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News update.

I am shaking my head because it appears Colby Covington did not file charges because their team have not declared anything and the news articles do not mention anything also. Can the district attorney file charges against Jorge Masvidal if Colby did not file them?


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Jorge Masvidal has pleaded not guilty to the charges of felony battery and criminal mischief following an alleged altercation with Colby Covington.

Wednesday, Masvidal turned himself in to Miami Beach police and was booked inside the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. You can view footage of Masvidal’s surrender below.

Masvidal was released Thursday on $15,000 bail. ESPN’s Marc Raimondi was among the first to reveal that Masvidal has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him and is set to appear in court for the first time on April 21. Masvidal is being charged with two felonies: aggravated battery with bodily harm and criminal mischief.

Source https://www.mmanews.com/2022/03/jorge-masvidal-felony-charges-3/


Also, it appears the UFC has underestimated Jennifer Maia hehehe. She will beat this french girl.

Yeah we didn't saw him because he mostly knocks out all his opponents, but I don't understand why he is such a big underdog.
Curtis Blayde is favorite for sure, but he doesn't give me confidence and I see this fight more like 60% in his favor, so I am willing to risk a small bet on Daukaus.

I don't know if anyone saw what Charles Oliveira tweeted, he is one of Simpsons character and Justin Gaethje is the Homer Simpson of MMA


https://twitter.com/CharlesDoBronxs/status/1506750190690217984

Yeah, we haven't really seen what Daukaus is like outside the second round, as he rarely gets there. However, Curtis has gone the distance a few times, if Daukaus can avoid the take downs successfully, which I do doubt he will. He could potentially win by bigger output. Curtis isn't really known for volume of punches, and kicks, but rather his knockout ability, and as you said wrestling.

Even just betting straight up Daukaus you get some nice returns, whereas Blaydes' odds are absolutely crazy, I don't consider him that big of a favourite, a favourite yeah, but not by that wide of a margin.

^  Daukas is def live during R1 as he has fast hands and has the KO power esp early.  And did I already mention that Blayeds is chinny?    So if you're going to take Daukas, taking him to win via KO to get better odds on it is prolly the way to go.  I can't see it going for the whole 25 mins and win via decision.

And I'm so sure there's going to be a shit ton of TD attempts from Blaydes.  It's his bread and butter.  Check the offensive TD stat Blaydes did vs Volkov.  It was lot.

Askarov isn't even worth putting on an accumulator at the odds I was looking at yesterday. 1.20, aint worth the risk of something crazy happening on the night. Magny likely gets the win, I'm really unsure about Blaydes. Either the main event goes to the score cards which I think its anyone's game, depending on the amount of wrestling, since I would like to think Blaydes has the advantage or Bladyes gets the knockout a few rounds in. Since, Daukaus rarely goes the distance, he could find him tiring, especially since its a five rounder.

^  That pic of Jojo Wood is from years ago when she wasn't even in the UFC yet from the looks of it.  Same with the Grasso pic.  That's from her Invicta days.

Here's my full card parlay for the event.

Askarov - Magny
add:  Grasso - Borshchev
add:  Blaydes, Brown, Kizriev
add:  Nicolau - Guttierez - Fiorot
add:  Latifi - Souza
add:  McMann

It prolly would've been better to make the bets early in the week when the lines were better...  Oh well.

McMann is the least confident pick but taking my chances.  It could be one of those ones when the old UFC veteran gets a close decision vs the young upcoming prospect.  It's prolly be the spot.

At a glance, I thought that Jo Jo went down a category because I can't remember her being that skinny (in contrast to what I thought she previously looked), but seems I'm wrong. I considered her at one point in time to have what it takes to be in the top 5 in her division, but since 2019 I don't see her breaking out of the mostly loose with an occasional win streak. Hate to say it, but seems that her stint with Zahabi was more beneficial to her than training with her hubby.

