Elsalvajeloco
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Keep in mind, UFC will likely have a major PPV card there a week or two before Mania and there will be a huge boxing match weeks after that on Cinco de Mayo weekend. Probably not as big as tonight cuz it's Canelo vs. baby Canelo and probably a $20 million gate. However, that's essentially what...two $10 million+ gates each at T-Mobile Arena especially if it's Canelo fighting on Cinco de Mayo? That's a conservative estimate not knowing what's planned.
It also helps that AEW is going on Memorial Day weekend which brings a flock of tourists to Vegas. If anything, it just gives TK incentive to load up that card.
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21 minutes ago, jaedmc said:
Public Service Announcement.
Put Mauricio Ruffy on your "To Watch" list. My goodness.
Jamie Mullarkey got welcomed to the Terrordome.
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2 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
And they've basically forced AEW to move Double or Nothing '25 out of Vegas because that's gonna be expensive as hell to see Mania AND DoN in essentially the same month.
It's five weeks later. Vegas is the same place where folks have spent major bucks to go to big fights in multi consecutive weeks. It ain't exactly Toledo, Ohio.
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Here is the template for this week:
EVENT #43
UFC 301: Pantoja vs. Erceg (05/04/2024) - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Farmasi Arena)
Alexandre Pantoja vs. Steve Erceg - Pantoja, DEC
Jonathan Martinez vs. José Aldo - Aldo, DEC
Anthony Smith vs. Vitor Petrino - Petrino, TKO, R2
Michel Pereira vs. Ihor Potieria - Pereira, TKO, R1
Paul Craig vs. Caio Borralho - Borralho, DEC
Joanderson Brito vs. Jack Shore - Brito, TKO, R3
Karolina Kowalkiewicz vs. Iasmin Lucindo - Lucindo, DEC
Elves Brener vs. Myktybek Orolbai - Orolbai, SUB, R3
Joaquim Silva vs. Drakkar Klose - Klose, TKO, R2
Maurício Ruffy vs. Jamie Mullarkey - Ruffy, TKO, R2
Dione Barbosa vs. Ernesta Kareckaitė - Barbosa, DEC
Ismael Bonfim vs. Vinc Pichel - Bonfim, TKO, R2
Alessandro Costa vs. Kevin Borjas - Costa, DECEVENT #44
Canelo vs. Munguia (05/04/2024) - Las Vegas, NV (T-Mobile Arena)
WBA Super World/WBC/IBF/WBO/Ring Magazine Super Middleweight Championship: Saúl Álvarez vs. Jaime Munguia - Álvarez, DEC
Interim WBC Welterweight Championship: Mario Barrios vs. Fabian Maidana - Barrios, DEC
Interim WBC Featherweight Championship: Brandon Figueroa vs. Jessie Magdaleno - Figueroa, DEC
WBA World Welterweight Championship: Eimantas Stanionis vs. Gabriel Maestre - Stanionis, DEC
Vito Mielnicki Jr. vs. Ronald Cruz - Mielnicki Jr., DEC
William Scull vs. Sean Hemphill - Scull, DEC
Jesus Ramos vs. Johan Gonzalez - Ramos, DEC
Gabriel Valenzuela vs. Jose Angulo - Valenzuela, TKO, R2
Damien Vazquez vs. David Picasso - Picasso, TKO, R4
Jabin Chollet vs. Julian Bridges - Chollet, DEC
Adrian Torres vs. Arsen Poghosyan - Torres, TKO, R2
Lawrence King vs. Anthony Hollaway - King, TKO, R3BONUS EVENT #1
Inoue vs. Nery (05/06/2024) - Tokyo, Japan (Tokyo Dome)
WBA Super World/WBC/IBF/WBO/Ring Magazine Junior Featherweight Championship: Naoya Inoue vs. Luis Nery - Inoue, TKO, R8
WBA World Bantamweight Championship: Takuma Inoue vs. Sho Ishida - Inoue, DEC
WBA World Flyweight Championship: Seigo Yuri Akui vs. Taku Kuwahara - Akui, DEC
WBO Bantamweight Championship: Jason Moloney vs. Yoshiki Takei - Moloney, DEC
TJ Doheny vs. Bryl Bayogos - Doheny, DECThe Saturday events deadline is May 4, 5:15 p.m. CT.
