Hard-hitting Kazakh super featherweight Sultan Zaurbek (12-0, 8 KOs) retained his WBO European 130lb belt for the first time by stopping badly overmatched Briti.
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Brett McGinty is this weeks One to Watch. Photo Credit: Hennessy Sports
This Saturday night Brett McGinty will enter the ring for the second time as a professional fighter, with Ricky Hatton by his side once more.
McGinty has had his style likened to that of his coach, Hatton, as the Irishman enjoys fighting at close quarters, on the inside. Brett has soaked up all of the knowledge he has been receiving.
“It absolutely helps. When you have a man in your corner who has been there, done it and won all the belts that you’re hopefully going to win one day yourself makes it a lot easier,” McGinty told proboxing-fans.com.
The Weekend in Scraps: UFC Fight Night 118, Bellator 185 and the Eddie Bravo Invitational
Every Monday, the Combat Press staff gathers its thoughts on the previous weekend’s fights and fight news. This feature isn’t a recap and it isn’t an editorial, but rather a bit of both worlds. We’ll scour the best from the combat-sports landscape and deliver it, with some commentary, right here. Let’s get started…
MMA
Although many will point to Darren Till’s first-round finish of Donald Cerrone at UFC Fight Night 118 as the biggest story of the weekend, there was something else that took place in Gdansk, Poland, that deserves some attention. Both the main and co-main event featured significant size discrepancies between the fighters in the cage. No, this isn’t a rant about the issues with weight-cutting (that’s for another time), but rather a plea for the UFC to adopt the additional weight classes that the ABC has approved as well as some of those that already exist wome