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For me, there is a fight and a chance for Yoel Romero to get the Light Heavyweight belt for Bellator and be the oldest 46 years old champion,

Bellator 297: Nemkov vs. Romero

Date and Time: Friday 06.16.2023 at 06:00 PM ET
Promotion: Bellator MMA
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States



MAIN EVENT
Vadim Nemkov VS Yoel Romero

CO-MAIN EVENT
Sergio Pettis VS Patricio Pitbull

MAIN CARD
Corey Anderson VS Phil Davis
Daniel James VS Gokhan Saricam

PRELIMINARY CARD
Kyle Crutchmer VS Bobby Nash
Pieter Buist VS Gadzhi Rabadanov
Jaleel Willis VS Ramazan Kuramagomedov
Karl Moore VS Alex Polizzi
Wladmir Gouvea VS Gabriel Sayeg
Archie Colgan VS Emmanuel Sanchez
Mike Hamel VS Shamil Nikaev
Norbert Novenyi Jr. VS Kamil Oniszczuk
Timur Khizriev VS Richie Smullen
Jordan Newman VS Matthew Perry
Cody Law VS Edwin Chavez
Max Metzgar VS David McKinney

Information was from Tapology: https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/99770-bellator-297-nemkov-vs-romero

I surely want to see Francis Ngannou fight again but not against a boxer, if that would give him a large sum of money why not, we really don't know the IQ level of Francis Ngannou in a boxing fight, and like in the MMA fights he is a striker on his fight in the MMA, and going into it he also knows some ground game, but when it comes to boxing does Ngannou had a chance against that great boxer, surely not, but he still got a slight chance winning against a boxer for sure,


I was shocked about the result Jesus Pinedo  Knocks out Brendan Loughnane and in the 1st round it was really an upset win for Pinedo, he really connected that kick to Brendan Loughnane and I think it is not a lucky knee kick but I guess Jesus Pinedo was really good at knocking down his opponent for me he is a knockout artist and if you look at his previous fights all consecutive wins were all Knockouts, for round 1 to 2 only,

Another fight that I see and was entertained by was the Co-Main event of Movlid Khaybulaev VS Tyler Diamond it was a round 2 win for Movlid Khaybulaev via Submission of Arm triangle choke

That will be an amazing deal for the PFL and the UFC, if this is true, well I haven't seen any news about it, but I will love to see that but I though that Larissa Pacheco is the champion now, so I think Larissa Pacheco VS Amanda Nunes, but let's wait for further announcement if this really will take for, or what,


This fight was an upset for Brendan Loughnane because he lost to Jesus Pinedo it was a fast kick but the knee landed on the head of Loughnane, which causes him to fall slowly then Jesus Pinedo made a follow-up hammer fist that KO/TKO Brendan Loughnane, it was a fast round 1 upset, and it was really crazy,


I also love to see Francis Ngannou fight aswell, but it will surely take time, and the Tyson Fury fight will surely take time aswell because of so many legalities, and negotiations that are happening right now

Well Dana White seems interested in everything about Francis Ngannou and the PFL, and he wants the spotlight aswell, that is why he is making negotiations with Tyson Fury aswell, a something collaboration with the PFL, if that could happen, it all connects to that he really wants something,

I cant wait to see him fight again in octagon, but I would be very happy to see him against Tyson Fury first, but Deontay Wilder is also offering to box.
During this time I think Dana White is going to try and do everything to destroy Ngannou reputation and PFL, he already started his dark campaign.

I see some ex UFC fighters here, Bojan Velickovic started great in UFC but then he lost several fights, than he did the same in PFL, so I think Oktagon is much lower league level.

the lineup for the oktagon 44 event is now fixed. the highlight of the evening is the fight of two fighters from the top 100 in the world for the interim light heavyweight title. the silent slovakian executioner Pavol Langer will fight the fight of his life after his victory over Xavier against the brutal, iron munich and number 90 in the world rankings "ironside" Alexander Poppeck.

