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The Craig Jones Invitational brackets are out, and they are packed with stars.

Event organizer Craig Jones headlines the CJI event Saturday when he squares off in a men vs. women superfight against IBJJF Hall of Famer Gabi Garcia. Also on Saturday, UFC star and former ADCC champion Mackenzie Dern faces former ADCC champion Ffion Davies in a superfight as well.

The first day of the Craig Jones Invitational on Aug. 16 will start at 6 p.m. ET, and the second day will begin at 8 p.m. ET.

The event is free on YouTube.

Friday’s action:

Over 80kg first round:

Nicky Rod vs. Max Gimenis

Owen Livesey vs. Mahamed Aly

Adam Bradley vs. Kyle Boehm

Luke Rockhold vs. Pat Downey

William Tackett vs. Joao Gabriel Rocha

Fellipe Andrew vs. Daniel Kerkvliet

Inacio Santos vs. Pedro Alex

Victor Hugo vs. Lucas Kanard

Under 80kg first round:

Tye Ruotolo vs. Jason Nolf

Roberto Jimenez vs Levi Jones-Leary

Lucas Barbosa vs. Kenta Iwamoto

Jozef Chen vs. Andy Varela

Nicky Ryan vs. Andrew Tackett

Magid Hage vs. Eoghan O’Flanagan

Renato Canuto vs. Tommy Langaker

Kade Ruotolo vs. Matheus Diniz

Saturday’s superfights

Craig Jones vs. Gabi Garcia

Mackenzie Dern vs. Ffion Davies

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Paddy Pimblett is known for not taking his diet too seriously outside of competition, and this time is no different.

The Liverpool native often bulks up between fights and fans are openly worried about the health risks it may present in the long run. Despite the continous fears, the scouser is taking an ‘if it’s not broken, don’t fix it’ approach to things.

Silencing the doubters, Paddy Pimblett managed to put on an all-timer performance where he choked Bobby Green to sleep at UFC 304. In spite of his new #15 ranking next to his name, Pimblett is still over-indulging in food in-between fights.

Just one week after the biggest win of his UFC career, the natural 155er can now almost compete alongside light heavyweight kingpin Alex Pereira. 

Pimblett piled on an enormous amount of weight during a family holiday to Tenerife post UFC 304. The global star weighed close to 200 lbs after returning from Spain, gaining over 40 lbs in just one week — and completely transforming his facial structure in the process.

“Back from [Tenerife],” Pimblett said in a recently released vlog uploaded to his YouTube channel. “Probably start getting called a fat c*** by everyone.”

“I didn’t do too bad. Didn’t do great, though, at the same time. Still a bit chubby.”

Related: Paddy Pimblett reveals he snapped Bobby Green’s arm during UFC 304

“I’m not as fat as I have been but I’m still a bit chubby. We were eating all sorts, lad. Chinese’s, Thai’s, steaks, burgers, and sh*t.”

After the holiday, Pimblett was wasting no time in shredding off the extra pounds. The Brit went straight back to NextGen to put in the work for his next UFC outing.

“I’m still looking forward to some scans here. But, I just need to train. That’s the main thing, lad.”

“Obviously, eating copious amounts of food doesn’t help with your weight, but when I don’t train, I put weight on.”

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Serghei Spivac made quick work of the durable veteran Marcin Tybura in the main event of UFC Vegas 95 this past Saturday night at the UFC APEX. After the win, Spivac didn’t have a specific name in mind, but called for someone ranked higher, and then Jailton Almeida issued a callout of his own to Spivac. Is that the way to go for “Polar Bear” after a bounce back win?

On an all-new edition of On To the Next One, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee discuss what could be next for Spivac after becoming the first fighter to submit Tybura. Additionally, future matchups are discussed for Chepe Mariscal following his dominant decision win over Damon Jackson in the co-main event, Danny Barlow after defeating Nikolay Veretennikov, along with fellow main card winners Chris Gutierrez, Yana Santos, Toshiomi Kazama, and more.

Audio-only versions of the podcast can be found below, on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and wherever you find your favorite podcasts.

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As expected, the argument over African heritage has become a talking point ahead of the upcoming UFC 305 pay-per-view (PPV) main event this weekend in Perth, where Dricus Du Plessis defends his 185-pound strap against former middleweight champion Israel Adesanya.

