Arden Zwelling
Senior Writer and Broadcaster at Sportsnet Canada
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3 weeks ago |
sportsnet.ca | Arden Zwelling
MONTREAL — Not that there's ever a good time to break your arm. But for Jack Della Maddalena, UFC’s new welterweight champion after prevailing in a five-round war with Belal Muhammad Saturday night at UFC 315 presented by Skilled Trades College, shattering his 14 months ago turned out to be a convenient twist of fate.
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4 weeks ago |
sportsnet.ca | Arden Zwelling
MONTREAL — The outcome of every UFC title fight is consequential and far-reaching. A champion retains or loses their crown. A challenger overtakes a division or falls back to the end of the line. One Tapology page gets a W, the other an L. Controversial results occur, injuries are sustained, retirements follow, call-outs bellow.
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4 weeks ago |
sportsnet.ca | Arden Zwelling
MONTREAL — In 2015, they wondered if he could recover after Conor McGregor slept him before the world. In 2017, they called it a featherweight torch-passing following back-to-back stoppages vs. Max Holloway. In 2019, they said he was cooked when Alexander Volkanovski prevailed playing his own game against him. Then he moved divisions, not up but down, as a 33-year-old who wasn’t exactly on the smaller side of 145. They questioned the notion.
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4 weeks ago |
sportsnet.ca | Arden Zwelling
MONTREAL — During her first UFC flyweight championship reign, spanning eight fights from late 2018 through early 2023, Valentina Shevchenko was never once a betting underdog. She was so automatic that she’d often close as a four-figure favourite, meaning you’d need to gamble at least $1,000 — often much more — to win $100. Such was her supremacy over the division. The UFC struggled to find someone who could push Shevchenko into championship rounds, let alone force a decision.
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1 month ago |
sportsnet.ca | Arden Zwelling
MONTREAL — Jack Della Maddalena can’t remember the last time he was angry outside the octagon. It’s rare inside it, too. As he emerges from backstage prior to fights, placidly winding his way to the cutman’s mat, he almost looks bored. In any other setting, the Australian wouldn’t strike you as a cage fighter — if not for the cauliflower ears and crooked nose. “I try not to be too mad at people,” Della Maddalena said stoically, peering out from beneath a camouflage hat at a downtown Montreal hotel.
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Wrote about Blue Jays infielder Michael Stefanic and his unlikely path to MLB this spring:
Undrafted out of a small liberal arts college, Michael Stefanic took a job in a law office and entered the real world How a homemade highlight tape and elite hand-eye got him back into baseball, all the way to the majors, and in Blue Jays camp this spring https://t.co/gRhnLP8Rvn
