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Muslim Salikov pulled out of the fight with Michel Pereira. Its been said Andre Fialho might step in as a replacement but not officially confirmed.

MMA fighters are usually better athletes than boxers IMO. That's one thing Ngannou could have going for him if he fights Tyson Fury. He might not get tired as quickly as Deontay Wilder did. But could have the same big KO power.

Tyson Fury has trained MMA with Darren Till in the past. I'm certain he can appreciate both boxing and MMA. I wish more boxers would approach the title undisputed champion as having competed with the best MMA has to offer as well as boxing.

Of course, he wouldn't agree to those terms. However, I always wonder what would happen if he or any other profile boxer did. See, I kinda think it would still be a standup fight, and with that primarily boxing. This is my reasoning (and I might be off on that but stay with me), MMA fighters need boxers more than boxers need them, and thus they are the ones searching for boxing fights, not the other way around. So, if they step in a boxing ring and they lose, then it's all good, it's not their discipline either way. But if both fighters step into an octagon and the MMA fighter wins by wrestle humping, submitting or low kicking the boxer, the boxer would be the one winning praise and the MMA guy would be the one being criticized for reverting to something the boxer has very little training in (unlike boxing itself where MMA fighters do actually have training in throughout their whole career). It would be the ol' Rick Roufus vs Kietsongrit Thai fight debate where Kietsongrit kicked the living shit out of Roufus leg only to have Ricks younger brother Duke dismiss Kietsongrit as a cheap fighter and that anyone can win a fight with leg kicks because it takes no talent (that was before Duke changed gear and went full MT). The bottom line is this is not about showing what style is the best but about making money.

Of course Fury wont agree to fight under MMA rules. We already had a fight when a pure boxer tried himself in MMA. Try googling James Toney vs Randy Couture. It was one of the easiest fights for Randy. If a wrestler or MMA fighter knows how to defend from punches, then a boxer knows nothing about takedowns and submissions.

Fury and Ngannou are just making jokes. If Ngannou has some series plans to have this fight to happen, then Fury is just trolling. Ngannou will earn from this fight, but Fury wont get anything from that.

Money will settle it. Fury I think will not agree to MMA rules, it's his party that will demand bigger rewards to make this possible. It will be funny to change rules like MMA gloves. But if they want a circus, Ngannou will probably agree to boxing with MMA gloves for 50:50 rewards.

They'd be making a history with this match. It's possible today seeing how Connor started it with Floyd and the Paul brothers.

They surely will, if a lot of money can be earned from that. I think we'll see a fight between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou in 2022. It's gonna be a great show, and I even know what one of the posters of the fight may look like.



I think in the end both fighters will agree to whatever rules because they will be offered big monetary rewards, both of them, regardless of who wins.

This is for the hype, and yes typical entertainment, if they see a lot of fans want this to happen it can sure happen, and Attention to details Francis Ngannou tweeted that after he handle the Jan 22 fight which is the UFC 270 and he is referring to Ciryl Gane, and I think he is focused aswell to fight Ciryl Gane, he surely wants to prove that he is badass and strongest of all heavyweights whether it will be of MMA or Boxing.


No, It can't be happening, Muslim Salikhov withdraw from the fight for an undisclosed reason, that is a shame because after the Main fight I don't really like the other fights other than the fight with the king of kung fu, well better look for other fights maybe Katlyn Chookagian vs Jennifer Maia, or the Silvana Gomez Juarez vs Vanessa Demopoulos fights but I will check all fighter first, and I think your link doesn't work in my country but no worries, still thank you for sharing.

This coming event would’ve been a banger for a Fight Night but some matches were cancelled due to injury.  They would’ve been good ones...  Kleydson Rodrigues vs Zarrukh Adashev, Joaquin Buckley vs Abdul Razak Alhassan. Michel Pereira vs Muslim Salikhov and Raoni Barcelos vs Victor Henry were all cancelled. 

The matches left I’m looking forward to most are Gabriel Benítez vs TJ Brown, Court McGee vs Ramiz Brahimaj, Bill Algeo vs Joanderson Brito, Brandon Royval vs Rogério Bontorin and the main event.

Enjoy! 

