Vegas 118: Belal vs Bonfim

I hope Gabriel Bongfeet wins. I don’t like that wonky eyed sand monkey

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I had some laundry detergent that got stuck in my shirt, and I started to do a workout. And that shirt and laundry detergent got all on my skin, and the suds were coming out of my shirt. I didn’t know what was happening, so I kept training — at first, I thought I was sweating out all of the milk that I drank because I drank a gallon of milk. Then it started getting bubbly and foamy, and I was like, ‘Nah, bro, that’s not milk, that’s soap.’”

Bro thought he was lactating.

Been clamoring for a new Belal fight, he’s exciting to watch

Don’t you dare compare could pizza to this garbage

Article written by Herschel Ribinowitz

Fares vs Tom Nolan will be fireworks

Iwo vs jnr tafa will be a banger, iwo has had a couple of fights an has looked great, savage striker, an tafa won’t take a backwards step

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Jeisla Chaves went from holding cards during fights to being the one in the cage trading punches and kicks. Saturday night she makes her UFC debut.

The 29-year-old Chaves grew up in Poçoes, a small town in Bahia, Brazil, and went to school dreaming of one day making a living as a geography teacher. Years went by. She graduated in the area and found a 9-to-5 job. One day, an old school friend reached out asking she if was interested in making some money as a ring girl for a Muay Thai event organized by his coach.

Chaves said yes and opened a door to a new world.

“I traded ring cards for gloves and that’s when everything changed in my life,” Chaves told MMA Fighting ahead of her UFC Vegas 118 flyweight clash with Yuneisy Duben.

Shortly after her start as a ring girl, Chaves fell in love with Muay Thai.

“I had been training for only about a month when my coach, who is still my coach today and runs the promotion where I worked as a ring girl, told me, ‘Next year, you’ll be with me at the event,’” Chaves said. “At first, I thought he meant as a ring girl again. I said, ‘Okay, I’ll be there with you again. I’m glad you liked my work.’ He replied, ‘No, you’ll be there as my fighter.’ In less than a year, I had my first amateur Muay Thai fight at that event and became champion. That was the moment everything changed. I loved it. I knew that was what I wanted for my life.”

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Chaves kept working on her Muay Thai skills before joining jiu-jitsu classes to look at a potential transition to MMA, which eventually happened in 2023.

“I worked at events in my hometown and in the area, so some people where I’m from know me both as a ring girl and as a fighter,” Chaves said. “I started training professionally and gave up a lot of things. I quit my job and even had conflicts with my family. It’s not like my mom was against it, but she didn’t support it either because she would see me coming home injured and I was the only girl training at the gym.”

Edmen Shahbazyan is always fun to watch - I keep thinking he’s going to show us he’s at the next level but his ceiling seems to have been hit - I am
Rooting for him to get the KO though

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Lowkey really good Apex card. Some solid names on here.

Fuckin’ horrible replacement matchup for Bryce. I expect Luna to beat the breaks off him.

I’m on the Iwo Baraniewski hype train. Hopefully another quick KO for him.

@Detroit_Redneck xxoo

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On it jefa

So Brendan Allen destroys RDR , is ranked #4 and gets a match up with unranked Edmen Shahbazyan?

Seems like a weird match up to wait 8 months for.