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UFC 249 : Dana White Unsure  Khabib Ferguson Happens In 2020 ↑ Grab this Headline Animator UFC President Dana White scarcely believes that the anticipated clash between UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and former Interim champion Tony Ferguson won't be happening in 2020. Speaking in “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit , replied a question which required a firm response on the state of things  on the match up between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Tony Ferguson and if the fight could be made before the year runs out. “How confident are you that Khabib and Tony will fight at some point this year?” White was asked by a commenter. Tony Ferguson is presently preparing to fight Justin Gaethje at UFC 249 Main Event,s which is scheduled for May 9th. the former WSOF champion Gaethje, is stepping in for Nurmagomedov, who pulled out of the event due to Russian Travel restrictions caused by the Corona Virus pandemic. Subscribe To Live...

Israel Adesanya Wants Jon Jones Fight, With Or Without Title ↑ Grab this Headline Animator UFC Middleweight Champion Isreal Adesanya strongly believes that he will one day fight his light heavyweight counterpart Jon Jones in Future with or without a title on the line. Adesanya (19-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) has over the past past few months been exchanging words with Jon Jones (26-1 MMA, 20-1 UFC) over Social Media, in the build up to a possible fight in the future. However Adesanya has reiterated, he will need to clear out the middleweight division before going up in weight. Adesanya's head coach Eugene Bareman is seriously uninterested in the matchup and presently doesn't love speaking about it. “It was something that wasn’t there till he uttered my name and I was like, ‘Hmm – I see what this is about,'” Adesanya told MMA Junkie. “I see where destiny is placing certain characters in my movie. So yeah, that fight is really importan...

Bernard Hopkins Sees Canelo Knocking Out GGG In Trilogy ↑ Grab this Headline Animator Former two division title holder Bernard Hopkins believes that the trilogy fight between Boxing Star Saul Canelo Alvarez and his arch rival Gennady Golovkin will end the same way as the rematch but this time, we ends a knockout in favour of the Mexican. The two heavyweight king's first fought to a controversial draw in 2017 and in the rematch the Mexican won the belts from the Kazakhstani knockout artist with a very close majority decision in 2018. The Trilogy fight is tentatively penned for the 12th of September but there is little information on if the fight will still go on as planned because of the Corona Virus pandemic and Gennady Golovkin is also due to make a mandatory defence of his IBF 160 pound title. “I think Canelo has the blueprint definitely from the second fight to end it early. Okay, you beat him twice; now you knocked him out the ...

Daniel Jacobs Wants Belts At 168 Pounds, Targets Smith & Saunders ↑ Grab this Headline Animator Former IBF world champion Daniel Jacobs is looking to take over the super middleweight division and has set his targets on 168 pound champions Callum Smith and Billy Joe Saunders , while taking steps towards becoming a future Boxing Hall Of Famer. Daniel Jacobs made his super middleweight debut against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr last year , when he made the Mexican retire on the stool after five rounds of wild exchanges  in Phoenix, Arizona Jacobs, nicknamed the "Miracle Man", held the WBA middleweight champion from 2014 to 2016, before losing it to Gennady Golovkin . He then had another title stint in 2018, when he won the IBF title before losing to Mexican boxing star Canelo Alvarez in a unification fight during  Cinco de Mayo showdown in Las Vegas last year. Subscribe To Live Updates On Your Favorites Sports  ...

Deontay Wilder Eliminating Snakes From Camp Ahead Of Fury Trilogy ↑ Grab this Headline Animator Former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder is making preparations ahead of his third fight with Tyson Fury and this begins with the elimination of "Snakes in his training camp. Wilder lost for the first time in his professional career back in February 22nd and that ended pretty badly as he had to leave the canvas twice en route to a seventh round stoppage loss. After the fight, Wilder admitted he experienced first hand the true colours of some members in his team. Wilder had accumulated one of the most winning streaks before his defeat and that also translates to having a large entourage but things are about to change as the Alabama knockout artist is planning to rat the "Snakes" in his training camp. "I'm getting rid of all the snakes in the grass. This time has allowed me to dig in the weeds and see what was goin...

Fury Vs Wilder Trilogy Tipped To Do 1.5M Pay-Per-View Buys ↑ Grab this Headline Animator There is a big believe that the third fight between WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder will be a massive success in terms of Pay-per-view buys and could even break records and due to the partnership with ESPN and FOX, the buys could reach 2 million buys. Wilder Vs Fury Rematch back in February got a total of 800000 pay-per-view buys but according to former senior vice president of sports operations and pay-per-view Mark Taffet believes that the third fight could rack up more than 1.5million buys when they eventually meet in the ring in October. Subscribe To Live Updates On Your Favorites Sports    Subscribe in a reader Enter your email address: Delivered by  FeedBurner Taffet, who is credited with building the first major Pay-per-view model back in 1991 based his forecast on the build up to their...

