Deontay Wilder returned to his winning ways on Saturday night. After suffering a draw against Tyson Fury in December, Wilder wasted no time in dispatching Dominic Breazeale on Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
He knocked out Breazeale with one punch with 17 seconds left in the first round. Breazeale was able to get up from the 10 count; however, he was in no condition to continue.
Deontay Wilder knocks down Luis Ortiz in the fifth round during their WBC Heavyweight Championship fight (Getty Images)
The 33-year-old Tuscaloosa, Alabama native improved to 41-0-1 in his boxing career.
This is Wilder’s first knockout in the first round since he defeated Bermane Stiverne on Nov. 4, 2017. That fight was also at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
In addition, this is his ninth title defense of his WBC heavyweight title. He won the WBC heavyweight title against Stiverne on Jan. 17, 2015 in at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Forty of Wilder’s 41 wins have come via knockout. The only fight that was not a knockout was the unanimous decision win over Stiverne in 2015.
The 33-year-old Glendale, California native suffered his second loss of his career. He dropped to 20-2 in his career.
This loss to Wilder snapped his three-fight win streak. He defeated Izu Ugonoh, Éric Molina, and Carlos Negrón during the win streak before the first-round knockout to Wilder.
Breazeale suffered his second knockout of his career against Wilder. The first knockout of his career came against Anthony Joshua by TKO in the seventh-round of their June 25, 2016 fight at The O2 Arena in London, England.
Both of the losses against Wilder and Joshua were title bouts. Besides losing the WBC Heavyweight title against Wilder, he also lost a chance for the IBF Heavyweight title against Joshua.
Henry Cejudo defeated T.J. Dillashaw on Saturday night at UFC Fight Night 143 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Cejudo won with a TKO just 32 seconds into the bout.
Cejudo defended his flyweight belt in this win. He also stopped Dillashaw — who is the bantamweight champion — from being the fourth double champion in UFC history.
Henry Cejudo kicks Demetrious Johnson at UFC 227 (Getty Images)
In addition, this is the fifth-quickest finish in UFC Championship history. This was also the first UFC event on ESPN+.
With the win, the 31-year-old Phoenix, Arizona native improved to 14-2 in his MMA career. The former Olympian has six wins by knockout. His other eight wins have come by decision.
He has now won his last four fights. This was his first TKO (Punches) win since defeating Wilson Reis at UFC 215 on Sept. 9, 2017.
This was also Cejudo’s quickest fight in his career. His previous fastest win came in his first bout, as he won in 1:25 over Michael Poe at WFF – Pascua Yaqui Fights 4 on March 2, 2013 by TKO (Submission to Punches).
The 32-year-old Angels Camp, California native fell to 16-4 in his MMA career with a loss. This is just his second knockout loss in his career.
This loss snapped a four-bout win streak. This was his first TKO (Punches) loss since a UFC – The Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale against John Dodson at 1:54 in the first round.
It was also his first loss since a split decision loss to Dominick Cruz on Jan. 17, 2016 at UFC Fight Night 81.
Like Cejudo, this was Dillashaw’s quickest bout in his career.
Shawn Porter is the new World Boxing Council World Welterweight Champion. The 30-year-old defeated Danny Garcia at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
“I tell people all the time, ‘I don’t make predictions,'” Porter said after the fight. “I made a prediction and a hard one to live up to. I said I wasn’t leaving New York without this belt, and I’m not leaving New York without this belt.”
Shawn Porter punches Danny Garcia (Photo by Showtime Boxing)
Porter improved to 29-2-1 in his career. The Akron, Ohio native has now won three straight bouts, including two straight by unanimous decision.
He has fought his last four fights at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. He improved to 3-1 during that streak with the only loss coming to Keith Thurman by unanimous decision on June 25th, 2016.
Porter also has a win over Devon Alexander on December 7th, 2013 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn for the International Boxing Federation World Welterweight Championship.
Garcia has fallen to 34-2 in his boxing career. The Philadelphia, Pa. native has now lost two of his last three bouts.
Besides the loss to Porter, he also lost to Keith Thurman on March 4th, 2017 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Thurman won the World Boxing Association Super World Welterweight Championship, as well as the World Boxing Council World Welterweight Championship.
In between the losses to Porter and Thurman, Garcia also defeated Brandon Rios on February 17th, 2018 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Seth Rollins, along with his fellow Shield mate Dean Ambrose, who returned after being out nine months with an injury, defeated Dolph Ziggler to become the new WWE Intercontinental Champion to kick off the 2018 Summerslam pay-per-view at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Drew McIntyre was in Ziggler’s corner.
