Topic: The UFC Info and Prediction Thread - page 67. (Read 96930 times)

Volkanovski was knocked hard 3 months ago, it's surprising he was allowed to fight considering it was a head kick and several hits behind the head. He may not be what he was before that loss as he accepted the fight at short notice. He will be very defensive in this fight I think and it could be that Tuporia is the one handling this fight.

It's still a hard fight for Tuporia if Volkan is back to his own already as Volkan has a hard chin and a good striker as well.  Volkan took care of Holloway who is a better striker than Tuporia. For Tuporia, his advantage will be taking down Volkan. How the fight will go depends on where they could first hurt each other.

Costa expected to fight Khamzat months ago, he could be preparing for it still until this 298. Whitaker has slowed down too. I think this is the boring fight that you may be expecting. But I expect Costa to be more explosive since he wanted to fight Khamzat and needed to impress Dana.

I am most interested in the Alexander volcanovski fight, the Pablo Costa fight. Other than that I am not very much interested in other fights to be honest. I am not saying that those fights are not going to be interesting. Those fights might be very close as well. But those fights definitely do not interest me as much. And it is just a personal opinion.

Well, honestly it already can be boring, since we know most part of the card. If we I close eyes on kitten matchups, then every fight from the card I want to watch. Probably Lopes vs Yusuff fight looks not so promising. But I clearly remember Diego Lopes flashed somewhere in media. Some people made fun of his hairstyle, some trolled for bad English and pronunciation. All other fights are great. Cant even imagine who are going to be prelims, as all look great for main card.

Even if McGregor is able to fight, he's not really a draw of high magnitude anymore.  The guy is washed as seen twice vs Poirier.  There's just nothing he can do...  He is past his prime.  :/

What the UFC could do is pay Jon Jones a bunch of money to return earlier than intended to fight Tom Aspinall.  That would be a good match up.  They should just forget Miocic and pay him a bunch of money too, to stfu.  Lol.  No one really wants to watch him anyway.

Live in 12 hours...  Should be good. 

UFC 298:  Pre Fight Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ORoTVxxDY

That's more suitable for the PowerSlap  


Good to know. It's about time. The expectations are set so high that whatever fight will get announced, many people will get disappointed anyway. And there are limited options for high-profile fights. The most viable options are probably Adesanya Vs DPP, or Aspinall Vs Pereira.


He confirmed that McGregor will not fight until later this year (Autumn).

Another topic of discussion. Who do you think is most likely to lose their belt soon? For me personally, I think it's Sean O'Malley and DDP. I can see Sean losing to at least 2-3 fighters in his division and highly likely that Izzy will beat DDP. Will just have to wait and see.

I don't know why Dana White is enjoying something like this, that BMF belt is really nothing but for show or just for collection purposes, for me, it is really nothing if it is not the championship belt then it really amounts to nothing, and for nothing to be something they will make it something out of the ordinary like making a belt out of it, but I got to admit that Belt is really something it looks unique and legit because of its unique color all black, maybe that was the one that are making some fighters want this kind of belt.


For sure that will be a spectacle to behold, that will be one unique fight you can see and it is the 1st time to be viewed in the UFC, but no Pun intended, I want to see his wife plummet him to the ground but for sure that will be an epic kind of thing to behold.

But yeah the Main Event for the UFC 300 should be a fight that will make everyone want to watch that event and be included in the list of people's much-awaited fighters, it could be Israel Adesanya's Comeback or Jon Jones's comeback which one do you guys prefer to see, for me I haven't  thinking of it yet, maybe it is because the UFC 299 is more juicy than with the UFC 300.


Well, I'm feeling bored with the upcoming UFC 300, for sure I just want to see the UFC 299 instead, but for sure it will depend on who's fighting in the main event because right now some are saying that it will be a boring event as they still didn't know what they will be witnessing in the Main event for this card, and for sure I definitely agree with it.

