Published May 12, 2021, 3:42 PM
Brandon Vera (ONE Championship)
ONE Championship heavyweight king Brandon Vera is hoping to defy age once he enters the Circle against Indian wrestler Arjan Bhullar in ONE: Dangal at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Saturday, May 15.
After training with Florida-based stable Sanford MMA, under the tutelage of coach Henri Hooft, Vera was most grateful for becoming a “student of this beautiful game again.”
“Even this far along in my career, I feel like a little kid again. I haven’t felt like this since I first started competing,” said Vera, a former UFC fighter, who holds a 16-8 record. “I’m talking about back in 2005, I haven’t felt like this since. Everybody has been using the words reinvigorated. I’m just really, really happy that I could be a kid again and go play
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The Shady Legacy of Mikhail Ilyukhin
As some may guess based on my name, I was born in Russia, a country
with an incredibly rich, successful MMA tradition. It includes
legends regarded among the greatest ever, Fedor
Emelianenko and Khabib
Nurmagomedov, several other outstanding young champions who
have that potential, such as Petr Yan and
Vadim
Nemkov, and three highly successful domestic promotions in
M-1 Global, Absolute Championship Akhmat and Fight Nights Global.
And who was the first Russian MMA star that preceded all of this?
There were actually two: Oleg Taktarov
debuted in the UFC in April of 1995 and won UFC 6 in mid-July,
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Jason Statham Hypes Up The Meg 2, Says It Starts Shooting Next January
Jason Statham turns 54 years old this summer, and despite being at an age where many other actors comfortably settle into the next stage of their career as distinguished veterans that end up taking more background roles than ever before, he’s content to maintain his status as one of cinema’s marquee action heroes for some time to come.
If anything, Statham is a bigger star now than at any point of his life, with the five biggest box office hits of his entire filmography arriving in the space of the last decade. Admittedly, three of those are down to his involvement with the blockbuster