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In an interview with ‘The Schmo’, Holland revealed that he was not a fan of either fighter headlining the UFC 272 pay-per-view. ‘Big Mouth’ then went on to pick ‘Chaos’ as the winner of the fight: Catch Kevin Holland’s full interview with ‘The Schmo’ below: Holland is currently planning to move down to welterweight. In his last three fights as a 185 pounder, ‘Big Mouth’ has failed to secure a win....

The main card of UFC on ESPN 5 averaged 680k viewers while the prelims drew 523k. There were comparatively fewer eyes on the show as it was held on an afternoon, which is unlike most UFC shows which are billed as fight nights. In case you didn’t know… Colby Covington headlined the event in a Welterweight clash against Robbie Lawler while the co-main event saw UFC veterans Jim Miller and Clay Guida slug it in a fight ten years in the making....

In case you didn’t know… Professional American Boxer Gervonta Davis is a two-time Super Featherweight Boxing World Champion having held the WBA (Super) title since April 2018 and previously the IBF title in 2017. In July of 2018, Davis was also ranked as the second-best active super featherweight by The Ring magazine, The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and Boxrec, as well. Throughout his Professional Boxing career, Davis has knocked out the likes of Jesus Cuellar, Francisco Fonseca, and former British super-featherweight champion Liam Walsh....

That’s not to say this show looks bad on paper – it’s full of fighters who usually bring the action, names like Jack Hermansson, Karolina Kowalkiewicz and Sheymon Moraes – but in terms of title contention, well, it’s hard to see any title shots being won in Philly on Saturday. But hey, it’s about fight quality, right? And there should be some quality stuff on tap here. Here are the predicted outcomes for UFC on ESPN: Barboza vs....

The headliner will be a cracker in the UFC Light Heavyweight Division. Former UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman will face the undefeated Dominick Reyes, as the latter continues his relentless climb up the UFC ladder. Reyes has left behind Jared Cannonier, Ovince Saint-Preux, and Volkan Oezdemir in his last three fights, having won all five of his fights in the UFC, with a professional record of 11-0. Making it to 12-0 will be difficult as at the moment he finds himself facing Weidman....

Kattar, who made his MMA debut in 2007, joined the UFC in 2017. After beating top contenders in Jeremy Stephens and Dan Ige, Kattar lost to Max Holloway in January 2021. During that fight, Holloway landed 445+ strikes, the most significant strikes landed in a fight in UFC history. Kattar will look to stop the momentum of Chikadze, who has won nine fights in a row and seven with the UFC....

The original main event of UFC Vegas 48 was Rafael dos Anjos vs. Rafael Fiziev, but Fiziev’s visa issues forced the fight to be moved. Insert Walker vs. Hill. Making his pro debut in 2013, Walker joined the UFC in 2018 via Dana White’s Contender Series. He is 5-3 with the promotion, but 1-3 in his last four fights. Walker last fought in October, losing to Thiago Santos via unanimous decision....

Time being what it is - a necessary fiction - the year 2000 is based on a calendar (another fictive device) that rests on an arbitrary division of time itself: the years before the birth of Christ (B.C.) and the years after the ““anno Domini’’ (the ““Year of Our Lord,’’ or A.D.). But if modern scholars are right, Jesus was actually born four to six years ““before Christ,’’ which means that we are already well into the third millennium....

Why Alexis, not Giroud is Arsenal’s No.9 On Thursday, February 9, MPs in the House of Commons will debate bringing forward legislation to force a revamp of the FA’s governance structures. The sports minister Tracey Crouch gave the FA six months to take significant steps in reforming its board and council in October last year. Around the same time, the government published new guidance for best practice in sports governance and the FA now faces the possibility of losing its £30million annual allocation of grassroots funding from Sport England....

Zelensky made the remarks in a national address Monday to commemorate the eight-month mark of Russia’s invasion. During his speech, Zelensky said Ukrainian forces were on their way to retaking all territory occupied by Russia. But Zelensky warned that victory will not come easily and Ukraine will still need to make it through the winter, which he said will be “the most difficult in our history.” “Ukraine is breaking the so-called ‘second army of the world’ - and from now on, Russia will only be a beggar,” Zelensky said in his speech....

