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Curtis Blaydes would make sense and we see how he fares against one of the best wrestlers in the UFC.  Another match up that I'd like to see for the Pavlovich is him vs Gane.  It's gonna be power vs finesse.  I think he loses to both but he got that powerrr that could change the outcome.  Lol.

Anyway, here are some 282 stuff...  Enjoy.

UFC 282:  Countdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYYPCIwN0KU

UFC Free Fight:  Blachowicz vs Anderson2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KrC8iJtis4

UFC Free Fight:  Ankalaev vs Cutelaba 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpDgQOi2A6o

UFC Free Fight:  Pimblett vs Leavitt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enI4-8IizJ8

UFC Free Fight:  Gordon vs Quinones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC67ooRCf9Q

Date:  Saturday, December 10
Main Card (PPV):  10:00pm EST
Preliminary Card (ESPN/ESPN+):  8:00pm EST
Early Prelims (ESPN+/Fight Pass):  5:30pm EST
Venue:  T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada




Main Card (PPV)
Light Heavyweight:  Jan Błachowicz vs Magomed Ankalaev
Lightweight:  Paddy Pimblett vs Jared Gordon            
Middleweight:  Darren Till vs Dricus du Plessis            
Featherweight:  Bryce Mitchell vs Ilia Topuria

Preliminary Card (ESPN/ESPN+)
Heavyweight:  Jairzinho Rozenstruik vs Chris Daukaus            
Bantamweight:  Raul Rosas Jr. vs Jay Perrin            
Middleweight:  Edmen Shahbazyan vs Dalcha Lungiambula            
Middleweight:  Chris Curtis vs Joaquin Buckley   

Early Prelims (ESPN+/UFC Fight Pass
Featherweight:  Billy Quarantillo vs Alexander Hernandez            
Featherweight:  TJ Brown vs Erik Silva            
Flyweight:  Vinicius Salvador vs Daniel da Silva            
Bantamweight:  Cameron Saaiman vs Steven Koslow

Well pretty much It is an exciting match, but there is surely a known feeling that Magomed Ankalaev will win this that is why it is boring for some, but for me I want to see if Jan Blachowicz could make a big remarks in stopping Ankalaev here, Magomed Ankalaev will not pursue on takedowns at the 1st of the rounds he will surely brawl with you so Jan Blachowicz could have time in getting familiar with Ankalaev standing, but for sure there are a lot of frustration why the fight was change from Prochazka VS Teixeira to Blachowicz VS Ankalaev, pretty much all of that Surnames hard to say and spell, for me Ankalaev for the win for sure,

What is next for Pavlovich? One more fight and in case of a win a title fight? Dont think that Pavlovich will manage to climb higher than he is now. Any good wrestler (*sigh* again a wrestler) will make an easy win. Pavlovich seems to be one tactics fighter. He is quick on hands, but barely uses legs. He is good at middle distance due to speed and reach. But on distance, dont think he will stay long against high kicks. On close distance - Overeem threw knees, got Pavlovich down and tko. Seems he is bad against submissions, even though he is from combat sambo.

The Main Event really deserves it and I was really enjoying what Thompson and Holland were showing us, it was really remarkable and maybe those takedowns and ground game were not effective against Thompson anymore because of the injury Holland sustained, for me Kevin Holland should not retire early he is proven that he can still shows a great fight and because of that here is the bonus for the UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland

FIGHT OF THE NIGHT
Stephen Thompson vs. Kevin Holland   |   $50,000 bonus to each fighter
PERFORMANCE OF THE NIGHT
Tai Tuivasa vs. Sergei Pavlovich   |   $50,000 bonus to Pavlovich
PERFORMANCE OF THE NIGHT
Jack Hermansson vs. Roman Dolidze   |   $50,000 bonus to Dolidze

Both Stephen Wonder Boy and Kevin Holland deserve their bonus for showing a remarkable fight and both men don't give up until Holland retires because of his messed up hands, and Sergei Pavlovich has shown a remarkable KO/TKO win against Tuivasa, for me seeing him more of a technical approached to Tuivasa have made me think twice that he is really aggressive but also have the technical approach in it, while I was really amazed at Roman Dolidze, Jack Hermansson also had a ground game, but Dolidze has taken it to the next level with that unique calf slicer and it was a 1st time I am seeing that technique,

This was a great UFC event to watch with many KO wins, and main event was showing how to friendly people can easily broke each other body parts.
Kevin Holland broke his hand in first round and he will need surgery, so it's amazing to see how he lasted for four rounds against Thompson.
Both of this guys are really hard to break, but ahead of is maybe even better main event in few days.

