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29 more days will go to UFC London which will have the main card from the heavyweight which will pit Tom Aspinall against Marcin Tybura.
From this fight many UFC fans support Tybura because he is a great fighter and has had enough fights while with the UFC and in terms of Tybura's fight statistics are very good.
But I actually have support for Aspinall because he is much more agile in fighting and is currently ranked 5th in the UFC heavyweight division.

Source: https://twitter.com/UFCEurope/status/1671931051453693955?t=BjeKRFQ_xNbL4Gt_2s8IKw&s=19

My lord...  Not the girls, I meant Overeem.    He looks like he could fight in 185 or something.  Is he still active in the MMA scene?  And yeah, there's some left over TRT in those biceps.  Lol.

Anyway, weigh ins for the event starts earlier than usual.  It's gonna be on in 45 mins or so.

UFC on ABC 5:  Official Weigh In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7oqE6CgSvU

Let's see how these guys look.  The lines for Brundage vs Dumas and Emmers vs Jenkins have gotten wide, I think the price for the underdogs are looking good.

That is nicely said even with the same resemblance and name, their skill and technique are not, for sure if these two meet 1 another the Original will prevail, but I guess Khamzat Borz Maaev is just starting his MMA career so we can not say for sure if he got what it takes to take on the Original Khamzat,

Khabib Nurmagomedov has a clone aswell? that I didn't know but just like what you have said these clones are all imitations of the real deal, but could also be a replacement if they retired and Khabib Nurmagomedov can be replaced because he already retires,



The Co-Main Event is kittens so why not, surely I want to engage more in discussion with Josh Emmet and Ilia Topuria but most people here know that Ilia Topuria is the favorite to win, but Josh Emmett still has a chance of winning this if he never gives up, he just to clear up his mind on his defeats with Yair Rodriguez,


The Next event? who's Abus Magomedov? hahaha after looking at the next event all I see are freaking fighting kittens again,  sorry guys I could not help myself, we got Ariane Lipski, Melissa Gatto, Ivana Petrović, and Yana Santos great event but you are right about not interested in the main event surely I can give chance because of the Fighting Kittens for sure,


Good Statistics winning and I agree with you for sure, nice one bbc.reporter as expected from you, you got great eyes for this,

And WOW! Alistair Overeem is not looking like Wreck-It Ralph anymore, he is slimmer. does anyone know if he is sick? he looks like but if he is on a diet that is so much tinner, than expected, 

These fighting kittens if we check their vital statistics to determine the winner, it would be Amanda Ribas' perfect 34-24-36 winning against Maycee Barber's 33-25-37. For the other fight, it will be Gillian Robertson's 34-24-34 winning against Baby Shark's 33-25-24 hehehe.

In any case, has everyone seen Overeem's body? He is presently on a diet and he looks much thinner. His biceps are bigger than his legs!

Well based on the UFC athlete ranking Josh Emmett is still top 5, while Topuria was in the 9th rank,

I can say is for me Ilia Topuria is like Yair Rodriguez, Topuria is just that good so Paddy Pimblett better think twice before challenging Ilia Topuria, and Topuria still aims at Smashing Pimplett in a fight, but Josh Emmett is just durable so Topuria will have a hard time about this, but for sure Ilia Touria will win I have my 100% bet on this fight for sure,


Yup! For sure that will be one epic fight but just like you I also want Ilia Topuria to have 2 more fights before showcasing a title fight, against Volkanovski, and yes Ilia Topuria needs to be champion he is now 38 years old and likely defending the belt before hitting 40 is a great thing,

this week we will have more fights and I confess that it was a very difficult choice that I had to make when placing a bet, but here are my choices:

Josh Emmett - Ilia Topuria

Josh Emmett is 38 years old, he was born in Sacramento, California, United States. he has been a professional fighter for 12 years, over his 12 years as a professional fighter he has had 21 fights, and of the 12 fights he has had he has managed to win 18 fights and lost in 3 fights. he has 2 wins by submission, 6 by knockout and 10 by decision. on the other side we have Ilia Topuria who is 26 years old and has been a professional fighter for 8 years, during these 8 years as a professional fighter he had 13 fights, and of the 13 fights he had, he was victorious in all fights, he is also known as EL MATADOR. Ilia Topuria was born in Germany. had 8 wins by submission, 4 wins by knockout, 1 win by decision. looking at the data of these two fighters my choice was for Ilia Topuria

