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Jake Paul has officially ‘accepted’ a mixed martial arts fight with Nate Diaz, per the YouTube star’s promotional company poker
Paul beat UFC icon Diaz in a poker boxing match in August, knocking down and outpointing his fellow American poker
Paul, 26, has since announced that his next poker boxing match will take place in December, but Diaz, 38, has been ruled out as the opponent poker
The pair could, however, fight one another in MMA, according to Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) poker
“For the record: Jake Paul will not be poker boxing Nate Diaz again,” MVP tweeted on Monday (23 October) poker
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Jake Paul has accepted the offer poker
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Paul is yet to make his MMA debut but has long eyed Diaz as a potential opponent poker
Diaz last fought in MMA in September 2022, submitting Tony Ferguson before leaving the UFC poker
His bout with Paul marked his poker boxing debut, while Paul is 7-1 as a professional boxer poker
The 26-year-old holds wins over ex-UFC stars Anderson Silva, Tyron Woodley and Ben Askren poker
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As any Paris shop owner will tell you, an alluring storefront can be everything poker
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And so the Rugby World Cup reaches its day of greatest shop window prominence, hoping to dazzle with a Stade de France showpiece contest poker between two great rivals poker
On Saturday, South Africa and New Zealand will battle to lift the Webb Ellis Cup for a record fourth time, the etcher at the ready though unlikely to be able to start their work too soon with two such evenly-matched, if radically different, sides poker
You could hardly have a more enticing game to sell the sport poker
The eyes of the world will be watching; this encounter has every chance of enchanting them poker
“This is what World Cup finals are about,” Ian Foster, New Zealand’s head coach, said this week poker
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We all remember the last final poker between us [in 1995], which was an epic, and hopefully this one will be the same poker
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It’s a special occasion, isn’t it?”A match of such magnitude and potential magnificence comes at the end of a momentous week for rugby union poker
On Tuesday, World Rugby’s council narrowly gave the go-ahead to grand plans that will reshape international men’s rugby union poker
From 2026, gone, largely, will be traditional tours, replaced by a two-tiered structure that will provide consistent, meaningful and contextualised rugby for the world’s top 24 nations poker
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There is a need for more equal sharing of wealth and greater support for emergent unions, though there are at least steps in the right direction even amidst a lack of clarity poker
Certainly, the implementation of a global calendar should aid in reducing the infighting that has so often held this sport back poker
The buoyancy of the rugby television rights market remains to be seen but there is hope at World Rugby, the Six Nations and Sanzaar that the new competition - yet to be officially titled but tagged the “Nations Championship” - will prove an attractive proposition for broadcasters at a time where the sport needs to swell revenue poker
It can be forgotten that rugby is young professionally, its economy a frontier market poker
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Hosts France were knocked out after an epic quarter-final against South Africa (Adam Davy/PA) (PA Wire)“This is a quantum leap forward for the game,” said Bill Beaumont, World Rugby’s chairman, this week poker
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”The rugby landscape come the next men’s tournament in Australia in four years’ time could look very different poker
The World Cup itself, meanwhile, is similarly evolving, an expansion to 24 teams and six pools necessitating a new model, with World Rugby considering basing the four sides in each group around a single city poker
This is the last time that the host nation will take responsibility for the organisation of the tournament, with the sport’s governing body assuming greater control poker
It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the next four years could also see the introduction of a reduced tackle height law to the professional game, with it already in place in recreational rugby in many parts of the world poker
But there are also concerns over the financial sustainability of the sport, at club level particularly poker
All of England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand have concerns over what the future holds for their domestic games – this may be a great final, and may have been a great tournament, but it would be wrong to ignore the broader ill health of the sport poker
Brodie Retallick, Samuel Whitelock and Luke Jacobson of New Zealand prepare for a scrum (Getty Images)If this is the end of an era, there could be no more fitting way to finish poker
South Africa and New Zealand have forged a defining rivalry, three World Cup crowns apiece making Saturday’s encounter a chase for number four and the outright men’s record poker
Their last meeting in a final, that historic day in 1995, ushered in rugby union’s professional age; this game might be the start of another epoch poker
If there is a slight disappointment that neither Ireland nor, particularly, France did not make it here given the manner in which they seemed to be building to a quadrennial crescendo, these are the two great men’s rugby sides, whose players and fans embody contrasting but colourful cultures poker
On the pitch, it should be spectacular, too poker
These are two teams that represent the stylistic diversity that so often proves rugby’s strength poker
To describe it simply as South Africa’s forward might against the All Blacks’ brilliant backs would be to diminish the rounded nature of two fine sides, but there is no doubt that these great rivals approach the game from alternative perspectives poker
Kurt-Lee Arendse passes the ball watched by Cheslin Kolbe (Getty Images)And, as with any showpiece like this, the storylines are innumerable poker
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For South Africa, Rassie Erasmus and Jacques Nienaber, considering every detail like Rodin’s Thinker, could become the most decorated pair in tournament history if they repeat their 2019 victory poker
For Ian Foster in the opposite coaching box, meanwhile, this triumph would be testament to the tenacity and toughness of a man who so nearly lost his job last year poker
Who would begrudge Sam Whitelock, the old warhorse of the All Blacks pack, going out on his shield with a third World Cup winners’ medal? Or what about Siya Kolisi, the boy from a township on the Eastern Cape who became the defining figure of a golden rugby generation, joining Richie McCaw as the only captains to lift the Webb Ellis Cup twice? This could be one of the great rugby days poker
"I don’t think it’s stuff that you can dream about because it doesn’t happen often,” said Kolisi ahead of the final poker
“I don’t think it will happen in our lifetime again to have two teams like this poker
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I don’t think as a player it will ever get any bigger poker
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