Francis Ngannou in Rebel Moon — Part One: Director’s Cut (2024) | @mmaclips101, Twitter
Francis Ngannou is adding to his Hollywood credentials.
This past Friday, Netflix released the director’s cut of its 2023 sci-fi epic film, Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire. The brainchild of director Zach Snyder, Rebel Moon tells the story of a ragtag group of adventurers combating an evil space empire, and much of part one of the series shows the protagonists gathering their party.
One such scene was to involve Ngannou in a speaking part, but it apparently hit the cutting room floor before the original version’s release. In this new cut, Ngannou has a more significant role.
Watch Ngannou’s cameo below.
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Ngannou is initially mistaken for a general the heroes are searching for, but he informs them that the man they want, Titus (played by Djimon Hounsou), has fallen on hard times. His space gladiator character then tells them where Titus can be found.
This isn’t the first major movie role for the PFL star. Ngannou made his movie debut in 2021’s F9 (a film that grossed over $ 700 million worldwide), getting in the mix as a heavy that opposes the Fast and Furious crew during the film’s climactic close.
He also appeared in 2022’s Jackass Forever, where his prodigious punching power was used to hilarious effect by the infamous prank squad.
Ngannou most recently fought this past March in a high-profile boxing bout with British heavyweight star Anthony Joshua. Joshua defeated Ngannou via second-round knockout.
The former UFC champion has been on hiatus as he and his family mourn the tragic passing of his young son, Kobe. On Wednesday, PFL announced Ngannou is set to fight 2023 heavyweight tournament champion Renan Ferreira on Oct. 19.
Sarah Hildebrandt has been one of the United States’ most consistent women’s wrestlers for the past decade, but on Wednesday she finally broke through to capture an Olympic gold medal.
Following a heartbreaking loss in the semifinals in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo that ultimately led to her winning a bronze medal, Hildebrandt returned in 2024 with a renewed motivation to make it to the top of the podium. She realized that dream following a shutout 3-0 win over Yusneylis Guzman Lopez from Cuba to win her gold medal.
“I love this sport,” Hildebrandt said after the win. “It’s so much fun. I’m going to smile as much as I can. I think I did a great job of that this week.”
Known for her signature smile after matches, Hildebrandt’s exuberance after her victory was undeniable as she became the second member of the United States wrestling team to win gold after 20-year-old Amit Elor was the first on Tuesday at 68kg.
The championship run was a bit of a whirlwind for Hildebrandt starting on Wednesday morning after she got word that her original opponent Vinesh Vinesh from India failed to make weight, which disqualified her from the tournament. Per Olympic rules, Lopez was pulled back into the gold medal match because she lost to Vinesh in the semifinals.
In 2023 at the Pan-Am Championships, Hildebrandt dominated Guzman with a 10-0 victory, winning by technical superiority in less than two minutes.
This time around, Hildebrandt didn’t get quite the same lopsided win, but she brimmed with confidence as she shut down Guzman and scored the only takedown of the match early in the opening period. Hildebrandt’s third point came from a passivity call on Guzman after she failed to engage and the referee put her on the clock to score or face a penalty.
In the end, Hildebrandt got the win 3-0 and immediately celebrated with a raucous group of supporters in the crowd, many of whom traveled from her home state of Indiana to be with her in Paris.
Already one of the most decorated women’s wrestlers from the United States, Hildebrandt now owns an Olympic gold to go along with her bronze from 2020 and four medals in the World Championships.
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Terence Crawford was the heavier fighter this past Saturday despite moving up in weight to challenge now-former WBA super welterweight champion Israil Madrimov.
The California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) released the event’s fight night weight report to MMA Fighting, which tracks the gains athletes make prior to stepping in the cage.
Crawford weighed in at 169.8 pounds on fight night after initially stepping on the scale at 153.4 pounds for his super welterweight championship bout with Madrimov. Crawford ultimately won the bout via unanimous decision, giving him his fourth divisional title after previously capturing belts at welterweight, junior welterweight, and lightweight. Crawford’s 16.4 pound gain represented one of the largest increases among the 16 fighters who competed on the Aug. 3 card and even surpassed Madrimov, whose jump from 154 pounds at weigh-ins to 168.6 on fight night represented at 14.6 pound gain.
