Topic: The UFC Info and Prediction Thread - page 237. (Read 97228 times)

Yes, Pimblett's answer was interesting, I will fight on Saturday, rest on Sunday, and beat you on Monday, it seems that Pimblett is very confident, since he thinks that just one day will be enough for him to recover from the fight. But in any case, this is one more performance, without which Paul cannot, he has everything built on this. It will be interesting for me to see it, he knows how to promote his fights.

Probably just to prevent people from booing and starting a riot in the arena. People are already heated when it comes to supporting which side they are but having a flag waving on the UFC like they have invaded the sport can spark a flame. Why they ask for a fee is what makes it smelly.

I never really notice the sudden disappearance of comedy and entertainment shows on tv but you're right. I have just realized I kept watching those series 10 years ago.  Seem not a political issue to me but maybe we are fed with negative emotions by the networks much like the zombie movies that it becomes normal to see homeless guys high on Fentanyl.

Ok, lets get back a bit to that flag thing. The thing is - flags might not be banned, and Dana White is telling the truth, but as we all watch events live, but not in IRL, then montage can be the thing. The world is not as calm as used to be nowadays, so why make those tiny reminders to Russia-Ukraine war with showing Russian flags. Same as all of a sudden all comedy and entertainment shows disappear from TV, if a disaster or terrorist attack for example, has happened on the eve. Just my prediction. Dont know about other country flags, maybe there is also something behind.

Conor McGregor has proven his entertainment value and because of the drama that he added to the sports it became more flavorful no doubt about that, he surely hypes not only the community but others that didn't know MMA or the UFC people just got into the boat out of curiosity, that is why I agree that Conor McGregor has fueled the sales up because Khabib Nurmagomenodov doesn't want to really hype the fight he is just contended in what he gets in every fight he does,


They surely need time to get to that kind of level as Khabib Nurmagomenodov, they need time to wrestle a bear cub at a young age, they need relentless training and scramble with every Dagestan fighter surely enough the drive of Khabib is a more important factor to be him right now, and for me, Islam Makhachev is the one that is really near the level of Khabib now because they are best friends he surely trained with Khabib together,


Actually, I don't really like Paddy Pimblet at 1st the way he talks, and pretty much his beef with Ilia Topuria was the one I really don't like, but seeing how he fought I have learned to like him he got that unique scramble when it comes to grappling that is not been shown in most fighters, he surely got the guts, and the dedication when he is nearing his fight, from gaining so much quicker and losing it so quickly as well he surely amaze me with that


You surely got a keen eye for these, that is why I salute you for saying this to me, will be looking at them I mean will be looking their stats, and fighting style and will be giving my verdict on who's going to win between this two for sure, but pretty much I really like the Latina look of Cortez but Amanda Ribas can be more hot than her, but surely will be looking for what they can do inside the octagon more,

It appears we might have another comedy show between Jake Paul and another UFC fighter hehehe. Paddy the baddy is smaller than Jake Paul, however. It might not be very fair for the UFC fighter. Jake Paul in boxing is a cruiserweight which has a limit of 200 pounds. Paddy Pimblet in MMA is a lightweight which has a limit of only 155 pounds.

Jake Paul should challenge an active UFC fighter who is much closer in his own weight division like Alex Pereira hehehehe.



Jake Paul challenged Paddy Pimblett to $1 million bout after the UFC star claimed the creator fixes his fights

Paul's challenge was one Pimblett was swift to accept, albeit with a slight caveat — the sparring session would have to take place at the UFC's Performance Institute in Las Vegas, shortly after his December 10 fight against Jared Gordon in the same city.

"Come to the PI next week and bring $1 million in a bag and I will spar with you," Pimblett told TMZ on Tuesday — the same day Paul issued his challenge.

"I'm in the PI in Vegas on Thursday. But if he wants to wait until after my fight — until the Monday … I'm game."

Source https://www.insider.com/jake-paul-challenged-paddy-pimblett-after-his-fixed-fights-claim-2022-11



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Amanda Ribas
from Brazil
vital statistics 32-24-34


vs.

