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Cris Cyborg
Cristiane Justino Venâncio (born July 9, 1985), known professionally as Cris Cyborg and formerly by her married name Cristiane Santos, is a Brazilian-American professional mixed martial artist and Professional boxing, professional boxer who competes in the Professional Fighters League, PFL, where she is the current and inaugural List of Professional Fighters League champions#Super Fights Women's World Featherweight Championship, PFL Super Fights Women's World Featherweight Champion. She formerly competed in Bellator MMA where she was the longest reigning and last List of Bellator MMA champions#Women’s Featherweight World Championship, Women’s Featherweight World Champion. She is also a former List of UFC champions#Women's Featherweight Championship, UFC, List of Strikeforce champions#Women's Featherweight Championship, Strikeforce and Invicta Fighting Championships#Featherweight Championship, Invicta FC World Featherweight Champion. She is the only MMA fighter in history to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Web Summit
Web Summit is an annual technology convention (meeting), conference held in Lisbon, Portugal. Founded in 2009 by Paddy Cosgrave, Web Summit was held in Dublin, Ireland until 2016, when it moved to Lisbon. The conference's topics center on internet technology, emerging technologies, marketing and venture capitalism. Web Summit's partners range from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, with attendees representing all levels and sectors of the global high technology industry. Web Summit runs events throughout the world including ''F.ounders'', ''RISE'' conference in Hong Kong, ''Collision'' in Toronto, ''SURGE'' in Bangalore, ''MoneyConf'' in Dublin and ''Web Summit Rio'' in Rio de Janeiro. Speakers Speakers included a mix of CEOs, subject-matter experts, celebrities, and politicians, including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Al Gore, Bono, and U.N Secretary-General António Guterres. Partners Web Summit's partners include Fortune 500 companies, government entities, and charitable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bleacher Report
''Bleacher Report'' (often abbreviated as B/R) is a website that focuses on sports and sports culture. Its headquarters are in San Francisco, with offices in New York City and London. ''Bleacher Report'' was acquired by Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System in August 2012 for $175 million. In March 2018, ''Bleacher Report'' and Turner Sports launched B/R Live, a subscription video streaming service featuring live broadcasts of several major sports events, although the service was discontinued in 2021 and merged with the company's mobile app. ''Bleacher Report'' owns multi-media social network House of Highlights, and its branding was used for Max's sports coverage prior to 2025. History Founding: 2005–2011 ''Bleacher Report'' was formed in 2005 by Sam Erez, Harry Ryan, Bryan Goldberg, and Dave Nemetz—four friends and sports fans who were high school classmates at Menlo School in Atherton, California. Inspired by Ken Griffey Jr., they wanted to start writing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintuple Champion
In different sports an athlete who wins five crowns, titles, medals, belts, or other distinctions is called a Quintuple Champion. Boxing In boxing, a quintuple champion is a boxer who has won world titles in at least five Weight class (boxing), different weight classes. The first man in boxing to earn this distinction was Thomas Hearns on November 4, 1988. Hearns won first the Welterweight (147 lbs) title, later annexed the Super Welterweight (154 lbs) belt. Rather than win the next closest division in weight, the Middleweight (160 lbs), he moved up three divisions to earn the Light Heavyweight (175 lbs) title. He moved down in weight to net the Middleweight (160 lbs) crown and finally moved back in weight up to Super Middleweight (168 lbs) to become the first Quintuple Champion in the history of boxing. Since then some boxers have won six titles and become the Sextuple champions. World's Strongest Man Mariusz Pudzianowski is the only man to have wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invicta Fighting Championships
Invicta Fighting Championships, also known as Invicta FC, is an American professional mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion dedicated to women's mixed martial arts that was founded in 2012 by Janet Martin and Shannon Knapp. The promotion is currently owned by the Canadian-based Anthem Sports & Entertainment. The company's name comes from the Latin word for "invincible and incomparable", which appears in the feminine form. History Formation After Zuffa, parent company of the UFC, purchased rival promotion Strikeforce in March 2011, Shannon Knapp received several calls from female fighters concerned about a possible lack of representation for women's MMA. Knapp would meet with Janet Martin and the two acquired the financial resources needed to launch a new MMA promotion. The promotion held its first event, Invicta FC 1 on April 28, 2012. The event was headlined by a rematch between former Strikeforce women's bantamweight champion Marloes Coenen and French fighter Romy Ruyssen. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Strikeforce Champions
Strikeforce (mixed martial arts), Strikeforce was an American mixed martial arts organization. It crowned male champions in the lightweight, welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions, and female champions in featherweight and bantamweight. World champions Men's championships Heavyweight Championship '' to '' Light Heavyweight Championship '' to '' Middleweight Championship '' to '' Welterweight Championship '' to '' Lightweight Championship '' to '' Women's championships Women's Featherweight Championship '' to '' ''Formerly known as the Women's Lightweight Championship and the Women's Middleweight Championship'' Women's Bantamweight Championship '' to '' ''Formerly known as the Women's Welterweight Championship'' U.S. champions Middleweight U.S. Championship '' to '' Lightweight U.S. Championship '' to '' Tournament winners Records Most wins in title bouts Most consecutive title defenses Champions by nationality The divisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of UFC Champions
