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I am yet to watch the fight but the results was shocking for me, even i was thinking Tony to win the fight in later rounds while Gaethje burns himself out and Gaethje changed his game plan and shocked everyone winning in the 5th round. What was the odds for Gaethje to win my TKO in the 5 th round i am sure the odds would have been huge.

Khabib Nurmagomedov vs Tony Ferguson will always be an unrealized match up for the fans and with the defeat now against Justin Gaethje there is no way we will see that match up anytime soon. I was expecting Tony to win and the Khabib fight to happen next but now everything changed.

After Justin Gaethje winning the interim belt Conor McGregor is calling out Nate Diaz, the next fight for Justin Gaethje is Khabib Nurmagomedov for the title unification and it will be an interesting fight with the way Justin Gaethje performed against Tony it will be interesting to see the take down defense and the leg kicks and how Khabib will counter those.

Still surprised that Tony had lost. I thought that he will play as usual, hold a lot of strikes, wait till opponent ran out of stamina and win.
But yesterday... Maybe this lost is because he did not fight for a long time? Maybe he was unsettled with all that covid-19, events being cancelled, then organised again and that kind of stuff. I didnt see fire in his eyes, he looked so disappointed or sad during the fight (imho). Maybe his mental problem returned?

When i was watching the main event, i felt like Tony Ferguson was not having the best reflexes like he used to have in the past and then i thought age is catching up with him, but then i remembered that he cut weight unnecessarily just to show off and post on social media when the last fight was cancelled because of Corona virus. May be cutting weight two times in a month might be hard for the body and was not responding like he wanted, just a thought for everyone as i expected Tony to win, i was surprised to see Gaethje taking a different approach than swinging wildly and gassing out.

I disagree. It's the fighters that make the fight not the audience and the bouts last night went down fine without a crowd. I think the lack of fans adds a new element to the fights. Same goes for the potential Fight Island. With it being on an island there will obviously be a lack of spectators but the mere fact it being on an island adds a whole new dimension to the card. Maybe Dana will scrap it now seeing as they could probably just do the rest of the fights in Florida since UFC 249 happened without a hitch but I hope not. They could make the Fight Island into a yearly thing if it's not just a one off. I think it could potentially be pretty epic depending on the setting. Fighting on a beach or with the sea in the background could be pretty special. Going by Dana's latest interview with BT Sports he said he's still working on it so I'm hoping it will go ahead even if it is just a one off. Even without a crowd I'm sure if Connor's on the card it will break PPV records for the UFC so it will make up in lost gate receipts.


Any one of those punches he threw could have KOd him had they landed.

If Connor doesn't face Khabib next then either of them should face Gaethje. Maybe the other fight could be Ferguson but both fights couldn't be on the same card as both will want to be headine fights.

^  I kinda expected it as said a couple of times itt.  But not in that lopsided fashion tho.  I thought it was gonna be closer to 50/50.

Sad part:  Didn't pull the trigger on Gaethje. 

What he did is jaw dropping lol. I mean, I expected that one of them will drop the canvas but I never thought their fight will end so fast . How unfortunate for Rozenstruik not having a chance to showcase his punching power.
Hahaha, Khabib's greatest contender was murdered by the Ranked 4. Then who's gonna beat him now? But kidding aside, that match was so disappointing. Watching Tony bleeding and wobbling is so cringey .

UFC 249 Card and Results:

Justin Gaethje def. Tony Ferguson via 5th round TKO
Henry Cejudo def. Dominick Cruz via 2nd round TKO
Francis Ngannou def. Jair Rozenstruik via 1st round TKO
Calvin Kattar def. Jeremy Stephens via 2nd round Knockout
Greg Hardy def. Yorgan de Castro via Unanimous Decision
Anthony Pettis def. Donald Cerrone via Unanimous Decision
Aleksei Oleinik def. Fabricio Werdum via Split Decision
Carla Esparza def. Michelle Waterson via Split Decision
Vicente Luque def. Niko Price via 3rd round
Bryce Mitchell def. Charles Rosa via Unanimous Decision
Ryan Spann def. Sam Alvey via Split Decision

What a day! Damn!!! I'm rooting for Tony to win against Justin but expect the unexpected. Give the both well deserved respect and also the under cards.

Real shit!!!, Khabib Nurmagomedov vs TonyFerguson will never be happened. 

Let's us expect for the upcoming main events. I hope it will happen soon!!!

Justin Gaethje vs ConorMcGregor
Justin Gaethje vs Tony Ferguson (Part 2)
Justin Gaethje vs Khabib Nurmagomedov
 ConorMcGregor vs Khabib Nurmagomedov (Part 2)

"The face of Canadian MMA has a new home." Huge announcement for all of us St. Pierre fans out there and shoutout also to his Canadian brethrens. One of the better announcements amidst this pandemic. We really need this kind of motivation. 

