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Max Holloway vs Yair Rodriguez

This fight does end up in a decision but man it is a war, Yair Rodriguez really fought his way, and many in the books sure underestimated the guy, but shout out to Holloway for having a decent chin, he surely eats up many strikes, a Knee, an elbow, 1 to 2 combination of punches but Max Holloway just accepted all that strikes, this is what I see about Max Holloway his focus more on the offense and not in the defense, and from Yair Rodriguez leg kick he just ignores it or sometimes goes with the takedown or a combination, Max Holloway definitely got his momentum that he wants against Yair Rodriguez, It is really a war and these two just exchanges blows and their strikes, Yair surely come prepared but still, it is not good enough.

Cynthia Calvillo vs. Andrea Lee

It seems that Cynthia Calvillo is really tough and got accuracy landing her punches, and from that exchange of punching pace and both fighters bloodied their nose, then Cynthia Calvillo just went to the takedown when seen an opening, but Andrea Lee just got off from it until the 1st round ends, and now the 2nd round starter Andrea Lee just went berserk with the strikes, and Calvillo just started running around just wobbling and Lee just notices this and try to act and this fight has become a doctor stoppage from Cynthia Calvillo's Bloodied nose, so this sexy girl just got it with her.

Even if Yair Rodriguez took a two-year hiatus, he was able to last 5 rounds against Max Holloway. A warrior to be respected is Rodriquez. In the first round, Yair Rodriquez's low kicks were effective. Max Holloway scored well with the take downs he took in the 3rd and 4th rounds, and the experienced name won the match as expected.

Yair Rodríguez took a lot of damage as mentioned earlier because whenever he fights you tend to see a war and that is what we saw in this fight as well and he cannot sustain this kind of damage for a long time and he needs to learn striking defense rather than exposing his chin to a lot of shots.

Dana White does not mind giving Khamzat Chimaev to Nate Diaz, but i think he needs to give him a break for his final fight and ask him to pick a fight he likes to fight rather than forcing him to fight the wolf.

Yair Rodríguez really impressed me with the way he fought even though he is coming back after a long gap and Max Holloway went to war and it was good for the fans as all the main events are giving great fight of the year performance .

Marcos Rogério de Lima was a surprise one as i have not see him fight earlier and he was able to finish Ben.

I expected Cynthia Calvillo to be better but Andrea Lee was really good and finished the fight with strikes, i was expecting a ground battle but that never happened.

True. Nate Diaz wouldn't make it to 2nd round against Chimaev or Usman. The last fight of Diaz is just not going to convince anyone that he still has got it. Holloway is also slowing down or it's because Yair is quicker. It's just that Max can take Yair's jab like it's nothing.

He just needs to fight one more time to finally conclude his career to fight in the UFC and live his life to the fullest unless he got some opportunities to be one of the trainers of the next UFC champion. It's been a long road for Nate and his batch has already been out of the league. maybe UFC will honor him as one of the Hall of fame when he finally steps down in the ring.

Missed the matches after Baeza vs Khaos Williams as I had to go somewhere.  But I heard the main event was an absolute banger.  I saw some pics of Yair Rodriguez’s foot after the match.  It was gross.  Rofl.

I lost on Yair but what a fight that was! Even that 49-46 score from one judge looked like an injustice to the fight but I have no issue with the UD.

Not to mention the number of times he's been in five-rounder fights. He's probably four/five fights away before we start seeing more serious damage (career ending type of injuries). I hope he gets one last shot at the title before that happens.

And the full results are:



With the main event being a banger and the other fights on the card finishing with TKOs, hard to say anything bad about this card. Hell, even the prelims were mostly finishes one way or another. But, being the devil's advocate here, or whatever you want to call it, but seeing Max take so much damage time and time again just makes me wonder about his long-term health.

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.