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MMA Scribbles-Best of 2022 Letter
It’s safe to say MMA has officially crossed over in 2022
By the time some of you read this, we’ll already be in 2023.
*We’ll know who won the Bellator vs RIZIN event in Japan, you’ll start looking ahead at your 2023 schedule, (or combat sports schedule like I do), and have some personal goals in mind for what you want to do to improve yourself.
I think we’ll see a lot of improvement in combat sports, especially now that it seems everyone wants a piece of that pie and the United States seems to be the leader in the sport overall. I’m only saying that because RIZIN President Nobuyuki Sakakibara said that in the build of the New Year’s Eve event.
I’m sure it will produce a lot of fireworks, but 2022 had an ease-up on restrictions from the pandemic and we had a lot of fireworks happen that will likely go unmentioned by bigger MMA media that focuses primarily on the UFC. Almost every outlet does a “best of” and gives out imaginary awards for what they all think was the best thing they saw this year.
So, Matt Hawkins and I decided to go a different route and just look back at what we…
