Before getting into the fighter as much, I wanted to write down my displeasure with the UFC this year. There was a time when fight fans got excited about short-notice replacements, but lately, the promotion has done a poor job of bringing in deserving talent. Maybe Schmid wasn’t their first choice, but there’s no way […]
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Brando Pericic (6-1) Heavyweight – 31 Years Old – City Kickboxing The UFC’s heavyweight division has a problem that almost everyone in the sport openly acknowledges: it is short on athletes. Not fighters, not big men who can punch hard, but genuine athletes with movement, timing, versatility and the physical tools to do
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Colby Thicknesse (8-1) Bantamweight – 26 Years Old – Freestyle MMA Every generation of fighters at every gym produces most of its talent. In addition, each generation produces a small handful of people who seem to absorb information at different rates. Colby Thicknesse has spent the better part of a decade in the
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Ben Johnston (5-1) Middleweight – 35 Years Old – The Fight Centre Brisbane Most stories in combat sports follow a recognisable shape. A fighter climbs, faces setbacks, keeps going and eventually gets their shot. Ben Johnston’s story follows a different shape entirely. He climbed, got his shot regionally, won it, retired, became a
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Quillan Salkilld (11-1) Lightweight – 26 Years Old – Luistro Combat Academy In a sport that prides itself on authentic, hard-earned breakthrough stories, few journeys in recent memory have been as compelling as that of Quillan Salkilld. The 26-year-old Perth-based lightweight has gone from a debut submission loss on the Australian regional scene, to
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