Jake Paul should get in the ring with Mike Tyson. That'd be worth it, lol.
At Sporting News, "Jake Paul vs. Nate Robinson fight results: YouTube star wins with brutal KO."
[That just reminded me: "The Great White Hope"? (Wiki.)]
Short knockout video here.
Dadashev (13-1, 11 KOs), from Saint Petersburg, Russia, and based in Oxnard, California, needed help leaving the ring. He collapsed before making it to the dressing room and began vomiting. He was taken from the arena on a stretcher and was transported by ambulance to the hospital, where he underwent emergency brain surgery for two hours for a subdural hematoma (bleeding on the brain). Doctors hoped to relieve pressure on the right side of his brain, where most of the damage was, with the surgery and placed him in a medically induced coma to allow time for brain swelling to subside.
ICYMI: After 13 months outside the octagon, Ronda Rousey lasted just 48 seconds against Amanda Nunes at #UFC207. https://t.co/h6tPObfqUw
— ESPN (@espn) December 31, 2016
#UFC207 reactions: https://t.co/BeT2slC6Cg
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) December 31, 2016
Coach may have doomed #RondaRousey's fight, career. https://t.co/wjgQpGqpJk
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) December 31, 2016
.@DLoesch #RondaRousey must retire after crushing loss to Amanda Nunes. https://t.co/FMTGNRkEZV v
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) December 31, 2016
Amanda Nunes did not hold back on Ronda Rousey's coach Edmond Tarverdyan after her dominant #UFC207 win. pic.twitter.com/m6FAPZBIOb
— ESPN (@espn) December 31, 2016
Ronda Rousey loses again; what now? https://t.co/rhzJzibKoj #ufc207
— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) December 31, 2016
LAS VEGAS -- Holly Holm seemed well on her way to retaining the UFC women's bantamweight championship on Saturday night.Still more at MMA Mania, "UFC 196 results: Miesha Tate mounts incredible comeback, chokes Holly Holm unconscious to win Bantamweight belt late in final round."
Then Miesha Tate scored one of the most stunning finishes in mixed martial arts history.
Tate landed a swift takedown in the final two minutes of the fifth round at UFC 196 and landed a tight rear-naked choke. Holm tried to shake Tate off, and when she couldn't, went unconscious instead of tapping out.
Tate won the title at 3:30 of the final round at the MGM Grand Garden Arena for her fifth straight victory.
"I knew I had to finish the fight," said Tate (18-5). "I knew I had to be perfect in the fifth round."
Tate had very nearly finished the bout in the second round, dominating from bell to bell and securing a rear-naked choke in the final minute.
But Holm (10-1), who had won the opening round, regained control and won the third, fourth, and appeared to be winning the fifth. She stuffed every Tate takedown attempt in that time frame up until the final, fateful attempt.
After belting Rousey with a left hand to the head that turned the former champion, leaving her awkwardly exposed as she stood from a slip, Holm followed with a knockout left kick to the right side of Rousey's head.Also, "Holly Holm cashes in her life's work to shock Ronda Rousey," and "Ronda Rousey has earned right to rematch with Holly Holm, UFC president says."
With the previously unbeaten Rousey briefly unconscious on the canvas, Holm unleashed a couple hammer punches toward the face that caused referee Herb Dean to stop the fight 59 seconds into the second round.
Holm expressed a look of awe as the groggy Rousey awoke and was aided to a stool placed in the middle of the octagon at Etihad Stadium, where a shocked crowd estimated at more than 60,000 looked on along with a pay-per-view audience expected to surpass 1 million.
"I'm trying to take it in, but it's crazy," Holm said in the octagon after the massive upset that ranks with Matt Serra's stunning victory over former welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and Chris Weidman's knockout of longtime middleweight champion Anderson Silva...
Correia crossed the line when said she hoped the champion 'didn’t commit suicide' after losing.
The UFC women’s bantamweight champion plans to punish the unbeaten Brazilian inside the Octagon...
Saying yes to Robert De Niro was easy.More.