The New Day (Big E and Kofi Kingston) defeated The Bludgeon Brothers (Harper and Rowan) by disqualification. The Bludgeon Brothers retained their WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship with the disqualification.
Ronda Rousey after winning the WWE Raw Women’s Championship (Photo by the WWE)
Braun Strowman defeated Kevin Owens. The Monster Among Men retained his Money in the Bank contract with the win as the stipulation was if he was disqualified or counted out, he would have lost it.
In a triple treat match, Charlotte Flair defeated Carmella and Becky Lynch. Flair became the new WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion with the win.
Samoa Joe defeated AJ Styles by disqualification. However, like The Bludgeon Brothers, who was also disqualified, Styles retained his WWE Championship.
The Miz then defeated Daniel Bryan. “The Demon” Finn Bálor defeated Baron Corbin.
Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Jeff Hardy. Nakamura retained his WWE United States Championship with the win.
Ronda Rousey defeated Alexa Bliss by submission. Rousey became the new WWE Raw Women’s Champion.
Roman Reigns also defeated Brock Lesnar in the main event of the show. Reigns is the new WWE Universal Champion.
Strowman informed Reigns that he was going to challenge for the WWE Universal Championship in the near future.
The WWE Smackdown Live show on Tuesday, August, 22, 2017, took place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. It also saw the debut of Bobby Roode, who lost his NXT Championship to Drew McIntyre on Saturday night.
Roode defeated Aiden English. Roode used the Glorious DDT to get the pinfall win.
The Usos, who won the Smackdown Live Tag Team Championship belts on Sunday against The New Day, defeated Hype Bros. Jimmy Uso hit Zack Ryder with a superkick to get the win.
Then, in a handicap match, Shinsuke Nakamura defeated The Singh Brothers. Nakamura got one of the brothers to tap out, before Jinder Mahal jumped Nakamura.
AJ Styles (Photo by the WWE)
Instead of being triple-teamed, Nakamura got the edge and hit Mahal with the Kinshasa.
Naomi and Becky Lynch defeated Carmella and Natalya. Instead of cashing in the Money in the Bank briefcase, Natalya attacked Carmella after losing her patience with her tag team partner.
While Nattie was outside of the ring, Naomi, who lost the belt on Sunday at SummerSlam to Nattie, hit the split-legged moonsault on Carmella for the win.
Then, in the main event, AJ Styles defeated Kevin Owens. This is reportedly was the last time that Owens could face Styles while he was the United States Champion.
Baron Corbin was initially the special guest referee. However, Shane McMahon was displeased with his efforts and caused Corbin to leave the scene after throwing his referee shirt at McMahon.
McMahon saw Owens hit Styles with a low blow and stopped Corbin from counting a three-count. McMahon then put on the shirt and continued the match. Styles would hit The Phenomenal Forearm and got the win to keep his belt.
He also says that size does matter, before Rollins gets mad. He says he’s glad that it’s elimination rules, so after he eliminates Big Cass and Owens, he’ll get his hands on Reigns.
Kevin Owens with Triple H (Photo by WWE)
Reigns unloads on Owens, then Rollins goes after Big Cass. Cass and Reigns have a stare down, before he gets pushed out of the ring.
Reigns gives a superman punch to Rollins, then he looks at the belt.
Neville and Chris Jericho were the first match of the show. Jericho won via submission with the Lion Tamer.
In a pre-recorded segment, Bayley walks backstage and hugs a random guy, before running into The New Day. After talking for a bit, they were then interrupted by Dana Brooke. Brooke says she wasn’t ready after losing to Bayley last Monday.
Then, after getting mad, she claimed that she was going to get Gallows and Anderson. At the end of the segment, Bayley trolled Brooke.
Nia Jax then easily dispatched a Houston-based local wrestler.
Gallows and Anderson says they now work in the retirement business. They called The Dudley Boyz, who they say they retired last week ‘old farts.’ That was before they introduced Brooke as their nurse.
Sami Zayn then put in a gusty performance by defeating Jinder Mahal. Zayn injured his ankle last week on Raw.
The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Big E) were teammates with Bayley in the mixed tag team match against Brooke, Anderson and Gallows. However, for the second week in a row, Bayley pinned Brooke for the win.
Sheamus defeated Cesaro via submission with the Clover Leaf. The Irish man takes a 2-0 lead against the Switzerland-born wrestler in their Best of 7 series.