On the other hand, Trump doing his trump-thing. 
"President Trump congratulates UFC for restarting sports"

The predator did amazing work, destroying Rozenstruick in just 20 seconds. Marvellous fight that got performance of the night $50k bonus. 

Main event - unexpected result. At first I wanted to write that Khabib sneak away once again, but I will say that Khabib would definitely defend his belt

Just in! George St. Pierre is now on the Hall of Fame ! D*mn! I'm glad that he made it. Actually he is the reason why I became a UFC fan. He was one of the greatest fighter of all time, he deserve this.

Anyone here watching the fight live fellows.

It is a crazy night of fights and i am overwhelmed watching all the fights. Majority of the fights went to the judges

Jeremy Stephens v Calvin Kattar

Jeremy Stephens was having the momentum in the first round and he landed some good shots but in the second round Calvin Kattar landed with one elbow and that decided the fight and a second elbow was nasty and the fight was stopped.

Francis Ngannou v Jairzinho Rozenstruik

Rozenstruik called out the grim reaper , the fight is over as it started, Rozenstruik was thinking about a technical fight landing a couple of heavy leg kicks and Francis Ngannou had enough and closed the distance fast with wild swings and the first shot he landed Rozenstruik slept and a few shots added as flavor, it was brutal.

Henry Cejudo v Dominick Cruz

It was a bit controversial but Cejudo landed many unanswered shots when the referee called off the fight but he was trying to stand up when the fight is called off and the most surprising was Cejudo retired for good.

The main event is going on, hoping fireworks

EDiT:

One of the best and dominating performance by Justin Gaethje and Tony could take a punch as he was eating punches after another for 5 rounds and he looked like he fell off a train and referee had no choice than to stop the fight.

My stand out performance i liked was Calvin Kattar and Francis Ngannou and Justin Gaethje for interrupting the landscape of the division, Justin Gaethje v Khabib would be great but everyone will miss the Tony fight.

We will see the extend of the situation two weeks after the event and hopefully no one will be infected after the event, what i see from reports is that the coaching staff of Jacare Souza is also positive and his training partners will also be infected and who knows which all fighters had contact with him when he came for the event.

Two more hours for the event to start, i am excited to see the fights and if everything goes well we will see all the planned fights with restrictions.

@tokeweed I have good news for you and others i.e. the event is not being canceled as Dana White has confirmed that the event will continue as per the schedule set by him, and he’s even proud of the fact that the system that he put in place to check their fighters is working. At this stage I do feel bad for Jacare as he won’t be able to participate in the event, but I’m also glad that their system for checking their fighters is working as that’ll ensure everyone’s safety in the arena.


Source:

https://www.essentiallysports.com/ufc-249-news-dana-white-releases-statement-after-fighter-tests-postive-at-ufc-249/

That is unfortunate, but it is fine they identified and taken him off the card, but who knows how much people he contacted while training for the fight and when he reached the arena. I was looking at the news whether they will cancel the event but there is nothing of that sort yet, this is a really great fight card from top to bottom and i hope it will continue without much issue.

Football is a group event and if someone is positive then the entire team is in trouble and they will be forced to pause or cancel the season.

Looks like Tony was fighting shark 

Awful injury, huge scar (probably has metal plastine now inside) and bruises like he had lots of torn muscles. This leg gonna be Gaethje main goal.

I find it always interesting, how much strikes fighters with such injuries could hold, before injury starts to show signals for stop.

I got Cerrone too.  

And yeah...  I hope so too.  Been checking online for updates.  No bad news so far.  

UFC 249:  Weigh In Face offs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa5dYXxVIxE

How unfortunate that Jacare is not the only one who got the virus, two of his cornermen did as well. Good for them they are all asymptomatic and now isolated with the others. Moreover, the Florida Boxing State Commission agree to continue the event since all remaining 23 fighters test negative. So chill, there's no need to worry abouy .

What the. . . I got my bet on that specific fighter. Hoping that the whole event will not get cancelled just because of it. Jeez.

Anyways, I still got 1 pick and if someone of you are interested, here's my write up on these fights. 

Uriah Hall vs Ronaldo Souza

Donald Cerrone vs Anthony Pettis

Just got a text...  Jacare vs Hall is cancelled.  Jacare has the Rooona.  I hope the comission at Florida or some regulatory body doesn't cancel the whole thing.

And here's the same question I've been asking football fans.  If a player tests positive, will a league's FA cancel the season again?