The Bonus Event #1 deadline is Monday, May 6, 4:30 a.m. CT. -
UFC 301: Pantoja vs. Erceg
May 4, 2024
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Farmasi Arena)UFC Flyweight Championship: Alexandre Pantoja © (125) vs. Steve Erceg (125) (second defense) - Pantoja, DEC (unanimous)
Jonathan Martinez (136) vs. José Aldo (136) - Aldo, DEC (unanimous)
Anthony Smith (205.5) vs. Vitor Petrino (206) - Smith, SUB (guillotine choke), R1 (2:00)
Michel Pereira (186) vs. Ihor Potieria (185) - Pereira, SUB (guillotine choke), R1 (0:54)
Paul Craig (185) vs. Caio Borralho (186) - Borralho, KO (punches), R2 (2:10)ESPN2 / ESPN+ Preliminary Card:
Joanderson Brito (146) vs. Jack Shore (145.5) - Brito, TKO (doctor stoppage), R2 (3:35)
Karolina Kowalkiewicz (116) vs. Iasmin Lucindo (116) - Lucindo, DEC (unanimous)
Elves Brener (156) vs. Myktybek Orolbai (155.5) - Orolbai, DEC (unanimous)
Joaquim Silva (155.5) vs. Drakkar Klose (156) - Klose, DEC (unanimous)ESPN2 / ESPN+ Preliminary Card:
Maurício Ruffy (156) vs. Jamie Mullarkey (155) - Ruffy, TKO (punches), R1 (4:42)
Dione Barbosa (126) vs. Ernesta Kareckaitė (125.5) - Barbosa, DEC (unanimous)
Ismael Bonfim (156) vs. Vinc Pichel (156) - Bonfim, DEC (unanimous)
Alessandro Costa (125) vs. Kevin Borjas (125.5) - Costa, TKO (punches), R2 (1:35)Event Bonuses ($50,000)
Performance of the Night: Alessandro Costa
Performance of the Night: Maurício Ruffy
Performance of the Night: Caio Borralho
Performance of the Night: Michel PereiraAttendance: 14,514
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He's already in "it's fake news" mode.
Yeah, whatever they say he did...he did that shit.
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3 hours ago, AxB said:
Necro Butcher is hospitalised in Japan, he has a shattered hip. There's a GoFundMe that's being organised by Jasmin St Claire (yes, the pr0n actress from the 90s) for him.
Shit. I thought you were talking about Jasmin St. Claire, the famed neurosurgeon.
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4 minutes ago, odessasteps said:
Just inviting people to shine a spotlight (or should I say black light) on your company
Who is to say that they weren't doing that before? Or were actively doing that? People have vendetta again AEW (justified or unjustified). If something happens, it will come to light. Trust and believe.
Thing is though...it likely won't damage Tony Khan. He is extremely wealthy and will likely stay that way. It is going to affect and impact the people directly or indirectly involved who cannot afford that. Tony can afford to not give a shit cause he has been able to do that literally his whole life. I don't know about some people who if it weren't for the wrestling business would be a part time computer programmer or working in retail (or "managing a Target"). That's a different argument.
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8 hours ago, Gorman said:
I never needed a license to ring announce in Ohio or Pennsylvania, but when I called my first MMA show in PA, the official asked me for a license. I thought he was kidding.
I mean you never know when you may be called on to be a replacement referee, judge, or even a fighter at the very last minute. I mean look at last week's UFC. I think Joe Martinez had to go to the toilet for a hot minute and someone had to step in.
