This is an article version of the CBS Sports HQ AM Newsletter, the ultimate guide to every day in sports. The featherweight championship bout between Alexander Volkanovski and Movsar Evloev was the main event at UFC 333 and was an excellent fight in its own right with Volkanovski retaining his title via second-round TKO. But the most entertaining bout of the night came in the prelims when Petr Yan defended his bantamweight championship against Merab Dvashvili.
Yan won by unanimous decision in a thriller our Brent Brookhouse said might go down as the Fight of the Year. The win was one that only Yan could have pulled off, said Brian Campbell. Earlier in the night, Aaron Pico scored a brutal knockout of Losene Keita and called out ranked fighters for avoiding him, and Lone'er Kavanagh bounced back from a loss with a knockout of Ramazan Temirov.
In the wake of these results, our experts would like to see the following fights scheduled, among others: And while we're looking ahead, the UFC 336 card is taking shape. The promotion announced a championship doubleheader as its co-main event for the Jan. 30 event in Toronto, which will be the first numbered event of 2027. Notably absent from the interim welterweight title fight is Islam Makhachev, and Dana White explained why he picked Carlos Prates and Michael Morales over him.
The NBA season is not even a week old, yet injuries have already begun to impact the championship hunt. Multiple big-name players came out of the weekend with health concerns. None are more devastating than the gruesome leg injury Jalen Williams sustained Sunday night.
The Thunder star appears destined to miss the remainder of the season after he was taken off the court on a stretcher. Our Jack Maloney explained how significant this could be to Oklahoma City as it aims to lift a trophy at season's end. The Magic are also the victims of brutal injury luck.
Just minutes after Williams' awful leg issue occurred, Jalen Suggs went down with a scary-looking injury of his own as his knee buckled from underneath him on a layup. That followed Paolo Banchero's high-ankle sprain, which made us wonder whether Orlando is cursed. And on Friday, reigning NBA Rookie of the Year Cooper Flagg sprained his shoulder when he found himself on the receiving end of a flagrant foul.
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