Although the Saskatoon crowd greeted Max Holloway and Charles Oliveira with a fantastic ovation on Sunday night, they weren’t quite given the barnburner that was forecast for the main event featherweight clash. Another legitimate force at 145 pounds is Frankie Edgar and, not playing lip service to Oliveira’s request for a rematch, Holloway wasted no time calling out the former lightweight boss after his win in Canada.
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“I have businesses back home; I don’t live paycheck to paycheck like some of these fighters do”, Perez told the assembled media. Magny held off the submission specialist after being taken down twice and did a majority of his damage while using his range to outstrike Silva en route to a split decision. Though it is debilitating Perez ended his career in such a fashion, especially for the fighting camp his is a part of which has produced Frankie Edgar and Edson Barboza, it is nevertheless good Perez realized this early on in his life.
According to MMA Junkie, Holloway has defeated every opponent he has faced in the UFC.
Other odd fight outcomes included Erick Silva getting a 29-28 score from one judge and Yves Jabouin lending Felipe Arantes a helping hand by rolling into an armbar.
Burkman caught Cote with a shot late in the second round and it wobbled the Canadian. Right. Unless you’re UFC middleweight and Fox analyst Michael Bisping, that is, who couldn’t help but drop a massive Bayless in the punch bowl. “I don’t know what better way there is to go out”. He rocked me and I rocked him.
Magny said as long as he’s ready to fight, he’s ready to fight.
The first-ever UFC sanctioned event in Saskatchewan was a bit of a mixed bag for fans who packed Saskatoon’s SaskTel Centre on Sunday night. But the short camp didn’t seem to bother Magny as he was the aggressor right from the opening bell. Next year, let’s do it’.
He commented, ‘Now, I don’t have a fight, I can talk how I feel, you know?
Fight Night 74 was a unusual night in the world of fighting to say the least.
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It was also the first time Burkman was finished in his 40-fight career.
