Dilano Taylor (5-1) vs. Carlos Matos (8-1)
Titan Fighting Championship returns for its 69th event on Friday. The show is a co-promotion with the Dominican Republic’s Fighting Force organization and features title fights for both companies. The Titan championship affair is a clash for the vacant welterweight title between prospect Carlos Matos and up-and-comer Dilano Taylor.
The 24-year-old Matos made his pro debut in 2017 and has been nearly perfect ever since. “El Matador” secured each of his first four victories by rear-naked choke. He added a triangle-choke submission of the formerly undefeated Reynaldo Acevedo in his fifth outing and then resorted to using his fists to secure his next two victories. Matos was finally stopped by Joziro Boye in a November 2019 fight. His most recent appearance opposite Islam Bagavutdinov was a return to the basics: it ended in a first-round rear-naked-choke finish for Matos. This will be the highest-profile contest yet for the Team Mordan r
SF is known for sourdough, but is Dutch crunch the Bay Area s signature bread?
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Raymond Ofiesh, founder and CEO of Raymond s Sourdough Bread, holds freshly baked Dutch crunch bread at his bakery outlet in South San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, April 15, 2021.Marissa Leshnov / Special to SFGATE
“A thin, even layer is better than a thick one,” I repeat to myself as I gently run the back of a spoon across the fluffy round of dough to even out the gloopy paste. I mildly panic when some of it slowly runs onto the parchment paper and I leap dramatically across the kitchen for a paper towel to aid in clean up.
We are trapped here : A Mexican town isolated by cartel terror
Patrick J. McDonnell and Cecilia Sánchez, Los Angeles Times
April 25, 2021
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1of3A convoy of vehicles from the Mexican Army patrol during the visit of the Apostolic Nuncio Franco Coppola, not pictured, in Aguililla community, state of Michoacan, Mexico, on April 23, 2021.ENRIQUE CASTRO/TNSShow MoreShow Less
2of3Monsignor Franco Coppola, the Vatican s diplomat to Mexico, bless people as he arrives to meet families and celebrate Mass in Aguililla, a town that has been cut off by warring cartels in Michoacan state, Mexico, Friday, April 23, 2021. State police and soldiers were sent in to restore order earlier this month, but cartels responded by parking hijacked trucks across roads to block them, as well as digging deep trenches across roadways. (AP Photo/Armando Solis)Armando Solis/Associated PressShow MoreShow Less