🤯📊 Every current UFC champion is a striker now, except for Islam Makhachev.
🇲🇲 Joshua Van - boxing
🇷🇺 Petr Yan - boxing / muay thai
🇦🇺 Alexander Volkanovski -kickboxing
🇬🇪 Ilia Topuria - boxing / (BJJ background)
🇺🇸 Justin Gaethje (IC) - boxing / (wrestling)
🇷🇺 Islam Makhachev - wrestling / sambo
🇺🇸 Sean Strickland - boxing
🇳🇿 Carlos Ulberg - kickboxing
🏴 Tom Aspinall - boxing / BJJ
The era of wrestlers is over?
Zabit Magomedsharipov says the UFC didn’t want him to become champion since there were already several Russian UFC champions:
“They just didn’t want to make me champion. Because at that time there were already a lot of Russian champions. Khabib was champion then, Yan too. They didn’t like the idea of a third champion being from Russia.
But before that, while those guys weren’t champions yet, they were promoting me really well...
There were a lot of reasons [I retired]. It just never worked out. I wanted to fight. The fights got postponed 3-4 times. We just couldn’t come to an agreement somehow.
I was cutting weight, going through full training camps, flying out to America... and when you’ve already gone through the whole process, the weight cut, training, camp, everything, then you arrive and 2-3 weeks before the fight they tell you, ‘That’s it, he’s injured,’ and they postpone it again. So I’d go back home.
Then I’d start preparing all over again. Imagine going through all that every time. That happened to me like 5 times. I got tired too, how much can a person take?
We had some kind of agreement with them that if he pulled out a third time, they’d automatically give me the title shot. Those conversations happened. But the third time they found a lot of excuses again.
Then they started offering me different opponents, Zombie and others. But realistically, at that moment it was me and Rodriguez who were the real contenders.”
(via acb_jj/IG)
What Sean Strickland said to Khamzat Chimaev before the kick 😳
🗣️ Khamzat: "I'm not gonna touch you."
🗣️ Strickland: "You ain't gonna do sh*t dog."
🗣️ Khamzat: "I'm gonna f*k you up"
*KICKS STRICKLAND*
🗣️ Strickland: "You f*cking b*tch. You're a coward. I expect nothing less..." 😳
(via @danawhite)
@ManuelSand11785@bet365mx Que ya hicieron el recurso de revisión y que el juez deja de lado y quién decidirá que pasa es el tribunal colegiado 3-6 meses dan resolución si es que no se va a más tiempo.el gobierno perdió el round 1 y lo sabe , se viene round 2 con tiempo el gobierno va atacar diferente