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Pretty much every fighter will be going into their slower years, as their age progress, so it is no big surprise if a younger and inexperience athlete will sure beat them, while Holly Holm just got a little power failure because she really got the Ketlen Vieira power experience, that is why I can say that Vieira has power to his shots, while Holm focus on the quantity, while Vieira focus on those quality shots,

I think people are getting the ride for those fighters that are more Technical, and between Volkov and Rozenstruik, Alexander Volkov will be the man because of those calculated strikes, not as well-calculated as Ciryl Gane but compared to Rozenstruik Volkov got the edge,


Well, you can always go for the fighter that you really like, all of what I say are just speculations and I really think that Jairzinho Rozenstruik still has that punching power that could 1 punch KO his opponent, that hasn't changed my perspective because I am going with a more technical fighter, and about the Heavyweight division we usually see fights always finish in the 1st round and if Jairzinho Rozenstruik strikes gets to Volkov that fast this is finish, 


Well, on your part it really becomes your routine, so it is really hard for you not to have your weekly dose of watching UFC, while mine is just normal, I am just getting the excitement when a fight is on the horizon, that is why posting it here in the forum somewhat calms that excitement from me, and divert it to thinking,

This does not surprise me, Polyana Viana clearly has a great skill above any common man, and what she did to the thief is very good, many think that being a woman will make it easier to assault or take advantage of them, but the most It is important that here the advantage that she has over any other man or any other woman is very evident.

I can only imagine the thief's face when she was giving him the beating of his life, really he left him very unsuccessful, I think some thieves will take a lesson when they see this kind of news.

I want to see UFC making more events based in Europe, instead of North America, and that should be most of the times when they have fighters from European countries in main event or main card.
When you have kids and family it's very hard to stay awake all night watching all fights, but I guess you can always set alarm clock and watch some fights.
Just reading latest UFC news, it could happen that Paulo Costa wants to delay his fight against Luke Rockhold, didn't he try some stupid weight thing against Marvin Vettori last time? 

The reason I asked what people thought of him was I was hoping to be convinced to put a bet on. I hadn't looked at the odds at the time of asking, but I just knew they would be rather one sided. So, having a look at what a lot of users are saying here, I'm thinking of putting a cheeky little bet on him. It seems that most acknowledge he has more than enough to win.

I literally always feel lost when the UFC isn't on. It has become a routine for me where Saturday nights are usually when I don't sleep until early morning. In fact, the last event was a early event, which always takes me by surprise, and actually throws my sleeping pattern off a little.

Pretty much.  But seeing him vs Tom Aspinall and how a tad slower he was, dunno...  Just like Holly Holm, are we seeing a decline somewhat with Volkov?  And Roz isn't a bad fighter himself.  He could be explosive as we've seen vs Overeem and JDS who are no push overs.  They were both top guys too back in the day.  So yeah, I guess Volkov should be the rightful favorite, it's just I think the line should be closer.  Value side is Roz imho.

And btw...  The next event is the next weekend after this weekend.  -_-  But at least we have UCL final and Monaco GP.  

It's mainly for his style. He isn't the best in terms of strategy, however you just know you're going to be entertained, win or loss. To be honest, I actually think he's one of the most talented in the UFC, the unfortunate bit for him if he ever wants to become champion is; he'll likely need to drop his antics in the cage, which is one of the biggest reasons I absolutely love watching him.

If it wasn't for those antics, he would be just like any other fighter. What other fighter starts doing flips, and still closing the gap on their opponent, what other fighter jumps onto the top of the cage, backflips off, lands, and then gets a punch off that actually lands. Yeah, it wasn't against the greatest opponent, but who else takes risks like that?

His striking is sound, his defense needs work, and he has been fighting better opposition lately, and while he has definitely tuned in his antics a little bit, he still does them, and gets away with it.

I don't know if he'll ever be champion material. I do think if he tightened up his game, and dropped his antics he could potentially be. However, do I want that? I'm not sure, I'd love to see him become successful as I've been a fan for a while now, but I love watching him for his style so I would definitely miss that. Although, it's always nice to see your favourite fighters have some success even if it means sacrificing what you love seeing them do. After all, they're trying to feed themselves, and he has already delivered so many memorable moments for me.

He hasn't got the best personality outside the cage, by that I mean he isn't a Conor mcgregor so he hasn't got the allure of him, and I know he has just got caught up with some drama with Masvidal, which appears he may have been in the wrong. For me, he doesn't need to get involved with drama like that, his style more than makes up for it.  

