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Two great, quite brutal fighters from the UFC middle class will actually meet at UFC 298, of course this is the card that all UFC fans have been waiting for because they failed to meet at UFC 284 last February.
This failure was caused by the problem of failing to reach an agreement.

UFC 298 will also be held in mid-February so there is still enough time to see the preparations of both fighters.

source : https://twitter.com/ufc/status/1738034668421910732?t=Ickox9QzmGmMvY9BSGWN6g&s=19

Yup and Costa has had a couple of weight cut issues in the past.  I guess it would depend what version of Costa turns up during an event.  If it's a motivated and laser focused Costa, he could win vs Whittaker esp now that DDP has showed that the blitzes Whittaker does could be stopped.

But I'll still lean Whittaker just cos he's been the more active fighter.  Wouldn't bet it at anything lower than a coinflip tho.  The books will prolly line Whittaker around 1.75 or something.  Dunno... 

McGregor is one of the few fighters still fighting on the UFC stage when currently most of it is filled with new fighters who are more hungry for the title. But I will still look forward to The Notorius' fight because as we know, apart from being good at fighting, I think Conor is the greatest fighter in bringing the fighting atmosphere in the direction he wants. He is so great at controlling the stage at press conferences either with his style or his trashtalk. But in the last few fights, he was the same as Colby, where for me his trashtalk was too much because it brought up religion and personal matters. BTW, is it true that Conor will fight at UFC 300?

Actually, if you watch those guys' previous fights you can clearly see that their likely fights are interesting maybe you don't like those guys at all, Aljamain Sterling is going in his  natural weight class I think this is his real plan so he can give Merab Dvalishvili the other division for himself, and Calvin Kattar is a natural striker for sure he is challenged if he can take down Calvin Kattar, for sure the UFC 300 is going to be an interesting one, but yeah Marlon Vera VS Sean O'Malley will be the best card for sure,


Yup! UFC 300 is a long wait and I am more interested in the fights on hand The next event is the fight between Magomed Ankalaev and Johnny Walker, for sure that will be an interesting fight, and as Magomed Ankalaev has failed some of his fights 1st against Jan Błachowicz having a draw result and now have a no contest with Johnny Walker, with this fight I think this is really an interesting one as Johnny Walker is super athletic and for me, he got the speed to rival Magomed, while Magomed Ankalaev has a decent ground game for sure this is going to be interesting,

And yes UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis is going to be next and UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs. Imavov then UFC 298 for me why many are so hyped up with the UFC 300 when we will be having so much treatment with this upcoming UFC fights,

Paulo Costa and Robert Whittaker on UFC 298 is going to be a nice present for UFC fans. On one hand I am happy to see those two. I have started to miss Robert, and havent seen Costa for a long time. Power vs accuracy striking. On the other hand, Costa probably has already set a record of cancelled fights. I will remind that his last 3 fights he has cancelled due to different reasons. For me Costa is someone you cant rely on.

Likewise, I don't have a problem with him fighting in between the main card matches you mentioned at UFC 300, but I'm not very interested. I'm more interested in the standout strikers O'Malley and Marlon Vera, they are the best in their class. Also about what happened between them before. I don't want to focus on UFC 300 for now. I'm sure it will be really difficult before O'Malley can defend that belt against Vera. In their first match at UFC 252, O'Malley injured himself and lost the match. We could not see where the match would go. Now, while O'Malley is trying to defend the belt, the second fight of this fight will take place and will last five rounds.

Actually, I like all of it, Yair Rodriguez is back and sure a rematch is a great thing after that shoulder injury, but for sure I am leaning towards Yair Rodriguez in this fight, as Alexander Volkanovski is a big fight he has for sure this Brian Ortega will not be difficult for him in my opinion,

Robert Whittaker is great against Marvin Vettori and so for the Paolo Costa fight I think Whittaker will have the same technique he used towards Marvin Vettori, and that is technical striking, this could be interesting but at the same time there is a hint on who's going to win so the favorite could be Robert Whittaker for sure,

while Prochazka vs Rakic is a good fight aswell and for me I am OK with that match aswell,


Actually, I really don't like what I am seeing, as I am ok with the Jiri Procházka VS Aleksandar Rakić is a good one in my opinion, I don't like the Aljamain Sterling VS Calvin Kattar and the Bo Nickal VS Cody Brundage fight and I never tough that they will be having a fight and next year while they are announcing this early while there are still stacked cards that are about to happen, and I am mostly interested with the Marlon Vera VS Sean O'Malley event than jumping my thoughts with the UFC 300 that still may change,

