On the May 19th, 2024 Ring of Fire PPV, Oleksandr Usyk defeated Tyson Fury to win the Undisputed Heavyweight Championship, This win was monumental for both Usyk and the sport as the heavyweight division hadn’t seen an undisputed champion in over 24 years. Usyk became the first heavyweight to hold the WBC, WBA, WBO, and IBF titles at the same time. He also became the third-ever boxer to hold all four belts in multiple divisions, as he also achieved the same accomplishment when he was a Cruiserweight. With this monumental win for Oleksandr Usyk, the question that is now on…
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Shayan Malik
Shayan has always been an avid fan of sports. He is currently studying sports communication, as he is hoping to take his sports knowledge to the next level. He enjoys writing about combat sports such as boxing, MMA, and wrestling.
The May 18th, 2024, Ring of Fire event was headlined by Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk in a bout that would determine the new Undisputed Heavyweight Boxing Champion. This is the first time an Undisputed champion has been crowned in the Heavyweight division in over 24 years. It is also the first time that a fighter has claimed all four WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO championships in the division. The fight also had the IBO championship on the line, a title that is considered a top championship but not on the same level as the other four world titles. This…
Ring of Fire: Fury vs Usyk is an event that is taking place on May 18th, 2024. The event features 8 main card fights, many of them being for championships. Agit Kabayel defeated Frank Sanchez in just 7 rounds of their 10 scheduled, a heavyweight fight that was for the WBO Continental Americas championship. Sanchez was undefeated coming into the fight, and this TKO loss is the first ever in his pro career. However, another major fight that took place on this card was between Moses Itauma and Ilja Mezencev. This fight was for the WBO Inter-Continental Heavyweight title, and…
AEW’s flagship PPV Double or Nothing is approaching as the event is set to take place on May 26th, 2024. The event will take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, the same location where the first ever Double or Nothing took place in 2019. Multiple titles will be on the line at this event, such as the AEW TNT Championship, TBS Championship, and International Championship. The PPV will also see Anarchy in the Arena match, a stipulation that was seen in the 2022 and 2023 Double or Nothing shows. Here is a preview of the confirmed matches on the…
The main card of UFC 304 was announced on May 16th, 2024, and to nobody’s surprise, Tom Aspinall will not be fighting Jon Jones at the England PPV. Instead, the British UFC star will be putting his Interim UFC Heavyweight Championship on the line against Curtis Blaydes. This fight will be the co-main event due to it being for the Interim title, as UFC Welterweight Champion Leon Edwards will defend his title in the main event against Belal Muhammad. Jones has made it clear that he doesn’t want to fight Aspinall, but the question that is on most people’s minds…
The May 15th, 2024 edition of AEW Dynamite will feature a tag team match between Jon Moxley, Bryan Danielson, Kyle Fletcher, and a star NJPW (New Japan Pro Wrestling) talent. Kyle Fletcher recently joined the Don Callis Family, a faction in which he has showcased himself as a single superstar. However, what some fans might not remember is that Kyle Fletcher is still a member of Will Ospreay’s NJPW faction United Empire, Ospreay being another member of the Don Callis family. On this episode of AEW Dynamite, Fletcher will team up with United Empire faction member and NJPW star Jeff…
NJPW Resurgence 2024 is scheduled to take place on May 11th, 2024, at the Toyota Arena in Toronto, California. The main card is scheduled to start at 10:00 pm EST, right after AEW Collision stops airing. This card will feature multiple matches that could have huge implications for NJPW in the future, especially Forbidden Door. Multiple championships will be on the line, including Jon Moxley defending his IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. Jeff Cobb will also be defending his newly won NJPW World Television Championship, hoping to make a successful first defense. Here is a preview of some of the marquee…
On the May 10th, 2024 edition of WWE Smackdown, there was a huge segment that could lead to major implications within the Bloodline faction, and could highly advance the storyline. In recent weeks, Solo Sikoa has been adding new members into the faction, without permission from the Tribal Chief Roman Reigns. These new members are two former members of Bullet Club in Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa. They are also real-life brothers, being the sons of Haku, and were both a part of the G.O.D faction that the two founded. He also kicked his brother, Jimmy Uso, out of the…
All Elite Wrestling is a company that was created in 2019 by Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks. What was once an exciting young company with high hopes to take over the wrestling world is now one that is considered to be falling from grace. In recent weeks, AEW Dynamite’s weekly viewerships have fallen into the 700,000’s. This is a huge fallout from their ratings in 2022, which was around 900,000 live viewers. There are multiple reasons why the once-hot company has now become cold, including bad booking, bad financial decisions, and backstage problems. However, AEW is still a company…
The NBA has made it official, San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama is the 2023-24 NBA Rookie of the Year. He becomes the first ever French player to win this award, and the first Spur to win it since Tim Duncan. The 7’4 future superstar clearly deserved the award this season, as he had a tremendous offensive and defensive season. He became the first player in league history to amass over 1500 points, 700 rebounds, 250 assists, 250 blocks, and 100 threes in a single season. In the earlier portion of the season, the Rookie of the Year Race was a…
