Topic: The UFC Info and Prediction Thread - page 376. (Read 100100 times)

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.

What I didn't immediately pick up on was Dana didn't give Ngannou the belt, he's usually there to tie the belt around the champions waist, but didn't do that this time. Also, one of the journalists in the post conference said that Dana wasn't there either. I'm wondering whether there's a lot more going on behind the scenes, because if we are to take Ngannou for his word, he didn't have a clue why Dana seemly trying to avoid confrontation with Ngannou on camera.

I'm noticing that there's definitely a lot more fighters speaking up about pay issues now, think Dana will be forced to raise them eventually, probably only marginal knowing Dana.

I know that Dana white loves money. But I also know that Dana white respects a good fighter and we have seen that with it a lot of great fighters in the past.
Maybe there are some other things going on which we are not aware of. But in any case, I also think he should just play the man.

Rakhmonov vs Harris is something I am also interested in. Rakhmonov might have the upper hand here as he has not lost a single professional match in his career. (14-0).

Ngannou doesnt have huge following in social media like Masvidal or Mcgregor thats why even if he is good at his boxing and his grappling, he will still be under appreciated by White. Its a subscribers game today which there is a cancel culture 😁

Like Chappel, he cant be cancelled because he has huge social media following.  Or Mcgregor who is more talented in insulting in public than grappling. Ngannou doesnt have that talent but just do his work in the cage.

I had either Ngannou winning by KO or Gane winning on points. I guess it was those three take downs that probably clinched it for Francis. Other than that it looked pretty even to me. I would have really liked to see how Gane handled a bomb from Francis had one of them landed but his defence was pretty good.


Francis still has a fight left now because of the win. Maybe he'll fight Gane again or maybe Jon Jones will finally come back. Not sure he should get a title shot straight away though.  I think another fight with Gane would be 50/50. 


His contract is extended because there's a Champion's clause in the contract so he's going to have to defend it again this year at some point.

^  Why doesn’t Dana White just pay Ngannou his due..?  He obviously deserves it.  I mean he paid Masvidal who isn’t even really that good of a fighter these days, didn’t he?

And I don’t think I’d like to see a rematch vs Gane.  But that’s just me.  I would like to see Ngannou vs Jon Jones tho.  

Moving on...  We have a not so great card at the weekend after next.  The roster for the event isn’t final yet but here’s the link to Tapology.

https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/83125-ufc-fight-night

The only bout I’m looking forward to is Rakhmonov vs Harris.  Check it out.  I’m not sure why it’s at the bottom of the card.  It deserves to be in the main card imho.

https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/bouts/616173-ufc-fight-night-shavkat-nomad-rakhmonov-vs-carlston-mocambique-harris

Gane is a great fighter, but imo he underestimated Ngannou a bit(as many bettors did too). During the fight Gane was performing some very risky moves as if Ngannou had no clue how to respond. I think half of those hits and kicks would be enough to defeat almost anyone, it's just Ngannou is no your average fighter. He was prepared. His responses were amazing. And he won via unanimous decision.

I bet a significant amount on Ngannou, and the odds were pretty good



I'm glad he won.