Definitely, he will fight in a different PFL super fight Division where this division provides a 50% revenue split for fighters while in the Regular Season, this is just the old regular play for most fighters, but sure enough that Super Fight division will start next year and will debut on Francis Ngannou's fight,

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Now here are my full pick for PFL 4 - Regular Season, not my full bet just my full picks, however, will just be picking some fights for my bet, highlighted in green are my picks

PFL 4: Regular Season

MAIN EVENT
Brendan Loughnane VS Jesus Pinedo

CO-MAIN EVENT
Movlid Khaybulaev VS Tyler Diamond

MAIN CARD
Marthin Hamlet VS Sam Kei
Bubba Jenkins VS Sung Bin Jo
Josh Silveira VS Delan Monte

PRELIMINARY CARD
Marlon Moraes VS Gabriel Alves Braga
Ty Flores VS Dan Spohn
Chris Wade VS Ryoji Kudo
Impa Kasanganay VS Tim Caron
Taylor Johnson VS Andrew Sanchez
Abby Montes VS Brandy Hester
Alexei Pergande VS Akeem Bashir

Oh I didnt watch the fights live but it was a knockout fest and I didnt expect to see Pudzianowski losing like this, maybe he is getting old for this sport.
With 46 years this is his second defeat in a row and time for him to think about retirement very soon.

I think Ngannou will fight in different super league, not regular season.
This fight card looks interesting, I want to see comain event Tyler Diamond vs Movlid Khaybulaev and Bubba Jenkins vs Sung Bin Jo.
PFL is looking better with every new event, and I see Dana White is so pissed that he mentions PFL all the time 

This will be on Thursday, June 08 and this is PFL 4 where Francis Ngannou will have a fight next year,

PFL 4: Regular Season

Date and Time: 06.08.2023 at 06:30 PM ET
Promotion: Professional Fighters League
Venue: Overtime Elite Arena
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States



MAIN EVENT
Brendan Loughnane VS Jesus Pinedo

CO-MAIN EVENT
Movlid Khaybulaev VS Tyler Diamond

MAIN CARD
Marthin Hamlet VS Sam Kei
Bubba Jenkins VS Sung Bin Jo
Josh Silveira VS Delan Monte

PRELIMINARY CARD
Marlon Moraes VS Gabriel Alves Braga
Ty Flores VS Dan Spohn
Chris Wade VS Ryoji Kudo
Impa Kasanganay VS Tim Caron
Taylor Johnson VS Andrew Sanchez
Abby Montes VS Brandy Hester
Alexei Pergande VS Akeem Bashir

All information was from TAPOLOGY

in the twitter link below you can see the ko-kick of Khalidov vs Ashkam.
as in the past, MK has once again proven his skills and also enchanted the spectators

https://twitter.com/KSW_MMA/status/1665128632745095168?t=8OvgVfupTR8qw-FU1QaXUw&s=19

and there is the knockout at the fight Pudzianowski vs Szpilka
https://twitter.com/KSW_MMA/status/1665115029639954432?t=8CrWXICixHhddcYctrsXkA&s=19

btw https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.62301752

Yes they did but I liked the whole idea and style of gladiators against samurais.
Rizin is not on the same level like one older MMA organization from Japan called Pride Fighting Championships that doesnt exist anymore,
but everyone remembers Fedor Emelianenko, Mirko Crocop, Wanderlei Silva and others from that time.
I think Bellator vs Rizin 2 will be better to watch.

More modern gladiators are fighting in KSW soon with Mamed Khalidov vs Scott Askham in main event.
Mariusz Pudzianowski is on this fight card and all Polish MMA fans know him very well:


http://www.kswmma.com/

^  Not sure what would happen with the belts in the Bellator vs Rizin event, but the UFC and the PFL had a one match deal for Kayla Harrison to fight Amanda Nunes for the women's 145 championship in the UFC since the fight will take place in the UFC.  So I guess it will depend on what kind of deal they have signed.  I'd imagine Kayla Harrison getting a three fight UFC contract if she did win vs Nunes. 

Anyway, the last one had Bellator fighters beating up most of the Rizin guys.  Some skill in wrestling and grappling really made a huge difference in those match ups.

Just a crazy idea and a question. Imagine they have fights where Bellator champs fights Rizin champ. What will happen with the belt? Is it possible that Bellator fighter will hold a Rizin belt and they have to make same collaboration event again for Rizin to try to take belt back? Like in boxing, when fighters hold several belts from different organizations. And the opponent that is just contender for a WBO belt, and all of a sudden became an absolute champ.

Well, Rizin and Bellator need to do something like this so they can attract more audience and I think they had a unique setting in this that likely many had liked, but for sure Rizin is popular in their country while Bellator had a few fans that were only founded on 2008, while LFA was only 7 years old but they are making the news because of Francis Ngannou, so collaboration is really needed by Rizin and Bellator if I am not mistaken I have posted the 1st Rizin X Bellator collaboration in this thread just back read a few pages back, maybe you will see it,

Well UFC wouldn't need any collaboration with the other combat sports because they are bigger than all of them combine, and surely UFC has already evolved and have rules that some Combat sports do not have sure alone UFC is a formidable company that doesn't need anything well WWE is a different collaboration because it is now a property of Endeavor Group Holdings Inc,


For sure you have already seen my link, there are only 3 fight cards that are available for now, but as you have said it will add more fights, and because the fight will be on July 31, 2023, it is still early they can surely some favorites for both combat sports on the 1st collaboration Rizin was mostly defeated by Bellator fighters but surely if Rizin could come up on providing some support for their fighters I think they can likely do it,

A.J. McKee vs Patricky Freire and Kai Asakura vs Juan Archuleta are two main fights scheduled for Bellator vs Rizin 2 on July 30.
More fights will be added and details revealed for full fight card, but there is more time for this to happen.
I dont know many fighters from Rizin but I like the idea of this event.

