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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9559641" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="leonardo-santos">Leonardo Santos</keyword> defeated <keyword id="9559640" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="roman-bogatov">Roman Bogatov</keyword> in a <keyword id="992778" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="UFC">UFC</keyword> 251 preliminary bout Saturday.</li><li>But the 40-year-old Brazilian by no means had it easy, as he was seemingly exhausted after throwing more than 103 strikes in the second round.</li><li>At one point midway through the fight, Santos threw 25 unanswered strikes — a fight highlight which you can watch below.</li><li>Perhaps knowing he was behind on the scorecards, and tired himself, Bogatov began fouling in the third round and was eventually deducted two points by the referee.</li></ul><keyword id="9060271" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fight-island">FIGHT ISLAND</keyword> — A 40-year-old mixed martial artist called Leonardo Santos threw 25 strikes in one sequence during his lightweight match against Roman Bogatov at UFC 251 on Saturday, July 11.The sequence included overhand rights which kept smacking the jaw, hook shots, knees for good measure, and a head kick which could be heard from press row at the <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/fight-island" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flash Forum in "Fight Island," Abu Dhabi</a>.There was no let-up from the Brazilian and so all Bogatov could do was turn his back on the man attacking him, before wilting to the floor — a position from which he eventually recovered.In the second round alone, Santos threw 103 strikes in five minutes, landing 75, with 43 of those considered significant.He considerably out-worked Bogatov who landed only 13 significant strikes in return, was slapped in the face by his corner in between rounds, and then started committing flagrant fouls in the third.Though neither fighter appeared high on energy in the final round, there may be little justification for groin shots, as Bogatov sent a kneecap to Santos' cup, leaving him grimacing and needing four of the five recovery minutes granted.Moments later, Bogatov fouled again — an illegal knee.A theme for "Fight Island" had perhaps taken hold as an earlier fighter, Zhalgas Zhumagulov, also felt what it was like to get fouled as he was kicked in the crotch by his opponent Raulian Paiva.Though Paiva escaped punishment, the referee in the Santos vs. Bogatov lightweight match, Marc Goddard, was not as leniant and he deducted two points from Bogatov's score."What are you doing?" Goddard said to the fouling fighter.<div type="image" title="Leonardo Santos and Roman Bogatov" height="750" width="1750" msid="76917204" hostid="261"></div>At the fight's finish, a unanimous decision with scores of 29-26 across the board from the Octagonside judges was awarded to Santos.Watch the 25-strike sequence here:Or here if you're in a different region:With the win, his sixth in a row, Santos advanced his record to 18 wins (three knockouts, nine submissions, five decisions, and one disqualification), against three losses.Earlier in the card, a British fighter called Davey Grant opened "Fight Island," which is a two week and four-event residency inside a quarantined area of Yas Island, with <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-davey-grant-opens-fight-island-with-brutal-ko-ufc-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a left hook knockout so horrific it left his opponent motionless</a> on the canvas.After Grant's highlight-reel KO, Karol Rosa out-pointed Vanessa Melo in a bantamweight bout, Paiva defeated Zhumagulov in a close fight, and Marcin Tybura decisioned Maxim Grishin.Read more:<a href="https://www.insider.com/video-davey-grant-opens-fight-island-with-brutal-ko-ufc-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A British fighter opened 'Fight Island' with a left hook knockout so horrific it left his opponent motionless on the canvas</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/fight-island-trending-higher-than-conor-mcgregor-dana-white-said-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal's 'Fight Island' bout is trending higher than a Conor McGregor fight, Dana White said</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/paige-van-zant-comments-on-ufc-fighter-pay-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paige van Zant said fighting in the UFC is fun, but she could have just worked a regular job and gotten paid the same</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/dana-white-expects-conor-mcgregor-to-fight-ufc-again-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFC boss Dana White expects Conor McGregor to come out of retirement next year</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/kamaru-usman-to-target-georges-st-pierre-in-mega-fight-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamaru Usman to target Georges St. Pierre in UFC mega-fight, should the champion retain his belt against Jorge Masvidal</a>

An MMA veteran threw 25 strikes in one unmissable UFC sequence but his opponent recovered, then reacted by nailing low blows

