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10 Great Fights In January

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Can't wait for fights to resume. Sherdog's Brian Knapp wrote this excellent article on ten upcoming fights along with reasons to watch.
https://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/Sherdogs-Top-10-CantMiss-Fights-of-January-183949
Here's the fights mentioned:
January 12: Alesha Zappitella vs. Jessica Delboni (Invicta)
Jan 15 Calvin Kattar vs. Giga Chikadze (UFC)
Jan 15 Joaquin Buckley vs. Abdul Razak Alhassan (UFC)
Jan 15 Tomasz Narkun vs. Ibragim Chuzhigaev (KSW)
Jan 22: Francis Ngannou vs. Cyril Gane (UFC)
Jan 22: Brandon Moreno vs. Deiveson Figueiredo (UFC)
Jan 22 Movsar Evioev vs. Ilia Topuria (UFC)
Jan 28 Tyrone Spong vs. Sergei Kharitonov (EFC)
Jan 28 Anatoliy Malykhin vs. Kirill Grishenko (One)
Jan 29 Ryan Bader vs. Valentin Moldavsky (Bellator)

Which fights are you looking forward to and why? Any other January fights you are anticipating?

I'm gonna try and watch all ten. Ngannou vs. Gane is at the top of my list. Followed by Moreno vs. Figueriredo. Also looking forward to:
Jan 14 Jingnan Xiong vs. Ayaka Miura, James Nakashima vs. Saygid Izagakhmaev (One)
Jan 22 Movsar Evloev vs. Ilia Topuria, Viviane Araujo vs. Alex Grasso (UFC)
Jan 29 Benson Henderson vs. Muslim Mamedov (Bellator)
 
Salikov vs Pereira is one i'm very interested in.
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I'm pretty hyped for Evloev vs Topuria, I think Topuria has a little bit of a higher ceiling (finishing ability etc) but I think this fight is going to be extremely competitve. It's got a split decision written all over it lol.
 
Too bad we gotta wait two weeks still! Giga is on his way up, he’s practically ready to fight for the title
 
Ngannou-Gane followed by Bader-Moldavsky for me. Evloev-Topuria after that maybe?
Spong vs Kharitonov has no appeal for me at all. Kharitonob looked terrible last time out, and Spong’s MMA record is nonexistent basically.
 
Salikov vs Pereira is one i'm very interested in.
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I am a religious MMA watcher. I don't miss fights, I'm that guy with all the stats as I try to impress everyone at a watch-party. All that being said, I COMPLETELY missed the fact that this fight was happening. I think this is my January must watch fight out of all the fights. This is a perfect matchup. Their both such high level strikers. Pereira is fun to watch with all his flipping shit in the cage, but that aside, he's a monster that is gonna be fighting for the title at some point(if he can manage his gas tank with all the unnecessary moves he throws) Absolutely pumped for this one considering I didn't even know it was happening 10 minutes ago

Francis vs Cyril is also one of the most interesting HW fights ever. I think Cyril is gonna be too much for Francis, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

Movsar vs Ilia is awesome

I got no idea why no one is talking about Calvin vs Giga. Maybe bc Calvin got beatdown by Max last fight. That's a badass fight

LET'S GO!!!!!
 
Damn Bader is already back so soon?
I remember him getting knocked out by Corey not to loog ago. Dude has taken some bombs throughout his career.
 
I should probably know this by now, but does anyone know where Eagle FC will be available to watch? Thank you in advance.
 
@SashaIsABot

Good point !!

When will Khabib / eagle FC

1. Pay more to the fighters? ( At least 50% of profit)
2. Give performance bonuses
3. Provide long term health care
4. Build a performance institute
5. USADA testing


These things must be answered immediately because

<KhabibBS>
 
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