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3 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Mailbag: Is Khamzat Chimaev really unbeatable as UFC champ, or does it only seem that way for now?
Is there anyone out there who can take the UFC middleweight title off Khamzat Chimaev now? If so, what's it going to take? And just how much criticism does the new champ actually deserve for the lack of entertainment value in his win at UFC 319? All that and more in this week's mailbag. To ask a question of your own, hit up @benfowlkesMMA. @Slefkaditis: Is there anyone to challenge this version of Khamzat Chimaev? If this sport has taught us anything at all, it's that there's always someone. It might boil down to a question of how different styles match up, or just a matter of time until someone has seen enough of the champ in action to figure out the right game plan. Or, as always happens eventually, maybe he'll keep winning until age catches up with him (though he's only 31 now). But the odds that someone will eventually figure you out tend to go up the more predictable you are. And Khamzat Chimaev, for all his many strengths, is pretty damn predictable. That's why it surprised me that Dricus du Plessis didn't stop a single takedown through the first three rounds at UFC 319. If you've watched any tape on Chimaev at all, you know he's probably going to shoot for a takedown in the first 10-15 seconds of the opening round — even if he has to do it out in space in the center of the cage. So how do you not have a better strategy for dealing with that? How are you not expecting it? Of course, it's easy for me to say, sitting here safe at my desk several days after the fight. Chimaev is obviously very, very good at what he does. But he also does more or less the same thing every time. Somebody is going to be able to counter that eventually. It just might take a while. @NeedXtoseePosts: Do you still think Bobby Knuckles could of won if it went to Round 3 - 5. I do! The best thing about my theory that Robert Whittaker could have beaten Chimaev if he'd only survived the first round is that it's pretty much unfalsifiable now. Because, as we know, he didn't make it out of that round. Instead he got his dental work all messed up and had to tap less than four minutes in. But if he hadn't…? The concept this is based on is that Chimaev starts fast and fades, which didn't really happen so much at UFC 319. But that's not to say it didn't happen at all. Du Plessis' best round was the fifth round (though he still lost that round too). Chimaev's takedown success rate and control time both declined in the fourth and fifth rounds. There's still reason to think an opponent could lose early and still win late against the new champ. The trouble is, "DDP" didn't do much of anything in those first three rounds, so Chimaev didn't have to exert much energy while dominating him. While I still think there's a chance that his style will wear him out in five-round fights, you've got to make him work harder in those first couple rounds in order to exploit that. All du Plessis did was survive. Which, in fairness, is more than most. But it was still nowhere near enough. @shadore66: What are some of the biggest "showcase fight" gone wrong and where does than Kai Asakura tapping to Tim Elliott rank? Tim is 38, no fights since 2023, this was his last fight on an expiring contract, and he hasn't been resigned. I still think the ultimate showcase gone wrong was when Mirko Cro Cop debuted in the UFC against Gabriel Gonzaga. The UFC was bringing him over from PRIDE and clearly wanted Cro Cop to fight Randy Couture for the heavyweight title. But maybe there was some concern that North American audiences didn't know Cro Cop well enough yet, so fine, let's have him head-kick Gonzaga to juice the pay-per-view buys when he meets Couture in his next fight. Except then the opposite happened. Gonzaga went out there and did Cro Cop stuff to Cro Cop himself. So then Gonzaga got the fight against Couture, which was not exactly a blockbuster, and the UFC held back on the post-fight discretionary bonus that Couture was used to getting, which in turn led to him trying to leave the UFC for a dream fight with Fedor Emelianenko. Legal battles ensued. Over a year passed before Couture finally came back into the fold and defended the heavyweight title again. And maybe none of it would have happened if we'd just skipped straight to Couture vs. Cro Cop in the first place. @lyingawakezzz: How badly has Aaron Pico's career been mismanaged? Does he ever fight for a title? I don't know how much we can blame mismanagement at this point. Early on? Maybe. He came in with such hype that it was hard to know what to do with him. If he's 2-0 and crushes another 2-0 guy, it looks like a joke. But then when he got overmatched too early, it got him beat. Those are always tough situations to handle. But now he's 28 years old and has been in this sport for eight years. He was one of the most anticipated Bellator imports. Expectations were always going to be high for him in the UFC, and he was going to have to hit the ground running. He got knocked out by a very tough opponent in Lerone Murphy, who scouted him well and had a technique he knew would work against Pico's predictable and overly aggressive attack. That's not poor management. That's poor execution. @StaleSonnen: Why did I think the main event was gonna actually be a fun fight to watch? I really should have known better How many boring fights has Chimaev had in his career? I'd say it's this one and the majority decision win over Kamaru Usman. That's two duds (that he still won) in 15 fights, which is pretty good. Also, just generally I think we ought to give Chimaev a little bit of a break here. This was his first title fight, the one he absolutely had to win to justify all that hype. If you found yourself in a fight like that, and if you realized early in the first round that you had an easy path to victory available to you, would you feel obligated to take more risks for the sake of other people's entertainment? I think it felt lackluster mostly because Chimaev was clearly so dominant that we assumed he could have done more. You control a guy that thoroughly, it makes us think you're dragging it out by not just cranking up the volume and putting him away. But you saw how "DDP" was dangerous even in the final round when given an opening. Job one for Chimaev was to win and become champ. He did that. I don't blame him too much for deprioritizing our excitement — at least this time. @jmprobus: RDR or Fluffy? Who has a better chance at taking out The Wolf and why? One thing both Reinier de Ridder and Anthony Hernandez have in common is great ground games — but also ground games that are different from what we've seen Chimaev face. If you can't stop that guy's takedowns, the next best thing is to have sweeps and submissions to threaten him with once you inevitably end up on the mat with him. If I have to chose one, I think "RDR" might have the better chance. He's a big dude for the weight class, but also doesn't rely on being able to bully people with strength all the time. Whether he could take the title off Chimaev or not, I think it'd be fun to watch him try. @ggooglyboogly: Not a question, just here to say that seeing Frankie Edgar sign on to fight bareknuckle knowing how his UFC career ended made me sad. Agreed. I don't like it. And if I were BKFC, I'd try to be at least a little conscious of the possibility that if I sign the wrong UFC retirees — in other words, the ones we wanted to see stay retired rather than go maim themselves in bare-knuckle boxing — it could turn fans against the promotion on some level. I just have no desire to see something bad happen to Frankie Edgar at this point. @ShinyaAokiplata: Carlos Prates is awesome but probably gonna struggle to reach champion status. How would you recommend he promote himself to be at least as popular as Cowboy Cerrone used to be It probably says something about this sport that his love of cigarettes seems to be doing a lot of marketing work for him. Weird, I know. But that's MMA. It just goes to show how far you can go with a gimmick — almost any gimmick — as long as it feels genuine. You just need that one little thing to make us remember you as an individual and not just another faceless UFC fighter. I kind of think Prates has that. Now he just needs to win the big fights.
