Ariel Helwani
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Holly Holm responds to Ronda Rousey claiming that she would 'clean her clock' in a rematch: "You can say one thing, and actions are another. She's always going to be more of that type of person... I've always said I'll rematch her. That's the bottom line. She doesn't want it. She's never wanted it, and that's alright. I'm not even mad at her for it. I don't want someone to get in there and fight if they don't actually want to fight, because I want someone who wants it."
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Mick Foley opens up about his decision to distance himself from WWE due to their association with President Trump: "I felt that because I had a Legends deal, and because my name's been associated with WWE for over 30 years, that I was complicit in my silence. I realized that by giving up two really easy, very high-paying jobs during WrestleMania week with WWE, I'd have to work 24 hours on my own to make what I could have made in six, and I'm okay with that. I made the move that I felt was right for me. I love that company. I'm not going to disparage them. It just didn't seem like a good fit. It didn't seem like a fit that would allow me to look at myself in the mirror before I went to bed."
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Take a moment and listen to this absolutely bizarre story from Holly Holm about her meeting with the referee before her first fight with Stefanie Han in Puerto Rico. It just shows how some people in boxing view MMA fighters. Holly is not just an MMA fighter, she's an International Boxing Hall of Famer. Absurd. "The rules meeting in the locker room was the most bizarre meeting I've ever had. He made me sit down face to face this close while we had the whole rules meeting. He said, 'Any questions?' I said, 'No, sir, I'm good to go.' Then he's like, 'You know, there are no elbows in this sport?' I was like, 'Yeah.' He's like, 'Well, you come from MMA?' I said, 'I know, but I boxed before. Trust me, I'm good.' And he's like, 'Yeah, but it's, it's in here.' He's like getting in my face about it. And I was like, 'I'm not gonna throw any elbows. It's boxing. I get it.' You have to be nice because he's about to wreck your fight and you're thinking, do we already have a fucking problem?"
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Action Bronson weighs in on Alex Pereira's heavyweight transformation: "When I was in high school, they would always talk about the players who had that high ass. Bo Jackson, every elite athlete has the high ass. Like a horse, like a stallion, it sits way up on the torso. It helps with athleticism."
Ariel Helwani778,576 Aufrufe • vor 2 Tagen
My word. One more day. I can run through a brick wall after watching this.
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Dakota Ditcheva reveals why she has no plans to fight past age 32: "I think about that all the time because I want to be a mum. I want to have a little bit of a normal life. I don't want to fight after I'm a mum. For someone like me who's dying to be a mum, I have to sacrifice all that kind of stuff for this. It's a big thing. So for me, I'm like, 'Right, 32, I'm done.' If I haven't been world champion by 32, which I definitely will be, I'm done. For me, it doesn't matter which organization. Whoever you think the top girl is, if you say Shevchenko, as long as I've beaten her, I'm out."
Ariel Helwani76,263 Aufrufe • vor 21 Stunden
Ben Askren says his match against Belal Muhammad will be a one-off, with no plans to compete afterward: "I'm not wrestling again. I'm gonna do it once, and I'm gonna enjoy it. Then I'm gonna coach wrestling, enjoy my family, and help RAF grow. I never really imagined it would work this quickly. Even my best-case scenario wasn't as good as how it's going."
Ariel Helwani256,075 Aufrufe • vor 2 Tagen
El Grande Americano x "Original" El Grande Americano has been my favorite thing going in combat sports. Bravo to everyone over at Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide. Match of the Year. Entrance of the Year. Feud of the Year. Crowd of the Year. Undertaker for Booker of the Year. It had it all.
Ariel Helwani213,655 Aufrufe • vor 2 Tagen
Ronda Rousey explains why she’s opposed to the UFC naming its events by numbers: "Let's call the fights by their names and not a brand and a number. I love that this hasn't been called MVP 1. This has been Rousey vs. Carano. We're bringing the humanity back into it."
Ariel Helwani2,634,033 Aufrufe • vor 23 Tagen
Dakota Ditcheva explains why Ronda Rousey's comments about Khamzat Chimaev didn't sit right with her: "It just hit a little bit deeper because I was really inspired by her and the athlete and person she was, and I think because she's a woman, it related to me a little bit more. As a mother, for her, I just don't think she should have made that comment. It's not even a Chimaev thing... I just don't think publicly that should have been a comment she should have made. I wanted to say something because I didn't agree with it. I'm not inspired by other people that come out with stupid comments... It was a little bit disappointing to hear her come out with something like that."
