Topic: The UFC Info and Prediction Thread - page 28. (Read 99604 times)

Only god knows but as crazy as he is, I think that he really plans to run for President of Ireland. He is a celebrity, has a huge fanbase, especially in Ireland and why not? But I don't like the idea of athletes in politics. They are athletes that train their body, not their mind. They aren't as smart as those who dedicate their life to work that requires high mental workload.

Put Mike Tyson in boxing and I'll watch it 24/7. I think that sometimes it's certain athletes that make us watch sports and to be honest, that happens very often in my case. For example, I started watching football because of the hype that was around Messi and oh my, what a brilliant decision that was. I started watching UFC because of Conor McGregor too I never was his fan but he was so widely spoken that I watched one of his fight and then I liked it, then I liked athletes like Dustin Poirier, Tony Ferguson and so on.

^  Meh...  Just enjoy what you want to watch for the weekend.  If it's one over the other...  Fine.  If you want both, that's fine too.  If you don't like both of them, k.  The whole arguing thing over which is better is so dumb imho.

But yeah, for you guys who are eligible...  jeremypwr's Multi Master is up and running.

UFC 306:  Multi Master Challenge
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5508773

My leans at first glance...

10. Merab Dvalishvili
9. Valentina Shevchenko
8. Brian Ortega
7. Daniel Zellhuber
6. Ronaldo Rodriguez
5. Norma Dumont
4. Ignacio Bahamondes
3. Yazmin Jauregui
2. Edgar Chairez
1. Raul Rosas Jr

Just 10 matches?  Weird for an event with a PPV.

So it turns out that this is another UFC vs boxing war? How simple. And stupid. Imho these are two different audiences, and fighting for their purse isnt smart. A true boxing fan will never turn his tv channel to watch UFC fight. Simply because boxing is a gentlemen fight and it isnt fair to "hit grounded opponent". The same as UFC fan most likely will see boxing as boring, because of limited variety of strikes.

I very much agree. President is a big ambition for Conor hehehe. He might win if he will run for mayor of Dublin, however. The Irish mafia can certainly help him on this.

@cabron. It also appears that Alalshikh is the sponsor of UFC 306 heheheheh. Did you hear what he said about Canelo's fight on September 14? He said we will eat him.



Turki Alalshikh is sponsoring the UFC 306 event on September 14th at the Sphere in Las Vegas, which will be held on the same night as Canelo Alvarez’s fight against Edgar Berlanga at the T-Mobile Arena. Canelo won’t be happy to hear Turki plans to sponsor the UFC 306 event, which would stymie his scheduled event on the same night.

Turki’s Bold Prediction: “We Will Eat Him” Turki told ESPN that his sponsored UFC 306 event on September 14th will “eat” Canelo’s fight card on the same night against Berlanga.

Read in full https://www.boxingnews24.com/2024/07/turki-alalshikhs-ufc-306-a-direct-challenge-to-canelo-alvarez-on-september-14th/


You might have forgotten that the preliminary fights are not included in payperview heheh.

I don't know, as much as I want Merab to win, I agree with Sean being the favourite here. He was tested against wrestlers before and cama up at the top. He knows how to utilise his reach advantage and keep the distance making it hard for Dvalishvili to take him down and increasing the risk of Merab getting KO'd while trying to do so.
Even if the fight goes to the ground, it won't be easy to hold Sean down. Escaping from such situations was probably one of his main focuses during training camps in the last few years.
And we also have the cut above Merab's eye which may not be 100% healed.
Whatever the result, it will be a good fight.

He was already controlled since the time the Police investigated him for tweeting about the riots and looting in the country. He deleted them after it. If he really is serious about running I think they will indeed allow him to win but his policies may still be the same. He will be obedient to the people in power.


I think I've watched that from a UFC channel as well where they plan to flash a short video stream featuring the history of boxing and UFC in Mexico after every fight lol They are going to bore the audience with these.

They prioritized Mexican fighters indeed but the main event Omalley vs Merab doesn't fit the Mexican audience. They may sway some people to watch a die-hard fan to UFC PPV but the main event may really flop. Canelo is the biggest boxing star in Mexico. I think if Canelo runs for president, he may likely to win too.

People in power will never allow McGregor to become a president of Ireland, and I am not sure people should trust him when everyone knows about his connection with Irish mafia.
And in case they allow him to win, that means he is just another controlled player of the system.
He was to scared to say the full truth about some things happening in last few years, and I remember him posting and than deleting posts on X.
His UFC carrier is going to be finished if he decides to go fully into politics.

