Topic: The UFC Info and Prediction Thread - page 204. (Read 100587 times)

Just hope that p4p rating, as it is created separately from UFC by overall opinion, after "return of Jon Jones" hype is over, will be revised. People waited for his return, people dreamed to see him again, people got that. I even think that if he would have lost, he would still be high in that rating

Lets get back to incoming event. What do you think about Volkov vs Romanov fight. Volkov has a zebra record during last years. Romanov was 16-0, but lost his last fight, which a lot of people thought was a draw. Seems a cool fight on a paper, that is advices to watch.

Yes, this is really a little discouraging, especially considering that Jones has not fought for three years. But why should we judge specialists who deal with ratings, they can see better how to do it right.

As a fighter, I like Jones, he walks in the ring like a tiger, a very confident fighter, but I don’t like his human qualities, the story when he got into a car accident, and ran away, marijuana found in car, and there was a pregnant girl in the car he crashed into, this too cowardly, but now is not about that.

He is a good fighter, but to see him number one in the ranking after a three-year break is really too strange.

Who knows...  I guess every fighter in his weight class has to challenge him now as the greatest P4P tag makes it more enticing for each challenger.  As for me, who cares about the P4P rankings.  I just want to watch these guys throw leather and try to won some money from my lottery tickets.  

And I noticed there were parlays that had more than 5 legs each that almost hit.  I'll show how I make my tickets in my next parlay and see if you guys like the structure better.  It's a bit safer as you put your most confident picks at the top as a break even ticket then add the bottom ones with your less confident picks.

Funny how about few weeks ago top2 p4p beat top1 p4p and now is on third place

I would be honest, I dont like Jon Jones because of his dirty fighting style. I dont like to see him on the first place. The guy was epsent for nearly three years, submitted a guy who is really bad at wrestling and instantly became best pound for pound fighter. He is just a good wrestler. But to avoid being not objective, I would better say that he is good wrestler, decent striker with perfect anthroponymy.

I'd even consider Leon Edwards and Usman at the 3rd and 4th rank of the pound-for-pound rankings. These guys paved their way to becoming champions it's not like they did it with just one fight.
I have no idea how they calculate these rankings but I think it is website basis as they are prone to biased speculations after the hype on Jones winning the fight.
I disagree with it, there must be another platform that won't look at the "one fight rank 1" idea. It is not strong proof yet.

I wasn't able to watch this fight till this second and wasn't visiting this thread or any website that would spoil me. I just watched it on ESPN+ and I'm hugely disappointed too. There was a big hype around this fight and it ended immediately, we haven't seen any action, anything interesting other than Jon Jones immediately and easily choking Gane.

Generally, UFC ranking doesn't make sense. I think that their marketing team ranks their fighters

Definitely, he likes performance enhancers.
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Coming from 2 consecutive losses Petr Yan is in a must-win situation, and he can not lose 3 matches in a row right now so this is really getting into him he may be questioning himself why did he lose to Aljamain Sterling and why he lose agaisnt Sean O'Malley, while Merab Dvalishvili is coming from a great win agaisnt the Legend Jose Aldo, for me, Merab Dvalishvili has a good position in winning this even though Petr Yan is pretty badly needing to win in this fight I think all the pressure is all on Petr Yan's shoulder so I am really doubting if he can really take on that heat,


If only Ciryl Gane keep the pressure with the stand-up fight he could get a chance and might get Jon Jones clueless and think of ways how he can escape that pressure, but at the start of the fight Ciryl Gane was more than pressured enough to execute anything it was always a punch goes back and it was extremely backing down that the distance was very far away that he can not make a follow-up, Jon Jones even punch him hard that creates an opening for Gane to strike but surely he doesn't take it, it was really an utterly lose but Ciryl Gane still have another chance,

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!