Topic: The UFC Info and Prediction Thread - page 365. (Read 97129 times)

There could be some other reason why Dana wasn't there. Maybe a family emergency or something else. It will be interesting to see if he gives an explanation. It would seem kind of petty if it's just about money. Francis hasn't really been disrespectful about the whole situation at least publicly. Behind the scenes it could be a different matter, but Ngannou really isn't getting the money he deserves. I think he was paid half a million for that fight. How much money is McGregor getting? We all know he wouldn't fight for that sort of money and he hasn't been champion ages. He was also allowed to fight in boxing with the UFC getting a cut. The same should happen here.


Dana can't really have half his fighters swanning off from the UFC to go compete in other combat sports. It doesn't really look good for business when fighters would rather be in boxing than MMA, though I do a agree it gets more attention on the UFC from boxing fans. Dana probably does need to allow for some leeway for the big fighters though. Just put a clause in that there's the option to fight in boxing matches but it has to be a UFC-cross promotion like the Mayweather McGregor fight and maybe the UFC gets 10-20% of the purse or whatever. Otherwise there's going to be an exodus of the best fighters because boxing is where the huge money is, especially if you can be your own promoter for the event. I mean, just look at the difference in sums of money:



I imagine Ngannou would make 5-10 million for a fight against Fury. Honestly speaking though, I don't think Francis would do very well in boxing unless he can get one of those freak knock-outs but if he can't do that against Gane then I doubt he will against Fury unless he gets lucky. Fury would probably just tire him out and I couldn't see Ngannou going the full 12 rounds with him. Maybe Francis just wants one or two huge paydays then he'll go off and do acting or something. Once he leaves the UFC though there's no going back so he has to be careful.

Don't know how accurate the following is but maybe Francis could just run down his contract with the UFC and let it expire:


I think Dana is hoping one of O'Malley and Paddy will be the new McGregor. I think they both have potential but probably not at Connor-level. They both get attention but

I don't get it. How's it a small number of followers if Francis Ngannou has 6 times more of them than Ciryl Gane?






In case you don't know, 661.3K followers is considered a lot. Kamaru Usman has 712.2K followers, for example.


Well, yeah, this is what's interesting to me too. I doubt anyone, apart from those connected to the sellers, is gonna buy it. Just look at the stats



Only one item has been bought so far. That's what you do so that people wouldn't think no one wants it. (My personal opinion. I may be wrong, of course).

Ridiculous. That's a way to burn a bridge with one of the best heavyweights we've seen in recent years. A potential money maker in Ngannou vs Jones if Jones would get off Twitter, and actually fight. Just seems like Dana is going about this the completely wrong way, and it'll end up with him losing the current champion, and other fighters will start piping up about their situation.

I love the UFC as a competition, but I just hate how they run it from time to time. I see that Jake Paul is still trying to push Dana to pay the fighters more, and while I'm not his biggest fan, I've got to respect the amount of effort he's at least seeming to put in.

What about his win over Donald Cerrone? That win was convincing. Those two losses to Poirier, lets just admit that Poirier developed and became stronger.

The problem with Conor McGregor last fight is that he is not in his division. Lightweight is not for him. His opponents are to tough to go to sleep after his left punch. Check out his record. Welterweight division and number of TKO by punches. Nearly perfect record. As soon as he moved lightweight and decided to be champ in two divisions, everything started to go bad for him.

Actually, you could be right about Sean O'Malley and paddy. But they do you seem to have a good impact on the crowd. But if they don't have the results to back their Talking up, then fans will also lose interest in them.

And about Conor McGregor, I think his situation is going to be more like Tony Ferguson. Because just like Tony didn't ever come back 100% from the beating he took against Justin, Conor McGregor also never recovered from the loss against Khabib Nurmagomedov. It's actually really hard to come back from a beating like that.

But if corner can come back and true that he is still one of the best then I think UFC is going to be more popular again.

