Topic: The UFC Info and Prediction Thread - page 344. (Read 97140 times)

I truly believe you, Khabib Nurmagomedov is not the kind of guy that will surely not want to act it and makes their fight as entertainment, that Grudge was real for Nurmagomedov, he isn't the type of guy that wants the money he is aiming for greatness and not because of the money, he surely said this to an interview that he wasn't the one that is holding his money but his manager, he doesn't know how much money he is making, but for Connor McGregor, it is all for the money, Khabib jumping on the octagon fence was pure anger and not for the hype he doesn't care if he would lose millions of dollars just to execute such things.

I haven't made my pick but I had a bet on these fights, and I just got 2 fights that I am looking for and take a big liking after their Scuffles and I want these two to surely meet inside the Octagon as an opponent for each other,

Jai Herbert VS Ilia Topuria WIN

Jai Herbert is something, he got the advantage over the reach that could check the distance that was something for Herbert is that he is always hitting Topuria because of that distance reach, Herbert did manage to land a kick on Topuria that drops him to the ground but after that Ilia Topuria has changed his Rhythm and can now read Jai Herbert's movements and getting used to Jai Herberts reach, and after Topuria gets used to Herbert's Reach he decimated Herbert's body and Knocking out Jai Herbert to the ground, Ilia Topuria really wants the Paddy Pimblett fight so badly that he is craving in winning this fight, I could surely see that Ilia Topuria will be a great prospect and we could definitely see an Ilia Topuria VS Paddy Pimblett fight.

Paddy Pinblett VS Rodrigo Vargas

This fight was truly great Vargas strikes was entering Pimblett, but Paddy Pimblett is super durable, and Rodrigo Vargas is hitting Pimblett, so much that they think Paddy Pimblett is in trouble, But Rodrigo Vargas has aimed for a takedown and thinking he can end it on the ground because Pimblett is not used to ground games, but Paddy Pimblet has able to tripped Vargas off balance and we could see that Vargas confidence has flown out the window, and we can see that Vargas is stopping Paddy in getting close by putting both of his knees on Paddy Pimblett, but Pimplett has pushed through to Vargas, and the moment he does that Vargas abandons all he let go of his ground defense and panicked and gave up his back to Paddy Pimblett, and that has got Paddy into the rear-naked choke or Rodrigo Vargas.

Hype or not these two guys really are entertaining to watch that is why I surely anticipated their fight in the making.

If it was Khabib's friends who handles Paddy on the ground, the result could be different. But I got to say Paddy had turned the table instantly by just a swing of his leg and then Vargas just looks very weak that he just gave up his back. I change my stance, Paddy has it with him.

The main event ended in the first round, I can't even see if Volkov tried harder to at least knockout Aspinall, UFC London must have made a mistake matching them.
The most entertaining part is the interview after Paddy won.

Missed the entire event as the timing was different, i just sat down to watch the fights and unfortunately the event is over  .

Here are the results.



Source: Wiki

Have to watch the highlights but Tom Aspinall and Paddy Pimblett stole the show and good to see Gunnar Nelson getting a win.

If any other fighters say that the gimmicks were just for the hype then we could understand, there are certain fighters that do not play this entertainment game, especially Khabib Nurmagomedov, Diaz brothers, Guida brothers and there is no way someone would jump off the cage after the fight and stand a chance to loose millions of dollars and suspension after the fight is over.

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Paddy Pimblett won the fight via submission and there were some heavy underdog wins in this fight card.  Elise Reed, Makwan Amirkhani.

Now the co main event and the main event is left. I am picking Tom Aspinall and Dan Hooker to win.

Well, comparing it to your brother in law may be a great comparisson, but at the end of the day I think both of you can still settle the issue and set it aside, but for Khabib Nurmagomedov and Connor McGregor I think their grudge was just for hype, and it is just for the entertainment value, although I could also be wrong, because that bus that Connor have broke is just a liability to him,

For Paddy Pimblett and Ilia Topuria one should surely gain or lose their weight and I would love to see this fight take into action,


I was laughing literally seeing this picture, but again, because of that weight difference, Paddy Pimblett has that power to win, but I really want Ilia Topuria and see if he can overcome that strength of Pimblett, I know Topuria had that skill and technique, but for now I think if he can reach that weight he needed maybe he can have that strength to compare with Paddy.

I guess...  Some fighters hide their eyes to avoid the crowd looking at how hagard they look due to a bad weight cut.  Did you see pics of Hooker tho?  He is ripped to the tits!  That's not a bad weight cut.  I'm kinda second guessing my parlay...  Arnold Allen is at the bottom tier tho so if he's a bust then I miss one bet.  But as long as I hit the first two parlays, I'm happy.  The other bottom three would just be a bonus.  Lol.  

I don't think the weight cut of Dan Hooker is going to affect him too much. But it's still a decent weight loss, from lightweight to featherweight. Arnold Allen does not have a single knockout win in his career but he is certainly not a weak-handed person, he can smash pretty well. He is also on his eight-win streak if I am not wrong.
So, I think it will be hard for Dan Hooker.