You'll probably find a lot of the fighters themselves will openly admit to fighting for the money. Otherwise, they would just be training in their local gym. I'm not claiming that they started mixed martial arts because they needed money, but most guys in the UFC are motivated by money. Legacy isn't worth much these days, and is often hyped up way too much by us fans. Even some of the best fighters across sports have admitted money being the primary driving factor.

I don't think that's a bad thing in todays world, most of us are driven by money. Unfortunately, the types of people who enter the UFC are usually those that are struggling. Look at most champions these days, they were struggling. Conor also came from a poor background, and was struggling in life before taking the UFC by storm. Its that determination to better oneself that really helps a fighter I think.

UFC Fight Night 205 is starting in few days and I think that main event has totally wrong odds that are making Chris Daukaus a big underdog.
Curtis Blaydes is a very good fighter but he can be defeated, and all his defeats was with KO or TKO, that is one of Daukaus specialties.
I think that best bet here would be to place something on fight ending early, maybe in first or second round and I don't expect to see all five rounds.

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No I am not. In past, fighters have more fight during one evening-event, than some fighters have now during one year. Just google fighters records during 1995-2005. The rules were much open to crippling people (elbows, knees in parter, soccer kicks, strikes with forehead, often fights without gloves). The fighters fight almost every month.

Google Mike Kerr late videos. Search YouTube for how many achilles, knees, heel Ken Shamrock destroyed (or Masakatsu Funaki). Or just search Pancrase. Then compare their rich career with UFC fighters.

Oh! Sorry I didn't catch that post, but very funny video you got there. if were talking about WWE, there are saying that even though Jorge Masvidal landed a cheap shot on Covington, Colby Covington is still standing, and right now legal charges was what is waiting for Jorge Masvidal, and right now Colby Covington is aiming for Israel Adesanya.



This is also what I am waiting for me. I would go with the beautiful Alexa Grasso, will surely look for these both fighters, but I am aiming to bet for Grasso. But Joanne Wood seems like a great kick boxer, but I will go with the Young Alexa Grasso.

I think you are too dramatic. Of course you can see which fighter fights for money and which is a real warrior. However, it cannot be said that the majority fight only for the money. Certainly it is important for most of them, because it is in some way their job, so financial bonuses are always attractive. However, there are still fighters who do it out of passion and not just to stuff their pockets with dollars.

@YuginKadoya. It was posted in the thread already. This is Colby Covington's opportunity to get paid for the payperview purse that was not given to him by the UFC hehehee. There are news articles that mentioned Colby fractured a tooth.

This is a very clear video made by a witness that caught the attack hehehe.

https://mobile.twitter.com/giovansouness/status/1506349060508237825?s=12

It appears we also have 2 sexy fighting kittens who will fight each other. Joanne Calderwood vs. Alexa Grasso, who will be the winner?

That could be an extreme though to put things but Matt Brown should surely see his health as well, even though he enjoys the life inside the ring or Octagon, there is no future in always being inside the ring of Octagon, but if Matt Brown wants to always win or in top shape inside the ring he would surely need to monitor his health and sturdiness if he can still withstand certain blows, because it will surely lead in some major injuries or in other cases, head injuries that may cause mental issues.

And Flash News

Jorge Masvidal just made a fool out of himself he attacked Colby Covington outside the restaurant, and now facing charges, it is so Unprofessional for Jorge to do such things and a weak thing to do, and now people are surely bashing him to be like this but Jorge Masvidal will sure do unprofessional things, and this will never stop, but Colby Covington just want to file legal charges on Jorge Masvidal, and for him this is surely personal, but I didn't see Colby Covington say such things against his family I think all insults was on Jorge Masvidal, so Masvidal is getting angry out of his ego, and I think this should stop, and if Masvidal wants a rematch it should be inside the ring or Octagon and not outside the restaurant or everywhere else, this could surely cause Jorge Masvidal his reputation.