Drama with Francis Ngannou and UFC continues and it seems like UFC threatened to sue him for talking about potential fight outside MMA in boxing.
Ngannou publicly said again that he is not happy with the way how UFC treated him, and I wouldn't be surprised if he lives them when his contract expires.
He fought out his contract after defeating Gane and now he has championship clause on the contract extended for three more fights.
Let's see what happens but I think his managers should start talking with other organizations now.
Maybe Dana is preparing for Jon Jones return.

I'd argue the opposite for Sean O'Malley, since to me he has a ceiling, and it definitely isn't in the top five. He's a good cash cow up until he gets found out against ranked opponents, and believe you me, he will be found out. I don't expect him to even challenge the top five, because Dana will want to protect him as much as possible. Same as Paddy who has made a great impact on fans, I think he clearly has a ceiling which probably isn't going to be anywhere near the top five.

Izzy is the exception here, one of the best fighters the UFC has seen, and he knows how to market. However, the real promoter was Conor who seems to be making a comeback sometime this year, which could be interesting if he takes it seriously, and gets that passion back that he seemed to have lost.

I expect Ngannou to be in the UFC for some time too. And I think Dana white needs to find a fighter for multiple fighters like Conor McGregor who can really promote UFC to the top and talk really good.

And Sean O'Malley is a good asset for the UFC who can promote fights really well. And Adesanya seems to be both a good fighter and a good fight promoter. maybe these people need to be pushed by the UFC.

For 50 bucks you get 3 random NFTs. They can be anything But for 0.25 ETH you will get a rare Ngannou NFT. All the NFT on opensea are listed by UFC, probably . At least this Ngannou NFT has a video, while others are just pictures. As I understood, rare NFT will those that has a small video, and common are just pictures.

What makes me disappointed, the fact that I have found 2 NFS UFC Strike #37 and UFC Strike #29. Their series numbers are different, but they show same UFC fight moment.

^  Wait..  I don’t get it.  At the UFC Strike site it’s 50 bucks.  But who listed those UFC NFT’s at Opensea for .25 ETH?  Lol.  Just a random buyer?  And why multiple copies of Ngannou, Fig and Moreno?  Are those the common ones?  Lol.  I guess the rare ones worth buying are the Khabib, GSP or Nate Diaz ones?  I’d def want me one of those...  Even an Anderson Silva one.  Those def worth more than 50 bucks.

Anyway here’s the post fight press conference if you guys wanna watch it.  You gotta feel for Ngannou...  He’s being disrespected.

UFC 270:  Post Fight Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHn15tXGyCQ

They are already on sale at opensea. For example you can get Francis Ngannou for 0.25 ETH. Just search UFC Strike. Or https://opensea.io/UFC-NFTs looks like their official account.

I think this is what they call a Champions NFT moment. Would someone buy it? This is just a short clip, that millions already saw. This is not unique and dont give any extra rights for NFT holders.

The price is cheap and you have a chance to acquire the best item of all with that amount of money but it's already sold out and I think they will increase the price when they produce again. I think when they sold it in Opensea, the price will increase depending on the number of items available, I was thinking to hold some UFC NFTs but I am late to get it now from the store since it's already sold.

Did you know that UFC has joined NFT trend ?

Check out https://ufcstrike.com/. It cost only 50 bucks. As I understood, for that, you will get 35 short video clips of best UFC moments. Video clips are random. UFC has divided clips into champion and contender moments. with a 99.625% chance that you will get a contender clip. Dont know what clips there will be, but all the UFC moments can be founds on youtube

When you register, you get yourself a FLOW wallet (never heard of that), with a strange address. I've got 0x68f00f0c337a892b, which is kinda short for Ethereum, BSC or Matic blockchains...

Francis Ngannou defended his crown but it was good performance from Gane and nobody got nocked out like I expected.
Decision win also happened in co-main event with Deiveson Figueiredo getting back on throne for his division, I am sure we are going to see third fight with Brandon Moreno.