^ It is a bit concerning that Dana White seemingly has no idea what UFC 300 is going to do for a main event and everyone keeps asking him about it. His behavior leaving a podcast yesterday after his intro sort of displayed his frustration. Everyone wants the biggest UFC event of all time and Dana doesn’t even know if Conor will be able to fight by then or not.

Why do I have a feeling that the event is either going to be incredibly awesome or it will absolutely be boring? I definitely do not have any strong logic behind that but it's just a feeling. I hope UFC will be able to make sure that the best fight happens. Does anyone else think that the popularity of UFC has been going down? Maybe I am wrong. Maybe that is because we have been saying some fights that are pretty boring. Maybe that could be just a feeling. But is it only me or do anyone else also think that?

If it's DDP then who would be the opponent?  I think the only guy who could be a huge draw is Adesanya as he and DDP has some 'who's the real African' beef going on.  Would def watch that but from a match making perspective it doesn't make any sense to give Adesanya the shot as he lost royally vs Strickland.  Would've been a different story if the fight was close.

UFC 298:  Embedded Episode 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZeVPJgslIM

And here's what everybody is looking for...  jeremypwr's Multi Master Challenge.

UFC 298:  Multi Master Challenge
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/sportsbetio-ufc-298-multi-master-challenge-17-february-5485024

Glgl!

It is confirmed now that the main event for UFC 300 will be revealed during the post-fight press conference of the UFC 298. Yeah, I think so too, that they haven't had confirmations in the backroom for who will be fighting. We'll find it out soon enough though.

Dana White vs his wife

I dont know who will be the main even, and I dont even want to guess that or speculate on it, as I think I could get disappointed. Everyone has its own favourite fighter and wish to lead the tournaments card, but I think we will get something that we dont want to see. Like for UFC it will be a fight that deserve to be main event, but for us it will be just a good fight. I even think UFC hasnt decided it yet themselves. They have create all that drama, now they get feedback in for of predictions, and try to organize the fight with both profitable terms for them and for those two guys.

2 months to go and we still don't know what the main event is. Is the poster a sign of one of the fighters featuring in the fight or is it just a model? He does look a bit like DDP but I doubt he'll fight so soon again. What are the bitcointalk MMA experts speculating? What will be the headline for 300?

^  I think the value of the BMF is not that it comes with prestige for the belt holder.  It's the money the fighters get just by fighting for the belt.  It's a 'belt match', it's always in a PPV event and afaik the fighters get a cut of the PPV monies.  Dunno...  But that's how it always works even in boxing.

And does anybody else think Ian Garry is annoying af or is it just me?

UFC 298:  Embedded Episode 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=towMIFkql-0

Some fight replays...

UFC Free Fight:  Neal vs Luque
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDyTtHJJLAM

UFC Free Fight:  Garry vs Rodriguez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSlbkjsKik8

UFC Free Fight:  Merab vs Moraes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb9zgOaxxoM

UFC Free Fight:  Cejudo vs Cruz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Tzaf6Nw28

UFC Free Fight:  Topuria vs Emmett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahi-btqB8N4

UFC Free Fight:  Volk vs Rodriguez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTwTd6ab4Ew

Enjoy...

Somehow I dont believe fighters are really that happy to get BMF belt instead of division champions belt As I doubt it has any value outside UFC. I even think that other fighters might laugh at BMF holder. Like he isnt able to get a real belt, and UFC game him this Also there are no much competition to get this belt. It is like beat one guy and get a belt. Also look at Gaethje face when he got it. Not so happy at all. As to collecting belts, I believe every fighter has a huge stand of trophies that they get during their career. One more or one less reward it does not matter if it isnt a champions belt/trophy.

For sure even if Costa looks more powerful than Whittaker we can not underestimate Robert Whittaker his fight with Marvin Vettori was one of the epic fights in the UFC and with Jared Cannonier or the likes of Kelvin Gastelum, we can be sure that Whittaker is a master of his class.

