Topic: The UFC Info and Prediction Thread - page 320. (Read 100205 times)

I just watched again Prochazka vs Teixeira fight The advantage of one fighter in this fight changed faster than the price of Bitcoin lately. This fight is my candidate on fight of the year. At least in 6 months, this fight I like the most. It will be a waste if Teixeira retires soon. The guy is still in good shape, probably on peak form at 42. I am really hyped to see Teixeira next fight and Prochazka first title defence.

Agreed! It appears there is another very underestimated fighter for another main event. Has everyone forgotten Emmett vs. Kattar already? I am not predicting the victory for Mateusz Gamrot as a certainty, however, the odds for him is very high and very much similar to where Emmett's odds was placed by the sportsbooks hehehe. Do not underestimate the man from Poland!

I really don't want to compare him to Khabib or say things good about him because he is a Nurmagomedov, I really like his style and he surely tends to be in a different direction to Khabib Nurmagomedov when it comes to his fighting style, I think that is what unique to him he surely didn't copy-paste his style to anyone in the UFC nor his brother Khabib I really love that solid kicks he has and from the first martial arts that I love the Taekwondo I say this is what hooks me in looking at what he can do, I know there are surely doubt if he can really get to a title match, but for me, he still has the Dagestan Wrestling apart from those noisy kicks he has a ground game aswell, Khabib Nurmagomedov has said that Umar can put a Tyson boxing style on his style since Umar is already a great kicker,

I think Cerrone is being true to himself and he doesn't want any fight than just Lauzon maybe because he thinks he can have a chance against Lauzon, and he is pretty much aware that he can not win in the higher ranks of the UFC, so maybe he is trying to grab some money fights until he retires,


In my opinion, I think he's not trying to be like Izzy, Conor, or his brother Khabib, I really think that his fashion was really for kicking, or he wants a different path in getting to his goals, and right now he has an excellent kicking style, that can be mixed with a Tyson Boxing style and if the fight was on the ground he can still manage to pull Dagestan wrestling that pretty much well known to Russian fighters,

No, not for specific matches like these. They have enough cred (and enough milage on their bodys) to no accept or even get offered a replacement who can only be a young gun that would destroy them. This is a superfight and should be be treated like one, completly unrelated to rankings or other fighters. And in that you have the reason why Cerrone want's that fight. He want's to go out on his shield. Do I support it? No,

It was fun fight until Duraev swollen eye shut down and they had to stop the fight because of the damage he suffered, but I think it count's like KO.
Duraev was not happy with this decision, but there are not many fighters that can fight with one eye and get away with that like Michael Bisping
You can watch the fight highlights for Buckley vs Duraev on yotube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNrcleF9H5k

Congratulations, excellent score! I decided not to bet on this fight and it's good because I thought that Kattar would win. Kattar painted Emmett's face well, but Emmett fought till the end, showed character and gained a very important victory.

Today I was surfing on the youtube (aka working lol) and found you this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_aFolzWjhA&t=31s

Do you recognize the guy in green tshirt standing on background? I bet you did. As this is Zabit Magomedsharipov lol. Zabit was one of The Ultimate Fighter: A New World Champion coaches. What makes it funny, that he does not speak English in 2022, and in 2017 he barely knew several hundred words, and he was a coach, before he was signed to UFC That is what makes it funny. At home (or maybe at work, who knows what I am doing there) I am gonna watch this season and search for his appearance. But from these few episodes, it make me think that while he was standing there, he was thinking about wtf is he even doing there.

I'm feeling confident about Thiago Moisés. Think he'll get the job done. So, my early leans for the underdogs is; Cody Durden at 2.00, that's pretty good odds going up against JP. Kelleher at 2.30, he's a tricky fighter, and I imagine he'll do quite well. Nchukwi at 2.00 too. Vieira at 2.30. I honestly think this might be a night for the underdogs, and at some good value too. I honestly thought some of the above would've been the favourites.

Nasty stuff. I do recall Buckley being the underdog in that fight, right? I don't even know how I missed it, second round doctor stoppage too? So, it's not like it was a instant knockout like some on the night. Must have been when I got my wings although towards the end of the night I was fighting off falling asleep.

Thanks...  But thinking more about it, I think Moises could be the pie shitter of the event.  I don't have any other fighter in the roster to put in his place to make the line close to 2.00 tho...  And I'm not too worried much about Rakhmonov.  He's uber talented.  

And yeah..  I got Chris Curtis at the third row of my ticket but could see it go Vieira's way too esp if he takes Curtis time and get some control time.  Curtis is kinda small for the weight class.


It was good.  Buckley schooled the other guy and got his eye shut.

I personally haven't seen anything special about him. I do tend to agree that his name is what's carry the weight behind his hype. He's obviously a decent fighter, but champion material? Maybe. Someone who I'm going to follow, and actually be excited about? Probably not. He's no Izzy, Conor or Khabib.

I think the latest I've heard is a week maybe two week notice. I mean how many fighters are willing to step down like that, since a lot of preparation goes into the cutting, even before the actual final day where they take the majority of weight off.

Cerrone will probably be around for a little longer, strikes me as one of those fighters who just carries on despite receiving beatings every time they fight.

I think we wont see anything special in Umar Nurmagomedov fight. I think he is to young to be taken very seriously. I believe people give him to much attention just due to have roots with Khabib. I think among Khabib gang, he is sort of a party-luxury-life-lover. Or I might be wrong and see him only in a shadow of his brother.

