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I'm pretty sure the main event at 289 with women on will be bloodier and more exciting than what we just had with KKF vs Albazi.  It was really a bit boring and had no interest of watching it again.  Lol.  I'm also looking at Curtis and Oliveira for two slight underdog sports that could win.

Anyway here's the countdown vid and the vlog for the event.

UFC 289:  Countdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnLEC9VJzCw

UFC 289 Embedded:  Episode 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o05EG6U7A2k

And here's what everybody is waiting for to get some free money...    The Multi Master by jeremypwr.

UFC 289 - Multi Master Challenge
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/sportsbetio-ufc-289-multi-master-challenge-saturday-10-june-5455206

Enjoy...

I doubt that Dariush color his hair to look gray and old  probably just a specification of his body, or his body is lacking some kind of vitamin. Maybe this is due to supplement he takes. In Russian mma community he has a nickname - gray (old).

To me he is like a dark horse. We see him so rarely, he fights so less famous fighters. If I ask to name his 3 big fights, people would first go to google. But he is rank 6 among lightweights. That always surprised me.

Hahaha, No worries TopTort777 you really know what I like those Juicy, I mean Slick skills of those women fighting in the UFC, but yeah Sorry Irene Aldana is not on the list,

And is it natural gray? I really thought it was colored hair, hehe anyway let's not talk about our wives, hehe well this is a much-awaited fight in my opinion, for me Charles Oliveira has proven that he has the level to be champion but Beneil Dariush it is a long time since he last stands inside the cage I think Oliveira aswell, but this fight really interest me and Dariush is not an easy opponent for Oliveira in my opinion,


Well Judge has a different perspective than watching it on the TV screen, surely they are in front of the cage but maybe the cage is merely blocking some of their views but yeah they really have a mistake but in the UFC when mistakes have made they will not correct it and fighters and fans just move on and so this will surely happen in this fight aswell we just get to move-on at least we discuss on it just to make sure it is really a wrong call for the judges,


Oh that fight hehe yeah Jaime Mullarkey thought he is winning this fight but Muhammad Naimov's right timing on that shot, caught Mullarkey and exposed his face that drops him unconscious, it was surely unexpected for Jaime Mullarkey and that is the life he surely lost so much for a couple of his fight maybe he will get it right on his next fight, 

That would be cool. Let these judges and maybe including the referees face the press in the post-fight conferences. It may consume some time and prolong the conference but they can make it once all fighters are done so it is up to the audience and the media to remain.

I checked the odds when you mentioned that Nunes is the underdog because that is surprising. Maybe you overlooked it. Amanda Nunes remains the favorite and it is not even close at 1.27 compared to Irene Aldana's 3.40. But an upset is not surprising, Nunes is vulnerable in her last 2 fights and she might be mentally different since she was badly destroyed by Pena. Aldana had been training already before she was announced as the replacement so this should not be a problem and she is heavy-handed.

I think the suggestion to interview the judges after the fight make sense. It may make sense why they gave such scores so that fans are not gonna be just scratching heads. Its not the first time as controversial fights happen over and over even in boxing.

As for Nunes vs Aldana, Nunes will still be the tougher fighter. Nunes being the underdog must be undermining.

^ I know it is a hard job to judge a fight. But of course, the UFC have the best judges that there are available to the whole world. So they should not be making these types of mistakes. I think we all can agree that this was certainly a mistake. A majority of people believe that the fight should have turned out differently. I can understand that probably the judges thought the overhead punch from Amir Albazi landed in the 4th round which it clearly did not. At the same time, the takedown attempt might have had some effect on the judges to score like that.


Jamie Mullarkey vs Muhammad Naimov
That fight could have gone either way. Now Jamie has 6 losses in his career.
Anyone is going to look at that career record and assume that he is some average fighter.

^ The fight was really close and in such situations, I think people can make mistakes.
Even though the judges are professionals they are still humans.
And we know, to err is human. It was a close fight, but it should have ended differently.

Of course you will, as kittens are fighting (no offence, just joking)

Finally we gonna see gray-haired guy fighting. The guy is 34 and is so gray, much gray than me Probably has a worse wife than mine, lol Finally a decent opponent for Dariush. He has been fighting unranked or low ranked opponents and stays high in top. That was always a question for me. Either strong opponents avoid him, or he is very lucky to take easy path on a way to fight for the belt.