But match ups and card does not match the size and glory of the event and venue

Ok, main card is good.

Co-main event. A third fight between Grasso and Shevchenko. I never liked when fighters meet three times and more. What is the point of that and keeping whole division on pause. Shevchenko lost via submission and that was enough to put an end in their competition. I could understand if in the first fight Valentina was dominating, and lost by accident; and they had a split draw again. But as I remember Grasso won fair and square.

Ortega - Lopes. Nothing to discuss, good and expected fight.

Zellhuber vs Ribovics and Rodriguez vs Osbourne. They are in main card only because they are Mexicans and September 14 is Mexican independence day? Every prelim fight contains a Mexican fighter. Hmm... And Rosas from Mexico as an event opener. Why not instead take a shot of Jose Cuervo in front of Sphere, and congratulate everyone with that day?

You're kidding right?  Rosas is one of the more likeable guys in the UFC, unlike Mokaev...  Who comes across as a douche and he's so cringe tbh.  Pretty sure it's like what Toptort says.  They wanna open the event with a bang.  Something like Rosas via SUB at R1.   

Anyway, not sure why Merab is the slight underdog here...  And it will prolly go more towards O'Malley close to the weekend and make Dvalishvili's have more value.

Then Rosas needs to do something really big to fire up the night, because the fights that comes after can easily stop that fire Maybe trick is to steal Mexican audience (Canelo) by starting event with Rosas, who is a Mexican also? Just to make people switch channels or PPV streams for 10-20minutes, and that will be enough to pull blanket on UFC side. Btw, anyone knows PPV prices for Canelo and UFC 306 ? Dont think that people would be ready to buy both translations, and forcing them to buy PPV to watch Rosas, might work and make people not spending on Canelo fight. Dunno... Weird card.

I would very much agree if the Canelo's opponent is David Benavidez or if this is a superfight between Canelo and Bud Crawford. However, if you say this without considering Canelo's next opponent on saturday, this is very headshaking hehehehe.

On Alalshikh, I agree! He is a boxing fan who loves this sport very much. This might also be why there are speculations that uncle Dana's next project is a boxing promotion with Alalshikh. I reckon this project might also be with uncle Dana's original partners in the UFC heheeh.

I don't know, but it reminds me of Mokaev's fight at the UFC 304 getting moved to prelims and we all know what happened to him.
R.I.P. Rosas, you will be missed 

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Anyhow, here are the odds for the main card fights:

Sean O'Malley x1.82 vs. Merab Dvalishvili x1.98
Alexa Grasso x1.80 vs. Valentina Shevchenko x2.02
Brian Ortega x2.50 vs. Diego Lopes x1.53
Daniel Zellhuber x1.42 vs. Esteban Ribovics x2.88
Ronaldo Rodríguez x1.76 vs. Ode' Osbourne x2.07

I imagined O'Malley would be more of a favourite, but I think the odds look quite fair.

Maybe it's a strategy. It's kind of a big concert where they have to fire up the night before the main band performs, and they allow local stars to sing and draw the crowd. Rosas is the next likely candidate to make people watch. He seems to be more famous than Daniel Zellhuber or Lady Boy Ronaldo Rodriguez.

UFC having a hard time competing the Canelo fight. Alalshikh is about to sabotage UFC, he is more of a boxing fan AFAIK.

Yeap, I wrote that last week - who is the matchmaker for UFC 306? I dont understand why the events opens with Rosas fight? Was it made on purpose, to catch attention of audience from the very start. But the should have made next fights even better if they start with such a flashy fight. If they start with Rosas, they show Chairez vs Van and that fight did not impress viewers, after next fight people could switch channel. And frankly speaking, main event could be better for an event in such a venue. Pereira is always ready to fight, as well as Volkanovski They could have done a better main event

^  How is Ronaldo Rodriguez vs Ode Osbourne in the main card and Raul Rosas vs Qileng is not?  Lolol.    Sometimes i just don't know what's going on behind the scenes.

Anyway, I feel like we've already said what needed to be said about the event.    Let's just wait for Merab to upload another banger at IG I guess. 

Here's the countdown vid.