@Hydrogen, I also think that paddy is just a hype train. Don't get me wrong he is a good fighter but I think that people are just typing him up too much. But, in this fight, he is expected to win. Rodrigo Vargas had a good last fight but I think that paddy's stand-up is a little too better.

Burns should absolutely be more of a challenge. If it ends in a similar way to the last fight I'll be really suprised, especially as quickly as that. Burns should prove to be a challenge. Especially, if he can avoid a takedown, I don't see him being threatened too much in the stand up.

I wouldn't read too much into that. A lot of fighters do it, in fact I've seen a lot of Youtubers do it too. I don't know if it adds to your "coolness" scale or what. Apparently, it's quite the trend to not see indoors.

Looks like there's gonna be a ceremonial weigh in for UFC London.  It's gonna be live in a couple of minutes.

UFC London:  Ceremonial Weigh Ins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SKtDNFEb_Y

And here are the weigh in results.  Everybody made weight so good.  After losing Wood vs Morales,mwe can't afford to lose more matches.  Wood was one of my most confident picks for this event.  It sucks losing that match up.

Heavyweight Bout: Alexander Volkov (253) vs Tom Aspinall (252)
Featherweight Bout: Arnold Allen (146) vs Dan Hooker (145)
Paddy Pimblett (155) vs Kazula Vargas (155)
Gunnar Nelson (171) vs Takashi Sato (170)
Molly McCann (125) vs Luana Carolina (125)    
Jai Herbert (155) vs Ilia Topuria (156)
Mike Grundy (145) vs Makwan Amirkhani (146)
Shamil Abdurakhimov (258) vs Sergei Pavlovich (254)
Nikita Krylov (205) vs Paul Craig (206)
Jack Shore (135) vs Timur Valiev (136)
Cory McKenna (115) vs Elise Reed (115)
Muhammad Mokaev (125) vs Cody Durden (126)

Didn't watch the official weigh ins so I'm not really sure how Hooker looks on the scale.  I've seen pics and saw that he was wearing sun glasses...  Hmmm.  What is he hiding?  :/

Yeah I'm excited for April 10th as well. I wouldn't say this is the first serious fight for chimaev as Li was an up and coming prospect that looked like a real threat until he stepped in the cage with khamzat. I feel with burns this will go the same way. Khamzat and Gilbert both know Usman destroyed Gilbert. With a less than convincing win against wonderboy I just feel this will be a mental affect and as soon as they are both in the cage and chimaev starts his game plan, Gilbert realises he can't stop the game plan then it's game over. Looking forward to UFC 273 the rematch between Yan and sterling is what I'm most excited for ha let's see if it's gonna be at least competative this time.

Since when did Mcgregor go to jail for throwing a chair at the bus? Any normal person doing that would have likely been locked up. The thing is, it was likely staged to a degree. I do believe there is some animosity there, but I think that's more competitive than anything really malicious. We have to remember that every organisation likes to do this, WWE openly does it, boxers have admitted faking beef in the past just to sell fights.

Dana talks through his arse on the best of days, so he can't really take his word for anything. The amount of lies he comes up with on a weekly basis post fights is pretty ludicrous, especially when he's talking about fighters wages, and the treatment of them.

Paddy, and Topuria are some of the best prospects in MMA. Of course, creating a beef between them hypes them up even more. This is show business, I think we have to remember that. Even Conor in his prime was selling fights, his words definitely probably did annoy his opponents, but at the end of the day they know that it was to sell fights. I mean, that's one of the arguments fighters have countered Conor with, is he's all talk, and is just trying to make money by selling the fights. More often than not in his prime he delivered on that smack talk though.

^ Khabib Nurmagomedov vs Connor McGregor was absolutely a genuine beef. I remember Dana White saying in Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show,
^ I don't think Khabib and Connor will ever be friends. There's no way that is going to happen. Khabib taught Connor that he is not at the same level as him. And Connor got humbled.
Paddy vs Topuria might not happen because If a fighter drops or gains weight, it will obviously affect his skill. So that will be a big barrier to the fight.

The Jack Shore fight is going to be a close one definitely. I'm just hoping Jack wants it more on the night. Think we might see a round of stand up, with one of the fighters just edging it, thinking Jack. Then we'll see a grappling/wrestling match for the rest of the rounds.

We do see that a lot though with new fighters, their debuts are usually quite the cagey affair, and I suspect he'll settle down with more experience. The thing is with his fighting style as soon as you bring in a little bit of anxiety, and the feeling of being rushed, it'll start to look a little sloppy. He isn't on Mcgregor's level that a lot of people like to compare him with, but he looks a decent enough prospect, although I do believe his mouth will get him big fights, rather than his ability.

I think Allen won't be able to withstand Hookers pressure and is just not on Hookers level. It's a good test nevertheless and boy this will be a grueling distance fight if there ever was one. It's good that Allen ditched Tristar, things there have not been all that great the last few years.



