The champion needed one round to close out his contract in front of the men who just bought the company. The co-main event winner walked out 16-0, booed, skipped by the broadcast, and asking the same question about the merger as everyone else.
Muay ThaiThe 42-year-old who upset Giancarlo Bodoni in Tokyo faces the young Pole moving up from his failed title bid against Tye Ruotolo. Nobody holds the middleweight submission grappling belt yet. Both men are treating September 4 as the audition.
MMATwelve finishes in fourteen fights. A Serbian headliner who needed half a minute. An undefeated New Zealander who just ended a former champion’s night in one round. The promotion’s first walk into Belgrade could not have been scripted more cleanly if the matchmakers had written the endings themselves.
MMAThe UFC boss says stacking two promotions nobody watches does not produce a rival. Jake Paul says his Netflix debut outdrew a UFC card. Both spoke on the same day, both picked the metrics that suit them, and the market has not voted yet.
MMAThe only ranked Serbian on the roster gets his first main event at home, against an opponent who spent eight months in a Mexican prison and came back to win three straight. A former champion, two heavyweight experiments, and a face-off that needed security fill out the promotion’s first walk into Belgrade Arena.
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