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Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) strawweight sensation and part-time bareknuckle boxer, Paige VanZant, will make her “sweet science” debut against social media pugilist and current Misfits women’s middleweight champion, Elle Brooke, as part of the upcoming Misfits Boxing 15 event on DAZN pay-per-view (PPV), scheduled for this Sat. night (May 25, 2024) at NRG Arena in Houston, Texas.

To order the Misfits Boxing 15: “Brooke vs. VanZant” fight card click HERE.

Before they can fight, they must first weigh in.

Both combatants will take the stage on Fri. afternoon (May 24), LIVE from the “Lone Star State” at 4 p.m. ET in the embedded video above. Expect “Dumbledong” and “12 Gauge” to face off (again) immediately after today’s scale-tipping festivities. This weekend’s boxing headliner is a professionally sanctioned bout scheduled for five, two-minute rounds.

Check out the entire Misfits Boxing 15 fight card and DAZN PPV lineup right HERE.

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Chael Sonnen is set to be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame, and so the MMA Fighting crew takes a look back at his extraordinary career, as DAMN! They Were Good celebrates “The Bad Guy.”

For the first half of Sonnen’s career, “The American Gangster” was an also-ran, a guy with an unexciting style who nobody cared about. He fell short in the UFC when he got the call and then came up short when he fought for the WEC middleweight title, and it looked for all the world like Sonnen would join the ranks of forgotten journeymen that fill MMA.

But then something happened.

Sonnen decided that anonymity wasn’t good enough, and he changed his stars, incorporating pro-wrestling style bombast to make himself marketable. His fighting style never changed, but his mic work did, and suddenly, Sonnen was the biggest thing in the sport, kicking up a rivalry with Anderson Silva that defined the early 2010s of MMA. And while Sonnen never ultimately won a major title in MMA, he did leave an indelible impression on the combat sports world.

What were our favorite moments and the best highlights from Sonnen’s career? How did Sonnen pull off this incredible turnaround? And who exactly is Homer Moore? All this and more are discussed on the latest episode of DAMN! They Were Good.

New episodes of the DAMN! They Were Good podcast come out biweekly and are available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever else you find your favorite podcasts. This week’s episode can be heard below.

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Jiří Procházka’s training methods are highly unusual, but you can’t argue with their results.

Following his impressive second-round comeback KO against Aleksandar Rakic at UFC 300, the former light heavyweight champion is already preparing for his next outing inside the Octagon. Taking to social media, ‘BJP’ revealed that he would undergo three days of complete isolation with no food or electricity of any kind — including light.

“3 days. No Light. No Food. Pure Focus. Pure Training. Preparation can start NOW,” Procházka wrote on X.

It’s nothing out of the ordinary for Procházka who has typically engaged in non-traditional training methods like using trees as heavy bags, traveling trails, and getting lost in the freezing mountains of Las Vegas for an incredible 18 hours.

Jiří Procházka primed for rematch with alex pereira

No official announcement has been made regarding Jiří Procházka’s next fight, but all signs point to it being a rematch with current 205-pound king Alex Pereira.

Poatan’ scored a second-round knockout against Procházka at UFC 295 in November, claiming the vacant light heavyweight title. Since then, Pereira has bagged his first defense, dispatching another former champion — Jamahal Hill — in a matter of minutes at the promotion’s landmark event in April.

Pereira was expected to put his title on the line against Magomed Ankalaev, but with the Russian challenger wanting to push things off until the fall, Pereira is opting to stay busy, lobbying for a rematch with Procházka instead.

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Logan Paul find a defamation and libel lawsuit against boxer Ryan Garcia on Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas over Garcia’s comments about Paul’s Prime Hydration drink.  

Paul revealed the lawsuit via social media.  “I’ve had to spend the last couple months dismantling ridiculous claims about Prime, and it’s become obvious — Prime is under attack. Why?” Paul wrote. “We’re a threat. Prime is the most disruptive beverage in history and our competitors feel the pressure. It’s likely that we’ve been targeted as the victim of a smear campaign.

“Clout chasers know they can use PRIME’s goodwill for attention & views. People don’t like me or KSI. That’s fine. But if you don’t like Prime, don’t drink it. No need to lie about the facts in an attempt to stay relevant.”

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Paul and KSI launched Prime Hydration drink in 2022 and the product quickly became one of the leading energy drinks sold.   

“Today we begin to hold those accountable who’ve damaged our brand for attention while we correct the narrative,” Paul wrote. “We’re here to stay and will continue to change the world of hydration with bold flavors and creative innovation.

“P.S. Ryan Garcia thinks the Earth is flat. P.S.S. Ryan Garcia tested positive for [performance enhancing drugs].”

In recent months, Garcia has criticized Prime and Paul.  In a deleted posted, Garcia said, “I drank Prime and I tested positive for Ostarine” after failing a drug test associated with his April win over Devin Haney.  

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If Dustin Poirier is one thing, he’s certainly consistent when it comes to his fighting future heading into his UFC 302 title shot.

