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The event was awful, I still can't believe such bad fights of Moreno and Rodriguez, I was sure at least one of them would win, but to see both of them losing at home was just hilarious. And the worst part is, they were at home, so, the people in the arena got really mad after they lost, they literally started fighting in the stands. https://twitter.com/MMAVillain/status/1761954949897019524

^  The making event isn't really that good but there are good match ups peppered in the event.  Basharat vs Zahabi, Alvarez vs Klein, Schnell vs Erceg, Nurmagumedov is back, Mokaev vs Perez and Petrino vs Pedro will be a total banger.  Overall another decent roster even though the main event sucks.

If anybody hasn't watched it yet, the Roz vs Overeem replay below is a must watch until the end of the match.    No I'm not kidding.  =]

UFC Free Fight:  Rozenstruik vs Overeem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmVEearWdHc

UFC Free Fight:  Gaziev vs Buday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0of1MhkZakI

Have you noticed that YuginKadoya somehow disappeared ? Havent seen him for a while, for a week definitely (because havent seen his predictions). Gonna call Scooby-Doo and mystery machine gang for help

Wanted to post https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2vlhAbpY9o/?igsh=MWdwMXpjbXh5azFqcw%3D%3D and ask if he is still a fan of chick fights ? Huge cut, broken nose, ffs. Face is "spoiled" forever. We have a proverb "scars adorn a man". If a man would have such a huge scar right in the middle of a face, it would be ok for me. But if a chick has it, I would immediately think that there is something wrong with her.

For me, Merab Dvalishvili is even more qualified than his friend Aljamain Sterling to become the champion for the Bantamweight Division right now that Aljamain Sterling has moved up the Division to featherweight let his friend Merab Dvalishvili champion in the Bantamweight I think that he has more potential in kicking Sean O'Malley in his place for me Sterling will be having a hard time against Ilia Topuria, but yeah Dvalishvili will be champion and I hope this year,

WOW! never seen that UFC is very popular in your country and pretty much because of his last performance against Henry Cejudo he became even more popular, I really like his jolly nature and not bragging about things so for me Merab Dvalishvili is a future champion for sure.

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And speaking of my picks on the last UFC event it was worst I was busy yesterday and could not get into my PC to post and to check the fight and I was late seeing the fights and it was all lost for me I never imagined that Moreno and Rodriguez will lose and the Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Ricky Turcios fight will be canceled because of Rosas illness.

Brandon Moreno vs. Brandon Royval - LOST

Brandon Moreno does not himself in this fight while Royval was great with his strikings it was clear as day who had the upper hand in this fight but actually as I have seen the fight it was a close boring fight and Moreno looks pretty much not great in this fight and he is not the same Brandon Moreno and what I am expecting on this fight it was like he has thrown this fight and just bet on his opponent, it was a very underwhelming fight or should we say a boring fight.

Yair Rodriguez vs. Brian Ortega - LOST

Brian Ortega is back in the winning category, and I really thought that Yair Rodriguez could win this he is more active than Ortega but for sure seeing Brian Ortega in this fight he is more prepared and has changed in this fight, while Rodriguez I haven't seen any improvement at all he is the same Yair Rodriguez or he is underestimating Ortega well who known the thing is Brian Ortega is back and with more dominating performance.

Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Ricky Turcios - CANCELED  

I was really frustrated with this one, and it was the illness that had gotten Raul Rosas Jr. but I can not blame the kid, this could be the only win in my pick but anyway moving on this this event and getting into another event and it is a UFC Fight Night Jairzinho Rozenstruik VS Shamil Gaziev.

UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Gaziev



Date:    March 2, 2024
Preliminary Card : SAT, MAR 2 / 11:00 PM GMT+2
Main Card: SUN, SAT, MAR 2 / 8:00 PM GMT+2
Venue: UFC APEX

Main card (ESPN)
Heavyweight: Jairzinho Rozenstruik vs. Shamil Gaziev            
Light Heavyweight: Vitor Petrino vs. Tyson Pedro            
Flyweight: Alex Perez vs. Muhammad Mokaev            
Middleweight: Eryk Anders vs. Jamie Pickett            
Bantamweight: Umar Nurmagomedov vs. Bekzat Almakhan            
Flyweight: Matt Schnell vs. Steve Erceg

Preliminary card (ESPN)
Lightweight: Joel Álvarez vs. Ľudovít Klein            
Bantamweight: Aiemann Zahabi vs. Javid Basharat            
Middleweight: Christian Leroy Duncan vs. Cláudio Ribeiro            
Lightweight: Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady vs. Loik Radzhabov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_Fight_Night:_Rozenstruik_vs._Gaziev

Brian Ortega's ground game is quite good. Jair cannot keep distance at all. I also felt that he would win against fighters with good ground game, so Brian Ortega would win. Even though he was a little worn out in the first minutes, he recovered well and Ortega finished with an arm triangle. I just heard about the fight, it's ridiculous that they behave like this when there is a good organization, this does not honor the fighters. There is no fighter who can beat Ilia Topuria El Matador, it seems that way at the moment, he said this himself after the Volkanovski fight. Also, I don't think they will re-match, he will probably fight with someone other than the top three, probably Topuria.

