News about Thiago Santos

Rob Wilkinson, the Australian MMA champion, got off to a winning start in the PFL season on Sunday with a decisive victory over tough Brazilian Thiago Santos in Las Vegas. Wilkinson, the light heavyweight champion in the Professional Fighters League with four knockouts in 2022, took a different tactic against Santos and fought for the majority of the first round, despite controlling the game. Santos, a former UFC champion and someone who arguably had Jon Jones' advantage over him, had a chance to recover some money in the second round, but the skillful Tasmanian was unable to help.

Rob Wilkinson, who made history by winning the first Australian PFL World Championships, has spoken out about his 2023 plans and his ambition to be the best light heavyweight on the planet. Wilkinson, 31, had a brief time in the UFC as a middleweight before being defeated by future champion Israel Adesanya in 2018. Since that time, the Tasmanian has migrated to America to train and remodeled himself as a light heavyweight, and the results speak for themselves.

Johnny Walker, the light heavyweight, has admitted that his asthma was due to his allergies to cannabis-derived health products, which led to his suffering from schizophrenia. Walker explained that using CBD products left him suffering from a variety of mental health problems and reduced his quality of life ahead of his return to action against Ion Cutelaba on Saturday. Walker said in an interview with MMAFighting that he had begun using CBD to reduce the stress of competing in the Octagon, but that it would take years for him to connect the products to his newfound health problems.

It is a measure of how far MMA has come that no current champion in any of the male divisions has existed in the United States. The UFC has always strived to get their tentacles out across the globe, and now warriors from Europe, Africa, and Oceania are basing on the sun. The grip has now tightened, with only Aljamen Sterling, Julianna Pena, and Carla Esparza flying the banner at the top of their respective weight classes, where the stars and stripes once had a stranglehold.