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UFC matchmakers are actually in deep troubles after they make such card this time, in 298 and for 300 Soon people will start to think that this is a standart and would ask for more big fights, and wont accept FN anymore. People already skip a lot of fights and during prelims or early prelims venues are filled for 2/3 only.

Yup...  Almost all of the roster are bangers.  The early prelims could pass off as a Fight Night main card.  =]  And at firsr glance the underdogs I could see having a good chance of winning are Joanne Wood, Lins if he opens as the underdog, Chookagian, Gilbert Burns no idea why he's at the current line and MVP wow he's finally in the UFC.  I'm thinking CJ Vergara could make it close too but the Almabayev guy is pretty good,  If I gamble on it maybe get a little bit more with Vergara via decision.

And here's the count down vid for the event.  This gonn' be goood!

UFC 299:  Countdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwgrm7J6IZI

Yup! I also like those 2 fights actually I have made a bet and all of it won, it was a superb win for both Dagestani, however, Umar Nurmaggomedov almost got knockout in round 1 with that Pierce temple shot by Bekzat Almakhan, sure that punch was really powerful for Nurmagomedov to wobble like that if it's not for his grappling prowess he would likely lose this one but yeah Umar Nurmagomedov was brilliant with his ground game as he dominated all other rounds.

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Now here are the results for my picks for the current event.

Vitor Petrino vs. Tyson Pedro - WIN

Alex Perez vs. Muhammad Mokaev - WIN

Umar Nurmagomedov vs. Bekzat Almakhan - WIN

Will be seeing the next event later.

UFC 299



Date: March 10, 2024
Early Preliminary Card: SUN, MAR 10 / 1:00 AM GMT+2
Preliminary Card : SUN, MAR 10 / 3:00 AM GMT+2
Main Card: SUN, MAR 10 / 5:00 AM GMT+2
Venue: Miami, Florida, United States

Main card (ESPN)
Bantamweight: Sean O'Malley (c) vs. Marlon Vera
Lightweight: Dustin Poirier vs. Benoît Saint Denis            
Welterweight: Kevin Holland vs. Michael Page            
Welterweight: Gilbert Burns vs. Jack Della Maddalena            
Bantamweight: Petr Yan vs. Song Yadong

Preliminary card (ESPN)
Heavyweight: Curtis Blaydes vs. Jailton Almeida            
Women's Flyweight: Katlyn Cerminara vs. Maycee Barber            
Lightweight: Mateusz Gamrot vs. Rafael dos Anjos            
Bantamweight: Pedro Munhoz vs. Kyler Phillips

Early preliminary card (ESPN / ESPN+)
Light Heavyweight: Ion Cuțelaba vs. Philipe Lins            
Middleweight: Michel Pereira vs. Michał Oleksiejczuk            
Heavyweight: Robelis Despaigne vs. Josh Parisian            
Flyweight: C.J. Vergara vs. Assu Almabayev            
Women's Flyweight: Joanne Wood vs. Maryna Moroz   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_299

Finally an event where even Early prelims have interesting fights

Umar, who was previously projected to be able to continue Nurmagomedov's big name, actually made many UFC fans deg agitation when he received a crushing blow from Almakhan and fell to the floor as if making the fight finished, but just like the spirit possessed by the Nurmagomedov family finally made Umar rise and dominate the fight with a victory, the fight was indeed a difficult fight for debutants like Almakhan and already It should be for Almakhan to get more flight hours so that he can continue to daunt his opponents in the future.

The victory over Almakhan made Umar still able to maintain his 17-win unbeaten record, currently Umar who is still very young but able to give a good fight to every opponent his opponent believes he will be able to can and even exceed the achievements obtained by UFC legend khabib Nurmagomedov in the future, In addition, there are now many great fighters waiting to be able to fight with Umar and I think we will continue to see Khabib fighting style will remain in Umar in the future.

