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Connecting Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer) and Donald Cerrone



Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer) Brazilian footballer
Ronaldo co-owns the sports marketing company 9INE, with his friend, mixed martial artist Anderson Silva, one of his clients.

Anderson Silva Brazilian mixed martial artist
Silva was expected to face Kelvin Gastelum on 3 June 2017, at UFC 212.

Kelvin Gastelum American mixed martial artist
Gastelum was expected to face Donald Cerrone at UFC 205 but, on the day of the weigh-ins, Gastelum did not make an attempt to formally make the 171 lbs limit and the bout was scrapped.


Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer) Brazilian footballer
I love Lionel Messi|[Lionel] Messi, I played many times with Cristiano [Ronaldo] and I adore him, Neymar is outstanding, Ronaldinho was exceptional—but if you put all of them together, you might get what Ronaldo was that season."
The other Ronaldo and Messi were brilliant teenagers but had nothing like the same impact at that age.

Cristiano Ronaldo
With earnings of €720 million (£615 million) from 2010 to 2019, Ronaldo was ranked second in ''Forbes'' list of The Highest-Paid Athletes Of The Decade, with only boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. earning more. '' Forbes'' twice ranked Ronaldo first on its list of the world's highest-paid football players; his combined income from salaries, bonuses and endorsements was $73 million in 2013–14 and $79 million in 2014–15.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. American boxer and boxing promoter
Around May 2016, another rumor started that a crossover fight between Mayweather and MMA star Conor McGregor was in the works.
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Conor McGregor
After over a year away from the Octagon, McGregor faced Donald Cerrone in a welterweight bout on 18 January 2020 at UFC 246.
During the buildup to his bout against Donald Cerrone and the rematch against Dustin Poirier, McGregor was respectful towards his opponents and refrained from trash talking.


Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer) Brazilian footballer
Naming Ronaldo as an inspiration, Wayne Rooney stated, "as an out-and-out forward he was probably the best." The outstanding influence for a generation of strikers, from Karim Benzema to Sergio Agüero, with Romelu Lukaku stating "he changed the dimension of a striker" and could "dribble like a winger, run like a sprinter", Zlatan added, "nobody influenced football and the players who emerged as much as Ronaldo".

Wayne Rooney
Rooney, originally a boxer, still pursues the sport recreationally for stress relief. A friend of boxer Ricky Hatton, in 2007 he carried one of Hatton's belts into the ring in his world light-welterweight title fight against José Luis Castillo in Las Vegas.

Ricky Hatton English former professional boxer
Hatton is also the trainer of Tommy Fury, the younger brother of Tyson Fury, and was in the corner of Tyson for his fight against Deontay Wilder in 2018.

Tyson Fury British boxer (born 1988)
In November 2019, he had a training session with Darren Till, who said there is a 70% chance that Fury will compete in MMA.

Darren Till British mixed martial arts fighter
Till faced Donald Cerrone on 21 October 2017 at UFC Fight Night 118.
**Performance of the Night (One time) vs. Donald Cerrone


Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer) Brazilian footballer
He was named in the FIFA 100 list of the greatest living players compiled in 2004 by Pelé also and was inducted into the Brazilian Football Museum Hall of Fame, Italian Football Hall of Fame, Inter Milan Hall of Fame and Real Madrid Hall of Fame.
He scored twice in a 3–1 win against local rivals Santos in the first leg of the state championship final, with Santos idol Pelé looking on from the stands.
In the final against Germany in Yokohama, Japan, Ronaldo scored twice in Brazil's 2–0 win and tied Pelé's Brazilian record of 12 career World Cup goals.

With 62 goals for Brazil Ronaldo retired from international football as the second-highest goalscorer for his country, behind only Pelé (Neymar has since moved into second place, with Ronaldo the third-highest scorer as of October 2020).
For my generation he was what Maradona or Pelé were for the previous ones. He was unmarkable." Sid Lowe compared Ronaldo's ability to take on a number of opponents on a single run to what rugby player Jonah Lomu was doing in the same era.
A practicing Catholic, Ronaldo donated a signed football to Pope Francis. Accompanied with a signed Brazil jersey from Pelé, it is located in one of the Vatican Museums.
In 2017 Ronaldo was added as an icon to the Ultimate Team in EA Sports' ''FIFA'' video game '' FIFA 18'', receiving a 95 rating along with Brazilian compatriot Pelé, Argentine playmaker Diego Maradona, former Russian goalkeeper Lev Yashin and former French star Thierry Henry.

Pelé Brazilian footballer (born 1940)
Pelé starred alongside other footballers of the 1960s and 1970s, with actors Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone.

Sylvester Stallone
Joining him in the film were fellow action stars Jason Statham, Jet Li, and Dolph Lundgren, as well as Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke, Randy Couture, Eric Roberts, and Stone Cold Steve Austin, and cameos by fellow '80s action icons Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Randy Couture American Greco-Roman wrestler and mixed martial artist
He is the first of seven fighters to hold two UFC championship titles in two different divisions (along with B.J. Penn, Conor McGregor, Georges St-Pierre, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes and Henry Cejudo).

Georges St-Pierre Canadian mixed martial arts fighter
St-Pierre began training with Rashad Evans, Nathan Marquardt, Keith Jardine, Donald Cerrone and other mixed martial arts fighters at Greg Jackson's Submission Fighting Gaidojutsu school in New Mexico.
Some of Jackson's students accompanied St-Pierre to Montreal to help prepare him for his fight at UFC 94 against B.J. Penn at the Tristar Gym, including Keith Jardine, Nathan Marquardt, Donald Cerrone, and Rashad Evans.





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