Topic: The UFC Info and Prediction Thread - page 328. (Read 100149 times)

^  If you're going for Ige then it's better and safer to bet him straight up than including him in a parlay...  Unless you do it the way I do when I make full event parlays using a every match up to pick parlay pieces from.  Ige is lined at 4.20.  That's not bad for an underdog pick imho.  It's really quite good.  Playing the match up in my head, I just can't see Ige being that huge of an underdog.  Dunno..  Evloev could make me look dumb saying that by finishing Ige in the first round via sub or something.  But yeah, it's Evloev for me but closer to the bottom ticket.

Anyway..  Memefield vs Mozharov looks interesting.  It could be a spot to pick the underdog.

Yeah, next event looks quite nice, even outside of the main card there's some tasty match ups, and some good underdogs with some very nice looking odds.


For my prediction it would have to be Evloev to win, but looking at those odds, I'll probably be including Ige in my accumulator since those are odds just don't seem right to me. I was expecting Evloev to be favourite, but not by that margin.

I actually think it's going to be competitive fight, and could go either way. Could potentially be an absolute war. We're due one.

Yup...  It's a decent main event match up between Volkov and Roz.  But I'm more looking forward to Ige vs Evloev.  It's a test for Evloev and somewhat a big jump up in competition.  Evloev should win and I'll have him in my lottery ticket but I don't understand why he's that huge of a favorite at 1.27.  :/

Other match ups I'm looking forward to are Osbourne vs Adashev..  Should be a banger.  And Molina vs Zhumagulov.  These guys are small but could put up great fights.


It's mostly made by like some guys in the UFC's war room so don't expect it to be perfect.  The rankings don't even matter sometimes.  The pound for pound is a joke imho.  It's just something for the fans to talk about.

UFC ranking is something hard to understand. I dont understand their algorithm. I thought, that when you win an opponent, that has a higher position, then you take his place in top. But that is not how things work. Like Dariush. Some people dont even remember how this grey haired guy looks. I have lots of questions to pound for pound top. How is it formed? What Jon Jones is still doing there, and why we saw McGregor for such a long time there.

My point were just based on the current UFC ranking. But personally, I do not agree with challengers that just lost their title shots still ranked at number 1 or 2. Except if those fights were close or controversial that needs rematch. Maybe the UFC saw something special on Poirier and Gaethji. Well, they actually dropped Oliveira on their failed title shots. Those fights were like 50/50 before stopped. I can understand and respect UFC's decision to rank Poirier and Gaethji; 2nd and 3rd respectively.   

I agree they have lost their respective fights so they can not argue enough to give them what they want, and between Conor McGregor, I really think as well that Rafael Fiziev is more skillful than him, apparently if McGregor can study the way to take down opponent, but I really doubted that to happen Conor McGregor can surely become very stubborn sometimes, keeping his own style to himself, but if Conor McGregor can become an all-rounder maybe he will have a chance on the Top contender of the lightweight division, but again it is already to late for Conor,


I am not really digging so much on the event of the UFC, but surely I will make my picks, and because I am curious about the main card for this fight, sure enough, there are a lot of fighters that I am just seeing now for the 1st time, that is why I am just interested with the main fight, and the fights of Poliana Botelho and Erin Blanchfield but maybe I would look for the possible prospect that will be a great fighter in the future,

And just in Conor McGregor really thinks that his story from the UFC and Mixed martial arts is far from over, I think this dude's determination level is off the charts as well just like Tony Ferguson is still fighting inside the octagon and stops from retiring, and said that Boxing was his real love in combat sports and we will definitely going to see him again inside the ring, I think this was due to the amount of money he can get from boxing maybe he will fight on another exhibition match with Mayweather again,

UFC is finally coming back this weekend with something I always enjoy watching, that is heavyweight main event Alexander Volkov vs Jairzinho Rozenstruik.
I am not really interested in most of the fights on this fight card, but main and co-main events should very interesting to watch.
Movsar Evloev is undefeated and Dan Ige will test him this time, but with win here he would become serious featherweight contender.

Its a mandatory. If they are breaking that because the two just lost.
Couldn't they just start with Islam and Dariush? They both are below the rank with winning streak. They deserve that chance, whoever wins get that chance to fight Olivera for the title. Or they need someone like Khamzat vs Charles so  we'll see if Olivera can still depend on his ground skills.