Umar needs more big names in his skull table to be able to face better opponents. His last fight - he won against that Khazak guy, but he was dazed in the first round, but it was Almakhans debut. You cant aim for big names when you fight nonames. Almakhan actually was good, he need more fights. But he is unknown for many. What I think, that Umar is going to have 2-3 fights, until he will get someone from top5. And it will take years before he will have a title fight. He isnt media guy. If he becomes champ, UFC wont be able to sell more tickets/ppvs.

It wasn't an easy win for him since he struggled to finish him off and because the other guy was tired, Umar easily won by constantly taking his opponent down and easily landing more punches after that. I think he needs more wins that have some huge impact that will gonna amaze the entire crowd since people will likely have more expectations from him because of his team. He needs to win more by knockouts and submissions so that he can boost his popularity and somehow get huge sponsorship next time, by that time, champions will be interested in fighting him quickly without any hesitations.

Another win for Umar Nurmagomedov against Almakhan, he is now with perfect 17-0 MMA record and he continues in footsteps of his older cousin and retired champion legend Khabib Nurmagomedov.
His UFC ranking is still low on 13th place but big fights are coming for him and I think he can become a new UFC Bantamweight champion.
Maybe next fight for him is Petr Yan or Deiveson Figueiredo.

It is not that Rozenstruick looked better, it is Gaziev who looked awful. Gaziev promissed nightmare to heavyweight division, while his performance looked like nightmare. But both were bad. Both connected so many punches during 4 rounds. It is unforgivable to fight like that against big guys. If their opponents were from top5, they would not survived all that damage. Main event was awful. Gaziev looked like an amateur; all jabs, showed nothing from wresling. He is going to get farewell from ufc soon.

I actually thought that Bekzat found a great chance to actually capitalize on that first round. But Umar Nurmagomedov handled it very well. And that was probably the only chance. When you are fighting against a beast like that, you have to take those chances. We can all see what happened after that. And congratulations to Umar for winning the fight. He kept his undefeated streak going on.

By the way, I also agree that if this was any lesser fighter, Bekzat could have capitalized on that first round and maybe secured a win.



Jairzinho Rozenstruik looked a lot better, to be honest. His defense against wrestling was good and his jab was absolutely on point. He was snaking in his jabs one after another. And it looked like his opponent never saw it coming. He did really well and after a while, it looked like his opponent was really out of the fight. Towards the end, it looked like a mismatch, to be honest.

So I have to say that the main event of the UFC fight night was really a quality fight. Shamil tried but I really think he did not prepare for this fight as best as he could.

I am also interested in those 2 fights but because I was busy yesterday I didn't make any predictions at all, finding any video that I can get as a reference because I didn't watch the event maybe later I will do my comment on what I think about the event as for sure It was really surprising as I have seen that Muhammad Mokaev and Umar Nurmagomedov have won their fights even with a decision for sure both have dominated their fights, but I still haven't seen the event yet but I will go and search for a full fight video if there is a recap.


I didn't know Bryan Johnson but sure if he was the one that is cause why Mark Zuckerberg is like this then I think we can speculate everything and come up with funny ideas about why Mark Zuckerberg is like this and yeah let's speculate because we can, but also let's also keep a factual information if we can.


Then I think the news will tease him, to tell the truth about his new project, maybe AI is possible but a humanoid robot or android is also viable but all we can do for now is just speculate, but right now I want to see Mark Zuckerberg fight on an actual MMA fight it could be a Exhibition fight because I think he can not go beyond that for sure.

Nurmagomedov got wobbled at R1 but was able to recover and mauled the guy.  But I was pretty impressed that he went to the decision against Nurmagomedov.  Any lesser fighter and Bezkat would've win imho.

Anyway, here are the results.  Pretty good win by Roz as he was dominated in R1 and R2.