Date:  Saturday, January 15
Main Card (PPV):  6:00pm EST
Preliminary Card (ESPN/ESPN+):  4:00pm EST
Venue:  UFC Apex, LV
Live Streams:   http://ripple.stream/mmastreams




Main Card (ESPN+)

Featherweight:  Calvin Kattar vs Giga Chikadze            
Women's Flyweight:  Katlyn Chookagian vs Jennifer Maia            
Flyweight:  Brandon Royval   vs Rogério Bontorin            
Heavyweight:  Jake Collier vs Chase Sherman            
Featherweight:  Bill Algeo vs Joanderson Brito

Preliminary Card (ESPN/ESPN+)
Welterweight:  Court McGee vs Ramiz Brahimaj            
Featherweight:  Gabriel Benítez vs TJ Brown            
Lightweight:  Dakota Bush vs Viacheslav Borshchev            
Bantamweight:  Brian Kelleher vs Saidyokub Kakhramonov            
Women's Strawweight:  Silvana Gomez Juarez vs Vanessa Demopoulos   

If you asked me a year ago, I would say that Francis does not have (for the time being) enough star power for promoters to be interested. But since then Askren / TWood vs Paul happened and that made me think that star power (like in the McGregor case) is not important anymore. Because T-Wood wouldn't have the star power to save his life. So yeah, in this day and age, someone might even see this as a good opportunity. Nice of Francis thinking he could dictate the rules LOL. Come on my guy, you know the biggest draw dictates the rules, and that's not you at the moment (maybe one day, but not now).

Conversation made typically for entertainment. I don't think they will ever come to an agreement on the rules of fight.
However, if the promoters see a lot of money in it, it's possible that they will try to find some way to put them together.

I don't know if the hacking incident was connected because recently Kamaru Usman has posted to his social media pertaining to his haters choking themselves to death or killing themselves in the process, or his post was due to a hacking incident, or the podcast just think of it as Kamaru Usman's social media account has been breech, but then again he later explained and said this


And for the Muslim Salikhov VS, Michel Pereira definitely be going with Muslim Salikhov, I always appreciate a Dagestan fighter even though he just has a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu his striking is superb, and for the Calvin Kattar VS, Giga Chikadze definitely will go with Chikadze a more technical fighter than Kattar in my opinion.

Edit: And just in Charles Oliveira now wants to fight fellow champion Alexander Volkanovski, or Kamaru Usman, looks like Oliveira wants more belt than the usual or just wants to prove something.

^  Yeah..  Watch these Salikhov tapes.

https://mmacore.tv/search/salikhov

He def has the tools like Pereira but more tight and efficient in movement.


I wouldn’t mind if it happened tbh but really if Cejudo wins he would be fucking up 145 like he did 135 after winning the belt then retiring.  Lol.  So I’m sticking to if Chikadze almost doesn’t break a sweat if he wins vs Kattar, he’ll be in for a title match.

And if Aljo pulls out, which I think he will then UFC 272 is ckufed. 

Usman seemed to have his social media hacked again, saw some noise about it on some of the podcasts I listen too. Seems to be not the first time its happened.

It seems all the best fights recently are getting cancelled. Hopefully, the Izzy vs Whittaker takes place as that's probably the most exciting fight for me. Volk news is unfortunate. 

Can't argue against that, I'd be going with Pereira as I'm a fan, but his flamboyant nature usually means he starts gassing out somewhere in round two, and then in round three he's usually pretty destroyed at that point.

If he's the only one available and if Alexander Volkanovski would consider fighting him aswell and right now Henry Cejudo is the only one right now that volunteers to fight Alexander Volkanovski, a retired UFC fighter that has a Flyweight Belt, Bantamweight Belt, and now wants to have his very own Featherweight Belt, and what will be next to Cejudo when he won the Featherweight Belt he might retire again, so he can secure a copy of the belt, 

And clearly just an opinion of Alexander Gustafsson, and a teammate to Khamzat Chimaev, he thinks that Khamzat Chimaev would make Kamaru Usman Sleeps, and looking at his viewpoint, I think he can say something about Khamzat because he sure sees the man trained, and he said that if given another fight that may give him a shot to the title shot, he is so sure that Khamzat Chimaev will make the Nigerian Nightmare Sleeps, and I also think that same, just like what I think about the Ciryl Gane VS Francis Ngannou fight, Ciryl Gane will surely win that 95%

Maybe Dana will consider Cejudo vs Volkanovski. He has lots of lbs to gain if it is even possible on short notice. I'd like to see that happen, he had climbed up defeating the fastest MMA fighters before, and still has it, it's a wonder he hasn't fought for over a year already. He requested in his Twitter and also called Jake Paul like everyone else. Feel bad for Max, if Chikadze will be picked, it will be a full kickboxing fight.

