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Yup, as pitting Tsarukyan vs Makhachev next would be anti climactic imho.  We already know Makhachev is gonna win it.  As for going against somebody like Gaethje, it's going to be another old guard vs the prospect scenario.  Kinda like when Fiziev was pitted vs Gaethje.  Lots of guys like me thought Fiziev was going to win.  Lol.  But no...  Gaethje still has more in the tank.

Anyway, live weigh ins are gonna be in around 3.5 hours. 

UFC Fight Night:  Live Official Weigh In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUhB789q8cM

We have plenty of time to predict and discuss Tsarukyan fight, half a year as minimum I guess. So lets switch to current events better As I understand, we are skipping Song vs Gutierrez, as it general vision here of this event is boring Then we have Edwards vs Covington. High chance that fight gonna go full distance. And if this goes like this, then Colby is going to win. If during first 3 rounds Edwards did not manage to knock him out, then Colby, as usually, gonna increase fight tempo and win thanks to endless tank.


Imho Poirier gonna be an easy target for Tsarukyan. For me Poirier looks like he is about to retire. Fights against Conor made him earn enough to lose motivation to win. KO by Gaethji only increased that wish to retire Sub from Oliveira showed that his bjj black belt is from toys store. Arman gonna eat him.

P.S. You guys gonna laugh or smile now - I've got stuck in the elevator and I am waiting for tech guy for 20min already. In a complete dark. It is so boring here. What makes it worse, my mobile data is not 4g anymore, not even 3g, its E - Edge... Because I am basically in the basement...

(Tsarukyan is like Makhachev on low settings) Dang, I like that, Arman Tsarukyan looks beef even though Beneil Dariush's Height was 5'10" (178cm), and Arman Tsarukyan was only 5'7" (170cm), just like you said Arman Tsarukyan looks huge in that fight, that is why he was able to knock out Beneil Dariush that way, and so I really like to see a Charles Oliveira VS Arman Tsarukyan fight for sure and that is why I really believed that Arman Tsarukyan also won against Mateus Gamrot for sure and the judges have called it wrong,

And against Dustin Poirier even though he got boxing those kicks of Arman Tsarukyan was really solid and hearing those kicks for sure it would surely hurt Poirier for sure,


For sure I want to see Arman Tsarukyan fight those top opponents Justin Gaethje, Dustin Poirier, and even Charles Oliveira 1st because getting his fangs against Islam Makhachev could be a long road for him getting into the title fight but will solidify his percentage in winning and getting the belt for sure, actually, I like Arman Tsarukyan and if Islam Makhachev fights Arman Tsarukyan early I really don't know who am I going to pick between the two, while for sure I might go with the champion for sure,

While the replacement for Allan Nascimiento is Tim Elliott which I really don't like aswell it was depressing to see that he withdrew in this fight which the odds were for him, and withdrawing without any reason, was pretty much what I expected, but let's just wait,


For sure Oliveira and his camp don't want Oliveira to be injured and for sure they really don't expect that to happen, but if it is intentional and just an alibi just to not fight Islam Makhachev then he doesn't really deserve the title shot anymore, but for this kind of fight now that Arman Tsarukyan is here I think a Charles Olveira VS Arman Tsarukyan fight will be a banger,

I think there's some truth to that too. Thank you for giving your opinion Bro. Oliveira is different from Volkanovski. During the Islam vs Volk 1 fight, the results of the fight were still debatable because the fight ended on the judges' table. But the Oliveira vs Islam 1 fight was indeed an absolute victory for Islam. It's just that before the Dariush vs Arman fight I thought Oliveira was a worthy candidate for the belt. But now my mind has changed. Will this be Islam vs Arman 2? Oliveira would probably turn down a match against Arman because of the small amount of money he would earn and the risk of losing the right to fight for the belt (although he has messed up in the past with injuries).

I don't necessarily think that Oliveira has a "right" to the title shot. He had his chance and he messed it up by getting injured, it's entirely on him and his camp. He already lost to Islam and only defeated Dariush since then, but so did Tsarukyan.
I think both, Islam and Tsarukyan are not comfortable opponents for Charles, but, out of those 2, he'd definitely get more money fighting Islam.
It's ultimately the UFC's decision not his.
 

Sport-wise, yes, but such match up would be disappointing to both of them, both are after the big-money fights with the top names.

I wouldn't mind seeing that happen too.  But dunno, I kinda feel like we need to see the old guard fight against the new top guys and make a name for themselves...  And winning against either Gaethje or Poirier would def do it for Tsarukyan.  He's relatively unknown at this point.  

Anyway, one of the guys that I'm more confident with withdrew from the event, Allan Nascimiento.  No reason given in Tapology.  Tim Elliott is the replacement fighter.  Hmmm...  If Elliott has 15 minutes of cardio, he'll win.  If not, it could happen like how he lost vs Royval.

