Topic: The UFC Info and Prediction Thread - page 325. (Read 100149 times)

You know what, I’m most excited to see Joanna Jedrzejczyk‘s return. I don’t like many female fighters but I love this girl. She’s such a warrior, an absolute machine. I really want to see her avenge that loss that gave her a long time out with the head injury.

Vechain?  Why do I suddenly feel like I'm in 2017?    Isn't that project dead?

UFC 275:  Live Weigh In Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Mn1hUVRd4


First match he got caught by surprise with the head kick, second fight she trained with Fight Ready MMA with Eddie Cha and Henry Cejudo.  I think training with them made Zhang Weili a tad restrained with the striking to accomodate more wrestling in her game which isn't her.  Dunno...  But in that second fight she didn't look like she can crack like she did vs JJ during their first match.

But it looks like she left Fight Ready to train at Thailand tho from what I saw at Embedded.  Prolly at Tiger?

Nunes also getting beat was a bit of a surprise. It's a fight at the end of the day, and as much as the odds can differ at times, there isn't a great deal of difference between the elite. Nunes did disprove that for a while, but ultimately it caught up with her. I'm wondering when Val will be subjected to that. I don't think she's quite there yet, and seems to have a winners attitude, while not being complacent, which I think Nunes had a lot of lifestyle changes, like becoming a mother etc.

Heard this from a podcast too. Many were skeptical to this project since this chain is developed and is supported by Chinese government. But they are now extending outside China.


Zhang seem not learning what she got though. She relied mostly to her strength, there is no doubt she is strong but with versatile Namajunas, Zhang doesn't know how to deal.

We have a new kid on the block!



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This is the second cryptocurrency integration with out bellowed sport. Can we call another step of crypto adoption? I think we can.

I don't know, it's always the ones which you think will end up in a finish that don't. If I didn't put accumulators on so often, I could've made some big money betting heavyweights would go the distance. I mean not long ago some people were brave enough to put the bet on Ngannou to win by decision, not me though . That sounded absurd prior to them fighting, but he did it. Gane, who was considered much better at foot work, and technical striking.

I can bet with anyone that fight won't last all five rounds, and I think this could be best safe bet we can make on this fight card.
Main event is interesting, but I think we are underestimating other great fights between ladies,  Weili Zhang needs a win after two defeats from Rose Namajunas, and Joanna needs payback for last defeat from Zhang.
Valentina Shevchenko is always fun to watch and Taila Santos has only one defeat in her MMA carrier but winning here would be sensational.
One thing I am missing in this fight card is some heavyweight fight, but we do have light heavyweights.

Teixeira has 10 times more fight in UFC than Prochazka. That is something worth estimating. Prochazka has fought only two top opponents, while Teixeira faced almost every top or decent lightweight fighter during last 5-10 years. Did you know that Teixeira was Chuck Liddells main training partner. He has gained a lot of experience from those camps. And remember how few people believed in him before fight against Błachowicz? At this age Teixeira can still survive lot of punches. Good example fight against Smith. Almost 20min of face smashing 

Glover Teixeira is one of the best grapplers in the UFC, with 10 submission wins I think this is solidifying how good he is in Grappling but on his first fight he is pretty confident in his boxing but after his losses to Anthony Johnson and Alexander Gustafsson he changes his style and returns to his roots so right now Glover Teixeira is pretty much dominant with Grappling, meanwhile, Jiri Prochazka can be very dominant with his height and wing span, Jiri Prochazka is taller than Teixeira and pretty much being tall in the  light heavyweight division, and I am noting here his elbow spinning move is the most devastating attack Jiri can give to Glover, in my opinion even if Glover Teixeira has a dominant form with Grappling, Juri Prochazka has a pretty much dominant striking and can pressure Teixeira with his distance advantage and men I don't really think Glover Teixeira has a chin to withstand those combos,


I think it is also a good choice to go to Glover Teixeira, I mean pretty much Teixeira has a dominant form with Grappling and there are times that Juri Prochazka sometimes has given his back to a match where his opponent will give him rear-naked choke so a possibility that Teixeira will win this is possible, but like you, I really like Jiri Prochazka, and I am not going to take his side because I like the guy, but because I think he can take the win and the belt because I think if one of those uppercuts or punches could hit Teixeira it is over because Teixeira doesn't have a good chin anymore, but yeah anything can surely happen on the fight so I am really excited.

Absolutely the best chance for Jiri though. Going up against a old experienced fighter has its drawbacks, but Teixeira definitely isn't at his best, and for a younger fighter you'll want to exploit that. Might be worth Jiri looking to exhaust Teixeira in the first few rounds, before turning the heat up late into the fight.

Not sure we'll see a finish, might be worth looking at the decision lines.

I think Glover Teixeira has a decent chance to win in this fight if he manages to exploit some of many flaws in Prochazka style laws.
Odds on him are very good as underdog but I can't put my hand in fire and say he will win for sure.
Prochazka losing here could be good for him because he quickly got a title shot in my opinion, and he needs to improve in many areas.
I hope Glover will teach him a lesson this time, and I certainly don't expect to see all five rounds in his main event.