While I agree Neal Magny's experience is one that should not be taken lightly as far as I know these two have a beef with each other when Garry initially was taking to Magny's kid that Niel was a child abuser, which is not true, for me accusing someone that they didn't do is a big offense.

For me I got Merab Dvalishvili I really think that his cardio is more will do than Cejudo has, and because of their age gap that is 4 years, for me Henry Cejudo because he is not active inside the ring for a  long time I think I will favor Merab Dvalishvili,


Well, I know that the BMF is a special belt but for some like Masvidal, Porier, and McGregor this belt meant something them but it is just a special belt for fighters that don't want that belt or holds real significance to them, but for sure it is one of the additional belt that a fighter can take if you won that fight and that BMF belt is at stake and for some fighters this is a significant something for sure an additional Belt and collection for them.

I know that I am jumping far ahead, but can someone explain and remind me about BMF belt and title. Wasnt it like a special belt that was challenged between Masvidal and Diaz, and it supposed to be one time challenge/belt/title? I mean how can it travelled from Masvidal to Gaethe/Poirier? Sure they arent most BMF in UFC Now on UFC 300 Gaethje is defending this title Title that is not even in UFC ranking

For sure if Volkanovski is around it will be another fun event for the UFC however his opponent looks intimidating and he was like he doesn't have any weakness whatsoever in him, Ilia Topuria is surely a fighter with the caliber that Volkanovski might have a little trouble with so this is why the odds are very close this is surely why this fight is interesting many fans think that Volk is old and needs to be replaced while many believe that Ilia Topuria is the one that will get the reign of Alexander Volkanovski, and in my opinion, I am really concern on the Future of Volkanovski is really in danger having Topuria as a challenger.


As we all know Volkanovski has a remarkable defense on the ground, which is why it is very hard if Topuria can submit Volk that easily as shown in the previous match of Islam Makhachev VS Alexander Volkanovski, that Volk has pretty much solid ground defense but that is if Ilia Topuria has the power to make that submission successfully executed.

Now I am baffled if Robert Whittaker can outpower Paulo Costa because of their body physique or just outsmart him, Robert Whittaker is a technical fighter so he will win based on the strike landed on his opponent, while I can not guarantee that Paulo Costa will really win in this I can say we can not underestimate Whittaker if he can not handle the strength of Costa.

While Merab Dvalishvili in my opinion has the strength and Cardio that an old Henry Cejudo can take for me base on the Aljamain Sterling fight it is just that Cejudo is too old for this.


Well, I am not writing him off as he will likely lose for sure this is going to be a great match but I should say Topuria will give him a hard time and he fought Yair Rodriguez on July 8, 2023, after 2 months, and something he fought Islam Makhachev within that short span of time and lost to a head kick, then after maybe 3 months he is fighting again, and this time Ilia Topuria, it was like the time of his recovery is just short and I think he may need a more longer period to fight again.

It is definitely not going to be as easy as Sneako. Jake Paul is actually good. I saw the fight/spar between Sean Strickland and Sneako. It definitely did not like a sparring session in the last 30 seconds. Sean Strickland went all out. I am actually surprised to see Sneako standing after taking that beating. And all those people who are saying that Sean should not have gone that hard, what the dude literally wanted is sparring session with Sean Strickland. What did he expect?

I think this definitely has sparked the conversation of Sean versus Jake Paul. There is a lot of back and forth talking going on between these two in Twitter. Let's see what happens.

Last time we saw Paolo Costa fight was in August 2022. Even the fight before that got canceled. And since that fight happened, every fight he was scheduled to, got canceled. But finally, I guess we will watch him fight. And yes just like you, probably a lot of people are also expecting some excuses.

I also do not understand why Cejudo has been given the chance. I thought there were other fighters better suited for this. I thought he will have to do a lot of things to actually convince the authority. But for some reason, even though he did take a break of 3 years and lost the fight he did after coming back, he is getting a chance again.