I would really love to see Oliveira vs Tsarukyan fight. Have you noticed btw how big Tsarukyan was compared to Dariush? How huge and muscled Armans back was. I would say that he cuts and gains back a lot. Why I think Tsarukyan a fight against Oliveira would be good? Poirier, what could he show us except boxing? Little. Imho Tsarukyan would submit him. As he is kind of a Makhachev on low settings Gaethji - famous for powerful low kicks, and suppose to have a good wrestling background (Gaethji and wrestling? And we hear an echo as answer "Wrestling?, ...ling, ...ling, ....ling, none, ...ling.). Being training among Thai fighters, Tsarukyan is more than ready for low kicks.

Actually, I am more interested in the Co-Main Event than in the Main Event Khalil Rountree Jr. is a solid fighter even though he is just 6'1" (185cm) and smaller than Anthony Smith his build is massive and I think his shorter physique is an advantage for wrestlers and because of that he is not easy to be taken down, for sure his takedown defense is decent in my opinion, and for sure Anthony Smith has decent wrestling but does his wrestling attack is enough for Khalil Rountree,


For me, Arman Tsarukyan might not be a person that is really hyped right now but he has the quality to be likable for sure for a given time if he can defeat a guy that is in the top 4 for sure his rankings will skyrocket I really believed that Tsarukyan will give the good fight to Islam Makhachev but there is 1 more thing that I doubt in his ability and I want him to fight against Charles Oliveira first before anything he head out to fight the champion,


For me, that will be a very unpredictable fight and the odds might get in favored with Charles Oliveira, but they can not underestimate Tsarukyan for sure because he is a technical fighter even though he is not really shooting some takedowns he got a decent wresting defense for me I really like the age of Arman Tsarukyan he is much younger and still has some progresses to increase his performance and strategy, so for me, he got a decent chance against Arman Tsarukyan because he can surely take the edge, but for now Charles Oliveira is still recover from his injury, for sure he will return stronger for sure,

I think Oliveira is worthy of fighting for the next belt. Although the ration is actually used during UFC 294 and then attracts because of injury. Of course it would be very risky if Oliveira fought with Arman and risking the right to fight over the belt. Unless Oliveira likes challenges like that.

For the fight for the title, Arman has indeed deserved it. But it is not easy because it seems like Arman has to run another match against the Top 5 to ensure his rights.

After the first fight with the victory for Gamrot, then Gamrot lost against Dariush, and Dariush lost against Tsarukyan, I thought the Arman vs Gamrot 2 battle was very interesting to watch.

Tsarukyan is currently fighting pretty well, and I think he should definitely keep improving. I will actually also say that Gamrot vs Tsarukyan does not make a lot of sense right now. Yes, it was definitely a very anticipated match but at the same time right now Tsarukyan seems to have improved a lot. so I think he will be able to get a better opponent. But the thing is as you guys said that probably some fighters might actually not want to fight against him. The situation is definitely interesting right now.

I haven't seen his post fight interview but my news feed is saying that Tsarukyan wants to fight for the title next. Sport-wise, it would make more sense than Islam Vs Charles, as Tsarukyan did quite good in his first fight with Islam (lost by decision) and he improved since then.
I don't really want to see Gamrot Vs Tsarukyan, but I think it might happen as neither Gaethje/Poirier/Oliveira or Chandler would want to fight either of them. But if Oliveira is to get that title shot next, then what I'd like to see is Gamrot Vs Gaethje and Tsarykyan Vs Poirier (Gamrot and Poirier are in the same team so probably not keen on fighting each other).

^  It's better for Tsarukyan to keep moving up imho.  Didn't he say that he wanted Gaethje?  That's the fight to make.  I hope Gaethje obliges.


Judging from optics alone, it looks like Rountree is hard to take down...  The guy is kinda short but he is think and those legs are like tree trunks.  Lolol.  But according to UFC Stats he has 56% TD defense and if you remove strikers from the list, that's prolly lower.

But Smith has low TD accuracy.  Just around 28%.

You can check out the stats here.

http://ufcstats.com/fight-details/91093a019d32af2e

Yeap, Tsarykyan's rematch against Gamrot is highly awaited. It was a really close fight. Arman took first rounds, Mateusz second half of the fight. 1 point difference (3 if we consider all judges) is not much. That can be changed with more activity, control or landed strike. Also these two are close in ranking table. But I think ufc match makers gonna start with finding opponents for Poirier, Oliveira and Gaethji. Based on how they performed, Tsarukyan either gonna have someone of them, or a rematch with Gamrot. Even though Arman won and deserves a more high ranked opponent, he would have to wait till more popular guys figure out what they want to do next.

Arman definitely deserves to fight guys from the top 4, but they don't necessarily want to fight him as he's not yet hyped up to that level so it won't be a big-money fight.
I've no idea what's the plan for Oliveira and whether he'll get the next title shot or will he have to fight someone else instead. If the latter, Tsarukyan is quite likely. But if not Oliveira, I wouldn't be surprised if we see Tsarukyan Vs. Gamrot 2.


Good. We need some competition between organisations. It's good for the sport.