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Here is the template for this week:
BONUS EVENT #1
Golden Boy Boxing on DAZN: Ramirez vs. Barthelemy (04/27/2024) - Fresno, CA (SaveMart Center)
Jose Ramirez vs. Rances Barthelemy - Ramirez, DEC
Vergil Ortiz Jr. vs. Thomas Dulorme - Ortiz Jr., TKO, R3
Joseph Diaz vs. Oscar Duarte - Duarte, DEC
WBA/WBC/WBO Female Flyweight Championship: Marlen Esparza vs. Celeste Alaniz - Esparza, DEC
Raul Curiel vs. Jorge Marron Jr. - Curiel, TKO, R3
Bryan Lua vs. Ronaldo Solis - Lua, TKO, R4
Figo Ramirez vs. Alejandro Robles - Ramirez, DECEVENT #41
UFC Fight Night on ESPN 55: Nicolau vs. Perez (04/27/2024) - Las Vegas, NV (UFC Apex)
Matheus Nicolau vs. Alex Perez - Nicolau, DEC
Ryan Spann vs. Bogdan Guskov - Spann, TKO, R2
Karine Silva vs. Ariane Lipski - Silva, SUB, R2
Jhonata Diniz vs. Austen Lane - Diniz, TKO, R2
Jonathan Pearce vs. David Onama - Onama, TKO, R3
Tim Means vs. Uros Medic - Medic, TKO, R2
Rani Yahya vs. Victor Henry - Henry, DEC
Austin Hubbard vs. Michal Figlak - Figlak, DEC
Don'Tale Mayes vs. Caio Machado - Mayes, DEC
Ketlen Souza vs. Marnic Mann - Souza, DEC
James Llontop vs. Chris Padilla - Llontop, TKO, R2
Ivana Petrović vs. Liang Na - Petrović, TKO, R2
Maheshate Hayisaer vs. Gabriel Benítez - Hayisaer, TKO, R2EVENT #42
RIZIN 46 (04/28/2024) - Tokyo, Japan (Ariake Arena)
Chihiro Suzuki vs. Masanori Kanehara - Suzuki, TKO, R2
Juntarou Ushiku vs. Shinobu Ota - Ushiku, DEC
Taichi Nakajima vs. Soo Chul Kim - Kim, TKO, R2
Makoto Shinryu vs. Jung Hyun Lee - Shinryu, SUB, R2
Ji Yong Yang vs. Kazuma Kuramoto - Yang, TKO, R2
Yoshiki Nakahara vs. Viktor Kolesnik - Kolesnik, DEC
Sora Yamamoto vs. Ilkhom Nazimov - Nazimov, DEC
Taisei Nishitani vs. Ryo Takagi - Takagi, TKO, R2
Hiroaki Suzuki vs. Ren Sugiyama - Suzuki, DEC
Noah Bey vs. Yusaku Inoue - Inoue, TKO, R2The Saturday events deadline is April 27, 4:45 p.m. CT.
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UFC Fight Night on ESPN 55: Nicolau vs. Perez
April 27, 2024
Las Vegas, NV (UFC Apex)Matheus Nicolau vs. Alex Perez
Ryan Spann vs. Bogdan Guskov
Karine Silva vs. Ariane Lipski
Jhonata Diniz vs. Austen Lane
Jonathan Pearce vs. David Onama
Tim Means vs. Uros MedicESPN2 Preliminary Card:
Rani Yahya vs. Victor Henry
Austin Hubbard vs. Michal Figlak
Don'Tale Mayes vs. Caio Machado
Ketlen Souza vs. Marnic Mann
James Llontop vs. Chris Padilla
Ivana Petrović vs. Liang Na
Maheshate Hayisaer vs. Gabriel BenítezEvent Bonuses ($50,000)
Performance of the Night:
Performance of the Night:
Fight of the Night: -
WB and David Zaslav is making sure all these projects don't see the light of day while Sony is trying to force Kraven the Hunter on people even if he means moving the release date every three months.