Mike Tyson Plans Return To Raise Money For Charity ↑ Grab this Headline Animator Former two time undisputed Heavyweight Champion Mike "Iron" Tyson has plans of getting in the boxing ring again, 15 years after his retirement in the form of an exhibition to raise money for charity. The knockout artist retired from the sport in 2005 with a tally of 50 wins, 6 defeats and 44 knockouts. He last fight ended a technical Knockout loss to Kevin McBride . Mike Tyson was involved in an exhibition, a year after his retirement, which was part of an exhibition tour against Corey Anderson . The event was featuredon pay-per-view and didn'tlast too Long. Subscribe To Live Updates On Your Favorites Sports    Subscribe in a reader Enter your email address: Delivered by  FeedBurner Tyson has been subjecting himself to some serious training during the indefinite Corona Virus break and believes he could get into a couple of e...

Luis Nery Needs Discipline Under Eddy Reynoso - Beltran ↑ Grab this Headline Animator It's no new news that, the hard hitting Mexican Luis Nery has constantly been facing serious battles and his biggest battles are those outside the Boxing ring. The knock out artist has always had issues making weight for his fights and has constantly been testing positiveto a banned enhancement drug Zilpaterol, through out his eight year professional career. Nery, who ones lost his title to the scales and attracted a ban also missed an opportunity to fight Emmanuel Rodriguez on Deontay Wilder Vs Luis Ortiz Rematch Undercard back in November because he failed to make weight for the fight. Nery was training under Hall Of Fame Trainer Freddie Roach at that time but all that hard work didn't materialise in the ring as he never got the chance to show it. He has now switched to BWAA Trainer Of The Year Eddy Reynoso , who has also made him move up ...

Malignaggi Sees Tyson Fury Beating Up Deontay Wilder Again in Trilogy ↑ Grab this Headline Animator Former two divisions titlist Paulie Malignaggi , who is also a Showtime analyst at the moment believes that Deontay Wilder has no means of defeating Tyson Fury and will end up on the losing side in their anticipated trilogy rematch in October. Malignaggi goes along with those pundits and analyst, who believe that Fury defeated Wilder in the first fight and was rubbed in the first fight, with the evidence being the total seven rounds of one-sided beatdown, which saw Wilder drop to the canvas twice before being stopped in the seventh round of their rematch in February 22nd. Malignaggi sees no one Defeating Fury presently in the heavyweight division, rating him no.1 and will only be defeated, if he loses his mind and stops training or does something unexpected. “Wilder is a very good fighter and one of the best in the world, but I don’t thi...

Kell Brook Reveals Positive Talks With Bob Arum And Crawford Team ↑ Grab this Headline Animator Former IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook presently has little issues making a big return to the 147 pound division. Brook, who hails from Sheffield hasn't fought in the weight division since, his title reign came to an abrupt end by way of a stoppage loss to reigning unified welterweight titlist Errol Spence back in 2017. Since then, he has fought four times in the Junior middle weight division and in his last outing back in February, knocked out Mark ‘Bazooka’ DeLuca before his hometown Fans. Brook is currently the front runner to land a fight with undefeated three division champion Terence Crawford, which is clearly not a good option for "Bud" but will the best bout to settle for, if he fails to lure into the ring, the big names in the welterweight division. Subscribe To Live Updates On Your Favorites Sports    Sub...

Tyson Fury's Promoter Digs Into Deontay Wilder For Ridiculous Excuses ↑ Grab this Headline Animator Frank Warren , Promoter of WBC Heavyweight titlist Tyson Fury is totally unhappy with Deontay Wilder for the "Ridiculous Excuses" his being giving the media after his loss. The newly crowned WBC champion Fury, made a big statement on February 22nd, when he executed a perfect one sided beatdown on Wilder, dropping h twice in the third and the fifth round respectively en route to a seventh round stoppage victory at the MGM Grand. After losing the fight, Wilder said his poor performance was due to his 40 pound ring walk outfit, which weakened his legs and left him exhusted from the third round. Subscribe To Live Updates On Your Favorites Sports    Subscribe in a reader Enter your email address: Delivered by  FeedBurner The Former WBC champion has most recently given another "excuse", saying he got i...

Shawn Porter Picks Errol Spence To Beat Keith Thurman ↑ Grab this Headline Animator Former welterweight Shawn Porter champion has a blur idea on who gave him the toughest fight of his career in Errol Spence and Shawn Porter but will be able to tell you exactly who will come out victorious, if both are to ever meet in the boxing ring. The former two time welterweight champion has only lost to two then Undefeated champions and that particular status remains for Spence, who is now a unified titlist in the weight division courtesy of his hard fought twelve round split decision win over Porter back in September last year. Porter with the loss against Spence, snapped a four fight winning streak which spans through 2016, when he fell short via unanimous decision in a title fight against Keith Thurman (29-1, 22KOs; 1NC) at the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn . Subscribe To Live Updates On Your Favorites Sports    Subscribe in a r...