Poirier and Gaethji just lost their title fight, why would give them chance to fight for a vacant belt? There are other hungry lions that want to try to put this belt on their waist. If they fight, they will be one step to a title fight. Is it fair? When they recently lost their title fight. About Poirier, he has lost a title fight and has fought Conor, who is more money machine now then a fighter in lightweight. I would not even put him on top8. RDA, Fiziev, Tsarukyan are better than he. Dariush, on a series of 7 wins and never had a title fight. Give his man a chance. Honestly, I am fed up this belt going circles between 4-6 people, and they have title fight.

P.S. I have updated UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Rozenstruik card, take a look please

He really wanted that fight but I guess Islam Makhachev will still need to fight a top 5 fighter before he can fight in a title match, so a likely Islam Makhachev VS Beneil Dariush would happen in my opinion, and with the Khabib Nurmagomenodov returning into the UFC, I don't really think so, maybe he can fight in an exhibition match only but in going back to the UFC I don't really think so, although I would like to see him return, but yeah it is not really clear if we can see him fight again, but right now Islam Makhachev is a near choice if you want a Khabib Style type of fighter, but even though they have the same Sambo style, it is pretty obvious that Islam Makhachev had a unique way in doing it,


He would likely be going to fight Rafael dos Anjos back on October 24, 2020, but Dos Anjos tested positive for COVID-19 and he was removed from the bout and was rescheduled for another event, then the rescheduled fight was on  October 30, 2021,  However, dos Anjos was forced to pulled from the event due to injury and was replaced by Dan Hooker, now whos ducking who now? I think Beneil Dariush would likely fight Islam Makhachev in the future,


I think the UFC is likely still in favor of Conor McGregor or likely they want to teach McGregor something that is why they pit him to Charles Oliveira that surely McGregor was a mismatch against Oliveira, but I can not think of a better way why the UFC or Dana White agreed to this,

 
If Dariush wins which I think is impossible I can see a Khamzat Chimaev VS Gilbert Burns situation of a fight, where Khamzat wins in a gruesome match of brawl Khamzat didn't use a wrestling technique, which I think he has an advantage but knowing Burns I think Burns has a tendency to counter it,

Obviously all UFC fans will watch this fight since both of Oliveira and Islam Makhachev are good fighters, Islam Makhachev have a strong chin, even he got punched he can still focus and make a come back situation to hit his opponent. Most of fighter will went down or lose consciousness for few seconds after got punched and then got punished. Honestly Makachev and Khabib are different type fighters, Makachev is a puncher while Khabib is more a wrestler.

I'd say worst year ever for MMA At least it feels like that. Besides a couple of meaningful fights, it seems that there's no excitement that existed in previous years and it all feels really watered down. You can see that with prominent MMA news outlets like Bloodyelbow where there has been an increase of stories regarding pro boxing, celebrity boxing, and what one fighter said to another. When Paddy Pimblett is in the news every other day, than you know how bad the situation is XD

With Liverpool losing the Champions League final, I really needed UFC to cheer me up this weekend. Worst weekend ever .

I'd be all for that. I'm sick of Conor just rocking up, and getting a top 5 or title shot. Nick Diaz probably does get pieced up by Conor mind, but I think it's a decent level for a comeback fight especially after that snapped ankle. I'll be honest, I thought Conor looked good in that fight against Poirier up until that ankle break. I thought Poirer took the round, but Conor was in that fight. Him pulling guard was a bad idea, and probably showed he felt the pressure. However, he wasn't awful that a lot of people claim.

Here is the latest UFC lightweight ranking:


1. Did Makachev really ducked RDA? The only reason Makachev isn't getting the title shot is because he hasn't beat a top 5 yet. And he cannot fight for that vacant belt either. He just entered top 4.   

2. Right after stripping Oliveira's belt, the UFC also said that the guy still becomes number 1 ranked in the lightweight should he beat Gaethji. So I guess the next Oliveira fight is for the vacant belt? Connor might get the title fight if this happens but it doesn't make any sense IMO. A huge mismatch. Connor is inactive for a year now and his last two fights he was stopped. If Connor is still Dana's cash cow then he won't be thrown into the lions den without a tune up.

3. Iirc, Dariush was ranked number 5 few weeks ago? This should be the best fighter Makachev is facing if this really happens. Maybe a win over Dariush might move him to number 2.

4. Everybody should want a fight with Poirier since he is ranked 2nd. If there's a guy that has a valid claim for the vacant belt without going thru Oliveira first, it's Poirier. Maybe Poirier-Gaethji for the vacant belt with Oliveira as its mandatory. After this maybe Makachev is next in line. Still, I believe that Makachev needs to fight a top ranked opponent first to earn a title shot.   