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There are several examples of the commission doing nonsensical stuff to overcompensate so they don't look like the Keystone Cops. The thing is if you catch it BEFOREHAND and not afterwards, you probably won't come off as bumbling idiots.
One of my personal favorites is a story from early in Roy Jones Jr. career. So Roy Jones after being robbed at the 1988 Olympics at Seoul turned pro shortly afterwards and was extremely mishandled in terms of management despite probably being the best fighter of the 1988 USA boxing team. He would occasionally pop up on the dying days of boxing on NBC or like Tuesday Night Fights, but he spent most of his time off TV fighting locally in Pensacola and at like state fairs in the Florida panhandle and often against no hopers and nondescript opponents. One of those opponents in 1990 was Derwin Richards of Houston, TX....Okay, it was suppose to be Derwin Richards. What happened was a guy named "Derwin Richards" showed up at the show in Pensacola and got KO'd by Roy in the first round much like all of Roy's opponents at the time. Roy gets his win and everyone goes home happy. That is until someone from the local paper in Pensacola points out, "Yeah, I don't think that's the guy who is in the program for the card." The commission looks into it. And yup, there are some irregularities. The first being that on the commission paperwork, the guy who showed up wrote down a record that totally didn't match the record in the relatively primitive record keeping sources at the time. The person whose job it was to check for those irregularities said she was **checks notes**...too busy. Yes, that was her excuse. Wouldn't want your job to get in the way of your commitments at your job.
Anyway, they launch an official "investigation". First thing they find is it definitely WASN'T Derwin Richards. Why? Derwin Richards on the night of the fight was working as a security guard at a correctional facility in Houston, TX. So unless this guy who was probably making minimum wage at the time had a private jet to get him back and forth from and to Houston, Texas, it certainly wasn't him. So who the hell fought Roy Jones Jr. that night? So they look into the person who procured Roy's opponent. It was a guy out of Oklahoma City named Elvis Belt (what a name). Belt had been asked by the matchmaker named Gerome Peete if they could get the services of Mr. Richards for a purse of $2,000. From what I can figure, either Belt knew Richards and chose intentionally not to discuss the arrangements of a fight with Roy Jones Jr. or he just pretended to know Derwin Richards. Either way, Belt saw an opportunity to make some extra cash. In 2024 dollars, that purse would have been almost $5,000 dollars. What Belt did was roll up to some Oklahoma City boxing gym, found some guy with little to no experience named Tony Waddles, told him he would get $700 for fighting Roy Jones Jr., Waddles agreed, and they both drove down to Pensacola for the fight. When they got down there, Belt had Waddles pretend to be Derwin Richards and the matchmaker probably knew it wasn't the guy who he asked for. However, seeing as Roy Jones Jr. was the big local attraction, figured he couldn't have Roy not fight the guy who was advertised to be there. That and Waddles having little or no experience probably wouldn't have been cleared to fight a person who was literally two years removed from being declared the best boxer at the summer Olympics. They went through with the fight, Waddles got paid $700, and Belt pocketed the rest (over $3,100 in today's money).
Afterwards, everyone got punished except the person whose job it was to make sure shit like that doesn't happen, the dumbass woman working for the commission who was too busy to look into shady stuff. Had someone (not working for the commission) not pointed out the guy who got knocked out wasn't the same guy being advertised, the commission would have been none the wiser.
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5 minutes ago, odessasteps said:
He at least ended with a 2-1 record, one KO and one TKO win and one TKO loss.
All three fights are in a 2 1/2 month span. Shit, "Pretty" Paul don't need no training camp. But yeah, after fight one, they got some dudes who weren't particularly skilled at boxing probably or some hijinks took place.
Looking at the cards he fought on, he got to be on the same bills as "Poison" Junior Jones, Marvin Hagler's brother Robbie Sims, "Iceman" John Scully, Zora Folley's son Robert Folley, Buster Drayton, and noted journeyman Melvin Wynn. That ain't exactly fighting on the same card as some weekend warriors. He had to know someone.
Still not as wild as Archie Moore's last pro fight being Mike DiBiase.
