Sentences with phrase «fight as fighter»

In both situations the opposing fighter has as much choice as to where he want to fight as fighter X.

Not exact matches

The invitation - only fete will include media buyers, planners and sponsors as well as celebrity fighters and host from Fight Network.

Matthew Crouch, Jan Crouch's son and the current President of TBN, said: «Those who battled for the Kingdom of God knew her as a fighter - someone who didn't give up, someone who fought relentlessly to get the Gospel around the world.

Israel convicting palestinians of terrorism carries as much weight as Nazis convicting the French resistance fighters as terrorists when all they were doing was fighting an invader out of their land.

There seems to be little question as to whether they should fight or not, it is simply taken for granted that, because they are a fighter, God wants them to fight.

The cruiserweight - turned - heavyweight fighter known as «The Hayemaker» claimed the fight had been agreed earlier this week, but promoters made the official announcement at a press conference this morning.

I'll watch his free promo fights on «Dave» but can't take him seriously as a fighter any more.

Fightmatrix doesn't even have LW as part of their rankings and their FW rankings have 3 Bellator fighters in their top ten (likely not moving to UFC soon), Holly who is really a BW that Cyborg already beat, de Randamie who refused to fight Cyborg even if it meant being stripped of title, Anderson who seems like the next contender (likely after the Nunes superfight).

Alvarez, one of the best fighters in the world right now, was considered, heading into the fight, as too big, too strong, too young and that this was going to be the best chance for anyone to beat Mayweather.

Some of these fights were long ago, and Liston has improved; perhaps none of the fighters could do as well against Liston today, although at least four are eager to try.

the sad thing is, the final strength i listed (fight iq) may be his single greatest attribute as a fighter.

He doesn't even apologize to the other Fighters whose fights got canceled as a result of his actions.

This is not a mismatch on paper, or a fight with ridiculously one - sided odds as we've seen with many of the recent fights for both of these fighters.

As a casual there are so many dope fights / fighters atm.

i bet they are all very disappointed, as am i bc i like his fighting style and him as a fighter.............

Instead, I think Floyd will go for an acceptably early knockout, in an attempt to preserve his reputation as the greatest fighter alive without tarnishing the reputation of the fight itself.

As you said, only the fighters booked to fight at the finale will be at risk of losing their actual 0s.

Having defeated Manny Pacquiao by unanimous decision in the fight of the century, Floyd Mayweather has established himself as this generation's best fighter.

But it isn't, the multi-billion dollar promotional force wants as much out of its $ as a fighter wants as much $ out of his / her fighting.

If Conor really wanted a fight, he could gasp get one booked in the cage as it turns out he's a professional fighter!

I remember watching WWF (before it was WWE) as a kid, Roddy Piper, Hitman Hart etc and you'd get the camera going backstage into a soap opera like drama, arguments between fighters, The Million Dollar Man stole an ambulance after a fight in a staged kidnap scene etc..................................

As most people, I like fights that have top class fighters and that I can get some level of emotional investment in.

But as Khabib pointed out Max hasn't fought alot of fighters recently who have looked to take him down so we can't really say for sure if his takedown defence is really that great or not.

If this crop were fighters as you put it then what stopped them fight until the end at Godison and Etihad?

As a GGG fan I have been waiting for fighters of decent caliber to want to fight him.

They don't approach and view fighting like many other fighters as a «sport», it's a fight and war for them.

Dana White clearly knows Nate is a draw, Nate was never put on main event spots on PPV until his fights with Conor, first one had 10 days promotion, both fights were outside both fighters weight class, all in the usual location of Vegas, no milestone numbers (196 and 202), no belt, in fact UFC202 had no belt on the entire card yet they broke all PPV records, Conor vs Mendes did did not even reach 1m despite having the likes of Lawler title fight, as UFC 194, it was against Aldo for the belt after months and months of promotion and also against Alvarez following the stock - raising Diaz fights at MSG, NY for the first time ever, Champ Vs Champ on a stacked card with 3 title fights and the likes of Khabib on the prelims... still did not do PPV numbers with Nate.

To imply he had that, went through the fight week and did that well with the greatest fighter of all time comes across as unbecoming of a great fighter like Michael.