I agree It could be a copy of the Blachovicz VS Texeira fight but at a much scrambler, and yes quicker pace, it surely not a great fight to watch because it could be finished in an instant, so I really feel sorry for Jan Blachovicz and many are expecting Ankalaev winning this,

They could surely set camps in Dagestan and they could also wrestle some bears to be strong as Khabib Nurmagomedov, maybe the air is thick there just to help make the chest of the fighter coop up on breathing, pretty much Glover Texeira would need to go to the mountains and trained there just to have the feeling of getting a hard time breathing just to trained never be gasted out quickly,

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I have heard the news Alex Pereira is accusing Khamzat Chimaev of being scared of him, and turning down his offer to fight him, pretty much not the Khamzat Chimaev that I knew, where do his remarks of SMESH everybody go or Alex Pereira is doing mind games again, but for me, I will still wait for Khamzat Chimaev if he would respond to this,

And for Charles Oliveira's rematch against Islam Makhachev, before the fight between UFC 284: MAKHACHEV VS. VOLKANOVSKI there should be a rematch between Makhachev and Oliveira but Charles Oliveira is emotionally stressed to get back inside the Octagon with Islam Makhachev so Oliveira have turned down the offer, but hopefully, Charles Oliveira will regain his old self and reclaim the title,

Looks like Blachovicz vs Ankalaev is going to be a copy of Blachovicz vs Texeira fight, but much quicker. Like people say, Dagestan wrestling is going to dominate again.

I think fighters should make camps in Dagestan, instead of Thailand I am serious. Fighters can greatly improve their stamina with that mountain air, train with best wrestlers, then go back to US or Thailand and train few weeks of striking and that is it

Yup! adding up their weight differences those heavy punches from Jake Paul could surely make Paddy The Baddy be knockout unconscious with just one punch, but if Pimblett would play catchweight and fight as Paddy The Fatty maybe he can have the weight of Jake Paul and could fight Jake Paul as equal, Lol, kidding aside Paddy Pimblett is just a numb skull if he accepted this fight and I have seen video's on YT that they are trash talking at one another, I haven't seen the videos yet,


For Blachowicz to win this, he needs to secure his ground and take precautionary measures on his takedown defense, and if that takedown defense failed back up plan on ground defense that means he needs to learn wrestling, so he can have a fighting chance of being submitted, but for Blachowicz to learn all those in just a small preparation is going on a suicide mission as you have said Jan Blachowicz is a never-give-up dude, so he surely never back down to a fight, but Glover Teixeira is just wise in not accepting the fight to make preparations first,


I will not call him Paddy The Numbskull if he accepted the fight without Dana White's consent Dana is surely just wise in providing fights in their weight class pretty much he knows that Paddy is not really suitable to facing Jake Paul and that is why there are different divisions in a combat sports,


Well, Sergei Pavlovich is not really approaching without any plan in his head, as we can see he still has some technical approach even though he is the one charging and it was very effective with Tai Tuivasa because he knows the nature of striking Tuivasa because it doesn't have any technical approach at all, This is why Pavlovich is very scary for having that kind of fight IQ, and the strength to one punch his opponent, even Derreck Lewis have felt that as well,


Dagestan Wrestling is that much of a threat for some, if you are a striker like Jan Blachowicz you get really intimidated by the threat of a takedown, and some fighters are getting much distracted in defending takedowns, that their stand-up now is very wide open, if this happens to Blachowicz then it is likely the end of the fight for him,

Apparently they still need more time to disperse the hype around this fight, but Paddy definitely liked the idea of ​​getting a million for this fight. I think that anyone would agree to such an offer, even knowing that he can lose, this is a chance worth taking. And since there was a lot of talk around Jake that he beats old people, he needed to choose a younger fighter, preferably not very strong in boxing, Paddy is not bad for this role.