UFC 306:  Countdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDwQL_Dyonk

UFC 306



Date: September 14, 2024

Early Prelims: Sun, Sep 15 / 2:30 AM GMT+3
Preliminary Card: Sun, Sep 15 / 3:00 AM GMT+3
Main Card: Sun, Sep 15 / 5:00 AM GMT+3

Venue: Sphere

Main card (ESPN)
Bantamweight: Sean O'Malley vs. Merab Dvalishvili
Women's Flyweight: Alexa Grasso vs. Valentina Shevchenko
Featherweight: Brian Ortega vs. Diego Lopes            
Lightweight: Daniel Zellhuber vs. Esteban Ribovics            
Flyweight: Ronaldo Rodríguez vs. Ode' Osbourne

Preliminary card (ESPN)
Women's Bantamweight: Irene Aldana vs. Norma Dumont            
Lightweight: Ignacio Bahamondes vs. Manuel Torres            
Women's Strawweight: Yazmin Jauregui vs. Ketlen Souza            
Flyweight: Edgar Chairez vs. Joshua Van

Early preliminary card (ESPN+ / UFC Fight Pass)
Bantamweight: Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Aori Qileng

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_306

^  Nice double up.  Plain and simple...  I tend to over complicate things and think 'maybe this underdog has value' and end up losing some money.  Lolol.

Anyway, here are the results for the event.

Sean Brady def   Gilbert Burns  UD
Natalia Silva def Jessica Andrade  UD
Steve Garcia def Kyle Nelson  TKO R1
Cody Durden def Matt Schnell  SUB R2
Yanal Ashmouz def Trevor Peek  UD
Chris Padilla def Rong Zhu  TKO R2
Isaac Dulgarian def Brendon Marotte  SUB R2
Andre Lima def Felipe dos Santos  UD
Gabriel Santos def Yi Zha  UD
Jaqueline Amorim def Vanessa Demopoulos  SUB R1
Andre Petroski def Dylan Budka   Decision  UD
Nathan Fletcher def Zygimantas Ramaska  SUB R2

Glad that's over and dine with.  Next week we got and event with visuals. 

In the UFC Fight Night event I took three fights that I thought were quite interesting and easy to bet on, but only one was the most impressive of the three selected fights.
YiZha vs Gabriel Santos, Isaac Dulgarian vs Brendon Marotte and the last one was the main card fight between Gilbert Burns vs Sean Brady.
Gilbert Burns vs Sean Brady was very interesting fight and quite fierce considering they lasted until the last round was finished and the victory by decision was obtained by Sean Brady, this was bitter defeat that was again obtained Gilbert Burns after previously being tragically defeated by Khamzat Chimaev.

I got good slip in today event and all three fights resulted in win.

Another thing about the ticket prices, at 306 the cheap seats in the Sphere go for 1.5k before discount, the cheap seats at the T Mobile Arena which is also at Las Vegas for UFC 300 went for 700 bucks.  So yeah...  They had to slash the price to get people to buy the cheap seats at the Sphere.  Maybe if the main event is Jones vs Aspinall, co main is O'Malley vs Merab then with Grasso vs Shev and put in a BMF in there with Holloway vs some bad dude...  Pretty sure those cheap seats at 1.5k would fill up fast. 

Here are the weigh in results for this week's event.

Gilbert Burns (171) vs Sean Brady (171)
Jessica Andrade (124.5) vs Natalia Silva (125.5)
Steve Garcia (145.5) vs Kyle Nelson (148.5)*
Cody Durden (135) vs Matt Schnell (135)
Yanal Ashmouz (154.5) vs Trevor Peek (155)
Chris Padilla (154) vs Rong Zhu (155.5)
Isaac Dulgarian (145.5) vs Brendon Marotte (145)
Felipe dos Santos (124.5) vs Andre Lima (125.5)
Gabriel Santos (146) vs Yi Zha (144.5)
Jaqueline Amorim (115.5) vs Vanessa Demopoulos (116)
Dylan Budka (188.5)* vs Andre Petroski (185.5)
Nathan Fletcher (145) vs Zygimantas Ramaska (145.5)

*Missed weight

So Nelson is 2.5 lbs over the limit.  It looks to me like he didn't try to lose the last couple lbs, which also looks like he'll be fresh for the match.  Getting worried with Steve Garcia now. 

Schnell's original opponent backed out.  So Durden is taking over than the fight is gonna be at 135.  I think Schnell has a good chance to win here as an underdog as the higher weight class could help with his chin and durability issues.  Hmmm...

Elon replied to his x thread with "Awesome".
Conor already has his theme which is "Make Ireland Great Again'. I think he is serious. He has been involved in some commotions I think last year related to immigration in the country. The only qualification required to win a presidency these days is popularity. If we talk about brand, Conor has it, he just has to walk the walk.


I think because that was the first MBF title, 2 hours of waiting seemed okay yet only to be disappointed by stoppage. But both are the most popular during that time while Omalley despite how he looks great in every fight, his rainbow attacks haters.