[Kevin Lee: I have the level of the top five in the UFC sub-middleweight]
Former UFC lightweight champion Kevin Lee feels he has the top five in the sub-middleweights. In the UFC Vegas 35 home match on August 29, Beijing time, he will play against Daniel Rodriguez. Kevin Lee's most recent match was a loss to current UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira in March 2020. He decided to test the waters again in the sub-middle, the last time he tested the waters in the sub-middleweights, losing to "Afo" Raphael Dos Anjos.
Kevin Lee said, "I feel like I've got the bottom five in the sub-middleweights, and in this game I'm going to show a completely different way of fighting than I've done before. I think Usman is a great champion, but he can't beat all the challengers, and I rose to this level to challenge him. Both Leon Edwards and Colby Covington can play great games and have good fighting skills, but I don't think that's enough to win. There are some masters at this level, but they are not willing to face me. ”
UFC 267: Ankarayev vs Otsdamir
The light heavyweight showdown between Magmed Ankaraev (15-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) and Wolkan Otsdmir (17-5 MMA, 5-4 UFC) scheduled for 191 UFC Fighting Night on September 4 was moved to UFC 267 on October 30 local time. The digital match will be played at Etihad Stadium in Abu Dhabi and will be broadcast free of charge on ABC Television.
Russia's Ankaraev currently holds a six-game winning streak and his only career defeat was the defeat to Paulo Craig in his UFC debut.
"Cousin" Otsdmir's last match was at UFC 251 last July, when he was defeated by the "Czech monster" Giri Prochazka TKO, who played for the UFC for the first time.
[October 3: "Brazilian Cowboy" Oliveira vs Nick Price】
The UFC Fighting Night 192, which will take place on October 3, Beijing time, will determine a sub-middleweight showdown, "Brazilian Cowboys" Alex Oliveira (22-10-1 MMA, 11-8-1 UFC) vs. Nick Price (14-5 MMA, 6-5-1 UFC). The game will be held at UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
"Brazilian Cowboys" Oliveira is currently in a two-game losing streak, losing to Randy Brown and Shafkat Rakhmonov, who had previously won two straight.
Price has only achieved a record of 2 losses and 1 no result in the last three games, losing to "Tianxiu" Michel Pereira and Vincent Luquet, and a draw with "Cowboy" Donald Ceroney, but was not judged to be inconclusive because of his drug test.
[October 23: "Green Hair" Moutinho vs Aaron Phillips]
On October 23, local time, "green hair" Chris Moutinho (9-5 MMA, 0-1 UFC) will usher in his second UFC match against Aaron Phillips (12-4 MMA, 0-1 UFC), the match location has not yet been determined.
"Green haired" Moutinho made his octagonal debut at UFC 264 in July, where he rose to fame in a match against "Honey" Sean O'Myeri. Although he was hit by countless heavy punches, he still fought tenaciously and did not flinch, and his ability to resist blows won him attention. And after the game, "Honey" O'Myeri also needed to recover for a long time because of a hand fracture, while Moutinho only suffered some skin trauma.
The 32-year-old Phillips is also playing in the octagon for the second time, also being terminated by opponent Jack Shore in the first game. He then booked two games, once retiring himself due to injury and once from his opponent due to injury.
["Dutch Sledgehammer" Ovolim: "Fighting Tsar" Fido refused to play with me three times]
"Dutch Sledgehammer" Alistair Overreem (47-19) recently said that the "Fighting Czar" Fido Emilenko (39-6 MMA, 3-2 BMMA) is not willing to face himself in the Bellator 269 headline main match on October 23, local time, so he decided to play a kickboxing match with the current GLORY heavyweight champion Rico Verhoven. Fido's ultimate opponent was veteran Tim Johnson.
Overrim revealed, "I wanted to play Fido in 2010, and he chose to play against Wen Dun, and I could only play Brett Rogers. After he lost to Wen Dun, I offered to play against him and he refused again. Counting this year, he has refused to play with me three times. To be honest, Fido doesn't want to play against me, which I can understand because I'm getting older and he's a bit older than me, 45 or 46 years old. I hope to compete with him, 10 years ago it was, and it is now. ”
The match between Overreem and Van Hoeven will take place on October 23 local time and will be held at the GelreDome Stadium in Arnhem, the Netherlands, which can accommodate 34,000 spectators.
["Crocodile" Sousa reflects on his career: I could have waited for the championship to challenge the right]
"Crocodile" Ronaldo Sousa announced his retirement from MMA after being demoted for the first time in his career at UFC 262, a match in which he was also broken by opponent Andre Muniz. Currently building his own jiu-jitsu team while recuperating from injuries, "Crocodile" Sousa began to look back on his career and point out the reasons for his failure.
As a former Strikeforce middleweight champion and winner of multiple jiu-jitsu tournaments, Sosa has rubbed shoulders with the UFC champion challenge on several occasions. He scored five straight wins after entering the UFC, including the surrender of Moussai, TKO of Yukinobu Okami, and then he lost to "God Warrior" Yul Romero by controversial disagreement. In the next six games, Sosa finished 4-2, only to lose to "Five Star" Whitaker and "Fat Tiger" Gestroom. After that, it was a four-game losing streak that could not be looked back, until it was terminated.
"Looking back now, I made the mistake of stopping and resting and waiting for the title to challenge," Sosa said. But actually that couldn't have happened because I wasn't that kind of character, and if there was anything wrong with my career, that's all. ”
"Win or lose, I had a great time in the octagon cage, I had the opportunity to go to the UFC and see people cheering for me, it was a pleasure to have that time. I want boxing fans to remember that I am a player who never gives up, whether I win or lose, I have been fighting, I am a real fighter. ”
Doctors do not allow Sousa to perform strenuous physical activity to prevent the injury of the broken arm from getting worse. "Now I can only do restorative training and will consider whether to re-compete in jiu-jitsu in the future."
【UFC Trivia: How much does the card girl earn per game? 】
Arianne Cylester is arguably one of the most famous UFC card girls. Isn't it a little too little to see her earn $1,000 per game for UFC Fighting Nights and $5,000 per digital match?
In 2006, Celeste began working for the UFC through auditions. Now 35 years old, she is not only a brand girl, she is also a long-term model for several cosmetics brands, a TV presenter and a brand spokesperson. She has 3.3 million followers on social media, the most of all UFC brand-raising girls.
As a multiple winner of "Best Girl of the Year," Celeste earns more than $1 million a year. It can be said that the UFC platform and a large amount of exposure have given Celeste what it is today.