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Volkanovski is without a doubt best fighter in his Featherweight division and he is getting better with each new fight, but Lightweight will be totally different beast for him.
Charles Oliveira, Poirier, Gaethje, Makhachev are top of the food chain in that division and he needs to improve more and put some weight if he wants to compete with them on same level.
Everyone wants to be champion in two or more categories but it's not easy to do it and remain champion for long.

Alex Pereira finished him good and his UFC road to the top might be faster than Jiří Procházka, and it's only a matter of time when he meets his arch enemy Adesanya.
Yesterday I watched again kickboxing fight between this two guys and he knocked down Adesanya in amazing style, so there is bad blood between them.
Adesanya had total domination against Cannonier and he won exactly like I expected, but I can't wait to see fight Adesanya vs Pereira
Almost forgot to say, that Undertaker entry style for Adesanya was one of the best I saw in UFC.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWusg4MR1EE

There are plenty of sites that could help you to start, and if you are familiar with MMA then I think you should start familiarizing their style and look for the UFC Rankings so you can see who is on the top and who will be the number 1 contender,

Alex Pereira is a no ranked, to begin with, and it is Sean Stricklands' fault for giving him a fight because Sean Strickland lost to Alex Pereira, Pereira will be landing in a sweet spot on the ranking, but not that much, and he will be needing more fights to get to the Champion Israel Adesanya, he is still starting his career in the UFC I think he still needs to prove himself, but he has gained Performance of the Night award by knocking Strickland on the 1st round, so there is that,


All are true, Israel Adesanya's gimmick was more entertaining but for me, his fight was not that bad, I think many people are bored with his style because he tends to be on the safe side than clobber his opponent without further thinking about what will happen, the way Izzy fight is part of the game plan, if you are bored over it and doesn't like the way he fights there is still an option to not watched it, This is how Israel Adesanya fights he can Knockout his opponent but I think when an opportunity comes, right now his record is 24 matches 23 Wins and 1 Lost, and with 15 of his win was by Knockout and 8 wins are all Decision,


I'm not too fond of Sean O'Malley his character and the way he says that he is dominating the fight but the truth is that he really is not, if you look at every fight of Munhoz he is not a quitter, every doubter in saying that Pedro Munhoz is just saying his eye hurt just because he wanted out of the fight if you look at the score cards it was really a close fight but two judges are in favor for Munhoz on the 1st round, so why would he want to make excuses that he wanted to be out of the fight, and Reed Harris is saying he sees Munhoz in the morning and his eye was still shut, and the medical reports have said that it was a right corneal abrasion, from that eye poked of Sean O'Malley, and Pedro Munhoz is saying that there are two eye pokes and a hit to his groin, and if we look closely on the 1st eye poke it was the thumb of Sean O'Malley but it was just a slight eye poke and Munhoz was really OK but that 2nd eye poke went inside and really damage his eye,

But I can not say that Sean O'Malley have done that on purpose or it really was an accident it is up for you to decide on what you think, but one thing that I am sure about is Sean O'Malley was not dominating the fight I really think it was a close fight, it was a competitive fight,

Alex Pereira first shot was great but I think the point is how carefully  hadn't waited for the right timing when He was swinging the second punch.

The Sean O'malley match was a total disappointment. It would have been a good match, ended too soon. I think, given a little more time, they could have opened their eyes and continued the fight. I think he should be in the top five in Bantamweight.

I don't want to say anything with Volkanovski. He has no rivals in this weight, he has proven it again, he should go up to a higher weight and make a belt match there.

Israel Adesanya vs. Jared Cannonier - Israel Adesanya's gimmick is more entertaining than the fight. Dana White should book  Alex Pereira for the next title defense or I more  fight in the top 5 before facing Adesanya.

Alexander Volkanovski vs. Max Holloway - No doubt Alexander Volkanovski is the goat in the Featherweight Division better to move up and aim to be a double champ.

Sean Strickland vs. Alex Pereira - What a brutal left hook was that, so cold.

Pedro Munhoz vs. Sean O’Malley - What a disappointing fight! Sean O’Malley next fight should be in the top 15 for us to see if this guy is a prospect to be a contender in the Bantamweight Division.

