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Paul Battison

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Journalist at @BBCSport covering MMA and other bits. Views mine.

Manchester/Nottingham
Joined March 2009
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@BBCSport
BBC Sport
1 year
From Michael B. Jordan to Muhammad Ali... 🎥🥊 Quickfire questions with Jon Jones ahead of #UFC309! #BBCMMA
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@PaulBattison
Paul Battison
1 year
British flyweight Muhammad Mokaev has re-signed with @bravemmaf following his exit from the UFC. The promotion is set to announce it during this evening's Brave CF 86 show in Bulgaria
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Britain's Muhammad Mokaev re-signs with Bahrain-based promotion Brave CF following his exit from the UFC.
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Coral Barry
1 year
Brendan Loughnane - 35 fights and in his second $1m PFL final👏 Joins fellow Brit Dakota Ditcheva in the finals. Good times. @PaulBattison ✍️ @BBCSport #bbcmma
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Britain's Brendan Loughnane beats Kai Kamaka III by split decision in Washington DC to reach the PFL Finals and the opportunity to fight for $1m (£756, 880).
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BBC Sport Merseyside
1 year
🆕 @PaddyTheBaddy delivered a fine performance as he submitted American lightweight Bobby Green into a first round stoppage in Manchester ✍️ @PaulBattison | #TotalSport 📰 Read more ⤵️
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Coral Barry
1 year
Leon Edwards & his team have taken a meticulous approach for his 5am title defence at #UFC304 @PaulBattison finds out how to prepare an elite athlete to perform at his best at insane hours #bbcmma @BBCSport https://t.co/tGy9EjEcUy
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Britain's Leon Edwards has spent 10 weeks altering his body clock to prepare for the defence of his welterweight title against Belal Muhammad at UFC 304.
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Coral Barry
2 years
Ronda Rousey sits down with @BBCSport to talk through her career as she releases a new book🤜 Says she suffered from concussion throughout her fighting career #bbcmma @PaulBattison✍️ @rasheedspeede🎥
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Ronda Rousey reveals she hid "concussions and neurological injuries" during her trailblazing run as UFC bantamweight champion.
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Coral Barry
2 years
In Belfast tonight to see if Karl Moore can become Ireland's first world champ in Bellator 🇮🇪 'I was making about €200 a week. Earning just enough to get diesel to fill my car & buy myself food. I had no options.' 🖊️@PaulBattison https://t.co/ZDwQ58HMwR
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Karl Moore faces Corey Anderson at Bellator Belfast for the light-heavyweight title on Saturday while just three years ago, he was sleeping on a mattress at his gym after being released by the...
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Coral Barry
2 years
There’s an art to selling a fight. It’s really difficult to get the public invested in you. Selling controversy is something else. It’s not difficult to say awful, degrading things. @PaulBattison from Las Vegas #UFC296 https://t.co/JSC6AXULoJ
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Colby Covington's crass comment about Leon Edwards' late father cast a shadow over UFC 296 and raised questions over trash talking in MMA.
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Paul Battison
2 years
And still. Report from Las Vegas on Leon Edwards' win over Colby Covington to retain his welterweight title https://t.co/idobvDtTwO #UFC296
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Leon Edwards retains his welterweight title, cruising to victory over Colby Covington at UFC 296 in Las Vegas.
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Paul Battison
2 years
Leon Edwards and Colby Covington both make weight for their welterweight title fight at #UFC296 Paddy Pimblett and Tony Ferguson also on weight for their lightweight bout
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Coral Barry
2 years
.@PaulBattison was already pursuing this story before the repulsive comment made at #UFC296 Incredibly vile thing to say, and for what? All in the pursuit of entertainment and sales?
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Colby Covington says he "turns himself to 11" when trying to generate interest, but his fight week with Leon Edwards has been marred by a repulsive comment.
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Paul Battison
2 years
Spoke to Leon the other week on a freezing morning in Birmingham. He was chill, confident and sees the funny side to Colby Covington https://t.co/6mWKPlsQ3z #ufc296
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Champion Leon Edwards says he and Colby Covington are "total opposites" with the pair set to meet for the welterweight title at UFC 296 in Las Vegas on Saturday.
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Coral Barry
2 years
Winning a $1m is a big deal to most people and even more to a fighter like Patchy Mix who used to sell lunch at school & agree to ‘arranged fights’ so he could get eggs & milk for his family #Bellator301 🖊️ @PaulBattison
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Patchy Mix details his uphill journey to winning $1m before facing Sergio Pettis for the undisputed bantamweight title at Bellator 301 on Friday.
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Coral Barry
2 years
Tom Aspinall reveals he was injured going into #UFC295 & and you can hear from his dad and coach Andy, who was by his side last night. "I finished work because I wanted to be with my kids. I'm happy that they want to be with me, and I'm proud of him."
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Tom Aspinall's gamble of facing Sergei Pavlovich on short notice pays off in spectacular fashion as the Briton wins the UFC interim heavyweight title.
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Coral Barry
2 years
Tom Aspinall attempts to pull off a Michael Bisping (of sorts) when he fights for the interim heavyweight title at #UFC295 @PaulBattison caught up with him before he fly out to New York last week 👇 https://t.co/xx41lzsgwD
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Britain's Tom Aspinall will face Sergei Pavlovich on 17 days' notice for the interim heavyweight title at UFC 295 in New York on Saturday.
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Coral Barry
2 years
'Sometimes my auntie will be secretly recording my mum & some of the movements she does, she's on top of the sofa going crazy' Fabian Edwards talks about the influence of his mum & his journey towards a world title tilt on Sat #Bellator299 @PaulBattison🖊️ https://t.co/Id5Qkvvasi
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Fabian Edwards faces Johnny Eblen for the middleweight title at Bellator 299 in Dublin on Saturday.
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