The biggest weight gain of the event belonged to Steve Nelson, who shot from 167.6 pounds to 193 — a 25.4 pound gain — for his super middleweight contest against Marcos Ramon Vazquez, which Nelson won via fifth-round knockout on the preliminary card.
The complete list of Crawford vs. Madrimov’s fight night weights can be seen below.
Terence Crawford (153.4 to 169.8, 16.4 pound gain)
Israil Madrimov (154 to 168.6, 14.6 pound gain)
Jose Valenzuela (139.8 to 150.2, 10.4 pound gain)
Isaac Cruz (140 to 156, 16 pound gain)
Andy Ruiz (274.4 to 275.4, 1 pound gain)
Jarrell Miller (305.6 to 312, 6.4 pound gain)
Martin Bakole (284.4 to 288, 3.6 pound gain)
Jared Anderson (252.4 to 252.4, 0 pound gain)
David Morrell (174.8 to 190, 15.2 pound gain)
Radivoje Kalajdzic (174.4 to 191.6, 17.2 pound gain)
Andy Cruz (134 to 144.8, 10.8 pound gain)
Antonio Moran (134.8 to 152.2, 17.4 pound gain)
Steve Nelson (167.6 to 193, 25.4 pound gain)
Marcos Ramon Vazquez (167.6 to 180.8, 13.2 pound gain)
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Aljamain Sterling does not agree with UFC’s decision to let Muhammad Mokaev go.
In July, Mokaev picked up his seventh straight UFC win, taking a unanimous decision over Manel Kape at UFC 304. The bout was the final fight on Mokaev’s UFC deal, and following it, UFC CEO Dana White revealed the promotion will not re-sign the 24-year-old undefeated fighter. While Mokaev did have a number of unfortunate incidents with Kape prior to their fight, including sucker-punching Kape at the fighter hotel on fight week, White’s decision was still unexpected — and Sterling, for one, does not agree with it.
“If you ask me, I think it’s f*cked up,” Sterling told The MMA Hour. “I don’t think there was any real reason to cut him. You can say the piggybacking of the fight at the P.I., but that takes two to tango.
“I know Mokaev was the first one to talk shit. Manel told him, ‘When you see me, keep that same energy.’ He saw him, tried to apologize, but Manel told him to keep that same energy, they had a fight or whatever happened, the scuffle. Fast forward, they had a fight again … and then we saw what happened at the hotel, which is kind of odd to put your arm around someone to take a picture and then sucker-punch them. I think that’s a little bit too low for me. I think that one was very, very dirty.
“Then they fought the way that they fought, which was unfortunate because the whole toe thing with Manel in that fight. Then you’ve got one guy who is undefeated, gets cut, it’s weird.”
While Mokaev was not actually cut, merely not re-signed, his departure quickly became cause for speculation. With a 7-0 record in the UFC, Mokaev has unequivocally proven himself as one of the best flyweights in the world, but at his post-fight press conference, “The Punisher” revealed that UFC officials warned him about his wrestling-heavy style, saying he needed to be more exciting. And while Mokaev only landed 30 significant strikes in this fight, Sterling believes he’s getting short shrift here.
“You hear that supposedly he was told that if you don’t want to get cut, don’t keep shooting for takedowns,” Sterling said. “I don’t think he really kept shooting for takedowns in the fight against Manel. I thought he fought a really good fight. I thought both of them brought a really good fight. Outside of the animosity, I thought it was a really good fight. If you saw the animosity and thought it was going to be a crazy barnburner, these guys were going to be just throwing down, standing in the middle Max Holloway style, but that didn’t happen. It was very technical. I still thought it was a good fight.
“You always want to be exciting. I think people kind of get it a little twisted thinking that guys come out wanting to have a boring fight. We all want to have an exciting fight. Sometimes you’ve got to fight certain styles differently than you would a different style.”