I Agree and he was talking about it in his podcast lately that it was all about the money surely watching him he was really positive in what he was saying and that Featherweight is his natural weight class so yeah there will be no need to cut weight and he will face Calvin Kattar in the UFC 300 that will be on April 13, 2024, while  he will compete against Chase Hooper in the main event of ADXC 2 on January 19, 2024, but if you want to see his video there is something about him and was really excited to fight again, for sure he will face Calvin Kattar that is a striker but have great takedown defense, here is his video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_1-jk1wWw4


Well, they got a heated beef back in TUF 31 The Ultimate Fighter when they were coaches so yeah it started there and ever since that day they wanted to really fight each other so this is surely a long beef as they still want to fight but maybe it was just for hyping up, well including their Previous face-off they are really meant to meet inside the octagon, and their fight was not really on UFC 300 but schedule for UFC 296, but because of that USADA not giving Conor Mcgregor a go signal then the fight was back up,

I think what you say is true. Currently there are many big names in the Flyweight and Fethearweight divisions and that has made the bantamweights lose their shine a little. I would say that currently Bantamweight is stagnant due to the lack of new shining stars. Honestly, I only see Omalley and Mehrab who have charm as new stars in this class. For featherweight we have several names who can make money, such as of course Volk then Holloway, Ortega, Yair and several other fighters.

It's very strange that he wants to fight a fit name like Michael Chandler for a comeback. He hasn't fought for 2 years and fighting Chandler directly in the cage after his injury is a loss for McGregor, no matter how you look at it. He should definitely stay out of the top 10 for his first fight back. However, when the audience hears that two such popular names will fight, they will be very excited for this match no matter what, if this fight actually happens. I think it won't happen much. McGregor may change targets later.

This is nothing new, Aljo stated that he wanted to move up to the featherweight before his fight with O'Malley. Obviously, the plan was to defeat O'Malley and fight Volk after that. But ass that didn't work out too well, he will now face No. 7 contender instead.
I'm not sure why he wants to move up. Possibly it's the difficulty of cutting weight, but more likely - money, There's more going on in the featherweight than the bantamweight, more bigger names and therefore better earning opportunities.

Well, I don't really want to see it, but if it continues then I want Michael Chandler to kick the hell out of Conor McGregor for sure if the Main Event will be Conor McGregor VS Michael Chandler then the rest of the cards will be great and this event will be juicy as Dana White have promised a great event in the UFC 300, as I think I will be looking forward to the other events for that card, instead of don't wanting the Conor McGregor VS Michael Chandler to fight, then wish for Michael Chandler kick a front kick to the chin of McGregor like he did to Tony Ferguson,


Yup! still not confirmed, this is just my speculation on who Leon Edwards could fight next, as Shavkat Rakhmonov is near his Leon Edwards ranking then he can take that belt anytime soon, Belal Muhammad or another Kamaru Usman fight as Kamaru Usman takes on Khamzat Chimaev like a chad, so for sure Dana White can prepare us with a surprise with those fight cards and surely an Islam Makhachev want to take the Welterweight belt for himself and now that he is the pound for pound which is I don't really think seriously so we could surely see an impressive turn of events and so let's just wait and see,


WOW! After those guys were defeated in their fights they became gatekeepers for the lower-ranking fighters and so Jiří Procházka number 2 will be fighting Aleksandar Rakić who is number 5, from the Light heavyweight Division, and Aljamain Sterling number 1 in bantamweight will be fighting Calvin Kattar that is number 7 for the Featherweight division which is Aljamain Sterling will be moving up the Featherweight,

I sort of agree with you about McGregor's dominance in the sport.  The injury he sustained and the time off he took will be hard to overcome no matter how many steroids you've pumped into yourself.  He was a talented fighter though, so maybe he can still win.  Surely his prime is behind him though.  That being said, the dude still has an army of fans who want to see him fight.  Myself included.  Is he at the top of the sport right now?  No, obviously not.  He's still 100% the main draw though so for contract reasons I don't see him being anything but the main headliner ever for any fight night he's a part of.

