{"id":1193104,"date":"2021-03-09T09:41:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T14:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=1193104"},"modified":"2021-12-21T10:25:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T14:25:44","slug":"fighters-of-the-week-333","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/fighters-of-the-week-333\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighters of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0 1. Jan Blachowicz:<\/strong> Style: Unbent! Blachowicz was able to keep Israel Adesanya contained, both on the feet and on the ground to old-man muscle a decision win, defending his UFC Light Heavyweight championship and handing Adesanya his first professional MMA loss, and legitimizing himself in the eyes of many.<\/p>\n \u00a0 2. Amanda Nunes:<\/strong> If you, kind reader, were across the cage from the Women’s GOAT on Saturday, you might have put up more resistance than Megan Anderson did in her quest to dethrone Nunes of her UFC featherweight title. Nunes blew threw hair and may have even broken a sweat in doing so.<\/p>\n \u00a0 3. Claressa Shields:<\/strong> In typical Shields fashion, she faced little-to-no<\/a> competition in her world title fight against Marie Eve Dicaire, finally unifying the junior middleweight division after capturing the IBF strap, becoming the first boxer in history to become unified champion in two divisions in the four-best era.<\/p>\n \u00a0 4. Tony Yoka:<\/strong> The 2016 Olympic gold medalist continued his march to world title contention, claiming the vacant EBU European strap, stopping Joel Tambwe Djeko, and as a bonus, he stopped him in the twelfth-round. I love a fighter who isn’t content to just ride out a decision and went for the stoppage.<\/p>\n