Du Plessis, who hails from South Africa, ruffled a few feathers by suggesting he would become the first UFC champion to be born, raised, and still-residing in Africa, unlike Adesanya — who alongside Kamaru Usman and Francis Ngannou — relocated to other parts of the world.

“I want him to take accountability for his remarks,” Adesanya told TMZ Sports. “Abdul Razak [Alhassan] said it before his fight about three weeks ago, saying, ‘I respect Dricus, but he’s a b*tch for what he said.’ He’s a b*tch. Because Dricus is saying, ‘I trained in Africa, I do this in Africa,’ and people like Razak and myself who are forced to flee our own country because of a better opportunity, he’ll never understand that because he lives behind the f*cking gates of his privileged life in South Africa, and he’s able to do that there.”

Based on this video, it appears Du Plessis has the unconditional support of South African fight fans.

“So, someone like Francis [Ngannou], who had to cross the desert to go overseas to go train,” Adesanya continued. “If you know Francis’ story, you can’t call him not a real African champion because he didn’t train in Africa. Like, bro. Are you f*cking kidding? The guy got sent back out to the desert six, seven times to go die, and he survived.”

Don’t expect UFC CEO Dana White to get involved in this debate.

“Even without Francis being champion, without myself being champion, without Kamaru being champion, he would have never been champion,” Adesanya said. “We paved the way for him, and then he comes out there and tries to take it all for himself. What kind of mindset is it that you see three African champions and you’re going to be the fourth one? That’s a colonist mindset. He doesn’t understand the error of his ways, but I will show him the way. He will always be an African champion, but he’ll never be one of the three kings.”

Adesanya, Usman, and Ngannou were dubbed the “Three Kings” of UFC after holding championship titles at the same time, even though “The Last Stylebender” and “The Nigerian Nightmare” failed to “sack up” when “The Predator” went to war with UFC.

To see who else is fighting at UFC 305 this weekend in Perth click here.

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Canelo Alvarez doesn’t see UFC as competition.

The boxing superstar returns to action on Sept. 14, when he defends his WBA, WBC, and WBO super middleweight titles against Edgar Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs). Alvarez’s 66th pro bout takes place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on the same night as UFC 306, which goes down at the new Sphere venue just a few blocks away.

UFC CEO Dana White has expressed his annoyance at MGM choosing T-Mobile Arena as the location for their fight, and star Conor McGregor warned that UFC’s show will overshadow Alvarez vs. Berlanga.

Alvarez (61-2-2, 39 KOs) responded to the trash talk in an interview on the Million Dollaz Worth of Game. Suffice to say, he’s confident he’ll beat UFC on Mexican Independence Day weekend.

“It’s just different,” Alvarez said. “Maybe other boxing matches, maybe, but Canelo is different. There are other kind of fights, but Canelo is just different. I don’t care if the UFC is there, when Canelo fights, it’s different.”

One knock against Alvarez’s upcoming matchup is that Berlanga lacks the notoriety of some of Alvarez’s other challenger options, namely WBC interim champion David Benavidez. Saudi promoter Turki Alalshikh also accused Alvarez of intentionally pricing himself out of negotiations for a superfight with Terence Crawford, to which Alvarez simply responded with a laughing emoji.

Alvarez explained why he feels justified in defending against Berlanga in the face of calls to take on other opponents.

“Look, at some point all the fighters did [what they were told],” Alvarez said. [Oscar] De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather, Julio Cesar Chavez, Mike Tyson, everybody did this. There are stars and superstars and they made the championship, not the championship made them. So it’s way different. I come and I do my career and I fight with [Miguel] Cotto with a clause, and I fight with Mayweather with a clause, and I fight with everybody to build the Canelo Alvarez I am. Right now I can do whatever I want.

“The IBF [says], ‘Hey, you need to fight with this because this.’ Who’s [William] Scull? I never hear about him, just when they say, ‘This is your mandatory.’ I never hear about him. I don’t want to do whatever they want. I want to do what I want. In this position I can do whatever I want. Because I deserve it, because of all I did. They said, ‘You don’t want to fight [Gennady] Golovkin,’ I fight him. [Erislandy] Lara, I fight him. Callum Smith, Billy Joe Saunders, Caleb Plant, [Austin] Trout, Mayweather, Cotto, [Dmitry] Bivol, everything. I did everything, and now [Berlanga]. But like I said, I did everything and now I can ask whatever I want and I can do whatever I want.”

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