@tokeweed, @YuginKadoya. I am not quite certain if uncle Dana will consider this, however, triple C Henry Cejudo has offered himself as another choice to replace Max Holloway and challenge Alexander Volkanovski for the featherweight championship hehehe. Henry Cejudo will become the first UFC fighter to win 3 championships in 3 different divisions if gets the victory.



As fate would have it, Cejudo, who has been lobbying to fight Volkanovski for several months, has thrown his name into the ring as a potential short-notice replacement. If selected, maybe Cejudo will be the one on the other end of an all-time classic against Volkanovski.

Source https://www.mmanews.com/2022/01/cejudo-volkanovski-vs-ortega-greatest-fight-ever/

In my opinion, Francis Ngannou's reply was because he feels that Tyson Fury is underestimating him, well that is my point of view and we might not get that kind of fight for now but Francis Ngannou really loves boxing he was really torn in signing the contract because he wants to push his boxing so much, and I think even though it seems very tempting to see these two fight, it will need to wait and I think that Francis Ngannou can surely become a Deontay Wilder type of boxer but has more explosion and a lot to show inside the ring, well even though I love Francis Ngannou in the octagon I also want to see him inside a boxing ring and live his dream to the fullest,

But I am supporting Ciryl Gane winning against Ngannou, I really think that Gane can cater to us a much more exciting being a heavyweight champion, I really love the guy he is just like dancing around inside the octagon while fighting.

Feel bad for Max Holloway but the fight will be on March 6 and given the time frame it is not enough for recovery also curious about the fighter that will replace him, and also hoping for Giga Chikadze to win this coming fight aswell.

Lmao.  I saw that tweet.  Fury said he wants boxing rules with MMA gloves and Ngannou replied he wanted MMA rules with boxing gloves.    Just from that exchange, we know it ain’t happening.  But who knows...

And some bad news, Holloway was supposed to fight Volk for another title shot at 145 but sadly Holloway got injured.  There are some rumors going around that TKZ could be the replacement fighter.  But I’m hoping for Chikadze to win real quick next Saturday and hopefully slide himself in there as the replacement fighter.  I guess we’ll see.

Here’s a vid of Gane’s last match.

UFC Free Fight:  Gane vs Lewis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgTfeQ7TdMI

Enjoy.  


Yup, sad.  I was looking forward for Salikhov vs Pereira.  I was picking Salikhov as a slight underdog.

I'm hearing that the Michel Pereira, and Joaquin Buckley fights are off. Shame, probably the two I was most looking forward too, especially Michel's as I'm a fan, despite him having a very suspect gas tank, and a little bit flamboyant, though I guess that's why I like watching him as do so many others. I was looking forward to seeing how Buckley bounces back from his kick into fame, and then hitting a bit of a rough patch before returning with a win. Would like to see him to start to kick back into gear.

I want this fight aswell, but in getting this fight early Ciryl Gane needs to win Francis Ngannou just wanting that boxing action and you are right he is pretty torn in signing his contract if he wins the unification, and you are right it seems that Francis Ngannou is pretty much distracted right now but distracted or not I am going with Ciryl Gane all the way, the Speed and technicality of his strike and that accuracy, and he is not moving like a heavyweight he is more like a light heavyweight or a middleweight to me, So definitely going with Gane,

But Francis Ngannou in a boxing max you are right he is like Wilder but in my opinion, Francis Ngannou even though not technical with his punches he has a lot to showcase that Deontay Wilder but Tyson Fury as a boxer is pretty much skillful enough to give a hard time for Ngannou and with Fury's Reach advantage on Ngannou this is going to be something really new for Francis Ngannou fighting an opponent with that reach advantage.

There is something great coming along as we speak about this things, Tyson Fury and MMA are talking about creating one super fight between Fury and Francis Ngannou.
This would be amazing heavyweight fight to watch and both of them are talking about this on social media, there are early posters already
I don't know if this would be boxing rules with MMA gloves or MMA rules with boxing gloves