Carlos Prates passed a key test in his rise to welterweight prominence on Saturday when he defeated welterweight gatekeeper Neil Magny in the UFC Fight Night 247 main event.
Prates (21-6 MMA, 4-0 UFC) completed a perfect 4-0 rookie year with the promotion courtesy of a first-round knockout victory over Magny (29-13 MMA, 22-12 UFC) in their welterweight headliner at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
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Wembanyama was 8 for 16 on 3-pointers, also setting a career high, as San Antonio won its second straight.
Jordan Poole had 42 points for Washington, which lost its sixth straight.
At 20 years 314 days, Wembanyama is the fourth-youngest player to score 50 points, trailing only Brandon Jennings (20/52), LeBron James (20/80) and Devin Booker (20/145).
Wembanyama’s previous high was 49 points in a 130-126 overtime victory over New York.
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Wembanyama made at least six 3-pointers for the third straight game.
Devin Vassell had 17 points in his third game for the Spurs since returning from offseason surgery to repair a fractured right foot.
Takeaways
Wizards: Alexandre Sarr blocked Wembanya’s shot in the second quarter and dunked on his fellow Frenchman in the third quarter. Sarr finished with 12 points, two rebounds, two assists and a block in 25 minutes.
Spurs: Wembanyama is the eighth player in franchise history to score 50 points. David Robinson holds the franchise record with 71 points against the Los Angeles Clippers on April 24, 1994.
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Key moment
Stuck at 48 points, Wembanyama made an 18-foot jumper for his 49th and 50th points with 8:49 remaining to give San Antonio a 115-98 lead.
Key stat
Wembanyama is the first player in league history with 20 3-pointers and 25 blocks over a six-game span.
Up next
The Spurs host Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night in the final game of a five-game homestand. The are at Atlanta on Friday night to close a five-game trip.
Cub Swanson knows the end is near, but he isn’t ready to call it a career quite yet.
Swanson (29-14 MMA, 14-10 UFC) will make his 25th octagon appearance when he takes on Billy Quarantillo (18-6 MMA, 6-4 UFC) on Dec. 14 at UFC on ESPN 63 from Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla. Ahead of his fight against Quarantillo, 41-year-old Swanson revealed to MMA Junkie that he signed a new contract with the UFC.
“I just signed a new multifight deal, four fights,” Swanson told MMA Junkie Radio. “It’s fight by fight, but this would have been my last one, so I told them I didn’t intend on fighting out of my contract and going other places. I want to stay here. I think it’s fitting, and so we did a new deal. But it’s fight by fight.”
Swanson has split his past six appearances. He’s fought the who’s who at featherweight throughout his career and is happy to draw someone who isn’t a rising contender on a tear.
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“I know that he’s tough, he’s gritty,” Swanson said of Quarantillo. “He wants to be in the exciting fights, and he’s been in a bunch of them, so I think that’s what he wants. He wanted a fight like me so he could go out there and have a big performance, something he could be proud of. That’s the kind of fighter I think he is.
“He’s getting up there in age. He’s been around for a little bit, so I like the matchup. I kept getting told stop fighting the youngsters who are on their way up, and I think the last two opponents have been good opponents. They’re guys who like to fight, but they’ve been around for a while. I think the fans appreciate it.”
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IRVING, Texas – For the first time during fight week, Jake Paul and Mike Tyson got face to face Wednesday.
There was little drama behind their faceoff after the news conference in advance of their Friday fight, which takes place at AT&T Stadium in Texas, home of the Dallas Cowboys. During the press conference, Tyson said little – which drew some confused moments from Paul, who said it left him bored without Tyson backing up his previous online banter.
Check out their faceoff, plus the faceoffs for the rest of the card, in the video above.
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In May 2021, Oliveira (34-10 MMA, 22-10 UFC) and Chandler (23-8 MMA, 2-3 UFC) put on one of the best lightweight title fights in UFC history, going toe-to-toe for a little over five action-packed minutes in the main event of UFC 262. After a rocky start, Oliveira put away Chandler in the end to become the new UFC lightweight champion.
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Oliveira and Chandler rematch Saturday in the co-main event of UFC 309 – which takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York. Oliveira is coming off a close, title eliminator bout loss to Arman Tsarukyan in April. Meanwhile, Chanlder looks to bounce off a submission loss to Dustin Poirier.
Check out their 2021 championship fight in the video above.
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Jake Paul and Mike Tyson are just days away from meeting in one of the most talked-about boxing events in recent history with the fight taking place at AT&T Stadium just outside Dallas.
The cavernous stadium, which usually serves as the home to the Dallas Cowboys, typically seats around 80,000 people but with additional seats on the field level, that number could balloon up to 100,000. For the upcoming card, Paul’s company Most Valuable Promotions decided to team up with ticket brokers at SeatGeek for sales rather than going through Ticketmaster.
A quick look at the map reveals that there are still plenty of tickets available to the event with seating anywhere from down on the floor close to the ring all the way up to the rafters in the nose bleeds.
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The lowest priced regular seat is currently settling for $50 in section 408, which is the top level of AT&T Stadium. Most of the lower priced seats are actually in a few different sections on one half of the stadium. There is a single handicap seat available for $38, which is technically the lowest priced ticket available right now.
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Now if you move down one section lower, tickets get a little pricier but still only around $90 each, depending on the row. The prices continue to vary as you get closer and closer to the ring.
As far as floor seats, there are still a smattering of tickets available but once again prices vary depending on location. The closet seat currently available that’s not a resale ticket sits in the fourth row — currently only one actually available — and that costs $7,500.
Scoot back four rows from almost the exact same vantage point and the price drops to $2,623 for the tickets currently available.
Based on the current map, there is actually one ringside seat available from Seatgeek as a special VIP package that costs a whopping $50,000. Another VIP package seated in the second row is going for $12,500 right now.
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There are other VIP floor seats going for $20,000 for some tickets with others going as low as $3,500 if you’re willing to sit in the fifth row.
Now other resale sites like Ticketmaster and Stubhub could have different options available as far as ringside or floor seats.
It also must be noted that as the event draws closer and organizers look for a sold out crowd, ticket prices could potentially change, especially with resellers looking to dump those seats rather than eating the cost of the tickets that have already been purchased.
It’s unknown at this time if MVP plans to announce the full live gate for the show.
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