Dont understand why Donald Cerrone wants to fight Joe Lauzon that much. Does UFC have a back-up plan for cases like with Lauzon? Can they call someone on a very-very-very short notice and get a fighter that is ready to fight next day ? Cerrone - inactive for 1 years with a series of looses. I would consider to retire.

Just had a look of the next card in full. Pretty decent fight night in my eyes. We've been spoiled the last two weeks, so only natural we probably won't see the same levels, but it's looking a decent night of fights. Chris Curtis vs Rodolfo Vieira, Brian Kelleher vs Mario Bautista, including the ones already mentioned. I actually really enjoy watch both Kelleher, and Bautista so I think that's going to be one hell of a competitive fight. If I was going to pick one fight that would be a contender for fight of the night, it'll be that one. Not sure who takes it either.

Just realized I must have missed this fight. I'm not sure if I dozed out temporarily or what, but I definitely can't remember the fight.

Lucky for you mitey! and I also believe he is one lucky bastard to win that, Josh Emmett in my opinion was really saved by the wrong observation of the judges, but we can not do something about that it was their decision but it has a certain vibe of controversies within it, but anyway it is already happening situations like these and we just have to accept the results, well this is just my opinion and I am just frustrated on the result, Calvin Kattar just needs to make the result change by Knocking out Josh Emmett which is impossible to do,

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Just in, Cowboy Cerrone wants to stick to Joe Lauzon despite having a cramp knee condition, he wants to still continue the fight in the future but Dana White says that he will not book another Donald Cerrone VS Joe Lauzon fight anymore because this is more getting like the Tony Ferguson VS Khabib Nurmagomedov fight, were it gets always canceled on their 1st match Cerrone get ill and postponed the fight and now Lauzon what in no condition to fight Cerrone and gets canceled again, so Dana White will not make another Donald Cerrone VS Joe Lauzon fight anymore so sorry for both fighters fans that are anticipating their fight,

I did a coin toss bet for main event and I won my bet on Josh Emmett in Sportsbet
It was great odds on him to win and I like betting on underdogs many times, but he won by split decision, so it was not so easy, but I expected this to be 50/50 chances.
I didn't watch rest of the fights but I saw nice wins for Cody Stamann, Kevin Holland and not so nice for Joaquin Buckley.

For you, it was not really a problem but in what I see the judges are not scoring accordingly, and in my opinion, it was a robbery but yeah we can not do something about that if the judges don't deliver a result you don't like Calvin Kattar needs a result that the judges don't really need to used the score cards, a KO or a submission,


For you, it was not really a problem but in what I see the judges are not scoring accordingly, and in my opinion, it was a robbery but yeah we can not do something about that if the judges don't deliver a result you don't like Calvin Kattar needs a result that the judges don't really need to use the score cards, a KO or submission,

For Umar Nurmagomedov, he is a very unique kid, and Unique is the word because he doesn't borrow any style from the books of Khabib, but rather puts on kicks to his wrestling, I think this creates distance and pressure on his opponent aswell, and for Rakhmonov he is a calmer version of Khamzat Chimaev, and I really like how well verse both fighters are weth it comes to their styles both are a well-rounded fighters,

Gamrot vs Holtzman. The game of the two talented and willing fighters was great. I can say that Gamrot has shown his best performance so far. I'm starting to think he might be a superstar. Gamrot still undefeated. His only lost was by idiotic split decision by judges. Even his enemy Kutaladze was admitted he lose that fight againist Gamrot.

Sounds good to me. Probably my three favourites on the card, that I don't see slipping up. If I were to pick one that could potentially slip up, I think it would be Shavkat. Neil Magny isn't a push over. I do expect the three of them to win though. 1.90 returns, I mean depends on how much you'd put on it. However, I'd be pretty confident of netting a return putting them in a treble.

I like the look of Tsarukyan too against Gamrot. My underdog of the night would likely be Rodolfo Vieira. Although, I'll review some tape before making any decisions on that. Just those are my early leans.

I had Kattar winning too but it was so close that I guess I don't really gave a problem if the judges had the other guy in their score cards.

And I'm getting my tickets right now.  Lol.  Something that should win as it's the break even ticket...  So I wanna ask what you guys think of Nurmagomedov - Rakmanov - Moises parlayed at 1.90?

I am also looking forward to those two main fights aswell and for the Main Event I think this could be a very close fight well just judging by their record and the way they fight, but I will surely get a deep dive on Arman Tsarukyan for further analysis, on what he can do,

And just like you, I also like Shavkat Rakhmonov, and yes he is compared to Khamzat Chimaev, and just like Chimaev, Rakhmonov also is ready and game whoever was given to him to fight and saying if he and Chimaev could clash he will definitely be giving him a fight hard fight and he will be ready for him, and he is annoyed at Khamzat Chimaev if he was asked about the guy,

Another right that I like was the Nathan Maness VS Umar Nurmagomedov, the fight I am thrilled about what is now the condition of the Kicking Nurmagomedov that I am curious about, that is a change of style for a sambo fighter, and I really love to see it,

Completely wrecked it for me. I hate losing my accumulator on the first fight, just takes all the extra tension out of the night. Although, luckily as I said this particular fight night really did deliver.

I'm going to try, and get tickets on one of the London ones. Maybe, when Aspinall or some of the Welsh fighters are due on next. I just know its expensive, and then its travelling to London, which I can tell you now I bloody hate. Hate Cities, but I've never been to an actual event, and it's probably over due the amount I actually watch these days.