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Ben Askren is certainly making waves since the Ultimate Fighting Championship acquired him last year in a fighter trade with One Championship with former UFC flyweight king Demetrious Johnson heading the other way.
Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White confirmed that the UFC will not punish Jorge Masvidal for his backstage altercation with fellow fighter Leon Edwards at UFC London last Saturday night.
Fortnite has been updated to v8.11 across all of its game types. Battle Royale players can get hold of the Flint-Knock Pistol, a blunderbuss weapon that can knock opponents back. In addition, “One Shot” is the new limited time mode with some interesting mechanics including low gravity, sniper rifles only, and only 50 health per player. Lastly, Gauntlet Solo Event and Gauntlet Duo Test Event will run for 24-hours each on March 19th and March 23rd.
It may be some time before Tony Ferguson gets back into the Octagon.
It appears as though the much-hyped Donald Cerrone vs. Conor McGregor matchup will not come to fruition. Instead, “Cowboy” will square off against Al Iaquinta in the UFC Ottawa headliner.
Four years after initially tearing the ACL in his left knee, Derrick Lewis will undergo surgery to repair the injury.
Star Wars: The Old Republic is going to be getting some “under the hood” tuning that will bring some big changes to the game. Dynamic Placeable Objects will be overhauled as the team looks to the future for new content. The unnecessarily complicated web of DYNs makes it necessary to change up the system a bit. They will be refined, polished and optimized to make creating DYN packages much quicker yielding faster development of new content.
A pair of new toys have arrived in the Blizzard Shop, both online and in World of Warcraft. These are not just any toys, however, but are being sold to fans of esports to help raise funds for the Arena World Championships and the Mythic Dungeon Invitational prize pools. Each will have a guaranteed minimum prize of $250,000.
Bellator “Birmingham” has its co-headliner, as Derek Campos will square off against Ryan Scope in a lightweight clash.
Conor McGregor isn’t necessarily opposed to being slotted in the co-main event of a UFC card. He just wants what he believes is rightfully his.