UFC on ESPN: dos Anjos vs. Fiziev



Date: JULY 10
Main SUN, JUL 10 / 4:00 AM EEST
Prelims: SUN, JUL 10 / 1:00 AM EEST

Venue: UFC Apex

Main card (ESPN+)
Lightweight: Rafael dos Anjos vs. Rafael Fiziev            
Middleweight: Caio Borralho vs. Armen Petrosyan            
Bantamweight: Said Nurmagomedov vs. Douglas Silva de Andrade            
Heavyweight: Jared Vanderaa vs. Chase Sherman            
Middleweight: Jamie Pickett vs. Denis Tiuliulin            
Lightweight: Michael Johnson vs. Jamie Mullarkey   
Preliminary card (ESPN / ESPN+)
Women's Flyweight: Cynthia Calvillo vs. Nina Nunes            
Bantamweight: Aiemann Zahabi vs. Ricky Turcios            
Women's Flyweight: Antonina Shevchenko vs. Cortney Casey            
Middleweight: Cody Brundage vs. Tresean Gore            
Light Heavyweight: Karl Roberson vs. Kennedy Nzechukwu            
Bantamweight: Ronnie Lawrence vs. Saidyokub Kakhramonov      

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_on_ESPN:_dos_Anjos_vs._Fiziev

No, I don't think he deserves a title shot yet. He defeated a top ten middleweight but he'll have to do more than a 3-fight win streak. Maybe a fight with Whittaker or Vettori first before Adesanya. BUT all matches ultimately depends on Dana. If he's happy about a fighter and the guy is easily marketable, he might give him a chance faster than the others. At the end of the day, it's still about who can bring in more crowd and pay for gate/PPV.

So guys, I am quite new to this sport,,, but I am trying to follow the news and developments, still very difficult for me to understand especially how the future match ups work and how weird one guy decides who meets who usually.

So my question is, because all the news outlets are 50-50. Do you think this Pereira guy has earned enough to meet Adesanya? One big win yes, but is it enough to say he now deserves to fight the main man?

I think it is a fairly good decision now that he truly dominates the division, but if there could be a title defense for him that can threaten his belt I would like to pick guys that are in the lower ranks and in my opinion, Movsar Evloev and Ilia Topuria is they can reach a better spot in the rankings maybe they can be a decent match for Volkanovski in the future,

I think Sean Strickland is OK and doesn't really need medical attention after the fight with Alex Pereira, I have seen a video that Strickland shaking hands with Pereira and treating him while going out of the event hall, but I really don't know if he'll be speaking for a post-fight conference after what had happened, but I really wish he'd showed up,


That is a lot of money considering the odds for Israel Adesanya, against Cannonier he is the favorite and I haven't seen any news or article regarding that, or maybe he is in different bookies that Adesanya was the underdog, I think that was quite possible, but most of the gambling site that is well known to this forum Israel Adesanya has a pretty high odds,

Speaking about Alex Pereira's history about Israel Adesanya, that was really a long time ago and surely what Alex Pereira did back then he also did it now against Sean Strickland, so in my opinion with this Israel Adesanya better be careful about Alex Pereira, because what he can do back on their kickboxing match he can surely be done it again, but I think Israel Adesanya will be ready for it, he got a team that is pretty much doing a tremendous job because I think Israel Adesanya is really motivated about that fight and he will surely let doubters doubt,

Disappointing to see how boring the fight.  It didn't live up to what is expected to see since the two are known to throw shots that could immediately bring anyone of them down.  It didn't entertain the people on the side of the cage, they are the ones looking for action.

As for  Pereira, he is likely trying to annoy Adesanya. Pereira  is looks up to what Izzy had achieved in UFC while in the first try of Izzy in the combat sports he had knocked him down. A little bit more of intimidation, Dana could match the two.

Is his bet only on Izzy? How could this be? The odds on Izzy was only 1.18. Izzy might not be Drake's only bet or he should share to us what sportsbook he is using before it becomes bankrupt from giving very good odds heheehhe. In any case, the Last Stylebender versus the Killa Gorilla was not very good to watch. It was very boring and according to Alex Pereira the fans were leaving on round 4.



During his UFC 276 post-fight press conference, Pereira expressed disappointment in Adesanya’s showing in the main event.

“It was not a fight that not only (didn’t) excite me but also did not excite the crowd. I was very sad to see that,” Pereira said of Adesanya’s performance. “So I hope when we fight, he do a better fight than that. For sure, I want to make him fight to give a better show to the crowd.”

