Your Weekend in Combat Sports

As always, programming is listed in EST
Live fights are in BOLD.
Premiere programming is in ITALICS.
MMA programming is in ORANGE.
Boxing programming is in RED.
Kickboxing/Muay Thai/Karate programming is in BLUE.
Wrestling/Jiu Jitsu/Grappling programming is in PURPLE.
Movies are in AQUA.
Misc. combat sports programming is in GREEN.

Friday December 9

2:00am: Ohio State vs. Missouri (BigTen)
3:30am: UFC 206 Countdown (Fox Sports 2)
3:30am: Southpaw (Showtime Showcase)
4:00am: UFC Unleashed (Fox Sports 2)
5:00am: UFC Presents Anthony Pettis: Showtime (Fox Sports 2)
6:00am: UFC Unleashed (Fox Sports 2)
7:00am: UFC Presents Anthony Pettis: Showtime (Fox Sports 2)
8:00am: UFC 206 Countdown (Fox Sports 2)
9:00am: UFC 206 Countdown (Fox Sports 1)
9:00am: 2016 VAC Holiday Duals (FloWrestling)
10:30am: M-1 Challenge 73 (m1global.tv)
1:00pm: 2016 Walsh Ironman (FloWrestling)
1:00pm: Enfusion Live 45 ($10.74 EnfusionLive.com)
3:00pm: UFC 206 Countdown (Fox Sports 1)
3:30pm: UFC Ultimate Knockouts (Fox Sports 1)
4:00pm: UFC 206 Weigh-Ins (Fox Sports 1)
6:00pm: UFC Unleashed (Fox Sports 1)
7:00pm: UFC Ultimate Insider (Fox Sports 1)
8:00pm: Hard Knocks Fighting Championship 52 ($14.99 GoFightLive)
9:00pm: UFC Fight Night: Abdurakhimov vs. Lewis (UFC Fight Pass)
9:00pm: Victory Fighting Championship 54 (UFC Fight Pass)
9:30pm: 30 For 30: No Mas (ESPN Classic)
9:30pm: UFC Ultimate Knockouts (Fox Sports 1)
10:00pm: UFC 206 Weigh-Ins (Fox Sports 2)
10:00pm: Resurrection Fighting Alliance 46 (AXS)
11:00pm: UFC 206 Countdown (Fox Sports 2)
11:30pm: UFC Ultimate Insider (Fox Sports 2)

Saturday December 10

12:00am: UFC 206 Weigh-Ins (Fox Sports 2)
1:00am: UFC Unleashed (Fox Sports 2)
2:00am: UFC Unleashed (Fox Sports 2)
2:00am: Hosking Promotions: Punches at the Park II ($14.99 GoFightLive)
2:30am: Resurrection Fighting Alliance 46 (AXS)
3:00am: UFC 206 Weigh-Ins (Fox Sports 2)
3:00am: Road Fighting Championship 35 ($7.54 Epicentre.tv)
4:00am: UFC Unleashed (Fox Sports 1)
5:00am: UFC 206 Weigh-Ins (Fox Sports 1)
5:00am: Mortal Combat 5 ($14.99 GoFightLive)
9:00am: 2016 VAC Holiday Duals (FloWrestling)
10:00am: 2016 Walsh Ironman (FloWrestling)
11:00am: Glory 36 (ESPN3)
11:00am: King of Kings World Grand Prix in Moldova (FightBoxLive)
12:00pm: UFC’s Road to the Octagon: VanZant vs. Waterson (Fox)
12:00pm: Maryland vs. Rutgers (BigTen)
1:30pm: Glory 36 Superfight Series (UFC Fight Pass)
3:15pm: Southpaw (Showtime)
4:00pm: 30 For 30: One Night In Vegas (ESPN Classic)
4:00pm: Heavy Hitters (ESPN Deportes)
4:00pm: Glory 36 (ESPN3)
4:00pm: Glory: Collision ($29.95 Pay-Per-View)
4:00pm: Bellator 168 (Spike)
5:00pm: SC Featured: Pin Kings (ESPNEWS)
5:30pm: Anthony Joshua vs. Eric Molina/Luis Concepcion vs. Khalid Yafai (Showtime)
6:30pm: UFC 206 Prefight Show (Fox Sports 1)
6:30pm: UFC 206 Prelims (UFC Fight Pass)
7:00pm: Dead Serious MMA 23 ($14.99 GoFightLive)
7:00pm: Cagezilla Fighting Championship 43 ($14.99 GoFightLive)
7:00pm: IT Fight Series 48 ($14.99 GoFightLive)
8:30pm: UFC 206 Prelims (Fox Sports 1)
9:00pm: Bellator 168 (ESPN Deportes)
9:35pm: John Molina Jr. vs. Terence Crawford/Mason Menard vs. Raymundo Beltran (HBO/HBO Latino)
10:00pm: UFC 206 ($59.99 Pay-Per-View)
10:00pm: Andy Ruiz Jr. vs. Joseph Parker/Ali Funeka vs. Jeff Horn (UniMas)
10:00pm: Jermall Charlo vs. Julian Williams/Jesus Andres Cuellar vs. Abner Mares (Showtime)