<ul class="summary-list"><li>An 8-year-old died in Border Patrol custody last week, the second migrant child to die this month.</li><li>The child's mother said Border Patrol agents ignored her repeated requests for medical care.</li></ul>An 8-year-old girl, who last week became the second Latin American child to die in Border Patrol custody this month, "begged for her life" as she struggled to breathe but was "ignored," her mother said. "They killed my daughter, because she was nearly a day and a half without being able to breathe," Mabel Álvarez Benedicks <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/20/eight-year-old-girl-death-border-patrol-custody-texas-mother">told the Guardian</a>. "She cried and begged for her life and they ignored her. They didn't do anything for her."Anadith Tanay Reyes Álvarez was being held with her family in an immigration center in Harlingen, Texas when she died on Wednesday, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/border-patrol-child-custody-death-harlingen-2e2b27eeb3da669ee17241b8b3ee9ee2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Associated Press</a> reported. Alvarez was born with congenital heart disease and sickle cell anemia and had been receiving treatment in Panama, <a href="https://www.telemundo.com/noticias/noticias-telemundo/inmigracion/anadith-reyes-alvarez-nina-migrate-muerta-texas-patrulla-fronteriza-rcna85205" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telemundo</a> reported."Wherever I went with the authorities I always told them what had happened and they never listened to me. Just because I'm an immigrant," Álvarez Benedicks told Telemundo. José Leonardo Navas, a Honduran diplomat based in Texas, told the Associated Press that the girl was from Panama while her parents were from Honduras. Lorna Santos, Álvarez' aunt who lives in New York, told Telemundo that the family was heading to the United States for treatment.There's been an influx of migrants ahead of last week's expiration of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-justice-neil-gorsuch-pandemic-covid-reponse-civil-liberties-2023-5">Title 41</a>, a restrictive immigration policy enacted in 2020 to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The Associated Press reported that as of May 10, just a day before the measure lapsed, there were more than 28,000 people in Border Patrol custody. That's double the number of people in custody from the previous two weeks. The influx has led to further overcrowding in immigration centers and long processing times.Overwhelmed, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mayor-eric-adams-asylum-seekers-upstate-texas-greg-abbott-2023-5">has bused asylum seekers</a> from Texas to northern cities like New York and Chicago.When 8-year-old Álvarez first arrived in the United States on May 7, she tested positive for the flu. Álvarez Benedicks told the Guardian that authorities said her daughter's case of the flu did not require hospitalization despite her health issues.Her daughter died after spending nine days in custody. Álvarez Benedicks said border agents brushed off complaints that her daughter was in pain. Officials also rejected her multiple requests to call an ambulance to take her daughter to the hospital. Álvarez Benedicks told the Guardian that her daughter was only taken to the hospital when her blood pressure dropped on Wednesday. She was pronounced dead when she arrived. "I felt like they didn't believe me," she said.

The mother of an 8-year-old who died in Border Patrol custody says her cries for medical help went ignored: 'They didn't do anything for her'

When you buy through our links, we may earn money from our affiliate partners. <a href="https://www.insider-inc.com/commerce-on-insider-inc/">Learn more.</a><ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://go.web.plus.espn.com/c/196318/531511/9070?u=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.espn.com%2Fufc%2Fppv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener sponsored">UFC 251</a> will stream live through <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-espn-plus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESPN+</a> on Saturday, July 11.</li><li>The prelims start at 8 p.m. ET, and the main card is set to begin at 10 p.m. ET.</li><li>A trio of title fights headline the night's match card — Kamaru Usman will defend the welterweight championship against Jorge Masvidal; and Alexander Volkanovski will face Max Holloway in a featherweight championship rematch.</li><li><a href="https://go.web.plus.espn.com/c/196318/531511/9070?u=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.espn.com%2Fufc%2Fppv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener sponsored">UFC 251</a> is the first in a series of four <keyword id="992778" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="UFC">UFC</keyword> events that UFC president <keyword id="1358348" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dana-White">Dana White</keyword> has dubbed "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ufc-fight-island-card" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fight Island</a>."</li></ul>Welterweight champion Kamaru Usman will face 2019 Fighter of the Year Jorge Masvidal, and Max Holloway will attempt to reclaim the featherweight championship in a rematch against Alexander Volkanovski in the headlining matches of this Saturday's <a href="https://go.web.plus.espn.com/c/196318/531511/9070?u=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.espn.com%2Fufc%2Fppv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener sponsored">UFC 251 pay-per-view event</a>.