I think this week's event will be very Juicy well, for me a woman in the Main Event some isn't really that catchy but this will is very empowering to all women out there

UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana

Date and Time: 06.10.2023 at 07:00 PM ET
Promotion: Ultimate Fighting Championship
Venue: Rogers Arena
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada



MAIN EVENT
Amanda Nunes VS Irene Aldana

CO-MAIN EVENT
Charles Oliveira VS Beneil Dariush

MAIN CARD
Mike Malott VS Adam Fugitt
Dan Ige VS Nate Landwehr
Eryk Anders VS Marc-André Barriault

PRELIMINARY CARD
Nassourdine Imavov VS Chris Curtis
Jasmine Jasudavicius VS Miranda Maverick
Aiemann Zahabi VS Aoriqileng
Blake Bilder VS Kyle Nelson
David Dvořák VS Steve Erceg
Diana Belbiţă VS Maria Oliveira

All information was from TAPOLOGY: https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/99346-ufc-289

I think I will rewatch the previous fights of Aldana, but for sure it will be hard for him to take on Amanda Nunes, but if she can pull up an upset just like Alexa Grasso did to    Valentina Shevchenko, it will surely take great technicality for her to do such things if she would go against Amanda Nunes because Amanda Nunes is a buff woman, for me this would take a technicality level as Alexa Grasso did to Valentina Shevchenko if Irene Aldana can not pull that she will not win this, but will be watching some of Irene Aldana's previews fights there could be a slight chance that Irene Aldana could pull this up,


If this happens then the Judges will now think twice before giving their score to someone but they can also defend that they saw just this and they tend to score in this kind of situation it could surely be helpful but also fans will just hear nonsense things while the judges defended what they have though, it could surely be helpful but it can also be giving them a chance to defend their nonsense,

It was interesting to see Izzy tweet that judges should have to give interviews after the fight and defend their scorecards. This is the first time I’ve heard of such an idea but it doesn’t seem like a bad one. Sort of similar to the NBA’s 2-minute report that shows any of the officials’ mistakes at the end of games to hold them accountable.

One of the cards that I have been waiting for at UFC289 is the Women's BatamWeight Champions which will bring Nunes vs Aldana together.
Nunes herself is a female fighter and holder of the Batam class title in 2016-2021, 2021 and was taken over by Julianna Pena because she was defeated and won again by Nunes at UFC277 until now this title is still held by Nunes.
Nunes will be the underdogs in this bout and is likely to hold on to that title for a while longer.


source : https://twitter.com/espnmma/status/1665193057581449218?t=ix5rBdOo4NysH-qljNORnw&s=19

For me, it was really closer as it gets, we can not take away the other round where Amir Albazi is active and eating Kara-France strike like it was nothing, and for Kara-France I really give it to him for being active and working hard in always landing those strikes even though I have a bet of Albazi I really think this was a clear robbery from the judges' score card,

While are you talking about Jesse Butler or Jamie Mullarkey? I think it is Jesse Butler because it was his debut fight and he clearly underestimated Jim Miller but Jim Miller  was composure he just really want to knockdown Butler and it was a technical finish, for Miller, in the 1st round,


There are a lot of complaints about how the Judges scored the fight, it was a very controversial fight for sure, many have thought that Kai Kara-France won the fight but it was Amir Albazi even though he just landed 1 successful takedown, and the takedown defense of Kara-France was really superb but the judges have managed to somehow get this wrong in their score cards,


Who's Jamie?

Yup and that one specific judge who gave R4 to Albazi is...  Chris Lee.  And it's not the first time he's done something like this.  :/  All in all, welcome bad judging in MMA.

But then again yeah, the fight was really close that one couldn't say that it was a pure robbery.  If anything KKF should've done more to lock up the win.  Looks like the City Kickboxing guys besides Adesanya and Volk are going in some sort of rut.

Here's the post fight press conference

UFC Vegas:  Post Fight Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCH1ZWEoWk

Yeah there are lot of complains about judges from this event, I even saw Adesanya making a tweet that judges should be interviewed after the fights and hold accountable for their work.
Refs can ruin fighter carrier with one bad decisions, I think right now they are almost untouchable in UFC and MMA, and somethings seriously needs to change.
This was one of this days I wish I never made any predictions in UFC, most of my them was wrong, Nurmagomedov and Altamirano both lost their fights 

All it came down to the 4th round of the fight in my opinion. To be more specific, the scoring of the fourth round. Two of the judges gave the fourth round to Kai Kara France, but the other gave the round to Amir Albazi.

I honestly do not think that this fourth round was close and this really should have gone the way of kai kara France. But at the same time, I wouldn't say that Amir Albaazi was absolutely outstruck in the fight. The fight was actually close. The scoring was also good except for the fourth round from that one specific judge. The second round could have also gone either way as well.

Jamie should have fought more intelligently. It was his fault that he got knocked out. And he does get a little overconfident sometimes during the fight even.

