One minor disappointment. I wish Yan vs Sterling rematch was in USA, with a loud crowd. The fight will be great. Intense. Instead, it will be fought in silence, in the Middle East.
September 25th - (1) Joshua-Usyk. 65k fans in stadium. London. HW Joshua vs Undisputed (undefeated) CW Champion, and Olympic gold medalist Usyk.
Yeah, Autumn always seems to get a run like this. Summer has a couple of peaks, but is more quiet. Then Autumn, and the run up to Chritmas, usually there are good cards every week.
I remember after the Strikeforce purchase, the Autumn run was amazing. Every week had stacked card, after stacked card.
Diaz v Penn, Hendo v Shogun, Jones v Machida, Nate Diaz v Cowboy, Cain v JDS, Brock v Overeem, Bisping v Mayhem and on and on. Mayweather, Manny in boxing too.
Great list DY3, some of these cards are good as well. I like the ONE FW kickboxing GP, the Bellator GP semis, the Fedor fight and PFL finals and MVP and Romero fights as well. Was looking forward to Minakov Fortune on the Fedor card but Fortune is out. Minakov vs Sowma now.
10/15 ONE FW GP
10/16 Bellator LHW GP
10/19 UFC CS
10/22 BKFC
10/23 KSW
10/23 GLORY
10/23 Bellator Russia
10/26 UFC CS
10/27 PFL Finals
10/29 ONE
11/2 UFC CS
11/5 Bellator Dublin
Very cool. I thought of including Bellator, but I don’t follow the calendar as closely as I do with UFC/boxing. I just tune in when a big fight happens.
But, hey, your list is better than I would have done anyway. Lot of good fights there.
Nah you list is awesome, I forgot all about Wilder Fury III. Just a lot of fun fights coming up. Good thing too, everyone needs a break from covid and the grind.
MMA has a good schedule, and boxing actually has a chance to salvage what has been an otherwise terrible year for the sport so far, some big fights condensed into a short space of time to make up for the drought.
Take a week or two away from combat sports and regroup a little bit because ONE is hosting their biggest show ever (in Chatri’s words) for their 10th anniversary show on Dec 5th and it already has two title fights Le vs Tonon, Bibiano vs Lineker and a Mighty Mouse vs Rotang mixed rules fight announced.
Then UFC has a Fight Night the night before with Fizaev vs Riddell announced already on the 4th.
Then on the 11th UFC has Oliveira vs Poirier plus two other title fights and a couple other decent fights booked. They got another FN on the 18th too.
Closing out the year is the RIZIN NYE show that is usually decent and this year ONE is doing their first NYE show so hopefully they will have some good fights booked.
I think we can say that there are a lot of solid fights and events booked during and right before the 4th quarter of the year.
I guess it don’t matter to most people but since I was such a huge fan of old school JMMA and kickboxing NYE shows that I liked that UFC usually did a Dec 29th or 30th PPV. They are not doing a end of Dec PPV this year and they did not do one in 2019 or 2020 either. They now end the year with a Fight Night around the 18th. Jones Gus II PPV was their last end of Dec PPV and that was 2018. Oh well, things change.
First ever UFC end of year card was Liddell vs Ortiz in 06. Nothing mind blowing about the card but it had Griffin Jardine in the co-main and Bisping, Arlovski etc… were on the card.
Dynamite was ok that year. I don’t think I got to see it live. Forget why.