<keyword id="9374577" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ufc-251">UFC 251</keyword> will be the organization's first event outside the United States since March 14, held on a private resort in Abu Dhabi that UFC president Dana White has dubbed "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ufc-fight-island-card" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fight Island</a>." Securing the private Yas Island allows UFC's international fighters to circumvent travel restrictions implemented by the United States and other countries amid the coronavirus pandemic. A total of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ufc-fight-island-card" target="_blank" rel="noopener">four UFC events</a> are scheduled to take place on Fight Island through July 25.Usman will enter the ring for his second title defense with a 15-fight win streak. Usman has been undefeated in UFC since winning The Ultimate Fighter 21 in 2015; his first title defense ended in a TKO after Usman broke the jaw of top-ranked welterweight Colby Covington at UFC 245.Masvidal was the 2019 Fighter of the Year, recording the fastest knockout in UFC history with a five second victory over Ben Askrin at UFC 239. Masvidal replaced top-ranked welterweight Gilbert Burns in the main event of UFC 251 with just six days notice after Burns tested positive for COVID-19.Masvidal's coach, Mike Brown, has also tested positive for COVID-19, leaving him unable to work Masvidal's corner during UFC 251. Masvidal tested negative on the same day as Brown before flying to Yas Island in Abu Dhabi for Saturday's fight.Fans will not be in attendance for UFC 251 or any of the other events due to the pandemic. UFC has implemented at least 18 different safety precautions for staff, including advanced medical screenings, temperature checks, and social distancing guidelines.Updated on 7/10/2020 by Steven Cohen: Added links to our roundup detailing all of the UFC events scheduled to take place on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ufc-fight-island-card" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fight Island</a>.<h2>Here's the match schedule for UFC 251: Usman vs Masvidal</h2><h3><div type="image" title="UFC 251" height="1334" width="1778" msid="76864245" hostid="261"></div></h3><h3>Early Prelims — 6 p.m. ET, 3 p.m. PT only on <a href="https://welcome.ufcfightpass.com/region/united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFC Fight Pass</a></h3><ul><li>Martin Day versus Davey Grant [Bantamweight]</li><li>Karol Rosa versus Vanessa Melo [Women's Bantamweight]</li><li>Raulian Paiva versus Zhalgas Zhumagulov [Flyweight]</li><li>Marcin Tybura versus Maxim Grishin [Heavyweight]</li></ul><h3>Prelims — 8 p.m. ET, 5 p.m. PT on <a href="https://go.web.plus.espn.com/QLBko?subId3=xid:fr1594237237686hdc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener sponsored">ESPN+</a> and ESPN</h3><ul><li>Volkan Oezdemir versus Jiri Prochazka [Light Heavyweight]</li><li>Elizeu Dos Santos versus Muslim Salikhov [Welterweight]</li><li>Makwan Amirkhani versus Danny Henry [Featherweight]</li><li>Leonardo Santos versus Roman Bogatov [Lightweight]</li></ul><h3>Main Card — 10 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. PT only on <a href="https://go.web.plus.espn.com/c/196318/531511/9070?u=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.espn.com%2Ffight-night" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener sponsored nofollow sponsored">ESPN+ for $64.99</a></h3><ul><li>Amanda Ribas versus Paige Vanzant [Women's Flyweight]</li><li>Jessica Andrade versus Rose Namajunas [Women's Strawweight]</li><li>Peter Yan versus Jose Aldo [Bantamweight Title Match]</li><li>Alexander Volkanovski versus Max Holloway [Featherweight Title Match]</li><li>Kamaru Usman versus Jorge Masvidal [Welterweight Title Match]</li></ul><h2>How to watch <a href="https://go.web.plus.espn.com/QLBko" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">UFC 251</a></h2>UFC 251 is separated into three portions: the early prelims, the prelims, and the main card.The early prelims are only available to <a href="https://welcome.ufcfightpass.com/region/united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFC Fight Pass</a> subscribers, while the prelims will air on <a href="https://go.web.plus.espn.com/c/196318/531511/9070?u=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.espn.com%2Ffight-night" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener sponsored">ESPN+</a> and the ESPN cable channel. The main card, meanwhile, is an ESPN+ exclusive pay-per-view event. This means that you have to subscribe to the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-espn-plus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESPN+ sports-streaming service</a> before you're able to purchase the PPV fight.An ESPN+ membership costs $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year. The <a href="https://go.web.plus.espn.com/QLBko" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener sponsored">UFC 251 PPV event</a> costs $64.99 for ESPN+ subscribers.You can access the ESPN+ app on all major mobile and connected TV devices, including Amazon Fire, Apple, Android, Chromecast, PS4, Xbox One, Roku, Samsung Smart TVs, and more.<h3>Ways to save on the UFC 251 pay-per-view price</h3>If you plan on signing up for ESPN+ to watch UFC 251, you can take advantage of a <a href="https://go.web.plus.espn.com/c/196318/531511/9070?u=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.espn.com%2Ffight-night" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener sponsored">special discounted package</a>.New subscribers can purchase a year-long ESPN+ membership with access to UFC 251 included for a total of $84.98. That's over 25% off the standard price. Following your first year of service, ESPN+ will then renew for the regular annual price of $49.99.

