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Quote from: DeathAngel on September 10, 2019, 04:09:17 AM

If Khabib wants wants to prove he’s one of the greats he’ll need to go up in a weight class & try to dominate another division. Not sure if he will though, he might not be able to hug his way to every win at a heavier weight.

If Khabib is dominant enough in a division who has more talents than any other division you could call him the greatest fighter and that too with his undefeated record which is unprecedented in MMA. You cannot find a champion in UFC that is undefeated and Khabib is the only fighter with that pedigree.

Quote from: tokeweed on September 10, 2019, 07:27:17 AM

I could see a Cerrone KO with a right high kick to Gaethje's head. Grin

Justin Gaethje likes to play in close range and i do not think Donald Cerrone will get enough space to land a high kick and on the other hand Justin Gaethje has brutal close range chop kicks and with real power, i am expecting a great fight.

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We got a couple of decent main events (Cerrone vs Gaethje, Rodriguez vs Stephens) and one I don't care about (Cannonier vs Hermansson) before 243 (can't wait for some Adesanya action again, yay!).

I could see a Cerrone KO with a right high kick to Gaethje's head. Grin

UFC Vancouver Free Fight: Cerrone vs Iaquinta
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Date: Saturday, September 14
Main Card (PPV): 20:00 EST
Preliminary Card (FX): 17:00 EST
Venue: Rogers Arena, Vancouver Canada

Main Card (ESPN+)
Lightweight: Donald Cerrone vs Justin Gaethje
Light Heavyweight: Glover Teixeira vs Nikita Krylov
Heavyweight: Todd Duffee vs Jeff Hughes
Welterweight: Michel Pereira vs TBD
Middleweight: Uriah Hall vs Antônio Carlos Júnior
Light Heavyweight: Misha Cirkunov vs Jimmy Crute

Preliminary Card (ESPN+)
Heavyweight: Marcin Tybura vs Augusto Sakai
Bantamweight: Cole Smith vs Miles Johns
Middleweight: Andrew Sanchez vs Marvin Vettori
Bantamweight: Brad Katona vs Hunter Azure
Featherweight: Chas Skelly vs Jordan Griffin
Bantamweight: Louis Smolka vs Ryan McDonald
Featherweight: Kyle Prepolec vs Austin Hubbard

All info from Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_Fight_Night:_Cerrone_vs._Gaethje

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Interesting talk about Khabib faceing GSP. I have not heard about the legend for a while now. What's the update on him? Is he still in shape to fight in case something match comes up?

It can be remembered that Khabib Nurmagomedov once asked Georges St-Pierre to delay the retirement so they can have fight on November this year. Dana White is open to the idea about Khabib Nurmagomedov versus Georges St-Pierre but there's a stipulation, and that is to fight at 155. Take note that Georges St-Pierre is open to come out of retirement to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov.

I wasn't aware of that. Who set the weight stipulation? Was it Khabib? That's a lot of shredding on the part of GSP and it could be dangerous for him. It's going to affect his performance a lot. If only they can be both allowed to fight at 165...

Very interesting read here:

https://www.mmamania.com/2019/6/4/18652776/ufc-khabib-renews-contract-includes-georges-st-pierre-clause-mma

Wasn't aware about the clause though, but 155 would put a lot of demand on GSP's body to go down that weight. Perhaps they can agree on a catch weight so that we can this fight happen before the end of the year or early 2020.

Only thing that I don't like about this so called catch weight fight is that this could be always used as an excused specially if the losing party in that drain himself. St. Pierre is a natural welterweight solid and I'm sure his performance will be drastically affected if he try to squeeze 155 lbs on his huge frame, it could include a lot of muscle mass loss.

But can Khabib go up to welterweight though?

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Quote from: rosezionjohn on September 10, 2019, 03:11:55 AM

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Quote from: rosezionjohn on September 10, 2019, 02:47:08 AM

Interesting talk about Khabib faceing GSP. I have not heard about the legend for a while now. What's the update on him? Is he still in shape to fight in case something match comes up?

It can be remembered that Khabib Nurmagomedov once asked Georges St-Pierre to delay the retirement so they can have fight on November this year. Dana White is open to the idea about Khabib Nurmagomedov versus Georges St-Pierre but there's a stipulation, and that is to fight at 155. Take note that Georges St-Pierre is open to come out of retirement to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov.

I wasn't aware of that. Who set the weight stipulation? Was it Khabib? That's a lot of shredding on the part of GSP and it could be dangerous for him. It's going to affect his performance a lot. If only they can be both allowed to fight at 165...

Very interesting read here:

https://www.mmamania.com/2019/6/4/18652776/ufc-khabib-renews-contract-includes-georges-st-pierre-clause-mma

Wasn't aware about the clause though, but 155 would put a lot of demand on GSP's body to go down that weight. Perhaps they can agree on a catch weight so that we can this fight happen before the end of the year or early 2020.

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If Khabib wants wants to prove he’s one of the greats he’ll need to go up in a weight class & try to dominate another division. Not sure if he will though, he might not be able to hug his way to every win at a heavier weight.

