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AUSTIN, Texas – Josh Emmett’s case for a title shot keeps getting stronger. The UFC featherweight added another win to the streak, defeating Calvin Kattar in an exciting and highly technical five-round contest in the main event of Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 37. Emmett (18-2 MMA, 9-2 UFC) defeated Kattar (23-6 MMA, 7-4 UFC) by split decision. The judges’ scorecards read 48-47 and 48-47 in favor of Emmett and a single 47-48 card for Kattar. Following the reading of the decision, Emmett took… Source link

Late Sunday night, as the NFL’s annual scouting combine was being packed onto moving trucks in Indianapolis, a longtime team executive was reflecting on the league’s evolution over the last 20 years. As the conversation turned to the NFL’s drive to monetize seemingly every proton and neutron, the executive made a declaration about his many years inside the laboratory. “Nothing will be like the 180-degree turn on gambling,” he said. “Nothing. There was a time it was taboo to even… Source link

The last time it was this easy for Calvin Kattar was in 2008, when mixed martial arts made its debut on network television with a card headlined by the late Kimbo Slice on CBS. Kattar suffered his first professional defeat on that card at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, getting submitted by James Jones at 4:49 of the first round. Now, more than a dozen years later, it’s a very different Kattar who is now headlining the first UFC bout on network television in more than two years… Source link