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Its a surprise how time flies, Nate Diaz was one of the best fighters in the UFC but there's a chance that his 1 last fight may be the end of his career in the UFC and there's speculation that the bare-knuckle fight championship could be his next option if the UFC.
Whatever it is Nate Diaz needs to step up his game if he's going to face Chimaev or Usman as the rumor says.

I am in the Khamzat Chimaev train well before he entered the UFC and unless and until he faces top 5 fighters he will be having a free run finishing everyone, in one of his early fights in his career he got clicked once and got rocked but he went into wrestling mode and finished the fight. He improved a lot from that but i am really interested to see how he copes when he faces tough competition and he could be the next superstar.

I am seeing many picking the fight to go the distance but i doubt that. Yair Rodriguez is returning after a long break and it is difficult to know how much he improved and he usually get hit a lot when he is facing technical strikers and Max Holloway is a technical striker and i expect a bloodied Yair Rodriguez at the end of the fight.

I am for Khamzat Chimaev when that happens but I guess Nate Diaz camp will surely not allow that, they have seen the power of Chimaev, even though Diaz is popular, Diaz would be an easy target for Khamzat Chimaev and there is no way Nate is going to do such thing,

Well on to UFC Fight Night Holloway VS Rodriguez I would surely like to share my picks and what I think may happen

Max Holloway VS Yair Rodriguez

I am confused why they pitted Max Holloway to a returning Yair Rodriguez that his last fight was on October 18 2019 talked about a long break from fighting while Max Holloway is very active in the industry although he had a tough fight with Alexander Volkanovski but had a great fight with Calvin Kattar, in my opinion, that experience with fighting with Max Holloway is way more than a Yair Rodriguez could offer, and the volume of strikes he can give to him, maybe I am 1 sided when it comes to these two but for me Max Holloway all the way, Stake.com odds 1.13 Holloway and 6.00 Rodriguez.

Cynthia Calvillo VS Andrea Lee



I am leaving it here just to show how much support I will be giving Andrea Lee with her fight against Cynthia Calvillo, this is one very hot kicking chick in my opinion, Even though Cynthia Calvillo has a good wrestling side, and show great performance with Jessica Eye, and pitted against Jessica Andrade, but I think Andrea Lee might pull something against Calvillo and this is a really tough fight for Lee, but if you look at Andrea Lee's Instagram there are many training videos of different coach I really think it might be a shot to solidify her win against Calvillo, but like I said it will be a tough fight for her but I will go with Andrea Lee winning this.

 

Oh, I wouldn't be so sure Nate wouldn't take that fight. He's not one to turn anyone down, and it worked and it didn't work before, so he's that kinda guy. But, this is a fight where he would be a huge underdog, and Chimaev would not gain anything with a win, so I don't really see a need for it. All this talk about Nates retirement, give him something fun, not a fucking bloodbath at the end.

UFC prelims started earlier than I expected so tune in guys, it's now girls fighting Cortney Casey vs Liana Jojua.
I am honestly only waiting for main event and I even places small bet on Yair Rodriguez to win, and fight to go to distance.
It's true that Holloway is a big favorite but I think other fighters learned his weak spots and I think underdog can surprise him today.

^  Lol no way Diaz is taking that match up.  I was not really too high on Chimaev last year but after wining vs Liang like it was nothing..  We could be seeing somebody exceptional here.  Kinda like another Jon Jones or a Khabib.

Here are the results for the weigh ins.  Alvarez missed weight but he could win.  The guy looked huge at face off and I don’t think Moises has that big of a skill edge.

Max Holloway (146) vs. Yair Rodriguez (145.5)
Marcos Rogerio de Lima (259) vs. Ben Rothwell (265)
Leah Letson (145) vs. Felicia Spencer (145.5)
Miguel Baeza (170.5) vs. Khaos Williams (169)
Julio Arce (135.5) vs. Song Yadong (135.5)
Joel Alvarez (157.5)* vs. Thiago Moises (155)
Cynthia Calvillo (126) vs. Andrea Lee (125.5)
Collin Anglin (146) vs. Sean Woodson (145.5)
Cortney Casey (125) vs. Liana Jojua (128.5)*
Rafael Alves (155) vs. Marc Diakiese (156)
Da-un Jung (204.5) vs. Kennedy Nzechukwu (205)

*Missed weight

I've heard rumors that UFC wants to feed Nate Diaz to Chimaev. Nate is popular and can sell a lot of PPV. Chivaes, as I understand is a new (or will be) milking cow for UFC. Nate has two losses in row, and he has 1 last fight in his contract. He rarely fights. He could fight Chimaev, lose, get fired and end his career. Their fight would bring a lot of money for UFC.