With Lebron James’ career soon coming to an end, it’s time once again for the NBA to find the next face of their league. Lebron joined the NBA in 2003 and has taken over since, dominating the sport of basketball for the past two decades. Although it is unknown when Lebron will officially retire, it’s fair to say that his time in the NBA is coming up. With that being said, the NBA will likely have to find someone to carry their brand such as Lebron did. There are multiple players that the league can go with, however, there is…
UFC 301 will occur on May 4th, 2024, in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, at the Juenesse Arena. However, it seems as if the once-anticipated card has now become uninteresting. The main event of the card will be a fight for the UFC Flyweight Championship between champion Alexandre Pantoja and challenge Steve Erceg. Immediate fan reaction showed that the hype for this card went down tremendously right after this fight was announced as the main event. Some may argue that the reason for that is because many believe that Erceg didn’t deserve a title opportunity. However, even if it was someone…
The 2024 WWE draft concluded on the April 29th edition of Monday Night Raw, and it felt lackluster as not much happened. Many of the top wrestlers on Raw and Smackdown stayed on their respective brands, and it felt like the draft was held when it was unnecessary. The WWE could have put the draft after Backlash 2024, which could have given them a better sense of who should get drafted where. However, there is still a problem with the WWE draft: people have always gotten “drafted” to shows where they are already on. Although this was seen more in…
Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk are finally getting ready to step into the ring to determine which one of them will become the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the world. This fight was originally supposed to happen in February of 2024, however, Tyson had to pull out after his eye was cut while sparring. Now this fight is set to take place on May 18th, 2024 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as the main event of the Ring of Fire event. This is the second show that Saudi Arabia will be running under a themed name, the first being Day of Reckoning,…
The UFC has confirmed that UFC 304 will be held in the newly opened Co-op Live in Manchester, England. The event will take place on July 27th, 2024, and will be taking place during the standard UFC event time (10:00 EST). Currently, the company has multiple Champions who are from England, so fans will likely see at least one of them on this card. England has also seen many successful British fighters as of right now, especially in terms of recent success. Here are some of the UFC’s top British fighters as of 2024 who have a good chance of…
WWE has stepped up massively in 2024 in terms of hosting Premium Live Events outside of the United States. Currently, they are scheduled to host the most PLEs outside of the United States in a single year in the company’s history. They have already been to Australia in February for Elimination Chamber 2024, where they had an attendance of over 50,000 people. It’s clear that the WWE is taking a huge step in terms of becoming a worldwide product, and the main way to do that is to host more events outside of the US. In 2024, the company will…
On April 20th, 2024, Golden Boy Promotions held a card that was headlined by a super fight, Devin Haney vs Ryan Garcia. Haney was the WBC Super Lightweight Champion coming into the fight, and that title was supposed to be on the line. Garcia ended up winning the fight via majority decision, however, because he missed weight by three pounds, he did not become the new Super Lightweight Champion and the belt remained with Haney. Ryan ended up decisively winning the fight, but with him missing weight at Super Lightweight, is it time for him to move up? Or, considering…
On the April 15th, 2024, edition of Monday Night Raw, the WWE revealed a new championship design and a rename for one of its titles. Triple H Reveals New Design On last night’s Raw, a segment began with on-screen Raw General Manager Adam Pearce already in the ring. Then, WWE CCO Triple H came out to the ring with his iconic theme song and there was a new title design hidden under a cloth in the ring. Triple H talked to the Montreal crowd and explained how they were still transitioning into a new era, and with a new era…
On the April 15th, 2024 edition of WWE Monday Night Raw, a WWE Champion was forced to vacate their Championship because of an injury. Rhea Ripley Vacates Women’s World Championship Women’s World Champion Rhea Ripley kicked off this past Monday Night Raw, and she came out in a case. There were already rumors circling that Ripley suffered an injury in the Liv Morgan attack angle on the previous week’s Raw, and those rumors turned out to be true as the champion vacated the title. The champion entered the ring and immediately explained how this was not a personal choice, and…
UFC 300 took place on April 13th, 2024, and it was considered one of the most important cards in the company’s history. The card resulted in many shocking outcomes, and a title change was also seen. The main card was a standard 5-bout card, and these are the results of each of those fights. Bo Nickal vs Cody Brundage Bo Nickal and Cody Brundage kicked off the UFC 300 main card in a 3-round fight. This fight was somewhat criticized by the fans for being on the main card, as many believed that Jiri Prochazka vs Aleksandar Rakic deserved that…