Like everyone else, I dreamed of a belt challenge, in light heavyweight. It was very unfortunate that Jiri Prochazka was injured. Blachowicz, I'd be wrong to say I'm not excited for the Ankalev match. I am very undecided whether I will witness the rise of Ankalev or the return of Jan Błachowicz. Both are excellent fighters in this weight. Błachowicz is the more experienced side in the UFC, and he's very resilient. Despite having many positive traits, Błachowicz. Ankalaev for being a complete executioner, will win and he will continue to rise in this Light heavy weight.

First of all, I did not expect any of the fighters in this match to take such a wild approach so early on in the match. Honestly, I thought they would at least try to feel out the situation and figure out the range of striking that they could use. As it turned out, that did not happen, and Pavlovich began attacking from the very first moment of the fight. As soon as he started charging toward his opponent Tai, I think that from that point on, we knew that the fight was not going to last very long due to the way he charged. Around the 20th second of the game, Tai Tuivasa had already been knocked down. At the 54th second, it was just the nail in the coffin.



Ankalaev is a very scary name in that UFC right now. Almost every fighter is quite intimidated by this fighter. He is also doing very well right now. And I don’t think there is anywhere he is going to lose the fight against Jan Błachowicz. So, even if Glover Texeira wants to fight Ankalaev, I hope he trains as hard as he can.

with jake paul's boxing experience, he becomes good at it over time. dana will advise Paddy not to take what others had taken, it will destroy Paddy's career. he is just starting in ufc. if there is a chance for jake vs paddy, it may be when paddy's 35 and have 3-5 loses and about to retire.


Blachowicz is big so maybe he can resist the takedowns. Ankalaev on top of him is the end of it.

Yep, Pimblett is better in ground fight rather than boxing. Don't forget about the weight difference, it's quite far since Pimblett is in lightweight while Jake Paul is light heavyweight. Paul's punch could hurt Pimblett, but Pimblett's punch might doesn't that strong to Jake Paul. Why not Jake Paul learn MMA and it will be friendly MMA match lol.

Russian is really strong in MMA, I think both Ankalaev and Makhachev are similar, so I'd think Ankalaev will win this match. Blachowicz isn't really stable on his performance, but what I like about him is, he's never give up even though he's on the worst situation.

If Paddy Pimblett has a once of intelligence in his brain he would never accept that offer because for me he is much of a grappler than a boxer even though he got decent boxing he is no match against Jake Paul, knowing Paddy that wants to brawl sometimes and would surely want a decent amount of money to take to his pocket, so Paddy Pimblett will surely agree to this, let's just wait if it will happen,


Sadly, we can not get the Jiří Procházka VS Glover Teixeira fight, but this is all because of the sudden shoulder injury of Jiri Prochazka, it didn't go through, I hope he recovers fast so he could return to UFC and retain his title, while Glover Texeira would someday want to fight whoever will won in the Jan Błachowicz VS Magomed Ankalaev fight because against Ankalaev, he would surely need a decent time to prepare for this beast, but I do think he will surely had a hard time against Ankalev for sure,

The next event is surprisingly good and there are a lot of fights that I like,

UFC 282: Błachowicz vs. Ankalaev

12/10/2022 Saturday
Venue: T-Mobile Arena
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada



MAIN EVENT
Jan Błachowicz VS Magomed Ankalaev

CO-MAIN EVENT
Paddy Pimblett VS Jared Gordon

MAIN CARD
Santiago Ponzinibbio VS Robbie Lawler
Darren Till VS Dricus Du Plessis
Bryce Mitchell VS Ilia Topuria