For sure that was not your real intention and yeah Melguizael Costa is an entertaining dude for sure I have seen his fights for sure and it was all quite amusing, but yeah Vitiligo is not really infectious but if a person doesn't know about it maybe they will think the same but for sure there are fighters that will be curious on his condition and for sure google about it so for some reason I think you are not bad for not knowing but there are a percentage of people that may think this as weird and make fun of his skin, that is just reality,


Anthony "The Lionheart" Smith for sure will not back out of this fight but Khalil Rountree Jr. is a pure striker and I really don't know if he can adjust to having good defense on wrestling as Anthony Smith is a pretty good grappler, but I am also doubting his offensive takedown as for Khalil Rountree Jr. for sure he has good takedown defense and for some reason this could be a problem for Anthony Smith but will look even further if Khalil Rountree Jr. really has a good takedown defense

Got my picks early for this event...  For some reason I'm kinda more confident with this event that the last one.  Dunno.  Lol.  But like the Majestic 7, that could be a bad sign.  Lol.  Prolly gonna get a worse result with this one. 

Who among you guys is leaning on Anthony Smith?  He's fighting Rountree he I think is a mf beast.  Search for his side kick to the knee vs Bukaukas.  Ooof...  Nasty!

UFC Free Fight:  Smith vs Spann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8p02acPupo

UFC Free Fight:  Rountree vs Roberson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfzwx3Pfd6M

I was not trying to make fun of Melguizael Costa's skin (even though I find it entertaining, I think fans will 100% pay more attention on him fighting and remember him), just wanted to point that he looked unusual. I will be honest, at first, when I saw his photo on ufc page, and later some pictures of him, I was like "I dont want to be with guy and his sweat on the matt". I treated him with disdain. Like he is infectious. (does this makes me a bad person?) Went to wiki, turns out his has vitiligo. I believe some fighters have same thoughts, and he could make this as an advantage in the octagon.

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For sure Melquizael Costa is a solid fighter who wants to celebrate with a roll-over, so back flip, and summersault, those kicks that will get to the chest are lethal and can stun his opponent for a couple of seconds and can become an opportunity for a wide variety of attacks for sure after seeing his fights I am interested as well, for sure he is now well-rounded coming into the UFC as he can defeat an opponent in the ground but for sure he wants to do it with style,

For me Arman Tsarukyan deserves a title match, what he has showcased in this event makes sure he can give it a try to get into Islam Makhachev's nerve but before that, I want to see an Arman Tsarukyan VS Charles Oliveira 1st, before Arman Tsarukyan can get into the champion,


Yup! UFC 296 is surely a banger of a fight, no doubt about that however I agree about this event there is not much of a solid fight I really don't see any interesting ones, but for sure Sumudaerji vs Allan Nascimento maybe, Steve Garcia vs Melquizael Costa fight, Tatsuro Taira vs Carlos Hernandez is what I am interested to see for sure Tatsuro Taira this undefeated Japanese is just 23 years old and still have a lot ahead of him is an interesting one to see in this event for sure,

Well, Melquizael Costa's skin problem is not a joking matter but whatever I agree with you, and his skin coloration might be changing a lot I really don't know why but there is a video that explains his skin condition vitiligo has caused him depression but Martial Arts and MMA have saved him and MMA has been a coup for it,

WOW! After this event, we will now see the UFC 296 | Edwards vs. Covington which is a much-awaited event for me the upcoming event I really want to see the Shavkat Rakhmonov VS Stephen Thompson more than the Main Event where I will see Shavkat Rakmonov fight again which is why because no one wants to fight Rakmonov in the upper rankings of the Welterweight division I really feel sorry for Stephen Thompson and Tony Ferguson VS Paddy Pimblett where I want to see Tony Ferguson win this one, (please Tony make a win) and Vicente Luque VS Ian Machado Garry fight which in this fight I want Vicente Luque to teach Garry some manners, The Fighting Kitten Ariane Lipski for me is an outstanding beauty, Randy Brown VS Muslim Salikhov, Cody Garbrandt VS Brian Kelleher, Josh Emmett VS Giga Chikadze,

But back to the UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Gutierrez for me what I liked about this event was Sumudaerji VS Allan Nascimento, an almost pure striker and almost pure grappler Kenan Song VS Kevin Jousset who was from City Kickboxing, and the undefeated Tatsuro Taira VS Carlos Hernandez,


Dana White might be teasing something, and for sure he is positive in mocking PFL and Bellator because he thinks that many will prefer UFC more than the PFL, which is because the UFC is the number 1 well-known MMA fight organization, well, we will see if UFC could attain something different for sure there are no Kick Boxing VS MMA rules in the UFC that has with the ONE Championship, for sure Dana White will need to pull something interesting and different,


For sure if no one complained that they didn't get their bonus then I think it is safe to assume that the UFC really is giving their bonus, but rewarding the fighter this kind of privilege and for sure that certain fighter still needs a great performance to get that privilege for sure they still need to work hard for it,