Fight Talk Unlimited

This week we cover the schedule and results in MMA and boxing. We also discuss Conor McGregor losing the opportunity to box Logan Paul. Another combat sports enters the fray as well as Bare Knuckle Boxing came to Philadelphia last week and dominated the internet with all the dazzling knockouts and competitive action. 

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This week Tom, Tony and Rich recap a wild win for Merab Dvalishvili at UFC 311 against Umar Nurmagomedov in the co-main event and a quick tapout from contender "Money Moicano" in the first round keeping Islam Makachaev on a winning roll in the main event. We also preview a PFL event kicking off the organization's new format. Finally, we discuss some upcoming boxing matches and go over the results from last week. 

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This week we kick off the show with a discussion about the retirement of Tyson Fury from boxing, which opens up a lot of key issues involving fighters after they leave the sport that made them stars. We also do a deep recap of the Dern vs. Ribas Fight Night from last week's UFC schedule and look forward to this week's big event. UFC 311 had some recent changes after we recorded the show, but we analyze the lineup we had at the time and let our listeners in on Rich's betting tips for the week. Two fights were ultimately scratched due to the injury that shook up the main card, but now Makachaev is taking on Renato Carneiro and Beneil Dariush is off the card. Keep that in mind when it comes to Rich's picks for this week. 

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This week we discuss the first UFC event of 2025 headlined by McKenzie Dern and Amanda Ribas and go over the limited boxing schedule and results. We also recap the fights of the year for MMA and Boxing in 2025 and look ahead to a new year of combat sports events. 

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This week we share a quick discussion about some limited combat sports action coming up to close out 2024. 

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This week Tony, Tom and Rich deal with a few technical difficulties but knit together a great show highlighting first the biggest fight of the weekend: Usyk vs. Fury 2. We also feature an interview with Rayco "War" Saunders, a pro boxer turned actor. Rayco's life story was also the subject of a book by author John Amodeo: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=r0wVBQAAQBAJ&pli=1

    Rayco updates us on how he's been since our last interview, and we discuss a variety of topics. After the interview Tom and Tony jump back on the call to discuss some combat sports news, recap a couple UFC cards, and touch on a story about Amir Khan trying to kick off a fighters' union he calls the Global Fighters Union (GFU). 



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This week we recap a rare UFC event in China headlined by Petr Yan vs. Deiveson Figueiredo and preview UFC 310 where Alexandre Pantoja squares off against Kai Asakura. We also recap and preview some boxing events and get into the latest news. First and foremost, the news of Conor MacGregor being found guilty of sexual assault charges in Ireland is a hot topic in combat sports circles these days. Then we get into the latest challengers for Jake Paul, including female fighter Claressa Shields and Retired Hall of Fame Boxer Andre Ward. 

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This is our last show before our week off for Thanksgiving. We recap Paul versus Tyson and all the fixed fight allegations and also spend some time recapping a wild UFC 309 event featuring Jon Jones retiring Stipe Miocic in the main event. We also discuss other scheduled events and combat sports news. 

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One of my most significant journalistic and legal efforts involved the forced bankruptcy of Xyience, Incorporated. Xyience was once the primary "middle of the mat" sponsor of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). I was sued for defamation for $25 million by the company for writing the truth about their shady, murky history of fraud and deceptive practices. The UFC's most significant stakeholders and their tight circle of wealthy friends knew the writing was on the wall for Xyience to fall apart, so they pounced and took a chief lien position over the company by way of a $15 million loan. Over 350 preliminary shareholders and many creditors were gutted when Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta's holding company Fertitta Enterprises took over, defaulted on their loan and tanked Xyience into a forced bankruptcy. Most of the $15 million influx of cash went directly to feed Xyience's substantial sponsorship fees due to the UFC. Harley Davidson even outbid Xyience's last official middle of the mat package to replace Xyience there, even though the UFC owning Fertittas were about to bankrupt the company with that big deal. The UFC also based massive loans designed to buy PRIDE and generate ownership dividends on the strength of their business and their healthy sponsorship agreements. Dallas Maverick's Owner and Shark Tank host Mark Cuban admitted to me personally that he later invested in that same "senior secured credit facility" loan the UFC took out that would have relied on strong sponsors to sustain. Cuban also put an email in writing where he admitted to following my case when Xyience sued me and I defended myself for over six years from district court through the ultimate bankruptcy.

     This conversation between myself and Adam Frank and Kirk Sanford absolutely contradicted the idea of Xyience suing me for defamation based on the content of my Web-sites. Yet, it was ultimately deemed to be a settlement conference and therefore could not be used as an exhibit in the case. I am piecing together the Xyience story for a journey beyond www.xyiencesucks.com and all the content out there on the rest of the interwebs. In the wake of the settlement of one of the two biggest UFC class action cases, this story needs to be told. 

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This week we discuss Jones vs. Miocic in depth as well as Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson in a boxing battle for the ages. Rich continues to expand on his theory that Tyson versus Paul is a "worked" or scripted piece of sports entertainment we're about to see. Tony and Tom weigh in and make their predictions. Also on the card is an epic women's rematch between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano. We also recap UFC Vegas 100 where Carlos Prates dispatched journeyman Neil Magny in the first round with his intense striking. Outside of the Tyson/Paul card, there are lots of other excellent boxing matches on this weekend's slate, and we go over all of the best cards out there. We also recap last week's action, with a big recap of an awesome Philadelphia boxing card. Tony starts off the show with a complete insider report on Philadelphia's annual Rocky Run  event, which he participated in last week.  

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