Holyfield Disputes TKO Stoppage Against Vitor Belfort: “I Wasn’t Hurt”

Evander Holyfield believes he was denied a fair crack at Vitor Belfort in their main event bout at Triller Fight Club. After over a decade on the sidelines, Holyfield’s return to the ring didn’t exactly go to plan on Saturday night. Before a packed cro…

Evander Holyfield believes he was denied a fair crack at Vitor Belfort in their main event bout at Triller Fight Club. After over a decade on the sidelines, Holyfield’s return to the ring didn’t exactly go to plan on Saturday night. Before a packed crowd at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, […]

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Vitor Belfort Challenges Jake Paul To $25 Million Winner-Take-All Fight

Vitor Belfort has issued a staggering $25 million winner-takes-all challenge to Jake Paul after knocking out Evander Holyfield earlier tonight. Following his decision victory over Tyron Woodley late last month, 24-year-old Jake Paul will now be searchi…

Vitor Belfort has issued a staggering $25 million winner-takes-all challenge to Jake Paul after knocking out Evander Holyfield earlier tonight. Following his decision victory over Tyron Woodley late last month, 24-year-old Jake Paul will now be searching for his next opponent inside the squared circle, and he may have just found his match. After making […]

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Evander Holyfield vs. Vitor Belfort: Odds Peg Holyfield As Favorite

The former cruiserweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield has opened as the favorite against Vitor Belfort ahead of this weekend’s Triller Fight Club Event. Belfort was initially scheduled to fight Oscar De la Hoya on Sept. 11, but the legendary…

The former cruiserweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield has opened as the favorite against Vitor Belfort ahead of this weekend’s Triller Fight Club Event. Belfort was initially scheduled to fight Oscar De la Hoya on Sept. 11, but the legendary boxer tested positive for the Coronavirus and was forced to be removed from the card. In […]

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Vitor Belfort Rules Out Return To MMA

Vitor BelfortVitor Belfort and Oscar De La Hoya will headline a boxing event for Triller on September 11th. Both Belfort an De La Hoya are legends in their respected sport and is just another latest installment of the MMA fighter vs boxer. We have seen these matches headline huge events more frequently in the past year. […]

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Vitor Belfort and Oscar De La Hoya will headline a boxing event for Triller on September 11th.

Both Belfort an De La Hoya are legends in their respected sport and is just another latest installment of the MMA fighter vs boxer. We have seen these matches headline huge events more frequently in the past year. Anderson Silva vs Julio Caesar Chavez Jr being the most recent one, and Jake Paul vs Tyron Woodley being the most anticipated. These matches have captured the worlds imagination and are very entertaining.

Belfort, the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion has not fought inside the octagon since his loss to Lyoto Machida at UFC 224 via Front Kick.

It seems as if Belfort (44) has no real ambition to return to MMA after his fight with De La Hoya.

“The answer is that it’s looking like (I’m) not (going to return to MMA). It’s not changing or adapting to what we think it should. The rules are not there for us. They’re not adapting in a way that’s safe for the fighters. Right now, fighters are having a short career, and the more violent it is, the shorter it becomes. It’s better for the promoters, not so good for the fighters. Right now, and even (UFC president) Dana White has said it, this is a young man’s sport. But guess what? I’ll box any champion in MMA and I can beat them up in a boxing match.” (H/T MMAJunkie)

Belfort has had one prior boxing match in his career. He defeated Josemario Neves by KO back in 2006. Belfort’s decision to not come back to the UFC may be a good one. The 44-year-old former champ is past his prime and the talent pool in MMA seems to get better by the day.

Belfort has been being talked about by combat sports fans for his impressive physique heading into the fight on September 11th.

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Rashad Evans Believes He Is ‘The Fight For Logan Paul’

Rashad EvansWhile he may have retired three years ago, the love of fighting never left Rashad Evans. Make no mistake, Evans is living comfortably in retirement. He’s made a seamless transition to the analyst desk at ESPN and Fox, and has moved on to coaching such fighters as Greg Hardy. But still, that desire to step […]

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While he may have retired three years ago, the love of fighting never left Rashad Evans.

Make no mistake, Evans is living comfortably in retirement. He’s made a seamless transition to the analyst desk at ESPN and Fox, and has moved on to coaching such fighters as Greg Hardy. But still, that desire to step into the ring again remained, and as Evans told MMA Fighting, he believes that the time off will have served him well once he competes again.

“What needed to happen was I needed to let some of the dust settle,” Evans explained. “I was still having a lot of residual non-clarity on what was driving my impetus to want to fight. Because it’s one thing to want to fight because I miss the sport and everything else like that. It’s another thing to want to fight because I have that hunger and that desire, that same kind of mindset that led me to become champion. There’s a difference.