I didnt know Ilia Topuria was so popular in Spain, and I know he has a perfect 15-0 MMA record, but maybe it happened quickly after his win against Volkanovski.
He was called to take a honorary ball kickoff at Santiago Bernabeu stadium today in match Real Madrid vs Sevilla  
Maybe Real won today and Topuria was their lucky charm.

Ortega vs Tuporia?  it may be just that Tuporia is much more well-rounded and can hit harder than him. if he didn't win with Volkanovski and Max, less chance of winning in fighting Tuporia. Ortega vs Volkanovski 2 would be more possible.

at the beginning of R1 Yair was winning and then giving his back to Ortega and was mounted. Yair lost hope already after seeing he lost R1 and R2, he was easily mounted in the 3rd round with no struggle, and he's ready to give up.

So my gut feeling turned out to be right and Ortega grabbed a win. I feel sorry for Yair, but respect to Brian for that beautiful art triangle choke.
I think Ortega proved to be worthy of another title shot. Looking at his record, and not counting that shoulder injury, he only lost to Volk by decision and to Max Holloway by doctor's stoppage.
This boils down the number of potential opponents for Topuria's next fight to 3, in order of likelihood: Volk (rematch), Holloway (provided he doesn't get destroyed by Gaethje in the UFC300 and Ortega.

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And if the Octagon fights were not enough, there were some fan brawl, apparently uninterrupted by security, because... Mexico.
https://youtu.be/n3sEe5Zb61I?si=ByHztwYEtSbBs-jh&t=177

Lolol that's hilarious...  And she won.    Ok time to look into fighters that cheated on their ex's and if their ex'a are gonna watch the event.  

The Royval win was pretty good too.  Hopefully he gets another crack at it vs Pantoja.  I don't think he was fighting at the peak of his abilities when they fought.

Here are the results.

Brandon Royval def Brandon Moreno  SD
Brian Ortega def Yair Rodríguez  SUB R3
Daniel Zellhuber def Francisco Prado  UD
Yazmin Jauregui def Sam Hughes  UD
Manuel Torres def Chris Duncan  SUB R1
Raoni Barcelos def Cristian Quinonez  SUB R3
Jesús Santos Aguilar def Mateus Mendonca  SD
Edgar Chairez def Daniel Lacerda  SUB R1
Fares Ziam def Claudio Puelles  SD
Ronaldo Rodriguez def Denys Bondar  SUB R2
Felipe dos Santos def Victor Altamirano  SD
Muhammad Naimov def Erik Silva  TKO R1

Good event overall.

UFC Fight Night:  Moreno vs Royval Post Fight Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm83ZgkYkzo

Rusty or not, but Ortega still get that submission. Which somehow surprised me. I thought Yair going to win this time, but that rusty Ortega still can survive punches and catch opponent by surprise. As to main event, cant say much. Split decision is always not good. On one hand it gives potential for s rematch. On the other hand, we might see 25min again. This is was the event when co-main event was much better than main

I agree, people just can't accept that Dvalishvili is the goat. He is a very motivated and talented individual who did everything to become a UFC fighter, he is exceptional and people can't accept that.

Guys just check what I found. In my country, Georgia (Dvalishvili is Georgia) I found a boxing punch machine with Dvalishvili's image on it. It's very good, most of the time I was seeing only Tyson and Conor McGregor, now there is Dvalishvili on many machines and I hope they'll put Topuria on them too.
Btw what's your record guys?

Interesting take that got me chuckling. I guess I'll have to keep track of behind the scenes as well, while making parlays.  . I was rooting for Yair Rodriguez as well but the arm triangle was too strong there. Crazy comeback from Ortega. It was a good fight nonetheless.

this match many people commented that yair celebration after ortega lose with dislocation shoulder isn't a sportmanship. i call that an absolute bs.
meanwhile ortega is just rusty as hell he just eats so many shots from the very first round.
the outcome of the fight was defnitely because ortega just trying to brute trying to force himself out of the tough situation and that just means that yair is better in his technique.
simply put ortega is rusty, and yair is quick and on point evenn yair clearly got the upperhand in this match.

Yair will win this one, he has to clean his reputation from the past loss when he couldn't get the champ title.

And I don't know what to expect from Raul Rosas, he had some nice potential, buen in the past fight he do it terrible, so, Let's see what kind of show he give us today.

I'm 100% rooting for Yair here, as I really like his fighting style and the entertainment value he brings into all his fights, but I have a feeling Ortega could make a surprise here. I think he'll give up on the idea of having a striking match against Yair and will be shooting for takedowns from early on to neutralise Yair's biggest advantage.


I kind of hope he'll get a rematch. He deserves it and there aren't many better options for Topuria.
Alternatively, Volk could be matched up with a winner of Rodriguez/Ortega and, if he wins, then he could get a rematch. And Topuria could fight Holloway next, unless he performs poorly in the UFC 300 against Gaethje.