Tracy Cortez
from Mexico
vital statistics 34-24-36

Maybe. There's so much room for improvement.
Weak chin but fast recovery. We have seen it in Paddy's many fights, seems like an early knockdown but stands up suddenly and back to looking fresh.
I am glad the referees are giving them chance for that.
Striking is average but submission is on a different high level.
Takedown accuracy is just enough but this is where he should focus more if he wants to bring every fight laying on the mat. The counters though are very impressive. Weakness will be fighters with high takedown defense.

Yeah, he's made a lot of people admit that myself including. I wasn't a fan of him at first, and I still wouldn't call myself a fan, but I can admit when I'm wrong. He's really dedicated himself to boxing, and looks half decent. Certainly no world beater, but no one should be expecting him to be.

He's already fought bigger names than most boxers have when starting their career. I don't know much about Andrew Tate honestly, he's a bit off my radar. However, the Woodley fight doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me. Woodley had his chance, and he did the typical thing that earned him his nickname, and just freezes without putting volume out there.

There are a lot of people who do not believe me, but Jake Paul has taken his fighting career seriously. And out of all the YouTubers-turned-boxers, Jake Paul is probably the most legit one. I think this guy has skills. And I have talked about some shit previously.

Let me rephrase, I have talked a lot of shit about Jake Paul previously. But after actually watching him fight, I think he is legit. Jake Paul has moved on and I think Tyron Woodley should as well.

By the way, you want to know which is going to be the fight of the year? Jake Paul or Logan Paul, just any of the Paul brothers against Andrew Tate.

Quite possibly, definitely a lot more raw than Conor. However, I do get the comparison, and to be honest I can't, but help like him. I think his chant about the Tories won me over though. However, he's got the potential to be a Conor, and the UFC every single time is going to try, and make the best of that sort of opportunity.

There's no doubt he has skills, and I'd say he's a little more rounded than Conor, but probably right now isn't as good at the stand up. Grappling I've been pretty impressed with him to be honest. He's got a submission game too.

There is a positive side to the Conor McGregor fiasco, he took the sport to a different level because there are more people watching these fights which means more money to the fighters, before that no one earned a million dollars per fight in the UFC, but now all the top level stars are earning a million dollars per fight and it is all because Conor McGregor took it to the next level.


No doubt about his dedication and the skill level and when it comes to the ground game he is way ahead of everyone else, now everyone is doing the Dagestani handcuff to control the opponents but to reach to his level it takes a lot of time.

They fight at 155 pounds and how many times anyone think about facing Khabib, no one is going to defeat him as that was his level of dominance. The only challenge i would love to see was if he was moving up in weight class

Well, Flag prohibition is here to stay, and here is the ARTICLE about it, as you have said that Sterling is carrying a Jamaican flag, while Petr Yan doesn't have any, and we can see in that post that Chito Vera is not allowed to carry the Ecuadorian flag during his walkout against Rob Font, and Dana White is not saying anything about the flag ban, right now it is really prohibited unless the fighters want to pay the amount if they do want to walk with a forbidden flag on the UFC,

I am happy with Nate Diaz as he is now free to making his own actions now, and with this Jake Paul has wasted no time in challenging Nate Diaz, surely if this comes to fruition it will be another huge cash-in for Jake Paul even if he losses to Nate Diaz, here is the ARTICLE,

UFC had to make Conor the poster boy. Because if I remember correctly UFC was not having a good time during that period. And Connor McGregor was the one who started to sell more and more fights. He was also getting people very interested in UFC. And after all, UFC has to generate profits. Otherwise, they would cease to exist. And Dana White also said that himself. He is going to give those fighters better chances who can bring in the money. And at that time there was another problem. All the fighters started saying that they wanted” money fights.” But they were not bringing in the money.

As far as I am concerned, Paddy Pimblett is actually a bit overrated in my opinion. And I think this controversial opinion is going to be proven once he starts fighting against top level fighters.

