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Five Best Fights To Make After UFC Austin

The UFC put on a very entertaining free card on FOX Sports 1 this past weekend (Sun., Feb. 18, 2018) with UFC Fight Night 126 from Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas, a card that seemingly eclipsed the past few pay-per-views in terms of overall action. In the main event, Donald Cerrone delivered a record […]

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In the main event, Donald Cerrone delivered a record 20 UFC wins with a TKO over a game but starstruck Yancy Medeiros.

Derrick Lewis got back on track with a TKO victory in a sloppy affair that saw “The Black Beast” fall backward for no real reason at all.

New names emerged, and others keep plugging along. Sage Northcutt got by on an extremely close decision over Thibault Gouti, and Thiago Alves got destroyed by a promising UFC newcomer.

Let’s take a look at what fights should be made after Sunday night!

5. Sage Northcutt vs. Joe Lauzon

After a decently-sized sample of fights to examine, Northcutt may be better off at lightweight than welterweight. Even though he won a contested decision on Sunday against Thibault Gouti, his UFC losses have all come at welterweight, so he will need to focus his attention on the 155-pound division if he has any designs of becoming a serious contender.

Now is the time to test him against a veteran to either win and gain some clout with a big name or give that same veteran an opportunity to school a young fighter and breathe a little more vitality into what is left of their fighting career.

Lauzon is the perfect man for the job. Although he’s coming off of a brutal KO loss to Clay Guida, Lauzon is always game and deserves another fight given his loyalty to the UFC for many years. If he can’t beat Northcutt, a young up-and-comer, he will ultimately have to evaluate how much more time he has left in this sport.

This sport has a tendency to cannibalize its older fighters once they have no use for them, almost like the horses in the book Animal Farm. Unfortunately, the end of a fighter’s career usually ends abruptly and often times, sadly. Here’s an opportunity for Lauzon to end on a possible high note.

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Derrick Lewis Saved Confederate Flag-Carrying Man In Houston Hurricane

UFC heavyweight Derrick Lewis lives in Houston, where a terrible hurricane has been flooding and wreaking havoc over the past few days. Lewis, in the midst of preparing for a showdown with Fabricio Werdum at October’s UFC 216, helped rescue a man and his family from the flooding despite the fact that they were toting […]

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UFC heavyweight Derrick Lewis lives in Houston, where a terrible hurricane has been flooding and wreaking havoc over the past few days.

Lewis, in the midst of preparing for a showdown with Fabricio Werdum at October’s UFC 216, helped rescue a man and his family from the flooding despite the fact that they were toting a Confederate flag.

Lewis told the story as Hurricane Harvey continued to tear through Houston to MMAjunkie.com, and it was quite the interesting one:

“I don’t care about that. I live in Texas. It ain’t nothing new. I’ve been living in the South all my life, and it ain’t nothing I hadn’t seen before or discussed about. I don’t care about that type of stuff. I just wanted to help him.”

“I picked up one guy and his family, his wife – he just kept apologizing to me, because all he really had was his clothes, and he wanted to take his Confederate flag. He wanted to take that with him, and he just apologized and said, ‘Man, I’ll sit in the back of your truck, man. I don’t want to have my flag inside of your truck like this.’ I said, ‘Man, I’m not worried about that.’

“He’s saying, ‘You never know if you ever need someone, so …’ – I already knew where he was going with it. I just said, ‘Don’t even worry about it. It’s OK. I don’t care about that.’ His wife kept hitting him and saying, ‘You should have just left it.’”

With all of the racial tension and animus going on due to far-right groups asserting themselves in Charlottesville recently, Lewis says the man’s wife was more angered at the Confederate flag-wearing man more than he was.

But it’s encouraging to know that “The black Beast was willing to put racial differences aside and do what he knew was right in terms of pure human decency.

Lewis and Werdum will throw down on October 7.

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Five Biggest Takeaways From UFC Fight Night: Hunt Vs. Lewis

In a fantastic night of fights, last night’s (Sat., June 10, 2017) UFC Fight Night 110 in New Zealand left much to analyze and discuss. From lighting quick knockouts to fast and slick submissions, the entire card was a stellar offering from top to bottom. Derek Brunson and Mark Hunt picked up huge wins, while […]

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Derek Brunson and Mark Hunt picked up huge wins, while the rest of the main card bouts practically ended in less than a minute, so the action was at an all-time high on Saturday night.

We’ve determined the five biggest takeaways from UFC Fight Night 110, so check them out here:

5. Ion Cutelaba is a potential light heavyweight wrecking machine:

In a division thin on talent, Ion Cutelba’s 22-second knockout over Henrique Da Silva certainly put his name on a short list of light heavyweight prospects.

The Moldovan absolutely blitzed Da Silva and dispatched him with ease. Now sporting a 2-2 record in the UFC and a 13-2 record overall, Cutelaba remains a fighter to watch, and his performance on Saturday was an eye-opening moment for his career.

Paired with Volkan Oezdamer 28-second knockout of Misha Circunov, Cutelaba’s performance on Saturday absolutely puts him in a position for a top ten fight, considering the division has thinned out since the departure of Ryan Bader, Phil Davis, and Anthony “Rumble” Johnson.

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