How to watch UFC 251: UFC's 'Fight Island' starts this weekend with 3 championship matches

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="992778" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="UFC">UFC</keyword> boss Dana White appears to be expecting a monstrously successful pay-per-view event on Saturday, July 11 — the first of four events on "<keyword id="9060271" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fight-island">Fight Island</keyword>" this month.</li><li>"Fight Island" is a quarantined area on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi and you can see new photographs of what it is starting to look like, below.</li><li>The UFC welterweight champion <keyword id="8755261" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kamaru-Usman">Kamaru Usman</keyword> fights a late replacement in <keyword id="9540084" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="jorge-masvidal">Jorge Masvidal</keyword> in the main event of UFC 251.</li><li>If fan-favourite Masvidal wins and defends the title against <keyword id="2944528" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Conor-McGregor">Conor McGregor</keyword>, it could be the biggest UFC fight ever, White said.</li></ul>FIGHT ISLAND — The UFC boss Dana White said UFC 251 — which is the company's first "Fight Island" show in Abu Dhabi — is trending in such a way that it is already comparable to the most successful UFC fight of all time.There has been great expectation about what "Fight Island" really is — whether there would be fighting on the sand, coconuts falling from trees, and Dana White sitting on a throne surrounded by tiki torches.Though the UFC has been to Abu Dhabi before, most recently for UFC 242, the "Fight Island" reality is slightly different than prior trips to the United Arab Emirates because of the stringent coronavirus testing in place, together with many other health precautions.There is also a training Octagon which was built in a quarantined area on the beach at Yas Island.<div type="image" title="UFC Fight Island training Octagon" height="500" width="1000" msid="76902192" hostid="261"></div>The "Fight Island" festival concept is one thing, but combined with the quality of Saturday's card at UFC 251, which will take place inside an air-conditioned, closed to the public, and purpose-built venue called the Flash Forum, the pre-fight hype has been taken to another level, according to White."I was just telling those guys, I just left the fighting meeting. This thing is trending off the charts," White told the media Friday.UFC 251 features three title fights and many other compelling athletes taking part, but the show is headlined by the UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman making another defense of his title against a late replacement, Jorge Masvidal.Usman was originally scheduled to fight Gilbert Burns, who is the No.1 contender in the division. However, Burns tested positive for the coronavirus late last week and was prevented from flying to Abu Dhabi.Within a day, though, UFC decision-makers had successfully negotiated a deal with Masvidal to step-in on short notice.After Masvidal tested negative for COVID-19, flew private to the UAE, quarantined, <a href="https://www.insider.com/jorge-masvidal-and-kamaru-usman-weigh-170-for-fight-island-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">and lost 22-pounds to make weight at the 170-pound welterweight limit</a>, the main event was on and White appeared to realize that he might have booked the most commercially successful fight of the year."Masvidal was brilliant to take this fight … when the fight fell out, Masvidal slid into that spot," White said. "This thing is trending higher than a Conor McGregor fight. The only thing this fight is comparable to is Conor vs. Khabib [<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-best-selling-pay-per-view-events-boxing-ufc-wrestling-tv-history-2017-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the best-selling UFC fight ever</a>]."Our UFC store … we've sold more merchandise now than we did in all of 2019. We already beat 2019 with merchandise. This thing is trending as big as I've ever seen in my entire career," White said.<h2>Masvidal vs. McGregor could be the UFC's biggest fight of all time</h2><div type="image" title="The Flash Forum where UFC &quot;Fight Island&quot; fights will take place" height="1335" width="2000" msid="76902193" hostid="261"></div>"'Fight Island's' not happened yet, but going into today, this is [already] one of the most successful events we've ever done, if you look at the numbers and what's going on."It's got to deliver now," he said. "We're doing right now what nobody else can do. Nobody else can pull off, what we're pulling off, and I think a lot of people are fascinated by that."White was then asked, should Masvidal defeat Usman and add the welterweight title to his "Baddest Mother F-----" belt, then could a bout between him and McGregor become the biggest UFC fight ever."Yeah, it could be," White said, before reigning it in. "I don't know, I wanna get through tomorrow."I can't wait for tomorrow. You know how difficult this sport is to run and manage."All the things that happen, the s--- that's happening, COVID-19, if one guy tests positive all hell breaks loose. I want tomorrow in my back-pocket, move on to Wednesday, then to Saturday."Here is the full UFC 251 card on Saturday:<ol><li>Kamaru Usman (C) vs. Jorge Masvidal — welterweight title</li><li>Alexander Volkonovski (C) vs. Max Holloway — featherweight title</li><li>Petr Yan vs. Jose Aldo — bantamweight title</li><li>Jessica Andrade vs. Rose Namajunas — women's strawweight</li><li>Amanda Ribas vs. Paige van Zant — women's