It's a gamble for Dana to do that really but I think he knows that once a star had reached its peak, will ask for more. Not saying it's bad that it goes above Ngannou's head. It's actaully good to ask more and Dana knows that if Ngannou earns big in boxing, he may not come back. It's the nature of man to desire more. Ngannou has something in mind also since he already has his own foundation.

And true. I also can't see a significant shot from Francis. The only I think that made him win is that he got control over Gane on the ground. Gane is fast in avoiding and blocking.

Dana just needs to compromise I would think. Ngannou probably wants bigger money, so instead of Dana giving him the money directly, allow him to have a few boxing fights. I'm not sure why the UFC puts it in the clause of the contract that they can't fight in other sports. It would probably be beneficial because you keep the fighters happy, and you also put UFC fighters in the limelight, and in front of a new audience.

For example, I was originally a boxing fan, never even considered watching the UFC because I fell for the appearance of it rather than actually what it is. I always thought, I don't want to watch people beat on each other to a inch of their life, but doesn't really sound like fun. I was the typical outsider thinking that the UFC was for thugs, and boxing had more honour. Though, obviously now I realise how stupid that was without actually giving it a chance, I'm now a bigger MMA fan than boxing, in fact I literally only watch the big fights in boxing nowadays, I couldn't care less about it otherwise.

So, I assume that getting these fighters in the spotlight, could prove beneficial to Dana. Dana should be upping the wages on principle alone considering how much PPV buys they have, and how low they're paying them in comparison with other professional athletes. However, I think Dana by offering fighters the chance to fight in boxing fights once or twice a year, but still restrict them from fighting in other MMA competitions could well be the way to get a happy middle ground with the fighters.

I thought the fight with Gane was incredibly close, Gane seemed to be too good moving around for Ngannou to get the connection, but Ngannou showed he can adapt, and he does have other tools to his belt. Obviously, when he was on top of Gane he effectively did nothing, but control. So, he definitely isn't brilliant at it, but its progress, and I want to see Ngannou stay in the UFC for a few years yet.

I mean, it wouldn't be out of the ordinary that Gane was a bit out of his element as this was his first major fight, and Ngannou already had a couple of title fights behind him. But hey, that's also something fighters need to work on and is an actual factor, as much as not knowing wrestling or any other technic that can cost you the fight. Just look at how mental displacement at a certain moment can cost you everything in the Aldo MacGregor fight. Was this the case with Gane, it's hard to tell, but how ever we look at it, Ngannou was the better fighter. 

I believe that the result of the fight is not controversial and nobody doubts that Ngannou won. I think Gane was missing a few things in this fight to show his advantage, but for sure what he lacked most was luck.
I think that when the emotions subside and everyone analyzes this fight calmly, Gane will get a rematch and then we will see if it was his bad day or Ngannou is just better.

There might be something deeper than just Francis Ngannou wants to shift into boxing or wants to fight in boxing, Dana White seems not only Displease with Francis wants to leave UFC, if we can dig into a deeper motive on what really happened, but for now, this is what I can think of,

Well, we all have different wants and for you, I know Francis Ngannou has proven himself, but for me, Ciryl Gane has proven himself aswell ending the fight with a decision and if we look at Francis Ngannou's Stats he has 20 matches. 17 wins and 3 losses 12 is knockout, 4 submissions, and this is the only decision win for Ngannou, I really think that Ciryl Gane sure deserves a rematch and that 2 Submission Attempts by Gane prove that round 5 should be a win for Gane, just my opinion,

I don't really like the fight night right now, I'd rather wait for the Israel Adesanya and Robert Whittaker fight, but will surely give it a try.

If Francis Ngannou, according to Dan White, has a small number of followers in social media, he should help him increase these numbers and stand with him at least for a photo with belt. After all, Dana White should want to increase his range to earn more on the next fight. In my opinion, he acted very strangely.