Even if Mc Gregor is at his prime. In fact, let me tell Mc Gregor that if he focuses entirely on fighting, he doesn't gamble at all, he doesn't care about social status or anything, he only cares about the fight, but I still see it as impossible for him to beat Khabib, purely because of the style difference they do. Sambo and wrestling style are more advantageous compared to a superior striker, so Mc Gregor's hard work wouldn't mean anything to me, of course there are a lot of people who have different opinions.

I certainly would not be able to watch Conor McGregor vs Artem Lobov. But I know that a lot of people would. For some reason, I feel like this is not going to be a fight off the same class opponents. I am not sure, can you tell me in which flight class this flight is going to take place if it does? Because last what I had seen, Conor McGregor put on a serious amount of weight.

Anyway, this fight is not going to interest me. Something interesting for me is going to be Conor McGregor vs Islam Makhachev, but that certainly isn’t happening.

It's always weird when politics takes over. The war sometimes extends to MMA matches.
Tuivasa is the only recognizable name on the list. Will go for Holland as long as he isn't fighting Khamzat.


With Conor's leg having a crack, he wouldn't last anymore even if he fights someone else like Aldo who probably hates his guts more than anyone. Aldo will be throwing damaging leg kicks to punish him.

I agree. Do you think I don’t believe that Connor McGregor did not train well enough for that fight?

Of course, Conor McGregor trained really hard. But Connor McGregor always cared about his social status, showing off to other people, how many cars he has, etc.

But Khabib Nurmagomedov did not have anything like that in his mind. He didn’t run after the money, he didn’t run after no girls. Training was how most of the time in his life was spent. And it is hard to beat a guy like that.

Even if we see another Khabib vs Conor fight, I think that might be one-sided again. Because Connor McGregor is obviously not in his prime anymore. But I am quite confident that even though Khabib Nurmagomedov is retired, and put on quite a lot of weight, he will still be able to get to the one-forty-five-pound mark and beat Conor.

Yeah..  But I think some people are trying to pin the issue totally on Dana White or the UFC.  He has his hands tied and he prolly doesn't give a fk which flag you wave around during walk outs.  You could wave a flag around that says the UFC sucks and he wouldn't care.  It's the United States gov imposing those rules as Russia is currently 'the enemy'.  It's a weird time.  

Anyway, you guys got any picks and bets for this weekend's event?  There are some pretty good match ups in here...  Levy vs Valdez is gonna be good, Price vs Rowe, Hermansson vs Dolidze, Tuivasa vs Pavlovich and Nicolau vs Schnell.

I might be incorrect (cant google it properly from the phone right now), but for example Petr Yan always wear flag during decision announcement. But he had no flag after his fight against Sean O'Malley. Come on, Petr Yan is a 100% Siberian, which means he is Russian from toe to head, wears Orthodox cross all the time, and he is without the flag ? Hard to believe there are no shady games behind UFC scenes.

But please, enough of the politics here, lets get back to business. Did you guys noticed, that Nate Diaz is a free agent right now ? The bird is free and not can start creating his own promotion.

Right now I think Russian fighters in all sorts of combat sports know the situation right now there is a war that is going on at the moment and I guess the UFC is not really prohibiting Russian fighters to wear their flags but there will be fine if they did that, they just need to pay, but at least not prohibiting them from doing so, but yeah I think Russian fighters know the situations right now and I think for now  haven't seen any flags yet, but yeah if the situations subside which is not really happening right now this may continue for as long as we really don't know,


I really think they will not lose the Russian fan base sure there are just a lot of Russian Fighters and many of them are really dominating on the ground, surely because of the ground game of Khabib Nurmagomedov, it was a game-changer for the UFC and other combat sports so far, and their style on ground game is also dominating the Jiujitsu users in all combat sports right now, pretty much if a Russian Dagestani fighter is present inside the octagon or ring, it will surely showcase Dagestani Wrestling VS Brazilian Jiujitsu for sure,

Woodley seems to be trying to get Jake Paul to enter into an MMA fight for a third matchup between them now. Jake has moved on, but it’s crazy that he’s getting called out by fighters now. Jake looks like he’ll be staying with boxing though and apparently has fight offers out to Tommy Fury, Nate Diaz, & Andrew Tate. I personally don’t care about Tommy Fury but the other two would probably be fun to watch.