem. But if they were clean, no one would buy PPV to see them fighting, as they would be either regular heavyweights, or slow oxygen killer bodybuilders in octagon.

In 2016 Lesnar fought in UFC and got caught by USADA immediately UFC knew he was using roids, yet still let him fight Mark Hunt. Hunt knew he Lesnar is on roids, but still took it like a men a fought him. He has lost, but right now the fight is no contest in their record. I've heard that Hunt tried to sue UFC because they knew Lesnar was on roids and allowed to fight him, but he has lost that case.

Wins for Phil De Fries and Darko Stosic in KSW and this two guys could fight again in the end of the year.
I heard post fight interviews from both of them, De Fries said they can give him anyone next, and Stosic called him out for rematch.
Stosic needs to improve a lot if he wants to beat KSW champion De Fries, but he is first contender and there is nobody better for this job now.
Check this short video clip how Stosic won by KO in third round against Stefan Vojcak: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qvfEpvPhvR0

Superlek Kiatmoo9 has done it again, by winning his fight against Tagir Khalilov, it was a solid 2nd round  knockout from Superlek, and in 1st round, Tagir Khalilov's face was really busted open already, Superlek was super fast his speed was not normal and his solid shots can bust his opponent open it was really a scary fight for Tagir Khalilov, and on the 2nd round the referee has had enough he has seen enough blood and just like what I have said if you had a Super in your name and also got a number 9 on the back of your name you are meant to be super literally super,

While Garry Tonon VS Shamil Gasanov was immediately a wrestling match at the start because Shamil Gasanov the Russian has already have gone into submission holds, and kicked a knee to the head of Tonon it was really brutal for Tonon to throw that knee, but the beautiful thing here is Garry Tonon here have seen an opportunity to switch and have taken the Russians back actually the back of Gasanov was really exposes on the 1st round and just like in the 1st round the 2nd round is a submission fight again and Tonon is really unexpected here because he is now aiming for the knee of Gasanov, but surely Shamil Gasanov was really strong in holding Tonon but surely Gary Tonon had enough and aiming for he leg he have gone with a Kneebar

That's why some are just justifying the Enhanced Games where athletes can use those drugs and can still participate in the competition. Making USADA useless but it is useless even today. 
Amazing Brock still has a contract in UFC, Dana could really provide a contract that will not make fighters feel like slaves. But he chooses not to. Francis wouldn't have to rebel if he had just let the man fight in boxing and at the same time in UFC.

Jamal loses his belt by the way. Time for Blackovic and Potan to grab that title.

Where was USADA when Brock Lesnar was fighting in UFC?
This guy was full of steroids and illegal substances, everyone knew about it, and he still had eight fights in UFC.
I dont know how everyone else is doing tests but everything can be bypassed if you have the right information in right moment.

Look date when that was posted, you cant expect me to remember things posted weeks or months before event starts, and they probably changed some fighters now.  

look here...

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exactly in 2 weeks the bantamweight champion from denmark, "shark" Jonas Mågård, will fight his third title defense against Felipe Lima in štvanice.
between the pole Robert Bryczek with 4 knockouts in a row and the former interim champion "Pirát" Samuel Krištofič will decide who will challenge Patrik Kincl in the title fight.
controversial figure and great entertainer Václav "Baba Jaga" Mikulášek, uncontrolled brno rocket Radek Roušal or the discovery of 2022, boxing and kickboxing champion Vlado Lengál will also be there.

PFL has signed agreement with USADA. From now on, all the PFL fighter will have to pass USADA tests annually, like all UFC fighter do. Here is a bit more info about https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/37996093/pfl-hires-usada-run-anti-doping-program.

I have found only one difference between UFC and PFL testing - in UFC, fighter have to always give locations where they are. I mean if they were tested in Vegas, they cant go to Thailand for training without notifying USADA about their movement. Because one day, out of nowhere, USADA man can knock on your door and ask to pass the test. With PFL, fighters dont have such strict rules.

If there was a time for you to watch a KSW event this would be a perfect moment with KSW 84 and main event De Fries vs Bajor for Heavyweight Championship title.
But it is not only worth watching because of main event, there are more good fights in this card with another heavyweight fight between Darko Stosic and Stefan Vojcak.
Stosic is ex UFC fighter and he needs to come back after excursion lose from Shamil Gaziev in Brave CF, I just fish odds could be better on him and De Fries.


http://www.kswmma.com/en/