That's true almost sport wide, over time the competitiveness gets more, and therefore the prepareness or how well drilled a team is as an example increases. We see it in football, where teams at the bottom of the league can beat the ones at the top, that's because there's not a massive difference in quality, I know that sounds weird to say, since it does appear sometimes that there is, but there's really not. If both teams played to their best ability on the day, it would be somewhat close.

Same with the UFC, today we are seeing that unranked fighters can, and do give ranked fighters a problem, even highly ranked. That's why we rarely see total dominance in the UFC. We could say that Khabib had some sort of dominance, but my argument would be he didn't have enough fights in the UFC or MMA to truly know that. Sambo, and wrestling is totally different, you can mitigate a lot of things, that's how we see even basicly trained BBJ practitioners avoid getting submitted by the highest belts. However, you can't mitigate a flying back fist out of nowhere, or a flying knee within a couple of seconds of the fight starting. MMA brings that unpredictability that basically means you'll eventually lose.

In boxing you can largely mitigate these threats, but the threats are still there. I remember one fight, but can't for the life of me remember the fighters, it was somewhat recent, as in a couple of years. A fighter basically dislocated his shoulder which means he couldn't use it to defend or attack, but he ended up knocking his opponent out anyways. That's the unpredictable eliminate of boxing, when you mix in all the other limbs you can use in MMA, things become very unpredictable quick.

Yeah I agree. He's obviously talented and has the benifit of having fast hands. But feel volkov is done really. He doesn't really possess world class martial arts and although his height has always given him the advance it clearly shows his lack of quality. The take down was good sure, but nothing special especially someone as tall as volkov. I think he should fight arlovski next, that would be a real test for Tom especially if it wasn't in the uk

That's true...  And compare the skill level of the fighters today to the 'imma die in the ring' fighters.  Chances are the average fighters today will most likely beat the average fighters of the previous generation.  It's not that the fighters today got soft, they're just smarter these days.  And the trainees have gotten smarter and more scientific in taking care of the guys in their stables too.

Anyway, I haven't seen any predictions and picks for the events yet.  C'mon boys, let's have them. 

UFC Free Fight:  Blaydes vs Dos Santos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9AQuwiu81Y

UFC Free Fight:  Daukas vs Abdurakhimov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GDsR5j90iQ

I'm sooo tempted on Daukas.  What do you guys think?

Let me correct you a bit. "Imma die in the ring" generation is replaced with "I will fight him if only I get paid lots of $$$" and "I am not going to fight him, because he is lower in top" (but in reality I am afraid to lose and spoil my record).

We have moved from generation of "I have broken arm, ribs, jaw, brain concussion and my spine is dead, but I will continue, this is just round 1 and there are 2 more fights this evening and I will win tournament" to "oh shit, I got my nail broken, poked in eyes accidentally (hello ufc gloves), got a knee to head (hello Aljo), I think I will fake injury and be a champ. and take 6-12 months to recover"

I've been saying that for ages, for a lot of fighters, but Brown comes from a generation of 'Imma die in the ring' tough type of fighters. That generation has slowly been left behind in the sense that a lot of younger fighters are now thinking about their long-term health, their future, and their longevity in the sport. So at one point that will turn for the better and only outliers will be pushing the envelope.

I always think he needs to retire so soon, he is 41 years old and his health is more important than anything else. He had a good career back in 2012 up to 2013 but surely aging is getting into him, and not only him, but every athlete that needs to retire soon because of worsening conditions inside the ring, or octagon.


Alexey Oleynik needs to retire as well, he is 44 years old and not on his prime anymore, his Boa Constrictor persona isn't really working anymore, he surely needs a rest, and that 3 consecutive lost he has, back on 2021, he really needs to take it easy this time, and you are right he should be coaching Jujutsu.


Nah! I will stick to what I have said. Blaydes in my opinion could be durable but will likely Chris Daukaus will sure have a hard time with Blaydes and Curtis Blades just got the reach advantage he could deliver a punch more easily and check the distance with no problems at all. well still respect your prediction and what you think may happen, but I am with Curtis Blaydes.