Jairzinho Rozenstruik def Shamil Gaziev  TKO R4
Vitor Petrino def Tyson Pedro  UD
Muhammad Mokaev def Alex Perez  UD
Umar Nurmagomedov def Bekzat Almakhan  UD
Steve Erceg def Matt Schnell  KO R1
Eryk Anders def Jamie Pickett  Decision  UD
Vinicius Oliveira def Bernardo Sopaj  KO R3
Aiemann Zahabi def Javid Basharat  UD
Christian Leroy Duncan def Claudio Ribeiro  TKO R2
Ludovít Klein def AJ Cunningham  TKO R1
Loik Radzhabov def Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady  KO R3

Oh and the pie shitter of the event...  Basharat.  :/

I speculate that his pale face with the robotic expression appears to be a person under the reverse aging diet created by Bryan Johnson the founder Braintree. This diet is called project blueprint where the person hacks his body through a strict diet and regular exercise. Bryan Johnson has also developed a pale face with robotic expression very much similar to the Star Trek character called the Data.



However, what if Zuck has already developed a human android robot and created one in his image? This is him with Bill Gates and a woman.

Personally I am interested to see how these two fighters will perform in the UFC fight night.

I think Mokaev is going to have a better fight and a better chance to win this fight compared to his opponent Alex Perez.
Remember Alex Perez has already lost 7 fights in his career. So Mokaev, if he does his research correctly should have a lot of weak points about his opponent. Odds for Mokaev is 1.25, not very imressive but not bad at all.

Umar Nurmagomedov is also a really good fighter. I think there is no chance that Bekzat could be able take the win away from him. In this fight bookie are not giving any chance to bettors to take away the profit , they offering odds for Umar Nurmagomedov 1.07 in 1x2 bet? lol

If there is no given fact about it then people will tend to speculate even though I am stretching my head after seeing it but my mind just overflows with so much information thinking on what Mark Zuckerburg is doing in there, but yeah I think it is still viable to just say that Zuckerburg is just supporting Volk because he was in the corner, and not giving another statement that are just theories or hearsay.

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Now I may skip the main event so sorry Jairzinho Rozenstruik but I am saving my bets for what I think are the best fights for this event and here are my picks for UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Gaziev

Vitor Petrino vs. Tyson Pedro

For this fight, the odds were 1.27 for Vitor Petrino the heavy favorite for this fight while 3.85 for Tyson Pedro for me Vitor Patrino is a solid striker and has power in it, right now I think that Petrino is good at his striking than Pedro, and Petrino is even wrestling a lot and you can really see that it is improving a lot every time he fights but Tyson Pedro can also knockdown Petrino we have seen him getting knockdown before but for me, his striking is absolutely great so my pick is Vitor Petrino.

Alex Perez vs. Muhammad Mokaev

For this fight, the odds were 3.90 for Alex Perez and 1.26 for Muhammad Mokaev the heavy favorite for this fight, this is something even if you are just new to the UFC you will realize getting on board with the hype, but you are not wrong about it as I don't see the great fight for Alex Perez which he didn't show any great thing while Muhammad Mokaev is a beast and against Jafel Filho he has come back in the brink of getting his knee broken as he surely got a heart and turning the fight around so my pick is Muhammad Mokaev.

Umar Nurmagomedov vs. Bekzat Almakhan

For this fight another Dagestani fighter, and the odds are 1.07 for Umar Nurmagomedov and the heavy favorite to win, 8.60 for Bekzat Almakhan for this fight Umar Nurmagomedov has decent striking, and with those kicks, he's got the range and we all know the wrestling of Dagestani should never be underestimated and he also got solid takedown defense I will be bias here for sure Umar Nurmagomedov will win this no doubt about that so my pick is Umar Nurmagomedov.

Weigh in results are in and everybody made weight.  And since I'm not joining any pools this year I'll just post my supposed picks for the Multi Master itt for the lulz.

Here are the vids.

UFC Fight Night:  Roz vs Gaziev Weigh Ins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TRkj1CSiQo

UFC Fight Night:  Roz vs Gaziev Face Off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biJP0eHvAz4

Here are the weigh results...

