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UFC on ESPN 39 produced five exciting finishes, but the promotion kept with the traditional format of issuing four post-fight bonuses. While Jamie Mullarkey and Michael Johnson couldn’t avoid the judges’ scorecards, their wild battle left a lasting impression. The first round of the fight saw both fighters rocked from heavy punches, but both men would continue to compete in a wild battle until the final horn. When it was all said and done, this main card opener set the bar high for the… Source link

LAS VEGAS – Jamie Mullarkey left UFC on ESPN 39 with the biggest win of his career, but it didn’t come without some help from the judges and a lot of shots from Michael Johnson. Mullarkey (15-5 MMA, 3-3 UFC) edged Johnson (29-18 MMA, 12-14 UFC) by split decision in their lightweight bout at the UFC Apex, taking scores of 29-28, 28-29 and 29-28 in a brutal, back-and-forth contest. The first round started with both men taking a measured approach, but then it evolved into chaos. Johnson… Source link

‘A cold dark place’ — Michael Burry thinks the market has plenty of room to plunge. But he finally sees value in these 4 stocks Michael Burry — the hedge fund manager depicted by Christian Bale in The Big Short — has been aggressively investing during this market downturn. Burry’s latest 13F filing for the first quarter of 2022 shows a broad range of new investments and some interesting strategic moves with options. That’s a significant shift from the previous quarter when Burry… Source link

The world’s largest public holder of Bitcoin called on regulators to finally tackle a laundry list of risky, immature crypto industry practices, or “parade of horribles”, that are unfairly weighing on the price of its asset. Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor argues the over 19,000 cryptocurrencies and digital tokens in circulation must be viewed as “unregistered securities” that cannot be likened to a hard commodity like Bitcoin—which has no issuer, no management, no employees, no… Source link

Former No. 2 overall pick Michael Beasley is still playing pro basketball, and he’s getting a a major contract in China to continue doing just that. Shams Charania of The Athletic reported on Sunday that Beasley had signed a seven-figure deal with the Shanghai Sharks, a team in the Chinese Basketball Association. Beasley, 33, hasn’t played in the NBA since the 2018-19 season, when he played 26 games for the Los Angeles Lakers. He’s played in the CBA in the recent past, but not for the… Source link

LeBron James is officially a billionaire. The Los Angeles Lakers star is worth an estimated $1 billion, according to Forbes, which makes him the first active NBA player to join the billionaire club. The only other basketball player to be worth 10 figures is Michael Jordan, who earned that moniker 11 years after he retired when his stake in the Charlotte Hornets increased to 89.5 percent in 2014. While James has earned more than $385 million in pretax salary during his 19-year NBA career, per… Source link

Michael Burry — the hedge fund manager depicted by Christian Bale in The Big Short — has been aggressively investing during this market downturn. Burry’s latest 13F filing for the first quarter of 2022 shows a broad range of new investments and some interesting strategic moves with options. That’s a significant shift from the previous quarter when Burry was selling most of his stock portfolio and calling for the “mother of all crashes.” He’s not exactly bullish on the overall… Source link

Regular investors have a lot of questions about the stock market’s recent plunge. They want to know whether they should take advantage of the recent pullback (the S&P 500 is down 20% year to date), wait for a better opportunity or sell out entirely. It’s a natural question to ask. So MoneyWise chatted with fund manager and regular CNBC contributor Michael Farr to pick his investment brain about what to do in the current market. His advice is simple: don’t try to time it. “Market timing… Source link

Michael Vick isn’t coming out of retirement after all. The former Atlanta Falcons star shut down rumors of a return in the Fan Controlled Football league on Sunday, saying that he’s going to stay retired. “I hung ‘em up in 2015 never to return again,” Vick wrote on Twitter. “Had an amazing time and accomplished so much. I say that to say, they’re going to stay hung up and I will not be coming out of retirement. I appreciate the opportunity to play but I’d rather put on my… Source link

Michael Chandler scored one of the greatest knockouts in UFC history on Saturday, knocking out Tony Ferguson with a front kick to the face early in the second round of their lightweight bout on the main card of UFC 274 at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The first round was wild, but it only set the tone for what was to come 17 seconds into the second round. Ferguson raised his arm as if to throw a punch and Chandler hit him with a devastating front kick to the face. Chandler looked… Source link