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March 30, 2024

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The brain-child of John Rallo, Shogun fights regularly packs several of the largest venues in the region including Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, The Theater at MGM National Harbor and Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Ft Lauderdale. A hotbed for celebrities and UFC stars, Shogun events will continue to be a Baltimore mainstay for a time to come.

With a successful (albeit short) MMA career and stint as a celebrity bodyguard under his belt, working with the likes of Tommy Lee and Sylvester Stallone, Rallo focused on opening a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy after receiving his blackbelt from Renzo Gracie himself. During this time he worked towards legalizing MMA in the state of Maryland, eventually passing legalization in one session – an unheard of feat with new legislature. With the arena wide-open, Rallo has spent years promoting shows and building a roster of packed talent, with several fighters going to the UFC, Invicta, Bellator, Dana White’s Contender Series and PFL amongst others.

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  • No Bets Barred: Can Manon Fiorot stop Erin Blanchfield at UFC Atlantic City? Plus, one time for Chris Weidman
    by Jed Meshew on March 28, 2024 at 12:00 am

    Manon Fiorot | Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images The UFC is heading to Atlantic City, baby! After back-to-back weeks in the world’s most famous APEX, the world’s leading MMA promotion hits the road this Saturday for UFC Atlantic City, headlined by a presumptive women’s flyweight title eliminator bout between Erin Blanchfield and Manon Fiorot. So as always, the No Bets Barred boys are here with a full breakdown of the fights this weekend. Conner Burks and Jed Meshew open the show with a brief recap of their winning weeks at UFC Vegas 89 before diving into the 14-fight card with Saturday. Will Erin Blanchfield keep rolling against Manon Fiorot? Does Vicente Luque still have enough in the tank to get past Joaquin Buckley? Can Chris Weidman stave of Father Time for one last, great moment? All this and more are discussed on this week’s episode. Tune in for episode 83 of No Bets Barred. New episodes of the No Bets Barred podcast drop every Wednesday and are available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you find your favorite podcasts. The latest episode can be heard below.

  • Dana White reflects on ugly moment striking his wife, changes he made
    by Damon Martin on March 27, 2024 at 11:30 pm

    Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Dana White doesn’t live with many regrets, but he almost assuredly puts the ugly incident caught on tape on New Year’s Eve in 2022 at the top of the list. Video captured by patrons at a bar in Mexico showed the UFC CEO slapping his wife during a heated argument. White addressed the altercation afterward and stated there were no excuses for his behavior. He added, “You don’t put your hands on a woman ever.” More than a year later, White reflected on the incident and doubled down on past statements, saying he will have to live with that moment for the rest of his life but his biggest concern back then was always his family and not the way he was perceived publicly for his actions. “Me and my wife went through a situation last year that we both had to face, and the only thing that mattered to us was our kids,” White told former ESPN anchor Sage Steele on her podcast. “I’m going to be judged for the rest of my life for that and I should be. It happened. I did it. “When something like that happens, you’ve got to get up the next day and look at yourself in the mirror and say, first, how did that happen? How do I make sure that never happens again? When I say judged, there was a lot of people who are like, ‘If it happened there, that isn’t the first rodeo, that’s happened before.’ I would say the same exact thing. I would say the same thing. But at the end of the day, here’s the truth … your kids know exactly who you are.” White has three children — two boys and a girl — and they were his central focus in the fallout from the altercation. As much as he took responsibility for his actions and understands that incident will haunt him for the rest of his days, White says he didn’t really care what anybody else thought about him. He just had to reconcile those actions with his children. “If you’re a racist, your kids know you’re a racist,” White explained. “If you do things like that to your wife, your kids know. The list goes on and on, nobody knows you better than your kids do. They lived it. They live in the house for 18 to 20 years and they see what they see. My kids know who I am. My kids know what I’m about. That’s the only f****** thing that matters to me. When that situation happened, we had to deal with our kids. F****** media, you think I give a s*** what they f****** think? They can all kiss my ass. My kids were the focus and the priority during that situation. Dana, my oldest, didn’t talk to us for like four days. We got through it with them, but at the end of the day, your kids know who you are. “That was the most important part of it. That was the only thing that mattered to me and my wife. Nobody wants to see their dumb, drunk parents slapping each other on TMZ, you know what I mean? It is what it is. It was bad, but it happened and it needed to be dealt with. When I was going out and talking about it publicly and you’ve got the media asking you about apologies, we apologized. We apologized to the people that we needed to apologize to — to our kids. That’s what we did.” White says he doesn’t shy away from addressing his actions because he can’t expect that he’ll ever live down that moment, no matter what else happens for the rest of his life. As much as he bemoans cancel culture and backlash celebrities face for social or political views, White fully understands and accepts the criticism he took for his actions. “When I had to talk about that stuff publicly and I’m comfortable talking about it publicly, it’s a part of my life and it’s something that happened and it’s something that I had to deal with at home,” White said. “The rest of the world, they’re always going to say what they’re going to say about it, but at the end of the day, it’s your kids. “You’re going to get attacked, but deservedly so for me when that happened. I’m one of these people that every day, when I wake up — and I told you how much I love waking up — I want to be better tomorrow than I am today. When that’s your mentality and you wake up after a night like that, you have to have a serious sit down with yourself and say how did that happen and how do I make sure that never happens again? I handled it.” In the aftermath of White’s actions, the UFC CEO admits he had to not only reflect on his behavior, but he had to ensure something like that will never happen again. Beyond making things right with his children, White says that was the only other thing that mattered moving forward. “I made some decisions in my life that I could guarantee that would never happen again,” White said. “I made some decisions in my life and things I needed to fix with myself to make sure that never happens again. That will never happen again, no matter what. Me and my wife have known each other since eighth grade, we’ve been friends since eighth grade and we’ve been married for almost 30 years. It’s weird and I think about it all the time, that that situation would play out on New Year’s Eve, basically on stage, in front of however many people all with phones aimed right at me, and boom, here we are. “It was crystal clear how and why it happened. I had to take a look at myself and say we need to fix this and this can never happen again.”