Ariel Helwani52,905 Aufrufe • vor 21 Stunden
![Nate Diaz explains why he wasn’t interested in being Conor McGregor’s return fight: “I know that [the UFC] wanted the Conor fight right now… and I’m like, I’m not trying to be a comeback story for Conor. I want Conor back, and then I want him to be fucking showing people he’s whipping ass. Then that’s the guy I want. I don’t wanna be fighting a guy that they don’t know about, because I know he’s gonna come back and do good. I don’t need him to do it on me.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2054285920246075735/amplify_video_thumb/2054285847219097600/img/7X1QtaA9FMG23l4G.jpg)
Nate Diaz explains why he wasn’t interested in being Conor McGregor’s return fight: “I know that [the UFC] wanted the Conor fight right now… and I’m like, I’m not trying to be a comeback story for Conor. I want Conor back, and then I want him to be fucking showing people he’s whipping ass. Then that’s the guy I want. I don’t wanna be fighting a guy that they don’t know about, because I know he’s gonna come back and do good. I don’t need him to do it on me.”
Ariel Helwani2,070,882 Aufrufe • vor 22 Tagen
"I think O'Malley will almost certainly win, but Zahabi is definitely going to be a harder problem to solve than Sean gives him credit for. Sean's very, very good. I think he's a lot better than all of the other guys Zahabi has fought. I think Sean will win simply because he's better than him. Sometimes Sean can be a little too much of a perfectionist, and I think that works against him, so he'll have to deal with that. But even with that, I think he'll win." Cory Sandhagen breaks down Sean O'Malley x Aiemann Zahabi.
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![Cory Sandhagen weighs in on fighting on a card headlined by Conor McGregor x Max Holloway: "That's gigantic. The amount of eyes that are gonna be on this fight... Do you think that there will be more eyes or less eyes on this one versus the White House card? I think that [UFC 329] probably draws in more of a global crowd... I was pumped when they told me that that's what they were gonna do. I was super grateful."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2062264971980095832/amplify_video_thumb/2062264736893517824/img/jCHlcaL13NEPxEFq.jpg)
Cory Sandhagen weighs in on fighting on a card headlined by Conor McGregor x Max Holloway: "That's gigantic. The amount of eyes that are gonna be on this fight... Do you think that there will be more eyes or less eyes on this one versus the White House card? I think that [UFC 329] probably draws in more of a global crowd... I was pumped when they told me that that's what they were gonna do. I was super grateful."
Ariel Helwani35,391 Aufrufe • vor 20 Stunden
O'Shaquie Foster opens up about facing attempted murder and other criminal charges in his past and how that changed the course of his life: "I had went down for a shooting. Broad daylight. I was doing whatever, just wilding out. I ended up bonding out, but I started catching a whole bunch of other cases. You're just sitting there, and you don't know when or what you're going to do. Then I saw the Terence Crawford fight, and it made me think, 'Alright, I'm going to have to try something, or this is going to be my path right here.' Boxing was what I had left, and I had to jump in headfirst."
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Wow. Jake Paul reveals there’s a real possibility he may never fight again due to complications stemming from the broken jaw he suffered against Anthony Joshua: “I’m getting some new scans in a couple of days on the jaw to get an update on the healing process. We’ll see what my doctors say and if I can even fight again. That is definitely within the realm of possibility. It does feel a lot better as the weeks and time go by. I think it just depends on how the bone heals. There’s also a tooth missing here, and I’m pretty sure I’m going to have to get some sort of implant. We just have to wait and figure out what the smartest thing is for me.”
Ariel Helwani1,484,629 Aufrufe • vor 23 Tagen
!["If he go [the Zuffa] route, we all know that's a super duck. It's a duck move if he go over there. He gave his word, and he ain't standing on it, so we'll see." O'Shaquie Foster on his heated exchange with Shakur Stevenson and the possibility of that fight happening next.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2061901312758001839/amplify_video_thumb/2061901076224495616/img/IKGf_SIK8MlMbO1G.jpg)
"If he go [the Zuffa] route, we all know that's a super duck. It's a duck move if he go over there. He gave his word, and he ain't standing on it, so we'll see." O'Shaquie Foster on his heated exchange with Shakur Stevenson and the possibility of that fight happening next.
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Holly Holm has plans to retire by the end of 2026: "If I'm being really honest, I just want big fights. I'm not saying that all of them have to be title fights, but definitely a couple within the year, and then I'm done. I definitely want them to be fights that people want to see."
Ariel Helwani32,644 Aufrufe • vor 20 Stunden
Ric Flair reveals he wasn't invited to WrestleMania 42 following an incident involving Ludwig Kaiser amid Tiffany Stratton’s attack on Charlotte Flair: "I didn’t get invited to WrestleMania this year. I threatened to beat up Tiffany Stratton’s husband. A 24-year-old kid being threatened by a 76-year-old man—and I can’t go to WrestleMania? Are you kidding me? I can get anybody’s number I want, any minute of any day. I called him. I said, ‘Hey, when I see you, I’m gonna beat the shit out of you.’ He went like a little bitch, told Hunter, and I wasn’t allowed to go. He’s gonna really go far in the business… Is he even on the roster? Little punk."
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