The minister, Dmytro Kuleba, spoke about Putin’s threat while speaking to Stephen Colbert on his Wednesday night show. The exchange came after the Kremlin released a prerecorded speech from Putin on Wednesday morning. In it, the president called for a partial mobilization of reservists and ex-military personnel to join the fighting in Ukraine and also issued new warnings to the West and Ukraine. He reiterated a threat to consider using nuclear weapons, adding that he was not bluffing....

As reported by the state-run TASS news outlet, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday that the aggression could end almost instantly if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky orders fighters to “lay down their arms.” “The Ukrainian side can stop everything before the end of the current day,” Peskov said, according to an English translation. “We need an order for nationalist units to lay down their arms, an order for the Ukrainian military to lay down their arms, and we need to fulfill the conditions of the Russian Federation....

In a new update shared on Twitter Wednesday, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said that 780 Russian personnel had been killed in the past day. This brings the total number of Russian deaths up to about 77,950 from when the war started on February 24 through November 9, according to Ukraine. Additionally, Ukraine said that Russia lost 15 tanks, 12 armored combat vehicles, two multiple launch rocket systems, two air defense systems, seven drones and 11 vehicles and fuel tanks....

In five matches, Ukraine have amassed 13 points and are currently sitting at the top of Group B, five points ahead of the defending champions Portugal. However, that gap might get lowered down to two, if Portugal manages to get the better of Ukraine on Monday (October 14) at the NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kiev. After winning the UEFA Euro in 2016, Fernando Santos’ Portugal side lifted the first ever UEFA Nations League....

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) noted on Friday how Russian sources and military bloggers had said that Wagner Group troops had broken through in Soledar, about 11 miles away from the Donetsk oblast city that has been fought over for months. Although it was too soon to tell if Soledar had been captured entirely, one milblogger claimed that Russian troops had advanced as far as Krasnopillia, which lies around two and a half miles northwest and that “the Ukrainian grouping in Bakhmut is under threat of encirclement as a result....

Officials also said that they are no longer harvesting wheat, just Russian “enemy iron.” The images are concerning because Ukraine is often called “the world’s breadbasket” and the “granary of Europe.” The footage shows workers from the State Emergency Service (SES) of Ukraine detonating Russian explosive devices from the fields of the Mykolaiv region in south-western Ukraine, near the strategically vital port city of Odessa. The footage was obtained from the SES of Ukraine on Tuesday, along with a short statement saying: “Meanwhile, the enemy is sowing our fields with deadly metal....

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave a military challenge coin to Captain Pavlo Cherniavskyi from Biden during an annual address at the country’s parliament on Wednesday. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the coins have been an American military tradition for more than a century “meant to instill unit pride, improve esprit de corps and reward hard work and excellence.” Oleksiy Goncharenko, a Ukrainian politician present during Zelensky’s speech, told Newsweek the gift was a “gesture of moral support....

On December 8th, 2011, at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, CA, magic happened. Magic that could only be described as the coalition of hundreds of gamers getting together for rock & roll and charity. Yes, the gift of charity isn’t just a skill bonus found in Skyrim, but it is an actual thing. The particular charity in question is Child’s Play, the Penny Arcade-founded charity that provides, among other things, video games and accessories for hospitals....

Anger is the only social-media applicable emotion when decisions like this are made. Beckman was fired for the mistreatment of Illinois players on Aug. 28, 2015. It’s an unnecessary risk for Fedora to take, but there’s nothing stopping him from taking that risk. Blame the NCAA all you want for allowing it to happen, but in a system with a nebulous punishment system that never seems to drop the hammer on coaches, it’s going to continue to happen....

Marquise Williams played high school football 15 miles from the Carolina Panthers’ stadium, and in his final collegiate season, had two chances to put on a homecoming show. They resulted in his only blemishes of an otherwise stellar 2015. MORE: Five things we learned from Clemson-UNC | Best team in the country? Has to be Clemson Five turnovers, two losses. “Yeah, it’s tough coming back into my hometown and not being able to get a win,” Williams said....