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MMA Scribbles Newsletter — August Fire- Issue #52

August is hot all around!

Edward Carbajal
3 min readAug 10, 2022
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With all this heat, somehow I managed to catch a cold so my writing has taken a hit, but that doesn’t mean nothing was going on. If you haven’t noticed already, my focus has shifted to pretty much everything but the UFC.

Everyone is covering the UFC now, so you don’t need my input with so much out there. The good thing about it though, is that since the UFC’s business is MMA, more opportunities have popped up for folks in the sport overall. Especially for fighters like Christian Carr, Jose Aguayo, and Trevor Peek (who fights this weekend). I’ve interviewed all of them for Spectation Sports and anyone that feels that weekly UFC events are getting boring should check out these up-and-comers.

Bellator 284 is also this weekend and is a card going under the radar if you look at the line-up.

Plus, there’s more going on in Combat Sports overall; here’s the latest:

Messed Up for Jake Paul

Paul is good for boxing. He was about to get a few fighters in Madison Square Garden but as much as he likes to Troll Dana White, he had a lesson in one of the things White has said has been a problem in boxing. His match with Hasim Rahman Jr got scrapped and was supposed to happen last week. It’s…

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Edward Carbajal
Edward Carbajal

Written by Edward Carbajal

Interests in Martial Arts, Literature, Civil War History, Horror. Contributor to; Sherdog, MyMMAnews.com, One37 PM & TheBlogboardJungle.com

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