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ESPN Staff Writer- Brett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. He was also a producer on the 30 for 30 film: "Chuck and Tito," which looked back at the careers and rivalry of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. He lives in Las Vegas, and is an avid, below-average golfer in his spare time.
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ESPN Staff Writer- Marc Raimondi's first year covering the Falcons was 2024, but it wasn't his first year at ESPN. He joined the company in 2019 and was a top combat sports reporter. He also covered professional wrestling and wrote the book "Say Hello to the Bad Guys: How Pro Wrestling's New World Order Changed America," which was published by Simon & Schuster in 2025. Raimondi also worked for the New York Post and Newsday, beginning in 2009, covering high school and college sports, plus the NFL, NFL, MLB and NHL.
The most popular fighter in UFC history, Conor McGregor, will meet Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone -- the winningest fighter in UFC history -- in the main event of UFC 246 on Saturday in Las Vegas.
As the UFC's first pay-per-view headliner of the new decade, this fight promises to have an enormous impact on the rest of the year. Will McGregor, 31, regain the form that carried him to two UFC championships in 2015 and 2016? Or will Cerrone, 36, pick up the biggest victory of his storied career?
ESPN asked some of the top athletes and trainers in the sport for their predictions.