flyweight</li><li>Volkan Oezdemir vs. Jiri Prochazka — light heavyweight</li><li>Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos vs. Muslim Salikhov — welterweight</li><li>Makwan Amirkhani vs. Danny Henry — featherweight</li><li>Leonardo Santos vs. Roman Bogatov — lightweight</li><li>Marcin Tybura vs. Maxim Grishin — heavyweight</li><li>Raulian Paiva vs. Zhalgas Zhumagulov — 129-pound catchweight</li><li>Karol Rosa vs. Vanessa Melo — 141-pound catchweight</li><li>Davey Grant vs. Martin Day — bantamweight</li></ol>Read more:<a href="https://www.insider.com/jorge-masvidal-and-kamaru-usman-weigh-170-for-fight-island-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jorge Masvidal came in at 170-pounds for his 'Fight Island' main event, after weighing 192-pounds and eating pizza just days ago</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/jorge-masvidal-is-one-win-from-a-conor-mcgregor-fight-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jorge Masvidal went from streetfighting to 'Fight Island' and is just one win away from immortality and a massive Conor McGregor payday</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/paige-van-zant-comments-on-ufc-fighter-pay-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paige van Zant said fighting in the UFC is fun, but she could have just worked a regular job and gotten paid the same</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/dana-white-expects-conor-mcgregor-to-fight-ufc-again-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFC boss Dana White expects Conor McGregor to come out of retirement next year</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/max-holloway-says-he-hasnt-sparred-for-ufc-title-fight-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">One of the UFC's best fighters says he didn't spar for his 'Fight Island' title fight and did training sessions over Zoom, alone</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/jorge-masvidal-wore-a-donald-trump-mask-to-fight-island-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jorge Masvidal arrived at 'Fight Island' wearing a Donald Trump mask and a bright, Miami pink Versace robe</a>

Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal's 'Fight Island' bout is trending higher than a Conor McGregor fight, Dana White said

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="992778" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="UFC">UFC</keyword> welterweight champion <keyword id="8755261" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kamaru-Usman">Kamaru Usman</keyword> and the challenger at UFC 251 <keyword id="9540084" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="jorge-masvidal">Jorge Masvidal</keyword> both made weight Friday.</li><li>The weigh-in ceremony was held at the Flash Forum on "<keyword id="9060271" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fight-island">Fight Island</keyword>," which is a quarantined area of Yas Island in Abu Dhabi.</li><li>Both fighters had to make weight under extraordinary circumstances as they had to take part in a mandatory quarantine on arrival to the United Arab Emirates.</li><li>Masvidal took the fight on a week's notice, reportedly weighed 192-pounds a week ago, and even ate a bit of pizza during his private flight to the country.</li><li>UFC 251, the first of four "Fight Island" events, begins on Saturday, July 11.</li></ul>FIGHT ISLAND — Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal have weighed-in at the welterweight limit of 170-pounds Friday, ahead of their headlining UFC championship bout at UFC 251 on Saturday.The last week has been one of the most chaotic UFC has had to endure all year, as its original headliner Gilbert Burns — a consistent 170-pounder — was scheduled to challenge the champion Usman but had to withdraw from the contest after testing positive for the coronavirus, last week.Burns was prevented from flying to "Fight Island," a quarantined area of Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, and UFC decision-makers scrambled behind-the-scenes to salvage its main event this weekend.Within hours, they were negotiating with the "Bad Mother F-----" Jorge Masvidal.A day later, <a href="https://www.insider.com/jorge-masvidal-is-one-win-from-a-conor-mcgregor-fight-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an agreement was struck and the Floridian fighter tested negative</a> for the coronavirus so his management made plans to get him to the Middle East.First Round Management, Masvidal's representatives, flew him by private jet to Abu Dhabi. But, en route, they stopped in Rome.Masvidal then posted a photograph on his social media channels saying they stopped so he could get pizza, which isn't something most people would think of doing if they needed to cut a lot of weight for an upcoming competition.Masvidal told <a href="https://twitter.com/espnmma/status/1280859007117221888" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sports Center</a> that the photograph was more of a stunt than a genuine meal."Let's clarify one thing," he said this week. "I have about eight guys on the team when we stop that I had to feed. So I took a bite out the pizza, because … when in Rome, right?"I had to take a bite of the pizza, I wish I could eat the whole damned thing but I didn't. I had a bite … it was amazing."