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Everyone is still talking about Francis Ngannou after he left UFC; and Dana White said he will never allow him to come back again 
Daniel Cormier and other fighters will never consider Jon Jones a GOAT because he failed drug tests many times, and I agree with that.
Maybe we could see Ngannou vs Jones outside UFC, but I think Jones signed very long contract with UFC so chances are not very big.
I still think Ngannou would win against Jones, but that fight would be fantastic to watch.

Upcoming UFC Fight Night 221 should be fun to watch, especially big guys clashes and I see some good betting opportunities.
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I don't think Stipe has a slight chance against Jones, he is also retired.

Dana needs to offer Francis to come back and fight. They wouldn't wait for the two to deteriorate by old age before realizing they need to fill the demand of fans to determine who is the best beast in this combat sport.  Or we will forever wonder who will really win if they both rage.
The money has to be really huge, and whoever refuses be scaredy cat.

I thought that Conor McGregor and Jake Gyllenhaal using the latest UFC to film a scene for the movie roadhouse was pretty cool. You usually don’t see that sort of thing happen publicly for everyone to see and you usually don’t see so much commentary and news coverage about the filming of a movie scene. I would like to see more of this from the UFC.

Yup...  Yan tends to be a slow starter and he usually gives up the first couple of rounds as he likes to get a read from his opponent before he launches his own attack.  I think it's why Sean O'Malley wanted to fight him.  O'Malley knew it was a huge step up in competition but then also knew that if he could win the first two rounds or at least the first round, he def has a good chance to win the match as it was just for three rounds.

This match is a 5 rounder, so Yan has some room to start slow.

UFC Free Fight:  Yan vs Sandhagen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImBiRV-wCOQ

UFC Free Fight:  Dvalishvili vs Moraes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8bHNmrcN_Y

No offense for this, but does Jon Jones is deserved to become top 1 P4P in men's UFC? he was at 10th position and only fight once time with the best fighter in heavyweight, now he's beat Makhachev which previously have beat Volkanovski. From my personal opinion, Makhachev should be on top 1, Volkanovski top 2 and then followed with Jones to be in top 3.

Sadly there's no good wrestler in heavyweight division, only Serghei Spivac which previously beat Derrick Lewis, but he's lack of experience and fight with other good fighters. So it's really too soon if Spivac want to fight with Jones.

Lets wait for Jones to make his first heavyweight title defence and make a conclusion if he really is the greatest or not So far it looked like it was an easy win for him. Stipe Miocic promised to smash Jones. Hope we wont have to wait years before Jones fights again. Who else we have among heavyweights ? Pavlovich ? Imho that is going to be copy/paste fight against Gane. Imho a wrestler is needed to win, a wrestler that will counter Jones wrestling, the one who will be able to throw bombs.

Gane is good on the stand, but it's definitely not enough to beat Jones. From the very beginning, it was clear how Jones fearlessly goes to him, this guy has enough confidence. As a fighter, Jones is very good, but how stable is he, how long will he last until he again gets into some kind of story with illegal drugs, or something else?

Petr Yan actually is doing the same - he is (or probably was) in Thailand, training in Tiger Muay Thai. That is Petrs problem, he is to confident in himself, he gets same camps. That is why he looses by split decisions. Thanks to his skills two last fights were split decisions instead of unanimous. I think he is surrounded by wrong guys partially. He should try changing his fight plan instead of relying much on striking only. Aljo read him like a book with that in their second find and was controlling him smiling. Merab is going to do the same. If Petr wants to win, he should rush from the beginning, stop his usual slow start and increased tempo, otherwise Merab would win because he would take first two rounds, show some control during third round and win. P.S. Will it be 3 or 5 round fight ?

Hahaha I have seen the recent videos of Merab Dvalishvili training with Aljamain Sterling and when I have seen this fight card, it was all for Petr Yan all along, surely if Aljamain Sterling have mauled down Yan in their 2nd match he surely have the game plan and pattern to do it again unless Petr Yan have watched this training session, Petr Yan is not a simpleminded guy, if it's not working with Aljamain Sterling he and his camp will surely change their game plan, but I really like that Merab Dvalishvili is getting ready for it he surely doesn't underestimate his opponent,


I have seen the Multi-Master bet and many have placed their bets or parley for Valentina Shevchenko, it is just good that I have a crush on Alexa Grasso that is why I have saved my bet, No I am joking, but I have seen Grasso's technique and he is genuine with his wrestling and that last fight with a submission win I was surely surprised from Alexa Grasso's transition from a great striker to a wrestler,

And this rematch will surely prove that Alexa Grasso's win over Shevchenko isn't a fluke, but for me, Grasso was dominating the stand-up, with just a 1, 2, combo so I think she will have to up his wrestling even more, but the odds this time will surely get closer now,


Yup! Gane is predictable and likely I have seen him scared over Jon Jones he was punching up suddenly will back away so much that he is not really getting his rhythm for Jones, he also has an opening that he doesn't get because of the distance he make while backing up, so it was really his lost and he also said in the press conference that he was angry with himself,

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Rousey was only strong because she managed to beat some more fighters in her past fights and she is confident when she fought Holms and thought that she needs only light training to beat her. Little did she know that she would be the one who will be beaten that night because Holms has trained intensively and was ready to fight her at any round. That's what they are lacking for when they are winning consecutively, they lose their focus and most of them became arrogant, only a few remained humble, and in the end, they lose as they had never been a champion once in their life because their training is not intensive like before.

