Amaar Burton

Las Vegas, Renton

Copy Editor at The Ringer

Copy Editor @ringer. Writer at Ummah Sport. From the 206 to the 702. #TwinDad. #GirlDad.

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Kane Becomes First African ONE Championship Titleholder

Nov 8, 2024 | ummahsport.com | Amaar Burton

His nickname, “Reug Reug,” means someone who is invisible. But anonymity is no longer a reality for professional fighter Oumar Kane, the new ONE Championship heavyweight MMA world champion. In the main event of the ONE 169 show in Thailand on Friday, Kane won a five-round split decision over Anatoly Malykhin, who entered the ring as a three-division champion — holding the promotion’s heavyweight, light heavyweight, and middleweight MMA title belts.
One Reason to Watch Each of the NFL’s Worst Teams

Oct 31, 2024 | ummahsport.com | Amaar Burton

The 2024-25 NFL season has reached the halfway point. Entering Week 9, the reigning champions in Kansas City are undefeated (7-0) and sitting in pole position to win a third straight Super Bowl, a popular preseason title pick in Detroit owns the best record in the NFC (6-1), and one division (the NFC North) has nothing but teams with winning records. But we’re not here to hear about winners. They’re getting enough attention.
Multi-Talented Hamidi Is Finishing Fights Early

Oct 24, 2024 | ummahsport.com | Amaar Burton

Knockouts, while far from a rarity, are not the most common way for Muay Thai and kickboxing bouts to end. Chalk it up to contests that are typically scheduled for just three to five rounds, competitors using styles that focus a lot on strikes to the legs and body instead of head-hunting for KOs, plus an international talent pool that has a lot more fleet-footed featherweights than lumber-fisted heavyweights. That’s where Akram Hamidi is an outlier.
NBA Preview: 15 Players Who Will Define the 2024-25 Season

Oct 19, 2024 | ummahsport.com | Amaar Burton

Opening Night of the 2024-25 NBA season will be one for the history books. That’s when the league’s career scoring leader, 22-year veteran LeBron James, is expected to share the court with his son, rookie Bronny James, as the Los Angeles Lakers teammates become the first father-son duo in NBA history to play together. That’s also the night when the Boston Celtics will hang their 18th league championship banner, the most of any franchise in history. After that?
Nothing ‘Regular’ About Heavyweight Champ’s Story

Sep 12, 2024 | ummahsport.com | Amaar Burton

Because he owns three of the four most coveted world title belts, Oleksander Usyk is widely recognized as the best heavyweight boxer on the planet. Because he has his own championship resume and an irresistible charisma that attracts mainstream attention, Tyson Fury is widely recognized as the current face of heavyweight boxing.
NFL 2024 Preview: Ranking the Real Super Bowl Contenders

Aug 27, 2024 | ummahsport.com | Amaar Burton

As much as NFL franchises will market false hope and sell it to their fans this season, truthfully there are not a lot of teams that are realistic contenders to be playing in Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans next February. Going into the 2024-25 season, which begins Sept.
No One Wanted Imane Khelif to Take Over the Paris Olympics

Aug 16, 2024 | ummahsport.com | Amaar Burton

Had you recently emerged from solitary confinement and I told you that a Muslim woman was at the center of the biggest controversy of the 2024 Paris Olympics, you might assume the story had something to do with religion. It did not. Nor did it have anything to do with performance-enhancing drugs, corrupt judges’ scorecards, or an athlete’s rival being attacked by a hired goon with a nightstick — you know, the type of Olympic scandals we’ve grown accustomed to. Nope.
Medal Count for Muslim-Majority Countries at the Paris Olympics

Aug 13, 2024 | ummahsport.com | Amaar Burton

Every four summers and every four winters, the Olympics brings the world together in the name of competition. At the recently completed Paris Olympics, 204 nations were represented, including 48 Muslim-majority countries who featured athletes in every sport from archery and badminton to volleyball and wrestling.
Davis-Woodhall is the New Face of Long Jump

Aug 9, 2024 | ummahsport.com | Amaar Burton

There’s a difference between being the best in the game and the face of the sport. Football people know this. The NFL recently unveiled its annual “Top 100” ranking, in which Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill was declared the best player in the NFL; but even Hill’s biggest fans would admit that the face of football is Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes — who finished fourth in the “Top 100” voting.
Long Jump Has Become a Long Shot for Team USA

Aug 4, 2024 | ummahsport.com | Amaar Burton

I’m a track and field nerd, and an even bigger long jump nerd, so bear with me here. In Sunday’s qualifying round of the men’s long jump at the Paris Olympics, one easily predictable thing happened: Reigning Olympic and world championship gold medalist Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece had the best jump of the day and cruised into the final.