<div type="image" title="Jorge Masvidal" height="1369" width="2000" msid="76899613" hostid="261"></div><a href="https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2020/07/ufc-251-jorge-masvidal-weight-cut-wont-be-hard-says-mike-dolce" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reports suggested earlier in the week</a> that Masvidal weighed 192-pounds when he got the call to replace Burns.If true, he would have to lose 22-pounds in six days, in quarantine in a hotel room to abide the health and safety regulations in place for arrivals in the United Arab Emirates because of the ongoing health crisis worldwide caused by the coronavirus.Regardless, Masvidal did it.Even though he had to strip naked with a towel protecting his bare midsection, he weighed 170-pounds, just like Usman, who, to his credit, would also have had to endure a weight-cut while in quarantine.<h2>Cutting that much weight is 'really not that odd'</h2>Losing 22-pounds in less than a week is fairly regular behaviour when preparing to compete at a certain weight in all combat <keyword id="6356028" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="sports">sports</keyword>, not just mixed martial arts.Speaking to ESPN Radio on Friday, the former two-weight UFC champion and current UFC commentator Dan Cormier had more.He said: "It's not really that odd to have to lose that much weight. The difference is, usually you're preparing yourself for that big weight cut."Cormier competes in the heavyweight division today, and fights a trilogy bout against the UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic at UFC 252 on August 16 at the UFC-owned Apex facility in Las Vegas.But prior to his move to join the big boys of MMA, Cormier competed as a light heavyweight and said that, when he would make his way to the city he was due to fight in, a week or so before the event, he would usually be 20-pounds over the 205-pound limit.When many fighters cut weight, they're not cutting fat, they're manipulating their water and sodium levels.This means they're stepping onto the scales extremely dehydrated. And after the weigh-in ceremony is complete, they rehydrate and put the water weight back on."I don't anticipate it being that much of a problem because he's also going to have 30 hours to recover before he fights in the Octagon," Cormier said. "He'll be fine."Cormier then said his weight on fight night would likely be the same as it was before he had to cut weight.Other weigh-in results from Friday's ceremony ahead of UFC 251 are below (all in pounds):<ul><li>Alexander Volkanovksi (145) vs. Max Holloway (145)</li><li>Peter Yan (135) vs. Jose Aldo (135)</li><li>Jessica Andrade (115) vs. Rose Namajunas (116)</li><li>Amanda Ribas (126) vs. Paige van Zant (126)</li><li>Volkan Oezdemir (205.5) vs. Jiri Prochazka (205)</li><li>Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos (171) vs. Muslim Salikhov (171)</li><li>Makwan Amirkhani (146) vs. Danny Henry (146)</li><li>Leonardo Santos (156) vs. Roman Bogatov (155.5)</li><li>Marcin Tybura (252) vs. Maxim Grishin (223)</li><li>Raulian Paiva (129) vs. Zhalgas Zhumagulov (126)</li><li>Karol Rosa (136) vs. Vanessa Melo (141)</li><li>Martin Day (136) vs. Davey Grant (136)</li></ul>Read more:<a href="https://www.insider.com/jorge-masvidal-is-one-win-from-a-conor-mcgregor-fight-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jorge Masvidal went from streetfighting to 'Fight Island' and is just one win away from immortality and a massive Conor McGregor payday</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/paige-van-zant-comments-on-ufc-fighter-pay-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paige van Zant said fighting in the UFC is fun, but she could have just worked a regular job and gotten paid the same</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/dana-white-expects-conor-mcgregor-to-fight-ufc-again-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFC boss Dana White expects Conor McGregor to come out of retirement next year</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/max-holloway-says-he-hasnt-sparred-for-ufc-title-fight-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">One of the UFC's best fighters says he didn't spar for his 'Fight Island' title fight and did training sessions over Zoom, alone</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/jorge-masvidal-wore-a-donald-trump-mask-to-fight-island-2020-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jorge Masvidal arrived at 'Fight Island' wearing a Donald Trump mask and a bright, Miami pink Versace robe</a>

Jorge Masvidal came in at 170-pounds for his 'Fight Island' main event, after weighing 192-pounds just days ago

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>THE "Lucky Sperm Club", as Warren Buffett likes to call it, is still going strong in the commanding heights of business. On opposite sides of the Atlantic, Ana Botín and Abigail Johnson have recently succeeded their fathers in filling two of the most powerful jobs in finance, as chairman of Banco Santander and chief executive of Fidelity Investments, respectively.
Founding dynasties run, or wield significant clout at, some of the world's largest multinationals, from Walmart to Mars, Samsung to BMW. Half a century ago management experts expected the hereditary principle to fade fast, because of the greater ability of professionally-run public firms to raise capital and attract top talent. In fact, family firms have held their ground and, in recent years have increased their presence among global businesses.
Family-controlled firms now make up 19% of the companies in the Fortune Global 500, which tracks the world's largest firms by sales. That is up from 15% in 2005, according to new research by McKinsey, a consulting firm (which defines such firms as ones whose founders or their families have the biggest stake, of at least 18%, plus the power to appoint the chief executive). Since 2008 sales by these firms have grown by 7% a year, slightly ahead of the 6.2% a year by non-family firms in the list. McKinsey sees these trends continuing for the foreseeable future.