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Quote from: nydiacaskey01 on September 10, 2019, 02:57:49 AM

Quote from: rosezionjohn on September 10, 2019, 02:47:08 AM

Interesting talk about Khabib faceing GSP. I have not heard about the legend for a while now. What's the update on him? Is he still in shape to fight in case something match comes up?

It can be remembered that Khabib Nurmagomedov once asked Georges St-Pierre to delay the retirement so they can have fight on November this year. Dana White is open to the idea about Khabib Nurmagomedov versus Georges St-Pierre but there's a stipulation, and that is to fight at 155. Take note that Georges St-Pierre is open to come out of retirement to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov.

I wasn't aware of that. Who set the weight stipulation? Was it Khabib? That's a lot of shredding on the part of GSP and it could be dangerous for him. It's going to affect his performance a lot. If only they can be both allowed to fight at 165...

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Quote from: 7788bitcoin on September 09, 2019, 01:42:11 PM

I do not see anyone challenging him in this division, i want to see him fight against GSP for 165 pound title.

I am always interested to see GSP against Khabib, but he has to go through Tony Ferguson first and as a fan i am waiting for this fight to happen, after that let the UFC decide whether they could give GSP another title shot or fight in a catch weight.

Quote from: Bttzed03 on September 09, 2019, 11:17:22 PM

Why GSP? Isn't the guy retired already? There were attempts for his return before but all failed. I don't know if he still wants to fight at this point.

He is retired because he has a lot of money and he only wants to fight big challenges where fans want, like Khabib and there was a time i wanted to see him fight against Anderson Silva but those fights never came to fruition.

Quote from: nydiacaskey01 on September 10, 2019, 12:03:03 AM

If Khabib Nurmagomedov wants Georges St-Pierre, its either he (Khabib Nurmagomedov) step up his weight to 170 or 180 or wait for Georges St-Pierre to step down to 155 which is very unlikely to happen.

In his UAE media day he clearly said that if GSP wants to fight him, he will do that in 155 pound division and he is not willing to move up.

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Quote from: rosezionjohn on September 10, 2019, 02:47:08 AM

Interesting talk about Khabib faceing GSP. I have not heard about the legend for a while now. What's the update on him? Is he still in shape to fight in case something match comes up?

It can be remembered that Khabib Nurmagomedov once asked Georges St-Pierre to delay the retirement so they can have fight on November this year. Dana White is open to the idea about Khabib Nurmagomedov versus Georges St-Pierre but there's a stipulation, and that is to fight at 155. Take note that Georges St-Pierre is open to come out of retirement to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov.

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Interesting talk about Khabib facing GSP. I have not heard about the legend for a while now. What's the update on him? Is he still in shape to fight in case something comes up?

Quote from: bbc.reporter on September 08, 2019, 08:32:20 PM

@rosezionjohn. Conor should fight to add more flavor hehehe.

Well of course that's going to be great but that won't happen if he's not the main event Cheesy

His mere presence may ignite the McGregor-Diaz rivalry even more.

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when Dustin was rag doll in the floor again. And it round 3, you can clearly see his eye saying he don't want no part of Khabib anymore.

I have seen many predictions outside this forum that we could see an upset here as Khabib is coming after a long break but he just proved that there is no ring rust and he does what he knows best, to maul people the moment he step foot into the Octogen and he just did that against Dustin and when he was not able to defend himself because of exhaustion he chocked him out. I do not see anyone challenging him in this division, i want to see him fight against GSP for 165 pound title.

Khabib Nurmagomedov actually is waiting for Georges St-Pierre to return and he said he is welcome to return to the octagon. Unfortunately, they are not on the same weight division. Georges St-Pierre was the champion in the welterweight (170) and middleweight (185) divisions. Khabib Nurmagomedov is the current champ in Lightweight (155) division.

If Khabib Nurmagomedov wants Georges St-Pierre, its either he (Khabib Nurmagomedov) step up his weight to 170 or 180 or wait for Georges St-Pierre to step down to 155 which is very unlikely to happen.

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Quote from: 7788bitcoin on September 09, 2019, 01:42:11 PM

I do not see anyone challenging him in this division, i want to see him fight against GSP for 165 pound title.

Why GSP? Isn't the guy retired already? There were attempts for his return before but all failed. I don't know if he still wants to fight at this point.

Besides that, Khabib hasn't cleaned his division yet. If he can completely dominate Ferguson (if they can finally fight), then maybe it's time to move to another weight division.

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Quote from: TravelMug on September 09, 2019, 07:39:29 AM

when Dustin was rag doll in the floor again. And it round 3, you can clearly see his eye saying he don't want no part of Khabib anymore.

I have seen many predictions outside this forum that we could see an upset here as Khabib is coming after a long break but he just proved that there is no ring rust and he does what he knows best, to maul people the moment he step foot into the Octogen and he just did that against Dustin and when he was not able to defend himself because of exhaustion he chocked him out. I do not see anyone challenging him in this division, i want to see him fight against GSP for 165 pound title.