USA Today
5 minutes ago
- USA Today
Who made Tour Championship 2025? Meet the 30-man field for PGA Tour event.
The 2025 Tour Championship tees off Thursday with one of the biggest tournament on the PGA Tour calendar once again taking place at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. The Tour Championship is the final FedEx Cup playoff event of the year, and it has undergone a significant change for 2025. The "Starting Strokes" format is done, with the PGA setting this tournament up as a classic 72-hole stroke-play event. All players will start on even par, with the FedEx Cup awaiting the winner. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is looking to win the event for the second year in a row, which would make him just the third player to win the Tour Championship twice. Rory McIlroy (three times) is also gunning for victory, while Tiger Woods (two) remains out due to injury. Patrick Cantlay, Viktor Hovland, Justin Rose and Justin Thomas are the other former Tour Championship winners who could do it again with an inspired weekend on the links. Here's what to know about the field for the 2025 Tour Championship: Golf: Ben Griffin says he 'overdosed' on creatine at BMW Championship Tour Championship 2025: Who made PGA event? How to watch Tour Championship 2025: Time, TV channel, streaming All times Eastern. The 2025 Tour Championship will be broadcast on the Golf Channel and NBC, while Fubo, ESPN+'s PGA Tour Live and Peacock are streaming options. Early play will start on the Golf Channel, with coverage of the first two rounds running from 1-6 p.m. For the third round, the Golf Channel will carry play from 1-2:30 p.m. before switching to NBC from 2:30-7 p.m. Finally, the fourth round will run on the Golf Channel from 12-1:30 p.m. before moving to NBC from 1:30-6 p.m. Watch the 2025 Tour Championship on Fubo (free trial) Peacock will air all of NBC's coverage, while PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ will have featured groups and some exclusive coverage of early-round play. ESPN+'s streams will begin at 11 a.m. on Thursday and Saturday, 11:15 a.m. on Thursday, and 12 p.m. on Saturday. Watch early play at the 2025 Tour Championship on ESPN+
Newsweek
6 minutes ago
- Newsweek
How to Watch Aruba vs Japan: Live Stream Little League World Series, TV Channel
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Santa Cruz, Aruba, and Joto Little League of Tokyo meet for a spot in the International Bracket semifinal in a Wednesday elimination game at the Little League World Series. Both teams enter the elimination game with 2-1 records. A general view of signage before the Little League World Series Championship Game between the Asia-Pacific Region team from Taoyuan Ciy, Chinese Taipei and the Southeast Region team from Lake Mary, Florida at Howard J.... A general view of signage before the Little League World Series Championship Game between the Asia-Pacific Region team from Taoyuan Ciy, Chinese Taipei and the Southeast Region team from Lake Mary, Florida at Howard J. Lamade Stadium on August 25, 2024 in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. MoreHow to Watch Aruba vs Japan Date: Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025 Time: 5:00 PM EDT Channel: ESPN Stream: Fubo (Watch now!) These two teams are making their second straight appearances in the Little League World Series on Wednesday night at Volunteer Stadium in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The Joto Little League of Tokyo lost in the International semifinal in 2024, while the Aruba Central Little League of Santa Cruz, Aruba, won two games before a third-round exit last year. Yushi Yamamoto was the MVP of Japan's game on Tuesday afternoon. He homered while also working 5.1 shutout innings with eight strikeouts, as Japan eliminated Mexico with a 6-0 win. Yamamoto drove in the game's first run with a first-inning single and then connected on a two-run home run in the fifth. Aruba had no issues beating Canada in its last game. Aruba took an early 2-1 lead and never looked back, eliminating Canada 6-1 on Tuesday night. Anthony Santos allowed one run over three innings, and three relievers combined for three no-hit innings. The winner advances to Thursday's lower bracket International semifinal against the loser of Wednesday afternoon's game between Venezuela and Chinese Taipei. You can live stream the Little League World Series on ABC and ESPN, which are both available to watch live on Fubo. Subscribe now to watch the future stars of baseball in action. Live stream the Little League World Series on Fubo: Start watching now! Regional restrictions may apply. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.