Sunday December 11

12:00am: SC Featured: Pin Kings (ESPNEWS)
1:00am: SC Featured: Pin Kings (ESPNEWS)
1:00am: UFC 206 Post-Fight Show (Fox Sports 1)
2:00am: UFC 206 Post-Fight Show (Fox Sports 2)
3:00am: UFC 206 Post-Fight Show (Fox Sports 2)
3:00am: Jermall Charlo vs. Julian Williams/Jesus Andres Cuellar vs. Abner Mares (Showtime Extreme)
4:30am: UFC 206 Post-Fight Show (Fox Sports 1)
6:00am: SC Featured: Pin Kings (ESPNEWS)
8:00am: UFC 206 Post-Fight Show (Fox Sports 1)
8:50am: John Molina Jr. vs. Terence Crawford/Mason Menard vs. Raymundo Beltran (HBO/HBO Latino)
9:00am: Jermall Charlo vs. Julian Williams/Jesus Andres Cuellar vs. Abner Mares (Showtime)
9:00am: 2016 VAC Holiday Duals (FloWrestling)
12:05pm: Rocky Balboa (Flix)
1:00pm: Missouri vs. Ohio (ESPN3)
1:10pm: The Fight Game With Jim Lampley (HBO2)
1:30pm: UFC Main Event (Fox Sports 2)
2:00pm: UFC 206 Prelims (Fox Sports 2)
2:00pm: Grappling Pro Championships: The Heavyweights (FloGrappling)
2:30pm: Southpaw (Showtime Next)
3:40pm: John Molina Jr. vs. Terence Crawford/Mason Menard vs. Raymundo Beltran (HBO2)
4:00pm: 30 For 30: One Night In Vegas (ESPN Classic)
4:00pm: UFC Ultimate Knockouts (Fox Sports 2)
5:30pm: Submission Underground 2 (FloGrappling)
8:00pm: Rocky Balboa (Flix)
8:30pm: UFC’s Road to the Octagon: VanZant vs. Waterson (Fox Sports 1)
9:30pm: UFC Reloaded (Fox Sports 1)
11:00pm: Glory 36 (ESPN2)
11:00pm: Sports Jeopardy! (NBC Sports)
11:30pm: Sports Jeopardy! (NBC Sports)
11:30pm: Southpaw (Showtime Next)

Top-10 Viewing Options: A man whose baseball team is playing Plinko with the face of their franchise attempts to watch something, anything, to distract him besides Diazepam labels.

  1. Glory 36: Including the Superfight Series, best card of the day, AND, on a dead Saturday afternoon in college football, no less! Still, have Army-Navy on some device, it’s good for you.

  2. UFC 206: Cormier-Johnson would have put this into #1, but interim titles bring about a fury in me usually reserved for the PA Turnpike and Amy Schumer.

  3. Glory: Collision: This is a two-fight card, but holy shit, what a couple of fights they are.

  4. Submission Underground 2: It’s Jon motherfucking Jones against Dan goddamned Henderson. The fight we never got in the UFC. Plus, it’ll be good to see Miesha again.

  5. Jermall Charlo vs. Julian Williams/Jesus Andres Cuellar vs. Abner Mares: Best boxing card of the weekend, quality card because HBO didn’t bother to dress up their Crawford card with anything.

  6. John Molina Jr. vs. Terence Crawford/Mason Menard vs. Raymundo Beltran: This isn’t the way to increase Bud’s profile. Not with that opponent and not with this card.

  7. Anthony Joshua vs. Eric Molina/Luis Concepcion vs. Khalid Yafai: Love a good afternoon, televised, British card. Again, perfect Saturday for it. So much Saturday afternoon fights.

  8. UFC Fight Night: Abdurakhimov vs. Lewis: An absolutely abysmal card up top, it evens out a little you work down the card, but holy shit are they just shoveling shit at Albany because they know they’ll eat it.

  9. UFC’s Road to the Octagon: VanZant vs. Waterson: Two of my favorite fighters of any gender, so happy they’re getting to headline a card and they have enough personality to make the hype interesting.

  10. Bellator 168: Just an abhorrent card.

Outside the Tube: Fighters you know or should know that won’t be appearing on your magic television box over the weekend.