This is largely because of rapid growth in big developing economies where family ownership is the norm among large businesses. Since 2005 the countries that have most increased their share of the Fortune Global 500 are Brazil, China, Russia, South Korea and Taiwan. By 2025, McKinsey forecasts, there will be more than 15,000 companies worldwide with at least $1 billion in annual revenues, of which 37% will be emerging-market family firms. In 2010 there were only 8,000 firms worldwide of this size, and only 16% of them were family-controlled and from emerging markets.
Around 85% of $1 billion-plus businesses in South-East Asia are family-run, around 75% in Latin America, 67% in India and around 65% in the Middle East. China (where the proportion is about 40%) and Sub-Saharan Africa (35%) stand out for their relatively low share of family firms, because in both cases many large firms are state-owned.
However, even in the rich world, big family firms are defying expectations of their demise. The tendency for founders and their heirs to abandon control to faceless institutional shareholders seems to have reached a limit. Of the American firms in the Fortune Global 500, 15% are family ones, only slightly less than in 2005. Among them is the world's largest family firm, Walmart, in which the children of the late founder, Sam Walton (pictured, third from left) are still big shareholders. His eldest son, Rob, is the chairman, another son, Jim, is also on the board and their sister, Alice, also inherited a huge stake. In Europe, 40% of big stockmarket-listed companies still have a controlling family.
Until recently many emerging economies lacked the large, liquid capital markets that rich countries enjoy. So local firms could not rely on them to provide funds for expansion, and depended instead on founding families reinvesting their profits. As such firms' access to domestic and global stock and bond markets continues to improve, it is possible to imagine this situation changing; family owners could seize the opportunity to make a lucrative exit, as happened for a time in the rich world.
However, one reason why the experts' predictions of 50 years ago have proved wrong is that stockmarkets and regulators have been so accommodating in letting founding families retain a fair degree of control despite selling large stakes to outside investors. One way they have done so is through special classes of shares--a trend that has lately featured in a number of technology-firm flotations: who knows, perhaps in future Facebook will be controlled by the Zuckerberg dynasty and Google by the Page and Brin clans.
Investors have accepted such arrangements as the price of getting a slice of these firms' profits, but they rarely like them. Some institutional investors were unhappy, for example, when a deal struck years ago by her father allowed Ms Botín to succeed him in the chair at Santander shortly after his death in September, even though the family owned only 2% of the bank.
Besides being able to access capital markets without losing control, there are at least four other reasons why so many big firms have defied expectations and stayed under family control. One is that they are often the product of a superbly talented entrepreneur like Sam Walton. While such founders are alive and on form, the combination of their abilities and the freedom they have as controlling shareholder to run by their own rules often gives them a strong competitive advantage. Even after they are gone, their heirs can keep up the firm's success, simply by continuing to follow the founder's successful principles.
Whether private or public, family firms also tend to take a longer-term perspective. As Heinrich Liechtenstein of IESE business school in Barcelona observes, this is true both relative to non-family-controlled public companies, which tend to be obsessed with meeting the demands of investors to maximise short-term profits, and companies owned by private-equity firms, which although able to take a longer view than public firms must still cater to investors who want to sell up for a juicy profit within a few years.
Family firms are also less likely to load up on debt. An obvious exception, and an illustration of why most family capitalists fear debt, is the recent collapse of Espírito Santo. Massive debts turned the family-owned Portuguese financial conglomerate into one of Europe's largest corporate failures, ending in a state bail-out of the bank at the group's core. A reluctance to borrow may limit growth in good times, but it can make family firms more resilient when the going is tough.
They also tend to have better labour relations, according to studies by Holger Mueler and Thomas Philippon of New York University's Stern business school. This may be because workers are readier to believe promises that they will be rewarded for delivering in the long run, if such pledges are made by founding families rather than outsider bosses who may be gone in a few years. And in situations where businesses have to push through efficiency improvements, family owners may be more willing to act firmly when dealing with labour unions, because of their significant stake in the business, than salaried outsider bosses, the studies suggest. These are advantages especially in countries with generally hostile relations between workers and management, say the two economists.
Overall, those family firms that get big tend to have a superior corporate culture to their non-family peers, reckons Heinz-Peter Elstrodt of McKinsey. The firm has applied its index of "organisational health" to 114 family firms and around 1,200 other large companies. Family firms scored significantly higher on their culture, worker motivation and leadership, though they lagged slightly on innovation and being too internally focused.
The presence of a founding family seems to be good for a business's image. In a recent survey in 12 big economies by Edelman, a (family-run) PR firm, 73% of people said they trusted family-owned companies, compared with 64% who trusted publicly-traded companies in general, and 61% for both private-equity-owned and state-owned firms. This is no doubt why S.C. Johnson, a household-products maker, has as its slogan, "A Family Company".
