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MMA Fighting has Misfits Boxing 12 results for the Ed Matthews vs. TBA event Saturday afternoon from the First Direct Arena in Leeds, England.

In the main event, Ed Matthews will square off against an opponent that will be announced during the telecast. Matthews defeated Swarmz via first-round knockout in his last outing on the KSI vs. Fury undercard this past October.

Misfits middleweight champion AJ Bunker will defend her title against Elle Brooke in the co-main event. Brooke defeated Bunker via points in the first contest between the two fighters on July 2022.

Check out the complete MIsfits Boxing 12 results below.

Main card (DAZN at 2 p.m. ET)

Ed Matthews vs. TBA

AJ Bunker vs. Elle Brooke

Ashley Rak-Su vs. OJ Rose

Tristan Hamm vs. Not Logan Paul

Small Sparten Jay vs. FoxTheG

Ben Williams vs. Fes Batista

Chase DeMoor vs. Malcolm Minikon

Myles Rak-Su vs. DTG

Joey Knight vs. Most Wanted

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UFC color commentator Joe Rogan may not be working UFC 297, but he’s a fan of Middleweight champion Sean Strickland, who will take on Dricus Du Plessis in the main event tomorrow night (Sat. Jan. 20, 2024) from Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Strickland appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in July 2023, prior to dethroning Israel Adesanya and taking over the championship mantle.

Strickland’s upset over “Stylebender” shocked a wide portion of the MMA community, as Adesanya was heavily favored and had just regained his belt in dramatic fashion. In the immediate aftermath, many questioned if something was wrong with Adesanya, if he was fighting too often or perhaps overlooked Strickland.

Rogan doesn’t believe there’s any truth to that idea. Instead, he thinks that performance was just evidence of Strickland’s talent.

“I was very impressed,” Rogna explained on a recent podcast (via Josh Evanoff). “He’s a big guy man, there’s a thing about being confident and delusional. Or, not respecting your opponent and you know, I don’t know if that’s what happened with [Israel] Adesanya and Strickland. I just think Strickland’s that good, I really do think [so].”

A big question ahead of his first title defense opposite “Stillknocks” is how the South African will fare across five rounds. He has yet to go beyond the third inside the Octagon, and though his nose being fixed is allegedly going to be a boon to his conditioning, we have seen him fatigue previously.

Strickland, meanwhile, can push an incredible pace. Rogan thinks the reason that Strickland never grows tired is because of the mass amounts of sparring in training, which allow him to throw volume at an unusual rate.

Rogan continued, “He never gets tired … I’m very interested to see who prevails. The Abus Magomedov fight, I think that fight was one of the most impressive fights of Strickland’s fights. Abus comes out in that first round like a bat out of hell. But, he just gassed out, and he gassed out at the end of the first round. I think Abus was just so used to taking guys out, he thought he could just put it on Sean, and he was hitting Sean with f—king fire. That dude’s good man, but Sean just wilted him, just wilted him.”

“He doesn’t get tired.” Joe Rogan concluded his praise of Sean Strickland. “When you have a guy who spars as much as Sean. The bulk of Sean’s training is sparring, and he spars hard. He’s so accustomed to that, that’s really like a fight all of the time.”

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Sean Strickland and Dricus du Plessis will battle in the main event for the UFC middleweight title of UFC 297 in Toronto on Saturday, the promotion’s first pay-per-view event of 2024. While the card as a whole isn’t anywhere near comparable to the UFC’s next three pay-per-view cards, the Strickland vs. du Plessis matchup is doing a lot of heavy lifting as the anticipation continues to build.

Ahead of the event, and the 185-pound title fight, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck, Shaun Al-Shatti, and Eric Jackman preview UFC 297, Strickland vs. du Plessis, the potential of the winner turning around for UFC 300, and more.

Additionally, they’ll discuss the vacant women’s bantamweight championship co-main event between Mayra Bueno Silva and Raquel Pennington, which other main card fighter is the panel keeping their eye on, the low-key banger of the card, and much more.

Catch the UFC 297 preview show above. An audio-only version of the show can be found below and on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you find your favorite podcasts.

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Not actually featuring in this weekend’s vacant bantamweight champion at UFC 297, former divisional queen, Julianna Peña is emerging as betting favorite to lay claim to the 135 pound come the end of the year – ahead of incoming competitors, Raquel Pennington, and Mayra Bueno Silva.

Peña, a former undisputed bantamweight champion and the current number one ranked divisional contender, has been sidelined through the last year amid an injury suffered ahead of a scheduled June title trilogy fight rubber match with the retired, Amanda Nunes.

And yet to be booked to make her return to the Octagon, Washington native, Peña, has been steadfast in her claim that while Pennington and Bueno Silva meet in a vacant title fight at UFC 297 this weekend in Toronto, the two are just fighting for the right to fight her next.

And according to betting odds available, The Ultimate Fighter victor, Julianna Peña is the current betting favorite at odds of +250 to hold the bantamweight crown at the end of December of this year, above next closest foe, Mayra Bueno Silva. 

Julianna Peña favorite to end 2024 as champion

Odds on Julianna Peña’s chances of striking and holding gold in the future ahead of UFC 297 are available web-wide – and while punters are sure to splash their cash on the interesting prop bet of the future champion come the end of 2024, they can also take a punt on the best bitcoin casinos at the link provided. 

Sidelined since dropping her title to Nunes back in 2022, the year prior, Peña turned in one of the most surprising and shocking upset victories for the bookmakers – submitting the dominant former two-weight champion with a stunning second round rear-naked choke in their grudge fight. 

Peña’s win saw the outspoken Washington star become just the fifth bantamweight champion in the history of the UFC, following in the footsteps of Ronda Rousey, Miesha Tate, and Holly Holm, as well as the previously mentioned, Nunes.

And with odds of +1,800 available on a stunning comeback title reign for the retired Nunes by the end of 2024, the Bahia native is more likely to hold the championship at the end of the year than the above-mentioned, Holm at +3,500 – and Tacoma native, Tate, who is even drifting out futher at +5,000. 

Holding a prior armbar submission win over Peña, former undisputed flyweight queen, Valentina Shevchenko – who has long-been linked with a bantamweight return following a failed title pursuit against Nunes in the pair’s rematch, is available as short as a +750 betting underdog to hold the title at the end of 2024. 

Set to make her first outing amid pregnancy in an April return to the Octagon, inaugural featherweight champion, Germaine de Randamie, who is the last fighter to beat Julianna Peña other than two-time foe, Nunes – is drawing odds currently of +2,500 to hold gold at the bantamweight limit at the end of the year, ahead of her fight with Brazilian contender, Norma Dumont.

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On Friday afternoon, the fighters competing on Saturday’s UFC 297 fight card participated in the event’s ceremonial weigh-in.  

The fight card is headlined by a middleweight title bout between champion Sean Strickland and second-ranked Dricus Du Plessis.

The vacant women’s bantamweight title is on the line in the co-main event. Raquel Pennington and Mayra Bueno Silva clash for the vacant strap. 

UFC 297 Ceremonial Weigh-in Video

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