Glover Teixeira. That's who I'm going for, even though I quite like Jiří Procházka. I just think he'll use his know how, and experience in the fight. I imagine he's due to hang it up any moment now, so I'm just hoping he can get some good wins under his belt, and bow out before it gets a little ugly.

If he were to win this, I don't see him holding onto the belt much longer. His age has to catch up with him at some point, and there has definitely been signs of it doing so, even in the fights he has won.

That would be some surprise. I know we've already seen an upset in recent months in WMMA, but damn for Shev to lose this would probably be a bigger surprise.

^  I think Prochazka should get the 'W' but yeah, the line could be off.  I know Prochzka is really fast for his weight class and he's very athletic.  But he could get hit.  And I do mean get hit.  Watch his past two fights at MMACore vs Reyes and Oezdemir.  So yeah I pick Prochazka for the multi master and pick Teixeira for my lottery ticket.  Lower tier tho.

Choi - Allen
Kape - Fialho
Edwards - Garcia - Madalena
Juarez - JJ - Teixeira
Kang - Shev

^  Placed Shev at the lowest ticket as she doesn't add much value and she could be the one spoiling everything if I put her on top.

Here's jeremypwr's multi master for 275.

UFC 275 Multi Master Challenge
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/sportsbetio-ufc-275-multi-master-challenge-saturday-5401701

Right, lets move on.

Lets take a look on next main events odds. Duelbits give 1.47 for Prochazka and 2.65 on a champ Teixeira. We have experience vs youth. Prochazka has 28 wins and 25 by KO, but only 2 of them  were gained in UFC. Prochazka has fought top9 and top7. Teixeira has been in UFC since 2012 and had victories over Blachowicz, Evans, Bader. Lost by decision to "Bones" (maybe even thanks to Jones dirty tricks with Glovers elbow). Should odds really be like that, in favour for contender? Is Teixeira really a temporary champ?

I would probably stop the fight if I was in place of Herb Dean, but it's not easy to make decisions when you have two giants like this octagon and they don't fall so easy.

It's time to move on to next events and something new from Singapore is called Road to UFC, so we have three days full of fights with fighters that could sign a new contract with UFC.
There are five fights every day with mix of fighters from Asia, Europe and other parts of the world, and I never heard about them but this is the right time to shine.

The thing is he might have been able too, but from Herb Dean's point of view, it didn't look good. He wasn't protecting himself, while kind of trying to run away while being stunned a few times. So, I'm in full support of stopping it, and I wish fighters just acknowledged that. Every fighter always says they can continue, even when they clearly can't.

I say he may have been able to continue because we don't know, but in all likelihood the way he was shying away from it, and not really defending himself effectively he probably would have been knocked out.

Oooh right!  That match up would've been more exciting than the main event imho.  But I think it's too early for Whitaker to take on another high level fighter after taking on Adesnya just a couple of months or so ago.  And he took on good fighters before the rematch before Adesanya too.  Till, Cannonier and a depleted Gastelum.  That's an impressive run.  And I guess who's going for it again by going thru Vettori, Costa and maybe Brunson?

Anyway, who do you guys got for the main event?  I'm thinking Prochazka for my mulit master and Teixeira in the low tier of my lottery ticket for value.

I though that Herb Dean is the best ref in UFC. UFC always use him in major fights. Or maybe I am under a vision UFC created around him. Without googling, I cant remember any bad decision he has taken. He is always protecting fighters against extra damage. Maybe he sometimes did not notice fighters holding fence, but that is not the worse what they can do.

Did you guys notice that this weeks UFC event is going to be in Singapore? This is only fourth time UFC is there. Glad that UFC is moving out from US and spreading roots everywhere. I only wish they had more European events.

I think I will just stick to these 4 fights and nothing more, in giving my thoughts on the main fight Glover Teixeira seems kind of slow when it comes to striking but that Rear naked choke to Jan Błachowicz was really technical that he set up Blachowicz in that position I think he can do it to Jiri Prochazka aswell, but Prochazka's advantage was his speed and not very unusual kind of striking that is why I like him, but for now, I will be sticking this feeling in I would further make my analysis soon,


There will be unnecessary calls that Herb Dean may give, but he is not perfect and often makes mistakes, but still, that call really saves Jairzinho Rozenstruik from further brain damage, or unable to fight anymore, you can also see that Volkov hesitates for a second and checked Rozenstruik because that is the plan, then when he sees that Rozenstruik is wobbly then a barrage of punches will surely going to get him, I really think Alexander Volkov, and I think he can even be further up the ranking to Derrick Lewis of Curtis Blaydes, but he can not go up further than that, I think he would rather get focus to those money fights more than engaging on to the belt.

That was quick KO win for Volkov against Rozenstruik and I expected to see to see fight ending early but not that early.
Rozenstruik later complained that stoppage was early and that he could stay in fight longer, but I doubt he would last much longer.
In co-main event Movsar Evloev was very dominant and I see him as one of the next big contenders for championship title in this category.