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I am soooo pumped for UFC 297!! That I'm watching the previous fights of Sean Strickland, DDP, just as a refresher and doing pushups  . Even though some may call it, not one of the better cards but I think its fairly stacked. Curtis v Barriault is going to be a brawl, Magny v Malott is going to be a big test for Malott to get ranked better as veteran Magny has fizzed out many hyped fighters in the past, Allen v Evloev where both the fighters are about 1-2 more wins away from getting a title shot. If they make it memorable, might be even quicker!  Just..cant...wait!!

Well, we might say that DDP managed to get in Strickland head with that father punchline. That childhood memories really takes the ground away under Strickland feet. Check out how he got emotional while talking about childhood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzgxoRhcCS4.

As to Strickland being a psycopath - yeah, he really is. I also remember that in an interview he has told, that if it was allowed, he would kill someone in the octagon without much doubts. Really crazy guy. He is one of those guys, who got license to legally beat other people

Just watched the pre fight press conference.  I'm kinda more scared at Strickland now that he's taking everything lightly but then say that he wants to fight to the death.  What a psychopath.  And he did say a couple of times before that one day he felt that he could kill somebody inside the octagon if pushed the wrong way...  I think the press conference during December kinda pushed Strickland the wrong way when DDP said he'll remind Strickland of his father beating him as a kid when they fight.  :/

I wonder what kind of game plan Strickland and his corner are bringing...  Can't wait!

Embedded is kinda meh after the first episode hope it picks up.

UFC 297:  Embedded - Episode 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwy8Qxx9v0Y

Here's the pre fight conference in case some of you guys missed the link.

UFC 297:  Pre Fight Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llEtPoJY-rw

It's also all in the first page now for easy access.

Live weigh in show is gonna be live in an hour or so then ceremomial weigh ins 8 hours later.  Enjoy...

UFC 297:  Live Weigh In Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6KEkqojiqk

UFC 297:  Ceremonial Weigh In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rfgFLhn610

If that is his game plan, then we would have a new champ soon Dricus is a hard punches that blocks all incoming punches with face. Going in punch exchange with him is a suicide. It is even possible that DDP could survive Pereiras left punch Frankly I can stop being amazed by DDP techniques or better say lack of it He is kind of guy who has pre-loaded all kind of skills, but use them randomly. He wins due to strong chin and his opponents being "who would have done this?" lag all the time. Seriously, who opens a punching combo with low kick? Who blocks one punch (lets say left hook) with both hands in block?

Alex Pereira is Adesanya's Achilles heel. I don't know what kind of problems Adesanya has but I notice and feel it, he is afraid of Pereira, he doesn't want to fight him anymore because he is super afraid that he will lose against him. But I believe that he can defeat Stickland if everything is alright in his head.

Dana White usually acts according to what brings him the most money, he is money addict after all. I think that Pereira is not afraid to fight anyone and he will probably fight with the one that Dana thinks will generate the most money. Pereira is a very tough guy, it's hard to make him suffer.

We can surely say everything we want Israel Adesanya could be lucky from that fight for sure Alex Pereira didn't notice that Israel Adesanya was about to do something and was just faking it or making possum and readying his strike against Alex Pereira, there is surely some luck and even work applied in that fight and I think Israel Adesanya can come back but he needs to be more determined and put all of his wills in this fight if he needs to defeat Strickland or even Alex Pereira,


It was a good event indeed and we had a really good fight for you surely know what I like in this event and for me, that is the fighting kittens, and right now I just got 1 kitten that I think is a queen for me, and that is Polyana Viana, this girl is such a beauty and her strike for the fight is something remarkable, for sure Colby Covington was one lucky dude for having her, but anyway I will drop my bet and prediction for the fight later,


If the Ankalaev VS Pereira fight will not take that long that will be great but I haven't seen any announcement yet, sorry but there might be some but I haven't paid attention, but for sure that will be a great event to see Alex Pereira VS Magomedov Ankalaev, is something to behold,

Jamahal Hill is just taking his rest, but if he is really he might get into action again in whoever won the fight between Pereira and Strickland, for sure if that would be a fight for the belt Jamal Hill will surely agree and even if he lost that fight it is still big money for him,

Well, if Dana decides that the Ankalaev VS Pereira fight will take place then it is clear that Pereira will never be able to avoid it and this fight is also quite eagerly awaited, especially for fans from the Middle East.
It just that Pereira has another schedule for UFC fights, so it possible that the Ankalaev VS Pereira schedule could be much longer or could the event be accelerated, it all depends on how Dana makes decisions as UFC president.
But on the other hand I also want to see Pereira fall and suffer defeat because he embarrassed favorite Adesanya in their last fight.

Jamahal Hill injury was also an incident that shocked everyone, even many UFC fans felt very sorry for this incident.
Jamahal Hill is expected to be able to provide resistance that can overwhelm Pereira and of course when that happens the fight will be very fun and interesting to watch.