There is that, the returning Chimaev would surely need to prove himself but On UFC Fight Night: Chiesa VS Magny there should be a Leon Edwards VS Khamzat Chimaev fight but it was canceled due to Chimaev testing positive to covid-19 I think the UFC really wants that fight badly but sad to say Covid happen and if not for Covid-19 Chimaev should have fought Jorge Masvidal instead of Leon Edwards, here is the proof of their canceled fight.




I really think he's been like this since the Conor McGregor Bus incident, and now that he is just coaching he's been firing any post in social media, but I hope he can return back to the octagon at a certain point in time.


Actually, they really want to feed him to Khamzat Chimaev, and in my opinion, the UFC wants a Kamaru Usman VS Khamzat Chimaev to fight more than a Kamaru Usman VS Leon Edwards fight, this is what I think that is why they keep pushing Khamzat in the higher spot after returning, and in addition, Khamzat Chimaev is pushing to really fight even though he had fought last two weeks ago, he really has the eagerness to go beyond.

Yeah, it's annoying to see to be honest. Also, I know Islam Magomedov is his friend, but he continues to try, and belittle other fighters while trying to hype up his guy. Islam is good, however I'm not entirely convinced he's the real deal once he comes across the top guys in the division. Only time will tell, but I'm not a fan of the attitude from Khabib. I grew to love him because he was the quiet one, and strcikly business. He's getting closer, and closer to Mcgregor everyday. I know that's a bit of an exaggeration, but I liked his whole persona of doing his talking inside the cage.  

I'll be honest I haven't managed to watch a kickboxing event for quite some time now so couldn't possibly comment on it. Though, I can't remember it being that bad, and didn't think it was worse than boxing.

The heavyweight division is only entertaining because of 5-6 fighters. Some of them aren't even that great, they just love to swang, and bang which makes entertaining fights. Think Chisora, and Whyte. Other than that, Ruiz recently due to his upset, and humble attitude, and then it's the three headed dragon as Fury put it; Joshua, Fury, Wilder. Outside of that, it's rather poor. I mean Uysk is a relatively new addition to the mix, but I don't see him standing up to Wilder or Fury.

As much as the fans are against Dana, I think he might be one of the better ones. At least, with the UFC it's highly competitive, and we get better odds because of that. Plus, big fights actually happen.

yup, I have the same sentiment towards him. I'd argue that a second fight with Usman was super unnecessary and the made up BMF belt was just a laugh. I'd say he is still a solid fighter but kinda talked himself into bigger fights than he should have.

Leon Edwards is a really unlucky individual, he deserved to be fighting for the belt long back and the pandemic also delayed his options to fight for the belt. Leon Edwards is on a nine fight winning streak in a difficult weight division and he is undefeated after his loss to Kamaru Usman back in 2015 and i hope the UFC gives him the title shot rather than feeding him to Khamzat Chimaev.

After he retired from fighting Khabib Nurmagomedov continues his rant against other MMA fighters, now he calls Tony Ferguson saying that he didn't won a single round in three years.
I am not used to seeing Khabib like this talking so much, being active on social media and commenting everything, he is much more invested as a coach than as a fighter.
https://twitter.com/TeamKhabib/status/1459159462112018435

I agree that boxing is a mess but kickboxing is even worse and I think that kickboxers have smallest paychecks compared to all other combat sports.
When you have boxing champions like Tyson Fury in heavyweight category fight must be very interesting to watch.

I believe Leon has like 4+ fights cancelled in the last couple of years.