Rousey vs Holms was also the same upset. I'm already convinced that I would be betting for the underdog once they match a champ vs an unexpected contender.

It would appear like Dana's team knows exactly who to match up with and who could beat who whenever they meet in the cage. It tricked the bookmakers.

Men's UFC generally does not have too many unpredictable results. It is generally much easier to predict men's fights compared to women's fights. Actually, the odds are very misleading when it comes to women's fights. If men's fight is looking very competitive and good on paper, it can be expected that the fight is going to be competitive. But if women's fight does look to be competitive on paper it might be competitive and it might not, and vice versa, no one knows!

Just bet small and have fun making greasy parlays.  Save the dough for trading when the bull market comes back. 

Anyway the next three events are actually decent leading to UFC 287.  Not to mention that UFC 286 is gonna be in London.  That's gonna be crazyyy.  English fans hit different.

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My lottery ticket will prolly look more like this for more value.

Aldrich - Dumas
Add:  Williams -Bautista - Ramos
Add:  Nurmagomedov - Petrino - Yan
Add:  Spann - Volkov - Gravely
Add:  Nam - Assuncao

To counter Jones, you need to be a versatile fighter, this became the main problem for Gane. I don't want to offend any of the fighters but Gane disappointed me, there was such a hype around this fight, but in the end it all ended very quickly, even too quickly.

Nganu would be a good opponent for Jones, and even though it's not possible right now, I think we'll see them fight someday. Although they had so many opportunities to have this fight while Nganu was in the UFC, why didn't it happen, can we say that John somehow avoided this fight? I don’t know what happened and how, but I would like to watch the fight of these monsters, in the first round it would hardly have ended.

That is why I dont like women MMA and their fights are always so unpredicted. Women fights are always a total mismatch on the paper, and a close fight in the octagon. This not the first time a woman fighter with 7+ odd wins. Zhang Weili was same underdog in her last fight. Dont forget Julianna Pena vs. Amanda Nunes upset. And I did not even started to google. I am sure I would have found more example. In men UFC, I can remember only how Leon Edwards make a huge upset to Kamaru Usman.

Thank you and congrats on your Grasso bet too.
I think many gamblers were destroyed especially their parlays. The Grasso fight versus Shevchenko might be the killer of it. No one really expected it for the odds were too far. It even added more to Grasso being the heavy underdog when the fight was about to start. I think the last odds were 7.60-7.80. Then, there's Jon Jones winning although he is the favorite.

She sure needed another win and that's to cement his position as the champion. Many analysts are still thinking she won't win in their rematch but if she can shut them up, then all these doubts will be gone.

Petr Yan is in a tricky situation right now. Guess where Merab Dvalishvili trains and who he trains with. I will give you a hint - he is a sparring partner of a guy who already has two wins over Yan (or one win ). Dvalishvili is now on a series of 9 wins. So if Dvalishvili follows gameplan, he has all chances to win. Dvalishvili weakness is defense from strikes, head movement. But he is good at wrestling. Petr starts slowly, but increase tempo in last rounds. With takedowns and ground work Merab is able to take first round, survive Petr striking  and win 2-1 or 3-2 aka split decision.

Here we go again, a great fight indeed, and Merab Dvalishvili is one scary dude, beating up José Aldo and making him retire is one crazy feat, but Petr yan will be needing this win he does have 2 consecutive losses right now so he will be needing this win for sure, and the 2 Alexander will clash, this is 1 interesting fight for sure, then Said Nurmagomedov I surely anticipated for him to fight because it is a long way up for the Bantamweight title but I guess Umar Nurmagomedov could be the 1st to test the champion Sterling, and then I will surely support the beautiful Ariane Lipski and the cancelled fight for Nikita Krylove VS Ryan Spann was moved to this event for sure this is going to be a great fight aswell,


After the success of the Alexa Grasso fight I am finding fights that have the same kind of vibe as that fight aswell in this event but still looking for some underdog fights for this event that is worthy and yes there aren't really many fights that are available, but surely a big fight like the Israel Adesanya VS Alex Pereira would be a wonderful sight to watch, and because it is way too far ahead and we just have this event right now and for me there are some juicy fight that surely interest me,

In heavyweight you can't judge from the physical appearance because their fat covering the muscle, so their body doesn't look strong in our eyes. Ciryl Gane is really have low grappling skill compared to Jon Jones, maybe this is the reason why Francis Ngannou choose to leave UFC because he would fight with Jon Jones.

Assuming if there's a fight between Khabib vs Jones, I believe the popularity and the hype is really low than Khabib vs Conor. The fight between Khabib vs Conor is making whole people who doesn't interested with UFC, become interested to watch them.