I think it's a long way off because we have UFC 297 and 298 early next year. But it's interesting when we talk about sterling and trying to debut at Featherweight. Because there are monsters like Volk which of course I think are too tough to beat. Is the reason because you really want to find a Featherweight champion? I assume that Volk's defeat yesterday against Makachev opened up Volk's weaknesses, namely kicks and reach from fighters who are taller than him. Yes, this is just my personal assumption but what do you think?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_300 Here are a bit more info of what we gonna see on UFC 300. So far for me every fight looks desired to watch. Just Aljo vs Kattar looks strange, as Kattar is from other division. What is this? After a loss to O’Malley, Aljo desided to move to higher division? And what he expects to achieve there? He is no match for Volk.

Some match up announcements from the UFC and they're all great.  But what stands out are Brian Ortega vs Yair Rodriguez rematch.  Ortega had a weird shoulder injury during the first fight so it's good if the run it back.  

I also like Robert Whittaker vs Paulo Costa.  They were supposed to fight last April but Costa had to back out due to some illness.  I think this match up could be something like Whittaker's match up vs DDP.  The result could be different tho.  Let's see what kind of improvements Whittaker made for the match.

This next one should've been made a year ago...  Prochazka vs Rakic.  Looks like they're evenly matched imho.  Leaning towards the Rakic side tho.

Announcement from Dana White 11/22/2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR_zchaTM4M

Well, for sure the UFC 300 was announced but Dana White didn't mention any main event for the upcoming fights, so we just have to wait for it, as it was announced by the UFC that they will be giving Conor McGregor a fight against Michael Chandler and for sure this is going to be a stacked event for sure because they are hinting that UFC 300 will be special, so yeah maybe as there are some hidden fights that even Dana White couldn't announce, so let's just hope and wait for further announcement,


Yep! We all have an understanding that no one is safe from Father Time all of us will surely encounter the same faith getting weakened by old age and you can clearly see it in his fights but even though his body gave up on him his mind still keeps on fighting even though David Goggins fill his thoughts with positivity, there is no changing the way his body response,

But at least he is now positive about what he wants but he is pissed walking out of the Octagon after he lost to UFC 296 here is the clip https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R3aamRuIeJ4


Actually, I don't really want to see Conor McGregor anymore and I just want him to announce his retirement and maybe focus on some other things, but this is UFC what promises, and if they want the Jon Jones VS Stipe Miocic fight to still happen then they will push this through even if takes them to cut ties with USADA so we could surely see a Conor Mcgregor VS Michael Chandler fight that is for sure,

But it's not confirmed that Shavkat will be fighting Leon next, is it? If not, Islam could fight say Gaethje next and then Leon straight after. I'm sure Leon wouldn't mind waiting a bit as, unlike a fight with Rakhmonov, that would be a big money fight.
And the UFC could match up Rakhmonov with Belal, and whoever wins will get the next title shot.
Seeing Islam Vs Shavkat would be amazing, but I'm not sure if Islam would still want to move if Shavkat was the champion. Clearly, he sees Leon as an easy opponent.


I'll say yes, but there are plenty of other fights I prefer to see instead. I consider Conor effectively retired, he has a completely different energy than he had in his prime. This will probably be a deciding fight for him, if he gets defeated easily by Chandler, I don't think he'll step into the octagon ever again. Chandler will be a big favourite, but I've heard some commentators saying that out of all the top fighters in the lightweight, Chandler's style suits Conor the most.

McGregor at the fight roster for UFC 300 is fine...  I mean he's still a draw so why not.  But McGregor headlining UFC 300 would be a fcked up decision by the UFC.  But dunno, it's just McGregor hasn't agreed in signing up for a match unless he's the main event.  We'll see if that changes for UFC 300, if he really is in the roster.  But if he agrees to fight but not be the main event then I guess that's the time when we're seeing McGregor's luster starting to dim imho.

We've already seen a few athletes redeem themselves after a downfall but I don't think McGregor will be one of them.  In a young man's sport like MMA, it's too late for him.

Is anyone really interested in seeing McGregor vs Chandler fight? First of all this is not the best match-up for return after 2 year pause and injury. Also Chandler would drag Conor to deep waters easily imho. Third reason, is Conor really able to compete on top level as others right now? I think he is not a match for anyone on top15 right now. Maybe RDA, that is too old for lightweight, can give him a close fight, other will outstrike or submit hit.