Yesterday I had some free time, so I decided to take a closer look on who Michel Pereira is. I've noticed that his name flashes here from time to time and users mentioning they are fan of him. By the way Pereira moves, it is obvious that he has a capoeira background, but there is nothing about it in his bio on wiki. Pereira has everything a fighter needs to become a champion, but he must work on a lot on his tactics. All these superman punches, backflips to get in mount, attack jumps using fence, dances, taunts - one day a fighter with similar skill level will punish him for neglect of defence.

I know that Welsh is a fan of Michel Pereira. What do you find in this guy? What you like him for?

Most of the bookies are going with Volkov because of the experience, Alexander Volkov has more matches and more wins than Jairzinho Rozenstruik but Rozenstruik has a kickboxing record just like Israel Adesanya could also be compared as a combat sport, and both from losing to Ciryl Gane have a winning match and a lost match, but we can never say that they have the same technique I am comparing them on their performance with Ciryl Gane, and I think because of Gane's speed both have lost to Gane and out speed them and outstrike them, it was a wonderful performance for Ciryl Gane, but I notice that Rozenstruik seems falling from Gane's takedowns  but if Cyril Gane wants to win with a Knockout he can surely get it, just like what he did with Derrick Lewis, While Alexander Volkov is a technical striker, he is landing leg kicks to Ciryl Gane and potentially checking their distance, I say Ciryl Gane most of the time had a hard time with Volkov, and sorry to say I am not for Rozenstruik aswell,


Then Enter Ciryl Gane, and most of the Heavyweights would surely need a technical master plan to take him down, even Francis Ngannou, that most of his fights were all KO/TKO but with the Bon Gamin he was really put to the test, and also end up going for takedowns, but let's take out that injury that he has because I really think that Alexander Volkov can be untouchable at times and he surely has the technical styles that can cut Jairzinho Rozenstruik and I think this is the 1st time Rozenstruik get up against Volkov aswell, this could end up like Gane VS Rozenstruik fight, with the decision than with a KO/TKO.

Alexander Volkov needs to set the distance very well, he needs to use his kicks very effectively, if Rozensturik closes the distance, he can get knocked out with an effective shot. If Alexander Volkov plays the match wisely, he will win the match at the end of the match, with the decision of the referee. Rozenstruik needs to defend his effective finishing hits well I think Volkov will do it well.

I have no idea what's going on with Volkov but his last match vs Aspinall he looked like he wasn't in his usual shape.  He looked like he was plodding and the foot work wasn't really all there.  I think he came in a bit heavier than his usual weight.  Not sure..  But all the info is available at Tapology.  Will take a look later.

So I guess if Volkov weighs in heavier, go for Roz and if lighter go for Volkov?  Dunno...  But Roz has the KO power like Derrick Lewis.  You know what happened to Volkov when he fought Lewis. 

Obviously, I'm not going to pretend that Alexander Volkov is untouchable, I mean I predicted that Tom would beat him in his last fight. I just don't think Jairzinho Rozenstruik has the technical ability to close the gap. If Alex uses his kicks, he could effectively keep the distance, and use his reach to his advantage. I can honestly see it going to a decision. If Alex uses his kicks, and doesn't get involved in a brawl, and basically tries to circle out without engaging too much, I see him winning via decision. I don't expect a absolute amazing fight, and the action is probably going to be quite low, as I do think Alex will come into this with that sort of mindset.

I could be wrong, I'm not exactly a Alex fan I just can't see Jair getting it done.

As usually, on the paper Volkov is better. Add that Rozenstruik havent fought for a long period, and Alexander had a fight 3 months ago. As usually, Volkov will be more prepared, but Rozenstruik can easily upset him. He has got 12 win and 11 of them are by KO. I am closing my eyes and see how Dragos head flies back after a straight right punch. Only the bookies disagree with me.

If Volkov follows fighting plan and uses his kicks (front kick), avoid clinches, then he would win. If not, he would be leading this fight and falls asleep.

I mean, it's not a stretch to think Vlokov could choke up like he did in some fights, and at the end of the day, no matter the preferences, it's still a fight and especially in the HW division, one punch is enough to end it. But having any more detailed technical explanation, yeah, it's the HW, let's not get to deep into it XD

I tuned in late for latest UFC fight card but I managed to watch few fights and highlights later, this was not some event to remember but I seen some nice KO's.
There was lot of split decisions and judges are again on spotlight instead of fighters, so we seen crowd and commentators complaining.

It is still early to make predictions for this fight and Volkov is favorite to win if we look at bookmakers odds, but I like betting on underdogs and I think Rozenstruik has a nice chances here.