It just that there might be chance for Pereira to move to another division and this will be new thing that Pereira has to face because he will definitely meet some great fighters who he has never met before in the UFC octagon.

Here's the essence and probably the most quoted/retweeted bit.
https://twitter.com/SStricklandMMA/status/1747734279516250446

Strickland says how it is. He already won in my eyes 
Hope he doesn't get arrested for "hate" speech or something. There's no free speech pretty much anywhere outside of the US.


I just watched a live pre-fight conference. Sean said it was never personal and they both shook hands on the agreement to fight to the death or something. It was nice.

In terms of odds, I'm leaning towards DDP. Strickland made it clear he's going there to brawl and will keep pressing forward, which is not a smart tactic for him. Dricus is visibly much bigger and stronger than him so he should be focussing on utilising his cardio advantage. Hopefully his team will talk some sense into him before the fight.

For me, luck is in every one of us, those fighters can not be aware that a punch is coming so they are unaware that they dodge it, in some cases there are kinds of things that might happen, but I get your point Strickland and for sure other fighters didn't train this much just to win the fight with luck but there is a contribution of some sort for sure we could say there is an element of hard work and luck for sure, but all idea is correct and have surely there is no wrong answer to it,


That is quite true, for sure Israel Adesanya did act a possum thinking that Pereira was punching and pressuring him in the corner but Adesanya was waiting for the right opportunity to strike back, and from that position, he surely unleashed that fury that he had on Pereira and from that Alex Pereira didn't do much from this fight and I think let us not argue anymore that there isn't an element of Luck and hard work in that one as for sure Adesanya is lucky in landing that punch that could knock out Pereira, and for sure hard work honed that hand to be that devastatingly damaging,


That will be an interesting fight for sure as we all know that Alex Pereira after a title defense for the belt might return to get the belt from the middleweight division so even if they have good terms with Pereira and Texeira because they have helped Sean Strickland trained with his sparring sessions, they will eventually needs to fight but if Dricus Du Plessis did won this one, or maybe Strickland will let him take the belt, so that Pereira would target Dricus instead, but let's just wait this is really interesting,

And that's why Adesanya just took an indefinite vacation since he doesn't want a rematch with Alex.  Whoever wins will fight anyway will fight Alex
so if it's Seam, he will face Alex once again. I don't know if he could trash talk still, Alex wouldn't even understand what he's saying, it could be a dilemma for Sean unless he wants to fight Alex again.

Sean will lose this fight. DDP has the cardio of a horse. This is gonna be a striker vs striker which Sean may only be on in his defence at all time.

Ok, No is accepted, problem solved

Besides Strickland vs DDP there are other goods match-ups in the card. YuginKadoya gonna start pointing on kittens fight, but Allen vs Evloev in featherweights looks good also. Evloev is undefeated with 17-0 (however all of his UFC fights are UD). Allen is ranked 4 and has lost only to Holloway in UFC (had streak of 10 win before that). I would say these two prospects gonna show a nice fight. That is the fight I dont want to bet on. Dont know why Evloev is a favourite here as it should be more close.

^  That's why Adesanya wouldn't want to fight Pereira again after getting the L back.  He knows there's a high possbility that he could lose if they fought again.  :/  And judging by what we saw with him vs Strickland, Pereira would def have a chance.


Didn't watch the interviews but pretty sure Strickland went to have a funny skit and went on to talk about some random sht about everybody.  Lol.

But it's also good to see these guys act nice with each other before a match.  The McGregor routine is getting old now.

UFC 297:  Embedded - Episode 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwQQFrv5-0U

Here are more tapes to watch.

UFC Free Fight:  Strickland vs Magomedov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEV6xPw3zgw

UFC Free Fight:  DDP vs Till
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjiVrEmHx-I

UFC Free Fight:  Bueno Silva vs Lansberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA_FI2DI5Gg

UFC Free Fight:  Pennington vs Chiasson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XviTGhDvC5Y

UFC Free Fight:  Bueno Silva vs Holm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyS_FKE4U-I

UFC Free Fight:  Pennington vs Ladd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CTzY-N4GOU

Adesanya was really lucky to win against Pereira. Overall, Pereira was dominating the match but Adesanya got a super lucky moment and a very lucky shot and knocked him out. Yes, Adesanya won it but we didn't see him dominating the match. Then we saw a very weak Adesanya against Stickland, Adesanya who was doing nothing in the octagon. Current Adesanya can't beat not only Stickland but many other fighters but old Adesanya can do it for sure.

Stickland is lucky because he faced the worst and weakest version of Adesanya, that's all.

The answer to every of those questions is No 
Essentially, to say Strickland was "lucky" is like taking away the credit he deserves. He put in a lot of hard work and executed an effective tactic. Out of his last 11 fights he only lost to Pereira, who later won 2 belts.

