Lydia Ko Mixtape 2019: In Defence Of Lydia Ko
Lydia Ko's 2019 LPGA Tour campaign is all wrapped up, bringing to a close another rugged year of golf for the kiwi legend.
Lydia Ko's 2019 LPGA Tour campaign is all wrapped up, bringing to a close another rugged year of golf for the kiwi legend.
After making an appearance at UFC 244 to watch a couple a bad motherfuckers scrap and keep an eye on his division, Israel Adesanya embarked on a gauntlet of interviews in United States of America.
For many around Aotearoa, Israel Adesanya is the UFC middleweight champion of the whole wide world but without much knowledge of what Adesanya is actually up to inside the octagon.
When kiwis are on the global sporting stage, representing the greatest sporting nation in the world, all we can ask as folks from Aotearoa is for athletes to go hundies in being their best kiwi selves.
UFC 243 really is a win-win for #KiwiUFC fans and as a fan from Aotearoa, you should feel glorious about a decision to support either Israel Adesanya or Robert Whittaker.
UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker will defend his belt against Israel Adesanya in Melbourne on Sunday and while the simple view is to label this as Australia vs Aotearoa, Whittaker's connection to Aotearoa can't be under-stated.
There is no shortage of #KiwiUFC intrigue for UFC 243 in Melbourne and lightweight Dan Hooker may be the funkiest kiwi fighter on this card.
Yesterday the focus was put on Brad Ridell, who will make his UFC debut this weekend at UFC 243. Today, the focus goes in on Luke Jumeau, who is from Hamliton and is the only fighter from Aotearoa who is not fighting out of City Kickboxing in Auckland.
Fight week means a UFC 243 #KiwiUFC takeover, which will feature all sorts of content surrounding our #KiwiUFC fighters.
A win at UFC Fight Night Shenzhen for Kai Kara France, a few weeks after Dan Hooker's classy finish at Fight Night San Antonio has set the scene for the epic UFC 243 in Melbourne.
Business as usual for Ricardo Christie and Paige Hareb on the World Surf League tour as they both made it through the early stages of Corona Open J-Bay, while unable to kick on to greater heights.
New continent, same grind for Ricardo Christie and Paige Hareb as our #KiwiWSL surfers again as they couldn't crack uncharted territory at the Oi Rio Pro in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
A string of tough results has been snapped by Lydia Ko as she registered a tied-10th at the Women's PGA Championship as the standard dose of ups and downs rolls on.
Solid consistency is always useful in sports and that's exactly what we are getting on the World Surf League tour with Ricardo Christie and Paige Hareb.
Aotearoa's Ricardo Christie and Paige Hareb are still lingering near the bottom of their respective World Surfing League rankings after solid outings in Bali.
Having always thought that Lydia Ko would find some sort of adversity this year while she was racking up top-20 finishes on the LPGA Tour, I didn't expect three consecutive finishes worse than 40th.
Aotearoa's Paige Hareb and Ricardo Christie are battling away in the World Surf League and after two events in Australia, WSL now moves to Bali, Indonesia this weekend.
April was a tough month for Lydia Ko on the LPGA Tour as the kiwi golfer played two tournament, for two finishes in the 40's.
The scene has been set for an epic moment for combat sports in Aotearoa and Australia with an almighty #KiwiUFC fight between Robert Whittaker and Israel Adesanya all but locked in.
To say that Mixed Martial Arts in Aotearoa would never be the same after Israel Adesanya'a win over Kelvin Gastelum doesn't quite do justice to the monumental shift that has taken place; combat sports in Aotearoa will never be the same.