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By Andy Cotterill It’s fight week, and all of the hard work is over for Adam ‘Maverick” Assenza. No more gruelling training sessions. No more challenging his body. Now it’s time to go into maintenance mode and make sure that both his body and his mind are ready to square off against a dangerous opponent…
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There are a handful of reasons why Huntsville, Ontario’s Kyle “The Monster” Nelson (13-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) feels really good about his matchup with Jai Herbert (11-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) this Saturday night at UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Aspinall in London, England.
“Everybody doubted me and everyone threw me under the bus and said I was finished and garbage and blah blah blah,” Zahabi said with fire in his voice, “and I proved to myself that the odds don’t matter, the betting odds don’t matter and that it’s just me versus my opponent in there. It’s not me versus the media, it’s not me versus the fans, it’s not me versus the lights, it’s not me versus the venue, it’s not me versus anything. It’s just me and that one guy, and I gotta go out there and just beat him. I don’t have to beat anything else.”
Niagara Top Team’s Aaron Jeffery makes his Bellator debut on Friday night.
For St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada fighter Jasmine Jasudavicius, many of her moments are on full display to the world every few months when she steps inside the UFC Octagon and goes to work against a talented opponent in the flyweight division of the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization.
Justin Bourgeois is a carpenter by day, and a mixed martial artist by night, and on Saturday night the veteran fighter from Amherst, Nova Scotia plans to use the lessons learned on the jobsite inside of a cage when he faces Patrick Connors in the main event of Fight League Atlantic 4, in Sackville, New Brunswick.
Ryan Ford (right) with Artur Beterbiev By Andy Cotterill There are many fighters in Canada, but none are quite like Ryan Ford. Known as “The Real Deal,” the 40-year-old from Edmonton has been fighting professionally since 2007, first in mixed martial arts, followed by boxing, and now with a return to MMA. What sets Ford…
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While many young people his age have uncertainty about their future and their plans, Romero is steadfast on the path that he started two decades ago when he first stepped foot into a Tae Kwon Do class as a little boy.
Niagara Top Team’s Flyweight Female Fenom Jasmine Jasudavicius accepted a fight offer from the UFC to face Brazil’s Natália Silva at the UFC Fight Night scheduled for June 18th, 2022.
I can’t be lazy…I can’t be reckless…I can’t completely disrespect this guy, but I don’t see anywhere where he’s clearly better than me or even on my level. The closest would probably be on the ground, but I would imagine I’m definitely a better grappler than him.”
