Oscar Valdez vs Matias Rueda full fight Video – 2016

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3 Star RatingReview by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-07-23, nice and tough exchanges between Oscar Valdez and Matias Rueda; it gets three stars.

Both undefeated, the Mexican Oscar Valdez entered this fight with a perfect record of 19-0-0 (17 KOs=89%) and he is ranked as the No.5 featherweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Leo Santa Cruz) while his opponent, Matias Carlos Adrian Rueda, has an official boxing record of 26-0-0 (23 KOs=88%) and he entered as the No.34 in the same weight class. Valdez has fought once in 2016 beating Evgeny Gradovich (=Valdez vs Gradovich) while Rueda has fought twice defeating Leandro Mendes Pinto and Nestor Hugo Paniagua. Valdez vs Rueda is valid for the vacant WBO World featherweight title; undercard of Terence Crawford vs Viktor Postol. Watch the video and rate this fight!

2016 BOXING fight – Oleksandr Gvozdyk vs Tommy Karpency – fight Video

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2 Star RatingReview by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-07-23, fight not so exciting between Oleksandr Gvozdyk and Tommy Karpency: it gets two stars.

The undefeated Oleksandr Gvozdyk entered this fight with a perfect record of 10-0-0 (8 KOs=80%) and he is ranked as the No.13 light heavyweight in the world. He has already fought twice in 2016 winning over Mike Snider and Nadjib Mohammedi.
His opponent, Tommy Karpency, has a boxing record of 26-5-1 (15 knockouts) and he entered as the No.17 in the same weight class. He lost to Adonis Stevenson in 2015 (=Stevenson vs Karpency) but he came back to win in 2016 against Paul Gonsalves. Gvozdyk vs Karpency is valid for the NABF light heavyweight title; undercard of Terence Crawford vs Viktor Postol. Watch the video and rate this fight!

2016 MMA fight – Holly Holm vs Valentina Shevchenko – full fight Video UFC on Fox 20

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2 Star RatingReview by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-07-23, disappointing fight between Holly Holm and Valentina Shevchenko: it gets two stars.

The former Ufc and Wbc, Wba, Wbf, Iba boxing champion Holly Holm entered this fight with a professional record of 10-1-0 (70% ko/tko victory rate – she has never won via submission) and she is ranked as the No.4 women’s bantamweight in the world. She won the Ufc belt in 2015, against Ronda Rousey (=Rousey vs Holm) but then she lost it at her first defense with Miesha Tate (=Holm vs Tate).
Her opponent, the black belt in tae-kwon-do, judo and former muay thai world champion Valentina Shevchenko, has a mma record of 12-2-0 (75% finishing rate) and she entered as the No.17 in the same weight class but she comes off the loss against #1 Ufc champion Amanda Nunes (=Nunes vs Shevchenko). Holm vs Shevchenko is the main event of the UFC on Fox 20. Watch the video and rate this fight!

2016 BOXING fight – Ryota Murata vs George Tahdooahnippah – full full fight Video

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2 Star RatingReview by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-07-23, fight not particularly good between Ryota Murata and George Tahdooahnippah: it gets two stars.

The 2012 Olympic middleweight gold medalist Ryota Murata entered this fight with a perfect boxing record of 10-0-0 (7 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.18 middleweight in the world while his opponent, George Tahdooahnippah, has an official record of 34-2-3 (24 knockouts). Murata has already fought twice in 2016 beating Gaston Alejandro Vega (=Murata vs Vega) and Felipe Santos Pedroso (=Murata vs Pedroso) while Tahdooahnippah has fought once defeating Colby Courter. Murata vs Tahdooahnippah is on the undercard of Terence Crawford vs Viktor Postol. Watch the video and rate this fight!

2016 K-1 MUAY THAI fight – Sergey Adamchuk vs Gabriel Varga 2 – full fight Video Glory 32

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2 Star RatingReview by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-07-22, fight not particularly exciting: Sergey Adamchuk vs Gabriel Varga 2 gets two stars.

The Glory Fw champion Serhiy Adamchuk entered this fight with a professional kickboxing record of 33-5-0 (14 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.4 super welterweight in the world. He suffered his last loss when he faced Deo Phetsangkhat in 2013, since then he has collected eight consecutive bouts winning the Glory belt last year, against Gabriel Varga in their first fight (=Varga vs Adamchuk I), and winning twice in 2016, with Mosab Amrani (=Adamchuk vs Amrani) and Mohammed El Mir.
His opponent, the black belt in karate and former Glory champion Gabriel Varga, has an official record of 12-3-0 (1 knockout) and he entered as the No.6 in the same weight class. After losing to Adamchuk in 2015 he came back to win against Liu Wei in 2016. Adamchuk vs Varga 2, main event of Glory 32, is valid for the Glory featherweight title (Adamchuk’s second defense). Watch the video and rate this fight!