Poirier challenges Islam Makhachev in the main event of the June 1 pay-per-view event. Throughout the build to the fight — and previous bouts — Poirier has constantly been asked about retirement, and whether or not his upcoming fight will be his last. Speaking to CBS Sports, Poirier, once again, said that it’s something he’s certainly considering, but a final decision hasn’t been made.

“I’m capable of anything,” Poirier said. “I can climb back to this spot and fight again for the world title. I can do anything. I can grind back to it, I know I can. It’s just that I don’t have it in me, and I’m not going to do it again.

“I’m not going to climb the ladder again. I’ve been doing this a long time. This is a very selfish sport. I’m ready to be a father, and be a husband, and be home, and be in a routine. I wouldn’t say I can’t do it again, I can do it again. It’s just, this is it for me.”

“The Diamond” relayed similar sentiments in a recent appearance on The MMA Hour — going back to the beginning of his fighting career and setting a goal that he’d be done fighting at the age of 35. Poirier also said he’s financially secure, most notably after two massive wins over Conor McGregor in 2021. Winning the undisputed lightweight title would be the cherry on top of the sundae that is Poirier’s 38-fight career, which includes an interim title win against Max Holloway at UFC 236 in 2019.

Poirier said on The MMA Hour that he knows it’s his “last shot” at becoming champion, but is still mum on the retirement decision just days before his fight with Makhachev.

“I’m still on the fence, win or lose,” Poirier said. “I just want to be content with my career.”

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A few years ago, Paige VanZant spoke openly about the financial struggles she faced during her final UFC fights after suffering a broken arm that kept her out of action for an extended period of time.

Then, as a free agent, VanZant inked a lucrative contract with BKFC, where she competed in a pair of bare-knuckle boxing fights. That, along with launching a fan site, helped her finally find financial stability in her career. Lately, VanZant has spent time expanding her empire after launching a new podcast alongside husband and fellow fighter Austin Vanderford, and crossing over into acting with a role in the upcoming horror film Skill House from writer and director Josh Stolberg, who previously worked on the popular Saw franchise.

But VanZant always planned to fight again. She returns to action Saturday in a boxing match against social influencer and adult star Elle Brooke at a Misfits card in Houston. Because she hasn’t competed in nearly three years and doesn’t necessarily need the money any longer, VanZant rarely escapes questions about why she still bothers fighting at all.

“I’ll tell you this, I have a lot of other opportunities on the table,” VanZant told MMA Fighting. “I signed a movie contract that we’re pushing back so I can have this fight. There’s a lot of other things I could be doing, but I choose to fight because I love it. I have multiple other opportunities reaching out to me that are bigger, I guess in the realm of popularity you could say, but I wanted to do this boxing match. I want to show how hard I’ve been working in the gym, how hard I’ve been training.

“My entire career, people have been asking me why I’m doing it, and it’s because I want to. I do whatever the f*ck I want to do, and I do it because I’m good at it. I do it because this is where I’m going to feel the most success at the end of the day. I like taking risks, I like having fun, and I like to fight.”

As much as VanZant appreciates that she no longer has to scrape and claw by when it comes to her finances, that hasn’t changed her desire to continue fighting.

It’s no different than successful boxers like Canelo Alvarez or Floyd Mayweather sitting at home with hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank, yet both continue to fight well beyond a time when they could have retired comfortably and never throw another punch.

“It’s just an interesting concept that people assume because you make a ton of money that you change as a person,” VanZant said. “Money doesn’t change you — hopefully. You just be smart, and my parents raised me extremely well. I went to college when I was 16. I pretty much could do anything that I wanted to do. I knew whatever I chose, I was going to be successful at, and now all of a sudden it has taken off. My career’s taken off. My finances are proving that, which is awesome, but I think the media likes to make a bigger deal about how much money I make more than I do.

“Everybody wants to talk about how much money I make, and yeah, that is awesome because if you’re going to do a job, you should be paid to do it. Otherwise, it’s just a hobby. The money hasn’t changed me. I’m still the same person. I still have the same love and desire and drive for fighting. It’s just one element that I still stress about that is I guess less stressful than the other person.”

For Saturday’s fight, VanZant isn’t facing another veteran from UFC or BKFC.

Instead, she faces a relative novice in combat sports, with Brooke essentially falling in love with boxing after she already found fame as an influencer. She’s 3-1 in exhibition bouts, and even scored a knockout in her most recent outing to claim a Misfits boxing title.

But that résumé doesn’t come close to the caliber of opponents VanZant faced during her professional fighting career.

So that begs the question — does VanZant actually view Brooke as a legitimate threat?

“I mean, everybody is [a threat],” VanZant said. “I’d have to go back and check what her last fight date was, but I know she’s been preparing extremely hard to fight me. I know they have known they were trying to get me on the fight card before I even knew, so I’m sure she’s been working really hard.

“I hope she is, because I do want to go out there and I want to have a tough fight and I want to really show how hard I’ve worked. That will only come from fighting a skilled opponent.”

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