  • Watch Dana White get mistaken for Joe Rogan in sitdown interview with ex-ESPN anchor
    by Steven Marrocco on March 27, 2024 at 10:30 pm

    Former ESPN anchor Sage Steele got deep to close her interview with UFC CEO Dana White by asking him about his dream during a sitdown on her video podcast, The Sage Steele Show. Problem was, Steele mixed up White with another bald, pugnacious UFC personality in Joe Rogan. It took a second for White to realize what had happened, and a nanosecond for Steele to try to cover her tracks. But even that quick a recovery was too late — the hilarious mistake was there forever for the internet to enjoy. Check out the moment in the video clip below. pic.twitter.com/Zyu8R8gkyy— danawhite (@danawhite) March 27, 2024 “What’s Joe Rogan’s dream?” Steele asked, getting comfy in her interview chair. “Joe Rogan’s dream?” White responded. “Joe Rogan ... Dana White,” replied Steele, patting the UFC exec on the knee. “What’s Dana White’s dream?” “Did you just think I was Joe Rogan?” White said after an incredulous look. “I did ... I totally did,” said Steele. “She just called me f****** Joe Rogan!” pounced White, looking off-screen at a person, presumably on his staff, whose eyes were undoubtedly wide. “You thought I was f****** Joe Rogan! I was bald before Joe Rogan was ever bald! I just did a two-hour podcast, flew here from Vegas, and she thought she was interviewing Joe Rogan!” White cackled as Steele’s blood pressure went through the roof. “Jesus,” the ex-ESPN anchor said as White delighted in the gotcha. The moment was heavy in irony considering the rant White unleashed during the same interview about his utter hatred of media and their non-fact-checking ways. The first rule in journalism — get the subject’s name right.

  • UFC vet Antonio McKee on antitrust lawsuit outcome: ‘Only person that won here was the attorneys’
    by MMA Fighting Staff on March 27, 2024 at 10:00 pm

    Photo by David Becker/WireImage MMA pioneer Antonio McKee is not encouraged by the result of the UFC antitrust lawsuit. Earlier this month, more than 10 years of work culminated when the UFC’s parent company reached a proposed $335 million settlement to resolve a pair of antitrust lawsuits that threatened to change the very fabric of the sport. The news signaled a premature end to a story that had the potential to be one of the biggest of 2024, and reaction to it has been decidedly mixed, with many fighters calling the outcome an outright win for the UFC. McKee has been involved in the fight game from both a competition and coaching standpoint since making his professional debut in 1999, and he sees things the same. “You know what? It’s great, but they shouldn’t have settled, and it does nothing,” McKee said Wednesday on The MMA Hour. “What’s changed? Nothing’s changed. So I basically have seen a bunch of attorneys sell out.” For now, many questions remain unanswered regarding how the $335 million settlement will be divided up. The two lawsuits covered fighters who competed in UFC between 2010 and 2017 (Le et al. vs. Zuffa) and 2017 to present (Johnson vs. Zuffa), and represented an estimated total of between 1,200 to 1,400 athletes. If Judge Richard Boulware approves the settlement terms, attorneys representing the fighters are expected to ask for a portion of the $335 million, which could total up to around 33 percent (or more than $110 million). The rest will be allocated to the athletes in some capacity, although details remain up in the air. The initial antitrust lawsuit was filed in 2014 for the purpose of combating an alleged UFC scheme “to acquire and maintain monopsony power in the market for elite professional MMA fighter services” through exclusive contracts, coercion, and acquisitions that eliminated potential competitors, among other factors. Plaintiffs spoke often over the past 10 years about their ultimate goal being to reshape the sport into a more athlete-friendly business environment. McKee, 54, competed for a variety of promotions over the course of his 20-year athletic career, making pit stops in the UFC, Bellator, WSOF, IFL, K-1, and more. The veteran fighter and father to former Bellator champion A.J. McKee believes the plaintiffs failed in their goals. “The attorneys took most of that money,” McKee said. “I was in on the original lawsuit, I still have the the paperworks, and the way the percentages are split, the only person that won here was the attorneys. Smart move on to UFC to settle.”

  • Watch The MMA Hour with Lynch and Milton in studio, McKee, and Shalom now
    by Ariel Helwani on March 27, 2024 at 9:52 pm

    The Mixed Martial Arts Hour is back in your life! Below is a rundown of Monday’s show, which begins at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT / 6 p.m. UK time. 1 p.m. ET: Intro 1:10 p.m.: A.J. McKee will discuss what’s next after his win at PFL vs. Bellator last month. 1:35 p.m.: Ben Shalom, the promoter for BOXXER, talks about the upcoming Wardley vs. Clarke fight and other news with his organization. 2 p.m.: Becky Lynch drops by the studio to discuss WrestleMania 40 next month, her new book, and more. 3:05 p.m: We answer your questions in latest On the Nose. 3:30 p.m. Saul Milton, a part of the English electronic music duo Chase & Status, visits the studio to discuss music, MMA, and more. 4:30 p.m.: We return to On the Nose questions and the parlay pals make their latest selection. For the latest episodes of The MMA Hour, subscribe on Spotify or iTunes.

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