Anyhow, here's the video from the press conference. Sean did not disappoint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsQYhhAlu7o&t

And here's Dricus' one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S0pZmBxUL0

Well, we have a different view of things and what he thinks happened with the fight because he is sure that Israel Adesanya is a well-known strike and amongst the top 5 but as we have seen Sean Strickland has dominated his with just the Philly defense, for sure many didn't understand what has happened or still in shock with the situation, but that is their point of view with things and it was clear that Adesanya has no answer with what is Sean Strickland was doing, he was mesmerized that his striking was taking no effect at all,


Well, luck has a percentage part in Strickland winning that fight for sure but it was absolute hard work nothing is wrong in saying that it could be luck that won him the fight everybody can surely think differently in some cases, and we can surely say everything that comes into mind on what have transpired inside the octagon and as I have mentioned nothing is wrong about it all ideas are surely welcomed,

Yup, it wasn't luck but we can't deny that part of it had something to do with Adesanya being off.  He didn't look sharp that night...  Even DDP would've won if he was fighting in the cage.  He might have even finished Adesanya.

As for Strickland vs DDP, it's either DDP getting the finish early or Strickland wins late.  I'm going for the former.  Again...  Strickland loves applying pressure on his opponents and DDP will meet him in the middle making the match a total car crash.  Can't wait.

This episode wasn't as good as the one prior.

UFC 297:  Embedded - Episode 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYo2BJyVYi8

Press conference is gonna be live in a tad over 24 hours or so.

UFC 297:  Pre Fight Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Mdg3u6e_o

Isnt this can be called luck, as he managed to dominate Adesanya for 4 rounds? I just typed "best ufc striker", and among many tops, Adesaya was often among top5. Isnt it luck, if you beat best striker with simple shell defence? Isnt it luck to have a title fight when the last opponent you have beat was unranked guy with 1-1 record in UFC? Isnt it luck that Adesanya was not Adesanya and had mental problems (that is imho) that day? Of course Strickland improved, is a good fighter and no doubt he deserved that belt. But there were so many "little things" with Strickland and that belt, so I have called it luck.

His camp and even Ankalaev would surely want a shot at the belt they want now but for sure Dana White and the UFC have some plans for Alex Pereira, this is what I think, Alex Pereira has been the cash cow right now because Israel Adesanya unexpectedly lost to Sean Strickland which is not in the plan for the UFC, because the real Cash cow was Adesanya and now it is Pereira, they are making Pereira big, and for sure 1 more fight for Ankalaev and then the UFC will promise the title shot,


Du Plessis is ginormous if you look at him and compare him to Strickland he looks like a buffer, but for sure Sean Strickland's defense is unparallel It is really effective against Adesanya, and for sure Israel Adesanya will be on long hiatus because of that lost, Sean Strickland really did get into his head from all those trash talks he has said to Adesanya while in the fight Adesanya can not do a thing he was really frustrated on what has happened he was really pissed in himself and for sure he doesn't really know why his punch isn't making through to Strickland, for sure Strickland's trash talking works in pissing Izzy, for sure right now he is enjoying his time Vlogging in his channel,

I don't understand how can anyone claim that Strickland won the belt due to luck. You could say that if he had won by a lucky punch etc, but they fought a full distance and he dominated Adesanya in 4 out of 5 rounds (iirc).
In his last 11 fights he lost only to Pereira who, since then, proved he's a real deal by winning the middleweight belt and then the lightweight belt.
There's no real shame in losing to a champion of a higher weight class. Plus, Sean probably improved a lot since that fight, also by having Alex as his sparring partner.

For sure he is doing fine, and currently chilling in his podcast right now and getting his reaction on the current event for the UFC, his latest Podcast was about the Sean Strickland altercation against Dricus Du Plessis, in the crowd on UFC 296, it was action inside the octagon and action outside the octagon, so yeah returning to Jamahal Hill he is still healing up those injuries for sure,


For sure that is what may happen in the next fight for Magomed Ankalaev, the UFC will not give them the title match right now but instead, they will give him another higher rank fight, and those 2 fighter I think Jamahal Hill will be easy for Ankalaev, but Jiří Procházka may be difficult because of his ground game but against a Glover Texeira that is now old a 31 Ankalaev is definitely much stronger than the recent Texeira, so yeah maybe 1 of these two will be the opponent of Magomed Ankalaev next,


We can not blame others who think Sean Strickland got that belt because of luck as many here are fans of Israel Adesanya and because Alex Pereira defeated Strickland in the past and Adesanya made a comeback for his belt and won a great battle against Alex Pereira you can not blame them if they think that Adesanya can beat Strickland easily, as that Trash talking has got into him for sure Sean Strickland will still need to prove his worth, for sure that defense of Strickland really is effective against Adesanya for sure he is still enhancing that defense of him,