Braun Strowman defeated Américo. After Strowman won, he then took the mast off of Américo, which is disrespectful to the Lucha Libré competitor.
Paul Heyman, Lesnar’s advocate, tried to pay McMahon with $1 to reach the $500 fine, which Lesnar was fined last week for his actions. She was pissed and said that the storm is coming his way.
However, Heyman said that the storm is Lesnar, which McMahon didn’t like to hear.
Darren Young defeated his former PrimeTime Player teammate Titus O’Neil. As Young was celebrating in the ring with his manager Bob Backlund, O’Neil wasn’t pleased and attacked Young.
In the Fatal Fourway elimination match, Big Cass was eliminated first by Owens. Then, out of nowhere, Triple H appears to pedigree Reigns. Then, he tells Rollins to get up and pin his former Shield teammate, which he did.
Everyone in attendance thought that Triple H was going to give Rollins the belt. Rollins was a puppet for The Authority for nearly two-years. Then, in a surprising move, Triple H turned on Rollins, before telling a shocked Owens to pin Rollins for the win.
Triple H then handed the WWE Universal Championship to Owens. Owens then celebrated in the ring.
According to UFC President Dana White, World Wrestling Entertainment Superstar Brock Lesnar will not be competing at UFC 200, the biggest pay-per-view in the company’s history. He adamantly said that Lesnar will not be competing in an ESPN interview.
White said to ESPN’s Brett Okamoto, Lesnar “had a good run” but is under contract with the World Wrestling Entertainment.
Dana White (Getty Images)
“Trust me they noticed it, too” White said. “He’s under contract with the WWE. So, when you talk to my UFC.com people, they gave me a wacky explanation on why that happened. We’re building a database with every fighter that ever fought in the UFC.
“And for some reason, there was a story connected for a fight at UFC 200. Brock was at UFC 100 — and trust me, the WWE lawyers called and Lesnar’s lawyers called. Everyone went crazy over that thing. We’ll get that down ASAP, and that’s the story.”
Okamoto then asked if we’re going to see Lesnar back in the Octagon anytime soon.
“He had a great run here,” White said. “He retired, I think, at the right time. Now, he’s with the WWE. When he signed that deal, I felt like that was the right thing to do.”
Since this fight with Ambrose, he hasn’t fought. There’s speculation that he might not fight in the WWE again until SummerSlam at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. Again, that’s only speculation right now.
He last fought in the UFC in Dec. 2011 when he lost to Alistair Overeem at UFC 141. He lost that fight via TKO, before returning to the WWE.
Lesnar hasn’t fought in the company since Dec. 2011 when he lost to Alistair Overeem at UFC 141. He lost to Overeem via TKO, then went back to the WWE.
Brock Lesnar (Getty Images)
He has a 5-3 MMA record. Lesnar was also recently added to the UFC website, which had speculation that he would be coming back. He also appeared at UFC 100.
Lesnar, whose known for his ‘Suplex City B*itch,’ last fought at WrestleMania 32 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. He defeated Dean Ambrose in a No Holds Barred Streetfight.
While there’s been speculation that Lesnar would return to the Octagon, there’s also speculation that Lesnar won’t return until August at SummerSlam at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. If this is true, then it would give him the time to train for a UFC return.
Lesnar was also a two-time UFC heavyweight champion from 2008-2010. He also had two title defenses.
It’s unclear how this all came about since he’s still under contract with the WWE. Previously, Ronda Rousey appeared at a WrestleMania, but she did not fight.
It’s also unclear who Lesnar will be fighting on July 9.
The Flyers and the Islanders game was expected to be played today and will now be played at a later date. The game was originally scheduled for 7:30 pm EST this evening.
The National Hockey League has also postponed two games involving the Washington Capitals, both at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. The Capitals game with the Anaheim Ducks was originally moved from 7 pm to 5 pm leading up to the winter storm hitting much of the East Coast.
Then, the game with the Ducks was postponed. Then, the NHL announced this morning that the Capitals game with the Penguins – who are hosting a game with the Vancouver Canucks this afternoon – for Sunday was also postponed.
Just like the Flyers game, the NHL has not announced any rescheduled dates for these games that had to be moved for the safety of others due to the bad snow storm.
Winter Storm Jonas has been pounding much of the East Coast, as Washington, D.C, Philadelphia and the New York City areas have been hit the hardest. Much of the area is getting between 1-3 feet of snow.
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