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champions are fighters who have won UFC Championship#Title match system, championships. Historical notes At the time of the UFC's inception in 1993, mixed martial arts was not sanctioned in the United States, and did not include weight classes. Instead of the traditional championship model, the UFC held tournaments with the winner receiving a permanent appellation. In Ultimate Fighting Championship#Controversy and reform, response to criticism from Senator John McCain that saw the loss of its television deal and the banning of the sport in thirty-six states, the UFC increased its cooperation with state athletic commissions and introduced weight classes in 1997, starting with UFC 12, and began introducing weight-specific titles. The original codification for weight classes introduced only two divisions: Heavyweight (MMA), heavyweight, which grouped together all competitors above , and Lightweight (MMA), lightweight, which encompassed all competi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Bellator MMA Champions
Bellator MMA (formerly known as "Bellator Fighting Championships") was an American mixed martial arts promotion, and the following is a history of its champions in each weight class. At the time of its inception in 2008, CEO Bjorn Rebney founded Bellator Fighting Championships as a tournament based organization. The inaugural champion for each weight class was determined by the winner of an eight-man tournament. All subsequent title challengers were required to first win an eight-man tournament in a specific weight class in order to earn the right to challenge that division's reigning champion. Dethroned champions were required to re-enter the tournaments in order to attempt to regain their title. Under Bjorn Rebney's sole leadership, Bellator MMA would strictly adhere to these rules during the first four years of its operation. The first changes to this format would begin to appear not long after Viacom (2005–2019), Viacom, Inc. purchased a controlling stake in the organization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellator MMA
Bellator MMA (formerly Bellator Fighting Championships) was an American mixed martial arts promotion (entertainment), promotion founded in 2008 by Bjorn Rebney and operated until 2025. The promotion takes its name from ''wikt:bellator, bellātor'', the Latin word for "warrior". Bellator's first event was in 2009, and the promotion held List of Bellator MMA events, 313 "numbered" events. At one point, Bellator was considered the second largest MMA promotion in the United States, and one of the largest combat sports, combat sport promotions in the world. Paramount Global (formerly Viacom (2005–2019), Viacom) purchased majority ownership of Bellator from Rebney in 2011, with Paramount's television networks serving as the promotion's media broadcasters in the United States. On November 20, 2023, after then-broadcast home Showtime (TV network), Showtime announced the discontinuation of its sports division, Bellator MMA was acquired by the Professional Fighters League (PFL). Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Professional Fighters League Champions
Professional Fighters League ("PFL") is an American mixed martial arts promotion company, and the following is a history of its super fights champions in each weight class. This list also includes championship histories for their international partners PFL Europe and PFL MENA, as well as the championship histories for their predecessor World Series of Fighting ("WSOF") and its international partners WSOF: Canada and WSOF Global. PFL Men's World Super Fights Championship History Super Fights World Heavyweight Championship ''206 to 265 lbs (93 to 120 kg)'' Women's World Super Fights Championship History Super Fights Women's World Featherweight Championship ''135 to 145 lbs (61 to 66 kg)'' World Championship Tournament winners European Championship Tournament winners MENA Championship Tournament winners WSOF Men's Championship History (defunct) :All WSOF Championships were retired and vacated on June 7, 2018, when the PFL league format began at PFL 1. The PFL cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Fighters League
The Professional Fighters League (PFL) is an American mixed martial arts league founded by venture capitalist Donn Davis in 2017 and launched in 2018, following the acquisition and restructuring of the former World Series of Fighting (WSOF) promotion in 2017 by MMAX Investment Partners. It is the first major MMA organization in which individual athletes compete in a regular season, post-season and championship, rather than on a year-round basis. The PFL currently puts on fights across six weight-divisions: Featherweight (MMA), featherweight, women's lightweight, Lightweight (MMA), lightweight, Welterweight (MMA), welterweight, Light heavyweight (MMA), light heavyweight and Heavyweight (MMA), heavyweight. In addition to this, there is also a ‘Super Fight’ division, which is not defined by weight, but instead is based on the status and name value of individuals who compete in it. The PFL's matches are held inside a 10-sided Mixed martial arts#Fighting area, mixed martial arts cag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Boxing
Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is regulated, sanctioned boxing. Professional boxing bouts are fought for a purse that is divided between the boxers as determined by contract. Most professional fights are supervised by a regulatory authority to guarantee the fighters' safety. Most high-profile bouts obtain the endorsement of a sanctioning body, which awards championship belts, establishes rules, and assigns its own judges and referees. In contrast with amateur boxing, professional bouts are typically much longer and can last up to twelve rounds, though less significant fights can be as short as four rounds. Protective headgear is not permitted, and boxers are generally allowed to take substantial punishment before a fight is halted. Professional boxing has enjoyed a much higher profile than amateur boxing throughout the 20th century and beyond. History Early history In 1891, the National Sporting Club (N.S.C), a private club in London, began to promote professio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