Since Pereira first signed with the UFC, speculation has risen regarding a third fight between him and Adesanya. Pereira has accused Adesanya of ducking him leading up to Adesanya’s post-UFC 276 callout.

Source https://www.mmanews.com/2022/07/pereira-adesanya-ufc-276/

They weighed the same, the day before. That's how it works across most fighting sports. However, due to the way they weight cut, i.e mostly waters. On the day you're going to see some fighters gain their mass back rather quickly, and therefore will be heavier than the day before.

Now, there's been criticism of this in the past, but the only way you're going to stop this is by weighing them before they step in the cage. However, that presents new problems like, bad weight cuts causing the fighters to be drained before actually fighting, since they'd be fighting like a hour after they finished cutting, more cancelled fights or fighters losing their purse, and quite frankly wouldn't earn the UFC as many money since they wouldn't get double the viewers, since a lot of people tune into the weigh ins. Thus, they make more sponsorship money.

So, to answer your question in short; It's impossible to prevent a fighter from cutting so much that he weighs the same as his opponent the day before the fight, but ultimately is heavier on the day.

Do you think there could be a situation where Volkanovski is simply not in his weight class? It’s just that if you compare the fighters, then Max is higher, but Volkonovsky is much more athletic, more massive, I mean that he is not in his category and there are no equal fighters here. What do you think about this?

Big congratulations to Isreal, One of the biggest winners in that game apart from him is drake the musicians who bet a whopping $1M  that he was going to win and won $2.5M. Isreal is making a good record for himself with now twenty three wins and one loss. His confidence level will be up as well having not lost any of his last twelve fights and preparing to face Pereira who he has a history with, it will be an entertaining fight to see them both once again, head to head on the stage.

Volk also announced he'll be moving up a division, which I'm all for. I honestly, after that performance against Max, don't think there's too many contenders in the same division. I thought Max would do better than that, but it's quite clear that Volk has just continued to get better, while Max looking a little stagnant. Same sort of attacks as the fight before, and didn't really have any other game plan. Tried to grapple, but Volk got the upper hand on pretty much every occasion.

Also, I haven't watched the post conference yet, is it worth watching? I'd only be interested in Strickland's attitude after being knocked out. That's if he didn't have to go to hospital for a few checks that is.

It was surely not a bad night for you and with bets like this I really think we need to be prepared for the outcome, and like you, I also bet for Jessica-Rose Clark, and I surely never realized that Julija Stoliarenko was this good of a wrestler, pretty much I have never realized that the result will be like this aswell, but I surely never regret it and that is why I bet with a minimum 4 to 3 fights only, but 8 over 11 win still is decent,

Actually, Alex Pereira made Sean Strickland way too easy, pretty much Pereira is surely not just hype, the way he calculated the fight and condition, Strickland, in the way he wants him to do this was set up by Pereira, and in my opinion Israel Adesanya should be more worried about the guy that made him sleep on the canvas,


Volkanovski is really looking for belt number 2 and given a chance he might become one, he surely got the Speed no doubt about that, while Charles Oliveira has the accuracy to land punches, this will be an epic fight but the media is looking for ways for Volkanovski to look like he doesn't deserve it, by saying that Holloway is not the same and not in his top physique but this is just an excused to make Volkanovski's look weak,


I truly salute Max Holloway's durability and chin, pretty much if Volkanovski would fight a different fighter it could be over in just 2 rounds, but Holloway surely has a sturdy chin that can withstand Volkanovski's strikes,

I almost watched most of the fights on the main card, all the fights were standing, we watched full strike matches. I don't even remember seeing Takedown, even Takedown shows were very few. I was excited for the Sean O'Malley match because it's one of the strikes I'm curious about its growing. But unfortunately, the match did not continue because his opponent caught his finger in the eye. I think he could have continued the game, I don't know. In the Volkanovski and Holloway match, Volkanovski was fast and explosive in this match, as in the last two matches, and thus dominated him. Halloway took a lot of blows, he was very durable, I think he would have taken less beating if he adjusted the distance.

Alexander Volkanovski was a superior fighter and he was much faster than Max Holloway and he was not able to find the range and Alexander Volkanovski was landing the heavy punches frequently and now it is time for Alexander Volkanovski to move up the division and fight ‎Charles Oliveira and that is what he said during the post fight interview and i believe that is what he is going to get next because he literally cleaned the division.