David Onama - Gabriel Santos

David Onama, 29 years old, was born in Uganda ( he coming from so far away and from a country that oppresses its people), he's been a professional fighter for 4 years, in his very short career of 4 years he's already done it 12 fights, and of the 12 fights he had, he won in 10 fights and lost in 2 fights. he had 6 fights by knockout and 4 by submission, on the other side we have Gabriel Santos who is 26 years old, and has 9 years as a professional fighter, and of the 9 years as a professional fighter he had 11 fights in which he won in 10 fights and lost only 1 fight. had 4 wins by submission, 3 wins by knockout, 3 wins by decision. well, my guess is that Gabriel Santos will win this fight

I don’t know if I am not up-to-date with the things or the fights that are going on in that UFC right now or not, but I genuinely do not know most of the fighters who will be fighting in the next event. So, obviously, there is not even a single fight that is actually interesting to me in this event. The lightweight fight is going to be interesting I guess between Rębecki and Radzhabov. But really not interesting enough to make me watch the fight. I genuinely don’t care if there is actually a good fight. I would actually prefer to see the highlights or the replay if there is actually a good fight.

Does Dana White and the UFC needs more attention in 2023, the things you mentioned earlier was true. UFC was a dying brand and the best fighters were in Japan and hence they wanted to collaborate and according to their agreement first the UFC fighters would fight in Japan and then they will travel to the US and fight in the UFC but they did not complete that promise and hence he took the decision not to do cross promotion fights.

Dana White accepted the proposal from Conor McGregor because the hype he was able to generate to Box Mayweather and with the way he was performing at that point there was a consensus that Conor could upset an aging Mayweather but that is not the case with Tyson Fury who is the best Boxer of this generation. Francis Ngannou who is holding the Heavyweight title wanted to Box for the bragging rights for the baddest man on the planet and if Dana White or any Boxing fans knows that there is no way anyone in the Boxing world could challenge Tyson Fury and for someone to expect that someone from another sport would defeat him is living in an imaginary world and that would hamper the UFC Heavyweight title and their brand in the future.

Dana White would always welcome anyone to fight in the Octagon because he knows that it will boost his brand and anyone who is focused on one aspect of the fight game wont match a MMA fighter as there are different aspect to the fight game. Now to the Jones Vs Fury, Dana White will not allow him to fight in a proper Boxing match, unless he vacates his belt.

Lol...  Looking at all of your posts, I guess the next event isn't really that great in terms of match up interest and name value? 

It's true tho, there aren't any names that could pique our interest from a pure fan's perspective except for maybe a couple.  But there are low key, good match ups in there like Allen vs Silva, Magny vs Rowe is intruiging, Taira vs Rodrigues could end in an upset and the main event should be a banger.

But you guys know what's gonna suck?  The next event.    Can't blame you guys if you skip it.

I think he has same smile Chimaev has, but like Chimaev said: “Every Masterpiece Has a Cheap Copy” He might look like Chimaev, but I doubt that he has same charisma, energy and self confidence as the original



Does this guy reminds you someone? Someone from Dagestan and wear papakha hat ? The internet say this guy looks like a Khabibs clone.

We have next UFC event, and somehow people dont post much about it (except YuginKadoya discussing kittens). Not interested much in it?

  Whoa! What a lovely GORO I mean Gabi Garcia's photo definitely deserves a spot in my Fighting Kitten list,

Well, it is pretty much different in the metabolism of women to men and how they cut weight pretty much, and because the body structure of men and women are pretty much different we surely get different results for each but for me, there is a same process for men and women to cut weight and both got a worst case that is happening, I have seen the weight cut video of Chris Cyborg and I saw Khamzat Chimaev's Islam Makhachev and how they struggle in cutting weight all of them have a worst weight cutting technique the process is agonizing pain, and there is danger towards it,


They really are, well Amanda Ribas VS Maycee Barber is the one I am eying more, but surely Tabatha Ricci VS Gillian Robertson is the eye candy of a fight that I don't want to miss aswell, but for sure the Main event and the Co-main event is in my list of getting prediction, well if it's cuteness and Sexy body surely those two is great and yeah it is favorite to win surely but you can surely drop who is your favorite fighting kittens here,

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And did you guys seen the twin of Khamzat Chimaev he is a spitting image of Chimaev when he shaves his head, and they have the same name and technique aswell, I was really shocked by the resemblance he has now 4 wins in the MMA, 3 KO/TKO wins and 1 submission win and his last fight was his debut in the BRAVE CF, look at how he resemblance Chimaev, and he is Khamzat "Borz" Maeev,

I also agree that he did achieve what he wanted through fighting, which is earning a lot of money. But what I am trying to say is that he could have stayed in the fighting game and earned a lot more. But when he got good enough money and he was also able to set up a business, I am talking about his whiskey business.

