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562: POINT PROVEN

“Francis Ngannou can’t win a points decision over Ciryl Gane” Famous last words!   The heavyweight champion showed a few new strings to his bow at UFC270 in order to get the job done against his competitor and now stokes…

561: STEP ASIDE

The big talking point in boxing this week is whether Anthony Joshua will agree to step aside in order to allow Tyson Fury to fight Oleksandr Usyk.. That is the fight we all want so we explore the ins and…

560: COMEBACK KID KATTAR

12 months ago, Calvin Kattar took one hell of a beating at the hands of Max Holloway.  He bounced back at the weekend in emphatic style dishing out a such a beating on Gika Chikadze.  He is back at the…

559: AVERAGE JOE

After a sensational end to 2021 boxing limped back into action at the weekend with a Joe Smith Jr. title defence. The fighter himself, did what he was supposed to do, and that was to beat up the 107th ranked…

558: CAN HENRY HOOVER UP?

Max Holloway is out of his trilogy world title fight with the champion Alex Volkanovski leaving us with one obvious replacement.  Send up the signal for Triple C! Can Henry Cejedo do what no other has done in the UFC…

557: SPLITTING HEADACHE

With there being no in ring boxing action this week the majority of our communities conversations have revolved around the percentages of a purse split in the heavyweight division. Is 80/20 fair? We discuss what we think is happening between…

2021: REVIEW OF THE YEAR – UFC

2021 was an amazing year for the UFC as we crowned 9 new champions with 7 of those being first timers! we discuss our fights, fighters, knockouts, performances and upsets of the year as well as looking ahead to some…

2021: REVIEW OF THE YEAR – BOXING

2021 was a step in the right direction for boxing.  We had 8 world title unifications with 3 of those being for (official) undisputed status. We talk about our fights, fighters, knock outs, performances and upsets of the year as…

556: GREAT BALLS OF FIRE

Of all the pieces of fighter memorabilia you would want to collect, the cup from old hot balls himself might be the most unique yet! Derrick Lewis did the business against Chris Daukus and then gave a fan a night…

555: JINGLE BELL JUDGING

A fun night in Manchester marred once again by the incompetent scoring by British judges.  It is getting worse by the week and its besides the point that the right man had his hand raised in the main event at…