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^^ Watched the replay already. Yes, Dustin came out swinging in the second round, caught Khabib. But I noticed that Khabib stand up has improved a lot. He move his head left and right and now can fight moving backward. I think it's one of the high lights, however, it's all business when Dustin was rag doll in the floor again. And it round 3, you can clearly see his eye saying he don't want no part of Khabib anymore.

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Dustin Poirier had some good moments. He made me panic 2 times about lossing a lot of money:

The crowd was really loud and it was really hot and humid inside the arena and when Dustin Poirier came out in the second round throwing punches that connected Khabib i really thought he will finish Khabib, but he got tired after that exchange and he got mauled and it was electric when he went for the take downs.

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2) When he excuted a very deep guillotine which I have no idea how the hell Khabib survived.

The guillotine was really deep but his guard position was not perfect to apply perfect pressure and Khabib did not panic and he knew Poirier will exhaust his arms without any leverage from his legs and he popped out and it was chaos. If Tony has that neck i am excited to know what he will do with it. Khabib is one tough individual to crack.

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Quote from: Astargath on September 08, 2019, 08:39:12 AM

It would be a nice fight but Tony has no chance against khabib either. Tony won't have an answer for Khabibs takedowns, look at his fight vs kevin lee, that guy took him down easily several times, sure he eventually won via triangle choke but still.

At least fight against Tony would be bloody and spectacular and will definitely deserve a 50,000$ as a fight of the night reward.
I don't understand, why would Khabib vs Poirier got this reward. The whole fight was a copy/paste of previous boring Khabib's fights.

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Quote from: rosezionjohn on September 08, 2019, 02:29:58 PM

That was quick, Nate "the needle mover" Diaz on the move after a long lay off and a win against AP. Anyway, this is a must watch event! I hope Conor watches this live and add more "flavor" to it.

The Diaz brothers were needle movers for a long time and Dana White was the only person who was against the truth and hence Nate Diaz was underpaid for a very long time and now he accepted that he is a PPV attraction because of the reception he got from his past few fights and therefore made him the main event in Madison square garden. If Conor is looking for the third fight against Nate then it is well and good for having a big pay day the rest of the fighters are killers and i do not see any way that Conor could win against Tony or Khabib.

Agreed! The fans' interest on the Diaz brothers do not decrease, also during their losing moments, because of how they represent themselves. They are real trashtalking gangsters of mixed martial arts.

@rosezionjohn. Conor should fight to add more flavor hehehe.

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Quote from: rosezionjohn on September 08, 2019, 02:29:58 PM

That was quick, Nate "the needle mover" Diaz on the move after a long lay off and a win against AP. Anyway, this is a must watch event! I hope Conor watches this live and add more "flavor" to it.

The Diaz brothers were needle movers for a long time and Dana White was the only person who was against the truth and hence Nate Diaz was underpaid for a very long time and now he accepted that he is a PPV attraction because of the reception he got from his past few fights and therefore made him the main event in Madison square garden. If Conor is looking for the third fight against Nate then it is well and good for having a big pay day the rest of the fighters are killers and i do not see any way that Conor could win against Tony or Khabib.

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Quote from: tokeweed on September 08, 2019, 09:24:19 AM

Diaz vs Masvidal is official for 244 (at MSG). The event is looking really stacked now with Johnny Walker vs Corey Anderson and Gastelum vs Till for a MW scrap.

That was quick, Nate "the needle mover" Diaz on the move after a long lay off and a win against AP. Anyway, this is a must watch event! I hope Conor watches this live and add more "flavor" to it.

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Quote from: TopTort777 on September 05, 2019, 07:05:00 AM

Sad sad day watching my FIGHTER get beat like that
At least the weight ins was nice

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Quote from: nydiacaskey01 on September 08, 2019, 04:43:39 AM

UFC 242 Results

Main Card
Khabib Nurmagomedov defeated Dustin Poirier via Submission (Rear naked choke)
Paul Felder defeated Edson Barboza via Split decision
Islam Makhachev defeated Davi Ramos via Unanimous Decision
Curtis Blaydes defeated Shamil Abdurakhimov via second-round TKO (2:22)
Diego Ferreira defeated Mairbek Taisumov via Unanimous Decision

Undercard
Joanne Calderwood defeated Andrea Lee via Split decision
Zubaira Tukhogov versus Lerone Murphy - split draw
Sarah Moras defeated Liana Jojua via third-round TKO
Ottman Azaitar defeated Teemu Packalen via first-round KO
Belal Muhammad defeated Takashi Sato via submission (Rear naked choke)
Muslim Salikhov defeated Nordine Taleb via first-round KO (4:26)
Omari Akhmedov defeated Zak Cummings via Unanimous Decision
Don Madge defeated Fares Ziam via Unanimous Decision

Just what I thought on what may happen to the Khabib Nurmagomedov Vs Dustin Poirier fight, Poirier doesn't stand a chance against how good Khabib in a submission match even though Dustin has experience with wrestling, Because Khabib is on top with his prime in when it comes to Takedowns by a submission.

Well, I never expected Liana Jojua to lose that way but I guess there might be something that happens or she doesn't quite feel well, but it is still a great fight and me never thought that Sarah Moras can make a victory over Liana Jojua, but still she is quite splendid and gorgeous in my opinion.

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