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 The highly anticipated SYN 1000 event was an Independence Day spectacle to behold. 90,000 bloodthirsty Americans witnessed some glorious violence and many exciting fights. The fans were treated to 5 title fights and only 2 bouts on the entire card would see the judges, with the rest of them ending by finish.
In the main event of the evening, Kilo "Bloodbath" Maluga (62-14-0) topped Adan Puno (16-6-0) in what many believed to be the cherry on top of an illustrious hall of fame career. The two fighters fought a closely contested first round that left both fighters bleeding all over the place after landing some big punches with their overgrown mallets. Puno, perhaps overconfident and smelling the blood of an old man, came out swinging in the second frame, only to play right into Kilo's game. After eating a stiff uppercut, Puno whiffed a shot to the body and Maluga countered with a left and a right... and another left... and another!! A brutal combination that tur
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 TOKYO BOWL, JAPAN - C208: McWrestler vs Kronos II
In the Main Event of the evening, Combate welterweight champion Dude "Duderino" McWrestler (29-10-0) defends his championship against DMMA's welterweight champion Kronos Doomsday (18-11-0) at C208: McWrestler vs Kronos II.
"Duderino" already holds a unanimous decision win over the DMMA champion back at C184: McWrestler vs Doomsday, which saw McWrestler win the interim championship in Raate Road's absence (who has since been stripped of his title due to inactivity/retirement). Despite the Pakistan native being an elite wrestler with a blackbelt in Jiujitsu, he didn't want to take any chances on the ground against the red belt Kronos Doomsday. Doomsday has 12 submission victories on his record and "Duderino" no doubt will be looking to use his slick boxing and takedown defense to keep this fight standing again, a tactic he used to defeat Doomsday in their previous contest.
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 The current #1 Lightweight in the world and the WVT Lightweight champion Ryoto Takahashi (24-8-0) explains the reasons behind his exodus from the Synchronicity roster to join World Vale Tudo.
For the first time since departing the Syn' organization, Ryoto Takahashi explains to fans why he officially joined the roster at World Vale Tudo. The former SMASH featherweight champion and SYN Lightweight contender initiated a historic transition through his representatives at Convict Inc that allowed him to leave the SYN promotion and join WVT.
According to Takahashi, his earliest machinations about striking up this transition came after his fight against Tacticus Kilgore when he first brought up the idea to his management team. Takahashi already has deep ties to WVT thanks to his head coach and manager Chris Karter, who sits on the board as an executive at the London-based promotion.
"At the end of the day, I felt that I'm pretty young in
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 LONDON, ENGLAND - Not one, not two, but three title fights in what goes down as one of the biggest events of the year. Combate 207 goes down in the history books.
The first title fight saw the Bantamweight title change hands from the long-time champion and hometown hero Eduardo Corassa (40-16-2) and to the new hotness, Johnny Albatross (23-5-0). Johnny dominated start to finish, as the younger fight was just too fast for his veteran counterpart. In the 2nd round he finished the former champ off with a flurry of punches and that was all she wrote, we have a new Bantamweight champion, Johnny Albatross! Johnny is currently slotted to defend his bantamweight strap against Lyndsay Apollo (25-9-0).
The co-main event featured a Light Heavyweight championship match between the face of Combate and first ballot hall of famer, "The Pitbull" Mohammed Kahn (37-10-1) and Roberto Fabinho (20-8-1).
Roberto looked like he was on cruise control for nearly
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 The highly anticipated debut of Mamed "The Cannibal" Khalidovic (17-5-1) is booked and underway.
After becoming one of the most highly sought after free agents on the market, the 28-year-old Mamed Khalidovic signed with the Combate featherweight division earlier this year.
Born in Grozny, Chechnya, he now resides in Poland and reps the Polish flag. He's very mum on why this is, perhaps his family were war refugees or forced to flee the country for reasons he doesn't want to discuss, but we respect his privacy and focus primarily on his MMA career and the resume he's put together.
Under manager PJ Jones and training out of Far-Q Fight Club, Khalidovic has quietly fought his way to the top of the division by putting together a dominant 7 fight winning streak enroute to becoming a triple-champ in the ENIGMA organization. After winning the ENIGMA lightweight title in dominant fashion, Khalidovic made it his quest to drop dow
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 "Are you sure this shit ain't gay?" Ernesto Mathieu sparks backlash with derogatory comment sending the closeted Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu community and the LGBTQ+ community up in arms.
Ahead of his Co-Main Event against MMA veteran and career journeyman Thom Tharrier at WVT 125, the infamous Dutch kickboxer (2-0) and MMA fighter (13-3) Ernesto Mathieu once again stirs up a media frenzy with his brash comments during a mandated WVT pre-fight press conference in London, England.
"Prepared to strike. Never rolled (BJJ) in my life." Ernesto tells reporters during a mandated WVT pre-fight interview in London, England. "When you have elite boxing and elite muay thai, you rely on your striking. I have knees and I have elbows. You thnk you can take me down? My takedown defense is elite. You can't take me down. I work at this everday."
Tharrier is a former kickboxer (13-15-1) himself, and he was as much of a
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