Jairzinho Rozenstruik (257) vs Shamil Gaziev (261)
Tyson Pedro (205.5) vs Vitor Petrino (205.5)
Muhammad Mokaev (126) vs Alex Perez (125.5)
Bekzat Almakhan (136) vs Umar Nurmagomedov (136)
Stephen Erceg (126) vs Matt Schnell (126)
Eryk Anders (185.5) vs Jamie Pickett (186)
Vinicius Oliveira (135.5) vs Bernardo Sopai (135.5)
Javid Basharat (136.3) vs Aiemann Zahabi (135.5)
Christian Duncan (186) vs Claudio Ribeiro (185.5)
A.J. Cunningham (155.5) vs Ludovit Klein (156)
Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady (156) vs Loik Radzhabov (155.5)

And here's the final call for jeremypwr's Multi Master...  Enjoy.

UFC Fight Night 238:  Multi Master Challenge
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/sportsbetio-ufc-fight-night-238-multi-master-challenge-2-march-5486684

My picks would've been these guys...

Jairzinho Rozenstruik
Vitor Petrino
Muhammad Mokaev
Umar Nurmagomedov
Stephen Erceg
Raul Rosas
Eryk Anders
Javid Basharat
Christian Duncan
Vinicius Oliveira
Loik Radzhabov

I'm not superstitious but it's clear as a day that inviting celebrities into a fighting corner is a bad omen. That space should be reserved for coaches and close teammates only. Letting outside people tag along changes the energy.
Yes, I 100% blame Zuckerberg for Volk's loss 

Come on guys, there is no need to make theories and speculate a lot about Zuckerberg in Volks corner. It was done mostly for media purpose. Mark wanted to be more close to a sport he is interested in. Dana and UFC got some extra media recognition. If there is a chance to let famous person to be close to action, why not? It only plays good for business. He did not interfere, he did not do anything bad. He just stood and watched. And media posted most attracting attention photo of him. Of course there are million more photos of him, from every angle.

P.s. To bad from any angle he looks the same. The same as Madame Tussauds weird wax figure 

He could be well, many don't want to be labeled a gambler as many gamblers are anonymous which makes sense and that face could explain it all he might be very disappointed with Alexander Volkanovski right now, and I got a feeling that the Era for most champion back then is over just like what happened with Izzy and seeing Volk making mistakes I thought it is about time that the UFC in the featherweight division will need a new champion, and it really happened, for me Alexander Volkanovski will need a longer amount of time for rest and think this over he is only human and can make mistakes but it is not the time to hang his gloves for I think he can still fight maybe pick some money fights for himself.


He doesn't have any time machine to predict the outcome of the fight or his AI could not reach out to him to predict the situation of the fight I really think he needs to read between the lines on what is happening now in the UFC that being said Mark Zuckerberg is just human, but having him liking the MMA is a great thing because as MMA now it will have additional audience for sure as Zuckerberg is a well-known guy he will surely bring something to the table for sure.


I really think Volk and Izzy had some friendship status going on with Mark Zuckerberg for him to end up in Volkanovski's corner and I was not surprised seeing this picture of Mark Zuckerberg with both Izzy and Volk training Mark Zuckerberg is really viable that is why he was on the corner of Volk just for moral support and for sure he had secretly get some bet for him aswell.

Lolol or he prolly has a huge bet on Volk and him watching Volk at the second round made him visualize his money burning in the cage...  I mean look at his expression...  



^  That's a guy who's just lost a huge bet but he's trying to be all nonchalant about it.  

Weigh ins are in around a couple of hours.

UFC Fight Night:  Roz vs Gaziev Official Weigh In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l11pRgfhJ5k

Can't say that I'm excited for this event but I can't complain either.  Some good match ups in there and I'm thinking the main event is set up to be an upset.  Dunno...