There is evidence of a positive "family effect" on financial performance, according to a new study by Cristina Cruz Serrano and Laura Nuñez Letamendia of IE business school in Madrid. They calculated that EUR1,000 invested in 2001 in a portfolio of publicly traded family firms in Europe, weighted by market capitalisation, would have generated EUR3,533 by the end of the decade, compared with EUR2,241 from a portfolio of non-family firms. The difference is equivalent to five percentage points of extra return per year.
All this may be why, for all his professed disapproval of the Lucky Sperm Club, Mr Buffett wants his son, Howard (pictured, left, with his son, Howard Warren Buffett, an academic) to succeed him as chairman, and guardian of the firm's culture. The elder Mr Buffett is such a big fan of family firms that he likes to buy them: in October he bought Van Tuyl Group, America's largest family-owned car dealership chain. As with LVMH and Kering, two family-run French luxury-goods giants that have bought a number of European fashion houses, Mr Buffett's spiel to founding families is: if you want to sell up but want your business's culture preserved, it will be in safe hands with us.
Ultimately, whether big family firms will continue to defy expectations of their demise will depend on their ability to negotiate the rocks on which family businesses have a unique propensity to founder. One is the risk of squabbles among relatives. This summer, for example, a family feud nearly destroyed Market Basket, an American supermarket chain. Workers went on strike when their popular boss, Arthur T. Demoulas, was fired at the behest of his cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas. Disaster was only averted after pleas to the family by the governors of Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
No issue is potentially more toxic than the transition from one generation of a family to the next. In India, an epic feud began in 2002 after Dhirubhai Ambani, the founder of Reliance Industries, died without naming a sole heir. The battle between his sons, Mukesh and Anil, eventually led to the group being split in two.
In some cases even strong and successful firms can implode soon after a generational succession, which is why so many countries have some variation of the saying, "from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations" (clogs to clogs, kimono to kimono). Edelman's survey found that the public's trust in family firms falls once the baton is passed from the founder to the next generation. Alarmingly, a study of 2,400 family firms in 40 countries published last month by PwC, a consulting firm, found that only 16% of them had a "discussed and documented" succession plan in place.
The families that do best are those which understand that their interests and those of their business can diverge, and put in place processes to manage the consequences of these differences, says John Davis of Harvard Business School, the author of several books about family firms.
Some families are adept at training the next generation to work in the family firm. Illycaffé, a coffee-maker now run by a third-generation Illy family member, has a pact setting the rules for when an Illy can go into the business: competence for the job is paramount. Sweden's Wallenberg business empire is run by a fifth generation of the founding family: two cousins, Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg, were groomed from an early age to run the group's industrial and financial sides respectively.
However, sometimes children do not want to join the family business, or turn out not to have inherited the entrepreneurial genes of the founder. It may then be in the best interests of the firm for a professional to run it, rather than a reluctant or incompetent scion, even if the family retains some control. Letting professionals take over can make a lot of sense. Talented managers are more likely to join a firm where there is a chance of getting to the very top, or at least where they do not have to work under a useless heir. Some 40% of the family firms interviewed by PwC said that professionalising their business was among the main challenges they face in the next five years.
Even when they have agreed to let an outside manager run their businesses, families sometimes find it hard to keep their hands away from the wheel. Luxottica, an Italian maker of sunglasses, was well run by a professional chief executive for ten years, but recently lost him, and six weeks later his successor, reportedly following differences of opinion with the founder, Leonardo Del Vecchio, and his wife, Nicoletta Zampillo.
Even when independent outsiders are brought in to serve on a family company's board, they can often fail to make the impact they should, notes Mr Davis. Outsiders often refuse to get involved in managing tensions within the family and assume their job is just to oversee the running of the business, when in reality they may be the last line of defence against a family breakdown destabilising the firm, he says.
In the rich world there is a strong contingent of firms which have demonstrated an ability to get the best out of being both family-controlled and professionally run. In some emerging markets, however, things are not so clear. Many of their big firms are still run by a founder with strong links to those in power, and only time will tell if they have what it takes to survive the passing of either the founder or the regime. However, the positive examples of Tata in India and Samsung in South Korea suggest that it is possible, even in places with a strong tradition of crony capitalism, for world-class, professionally run family firms to emerge.
As big emerging-market firms pass from the founders to their heirs, the challenge will be, as it has been in the rich world, to reconcile the family's needs and desires with the demands of running a successful business. They will need to learn that when it comes to company matters, as Michael Corleone put it in "The Godfather", that great study of a family firm, "It's not personal...it's strictly business."
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