After a light weekend of action in advance of the Halloween holiday last week, the month of November in combat sports kicks off with a full slate this weekend. It starts with ONE on Prime Video 16.
Bellator lightweight fighter Mansour Barnaoui (20-6) is being accused of domestic abuse by his girlfriend. According to the French gossip news outlet, AQABABE, the allegations were posted on social media on October 27th by his girlfriend whose name is given as Joanne.
Incumbent Invicta FC Strawweight Champion Danni McCormack (7-2 MMA, 2-0 Invicta FC) defends the 115-lb. strap for the first time when she meets challenger Karolina Wojcik (11-3 MMA, 2-1 Invicta FC). As with all championship fights, the Invicta FC 54 main event is an advertised five rounds at five minutes per round to close out the show.
Highlighting the night's itinerary is an Italian showdown in the Cage Warriors 162 main event. Rome's Simone Patrizi (6-1 MMA, 1-0 CWFC) will have the hometown crowd on his side when he takes on Verona's Dumitru Girlean (6-2 MMA, 1-1 CWFC) in a lightweight affair.
Friday's card is co-headlined by a battle at 135 lbs. James Williams (4-1 MMA, APFC promotional debut) won't have to travel very far from his training camp site in Manchester for the APFC 8 co-main event when he takes on Karvan Ahmadi (2-1 MMA, APFC promotional debut).
In its purest form, the sport of boxing is a contest of varying rounds to determine which gloved gladiator is better through a test of stamina and will. Throughout the sport's life, we've no doubt seen some great examples of what makes the sweet science amazing to watch.
