IBF lightweight champion Robert Easter Jr (19-0, 14 KOs) easily outpointed challenger Luis Cruz (22-5-1, 16 KOs) on Friday night at the Huntington Center, Toledo, Ohio.
The American retained his title by a unanimous decision with scores of 119-106, 118-107 and 117-108.
Easter was always in control and scored three late knockdowns, dropping Puerto Rico’s Cruz in the 10th, 11th and 12th rounds, en route to a one-sided victory.
Also on the card, Kazakhstan’s Zhanat Zhakiyanov (27-1, 18 KOs)…
Xian and HumanBomb Fight an Explosive FT5 Set in Street Fighter V
Lightning Legs and glops of poison fly in this set between RZR|Xian and HuomaoTV|HumanBomb! While this is presumably just a friendly match, the first-to-five clash gets pretty fierce as both players remain constantly on the offensive.
While their main character choices may be on (nearly) opposite ends of the tier list, in terms of skill these two players are neck-and-neck. Due to Season 2 changes, Xian has said that he would drop F.A.N.G in favor of a higher tier character–but he appears to still hold his own just fine against an A-list Chun player. F.A.N.G’s still got a lot of tricky antics to threaten with; though while struggling at some points, in this set HumanBomb looks anything but overwhelmed.
It is interesting to see how Xian and HumanBomb are adjusting to Season 2. With their play styles, skill levels and character choices taken into account, they are easily two of the most entertaining players to watch!
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Unbeaten Middleweight Trevin Giles Stays Perfect with Split Nod in LFA 3 Headliner
Legacy Fighting Alliance made its first trip to Louisiana on Friday night, and Trevin Giles earned the right to vie for the newly minted organization’s vacant middleweight title.
Blow Up a Black Gale with this Kagura Stance Tutorial for BlazBlue: Central Fiction
Any character that has stances in a game can be very difficult to play intelligently, especially for newcomers to fighting games. (Part of that is why Gen was always considered lower in the tiers in Street Fighter IV, despite Razer|Xian’s artful usage of the character to win Evo 2013.)
BlazBlue has a couple of these characters, including Kagura. Here’s a tutorial on how to properly utilize his dive stances to maximize your success with the character: there is a huge difference between him and other stance characters, in that he can cancel his stance changes easily just by hitting 4D in order to mix up his opponents–however, his stance cancel has been slowed down since Chronophantasma. Also, one big thing to note that the video goes over is that Kagura cannot enter the same stance twice in a combo or blockstring, so it is important to train yourself on picking and choosing your stances properly.
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Momochi Makes a Fiery Return to Street Fighter V’s Ranked Mode
We haven’t seen too much Street Fighter V footage of Echo Fox’s Momochi lately–but considering his track record, it’s hard to doubt that he’s staying at the top of his game. In this footage that seems to confirm that statement as fact, Momochi reappears in Street Fighter V online Ranked matches and unleashes a Ken that’s looking mightier than ever.
Just as he made the transition from Street Fighter IV to Street Fighter V Ken, Momochi has adjusted to Season 2’s Ken rather well. With the year and season still being relatively young, it’ll be interesting to see what kind of damage he does in 2017 under the Echo Fox banner.
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Molly Holly Talks Vince McMahon’s Reaction When She Quit WWE, If She Was Underrated, More
“Evo is Marvel” — Angelic Talks about Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Winning the Evo 2017 Player’s Choice
One of the biggest driving forces behind community’s push to get Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 back onto the Evo main stage–via the Player’s Choice vote–was none other than BROKENTIER’s Armando “Angelic” Mejia. Aside from helping to rally the community together, Angelic also helped by setting up a fundraiser at his own tournament, Undefeated, to help raise money for the drive.
PVP Live’s Chris Bahn recently got the chance to talk to Angelic, and discuss the significance of UMvC3 returning to Evo–as well as the series in general’s importance to him.
Angelic states that it is the end of a chapter in his life: having started playing the game a few days before launch (via a broken street date) and continuing to play it until now. More importantly, he cites how it’s helped bring the community together, as they all worked hard to get the game into Evo for one last time.
Aside from this, he also goes on about the series’ history and importance to Evo, having been a part of the tournament since its inception, even before he joined. He mentions how its easy to feel the “full weight” of the series’ history whenever he’s on stage. He concludes by saying that he truly believes that Evo wouldn’t be the same without the series: “Evo is Marvel,” he states.
In addition to this, he’s also gets a chance to talk about the Pokkén Tournament community and how he never held any ill will against them, as well as his own tournament Undefeated and what inspired him to become a tournament organizer.
You can read about all this and more in the full interview on PVP Live.
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Why Joe McColgan is Struggling to Get BAMMA 28 Opponent
Joe McColgan talks with SevereMMA and Sherdog contributor Peter Carroll ahead of his bout with Norman Parke at BAMMA 28.
Paul Redmond Talks Norman Parke Clash at BAMMA 28
Paul Redmond talks with SevereMMA and Sherdog contributor Peter Carroll ahead of his bout with Norman Parke at BAMMA 28.
