Wonder if they have scouts or do those two do everything?@seanshelby @mickmaynard
I think they are kinda different, regarding immigration. For example regarding mma fighters -- from what I've seen Poland, Finland, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria -- Chechens only, UK -- I think only Dagestani guys (there is 1 or 2 other guys I've seen mentioned on social media). Also, again mma fighters -- Chechens are mostly in Europe + I know like 2 in US, while Dagestani -- Australia (Askerov lived there but he is mostly a kickboxer), China (few guys, I think Salikhov lived there for a few years), Canada (well, according to Tapology), I think there is a few fighters that represent Bahrain and some other countries like Qatar and Kuwait.
There is also second event of Shlemenko's promotion at Saturday.
I believe this too instead of his version.
Off work today with a spot of man flu so I'm catching up on a few people I wanted to see.
Mafalda Carmona
Country - Portugal
Weight Class - Bantamweight
Age : 20
Promotion - European Beatdown
Record : 3-0
Seems to be a female believer in smesh. From what I've been able to catch of her she just takes girls down and basically beats them up while throwing sub attempts in there too. She's also only 20 years old and I think she's going to develop into quite the problem. 3-0 with 3 wins by ground and pound stoppage, one by the ref, one by the doctor and one by the opponent's corner.
In regards to Israel, they also had Noad Lahat whose only memorable moments came in the form of eating flying knees in his two losses.
Yeah, I meant between cuting of Lahat and 2020/2021 there wasn't any Israeli fighters in UFC and DWTNCS while Bellator was able to find guys like Keresh or Smotritsky. Also after his last fight in Russia Maor Maasiyaev (not sure if I written it right, he was born in Israel of Mountain Jewish origin, now goes to Russian University and trains there) said that next fight will happen abroad, beyond the ocean (I guess in US, but he didn't said it will be UFC or another American promotion). Just remembered, there was Yoni Sherbatov on TUF, who probably had Israeli citizenship (and also Russian and Canadian).
The main event also had the guy grab the cage on the soccer kick. I guess it wasn’t as obvious as this one but alas. Excited to see the new Japanese prospects
Yusaku Kinoshita
Country - Japan
Weight Class - Welterweight
Age : 21
Promotion - RIZIN
Record : 4-1
Had a clear finish taken away for grabbing the cage in a bit of a Matt Hamill Vs Jon Jones "well it was technically illegal but he'd kind of won by then anyway" moment. I'm still going to be considering him undefeated. Showed good aggression, power and finishing instinct when he hurt his opponent (okay maybe too much), looked in control when grappling on top and put a constant pressure on his opponent. Also worth considering that he's 21 in his 5th pro fight against a 19-7-1 guy too.
I watched one interview with him, as far as I remember he didn't said what is the name of medical condition but said that vision is worse in that eye.
There was that one guy who fought on the XMMA card or whatever who is completely blind in one eye and just kept getting clipped by the hook from that side
Isn't Bisping had problem with one eye?