I really thought that Volkanovski was winning this one, I never imagined that Ilia Topuria could make use of that power of his to take Volk, as Volkanovski also has a great style in this fight he has seen that but now that Ilia Topuria is the champion what is next for him he could go with Max Holloway, or have a rematch against Volkanovski, but for me, Ilia Topuria can beat all of those guys, right now he is sitting on his moment and for me, Topuria is one unique fighter,

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Brandon Moreno vs. Brandon Royval

Brandon Moreno [1.34] - For this fight, I guess both fighters got decent striking but Brandon Moreno has crispier movement and his grappling offense is really solid against Royval so for sure I really think that this is also going to be close as Royval has some crazy moves that sometimes unpredictable but for me my pick for this fight is Brandon Moreno.

Yair Rodriguez vs. Brian Ortega

Yair Rodriguez [1.69] - For this fight, I like the way how Yair Rodriguez is performing his striking was really superb, and in their 1st fight I guess Rodriguez was really lucky that time, as Ortega was injured as I think even with the takedown defense I think Brian Ortega can eventually take Rodriguez into the ground and from that I think that Ortega will be more punishing so my pick is the grappler Brian Ortega.

Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Ricky Turcios

Raul Rosas Jr. [1.42] - For this fight, Ricky Turcios has decent striking and some grappling but for me Raul Rosas Jr. has the power this is surely something after his lost he went on with the training that is for sure so I think this will be a win for Rosas with a Submission win for him.

But you know...  For a heavyweight, Aspinall is really young.  Heavyweights tend to have longer careers and the average age of the weight class is higher.  He could be paving the way for the young guns tho.  I think the Russian dude he fought is around the same age as him.

Anyway here are the weight ins guys...  A couple of fighters missed weight.  But no biggie as those two belong in the same match.  

UFC Fight Night:  Weigh In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCg8JG234oQ

UFC Fight Night:  Face Off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVShCnHI7jc

Brandon Moreno (126) vs Brandon Royval (126)
Brian Ortega (146) vs Yair Rodriguez (146)
Francisco Prado (156) vs Daniel Zellhuber (156)
Raul Rosas Jr. (136) vs Ricky Turcios (136)
Sam Hughes (115) vs Yazmin Jauregui (115)
Chris Duncan (156) vs Manuel Torres (155)
Raoni Barcelos (135) vs Jose Quinonez (135)
Jesus Aguilar (126) vs Mateus Mendonca (126)
Edgar Chairez (131)* vs Daniel Lacerda (127)*
Claudio Puelles (156) vs Fares Ziam (156)
Denys Bondar (126) vs Ronaldo Rodriguez (126)
Victor Altamirano (125) vs Felipe dos Santos (124)
Muhammad Naimov (146) vs Erik Silva (146)

*Missed weight

Many fighters say that 30 +/-1 year is fighters peak form. Specially in light divisions. After 32 their reflexes are no longer the same. They lose greatly in speed. It is for heavyweight acceptable to be +40 and still fight and show good results. As they rely more in strength and skill. Speed for them is secondary. And they rely on one punch KO alot. There a lot of ages champs. For example Glover Texeira became lightheavy champ at 42. But light guys yeah, become champs early and retire early.

For sure those 2 36 years guys have to be careful in their next fight as the UFC champion is changing 1 after the other with the younger guys today, and Ilia Topuria having the youngest age in the roster is surely one of a kind for his young age he already attain the title of a champion for sure that is a hard feat to get, and likely the younger age fighters keeps on getting the older fighters in the UFC.

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My pick for the UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2

Brandon Moreno vs. Brandon Royval

In this fight, it should have been Amir Albazi and not Brandon Royval as the opponent for Brandon Moreno but because of unknown reasons he withdrew and was changed to Brandon Royval, so this is short notice for Royval, and looking at the odds we have 1.31 for Moreno and 3.15 for Royval, my prediction for me I think that Brandon Royval has a decent striking not that crazy but Moreno for me has the technical striking and has a great offensive grappling but Royval movements are crazy and sometimes you can not see his next move will be but for me in this fight, Moreno can submit Royval so my pick is Brandon Moreno.

Yair Rodriguez vs. Brian Ortega

For this fight, Yair Rodriguez comes from a loss against Alexander Volkanovski while Brian Ortega comes from 2 consecutive losses both from Alexander Volkanovski and Yair Rodriguez while last fight for Brian Ortega was on July 16, 2022, he took a break for 1 year, while Yair Rodriguez was active in the UFC and base from their last fight the striking and those kicks was really accurate and Rodriguez also has a takedown defense and because in their 1st fight, Ortega's shoulder pops out while even though that didn't happen I think that Yair Rodriguez can win this so my pick is Yair Rodriguez.

Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Ricky Turcios

The odds for this fight were 1.40 for Raul Rosas, and 2.75 for Ricky Turcios, for this fight Raul Rosas Jr. has better grappling and wrestling and he could win this by submission while Ricky Turcios was really great with the striking but I think it has some issue with his power and he can never win this with a knockout so for sure Raul Rosas Jr. can win this by his wrestling and with a submission so my pick is Raul Rosas Jr.