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Anyone having fun reading twitter exchange betwen Aleksandar Rakic and Thiago Santos?
Santos is really not happy after losing the fight and all 3 rounds in UFC 259 one month ago with unanimous decision (28 - 29, 28 - 29, 27 - 30), and strikes are never telling the full story anyway.
https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/lists/ufc-news-thiago-santos-rips-aleksandar-rakic-for-calling-him-easy-win-twitter-beef

Anyone having fun reading twitter exchange betwen Aleksandar Rakic and Thiago Santos?
Santos is really not happy after losing the fight and all 3 rounds in UFC 259 one month ago with unanimous decision (28 - 29, 28 - 29, 27 - 30), and strikes are never telling the full story anyway.

I am following the UFC for a very long time and i do remember when Chuck Liddell was the champion in the Light Heavyweight division and he created an aura and Jon Jones was coming up as a young prospect during that time and what i am trying to tell is that i am watching his fights well before his UFC debut and he predominantly used wrestling in his early fight and when he developed his striking he started using his hands to find the range and started taking advantage of his reach we started seeing eye pokes but you cannot call him a dirty fighter as he is not doing that on purpose, just watch the sequence in the fights where eye pokes are involved and you will understand what i am talking about.

UFC on ABC: Till vs. Vettori



Date: April 10, 2021
Main Card: SAT, APR 10 / 10:00 PM EEST
Prelims: SAT, APR 10 / 7:00 PM EEST

Venue: UFC APEX, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Main card (ESPN)
Middleweight: Darren Till vs. Marvin Vettori            
Featherweight: Arnold Allen vs. Sodiq Yusuff            
Middleweight: Kyle Daukaus vs. Aliaskhab Khizriev            
Middleweight: Julian Marquez vs. Sam Alvey            
Women’s Strawweight: Nina Ansaroff vs. Mackenzie Dern            
Welterweight: Mike Perry vs. Daniel Rodriguez   

Preliminary card (ESPN+)
Lightweight: Jim Miller vs. Joe Solecki            
Lightweight: Scott Holtzman vs. Mateusz Gamrot            
Women’s Bantamweight: Bea Malecki vs. Norma Dumont Viana            
Lightweight: John Makdessi vs. Ignacio Bahamondes            
Heavyweight: Yorgan De Castro vs. Jarjis Danho            
Bantamweight: Hunter Azure vs. Jack Shore            
Featherweight: Luis Saldana vs. Jordan Griffin            
Light Heavyweight: Da Un Jung vs. William Knight            
Welterweight: Impa Kasanganay vs. Sasha Palatnikov

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_on_ABC:_Till_vs._Vettori

Hey TheNineClub, I've just posted same info as in your post, but a bit more informative and usual for this topic style. On one hand this looks like a partly plagiarism, on the other as an additional info. What do you think I should do - keep my post or delete it? Or you can take some info from my post and edit yours. And I will delete or edit my.

To eaLiTy - isnt Jon Jones famous for his dirty fightings, and not tactics? His key against Ngannou is wrestling imho, as Ngannou is a pure striker and dont have wrestling backgroup.

Holland seems hungry for a come back when he loses to Derek Brunson he would likely going to eat the canvas again if he belittles Marvin Vettori and rushing on to him without any given proper rest

Marvin Vettori is a striker and we might not see much wrestling in this match but the problem is that i do not think it is a smart move by Kevin Holland to return this fast after a hard fought fight and Marvin Vettori is a pretty good striker who took on Israel Adesanya and gave his toughest fight in the division and i am expecting a brawl.

Kevin Holland should take a break, his body will not last longer if he keeps on fighting like this and will take a toll physically and mentally and it looks like he is creating his personality as a trash talking hungry fighter .

It appears Kevin Holland has become the official replacement. Does Marvin Vettori wrestle similar to Derek Brunson? I was with team Brunson, hwoever, Kevin Holland might win this fight if Vettori does not wrestle him hehe.

But Holland needs to back up his bullshit because without the wins he won't be an interesting asset for very long.

so we are up again to bet for Kevin? if this guy just shut his mouth and throw big punches, he'd probably celebrate against Brunson.
he's ready all the time and can fight with short notice and this is why Dana still likes his big mouth. somehow if he wins this time we wouldn't be seeing Adesanya vs Vettori rematch. It's what he is aiming for after 5 winning streaks.

Well, I would consider Vettori to be more on the kickboxing side of the spectrum, that's why the Till fight had some excitement to it, but he does have some submission wins under his belt and he is a brown belt in BJJ so that count's for something, but then again Holland is a black belt so we can throw all of that out of the window XD But as for wrestling goes, you can be sure it does not compare to Brunson's as Brunson himself was an accomplished NCAA Division II wrestler Vettori, being primarily an all-around MMA guy and Italy not being known for its wrestling, will not have the same chops.

It appears Kevin Holland has become the official replacement. Does Marvin Vettori wrestle similar to Derek Brunson? I was with team Brunson, hwoever, Kevin Holland might win this fight if Vettori does not wrestle him hehe.



Kevin Holland’s offer to step up and face Marvin Vettori on short notice has been accepted.

First reported by Nolan King after it was revealed on the Team Vettori podcast, Kevin Holland’s management has confirmed that Holland vs. Vettori will headline the April 10 card on ABC. This gives both fighters slightly over one week’s notice to make the proper adjustments, including Holland who just competed two weeks ago.

Source https://www.mmanews.com/2021/04/kevin-holland-officially-replaces-darren-till-to-face-marvin-vettori-april-10/

It’s weird that the UFC are making it a 5 round fight.  Doesn’t that make it more advantageous for Diaz since he has way better cardio and he’s known to somewhat be a slow starter.  They are def not giving Edwards any favors here.

And back to Jones, maybe the reason why Dana White doesn’t want to pay what Jones is asking for is cos of Jones last two matches.  They didn’t give a good look for Jones at all.

also

Nate Diaz vs. Leon Edwards headed to UFC 262 as five-round co-main event
https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2021/3/30/22359607/nate-diaz-vs-leon-edwards-headed-to-ufc-262-as-five-round-co-main-event-mma-news

After Till is out from Till vs Vettory looks like a complete filler. Im skipping event.

To eaLiTy - isnt Jon Jones famous for his dirty fightings, and not tactics? His key against Ngannou is wrestling imho, as Ngannou is a pure striker and dont have wrestling backgroup.

As for Ngannou, and Stipe; I'm glad Francis' did it in the end, I do feel for Stipe as hes been a brilliant champion. I'm think there will be a third fight in the near future, and I'm not sure who takes it. Stipe does seem to really come back stronger each time, and it'll be an interesting fight.

Unlike the Connor vs Poirier fight which I'll be honest not looking forward to it like the first or second.I just don't know where Conor is at right now, and I'm starting to think that nice guy conor doesn't help his cause. Poirer talked about how the war of words can throw a fighter off on The Joe Rogan podcast.

With the sour relation Jon Jones and Dana White has i do think that the next challenger for Francis Ngannou will be Derrick Lewis but i remember their first fight and that was the worst fight i have seen in MMA as both fighters gassed out and was not throwing any punches and it was literally a Staring match than a fight .

Lets see how many title defense we will see from Francis. It was a really good win but i thought he was gassed out as his mouth was open in the first round after the grappling exchange and if Jones is his first challenger then he will exploit his weakness.