UFC CEO Dana White expressly rejected the idea that anyone from the company told Mokaev how he should fight, insisting that the promotion’s issues with the prospect stemmed from “many reasons,” saying “the matchmakers aren’t big fans of his.” Whatever those reasons are, for Sterling this is just another example of the fine line you have to walk as an MMA fighter, between pleasing the promotion and doing what’s best for yourself.
“You’ve kind of got to just do what’s best for you,” Sterling said. “Mokaev is [24] years old. It’s unfortunate that he got cut for that. I don’t think that was necessary. He more than deserved another chance and I think if he goes on the regional circuit and wins one fight, or if they just bring him back right away, it gets odd.
“Because there’s another clip of Nate Maness, who was 5-2, stepped up to fight Umar even though he was a ‘25-pounder, got three bonuses, and from what he was saying, he was told he’s not an exciting guy. He’s got three bonuses! He’s got more bonuses than I have and I’m 16-4 in the UFC. It’s kind of crazy.
“It’s a very interesting spot to be in. I guess you’ve got to try and play the game a little bit because it is entertainment for the fans, but you also want to win, and sometimes it’s not easy to find that silver lining to do both; a little bit of entertainment, but also you make sure you secure the bag and get both checks. I think that’s what most people are afraid of, they don’t want to go home with one check. They want both checks.”
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Canelo Alvarez’s latest fight booking has drawn the ire of some of combat sports’ most influential names.
The superstar boxer recently ruffled the feathers of UFC CEO Dana White and Conor McGregor recently, with White criticizing MGM for booking Alvarez’s upcoming Sept. 14 fight with Edgar Berlanga in Las Vegas on the same night as UFC 306 at the nearby Sphere, and McGregor targeting Alvarez himself, calling him “a cornflake.”
Saudi Arabian adviser and fight promoter Turki Alalshikh also appears to have beef with Alvarez as he recently announced that he is not pursuing a dream fight between Alvarez and Terence Crawford.
On Wednesday, Alalshikh elaborated on his reason for not wanting to work with Alvarez or his team via a social media post.
I heard what Canelo said that he respects me but doesn’t like the way we do business. As for him respecting me, it doesn’t matter to me if he does or not. As for the way I do business, I know why he doesn’t like it, because I only target big fights at fair prices, so of course…
— TURKI ALALSHIKH (@Turki_alalshikh) August 7, 2024
“I heard what Canelo said that he respects me but doesn’t like the way we do business. As for him respecting me, it doesn’t matter to me if he does or not.
“As for the way I do business, I know why he doesn’t like it, because I only target big fights at fair prices, so of course anyone who likes easy fights won’t like that. And I know how he feels after losing to Bivol, so he’s been looking for easier fights ever since. Also, I’m not the one who’s afraid of fighting [David] Benavidez or Crawford.
“Therefore, I knew he was wasting our time and making excuses with big amounts of money that can’t be paid. So I’m continuing my way to make big fights that serve the boxing world, and he’s on his way to making easy show-only fights.”
The gist of Alalshikh’s criticism is that he believes Alvarez is intentionally pricing himself out of marquee matchups to avoid difficult opponents. Alalshikh points specifically to Alvarez’s most recent loss, which came against WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol in May 2022. Alvarez has rebounded with four consecutive victories, knocking off the likes of Gennady Golovkin, Jermell Charlo, and most recently, Jaime Munguia.
Up next for Alvarez is another defense of his super middleweight titles against Berlanga on Sept. 14. In Alvarez’s 65-fight career, he has lost just twice and also has two draws on his record.
Alalshikh has been aggressive in promoting big-name boxing bouts over the past few years. This past weekend, his Riyadh Season promotion held an event at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles, headlined by Crawford fighting Israil Madrimov. He was also a driving force behind former UFC champion and current PFL star Francis Ngannou’s fights with Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, and Fury’s recent championship bout with Oleksandr Usyk.
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The 20-year-old phenom from California wrapped up a dominant run through the 68kg weight class with another shutout victory after beating Meerim Zhumanazarova from Kyrgyzstan with a 3-0 score in the final match from Tuesday’s action at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
The win crowns Elor as the youngest American to ever win a gold medal in wrestling as she surpasses Kyle Snyder, who claimed that title after he won gold back in 2016. Snyder
Snyder is actually still competing as he represents the United States at 97kg with his competition starting on Saturday.
