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Now he is apologizing for not letting the UFC know about that shoulder injury.
I don't even know what to think about his statement. He should've informed them and just postponed the fight. This act starts a distrust, he might end up not getting into a fight anymore.
Dana White had no idea about it because he looks healthy and in good shape. Now he is furious about why his camp didn't bother to tell him.
I bet many gamblers lose their bet here, that includes me. 

The way Islam got ready for this fight I did not have too much doubt that he was going to win this match. But I have to say I was not 100% sure. Obviously, his performance was very dominating. I think Charles Oliveira thought that he will be able to take Islam's punches. But he was very wrong. So, Islam vs Volkanovski next?

I also think that we are gonna see a Usman vs Edwards fight first and probably the winner is going to face Belal Muhammad.

It was too quick for Makhachev to end Oliveira career, I was expect it will goes for 5 rounds and would be close, but Makhachev seems really dominating and the last punch on the round 2 make Oliveira fell down.
I don't know if Belal Muhammad is already ready to fight against Edwards, I think we will see a rematch Usman vs Edwards first.

Well even though I lose my bet on Oliveira, but I win many other bets: Belal Muhammad, Beneil Dariush and Nikita Krylov.

He should have to postpone it. In this match, Dillashaw is not a fighter who could have a profitable outcome if he was bet upon.

UFC 280 Dillashaw Vs Sterling is over by the way and as expected Sterling was the winner of the fight. It was a Knockout result in the second round. And it was really sad to witness a fight like this. Dillashaw was not in the fight at all. He got ragdolled and manhandled by Sterling. However, he had to be respected for continuing even with a dislocated shoulder. He got beaten up so badly by Sterling. Sterling was better than him in both the ground games and the stand-up game as well. Dillashaw had no chance in that fight.

They could postpone it, but nobody likes when fighters cancel their fights for any reason.
Maybe he expected that he will recover in time for the fight against Sterling but this didn't happen, and I can only say that Sterling is one lucky champ. 
I was impressed Islam Makhachev and he is deserved champion in his division, worthy replacement for his coach Khabib.
Well done Belal Muhammad, he proved he is top fighter after win against Sean Brady, and I can see him doing good against welterweight champ Leon Edwards.

Jon Jones just tweeted that he's preparing to fight stipe in December: https://twitter.com/JonnyBones/status/1584987131524812801

I'll believe that when I see it. I hope he fights this year though so they can set up a match between him and Ngannou. Both will need tune up fights for that though.

Looks like Khamzat Chimaev v Colby Covington is in the works for UFC 285 as well and the winner gets a title shot. I think that will be a good match up. Colby will give him a good match up but Chimaev is too good right now.



Personally I think fights like this they should just give them a draw. I really couldn't pick a winner out of that fight at all. If you put a gun to my head and made me score it on points Yann should probably have won, but like people are saying Sean did more damage, but even he looked shocked when he announced it. Most people seem to be saying Yann was robbed though. I heard Joe Rogan say they should probably have more than three judges; somewhere between 5 and 10. Ten seems a lot but when it's just down to three they seem to get a lot of calls wrong and I'm sure favouritism plays a part in a lot of fights as well.

Jeka Saragih is a talented fighter. But he will have to improve his ground fight a lot more. In stand-up combat, he doesn't have many problems overcoming his opponent. But when it comes to fighting on the ground he is not that effective. A total of 2 losses have been recorded by him in his professional career, and both of them have been through submissions. That is a big indication that it is not his biggest strength.


I think he is okay. But is he an UFC material?
I don't know for sure.
But I think to get into an organization like the UFC, a fighter needs to be well-balanced. But that is not the case with him. He still needs a lot of work to be done. Basically what I am saying is that he doesn't have much chance against a good wrestler.


Regards

Duke

The thing about Dillashaw's injury tho is that it's still bothering him.  He wasn't even in the open work outs a couple of days before the event.  If anything, his camp made a dumb decision pushing through with the match.  They could've asked for another schedule.

But yeah...  It is what it is.  :/

Here are a couple replays you guys should watch before the event.  Kinda leaning Arnold for this one.

UFC Free Fight:  Kattar vs Stephens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7R90VzrV3U

UFC Free Fight:  Arnold vs Hooker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEyAm-xQhEk

Enjoy.

