MMA Fighting’s Alexander K. Lee takes a look back at recent overlooked battles, including a must-see amateur spin kick knockout, a couple of gruesome injuries, the return of Teruto Ishihara, and much more!
A look at key fights from the weekend’s regional, developmental and international scene. This edition previews LFA 56, Combate 27 and Cage Warriors 100.
Anthony Avila planning to be himself in Combate Global tournament
April 23, 2021
Coming off his win over Pablo Sabori at Combate Americas 31 in February, 2019, lightweight Anthony Avila was looking forward to continuing the five-fight winning streak he had built for himself in the near future, but instead he has spent the last two years waiting to get back into fighting.
In particular, Avila saw his 2020 derailed by the novel coronavirus, but still maintained his discipline and remained as active as he could waiting to get back into the cage.
“Fortunately I was able to train the majority of the time last year, so I didn’t really have that much of a big layoff as far as training, but as far as fighting, it’s been a while,” Avila told MMAWeekly.com.
Our annual WrestleMania issue of the Observer is out this week with full coverage of pro wrestling s biggest event.
We go through all the news of the show, including the booking, the title changes, the finishes, the direction, what did and didn t work, the difference between the two nights, after four examples how does two shows work vs one, the big money WrestleMania main events, the returns, the celebrities and business notes on the show. We also look at next year.
Also in this issue:
Match-by-match coverage with star ratings and poll results from both nights of WrestleMania and both nights of Takeover, to see how people saw all four of the WWE s big events.