As for Elor, she was overwhelmed with emotion following the win as she celebrated with her coach, former UFC title challenger Sara McMann, who was the first American woman to ever win a medal at the Olympics after she claimed a silver at the 2004 games in Athens.
“I just couldn’t believe that I became an Olympic champion,” Elor said just moments after her win. “This has been my dream for my whole entire life. It’s hard to believe. It’s such a full circle moment. For me, the past few months, especially after I made the Olympic team, I received so many message from younger girls telling me I was their inspiration.
“I really hope that they can chase after their dreams just like I did and they won’t give up either.”
Elor stormed through the competition at 68kg, which was a new home for her after winning two World Championships at 72kg. Over her four matches on the way to the gold medal, Elor outscored her competition 31-2.
“I’m sharing this medal with my whole entire family,” Elor said. “I’m sharing this medal with my whole entire country. Becoming an Olympic champion is one of the most difficult things in the whole entire world.”
The hard work paid off as Elor becomes the first American to win a medal in wrestling at the 2024 Olympics with her teammate Sarah Hildebrandt seeking to join her when she wrestles for gold on Wednesday.
When UFC inks a new broadcast deal sometime in 2025, the owners at TKO Group Holdings may want to send a thank you card to NBA commissioner Adam Silver.
In July, the NBA officially close deals spanning 11 years and $ 77 billion for basketball games to be broadcast on NBC, ESPN/ABC, and Amazon Prime Video for more than a decade starting in 2025. The landmark deals were massive upgrades from the previous broadcast rights deals for the NBA, but also take the league off the market for the next 11 years.
Meanwhile, the NFL — by far the most valuable sports league in the United States — has a deal running through 2033, the college football playoffs are locked up until 2032, and the MLB and NHL don’t have new deals coming until after 2028.
That leaves UFC as the only major sports property coming available for a broadcast rights deal for the next three years, which puts the promotion in pole position to land a huge TV contract after its current deal with ESPN expires in 2025.
“If you look at what else is available, there is not much coming,” NBC Sports president Rick Cordella told The Athletic about the current market for sports broadcast rights deals. “[The NBA] was clearly a big one.”
The same article quoting Cordella mentions several times that UFC is the only truly valuable sports rights package available any time in the near future.
While UFC clearly offers value to whoever bids on its broadcast rights, the organization essentially being the last man standing until at least 2028 sets it up for a huge windfall at the negotiating table.
By all accounts, UFC has enjoyed a close working relationship with ESPN, which also took over pay-per-view broadcasts for the promotion once its initial deal was inked.
That being said, ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro has doled out nearly $ 80 billion in broadcast rights deals since taking over the network, and that’s amid a dwindling audience with the network available in 66.5 million homes compared to 100 million back in 2011.
ESPN is attempting to answer that challenge with direct-to-consumer streaming product Venu, an all-in-one sports service that combines networks from ESPN, FOX, and Warner Bros. Discover into one package for $ 42.99 per month. ESPN is also expected to launch its own standalone streaming service in 2025 to help retain viewers no longer buying a full suite of channels from cable, satellite, or other streaming services like YouTube TV.
ESPN is expected to try and retain UFC’s broadcast rights, but how much the network is willing to spend remains to be seen. Aside from UFC, ESPN is largely done spending on any other broadcast rights deals after locking up the NBA for 11 years and $ 28.8 billion.
While ESPN may look like the frontrunner to keep UFC, it’s impossible to know how things will play out.
Amazon Prime Video has suddenly become a major player in the sports broadcast landscape after landing the NFL’s Thursday Night Football package and then paying $ 20 billion over 11 years for the NBA. Amazon also owns rights to NASCAR as well.
