{"id":1183372,"date":"2021-01-29T13:33:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T18:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=1183372"},"modified":"2021-12-21T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T14:26:09","slug":"the-ecstasy-of-gold-5-best-title-fights-of-the-weekend-146","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/the-ecstasy-of-gold-5-best-title-fights-of-the-weekend-146\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ecstasy of Gold: 5 Best Title Fights of the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The championship fight. The pinnacle of achievement across combat sports for centuries. A premiere attraction that draws millions every year. But not all title bouts are created equally.<\/p>\n
So which title bouts every week are the ones to watch? We’ll look over every title fight from across the combat sports landscape and give you the five best based on five criteria:<\/p>\n
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So here are your five best gold options for the weekend.<\/p>\n
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5. Glory Women’s Super Bantamweight Championship: Tiffany van Soest (c) (22-6-2) vs. Aline Pereira (6-1)<\/strong><\/p>\n When\/Where: Saturday, 2:00pm, Pay-Per-View<\/strong><\/p>\n Competitiveness: 3:<\/strong> Pereira is a fine fighter, but the division is still just TvS and Anissa Meksen. Total: 13<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4. KSW Featherweight Championship: Salahdine Parnasse (c) (14-0-1) vs. Daniel Torres (11-4)<\/strong><\/p>\n When\/Where: Saturday, 2:00pm, Fite.tv<\/strong><\/p>\n Competitiveness: 4:<\/strong> Parnasse is making his first defense of his title, and at only 23, is destined for big things in MMA, but Torres has wom three straight, including two in KSW, and is a rightful challenger. Total: 14<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3. IBF World Super Middleweight Championship: Caleb Plant (c) (20-0) vs. Caleb Truax (31-4-2)<\/strong><\/p>\n When\/Where: Saturday, 8:00pm, FOX<\/strong><\/p>\n Competitiveness: 3<\/strong> Total: 18<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2. Undisputed Glory Light Heavyweight Championship: Artem Vakhitov (c) (20-5) vs. Alex Pereira (ic) (41-6)<\/strong><\/p>\n When\/Where: Saturday, 2:00pm, Pay-Per-View<\/strong><\/p>\n Competitiveness: 5:<\/strong> Both fighters are on eight-fight winning streaks, with Pereira never even losing the middleweight championship. As evenly-matched as we can get. Total: 19<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1. Undisputed Glory Welterweight Championship: Cedric Doumbe (c) (74-7-1) vs. Murthel Groenhart (69-24-3)<\/strong><\/p>\n When\/Where: Saturday, 2:00pm, Pay-Per-View<\/strong><\/p>\n Competitiveness: 5:<\/strong> They split a pair of decisions in 2016 and 17, and the argument can be made that it’s past Groenhart’s time, but 2017 wasn’t THAT long ago. Total: 21<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The championship fight. The pinnacle of achievement across combat sports for centuries. A premiere attraction that draws millions every…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":560333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[605048455,12504,187419370],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nExcitement: 2<\/strong>
\nJuice: 1<\/strong>
\nPrestige: 4<\/strong>
\nViewing Ease: 3:<\/strong> Glory has had so many goddamned homes over the years. ESPN2, Spike\/Paramount, Fight Pass, and now here we are, going the straight PPV route.<\/p>\n
\nExcitement: 3<\/strong>
\nJuice: 1<\/strong>
\nPrestige: 3<\/strong>
\nViewing Ease: 3:<\/strong> Twelve bucks isn’t bad at all for the most consistent European MMA promotion there is.<\/p>\n
\nExcitement: 4:<\/strong> Truax has problems with hard punchers, and BOY, is Plant one of those.
\nJuice: 1<\/strong>
\nPrestige: 5<\/strong>
\nViewing Ease: 5:<\/strong> World championship boxing on network TV, finally PBC taking advantage of the airwaves.<\/p>\n
\nExcitement: 3<\/strong>
\nJuice: 3:<\/strong> Pereira never lost his middleweight title and is attempting to claim the light heavyweight title now.
\nPrestige: 5<\/strong>
\nViewing Ease: 3<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nExcitement: 4<\/strong>
\nJuice: 4:<\/strong> Glory tends not to delve into the war-of-words to sell fights and their rivalries seldom go beyond competitiveness, but this matchup is actually pretty spicy. Toss in that it’s a trilogy fight and we have a real rivalry, here.
\nPrestige: 5<\/strong>
\nViewing Ease: 3<\/strong><\/p>\n