Kai got robbed in my opinion. I don't even think it was close, except for the one submission attempt Albazi didn't do a awful lot. He got massively outstruck, and failed to make his takedowns for much of the fight. I had a decent night of predictions, but I was let down by that flash KO of Jamie. That was probably one of my more confident picks of the night too. To do that on your debut though, that's quite impressive. I'm annoyed at Jamie though, he gets way too confident, and forgets to defend.

The result of my picks on UFC Fight Night

Kai Kara-France(-119) VS Amir Albazi(-111) - LOST

It was a very close match for the judges to call a win for Amir Albazi and a lot are saying that they think that Kai Kara-France won it, and looking at all news that is MMA many have said that it was really a Robbery base on what they have seen, with the fight I really think that Albazi's takedown was stopped by Kai Kara-France and because he has a good striking he has made many significant strikes than Albazi, it was a loss on the judge's decision and I think Kai Kara-France ultimately know it,

Alex Caceres(-175) VS Daniel Pineda(+150) - WIN

Now this really deserves a straight title fight Alex Caceres has shown that he is the real deal great faint techniques are the most better that I have come across so far, it was even though Pineda has thrown many takedowns it was only defended by Ceceres, because of his takedown defense it was really possible and I think this kind will surely improve even more,

Jim Miller(-200) VS Jesse Butler(+170) - WIN

Now this is a wild fight Jim Miller deserves an even better fight surely Jesse Butler is  just new to the UFC, not underestimating Butler but I think he deserves a shot for the titles that 1 round knock-out was so fast that his opponent was out cold for a while and couldn't get up, it was a truly tremendous knockout power,

Here are the result of my picks for The UFC

Kai Kara-France VS Amir Albazi ROUND 5 DECISION - WIN

It was a close match for me I really thought it was a controversial fight I really think that Kai Kara-France won this aswell, even though I have bet on Amir Albazi and Albazi only shot 9 takedowns where only 1 connected this is really shown that Kara-France really has good takedown defense, and Kai Kara-France is such a high-level striker that for in my opinion, he landed many strikes than Albazi so this is just what I have seen even though I have put my bet of Amir Albazi what I saw I think Kara-France won that fight, and this is another controversial scoring for the judges, but surely it was so close that some judge might have not seen it,

Alex Caceres VS Daniel Pineda ROUND 3 DECISION - WIN

This is a sensational display of martial arts those faints are crazy and Pineda doesn't know where they will land Alex Caceres really knows what he is doing and because of his length and height he surely was pressuring Pineda so much also Daniel Pineda shoot 11 takedowns 3 was successful but still Caceres deflected those submission attempts while 8 was a successful takedown defense, and because of Alex Caceres faints he landed many strikes than Daniel Pineda,

Jim Miller VS Jesse Butler ROUND 1 KO/TKO - WIN

I was surprised about the fast knockout win for Jim Miller, it was an astounding performance and Jim Miller was really technical he has to wait for the perfect opportunity to execute that strike that has KOed Butler, and just like I thought it was too early for Jesse Butler to face the experience Miller, and his debut to UFC was a failed, now the UFC should give this beast a title shot next,

kai just have to avoid takedowns and not get weary or its his end. albazi seem serious with his wrestling.
i rarely see Iraqis fight in UFC, i'm more hopeful to see fighters like albazi win to see whether their wrestling can match dagestans when he fights against khabib's proteges.

Late Picks for this event

Kai Kara-France(-119) VS Amir Albazi(-111)

For this fight, Kai Kara France has a good takedown defense and also has that technicality in his strike also that powerful strikes surely could add up to his one-two combination while Amir Albazi will heavily rely on his ground game, and because he can use that height and massive structure that he has in his advantage with his wrestling against Kara-France for me I think Kara-France will be more versatile with his takedown defense he is pretty good at it and may have control over Albazi with it, for me Kara-France will surely rely on his heavy shots to knockout Albazi in an instant, so my pick will be Kai Kara-France,

Alex Caceres(-175) VS Daniel Pineda(+150)

Alex Caceres has a cool-looking style you can say he is Bruce Lee incarnate and because they put it on his name Alex Bruce Leeroy Caceres has a good combination of his punches and Kicks also got a great Submission even if his opponent is standing he surely got that unusual submission position on his opponent, while Pineda is some takedowns and surely will win this over submission aswell but Caceres has good striking and his advantage on reach because of those flexible kicks can surely can make his win, so my pick is Alex Caceres,

Jim Miller(-200) VS Jesse Butler(+170)

For this fight, Jim Miller is a dude that could surely pressure his opponent with big striking and has a ground game aswell, while Jesse Butler will debut on UFC with his first fight and is a beast of an opponent, I really think that Jim Miller has a lot of ways he can win against Jesse Butler, it is just not a lucky 1st fight for Jesse Butler in the UFC, so my pick is Jim Miller,