Jay Marine, the global head of sports at Amazon Prime Video, told The Athletic that the company is well aware that UFC is the only major sports deal coming up over the next few years. That knowledge undoubtedly played some part in the bidding for the NBA’s rights, with Marine adding that he’s looking forward to a much longer-term partnership with the basketball league, with hopes for a “three-decade, four-decade-plus relationship.”
In May, TKO Group Holdings president Mark Shapiro revealed that UFC was very close to inking a deal to move to Amazon Prime Video before eventually reaching an agreement with ESPN. Shapiro promised that UFC would explore all viable options with this next broadcast deal negotiation, which could easily bring Amazon back into the fold again.
“We will be flexible so we are giving any perspective partner or current partner the best programming for the most ideal windows so that they can grow their base and retain their [subscriptions],” Shapiro said. “Very important.”
A big part of NBC’s willingness to dish out $ 27 billion over the next 11 years for the NBA was building a model where Peacock — the company’s streaming service — could retain viewers year-round rather than just for any single sports league season. Lessening churn (viewers subscribing for a few months and then cancelling) increases Peacock’s overall profitability.
“Our portfolio of sports on Peacock is incredibly robust,” Cordella said. “You add the NBA to it — I’m a sports fan, you are a sports fan, it feels like a must-have. If you are a sports fan worth your salt, you need Peacock. You need NBC.”
That’s also a check mark in UFC’s favor because there is no offseason for combat sports.
One of the biggest advantages UFC maintains over other sports leagues is a year-round model for events, which includes 12 to 14 annual pay-per-views as well as shoulder programming that remains consistent from month to month.
While Amazon benefits from selling subscriptions to Amazon Prime — a service that gives customers free shipping among other perks, along with Prime Video — NBC, ESPN, and other networks have to find ways to keep subscribers tuned in month to month, year to year.
Adding a valuable year-round product like UFC provides that, especially with its embedded, loyal audience that has only grown in recent years. Despite stars like Conor McGregor not fighting since 2021 and others such as Ronda Rousey long retired, UFC continues to back up the Brink’s truck at every event with record-breaking attendance and live gate numbers.
With NBC, Amazon, and ESPN landing the massive deal with the NBA, that leaves companies like Warner Bros. Discovery out in the cold (the company is actually suing the NBA currently over matching rights for the next TV contract).
As much as Warner Bros. Discovery can lean on other sports offerings already under contract like MLB, NHL, as well as NASCAR and college basketball, losing the NBA hurts. The company was ready to spend billions to retain the NBA, and now that money is available for an entity like UFC to swoop in and capture it.
That’s not even considering streaming services like Netflix potentially getting interested in UFC’s broadcast rights after obtaining Christmas Day games from the NFL as well as an unprecedented 10-year deal for WWE’s flagship program Monday Night Raw starting in 2025.
WWE is the other half of TKO Group Holdings alongside UFC — a fact that has to be acknowledged when negotiations on the new TV deal begin next year.
There’s also players like Apple out there with more than $ 67 billion in cash on hand the company could spend to land a marquee product like UFC. Apple has spent money on sports broadcast rights deals in the past, and stealing away UFC could be a huge addition to the lineup.
It’s impossible to know which way UFC is leaning right now with negotiations not expected to begin for a few more months, but after the latest shifts in the sports media landscape, the promotion is now positioned for even more lucrative deal than before.
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Alexa Grasso lost a head-to-head matchup with Valentina Shevchenko, but her team came out on top on this week’s episode of The Ultimate Fighter 32.
Shevchenko handily beat Grasso in this season’s Coaches Challenge, this time comprised of a basketball shooting contest, only to see her lone featherweight semifinalist fall in disappointing fashion. Team Grasso’s Kaan Ofli (10-2-1) barely needed a minute to secure a guillotine choke on Team Bullet’s Roedie Roets (7-1) and advance to the TUF 32 finals.
Australia’s Ofli was well-prepared for Roets’ wrestling, which was on full display just seconds in as Roets immediately tackled Ofli to the mat. Ofli scrambled to his feet, only to be taken down again, but he was quick to notice Roets in a vulnerable position. he wrapped the South African fighter in a tight guillotine to earn the tap-out victory in Round 1.
