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Miesha Tate, Cris Cyborg, and Holly Holm step into the brutal, unforgiving world of Fight Valley. What could possibly go wrong?

On this episode of This is CineMMA, the MMA Fighting movie review crew gets down and dirty on the mean streets of New Jersey as we follow the harrowing adventure of Windsor (Susie Celek), an out-of-her-element reporter on a quest to avenge her sister’s death. A hardened brawler named Jabs (Tate) takes our heroine under her wing, but the clock is ticking and there may not be enough time to prepare her for a final showdown with the dangerous Church (Cyborg).

Alexander K. Lee, Jed Meshew, and E. Casey Leydon don their toughest-looking hoodies as they try to make sense of Fight Valley’s frantic fight scenes, rank the acting performances of the featured MMA stars, and have a chuckle at some of the best C-movie one-liners you’ll ever hear.

How much of the film is carried by Tate? Where does Windsor rank among the worst main characters in a martial arts movie? And is repeatedly punching a bucket of rocks a good base for MMA?

Step into Fight Valley with us for the answers to these questions and more.

New episodes of the This is CineMMA show come out weekly and are available to watch on YouTube, and in podcast form 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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UFC is pulling out all the stops for UFC 300.

In two weeks, UFC 300 goes down at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Headlined by a light heavyweight title fight between Alex Pereira and Jamahal Hill, and featuring two more title bouts — a strawweight title fight between Zhang Weili and Yan Xiaonan, plus a “BMF” title bout between Justin Gaethje and Max Holloway — as well as seven other former UFC champions, the card is arguably the most stacked event ever assembled in the history of MMA. And as such, the UFC is giving this event all the promotional weight it can.

Though the promotion already dropped its official trailer for the event a few weeks ago, during UFC Atlantic City this past Saturday, the UFC released another trailer for UFC 300, focusing on the history of the promotion and how some of the biggest moments of the past parallel moments of the present. The trailer also highlights some of the greatest what-if matchups in UFC history, with Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson in particular getting a cameo.

It’s not every day the UFC makes two promotional videos for one fight card, but with an event like UFC 300, it’s definitely worth it.

Check out the newest trailer below.

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Hear what Weidman had to say after his win over Bruno Silva was changed from a TKO to a technical decision over a double eyepoke in the final moments.

Chris Weidman earned his first win in nearly four years on Saturday night at UFC Atlantic City. It wasn’t pretty, and it was definitely controversial, but for now his victory over Bruno Silva stands as a unanimous technical decision win for “The All American” (watch the highlights here).

The big debate surrounding the fight hinges on a number of eye pokes, including a rare double-poke that sent Weidman’s opponent Bruno Silva to the canvas where Chris finished the fight with ground and pound. What was originally a TKO win would be reviewed and changed to a 30-27 technical decision for Weidman after the replay showed Silva taking a finger to each eye.

To Weidman, the pokes were unintentional and Silva’s decision to collapse was the deciding fact of the matter.

“I’ll never question a guy if he’s saying he got poked in the eye,” he said during the UFC Atlantic City post-fight press conference. “But you can’t just drop every time you feel something is touching your eyeball.”

“He poked me in the eye one time and I stood there and took it,” Weidman added. “Unless the ref is going to say something, I don’t drop. I come from a wrestling background, and it’s a similar thing, you can’t look for the referee to help you. Sometimes they’re going to be against you, and you always have to be ready to defend yourself at all times.”

“He dropped again. I don’t know if he was looking for a way out, but you can’t just turn your back and fall to the ground every time your eye feels poked.”

The Weidman win was just one fight out of several that featured some sort of controversy. To Chris, it’s just part of the sport.

“Did I want to poke him in the eye? No, I’m unhappy that I poked him in the eye,” Weidman said. “But when you’re fighting with these small gloves, they kind of just happen … It’s just unintentional crap that happens when you have small gloves on and you’ve got fingers extended in gloves. It’s unfortunate. Obviously, I’d rather a TKO, but I get it. I won all three rounds so I’ll take it.”

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Igor Severino may always be remembered as the man cut from the UFC for biting his opponent, but he wants to move on from the incident.

Severino, who could face a long suspension for his actions against Andre Lima at UFC Vegas 89, hopes to resume his MMA career and maybe one day reenter the UFC. For now, however, he’s dealing with online hatred and even death threats.

The Brazilian talent, who was listed on MMA Fighting’s prospects to watch list in 2022 and joined the UFC after an impressive knockout at the promotion’s Contender Series 18 months later, told MMA Fighting that he doesn’t remember biting Lima because he was in “autopilot mode” after sustaining an elbow strike to the head from Lima midway through round one.

“There’s no plausible explanation [for the bite], right?” Severino said. “I remember exchanging strikes with him, a close fight, but I was in autopilot mode after that elbow. I don’t remember anything after that, the things I’ve said. I only started getting back to myself at the hotel, after a long while, and my team showed me the video of what I’ve done, and there’s no explanation.”

Watch the moment of the bite below.

Severino said UFC matchmaker Sean Shelby visited his locker room after the bout to talk with him and his team, but has no recollection of that conversation. Severino was subsequently released from the UFC, and his purse has been withheld by the Nevada Athletic Commission pending an official hearing.

On top of that, when Severino checked his direct messages days after the incident, he found hundreds of messages of hate, abuse, and even death threats towards him and his family.

“I started to get conscious again at the hotel and I was already cut by then,” Severino said, “and then my social media was flooded with hateful comments, mean messages, people angry at what happened, and also threats. I started to digest all that and feel bad too. I’ve made a mistake and I apologize to everyone.

“I’m sad because the internet is so polluted. I’ve made a mistake and I’m willing to pay for this mistake, recognize this mistake, but I haven’t killed anyone, I haven’t caused any harm or committed any crime, you know? To see people threaten me, threaten my family, makes me really sad and apprehensive, afraid. It leaves me heartbroken.”

Severino and his team have saved hundreds of messages and are considering pressing charges against those people. In the meantime, Severino is flying his parents from his hometown Juriti to Bauru, where he lives and trains at Chute Boxe João Emilio.

Lima supported Severino after the bout, stating that the Brazilian shouldn’t be “cut or fired from the UFC.”

“I’m trying to process all this and go back to my normal life,” Severino said. “What matters the most is us being OK with ourselves and going back to work, to go out, to have a normal life. … I’ll try to have a second chance, try to bounce back and show that doesn’t define me.

“I’ve always done things the right way in my life, always working hard. I left my family as a teenager and spent two years without seeing my parents and my brother, working toward my dream, and managed to get to the Contender [Series] and the UFC. That was a dream come true, and now it’s gone like this. That hurts me inside. I could have a long future in the organization, but I’ll own my mistakes and try to come back.

“I hope it’s not a long suspension. I want to come back [to the UFC], I still have a lot to show. I still have a lot to evolve, so my second chance is for redemption. I want my redemption to show MMA fans, UFC fans. I dream with my return to the UFC so I can build a career and fix this s*** I’ve made.”

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