By the way, he was not into fighting anymore. I don’t know how his business is going on right now. But with the type of fans, he has all over the world, I think he should do well. At least he should have a very loyal customer base. And as he was able to find another way to earn money, he probably understood that he didn’t need to fight at the top of the competition anymore. That’s why he also started having more fun with his money and stopped training properly as well.

Regards

Duke

Parlay the first two matches of the event and see what goes from there if it wins right?    That's what I usually do too, tho if it was me I'm gonna go with Brundage and fight doesn't go the distance for the other match.  The only concern, Brundage is on a two fight skid.  But he should win as the other guy has an almost nonexistent TD defense.

Another concerning thing is the line for Taira.  It's too wide imho.  Rodrigues could knock him out for all we know as his chin hasn't really been tested yet. 

Sometimes I feel that people who organize Mayweather or Conor fight dont earn as much as people expect them to earn. How much Mayweather get for a fight 40-100 millions? And Conor isnt far from that lowest number probably. Plus promotion pay other fighters, venue rent, stuff and etc.

For example Bones vs Gane fight - we still dont have PPV true numbers. I would say that it did not set a record or surpass 1 million then. According to wikipedia, Bones fights sell around 550k PPV. As it was his return, perhaps they would have sold 700k subscriptions. Subscription cost 70 bucks, but UFC did not get 100% of it. Bones got 3 millions, Gane 500k, Shevchenko 500k, Grasso 330k. We can count rest of main card salary cost as, lets say 500k also. 8 guys from prelims probably got regular contract payment 35+35. That is also a half a million roughly. Early prelims are around 150k. With bonuses, that is around +6kk on salaries only. Renting a venue might cost millions. Renting T-Mobile Arena isnt cheap plus extra payment for necessary facilities.

Not saying that running UFC isnt profitable, but I think people visualise they earn hundred of millions, while real numbers are lowers.

Money changes people. That is the truth.

Floyd Mayweather can bring tons of money and paired with one of the greatest Conor McGregor, hmm that's like the heavyweight of money-making machines. The same goes for the other fight that you mentioned. I mean, how many people did try to watch Bones' return? Honestly, I am also one who was dragged by the hype.
I think that's going to be the norm of boxing and fighting now. Make a trend, hype it some more, and let the people decide. If that trend doesn't go down on Twitter, then it will happen. 

Dang, they're hot.
I am only eyeing that battle of Amanda Ribas versus Maycee Barber. Ribas is the favorite at 1.49 and Maycee is an underdog at 2.55. I think I will be betting on the favorite.
Note: Not the favorite in terms of cuteness and sexy body.

No matter who you post, no one is better than Goro Gabi Garcia



I never paid much attention, but found out that in women weigh divisions, there are fighters who are in top in two weight divisions. For example Jessica Andrade is in straight and flyweight, or Amanda Ribas. I have never though how hard it is for women to cut weight. They arent heavy in general, and cutting few kg seems harder than if men cut same amount.

Crazy fights await us, and I am talking about the Ilia Topuria against Josh Emmett fight, for me I am seeing Yair Rodriguez to Ilia Topuria but Topuria is durable and surely has a much power output on his striking, so this is again going to be a hard fight for Emmett once again, sorry for Josh Emmett's fans because I really don't see him winning this fight, for me this main event will truly be a great fight and a lot is surely waiting for it to unfold, and I can not wait to see how Ilia Topuria is doing after his win against Bryce Mitchell, and if he could beat Paddy Pimplett someday,

While I see 4 fighting kittens in this event BBC Reporting will surely be delighted with them now feast your eye on these lovely ladies,

Amanda Ribas


Maycee Barber


Tabatha Ricci


Gillian Robertson

There are two fights on Saturday tomorrow that interest me at stake even though the Odds are still below my expectations but it is very likely that victory can be obtained later.
I support two fighters namely Cody Brundage in the Middleweight class and also Tatsuro Taira who is in the flyweight class.
For Tatsuro Taira himself, it looks like he can easily get victory and the record of wins and titles he has is truly epic.

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Would gladly watch Topuria fighting Volkan, after he beats Rodriguez But, I think UFC gonna give Topuria another test in the face of Ortega or Hollaway. Ilia imho needs a series test of his skills before having a boss fight. Also, dont forget that we have Movsar Evloev, who is also undefeated like Topuria. Frankly, Emmett does not look like a real test for Ilja. He is 38, and in those weight classes, people arent fast and in peak form anymore at that age (not like heavyweight, when closer to 40, the better they are - they are like wine, with age getting better ).