The Oscar-winning actor will get a prime seat for Saturday night's main event. So will Clint Eastwood, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
As the clock ticks down to the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao bout — the most-anticipated fight in decades — promoters are scrambling to accommodate a flood of ticket requests from celebrities, business tycoons and superstars from other sports.
"They can't all sit in the front row," said Dena duBoef of Top Rank Inc., which represents Pacquiao. "Tickets and seating are probably the biggest nightmare for this fight."
Most of the 16,800-seat arena at the MGM Grand has been divvied up among the resort and the two fighters' camps, with only 500 seats made available for public sale.
There will be about 900 ringside spots, depending on the final configuration. That isn't enough for all the A-list names and high rollers who want to be near the action.
"Nothing matches the hysteria we're seeing," said Stephen Espinoza, a Showtime executive who controls some of Mayweather's allotment.
Promoters are still mixing and matching names, pondering whom to put where, especially in the first few rows. As longtime Hollywood publicist Howard Bragman said: "Absolutely there is a pecking order."
Star-studded crowds are as much a part of boxing as uppercuts and smelling salts.
Mayweather versus Pacquiao has become a red-carpet event if only because it took years of negotiation to get the boxers — perhaps the greatest of their generation — into the same ring.
"This has been a long time coming," Oscar winner Jamie Foxx says in a promotional TV spot.
The MGM Grand declined to comment for this story, as did numerous celebrities expected to attend. The Times received a list of ticket requests from boxing executives who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to discuss seating details.
De Niro, Eastwood, Damon and Affleck made the cut for the first few rows, the executives said. So did Michael J. Fox and producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
Will Smith and Jimmy Kimmel are expected to be there, but one Oscar winner was placed farther back and decided not to attend, said an executive not authorized to give the actor's name. UFC fighter Ronda Rousey, quarterback Tom Brady and nearly a dozen NFL team owners were still waiting for their exact seat locations.
Celebrities will share the floor section with the likes of Jesse Jackson and hip-hop mogul Sean Combs. The MGM Grand has offered prime seats to its best customers — gamblers who carry a minimum $250,000 credit line in the casino — said Bob Arum, chief executive of Top Rank Inc.
Over the last few weeks, the longtime boxing executive has stopped short of making promises to big-name actors and directors, telling them instead: "We'll put you on the list."
The situation is delicate because boxing and the entertainment industry enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship. No one complained when pop star Justin Bieber — a regular in Mayweather's entourage — barged onstage at a recent pre-fight news conference.
A singer with more than 63 million Twitter followers can generate buzz and boost pay-per-view revenue. Espinoza said that Bieber "adds to the s
In return, celebrities parlay their fame into great seats. They get a close-up view, a chance to hear the thud of each body blow and some free publicity.
Former heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Morrison, who starred in the 1990 movie "Rocky V" and later saw his fighting career shortened by a positive HIV test, has died. He was 44.
Morrison died Sunday night at a Nebraska hospital, his former manager, Tony Holden, told the Associated Press. The fighter's family did not disclose the cause.
In 1993, Morrison beat George Foreman for the World Boxing Organization heavyweight belt but soon lost it and a looming $7.5 -million payday to unheralded challenger Michael Bentt. Morrison later lost to another former distinguished heavyweight champion, Lennox Lewis.
"Tommy had a good left hook and quite a bit of ring savvy, and if his opponent was having a little bit of an off night, he'd win," said Bruce Trampler, the matchmaker for the boxing company Top Rank that promoted 27 of Morrison's 52 fights.
However, Morrison "was in obvious decline the last few years," Trampler said.
Nicknamed "The Duke," Morrison was born in 1969 in Gravette, Ark., and grew up in Oklahoma. He enjoyed a strong amateur career that was stopped short of a U.S. Olympic bid in a 1988 loss to Ray Mercer.
The 6-foot-2 boxer won his first 28 professional fights, including a victory over former champion Pinklon Thomas, and played Tommy Gunn opposite Sylvester Stallone in "Rocky V."