I'd be interested in hearing someone's input that isn't going for Alexander Volkov. Personally I don't see it going any other way, and without checking the odds I imagine they'll reflect that.

Quite proud of him really, seems to have got noticeably better cardio in recent fights, like I said toning down that wildness, while still being entertaining. I said it before, I don't want him to lose it completely since it does make it a unique fighter, and very fun to watch. However, if he keeps fighting like that I see him climbing the rankings. That gas tank if he can get under control, is one of the main contributors to that.

If we look at the 3rd round that is the only round that is very questionable because even though Holly Holm has many points regarding strikes, and I think she got many light strikes, Ketlen Vieira got many medium and heavy strikes to Holly Holm if you would look at the 3rd round of the fight watch it on slow-mo and count all that strikes, and you can see that reaction of Holm to Vieira's punches, I really want Holly Holms to win this fight because I bet for her but looking at the fight Ketlen Vieira's strikes has good impact to Holm if they think that Holly Holm wins then protest what they have seen, and yes it is good to see a fight that is with a TKO or Submission finish than with decision on what the judges think,


Holly Holm should have won with a Knockout or Submission if they really want to win, or bring her own judges that will give the favor to her, I have bet for Holly Holms, but after watching the fight Ketlen Vieira has the more impactful strikes than Holm's and I've only seen light strikes on Holm's side, while Vieira is really looking for a Knockout, that non-damaging strikes won't do any good to Vieira, I guess this is goodbye to Holly Holm's career if she can not make a KO/TKO win and not like the Holly Holm back on 2017, all fights end up with decisions,


Looking forward to the Main event Alexander Volkov and Jairzinho Rozenstruik two of the men that Ciryl Gane defeated, Dan Ige and Movsar Evloev, and the Poliana Botelho and Karine Silva and Erin Blanchfield and J.J. Aldrich,

@bbc.reporter look out for Poliana Botelho and Erin Blanchfield two fighting kitties that I think you will like,

UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Rozenstruik



Date: Sat, Jun 4
Main Card: SAT, JUN 4 / 11:00 PM EEST

Venue: UFC Apex

Main card (ESPN+)
Heavyweight: Alexander Volkov vs. Jairzinho Rozenstruik            
Featherweight: Dan Ige vs. Movsar Evloev            
Featherweight: Michael Trizano vs. Lucas Almeida            
Women's Flyweight: Poliana Botelho vs. Karine Silva            
Light Heavyweight: Alonzo Menifield vs. Askar Mozharov            
Women's Strawweight: Felice Herrig vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz   
Preliminary card (ESPN+)
Lightweight: Alex da Silva Coelho vs. Joe Solecki            
Featherweight: Damon Jackson vs. Daniel Argueta            
Flyweight: Zarrukh Adashev vs. Ode' Osbourne            
Lightweight: Benoît Saint-Denis vs. Niklas Stolze            
Bantamweight: Tony Gravely vs. Johnny Munoz Jr.            
Flyweight: Zhalgas Zhumagulov vs. Jeff Molina            
Welterweight: Andreas Michailidis vs. Rinat Fakhretdinov            
Women's Flyweight: Erin Blanchfield vs. JJ Aldrich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_Fight_Night:_Volkov_vs._Rozenstruik

P.S. I will edit card, as soon as there will be more clear info about main event and prelims

^ Before the fifth round, her team also thought she was losing and was down by three rounds to one.

If it was under different set of judges, Holly could have won by unanimous decision. I wouldn't be surprised if it was scored 49-46 in her favor. She had octagon control and more (light) strikes but judges probably thought less of that. It's a tough loss for her but it's what you get when you leave the result of the fight to them.

If it was judged based on the entirety of the fight, picking Ketlen would be less controversial. She almost won by submission and landed heavier strikes doing more damage after all.

I was watching the fight live and i thought Holly Holm won the fight but after hearing the judges decision i was surprised and i am sure Ketlen Vieira was also surprised and so is the reason she was emotional after delivering the post fight speech. There was a good standing submission attempt from Ketlen Vieira but other than that Holly Holm won the striking battle and fight stats will prove that.

^  Vieira had more power behind her shots, that's why.  Holm mostly throws pitter patter shots coupled with tennis sounds.  And if you watched that match, optics from my own pov shows Vieira won..  And I'm saying it with having a ticket with Holm.  But it's just one of those match ups that could go either way.  It wasn't a total robbery.  It's the same with the other match up that also ended in a split decision...  I saw it with Anders winning but the judges went the other way.


He def did enough.  He was slowing down towards the end of the match tho and gave Ponz a chance to catch up.