PRELIMINARY CARD
Edmen Shahbazyan VS Dalcha Lungiambula
Billy Quarantillo VS Alexander Hernandez
Erik Silva VS TJ Brown
Jairzinho Rozenstruik VS Chris Daukaus
Chris Curtis VS Joaquin Buckley
Daniel da Silva VS Vinicius Salvador
Jay Perrin VS Raul Rosas Jr.
Ovince St. Preux VS Antonio Trócoli
Cameron Saaiman VS Steven Koslow

CANCELLED CARD
Jiří Procházka VS Glover Teixeira - Procházka Shoulder Injury
Jamie Pickett VS Bo Nickal - Nickal Injury
Ronnie Lawrence VS Cameron Saaiman - Lawrence withdrew Changed to Steven Koslow
Alexander Gustafsson VS Ovince St. Preux - Gustafsson Withdrew Changed to Philipe Lins
Ovince St. Preux VS Philipe Lins - Lins Withdrew Changed to Antonio Trócoli

All information was from https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/92214-ufc-282

A lot of talk coming from Paddy’s camp about Jake Paul these days. I think a boxing match between the two may actually happen at some point in the near future. I think this is probably bad news for Paddy, except for the payday as Jake Paul is quite a bit larger and trains strictly for boxing. You never know though. Paddy certainly seems to be confident that he could beat up Jake Paul without so much as a training camp.

Well, you have picked correctly, Holland has really high odds, he was the favorite to win which is why this fight is upset for Kevin Holland, The Wonder Boy was pretty much very crafty with his performance, while Holland was getting wrecked with those fast striking, and in the interview, he just knew that he has got a bad day in getting pummeled by Wonder Boy's striking,

I really thought that Kevin Holland will result in getting into takedowns fast just like what Khamzat Chimaev has done to him but again he is not fast enough to shoot those fast takedowns and is not as strong as Chimaev to finish Thompson fast, and Thompson was just getting up from Holland's ground game, well I forget to notice that his right hand was broken the whole 2nd round up to the 4th round that is why he is having a hard time securing Thompson on the ground,


Well, as expected for the Heavyweight a fast victory because both fighters have the striking capabilities to Knockout their opponent in the 1st round, and just like you I was really shocked that the fight just lasted under a minute, I had check the time again and it was really 54 seconds, and looking at how Sergei Pavlovich giving those strikes to Tuivasa he really knows what he is doing pretty much reach advantage was the key while Tuivasa was just punching random punches, that doesn't make sense,

Congratulation,,

Less than one minute!! This fight lasted less than one minute!
I did say that, but the fighters are very aggressive. I also said that anything can happen in this fight. I have to say that I did not expect it to be a 54-second knockout  . But it also did not come to me as a surprise as well. I was also writing about Sergei Pavlovich. I trusted him with the skills that he has and also my prediction was right about Pavlovich being the winner of this fight. And also, for the 54 seconds, in which the fight was going on, Tai Tuivasa did not look like he had anything going on. He was just getting beaten on by his opponent.

Holland has a massive fight IQ deficit imho. Lol.  If you watched the match, Holland had Thompson on the mat twice with Holland on top.  Twice!  But what did Holland do?  He let Thompson stand up.    He played into Thompson's strengths and lost for it.  

Oh and Holland was fighting with his right hand broken around R2.  So he really should've played it on the ground as Thompson had mostly no ground game.  :/

Dolidze got a great victory. What games did he play in the 2nd round, even though his back was on the ground in Hermanson's take down. Finally he put on the calf slicer and finished the Hermanson. Until I put on a calf slicer, some created a lot of games, it was very enjoyable to watch.

Sergei Pavlowich, after finished Derick Lewis, I said this could happen, Heavyweight after all, but I couldn't have imagined that much. I was shocked that he finished Tuivasa so quickly. It's over in a minute. There isn't much to say.

Although Kevin Holland took 2 takedowns, he lifted his opponent to his feet. I think he's mad at himself for not judging these takedowns. At the end of the match, he said that he had a problem with his right hand and this was the first round. He started wrestling when things get bad. There was no match discipline. At first I didn't understand what he was doing afterwards as he was just after the show.