Topic: MMA Info and Predictions - Bellator, KSW, PFL, ONE... - page 29. (Read 14030 times)

Speaking about PFL - current UFC Heavyweight Francis Ngannou has posted a picture in Instagram with his family, and his mother was wearing a PFL t-shirt I wonder where did she get this t-shirt from.
The internet has already filled with rumours, that Ngannous is considering to sign a contract with PFL. But I will remind that, as long as a fighter have a contract with UFC, other promotions isnt allowed to make him offers, until he becomes a free agent. If UFC find out that Ngannou and PFL are planning something together, then would sue both for millions.

the first ksw event of 2023 will take place on january 21 at the netto arena in szczecin (poland). this event will feature a rematch of a ksw classic in the main event, where former polish middleweight champion Michal Materla (31-9) will once again face the american Kendall Grove (24-18)
all other cage duels you can see in the graphic below

Things are getting more serious in MMA outside UFC, as AJ McKee signed new multi-fight deal with Bellator to compete in lightweight category grand prix.
McKee has amazing record in Bellator and his overall MMA record is 20-1, he follows saying that winning combination should not be changed.
PFL signed several new fighters with most known being Jake Paul, that means we should have much more interesting MMA events this year.

As long as Jake Paul is successful in the boxing ring he should stay in boxing and just level up and fight fighters that many will think is capable of beating him, his latest win again Silva did not indicate that he already level up, Silva is already old and sad to say past his prime and this is boxing, not MMA where he established his name, a fight with Nate Diaz in MMA will certainly attract bettors and PPV because Nate has full of tricks in MMA that Paul will find surprising, it's possible that the match will end in submission in favor of Nate.

To those big fans of ONE Championship. 18-year-old prospect Victoria Lee 3-0, the sister of reigning champions Angela Lee and Christian Lee last December 26. I cannot see any news about the cause of her death but a source mentioned she shot herself in the head. And that there was a heated argument with her dad as Victoria wanted to go to college and which means taking a pause on her blossoming MMA career. Rest in peace Victoria.

Rising MMA star Victoria Lee dies at 18

No Jake Paul haven't lose any single fight in boxing, actually he's still an undefeated boxer.

Well it's funny to see Paul is looking to grow his name on MMA career, although he's still cherry pick his opponent lol. In boxing he cherry picked a fighter without any boxing skills and old. In MMA he choose Nate Diaz which one who suffer many losses and already old too.

If it's listed on bookie, I wouldn't be surprised if Paul will become favorite and he we will win the fight.

It really makes sense that if Jake Paul has a wrestling background in his high school days then that can be a big advantage for him and I think this is a good chance for him to redeem himself from his past losses with boxing because maybe he is good at MMA than with Boxing and clearly he is not like Jake Paul he doesn't have the talent and skill to be that like Jake, if he is certainly good at wrestling then maybe he can have a comeback with the MMA,


This is great we all know Nate Diaz doesn't want a crap fixed match and we can surely see how legit this match will be because this is Nate Diaz, he doesn't really want drama if this is Nate Diaz then it will be hard to bribe him in fixing the fight with Jake Paul, and yeah it could be the distance for this fight, and Nate Diaz could also play with Jake Paul and instead of finishing the fight early, this could be a Nate Diaz show,

If Nate really signs that fighting contract with Jake, I think it is very predictable what Nate is going to do. He will fight in his usual relaxed manner. And instead of dealing maximum damage with few punches, he will throw dozens middle powered ones, just to show how dominant he is. I even think that instead of real punches, he will throw slaps, or prefer not to finish Jake. If in Jakes last fight I doubted that it will go full distance (I thought that Silva would KO him), then a fight (MMA) with Nate would go full distance. Just because Nate is going to be chilled, relaxed, stoned during the fight

Ah...  Then that makes his transition to MMA a lot easier.  On top of my head UFC fighters Cody Durden and Jonathan Pearce both have high school wrestling backgrounds and they've been holding their own.  Durden is so so but Jonathan Pearce could be a top 5 guy sooner or later.

All in all, I'm excited for Jake Paul's first MMA match.  I'll take a shot on whoever is the underdog.    If it's Jake Paul, books prolly doesn't rate his wrestling background high which could be a mistake and if it's the other guy then books could be overestimating Jake Paul's chances if that makes any sense.  Lol.  There's just a lot of unknowns.