• Eleider Alvarez [vs. Norbert Dabrowski, December 10, Montreal Casino, Montreal, Quebec]
• Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. [vs. Dominik Britsch, December 10, Arena Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico]
• Krzysztof Wlodarczyk [vs. Leon Harth, December 10, Hala Orbita, Wroclay, Poland]
• Katie Taylor [vs. Viviane Obenauf, December 10, Manchester Arena, Manchester, England]
• Kermit Cintron [vs. Rosemberg Gomez, December 10, Sands Bethlehem Event Center, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania]
• Danyo Ilunga vs. Michael Duut [December 10, Glory 36, Konig Pilsener Arena, Oberhausen, Germany]
• Harut Grigorian [vs. Danijel Solaja, December 10, Glory 36, Konig Pilsener Arena, Oberhausen, Germany]
• Tiffany Van Soest [vs. Jessica Gladstone, December 10, Glory 36, Konig Pilsener Arena, Oberhausen, Germany]
• Buakaw Banchamek [vs. Andrei Kulebin, December 10, Phoenix Fighting Championship 1, Nouhad Nawfal Stadium, Zouk Mikael, Lebanon]
• Moise Rimbon [vs. Bruno Silva, December 10, Phoenix Fighting Championship 1, Nouhad Nawfal Stadium, Zouk Mikael, Lebanon]
• Alexander Stetsurenko vs. Darryl Sichtman [December 10, Kunlun Fight 55, Guoxin Gymnasium, Qingdao, China]
• AJ Agazarm [Black Belt Lightweight Division, December 11, IBJJF Long Beach International Open, Walter Pyramid, Long Beach, California]
• Roberto Abreu [Heavyweight Grand Prix, December 11, Grappling Pro Championships: The Heavyweights, Naples, Florida]
• Vinny Magalhaes [Heavyweight Grand Prix, December 11, Grappling Pro Championships: The Heavyweights, Naples, Florida]
• Mahamed Aly [Heavyweight Grand Prix, December 11, Grappling Pro Championships: The Heavyweights, Naples, Florida]
• Bruno Bastos [Heavyweight Grand Prix, December 11, Grappling Pro Championships: The Heavyweights, Naples, Florida]
• Dan Henderson vs. Jon Jones [December 11, Submission Underground 2, Roseland Theater, Portland, Oregon]
• Jessica Eye vs. Miesha Tate [December 11, Submission Underground 2, Roseland Theater, Portland, Oregon]
• Jeff Monson vs. Ronny Markes [December 11, Submission Underground 2, Roseland Theater, Portland, Oregon]
• Rodney Wallace [vs. Brice Ritani-Coe, December 9, Hard Knocks Fighting Championship 52, WinSport, Calgary, Alberta]
• Josh Rettinghouse [vs. Sergey Morozov, December 9, M-1 Challenge 73, Nazran, Russia]
• Tony Lopez [vs. Adenilson Clementino, December 9, King of the Cage: Declaring War, Black Bear Casino Resort, Carlton, Minnesota]
• Maiquel Falcao [vs. Vladimir Mineev, December 9, Eurasia Fight Nights Global 56, Vladivostok, Russia]
• Derrick Lewis vs. Shamil Abdurakhimov [December 10, UFC Fight Night: Abdurakhimov vs. Lewis, Times Union Center, Albany, New York]
• Anthony Hamilton vs. Francis Ngannou [December 10, UFC Fight Night: Abdurakhimov vs. Lewis, Times Union Center, Albany, New York]
• Corey Anderson vs. Sean O’Connell [December 10, UFC Fight Night: Abdurakhimov vs. Lewis, Times Union Center, Albany, New York]
• Ashley Yoder vs. Justine Kish [December 10, UFC Fight Night: Abdurakhimov vs. Lewis, Times Union Center, Albany, New York]
• Brian Camozzi vs. Randy Brown [December 10, UFC Fight Night: Abdurakhimov vs. Lewis, Times Union Center, Albany, New York]
• Andrew Sanchez vs. Trevor Smith [December 10, UFC Fight Night: Abdurakhimov vs. Lewis, Times Union Center, Albany, New York]
• Tiago Trator [vs. Shane Burgos, December 10, UFC Fight Night: Abdurakhimov vs. Lewis, Times Union Center, Albany, New York]
• Frankie Perez [vs. Marc Diakiese, December 10, UFC Fight Night: Abdurakhimov vs. Lewis, Times Union Center, Albany, New York]
• JJ Aldrich vs. Juliana Lima [December 10, UFC Fight Night: Abdurakhimov vs. Lewis, Times Union Center, Albany, New York]
• John Makdessi vs. Lando Vannata [December 10, UFC 206, Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario]
• Jason Saggo vs. Rustam Khabilov [December 10, UFC 206, Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario]
• Dustin Ortiz vs. Zach Makovsky [December 10, UFC 206, Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario]
• Jan Finney [vs. Janice Meyer, December 10, IT Fight Series 48, Ohio Expo Center, Columbus, Ohio]
• A-Sol Kwon [vs. Shinji Sasaki, December 10, Road Fighting Championship 35, Jangchung Gymnasium, Seoul, South Korea]
• Shunichi Shimizu vs. Soo Chul Kim [December 10, Road Fighting Championship 35, Jangchung Gymnasium, Seoul, South Korea]
• Yuki Kondo [vs. Hiroki Tanaka, December 11, Pancrase: Osaka, Higashinari Kumin Center, Osaka, Japan]

Bold, Yet Probably Fruitless Predictions: Welp, three weeks to make up $473.58.  Either I got this, or I’ll be typing this column with four less fingers.

Best Fight of the Weekend: Donald Cerrone vs. Matt Brown
Most Underrated Fight of the Weekend: Shunichi Shimizu vs. Soo Chul Kim
If My Life Depended on One Pick: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. over Dominik Britsch
Best Card Top-to-Bottom: Glory 36
Upset of the Week: Emil Weber Meek over Jordan Mein
Most Disappointing Fight of the Weekend: Badr Hari vs. Rico Verhoeven