Daniel Cunningham
Lead MMA Writer at Empire Sports Media
Proud Husband & Father. Lead MMA Writer for @EmpireSportsMed. Also cover the #Yankees for @FiresideYankees and mix in some #kubball commentary. Phil 4:13
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yardbarker.com | Daniel Cunningham
Starting with Mitchell, the news of his drop down comes on the heels of his loss to Jean Silva back in April. Mitchell started out his professional career 15-0 prior to losing to eventual featherweight champion Ilia Topuria. Overall, Mitchell is 2-3 in his last five fights and he’s been finished in all three losses. Following this latest loss, he’s moving down to bantamweight for a fresh start. He’ll take on Said Nurmagomedov.
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empiresportsmedia.com | Daniel Cunningham
The UFC is heading to Abu Dhabi on July 26th and Dana White took to social media today to announce the full main card. One of the fights that he announced was a bantamweight matchup which features a previously ranked featherweight contender dropping down in weight. “Thug Nasty” Bryce Mitchell (17-3) will be dropping to 135 and he’ll be taking on Said Nurmagomedov (18-4).
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empiresportsmedia.com | Daniel Cunningham
This past Saturday in the co-main event of UFC Atlanta, former world champion Rose Namajunas (14-7) was looking to get back on track. “Thug” Rose had a tough challenger in front of her in the motivated and surging Miranda Maverick (15-6). Entering the bout, I really thought that Namajunas had the clear skill advantage. Where Maverick could have success is with her grappling and utilizing her strength. Throughout the majority of the fight, it was Namajunas’ skill that really had her out in front.
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empiresportsmedia.com | Daniel Cunningham
This past Saturday night in the main event of UFC Atlanta, we saw a big time matchup in the welterweight division. Former champion and divisional great Kamaru Usman (21-4) made his return as he took on surging top contender Joaquin Buckley (21-7). Joaquin Buckley had all the momentum in the world entering this matchup. He was 6-0 at 170 pounds and he was coming off stoppages over Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson and Colby Covington.
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1 week ago |
empiresportsmedia.com | Daniel Cunningham
This past Saturday night in the main event of UFC Atlanta, we saw a big time matchup in the welterweight division. Former champion and divisional great Kamaru Usman (21-4) made his return as he took on surging top contender Joaquin Buckley (21-7). Buckley was the pretty decent betting favorite entering Saturday night. We hadn’t seen Usman fight at 170 in over two years while Joaquin Buckley has been dominating welterweight going 6-0 with four stoppages.
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Took my 3 year old son to his first game last night, he’s already a huge #Yankees fan and his favorite player is @TheJudge44. Asks me before his at bat, “Will Aaron Judge hit a home run for me?” I told him he’d certainly try and this happened, teared up watching his excitement 💙
AARON JUDGE WITH A 469-FOOT HOMER 🚀 @BRWalkoff https://t.co/5EjWQf4OZV
HUGE opportunity for Van.... Massively bummed though because I needed to see that title eliminator between Kape and Royval
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Manel Kape is OUT of His #UFC317 Fight vs Royval Joshua Van vs Brandon Royval is IN THE WORKS for June 28th @TuckTalksMMA Also mentioned he heard rumblings of this happening https://t.co/xPFNQcLUkR
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