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1 day ago | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | ben fowlkesUncrowned |Ben Fowlkes
Uncrowned has Misfits Boxing 21 results, live round-by-round updates, highlights, start time and ring walks for the Darren Till vs. Darren Stewart fight card on Friday night at the Vaillant Live in Derby, England. One-time UFC title challenger Till makes his Misfits Boxing return against fellow UFC veteran and Misfits Boxing newcomer Stewart in an eight-round bout as the night's main event.
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1 day ago | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | ben fowlkesUncrowned |Ben Fowlkes
Have you seen the video of a young José Aldo shopping for his first suit? If you’ve been on any form of the MMA internet over the last decade or so, probably you have. It is memorable, wholesome content, and so it gets shared a lot because there isn’t much from here that fits into that category. What made it so charming at the time was his boyish enthusiasm.
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1 week ago | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | ben fowlkesUncrowned |Ben Fowlkes
Who (if anyone) is the main draw at UFC 315 in Montreal on Saturday? Who should be next in line in the UFC’s bantamweight division? And why can’t the PFL do more with signees like Francis Ngannou and Jake Paul? All that and more in this week’s mailbag. To ask a question of your own, hit up @benfowlkesmma or @benfowlkes.bsky.social. It has to be Belal Muhammad. Has to be.
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2 weeks ago | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | ben fowlkesUncrowned |Ben Fowlkes
Former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou issued his first public comments following a motorcycle accident that resulted in the death of a teenage girl in his home country of Cameroon. In a statement released to TMZ, Ngannou said his "heart was shattered" by the incident, which reportedly occurred in Cameroon's capital city of Yaounde over Easter weekend.
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2 weeks ago | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | ben fowlkesUncrowned |Ben Fowlkes
If you were watching closely last Saturday night you might have seen him. He was there in Ian Machado Garry’s corner, whispering in the welterweight’s ear between rounds, chiding him for his risky use of the wrong half-guard in the final round, fine-tuning the already pretty finely tuned points of the fighter’s transition game.
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2 weeks ago | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | ben fowlkesUncrowned |Ben Fowlkes
Anthony Smith's big UFC sendoff raises the question: Is there more than one way to have a good career in MMA? Here’s a question that seemed to animate the internet during Saturday’s UFC Kansas City event: Did Anthony Smith have a great MMA career? If his preemptive retirement announcement can be believed (and in this sport, that’s always a sizable if), Saturday’s first-round knockout loss to Zhang Mingyang officially closed the book on Smith’s fighting career.
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1 month ago | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | ben fowlkesUncrowned |Ben Fowlkes
What’s happened to all the “Fight of the Night” bonuses at recent UFC events? Can Alexander Volkanovski win back the UFC title and prove that fighters over 35 can still be champs? And how many old dudes is Chase Hooper going to have to fight, anyway? All that and more in this week’s mailbag column. To ask a question of your own, hit up @benfowlkesMMA or @benfowlkes.bsky.social. What do you think is up with the UFC not giving Fight of the Night bonuses at its last 4 events?
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1 month ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | ben fowlkesUncrowned |Ben Fowlkes
Just slightly over 12 years, 17 pro fights and six UFC title fights with two separate reigns as UFC heavyweight champion. That was the MMA career of Cain Velasquez. Then on Monday he was sentenced to five years in prison for a range of charges including attempted murder for his assault aimed at a man who’d been accused of molesting his son at a daycare.
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1 month ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | ben fowlkesUncrowned |Ben Fowlkes
You’ll often see the 1920s referred to as the “golden age of sports.” There are a couple reasons for this, but a big part of it is slate of huge stars that emerged in this decade. Baseball had Babe Ruth. Football had “Red” Grange. Golf had Bobby Jones. And boxing? Well, obviously it had Jack Dempsey, “The Manassa Mauler,” whose heavyweight title run lifted the sport to new heights at the box office and beyond.
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2 months ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | ben fowlkesUncrowned |Ben Fowlkes
Back in 1879 there was a local tavernkeeper named Dan Dwyer who, in addition to fighting for the Union Army at the Battle of Antietam, had also done a little prizefighting in his day. That day had recently ended, but Dwyer was still respected and appreciated among the rogues who comprised the Boston fight scene.