You have people who are fighting on the TV for the» best promotion in the world» but they are struggling to pay their basic bills and some don't even have a place to sleep sometimes... but just because this is on TV and you hear all these high figures, you think these fighters are such high level athletes in all fronts... well, thats just not the case simple as that lol

these seven fighters I mentioned are only some I listed as examples, UFC made fights for Cyborg againt Evinger, Lina Länsberg, Leslie Smith,... I mean I'd say these are all far better / challenging fights for Cyborg.

I am big fan of Rockhold as a fighter and I think DJ, TJ, Rockhold and Gegard are amongst the most complete and well rounded fighters with high level of fight IQ.

and honestly given the level of fighters and the huge UFC roster which inlucdes all sorts of fighters, having UFC fights on your record does not really mean on its own, many have «UFC fights» which were against no names on fight pass, exact same fights could take place in a bellator prelim and not count as «UFC» fight...

also some fighters have better agents / managers who cut good deal for them and some just wan na stay in UFC and accept whatever, or do nt care as much... i also heard sometimes UFC offers certain fighters relatively less pay but then promises them they would promote them more / take them to Q&A s before fights and all

MMA is a sport for sure but UFC is here to produce entertainment content in the form of combat fighting, they try to «regulate» it and «administer» it as much as possible so it appears like a sport (e.g. fake rankings that no one know how it works), reebok deal etc. but at the end of the day it is a entertainment show similar to WWE, the only difference being that as long as fighters to rig the fights, the UFC can not determine the outcome...

not fan of woodley vs diaz, diaz is a lightweight and im sure if he given top money he will be motivated as f*ck and could really put on most of the division, including Tony Fergusen himself... but Woodley would just come for a W and nate is a entertainment big show fighter not point scoring round winning fights, so I do nt like this fight myself but do nt pretend this strategi has to precedence

But if the UFC cares as much as they say about fighters eg Mark Hunt issue they shouldnt even offer Edgar a fight within 7 weeks.

In another world, MMA could be organised by a really solidly organised group that promotes fights and fighters without drama, and focuses on the technical mastery and skill - sets, and where this kind of drama would be strictly punished and accepted by the fighters as being totally unacceptable.

Still, it's interesting to think that the guy many see as the «legit» MW People's Champ (no disrespect to GSP) was dominated by a WW fighter that saw his stock take hit recently after being gunshy in two less than exciting championship fights.

Physically I do agree he's not quite as explosive and powerful as he was when he was 24, but he was also fighting much lesser competition and got a lot of his finishes by surprising his opponents with his speed and ferocity, once fighters knew to expect that, the exciting finishes started to disappear.

I am a fan of all exciting fighters, I love to watch all styles of fights, I don't care about weight classes or rankings, I am just still intrigued to this day, just as I was as a 7 year old boy, to watch 2 men, or Women, fight and see who wins and how they do it.

BOTH fighters are tough as nails and fought their asses off, my hat's off to both of them.

Known as La Pasionaria (The Passion Flower), Ibarruri was a communist, who fought in the Spanish Civil War and whose fiery rhetoric inspired Republican fighters.

In fact only one fighter has ever died as a result of fighting a sanctioned MMA fight.

The United States has historically backed Israel in order to maintain some control over the region; virtually everything else in the area is anti-U.S. So Israel was convenient as a kind of base for the U.S. - it could send fighter planes to Israel instead of having them fly from inefficiently far away; and plus, if things got really hairy in the middle east, Israel could do some of the actual fighting too.

While both parties fight to win over female voters, female lawmakers have emerged as the top fighters to secure all - important fundraising and messaging wins.

In his endorsement, Schumer praised Latimer as a «fighter for Westchester» who has «fought to lower taxes, pass strong ethics reforms and help fix our broken education system.»

However, he has little influence over an elite unit of fighters, called the Gambia National Guard, who may opt to fight even if vastly outnumbered by the Senegalese and Nigerian forces as they are from the same ethnic group as Mr Jammeh.

«I know that he will fight very, very hard on those issues and he got elected because his community sees him as a fighter and I expect that he will be influential in the Council,» he said.

We could deter participation in Jihadist conflict by telling would - be foreign fighters that Syrians don't want them there, and that ISIS will use them as cannon fodder; only one British foreign fighter in Syria has been killed fighting Assad, while 15 or so have lost their lives fighting other rebels.

We could deter participation in Jihadist conflict by telling would - be foreign fighters some truths: that Syrians don't want them there; that ISIS will use them as cannon fodder; and that only one British foreign fighter in Syria has been killed fighting the Assad regime, whereas 15 or so have lost their lives fighting other rebels.