Max Holloway should take some time off, he is durable fighter but got punched a lot and i believe it is a UFC record or something. As long as Alexander Volkanovski is the champion he will not get a chance to fight for the title.

I was a Jessica-Rose Clark decision away from winning £15k. What's more annoying, it was the first bloody fight of the evening, so any tension was gone before we even started. I knew it, I bloody knew I should've favoured the wrestler. Especially, in Womans mixed martial arts, I find the wrestlers are usually the ones that make a good bet, when it comes to underdogs.

Love to see Strickland brought back down to reality. Feel like he overlooked Alex. Izzy did Izzy things, made it look easy, but ultimately wasn't a overly exciting fight. Honestly, despite the card being stacked, I felt a little bit disappointed by most of the fights.

8 out of 12, one of those being a no contest, so 8 out of 11. That's not a bad night, if Jessica had won, I'd have landed two bets.

Here is the Result of my picks for the UFC 276 pretty much I must feel happy on the main and co-main result but the thing that I am not so much happy about was the Jessica-Rose Clark VS Julija Stoliarenko fight, where Stoliarenko snaps Clark's arm, it was really scary seeing that, and I really hope she is just fine,

Israel Adesanya VS Jared Cannonier Round 5 Decision - WIN

That Walkout was the real highlight, but yeah just like most of his fights Israel Adesanya does it again, it is pretty much hard to fight Izzy because of his height and Jared Cannonier is having a difficult time because Izzy can easily evade his strikes and takedown attempts, that long reach from Israel Adesanya pretty much was the problem for Cannonier, keeping the distance and those kicks were shaken Cannonier in doing something, it was the pressure in what is Izzy is doing, I think Alex Pereira is the key to handling down Adesanya, but this is MMA and it is pretty much different with kickboxing

Alexander Volkanovski VS Max Holloway Round 5 Decision - WIN

Man! Alexander Volkanovski is a better boxer, and just like what he did to Brian Ortega and the Korean Zombie, this time he dominates Max Holloway, Holloway was getting outkicked, outpunch by Volkanovski, and the only thing great about Holloway here is his chin he surely takes plenty of punishment to the face just he is still standing up, Volkanovski is a legit boxer, and if you compare their 1st and 2nd fight to this 3rd fight Volkanovski is way faster than the old Volkanovski like this is not Alexander Volkanovski Holloway is fighting, and I really enjoy this and for Volkanovski Josh Emmett could be next,

Sean Strickland VS Alex Pereira Round 1 - KO/TKO - WIN

It was a bad choice for Strickland for taking this fight on the feet if he goes for a takedown I think that he can have an advantage because Alex Pereira is on another level when it comes to striking, the initial thing Pereira did was on his jab to condition Sean Strickland he conditions Strickland in thinking that a jab was coming for him but Pereira is moving from the left and Sean really didn't see it coming to the left hook, and just one punch was all he needs to knockout Strickland, and I think he can really do this to anybody so in my opinion, Alex Pereira deserves a title shot it look like Sean was an easy opponent the number 4 on the rankings and Israel Adesanya beating all the guys with a decision is pretty much Alex Pereira is the only one who can beat Israel Adesanya,

Jessica-Rose Clark VS Julija Stoliarenko Round 1 - Submission (Armbar) - LOST

I was really scared of what happened to this fight, that Armbar was really nasty, when it snaps, I really never expected that to happen, I thought it was a knockout from Rose Clark but I think Stoliarenko made Clark think that she got the upperhand so she goes for a takedown, and from that, an armbar has proceeded and it was a hell of a fight and I think that Jessica-Rose Clark got a serious dislocation and I just hope she doesn't but congrats to Julija Stoliarenko,

It was a confident victory from Volkanovski. Holloway tried to demonstrate activity, but because of this he only made many mistakes. He himself crossed out his advantage in growth, by the fact that he constantly approached, and in close combat Volkonovsky beat Max very confidently. Well, now we can say with confidence that this confrontation is over, Volkanovski proved his superiority.

Max should take a cue from Israel, how coolly and prudently he uses his height advantage. No rapprochement, keeps the opponent at a distance and achieves another victory!