I only watch the bigger fights in boxing, and I never watch the full card. Whereas, UFC I'll be itching to watch the first fight of the night on the prelims. I find in boxing I'm attracted to certain personalities (Tyson Fury) whereas in UFC I just enjoy watching any old fight. Obviously, I have my favourites, but it doesn't matter too much to me who's fighting necessarily

^  Yup true.  I can’t watch a whole event from bottom to top..  So boring.  And boxing is a mess with all the different organizations which really makes it hard to follow.  But I do watch some of it from time to time.

Anyway weigh ins are live in a couple of hours.

UFC Fight Night 197:  Holloway vs. Rodriguez Weigh ins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryc8pheqacw

From a manager point of view, he should not accept any other opponent, if he was promised a title fight if he wins Masvidal. He has trained to fight against Masvidal, and fighting against others might cause him lose. A loss can cross his dream of becoming a champion. From a professional fighter point of view, a pause in career is always bad.

I am starting to feel somehow negative to Jorge Masvidal. He was an average fighter to me. His 5sec knockout of Ben Askren made Masvidal star. After that, it was a close fight against Diaz, and two losses to Usman. Since mid 2019, Masvidal havent achieved nothing big, or won a strong opponent. He barely fights. Fighter that fights once a year, call everyone weak in his division, and managed to get injured in a month before fight. Really a "great" fighter.


This s proof that UFC has double standards. Chimaev will have to prove to get a title fight. 10-0 is not enough. I agree that Leon Edwards should be first for a title fight. And take a look on Michael Chandler. First fight in UFC (not in MMA), and already a title fight against Oliveira. Dont you think is it unfair ?

In this Chimaev, Edwards, Masvidal or welterweight situation lets not forget that Usmas already had 3 title defenses this year. Usman needs to have a rest. I would predict that a next title fight in welterweight will be no sooner than in second half of 2022.

I think Khamzat Chimaev will have to wait and just needs to crawl his way up and I think Leon Edwards is aware of how much danger he can have against Khamzat Chimaev and I really think it is not wrong to avoid it, Leon Edwards is pretty much near a title match, but I guess Chimaev will need to show his eagerness to fight in a title match.


It is sure up to Leon Edwards if he would accept to fight Chimaev or re-schedule his fight with Masvidal and he is not wrong to be afraid, and I certainly say I will respect him if he accepts a dangerous Chimaev, but I still respect his decision, but not as much to a certain level to support him, because I surely support Khamzat Chimaev here, and he needs to surely gain the status the hard way around to certainly have a title match.

And he shouldn't accept anything else. The Edwards-Masvidal narrative has been in the works for a while now, and even tho the enthusiasm has gone down a bit and would be significantly less than Covington-Masvidal, it's still a good storyline to capitalize on. This could be spun in an exciting main event fight. ANd I think he gets less out of a Chimaev fight and the risk is grater, than from the Masvidal fight.

Khabib Nurmagomedov is talking a lot more after he became coach and he just told Justin Gaethje to shut up and admit that Islam Makhachev deserves UFC title shot.
This came after Gaethje won his fight with Michael Chandler in recently finished UFC 268, and he gave few interviews asking for this.
Lightweight division is very interesting now with Charles Oliveira as champion, followed by Dustin Poirier, Justin Gaethje, Beneil Dariush and Islam Makhachev.
Top five looks very strong and it's crazy to see that Tony Ferguson and McGregor are all bellow than in every way.

Everyone in the media was talking about Jorge Masvidal VS Leon Edwards and if someone pulls out Khamzat Chimaev will be taking that fight in short notice and now it really happened. Jorge Masvidal pulled out of the fight and Leon Edwards made a statement that he is waiting to fight for the championships, which means he is not willing to fight Khamzat Chimaev. No one really wants to fight Khamzat Chimaev as he is a really dangerous opponent. Lets see how this match making goes.

Just read that Leon Edwards was promised a title fight after victory over Jorge Masvidal, as well as a solid pay cheque. Leon is on a good series of victories.

I think Leon will refuse any fight except against Masvidal, who, according to what Dana White said, we be back no sooner than January 2022. He will wait, because he dont want to lose an opportunity to get a title fight. Masvidal is the biggest star in top10 and fight against other will bring him a lesser cheque. Fighting against Chimaev (who agreed to fight on a short notice) might cause him loosing, meaning the dream of becoming UFC champ flies away.