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The UFC’s broadcast partnership with ESPN is set to expire at the end of 2024. There’s one year left until WME CEO Ari Emanuel can start negotiating a new deal. He confirmed this week that he has a great relationship with ESPN but there are ‘a lot of buyers’ for the next UFC broadcast rights deal in the United States.
Kron Gracie returns against Charles Jourdain at UFC 288.
Deiveson Figueiredo wants to fight Dominick Cruz next.
Nick Diaz wants to fight guys like Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira.
Mike Swick announces he’s cancer free.
Gable Stevenson is targeting a 2nd Olympic Gold Medal in 2024.
The NAC find no evidence of a groin strike from Bo Nickal against Jamie Pickett.
Brandon Gibson believes Jon Jones will retire early.
Francis Ngannou believes a fight against Jon Jones will never happen.
Miesha Tate vs. Mayra Bueno Silva set for June 3.
Jon Jones takes the pound-for-pound #1 spot in the official UFC rankings.
Merab Dvalishvili believes Petr Yan is not a good human.
- Daniel Cormier refuses to call Jon Jones the GOAT
- A Lee Murray documentary will be released next month
The way Jon Jones submitted Ciryl Gane stunned a lot of people, including his former rival Daniel Cormier. People expected the fight to be competitive but we got a blowout instead. Jones came back after three years and submitted the Heavyweight division’s top contender in two minutes and four seconds. You could see the disbelief on the faces of Joe Rogan and Daniel Cormier from the booth reaction video. Jon Anik immediately referred to Jones as the greatest of all-time and Rogan called him the GOAT during the post-fight interview.
During his show DC & RC with Ryan Clark, Cormier said he couldn’t consider Jones the GOAT. “I think it’s hard to really argue the greatest of all time when Jones has now gone up to heavyweight and won the championship because of what he did at light heavyweight,” Cormier said. “I think especially with the drugs and the steroid failures and those types of things. I think when you have those things, it’s hard to call you the greatest of all time”. Cormier also stated that he doesn't think Jones should be ranked above Alex Volkanovski as the pound-for-pound #1 fighter in the world.
Lee Muray has one of the most interesting stories in combat sports history and it will finally be told in a 4 part documentary series by Showtime Sports on April 7. Directed by two-time Emmy winner Pat Kondelis, the series titled Catching Lightning will chronicle “Lightening” Lee Murray’s story of fighting in the UFC and his role in one of the largest bank robberies in history with £52,996,760 in cash stolen. That’s the equivalent of $92 Million USD.
Less than two years before the bank robbery, Lee Murray fought Anderson Silva in Cage Rage and lost a decision. Murray competed in the UFC once, submitting Jorge Rivera in the 1st round at UFC 46. He made his entrance to the Octagon wearing a Hannibal Lecter mask and felt like a star. He’s also rumored to have knocked out Tito Ortiz in a street fight outside a London nightclub in 2002. If he stayed on track, he might have been the UFC’s first big British star.
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