I never had any idea that they held such an event before I wonder if this is also possible with the UFC? If they had real champions in both, they could have this and they can make lots of money from it but as we know the UFC doesn't need these MMA companies or they don't want to help them further increase their audience because when it comes for the UFC, they are the number one MMA company out there and when they accept to do this kind of thing, they also gave them huge publicity and audiences which will be going to become permanent fans at least for most people who will watch that fight collaboration.

Oh! I would like to see that, and you are right now that the UFC and the WWE are now partners with one another I think this could surely happen even though he is not fighting now he could have acted with the WWE superstars but this could be possible if he would likely want to with Ronda Rousey and the other guys in wrestling they could surely teach Cormier on how to pull his punches and make it as a punch that make sound that is

That is a likely collaboration and because there are so many collaboration that is happening now, and the PFL with Francis Ngannou, I see this as a collaboration sort and not a contract signing, collaboration of Fury with the UFC boxing if that could make it forward, it could happen, I think the Bellator and Rizin should make noise themselves for the fans of Bellator and Rizin that is,


Rizin is from Japan so likely that Japanese fighters are just in the division of Lightweight and Bantamweight mostly I really think this has already happened back then it was December 31, 2022, and it is called Bellator MMA vs. RIZIN 1, and the Main event was AJ McKee Jr. of Bellator MMA against Roberto de Souza of Rizin, mostly all cards were domination for Bellator, and now what you are saying here is the upcoming collaboration between these two fighting companies, and it is called Bellator MMA vs. RIZIN 2 and this will be on July 31, this year,

Cool. I wonder what kind of collaboration it is going to be. Bellator vs Rizin fighters ? Bellator champs vs Rizin champs? (Rizin currenly has only lightweight and bantamweight champs) Or just Bellator fights are going to be held on that super arena ? Freak fight ? As Akebono and Charles "Krazy horse" Bennett are still in Rizins roster

Only thing I could see Cormier fighting again is WWE like Ronda Rousey did, but that is not real fighting, it is more like theater acting.

Scott Coker and Bellator just announced special collaboration with Rizin, one of the biggest MMA organization from Japan!
This two MMA organizations will work together in making more cross promotional fights like one that happened in December of last year.
Bellator X Rizin 2 will take place in Saitama Super Arena near Tokyo on July 30 this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIKk28WJWxs

A possibility for Cormier to still fight and at his prime against Jon Jones I really think Jones can still win this even though that KO win for Jones was switched to be a No Contest and was stripped of the title after he tested positive for a Turinabol metabolite, but I really think Jon Jones now is a different beast than what Daniel Cormier fight in his prime self,


Just like you, I don't want to see him inside the Octagon aswell, well I really don't like him but I don't like his style of fighting, even though he age down or even at his prime I don't want to see him ever again fight, well it is good that he teaches kids of Martial Arts that was great but maybe retired in being a biased commentator, I agree with you,

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And on the UFC news, Conor McGregor is going to be tested by USADA on having his fight with Michael Chandler, while Conor McGregor is a walking PPV this guy can literally draw out money on his fights so Chandler could be thankful enough for Conor to fight him, and I think next was Israel Adesanya is another cash cow for the UFC, I mean this two and add to this next was Colby Covington, I think this is some guys that are active right now that could draw big PPV in the UFC,

Well, this is just my opinion what you guys think?

With 44 years he is not getting any younger and Jon Jones would easily beat him again.
Cormier was a good fighter once but I never liked his style of fighting or his commentary work because he doesnt know how to be neutral when commenting fights.
He is so fat now that fighting again on professional level is mission impossible for him, but I think he still works with kids and practice at his gym with lighter trainings.

They will sign more heavyweight fighters soon but that wont be guys like Daniel Cormier who didnt step in octagon cage for years, and Dana White would not approve or like that his commentator is fighting for PFL 
I see a lot more potential with younger fighters and with fighters who dont have good relationship with Dana, maybe Stipe Miocic.