Titan FC is stacking the deck for its next card.
With three title fights already scheduled, another one will be added to Titan FC 33 on March 20 at AeroFest in Mobile, Ala., COO Lex McMahon told MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani on Tuesday.
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it is been years since Jon Jones first teased an ultimate move up to heavyweight. With his lanky 6-foot-4 body and UFC-greatest 84.5-inch reach, the reigning light heavyweight champion and No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the sport has consistently considered he had be competitive in MMA’s hardest-striking department.
But now, using the UFC’s 205-pound weight class, at most, two or three fights away from being cleared out, Jones has started plotting out a path for his future which includes possible superfights against heavyweight’s elite. So that begs a interesting question: could Jones stack up nicely against heavyweight champ Cain Velasquez in the event the two met in a hit fight next year?
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MEXICO CITY — We caught up with Mark Hunt just days before his UFC interim heavyweight title fight on Saturday night against Fabricio Werdum.
Hunt discusses his amazing comeback story, his long journey in combat sports, the odds being stacked against him, and his mental state heading into one of the most important fights of his remarkable career.
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World Series of Fighting moved its 15th edition from Oct. 24 to Nov. 15, going head-to-head with a pair of stacked cards in UFC 180 and Bellator 131, but WSOF officials aren’t afraid of some competition.
“I think competition is really good between Bellator and UFC and WSOF,” WSOF executive vice president Ali Abdel-Aziz told MMAFighting.com. “I like the UFC and I like Scott Coker, they’re great guys, but I think WSOF always put on exciting fights.”
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When a card is correctly stacked with enough significant battles by name combatants, blemishes disappear. They are still there, obviously, however they take on an infinitely more favorable complexion.
The key event is an ideal example. Here is the replacement to Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier (and Alexander Gustafsson before that), which is to say it is no replacement at all (in equity, not much is). However, using the people’s guy occasion being Conor McGregor vs. Dustin Poirier and the remainder of the card offering every type of fight fan something to whet their appetite, the primary event transforms from an underwhelming anchorman to non-outrage bonus offering.
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