It turns out that my country has a potential fighter for the UFC. Today I read the local media, if Jeka is fighting Ki Won Bin in lightweight is a semifinal match to head to the UFC. Jeka Saragih managed to knockout Won Bin within two minutes and four-one seconds. In the final match he will be against Anshul Jubli, from India. If he wins, Jeka Saragih will get a contract in the UFC and can certainly appear in the UFC. If that happens then it is history for my country.

Petr's shot was very good and I'm want to tell about O'Malley's character in this case, because he managed to endure and continue the fight. In a close fight, O'Malley outdid Petr and when blood poured over his eye he tried to remove it with his palm but it distracted him and he missed more panches. O'Malley is too dodgy to do anything to him on the floor of the ring, so Petr failed to realize his advantage. By the way, I'm one of those who think that O'Malley won the first and third rounds, but that's just my opinion, and even if he was only better in the last round, that might have been enough because his punches were accurate. Petr had a very good chance to finish the fight in the second round, in such fights character often decides.

Petr is better in fighting in stance. I think on the ground, O'Malley, with his reach advantage and height would bind Petr, and whole fight will be just a boring laying and recovering. Petr advantage was speed and aggression. Indeed Petr ate, I think, as much punches as he hasnt eaten in any other fight in UFC. But that does not show that O'Malley was better, I think he was just more lucky that evening.

Anyway, Petr must win his next fight obligatory, otherwise he might be kicked from UFC. And I dont envy O'Malleys. His next fight probably is going to be against Dvalishvilly or Sterling. O'Malley is really bad at wrestling (if even Yan could get him to ground).

Actually, it was Adriano Martins that beat Makhachev in the 1st round, of their fight, and in that fight, Islam Makhachev was really aggressive and looking for a knockout over Adriano Martins, so when he did a forwarding left hook Martins countered with his right that knockout Makhachev, it was solely an error on Makhachev part, so that is why we can see that Islam Makhachev is not aggressive anymore like what we saw on Charles Oliveira pushing forward to Makhachev without thinking at all,

Right now Islam Makhachev has proven that he is now a better fighter in beating Charles Oliveira, he was just not very respectful of Adriano Martins, back then but his approach now in every fight has changed, and fully focused that he is now getting the winning streak he deserves,


Well, technically the way the judges score the fight in the UFC, was damage conquers all, even the submission scramble if it wasn't a successful submission they will not score it on your benefit, so those punches and strikes that O'Malley delivered to Petr was really damaging that many judges will just base the points on those strikes, that is why the judges only see O'Malley, but Petr Yan should have mauled the pink poodle on the ground he ain't doing a ton of things when he engages O'Malley in the ground, he should let the judges make the decision on who has won,

It was a close fight, but as you mentioned, Petr's face was covered in blood and O'Malley seemed to be the one landing the good strikes.  Petr really only hit O'Malley good once, which was enough to leave him looking like he was concussed in the post fight interview.  With a fight that close though, when one fighter's face is covered in blood and the other fighter seems to be landing the big shots and has the momentum, I'm not surprised the way the decision went.  I think if there was another round or 2, O'Malley might have been able to knock him out.  I'm not so sure I agree with everyone saying O'Malley won the first round though.  I think the first and second rounds went to Petr, but it's hard to discount all the major blows and blood landing on Petr...

@Luzin, actually Makhachev does have one loss. But I think let's not talk about that since this is a very happy day for Makhachev. I particularly like the way Khabib was very happy for Makhachev. There is no doubt that he is meant to be Khabib's successor. Another thing that really made me nostalgic was when Makhachev put the belt on the shoulder of Khabib.

This was a dominating performance from Makhachev. The punches and the takedown from Makhachev were simply unbelievable. At one point it felt like Khabib was fighting with Oliviera.

After the fight, we also got to see that Alexander Volkanovski is supposed to be the next fighter for Makhachev. Khabib was the one who called him out, not Makhachev. But I think there is a high probability that Alexander will be the next opponent of Makhachev.

