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Cédric Doumbé already has big plans for his next fight.
This Friday at Bellator Paris, Doumbé fights for the first time since suffering a freak TKO loss due to a splinter in his foot this past March. He takes on Jaleel Willis in the co-main event.
Though Willis has plenty of MMA experience compared to Doumbé, it’s another MMA veteran that the former kickboxing champion has set his sights on: Former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis.
Doumbé brought up the possibility of fighting Pettis several times during a Wednesday appearance on The MMA Hour, before stating that the matchup is all but official with a win over Willis.
“Yeah, 99 percent a done deal,” Doumbé said. “The next one. … It’s going to be in Saudi Arabia, pay-per-view, and probably the Arabian crowd will be good. Welterweight. PFL.”
For Pettis’ part, he has made it clear that he also expects the Doumbé fight to happen next.
See you Friday @CedricDoumbe https://t.co/4Lce3pJGO4
— Anthony Pettis (@Showtimepettis) May 14, 2024
Pettis told MMA Fighting’s Damon Martin that he will be in attendance at Accor Arena and it’s likely he will issue a challenge if Doumbé impresses against Willis.
Though Pettis’ PFL run has mostly been a disappointment so far, with just one win in five league appearances, he still brings plenty of name value to any matchup. “Showtime” was a star in the UFC and WEC, winning titles in both promotions and cementing himself as one of the most exciting fighters in MMA.
By contrast, Doumbé is just beginning his MMA career. After transitioning from kickboxing, he knocked out his first five opponents before taking his first loss in bizarre fashion against Baissangour Chamsoudinov. “Baki” officially won via TKO after Doumbé signaled to referee Marc Goddard that there was debris poking into his foot, which resulted in Goddard waving off the bout.
Doumbé claims that Chamsoudinov was offered a rematch, but declined because he wants his win over Doumbé to be forever preserved.
“He’s running,” Doumbé said. “This is the only way he could win a fight against Cédric Doumbé, so he will never, never, ever step into the cage in front of Cédric Doumbé because he felt what he felt during the first round. His game plan was take me down, hold me on the floor, and maybe submit me or finish me on the ground, but he couldn’t do it. So now he’s like, ‘I cannot beat that guy. Thank God, thank the splinter, thanks Marc, so this time I will just take my chance. I won against Cédric Doumbé.’
“If you ask him, he will say, ‘Yeah, I beat Cédric Doumbé. I won, TKO, bro, I beat Cédric Doumbé. So now I’m safe. Why do I need to go back into the cage against him?’ So he’s running. He doesn’t want to fight. I understand, but I thought he was a man, like a real man, but he’s not, so now I’m just moving on and the next fight is going to be Anthony Pettis. Way better than him, so let’s move on.”
Doumbé appears to be taking his first MMA loss in stride and he jokingly agreed with Chamsoudinov’s logic for not pursuing a rematch.
“He’s happy,” Doumbé said. “If you make me fight Jon Jones and because of a splinter I win by TKO against Jon Jones, why do I have to take a rematch? I don’t want to. I beat Jon Jones. I’m the baddest motherf*cker on the planet. I beat Jon Jones. So that’s why he’s talking. He can only talk on Twitter, he can only talk on social media, because now he knows that on his record he can be the only guy who beat Cédric Doumbé.”
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Sometimes you screw up so badly that the only thing to do is hang it up. That’s where ring announcer Dan Hennessy is right now.
This past weekend, Nina Hughes and Cherneka Johnson fought for the WBA bantamweight title as the co-main event for the Vasiliy Lomachenko vs. George Kambosos fight card, and after 10 rounds of action largely dominated by Cherneka, Hennessy badly botched the reading of the official decision, announcing Hughes as the winner. As the commentary team sat in stunned disbelief and Hughes celebrated her unexpected victory, Hennessy realized his mistake and then re-announced the decision, with Johnson getting her justly earned victory.
To his credit, Hennessy completely owned up to his mistake, and Johnson accepted his apology. But as you might expect, the internet was less kind to him. And as a result, on Tuesday, the veteran ring announcer declared that he is hanging up his microphone in response to the backlash.
“I love all the support from everyone. Thank you all for the kind words. Unfortunately the worldwide backlash is absolutely incredible and it’s effecting my mental health to a degree where I will have one more show ever. I am doing this show because I am still a man of my word and promised Sam Rapira that I would do it because he is a great mate and I refuse to leave him hanging. I love and will keep in touch with all my friends from around the world. Thank you. No longer the world’s punching bag. I’m out.”
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — High-level Brazilian jiu-jitsu is back!
UFC Fight Pass Invitational 7 goes down tonight (Weds., May 15, 2024) from inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the main event, “Gordon Ryan Hunter,” Nicky Rod, returns for his first headlining opportunity against the guy who Ryan was supposed to grapple, Mason Fowler. In the co-main event, surging UFC Lightweight contender, Renato Moicano, takes on Cristian Guzman.
UFC Fight Pass Invitational 7 will stream LIVE on UFC Fight Pass, beginning at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT.
UFC Fight Pass Invitational 7 Quick Results:
Nick Rodriguez vs Mason Fowler Renato Moicano vs Cristian Guzman Kanyan Duarte vs Luke Griffith Giancarlo Bodoni vs Gabriel Arges Renato Canuto defeats Aaron Wilson via submission (heel hook)
THIS GUY ROCKS#FPI7 pic.twitter.com/iSHIGDnX04
— UFC FIGHT PASS (@UFCFightPass) May 16, 2024
Johnatas Gracie defeats Jay Rodriguez via points in overtime
Almost pulled off an OT Buggy?!?!#FPI7 pic.twitter.com/S0yNsPeMnN
— UFC FIGHT PASS (@UFCFightPass) May 16, 2024
Raquel Canuto defeats Aislin O’Connell via points
Canuto in the driver’s seat now#FPI7 pic.twitter.com/t3rxohPUlZ
— UFC FIGHT PASS (@UFCFightPass) May 16, 2024
Piter Frank defeats Rafael Domingos via submission (armbar)
Piter Frank on the edge!!
Let’s bring this guy back!#FPI7 pic.twitter.com/qho1NyVv1r
— UFC FIGHT PASS (@UFCFightPass) May 16, 2024
Oliver Taza defeats Pedro Rocha via points Helena Crevar defeats Aurelie Le Vern via unanimous judges’ decision
Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk face off | Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images
One of the most stacked fight weekends of the summer is upon us.
This weekend features a combat sports tripleheader as UFC Vegas 92 and Bellator Paris, all leading up to the main event of the season: Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed heavyweight title of boxing. And with so much action in play, the No Bets Barred boys are back to break it all down.
Co-hosts Conner Burks and Jed Meshew kick things off with a brief recap of UFC St. Louis before diving into this weekend’s festivities. Is UFC Vegas 92 the worst fight card of the year? Is Edson Barboza washed? Will Jed’s chosen prospect Tom Nolan disappoint him yet again? The Boys discuss all of that before switching over to the biggest fight in boxing and a healthy debate about whether Fury or Usyk will leave this weekend as the first undisputed heavyweight champion in nearly a quarter of a century.
All this and a lot more are discussed on this week’s episode.
Tune in for episode 88 of No Bets Barred.
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