IMHO Paddy completely shat the bed in his first UFC fight. He looked terrible, and that type of bar fighting IQ can get him only so far in the fighting business. I never really got the Paddy hype train. I mean, for a hype train to work, he has to show something in the UFC, not just outside of it (previous fights) and so far there is nothing to get excited by.

The difference between Pimblett and Topuria fighting weight categories is about 5kg only.

But in real life, Pimblett is quite a donut



We dont know what will be his real weight in octagon.

I think I am going to skip this weeks event and see a review on Sunday. I am more excited to watch the event that will be after it. Coz of Matt Brown, Blaydes, Daukaus, Oleinik and Borschev.

At first Petr Yan has lost his team and corner guy due to visa problems, but not it turns that Henry Cejudo is going to be in his corner. That is rather shocking, because both of fighters were trash talking and making laugh of each others.

Although Khabib and Connor can show to the public they are friends, I doubt any of them will trust each other. For all we know in the back of their heads, they will kill each other if given the chance in private. You can compare it to yourself when you have once put a fight with someone. I have my brother-in-law that I can't talk with despite mother in law and my wife wanting us to be what it was before the fight.

Paddy and Topuria hype or not, someone will have to chase the weight in order for this fight to come. The audience is already eager to see what they are made of.

Well, we can really never know what is real or what is not, maybe gaining access to their private life would we have known for sure, but I think the Khabib and McGregorr fight that is a genuine beef, that they have for each other, and I can surely say because Khabib Nurmagomedov doesn't like any kind of hype outside the octagon, or doesn't really need to hype their fight but with that kind of exchange I think it added up to the Fuel of the Hype,

And while the case of Paddy Pimblett and Ilia Topuria may look just like a hype, in my opinion I say it looks legit, well this is just what I see regarding these two they are in a different division so one should gain or lose weight for them to fight and to hype a fight, and regarding the Ilia Topuria Georgian descendant I really think that he has some beef to throw something at Paddy on what he is saying but I guess he doesn't need to result in hurting Paddy regarding that, but still Paddy shouldn't post it on the first place, but regarding these two I am on the middle on the issue, but I think their difference will surely be settle inside the octagon and if it continues Paddy Pimblett is one strong dude Topuria will surely have a hard time, but Topuria has the skill and technique to counter Paddy, but let's just wait and see.

Thoughts on some of the match ups.

Dan Hooker vs Arnold Allen

Dan Hooker has had issues with COVID travel restrictions negatively affecting his last two or three performances. Each time he travels to the united states it has taken him 2 months to arrive back home. It was enough of a problem that his team of city kickboxing (Israel Adesanya, Alexander Volkov, Kai Kara France, etc) considered leaving new zealand to migrate to the united states.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, it appears Arnold Allen is not training at tristar with Firas Zahabi for this fight. As he did for previous bouts in the UFC. Tristar has not dominated of late the way they did when GSP and Rory MacDonald were top contenders.

I think Dan Hooker has the advantage, if the weight cut down to 145 lbs doesn't negatively impact him too much.

Paddy Pimblett vs Rodrigo Vargas

Paddy loses focus when he has his opponent hurt. Might be worth a small bet on Rodrigo Vargas who has 7 KO/TKO finishes in 12 wins. The UFC has seen many hype trains derailed since its inception. Paddy Pimblett isn't as good as the hype surrounding him IMO.

Jack Shore vs Timur Valiev

Timur Valiev is yet another dagestani in the UFC. The gym affiliation listed under his sherdog profile says JacksonWink MMA. Valiev's instagram shows him training at Nick Catone MMA and Ricardo Almeida.

Jack Shore appears to train in europe. Unfortunately, I can't remember enough of Timur Valiev's fights Or Jack Shore's to remember how good they are. Jack Shore appears to have a good height advantage.

I want to lean Valiev off him having the more established trainers and gym. A lot of these fights come down to who wants it more, especially at lighter weight classes.

Here's my predictions for this event:

Tom Aspinall
Arnold Allen
Ilia Topuria
Jack Shore
Cory McKenna

Avoiding the rest of the card like the plague. To close to call, so these are the ones that are going into my accumulator. Good odds on both Jack Shore, and Tom Aspinall. Think both are probably underdogs going into this, but think they'll pull it off. Topuria should be the most confident performance on the night, not expecting too many problems for him. Cory Mckenna is decent, and looks to be the favourite, expecting a dominant performance. To be honest, I didn't think she lost last time out, but that might be the Welsh bias kicking in .

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UFC Fight Night 204 Multi Master Challenge
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Here's my full card parlay for the event.

Topuria - McKenna - Wood at 2.07
Add:  Nelson  - Pimblett - McCann at 4.90
Add:   Grundy - Pavlovich at 9.89
Add:  Craig - Aspinall at 44.38
Add:  Shore - Mokaev - Arnold at 203.85

For picking between Arnold and Hooker I think waiting for the weigh ins is prolly better.  But if basing it on momentum I think Arnold got this.  Hooker is in a bit of a rut lately.