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[ad_1] Australian boxing great Johnny Lewis has agreed to join Curtis Scott’s surprise bid to become an Australian cruiserweight champion – which kicks off against the fellow leaguie whose career he describes as “an embarrassment”. Only months after being denied a return to the NRL, 26-year-old Scott is set to make his heavyweight debut against … Read more
[ad_1] Australia’s Jack Della Maddalena has declared himself just two fights away from UFC welterweight king Leon Edwards – and expects to get there with a blockbuster hometown eliminator against undefeated phenom Shavkat Rakhmonov. Only days out from the biggest fight of his UFC career, Maddalena has also taken aim at welterweight big guns Colby … Read more
[ad_1] Years ago, Steve Erceg used to mimic the ‘Benji Step’. “Even though I was playing Aussie Rules,” grins the now 28-year-old fighter. A fella too who isn’t only on a tear of 10 straight wins, or eyeing off one of the quickest ever runs to UFC gold, but who this Sunday is looking to … Read more
[ad_1] Australia’s Tyson Pedro has spent $50,000 in just four weeks as he prepares to show out in Las Vegas only hours before the NRL season launch – and for a crowd set to include several league greats, including Paul Gallen. Fresh off a stint on the resurrected Australian Gladiators TV series, 32-year-old Pedro is … Read more
[ad_1] Grayson Waller exists, in part, he says, because of all those Willy Wigs once selling for $25 a pop. Remember them? Of course, you do. Just as Waller will never forget how, early in the 2000s, so many NRL crowds were awash with those curly, black tributes to Canterbury bad boy Big Willie Mason. … Read more
[ad_1] Australian middleweight contender Robert Whittaker outlasted Paulo Costa in a three-round war, taking a unanimous decision victory (29-28 x 2, 30-27) to rebound from his knockout loss to Dricus du Plessis. Whittaker, who had for so long dominated anyone not named Israel Adesanya in the division, found himself at somewhat of a career crossroads … Read more
[ad_1] Alexander Volkanovski and Robert Whittaker headline a blockbuster UFC 298 card that promises to deliver plenty of fireworks on Sunday afternoon. But what time can Australian fans tune into the action to see their countrymen enter the octagon? Well, the main card that Volkanovski and Whittaker feature on kicks off at 2pm AEDT, with … Read more
[ad_1] Every fighter at UFC 298 has officially made weight – including Australia’s Junior Tafa, who stepped up at the last minute to replace his injured brother Justin for a scheduled bout with Brazilian Marcos Rogerio de Lima. In a stunning development at the official weigh-ins – held before the ceremonial weigh-ins at midday AEDT … Read more
[ad_1] Alexander Volkanovski has unveiled his plans to headline an Australia Pay-Per-View blockbuster in September this year – an event that could see him equalling Jose Aldo’s record title tear and continuing a storyline he describes as “Rocky Balboa s***.” In what would be yet another huge coup for Australia’s UFC featherweight champ, discussions are … Read more
[ad_1] Alexander Volkanovski was stood, completely baffled, inside a Wollongong gym last October as he tried to pass one of those regulation NRL concussion tests. Problem was, he couldn’t. Or at least not this morning. Which was no small thing given it had already been six days, and counting, since the UFC champ had been … Read more