Amanda Nunes defends her featherweight title against rising prospect Felicia Spencer is the Main Event in another stacked UFC 250 fight card, on Saturday in Las Vegas.

The 12-bout card takes place at the UFC’s Apex facility, which hosted UFC Fight Night last week following three events in Jacksonville.

Nunes against Spencer will be the first featherweight title defense for Nunes since she won the title from fellow MMA icon Cris Cyborg back in December 2018.

Nunes is widely considered the top female MMA fighter of all time. Her legacy started with her 48-second destruction of Ronda Rousey in December 2016 and was cemented with a 51-second knockout of Cyborg two years later.

The hard-punching Brazilian was 9-4 in her MMA career following a stoppage loss to Cat Zingano in September 2014. She has since won 10 straight bouts, seven coming by stoppage, while becoming a two-division titleholder. The 32-year-old also won the bantamweight title from Miesha Tate at UFC 200 and has successfully defended it five times.

While the Canadian, Spencer is a rising star on the strength of three strong performances in the UFC while going 2-1. Her lone defeat came in a decision loss to Cyborg last July, but she bounced right back with a first-round stoppage of Zarah Fairn Dos Santos in February. A great many observers consider a very legitimate threat to Nunes.

The UFC has been making up for lost time, as it has held four events in a 22-day span after returning from a layoff of nearly two months due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, but it wouldn’t be a normal UFC Fight Night, if there weren’t any news of Dana White pissing off the Hell Out of somebody, so here it is!

The UFC train will not slow down for anything or anyone and has set up another Fight Night.

The fight card for their next event will be on Saturday, May 30th and is expected to take place at the company’s Apex facility in Las Vegas. UFC president Dana White confirmed a welterweight bout between former champion Tyron Woodley and Gilbert Burns will be the card’s Main Event, which is scheduled to air on ESPN. The long talked-about fight between Woodley and Burns had been a Longtime Coming. Tyron Woodley has not competed since he lost his welterweight title to current champion Kamaru Usman in March of 2019, but was scheduled to return to the Octagon before the global coronavirus pandemic. However, because of travel restrictions, the card which he was scheduled to be part of against Leon Edwards was eventually canceled. Gilbert Burns has won five consecutive fights, including three at his new weight class of 170. In his most recent outing, Burns finished Demian Maia with strikes in Round 1.

“Looking Forward to it!…Woodley is a former Champion who is in a different class than Burns, although Burns has a huge win over Demian Maia, Woodley is a more aggressive striker than a Maia which spells trouble for Burns!” Cuban Lion.

“Good fights on the card…Woodley 2nd round KO.” Greg Rector.

The Big3 plans to launch a quarantined, reality show-style three-on-three tournament in April to help curb the nation’s appetite for basketball in the aftermath of the coronavirus sports hiatus.

The founders of the league — hip-hop icon and actor Ice Cube and entertainment executive Jeff Kwatinetz — have been having ongoing conversations with multiple TV networks since late last week to broadcast the tournament, which is expected to also garner international interest.

The preseason tournament will feature 16 to 22 players from The Big3 who are negative for the coronavirus, and they will be quarantined in Los Angeles.

Former NBA standouts such as Joe Johnson, Zach Randolph and Greg Oden could participate in the tournament, but many details are still being worked out.

To assure the league is operating under safe conditions, players will be quarantined in a large home provided by the league, sources said. A basketball court/facility will be built on site.

If a player breaks quarantine at any point during the tournament, he would be eliminated and removed from the premises.

The games and the players’ daily lives will be captured on camera for added drama and storylines.

The production crew would be stationed nearby but offsite from the players.

There would be seven rounds of games, with teammates reshuffling after the first round.

When a player accumulates three losses, he is eliminated. Cash prizes totaling millions of dollars will be awarded for first, second, and third-place individual winners.

 

“As long as we can protect the players, which we will do through proper testing and quarantine, Ice cube and I feel we can give fans some safe, entertaining brand of basketball to get everyone through this pandemic,” Jeff Kwatinetz told Yahoo Sports. “Cube and I have been in the entertainment business for 30 years. This is our job. People want to be entertained with all we’re going through and enjoy our sports. We think this will help.”

 

The Big3’s 2020 season is set to kick off on June 20 in Memphis until further notice.

I’m going to familiarize you with March Madness lingo.

These are the most common words and phrases associated with the greatest basketball tournament on the planet.

March Madness or The Big Dance is a single-elimination postseason playoff played round-by-round over a three-week period until a single champion is crowned.

The furious pace is full of upsets, buzzer beaters, rambunctious celebrations and also the inevitable heart wrenching losses.

Round 1, features teams from high and mid-major conferences at the top of the tournament bracket.
The lowest seed teams at the very bottom of the bracket are refer to as Cinderellas by the media and on many occasions, like in the Disney Story, a Cinderellawill get to dance with a Prince.

Before becoming a major basketball power house, the Gonzaga University Bulldogs used to be one of those Cinderellas teams.

The greatest boost to a Cinderella is known as Selection Sunday. It can set recruiting for their basketball programs for years because their teams will attract at least two or more players which were not highly recruited by Division I major basketball programs.

These guys are highly motivated and March Madness is their shot at paying back the major basketball programs which ignored them during recruiting, not to mention the incalculable exposure that they’re going to bring to their schools nationally.

§ Round 2, thirty-two teams remain

§ Round 3, sixteen teams (dubbed the Sweet 16)

§ Round 4, eight teams (Elite Eight);

§ Round 5, four teams (Final Four)

§ And Round 6, two teams fight for the National Championship

If you were able to absorb all of this information, then…Congratulations are in Order!

Because you passed Bracketology 101!

One of my fondest March Madness memories is the 1985 Villanova Wildcats winning the National Title, by beating the heavily favorite Georgetown Hoyas.

Growing up in Philly we use to watch the Wildcats play at the old Philadelphia Palestra and thanks to one of my Brothers, we got a chance to break bread with some of those guys.

The guy who impressed us the most was Eddie Pinckney.

Everyone called him Easy Ed because he always had smile on his face and seem to be in a good mood.

Pinckney went on to play in the NBA for twelve years and every time I saw him on television, I would smile myself, thinking back at the time when Easy Edand his Wildcats got the better of the Georgetown Hoyas in that title game.