I have heard rumors about both fighter going to the UFC, of course the fight between these two will be very impressive because they have the same way of fighting for Knockout, I hope the rumors about the dream match will come true in the future, although I hope for the return of Khabib but Islam Makachev had represented himself to fight against Charles Oliveira.

Well, I'm including the fights of Blanchfield from cage fury and Invicta aswell, but yeah she just got 2 fights from the UFC, but yeah I have included her fight outside the UFC on her experience, that is why for sure this will be a great fight and you know a women's fight is not that kind of like in the men's fight it sometimes unpredictable so yeah we can expect many things to happen from here on out.

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Right now I am very excited to the future of the lightweight division even though Charles Oliveira was Strip off his belt many still consider him as the champion, and right now most fights that may happen in the future in the lightweight division,

1st Charles Oliveira VS Islam Makachev - this is the anticipated by fan on what to happen and I really want this aswell, but for now there are just rumors because Makhachev wants a title match but instead the UFC might be giving to him a Beneil Dariush fight

2nd Charles Oliveira VS Conor McGregor - Now this will be a non title match because Oliveira is not the champion and particularly will need another win before a fight for the belt, which is I really don't like to happen,

3rd Islam Makhachev VS Beneil Dariush - a fight that I don't really like to see because I really want a fight between Oliveira and Makhachev but this is a talk of the town that it may happen so let's wait and see,

4th Nobody wants to fight Dustin Poirier but maybe a rematch with Justin Gaethje, or maybe a Michael Chandler fight, or a Conor McGregor fight. I really think that a Conor McGregor can be a great fight for Poirier, and not a Charles Oliveira, but let's just see what may happen,

I disagree. JJ Aldrich has much more experience in the UFC than slight. She has been fighting there since 2016 with a positive record, Thicc Blanchfield has only 2 fights in the UFC. This would make anyone assume that Aldrich is more than 35 years old, however, she is not. She is 29 years old. Also, Blanchfield is very young, she is only 23 years old. I reckon young fighters in the UFC will need to experience their first UFC loss to develop and improve. This is also a women's MMA fight where the winners and losers are unpredictable hehehe.

Even though we are talking about fixed fights we surely can not determine if it really is a fixed fight, even though we are seeing a fight I really think it is really hard to determine if it is fixed or not if it is not exposed by someone or by the one that attempted that fixed game, well they can surely act the fight, but in making it a legit fight they need to hurt each other in terms of MMA, and by making some assessment on how to determine a fixed fight to a legit fight we can not determine at all we are just guessing,

But in a recent fight, can say if I would pick 1 fight that I think might be fixed I would say the recent fight against Rose Namajunas and Carla Esparza, many are saying that it is a fight that is the worst in the history, yes I know that it is not a fixed fight but because it was the worst fight that I saw from that fighter it must be a fixed fight, knowing how great Rose Namajunas and she can Knock out Esparza, and Esparza as well can take the fight to the ground, we didn't see anything like it,

OK it is not a Fixed fight but in my own perspective maybe it is a fixed fight just because of how bad the fight is and there is not much contact between both fighters inside the octagon, and people are surely booing Namajunas for doing shit like that and I surely feel frustrated just watching the fight,

I think Dana is busy trying to make comeback fight for Connor McGregor and Nick Diaz might be perfect opponent for him, if both of them agree and make some deal.
Both of them are not deserving to come anywhere near championship contender, but they could make profit in pay-per-view and bring crowd in arenas.

Ah, that's just reminded me of that one night of cage grabs. Three different fights, multiple cage grabs, and only the one fighter was warned. I can't remember who it was now, but it left me infuriated at the time, his opponent basically held onto the cage, and remained on top from a sweep because of it. Nothing said, not even a warning.

Most eye pokes are accidental to be fair, so maybe worth not being so harsh on them despite them being quite dangerous. However, cage grabs should be punished you can't accidentally do it. Obviously, you can reach out instinctively, but still I'd class that as somewhat intentional as it usually helps the fighter from getting taken down. Even, if they don't take points, and make them reset with the fighter on top, that's not the greatest solution though.
 
Yeah, the backflip while they're on the ground is the one that annoys me the most. It doesn't look great, isn't effective, and well a bit pointless. The flips he does while closing space I'll be honest I have enjoyed at times, though he's opening himself up to get knocked out. Usually, when fighters try the wild stuff, they aren't closing space whereas Michel is the first fighter I've ever seen do it effectively.



Yeah, I know every fighter tries it on directly after the fight, but even in the post conference, and interviews she was acting like he did enough. To be honest like I said I personally don't think either did enough, and would've probably scored it 0-0 or 10-10 however they do it.