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Okay so I was tracking down some random shit on Friday night as I usually do, and I came across this on eBay.
Say what now?
Spoiler
I am guessing based on the result, this wasn't one of those Mark Gastineau works.
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That early Zero One roster was the most ragtag group of motherfuckers you could ever conjure up.
PRIDE era Hirotaka Yokoi and Kintaro Kanemura. Same roster.
I loved it.
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27 minutes ago, Technico Support said:
Does Hayes still work there in a high position ? Prichard? Any number of white guys of a certain age who came up in this business in the 70s and 80s? Then racism and sexism is alive and well there. Let’s not bullshit ourselves.
Bruce is like Kissinger or Rumsfeld. He is there until his heart just gives out at the age of 115.
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1 minute ago, Eivion said:
They might not have been, but you can't really call the entire company Weinstein without damning those people as well. That is what makes his comment hypocritical. I'm sure it wasn't his intent, but he clearly didn't think about it before he threw it out there.
It doesn't really damn them. If someone calls the Boston Celtics a racist franchise, that ain't a shot at Bill Russell or Cornbread Maxwell or Rajon Rondo. That's a shot at the city of Boston, their fans, and how the organization was/is ran.
The WWE has or past tense, had a toxic culture. That part is indisputable. Whether that all ties into Vince and some mavericks, who knows? However, Vince is synonymous with WWE like Al Davis is with the Raiders. One and the same even if he is gone. Nobody thinks Vince McMahon.....and random office person #4572.
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1 hour ago, dragonzombie said:
Vince is selling off his remaining shares
https://www.sportico.com/personalities/executives/2
1 hour ago, dragonzombie said:Vince is selling off his remaining shares
Apparently, Twitter is abuzz about the Nick Khan part of this article.
It could be a big nothing, but it won't stop the full on Brian Windhorst meme inspired "...Now why is that?" feeling going around that will cause rampant speculation.
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31 minutes ago, Eivion said:
Not really as long as he keeps hiring wrestlers, production, creative, and office people from WWE. It just make him look like a hypocrite.
I dunno if that makes him a hypocrite considering none of those people he hired were involved directly in what Vince is currently going through as far as we know. WWE doesn't exclusively own those wrestlers. They're "independent contractors". They also don't own staff members or personnel. Tony is in the NFL. A good portion of the people who work for the Jags have worked with other NFL franchises. In sports and entertainment, it's always been about how "our" culture is better than theirs even if it ain't true. Shit, Levesque trots out that fairly often.
11 minutes ago, odessasteps said:That's the kind of thing where you had best hope there are no skeletons in either TK or Shad's closet. I don't know I'd want to pick a media fight with Endeavor and/or Ari.
They're not going to have a media fight in the middle of a major lawsuit. That would be idiotic and disastrous. They been at this too long to do that.
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The one walkout thing w/ a wrestler I do remember is Rey Jr. and Konnan walking out with Jhonny Gonzalez (the former Sexy Star's husband and the same guy who almost got into it with a drunk Jeff Jarrett the night Sexy Star went off script at TripleMania) the week after Perro Aguayo Jr. died. I just remember thinking, "Man...this is going to be even sadder cause Gary Russell Jr. is about to beat Jhonny's ass". And that's EXACTLY what happened. That was extremely depressing. I felt bad for those dudes.
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8 minutes ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:
I was gonna say that one, but I'll go with HHH doing the same thing when he walked out with Mayweather to sell Brock breaking his arm w the kimura lock (I remember Justin Bieber and another kinda oddball person being part of that walk out too)
I do remember Hunter walking out with Floyd (w/ Bieber), but I totally wasn't paying attention to that aspect. Maybe it's because as I mentioned before here, there are like 6,000 people in the ring before and after a fight and 99% of them don't belong there.
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May 2024 Wrestling Talk
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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The amount of pro wrestling fan debauchery over that weekend is going to be disgusting. More than usual levels if you can somehow believe it.