His comments in 2014 were really true and back then that was really sincere in my opinion but surely enough Dana White is just human that could always do wrongful things and there might be something that happen between the two that we may never know we never see the whole picture, maybe this slap had cause something to make him feel like that uncle Dana White really tends to say such things then forgets about them but let's just wait and see what may happen to the UFC,


Yup! the whole picture will note whole if we are just taking one side of the coin there might be something that triggered Dana White to do it, and this could be just a misunderstanding but I do agree with the fact that he hurt a woman and that would not change a thing, but let's just be fair on both side by knowing what really happens with the altercation,


I think he is thinking ways in the sense where he is good at, while his brother Jake Paul is really decent in boxing and this is proven in his previous fights but I think this is a hand-picked fight that he can smash, Logan Paul in the other hand is not really decent in boxing he can surely box, but maybe he is not picking his fight, he is just going through things that can really make him money, but if he is a wrestler in the 1st place then he can surely get that technique and added his striking capabilities, maybe he can fight in MMA,

To be fair, his wife started the physical altercation and he returned that back and on top of that both were drunk. Everyone can talk a big talk if they are not in the situation and Dana White never expected to be in that situation when he was making these big statements and now he is under fire but he will sort the situation and his wife already made a statement favoring him.


Jake Paul has an amateur wrestling background and then he made his transition to boxing, so he has the basics regarding take down defense unlike pure strikers who added wrestling at a later part of their career.

Before Anderson Silva, Nate Diaz might have considered taking that fight.  But after Anderson Silva, no...  Nate Diaz ain't signing on the dotted line.  Jake Paul is physically bigger and stronger too.  I don't think he could go down to 170, Nate Diaz's current ideal fighting weight, without draining himself.


I'd like to see Jake Paul fight a couple of guys with a good wrestling background first before these big money events.  Wrestling is usually a problem when fighters with a primary striking base enter MMA.

They can always make one more cross promotion event, like it happened on December 31 with Rizin and Bellator.
I am sure that PFL is going to agree on something similar if Nate signs for Rizin and Jake Paul is in PFL.
We just need UFC and ONE Championship to start doing this, and we can have MMA World League soon

I don't know what will gonna happen to Jake Paul if Nate really gonna fight him for real under MMA Rules. That won't gonna happen because obviously he has all the disadvantages and will not gonna survive a single round unless they will gonna use some magic tricks again which is really fun to look forward to, I wonder what kind of strategy they will use if they gonna fix the fight again because his last fight was a perfect execution against Anderson Silva and the old guy look seems he is not able to catch Jake Paul with his power punches.

Dana is still into combat sports, just not into the ones we used to associate him with. You know Dana, the mixed world in MMA doesn't mean men get put in fights with women
What do you think? Should he resign?

Dana White was filmed slapping his wife in the face during a New Year's Eve row
He has apologized, but comments from 2014 have now come back to haunt him
He said you could 'never bounce back from putting your hands on a woman'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mma/article-11593775/White-said-dont-bounce-hitting-woman-stay-UFC-chief-wife-slap.html

Btw Jake Paul is teasing Nate Diaz. He offers Nate a boxing fight, then, after 6 months, a fighter under MMA rules. If Nate agrees, he might get a good purse, as well as this would be a nice slap (slap lol) on Dana White if Jake wins. Another UFC fighter get beaten by YouTuber. However, Nate has recently posted a RIZIN picture in his twitter. I wonder what would that mean? Just teasing or planning to sign a contract?

Yup! I highly doubted it aswell, it seems that Dana White is not interested in dealing with any combat sports and UFC is the number 1 in the business right now, he doesn't want his competition to gain fame the people by backing it up with that kind of event but I am just hoping that it can have some probability, in doing it,


He surely wants a competition with Dana White and since he is Logan Paul a well-known content creator, influencer, and Crypto Scammer, I think he can be the face of PFL right and maybe this will not be a bad merging for PFL aswell, but I surely doubt it that they can out throne UFC, but PFL will become pretty much popular when that happens, and yes he would surely do everything to make that happen to get the retired UFC fighters to be on PFL and have a 1 last fight to make cash,

Oh this is great news for MMA to see Jake Paul finally signing a deal with PFL!
It would be amazing if we can continue in winning style, but MMA is completely different game from boxing.
Competition for UFC is getting stronger and I think we are going to see more great fighters going to PFL just to fight Jake Paul and earn more money.

He has some balls alright. Logan is among the cofounder of the organization that newly create PPV Super fights of PFL where he'd fight Nate. Don't know what to think about it but he is to fight Diaz in boxing and then MMA after it. Diaz definitely got a good deal.

Since Logan will be marketing this PFL, he might invite more of the retired UFC fighters.

^  Yeah he could get beat in MMA but Jake Paul has been smart in which opponents to pick.  I never really thought much of him until he pulled off a W vs Anderson Silva.  His stock went way up after that match.

As for the UFC not allowing their fighters to compete in other promotions, why would they?  The UFC is trying to build a brand to be the best promotion for MMA.  If you guys noticed, it's not really about the fighters when it comes to the UFC...  It's about the UFC, the brand.  They're trying to run it like a real company, a real league, a real sport all rolled into one.