“Because there’s work that you can put behind it,” he continued. “When I’m competing for the latter, or when I’m training for the latter, when my mindset is on, I enjoy doing it so I enjoy the grind of it, then I don’t mind doing the grunt work. Grunt work is where you grow. If I’m just doing barely enough to cover the practices to say I’m in shape, then I’m not going to reach that upper echelon of skill set that I have. I need to be able to drive that extra percentile out of myself and the best way to do that is just mentally being dialed in and mentally wanting to fight for the right reasons.”

With the world seemingly coming to a halt during the COVID-19 pandemic, it gave Evans time to reflect on his career and whether he would ever fight again. Though he knows his days as a title contender have come and gone, he believes there are still a number of fights out there that offer different opportunites.

“I know my fighting days are behind me for the large part, but I would just love to go out there and put the gloves on a few more times just to enjoy myself and really end the sport the way that I want to end the sport,” Evans said.

“I felt as if my last few fights I was competing, I was there, but I really wasn’t there to compete. I was just going through the motions. If I can have a few more fights where I just go in there and just fight from my heart, then I can die a happy man.”

Throughout his career, Rashad Evans was known for his combination of wrestling and boxing. It’s that latter skill that he is hoping to capitalize on late in his career, especially after seeing YouTube celebrities like the Paul brothers rise to prominence in the sport. While he was initially skeptical of the inexperienced brothers making the leap to the boxing realm, he admits he is impressed with what he’s seen.

“I’m going to be honest, at first I thought these guys were going to go in there and not take the sport serious and just clown around and just do what they do, be a prankster about it,” Evans said. “But they took it serious. They actually look like athletes. They look pretty good. Jake Paul looked pretty tough to be honest. Logan looked pretty decent in his last fight, too. They’re showing like they’ve got a lot of potential and I really like what they’re doing by fighting guys who are fighters but at the same time aren’t boxing guys and it gives them a chance to have somewhat a chance in the fight. It makes it interesting.”

With Jake Paul already scheduled to face Tyron Woodley, Evans wants to throw his hat into the ring to fight the older, bigger Paul brother.

“I think I am the fight for Logan Paul,” Evans said. “If Logan Paul is serious about fighting then he’ll fight me. If he wants to play around he can fight somebody else. But if he really wants to fight, he wants to really grow himself, then he’ll fight me.”

“Let’s see what he’s really about. I think his next fight has to be what he’s about. It can’t just be about surviving. He’s really got to go out there and try to put it on somebody. He doesn’t want to keep fighting all these guys, all these legit boxers who’s got all these skills. He might as well try his hand with me.”

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Triller Files $100M Lawsuit Against Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren Illegal Streamers

TrillerTriller Fight Club has filed a lawsuit citing alleged $100 million in damages in California, against illegal streamers of their April 17. Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren event from the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.  In an official statement emailed to MMA Fighting, the promotion alleged that eleven illegal streamers broadcasted the event, which was headlined […]

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Triller Fight Club has filed a lawsuit citing alleged $100 million in damages in California, against illegal streamers of their April 17. Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren event from the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. 

In an official statement emailed to MMA Fighting, the promotion alleged that eleven illegal streamers broadcasted the event, which was headlined by a professional boxing match between polarizing YouTuber, Jake Paul, and UFC alum, one-time Bellator and ONE Championship welterweight best, Ben Askren. Yahoo! Sports was first to report the news of the promotion’s filed lawsuit. 

The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the city of California has cited damages against eleven total websites, one hundred unnamed persons with two million total illegal streams. The damages cited are $100 million, in which Triller claim was revenue lost. 

It’s shocking to think a theft so grand can be done so blatantly and brazenly and steal with no remorse,” the statement provided to MMA Fighting read. “There is zero difference between what they did and walking into a market, stealing tones of a product and selling it at a discount in the parking lot. It’s neither civilly nor criminally any different and we are prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law.

There were far over two million illegal streams, akin to hundreds of millions of dollars. Sites, mostly using Google’s YouTube such as FILMDAILY.COM, ACCESSTVPRO.CO, enONLINE2LIVESTREAM.US, CRACKSTREAMSLIVE.COM, SPORTS-TODAY.CLUB, MY-SPORTS.CLUB, BILASPORT.COM, TRENDY CLIPS, MIKE, YOUR EXTRA, ECLIPT GAMING, ITSLILBRANDON, and others are causing significant damage not just to (Triller) Fight Club but content creators overall.

People put a lot of hard work, time and money into creating a product for the consumer and having it stolen and resold is terribly damaging,” the statement continues. “The good nes is they are not protected by VPN masking or other firewalls as their activites are criminal and grand theft so we will ultimately find them and prevail not just for us but content creators in general. We intend on working closely with the authorities as well to stop this highly illegal behaviour.

Scoring an opening round knockout win over Askren, Paul improved to 3-0 as a professional boxer, and following the event claimed that the pay-per-view spectacle sold 1.6 million buys total, generating $75 million.