Aljamain when fighting Petr Yan is in his best condition, because he is already recovered from his injuries, or he is just making excuses not to fight, while T.J. Dillashaw has a shoulder while fighting Sterling, we could already see that he is holding his other hands that are injured or he is trying to relocate his shoulders, but surely Aljamain Sterling shows respect to Dillashaw by not showing remorse with his injured shoulder, giving him a great fight indeed,


It was sad because knowing Petr Yan could have finished the fight on the ground, and he is a high-ranking fighter in that division it was a pretty close fight, Petr Yan should be in his great dominance regarding their level and the ground game that he has he should be the one controlling the match, but again it was a disgraceful lost because at the end of the day he let the judge decided who really win, but it was really a controversial fight, the judges should be fired for judging the fight wrongfully,


Both are Combat Sambo, and Dagestan Wrestling, but they have the difference in style if you would watch the fights of Khabib Nurmagomedov, and the Wrestling of Islam Makhachev you can not really distinguish it clearly at 1st but you will see the difference eventually, but surely I really like both, and with this fight, you can see that Islam Makhachev has gained strength to really locked Oliveira in position, and just like Chimaev that has the strength his wrestling was really explosive, but his strength will surely the one controlling the fight,

i was expecting charles have a new fight plan since looking forward to it, he knew already that the fight will always start with taking him down.

the very recent fighting style of mackhachev is almost the same with khabib. when you guys are about to bet in this fight did you just pick who's going to submit the other or was it by KO that you expect?

The resemblance face is none other than possible because of heredity because both of which are from the Dagestan region, I think Islam performance in defeating Oliviera was quite dominant and he could continue to pressure Oliviera by continuing to play offensively, unlike Khabib who prefers to wait and see weaknesses opponent to lock, I personally see the fighting style of khabib and Islam are very different but in this case I agree if you say if Islam will be able to be the successor and even surpass the record or achievements of khabib so far in the UFC.

Petr was good when the fight turned into wrestling, otherwise O'Malley was better, he had longer arms and he hit Peter's face well. The beginning of the second round could been decisive, the exchange of blows and Petr knocked O'Malley to the floor, here he was supposed to end the fight, but he did not. The second round turned out to be tense, but in fact, Petr could not take advantage of the chances provided. In the third round, O'Malley landed some good shots and Petr's face was covered in blood, in fact Petr again could not do anything in this round. So I think O'Malley deservedly won this fight.

There are a lot of info about TJ dislocated arm, shoulder, injury and etc. Like he has injured in April, trained with injury, had operation and stuff like. Lots of excuses why TJ lost to Aljo. But, lets not forget that Aljo also had a bad injury, neck injury. He also had operations. Recovered and gave Petr Yan a very competitive fight (and won). Aljo was in same conditions.

I feel sad for Charles Oliveira for not really enjoying the belt so much when the belt Strip happened but it really happens and Islam Makhachev has proven that he is Dominant in this division and right now who's going to beat him, I am doubtful of the Lightweight division if there would be someone that can beat Makhachev, and for this, I think he can go below the Featherweight for the Alexander Volkanovski fight, for go a higher division for the Welterweight division for Leon Edwards,


Well, I know some here really hated T.J. Dillashaw but Dillashaw is the most eager dude in the UFC, I know he has used illegal boosters or drugs to boost his stamina and energy, which has led to stripping his Belt, but I think he has paid that debt in the past and feels sorry about it, I feel like he really deserves a 2nd chance, but that chance of getting that belt to Aljamain Sterling has long gone now, and that shoulder injury that popped I really believe him, if you would see his fight patterns in his previous fight he is a fantastic boxer but due to that Injury he is using leg kicks more often, it is really unusual for him to do such thing, and using it to a fighter that could use takedowns on him,

Charles Oliveira's fight patterns are unusual aswell, in getting to Makhachev crazily like that he shouldn't do something like that, this goes to show that he surely underestimated Islam Makhachev's boxing, and gave some predictions that he can knockout Makhachev in 1st round, it was really undeniable that he underestimated his opponent, 


Petr Yan should have won that fight in the decision, but Petr Yan could easily win via submission, but the Pink Poodle is just an escape artist I really think that my expectation of Petr Yan was no more to be found, I really doubt his reputation because of that loss, and for his past lost over Sterling, I feel like he is inconsistent now, he shouldn't let the judges decide on his win,