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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Featherweight champion Ilia Topuria vs. former Featherweight kingpin and Baddest Motherf—ker (BMF) Max Holloway is only eight days away (Sat., Oct. 26, 2024), and the fight, which goes down at UFC 308 inside Etihad Arena on “Fight Island” in Abu Dhabi, UAE, is heating up.

For the most part, Topuria has been saying he will knock Holloway out, just like he did Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 298 this year (watch it). However, today (Thurs. Oct. 17, 2024), the champion revealed that his grappling is better than his boxing and will submit “Blessed” if the fight goes to the floor.

“Imagine, in the fight, [Holloway] starts to run around inside the octagon, and he doesn’t stop to exchange punches with me and really fight,” Topuria told Kevin Iole. “I can take the decision to take him down whenever I want. As soon as I take that decision, I will submit him. As soon as he touches the ground, he will be submitted.

“Look, I don’t want to take credit from Max Holloway because he demonstrates that he is a very good fighter with a lot of experience. But at the same time, he’s never faced anyone like me. Never ever. The moment that I take him down – if that happens, if I don’t knock him out before, I don’t think he’ll be able to stop my submissions. Trust me, I’m very, very good on the ground. I think I’m better on the ground than I am in striking. The thing is, people have never seen my ground game because I haven’t needed it,” Topuria concluded.

“El Matador” is telling the truth about his ground game. It is very good, and he was considered a grappler long before he started knocking people dead. His first seven professional fights ended via submission (six in the first round). Topuria then fell in love with boxing, and now he prefers knocking people out.

Now, will he submit Holloway?

“Blessed” has only been submitted once in his 33-fight career, and that was to Dustin Poirier in his UFC debut at UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit in 2012.

The good thing about this dilemma is that everyone gets to find out in t-minus eight days.

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Tom Aspinall may have pro wrestling in his future after making an appearance at a WWE show in Manchester, England this week.

The interim UFC heavyweight champion was introduced by WWE universal champion Cody Rhodes, and made his way to the ring to a rousing ovation from his home crowd. Check out the video below.

Shortly thereafter, WWE world champ Gunther — who faces Rhodes at WWE’s Crown Jewel on Nov. 2 — made his way out to the ring.

Gunther put over Aspinall’s accomplishments before asking for an all-champions photo with the Aspinall and Rhodes. Gunther then went on to wish Rhodes good luck in their matchup for Saudi Arabia and offered up a handshake.

Aspinall then asked them, ‘“Why wait until Crown Jewel, when we can do this right here, right now in Manchester?” The crowd was into it, but cooler heads ultimately prevailed.

After winning the interim belt with a quick knockout of Sergei Pavlovich at UFC 295 this past November, Aspinall successfully defended the title in July with a first-round finish of Curtis Blaydes at UFC 304 in July. Aspinall will be the backup fighter for the upcoming UFC 309 heavyweight championship main event between Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic.

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The PFL will host back-to-back events in Saudi Arabia.

During Thursday’s PFL: Battle of the Giants press conference, PFL CEO Peter Murray announced that their annual World Championship card will take place in Riyadh on Nov. 29. Six fighters will walk away with season championships, along with the grand prize of $ 1 million.

It will be the first time the event will be held outside of the United States.

For the women’s flyweight season title, rising star Dakota Ditcheva will face one-time UFC title challenger Taila Santos. Ditcheva earned her spot with a quick knockout of Jena Bishop, while Santos cemented her place in the finals with a decision win over Bellator champ Liz Carmouche.

Brendan Loughnane also looks to cash another $ 1 million check as he faces Timur Khizriev for the featherweight crown.

Check out all of the title fights below.

Dakota Ditcheva vs. Taila Santos – women’s flyweight title fight

Brendan Loughnane vs. Timur Khizriev – featherweight title fight

Brent Primus vs. Gadzhi Rabadanov – lightweight title fight

Shamil Musaev vs. Magomed Umalatov – welterweight title fight

Impa Kasanganay vs. Dovletdzhan Yagshimuradov – light heavyweight title fight

Denis Goltsov vs. Oleg Popov – heavyweight title fight

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The full card headlined by Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson at AT&T Stadium just outside Dallas on Nov. 15 has been revealed.

Paul faces Tyson in an eight round heavyweight main event with the card airing live on Netflix for no additional cost to subscribers.

In addition to Paul vs. Tyson, a highly anticipated rematch between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano serves as the 10-round co-main event. Taylor puts all of her super lightweight titles on the line for the rematch after winning a razor-close decision over Serrano in their first encounter.

A WBC welterweight title fight also takes place on the card as reigning champion Mario Barrios takes on Abel Ramos in a 12-round bout. The final fight rounding out the main card pits Neeraj Goyat against Whindersson Nunes in a six-round super middleweight fight.

As for the prelims, Shadasia Green, who counts Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions as her promoter and managers, takes on undefeated contender Melinda Watpool.

Lucas Bahdi clashes with Corey Marskman in a 10-round lightweight fight between two undefeated prospects. Bruce Carrington Jr. rounds out the preliminary card when he faces Dana Coolwell.

The card airs globally on Netflix with the event kicking off at 8 p.m. ET on Friday, Nov. 15.

Here’s the full card for Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

MAIN CARD

MAIN EVENT: Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

Amanda Serrano vs. Katie Taylor

Mario Barrios vs. Abel Ramos

Neeraj Goyat vs. Whindersson Nunes

PRELIMS

Shadasia Green vs. Melinda Watpool

Lucas Bahdi vs. Corey Marksman

Bruce Carrington Jr. vs. Dana Coolwell

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The Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing spectacle, which streams live on Netflix on Fri., Nov. 15, 2024 from inside AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will be a professionally sanctioned bout under Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR).

But the rules are going to look a little different on fight night.

That’s because TDLR recently rubber-stamped a pair of rule change requests from promoter Bryce Holden. The contest will now feature 14-ounce gloves — a first for “The Lone Star State” — as opposed to the standard 10 ounces.

That’s according to a new report from USA Today.

In addition, the eight rounds have been shortened from three minutes to two minutes apiece to “create more action.” While it’s not the first time a men’s contest has made that round-change request, representatives from TDLR called the decision “rare.”

“It will take the sting off a little bit,” said pro boxer Nico Ali Walsh, who is also the grandson of Muhammad Ali. “And I believe the glove size is there just as a precaution, since Mike is older than people that are fighting professionally. He shouldn’t be fighting in professionally sized gloves. The combination of the two-minute rounds and the 14-ounce gloves made this fight possible. I don’t think any sanctioning body would allow the fight to happen with Mike if they were 10-ounce gloves and three-minute rounds.”

Tyson turned 58 back in June.

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