Ofli now awaits the winner of the other featherweight semifinal between his teammate Mairon Santos and Team Bullet’s Zygimantas Ramaska.
In the Coaches Challenge, Grasso and Shevchenko were challenged to see who could score more in a basketball competition, with the rivals shooting at the same time and earning points from different spots on the court based on distance. On hand to oversee the contest was Las Vegas Aces star Kelsey Plum.
The coaches were competing for a $ 10,000 prize, plus $ 2,000 for each of their eight fighters.
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The contest got ugly fast as it became clear that neither fighter had much familiarity with shooting a basketball, though Shevchenko and her team eventually realized her best strategy was to simply pile up points from the shortest-distance shot. By the time Grasso attempted to score from the spots that were worth more, Shevchenko was already building an insurmountable lead. The former champion even capped her win off with a long shot to nearly double up Grasso 33-17 after four short quarters of action.
In other drama, semifinalist Ramaska is concerned that he won’t be able to compete due to a facial fracture from his first fight. After seeing two doctors, he was told there’s a strong chance that he can fight, but viewers won’t know for sure until fight night rolls around.
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Next week, Team Grasso teammates Paddy McCorry and Robert Valentin face off for a spot in the middleweight finals.
The Ultimate Fighter 32 airs live every Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN+.
Following the season finale, Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko are set to face off in a flyweight championship trilogy bout at UFC 306 on Sept. 14 at Sphere in Las Vegas.
The finalists of the TUF 32 middleweight and featherweight tournaments will also compete for a six-figure UFC contract at the show’s live finale. A date for that event is yet to be announced.
Here are the TUF 32 rosters divided by team:
Team Grasso
Featherweights
Guillermo Torres (Mexico) (7-1)
Kaan Ofli (Australia) (10-2-1)
Bekhzod Usmonov (Tajikistan) (11-4)
Mairon Santos (Brazil) (13-1)
Middleweights
Robert Valentin (Switzerland) (10-3)
Paddy McCorry (Ireland) (4-1)
Omran Chaaban (Finland) (6-1)
Tom Theocharis (Canada) (9-5)
Team Shevchenko
Featherweights
Roedie Roets (South Africa) (7-1)
Zygimantas Ramaska (Lithuania) (9-2)
Nathan Fletcher (England) (8-1)
Edwin Cooper Jr. (USA) (6-1)
Middleweights
Shamidkhan Magomedov (Russia) (7-1)
Mark Hulme (South Africa) (12-3)
Ryan Loder (USA) (6-1)
Giannis Bachar (Greece) (9-2)
See the semifinal results below:
Middleweight
Ryan Loder def. Omran Chaaban via decision
Paddy McCorry vs. Robert Valentin
Featherweight
Kaan Ofli def. Roedie Roets via submission (guillotine choke) (R1)
Zygimantas Ramaska vs. Mairon Santos
See quarterfinal results below:
Roedie Roets def. Guillermo Torres via decision
Robert Valentin def. Giannis Bachar via KO (strikes) (R1)
Conor McGregor doesn’t believe Canelo Alvarez is a top-notch pay-per-view draw.
McGregor, the UFC’s all-time biggest star and co-owner of BKFC, recently gave his thoughts on Alvarez’s upcoming main event matchup with Edgar Berlanga taking place on the same date — and in the same city — as UFC 306 on Sept. 14, the UFC’s first event at the Sphere, along with Alvarez’s ability to draw money and interest as he prepares to fight down the street at the T-Mobile Arena.
The response from McGregor stems from Alvarez’s recent comments that he wants $ 200 million too face David Benavidez in a future fight.
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“Canelo is a cornflake,” McGregor said. “He has about [300,000] buys in him. He does not generate nothing near what he seeks to be paid.
“UFC [306] is going to run them from the strip. Sheik Turki was right moving on. Canelo doesn’t sell.”
McGregor hasn’t competed in the octagon since suffering an brutal broken leg in his first-round stoppage loss against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021.
“The Notorious” was booked to return at UFC 303 in June, but a broken toe postponed his bout with Michael Chandler to a later date that still hasn’t been determined.
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