2016 MMA fight – Edson Barboza vs Gilbert Melendez – fight Video UFC on Fox 20

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2 Star RatingReview by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-07-23, some good single shots between Edson Barboza and Gilbert Melendez but it is not enough to get three stars: it gets two.

The black belt in tae-kwon-do Edson Barboza entered this fight with a pro record of 17-4-0 (65% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.5 lightweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Eddie Alvarez). He lost to Tony Ferguson last year (=Ferguson vs Barboza) but he came back to win in 2016 beating Anthony Pettis (=Pettis vs Barboza).
His opponent, the black belt in Bjj and former Strikeforce Lw champion Gilbert Melendez, has an official mma record of 22-5-0 (55% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.11 in the same weight class but he comes off two consecutive losses, against Anthony Pettis in 2014 (=Pettis vs Melendez) and Eddie Alvarez in 2015 (via split decision, Melendez vs Alvarez). Barboza vs Melendez is on the undercard of Holly Holm vs Valentina Shevchenko – UFC on Fox 20. Watch the video and rate this fight!

2016 K-1 MUAY THAI fight – Zinedine Hameur-Lain vs Ariel Machado – full fight Video Glory

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3 Star RatingReview by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-07-22, pretty good fight between Zinedine Hameur-Lain and Ariel Machado: it gets three stars.

Zinedine Hameur-Lain entered this fight with a pro kickboxing record of 55-25-2 (34 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.9 super cruiserweight in the world while his opponent, Ariel Machado, has a record of 43-6-0 (33 KOs=77%). Hameur-Lain vs Machado is the final of Glory light heavyweight contender tournament, in the semifinals Hameur-Lain has beat Warren Thompson (who had replaced Manny Mancha) while Machado has defeated Pavel Zhuravlev; undercard of Sergey Adamchuk vs Gabriel Varga 2 – Glory 32. Watch the video and rate this fight!

2016 MMA fight – Daniel Weichel vs Emmanuel Sanchez – full fight Video Bellator 159

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2 Star RatingReview by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-07-22, disappointing fight between Daniel Weichel and Emmanuel Sanchez: it gets two stars.

The black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and former M-1 Lw and Bellator Fw tournament champion Daniel Weichel entered this fight with a mma record of 36-9-0 (72% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.12 featherweight in the world. He fought three times last year beating Pat Curran (=Curran vs Weichel) and Georgi Karakhanyan (=Weichel vs Karakhanyan) but between these two fights he lost to Patricio Freire (=Freire vs Weichel).
His opponent, Emmanuel Sanchez, has an official record of 13-2-0 (46% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.37 in the same weight class. He was defeated by Pat Curran last year (=Curran vs Sanchez) but then he has won three consecutive fights beating Daniel Pineda in 2016 (=Sanchez vs Pineda). Weichel vs Sanchez is on the undercard of Darrion Caldwell vs Joe Taimanglo – Bellator 159; they also faced each other a second time on November 12, 2020 (Daniel Weichel vs Emmanuel Sanchez 2). Watch the video and rate this fight!

2016 MMA fight – David Rickels vs Melvin Guillard – full fight Video Bellator 159

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2 Star RatingReview by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-07-22, fight not so exciting between David Rickels and Melvin Guillard: it gets two stars.

The former Bellator Lw tournament champion (Season 8) David Rickels entered this fight with a pro mma record of 17-4-0 (65% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.60 lightweight in the world. He lost to Michael Chandler in 2015 (=Chandler vs Rickels 2) but he came back to win in 2016 against Bobby Cooper.
His opponent, the former Ufc fighter Melvin Guillard, has an record of 32-16-2 (72% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.75 in the same weight class but he comes off three consecutive defeats, the last one against Derek Campos (=Guillard vs Campos). Rickels vs Guillard is on the undercard of Darrion Caldwell vs Joe Taimanglo – Bellator 159. Watch the video and rate this fight!

2016 MMA fight – Darrion Caldwell vs Joe Taimanglo – full fight Video Bellator 159

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3 Star RatingReview by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-07-22, Darrion Caldwell vs Joe Taimanglo gets three stars only thanks to a good finish.

The undefeated Darrion Caldwell entered this fight with a perfect mma record of 9-0-0 (56% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.8 bantamweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Dominick Cruz). He has already fought once in 2016 winning over Joe Warren (=Warren vs Caldwell).
His opponent, Joe Taimanglo, has an official record of 22-6-1 (73% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.28 in the same weight class. He lost two consecutive fights between 2013 and 2014, against Justin Wilcox (=Wilcox vs Taimanglo) and Robert Emerson, but then he has won three times beating Sirwan Kakai in his last one (=Taimanglo vs Kakai). Caldwell vs Taimanglo is the main event of the Bellator 159. Watch the video and rate this fight!