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If I'm not mistaken, in the last fight he ended up fracturing his arm or something like that. I just remember that it was something with his arm that ended up putting him on the defensive and that's why he didn't perform well. But even with this age impediment, I'm still going to bet on him.

The last fight at the Apex was actually really good. Enough so I am going to rewatch those fights before this weekend's begins just to get into the mood of staying up to see this fight night due to the labor day weekend break we just had.

@Pumared
Same here as Brady is on a good winning streak before losing to Belal while Burns does seem tired for some reason which might be due to his age. Because in his last loss it was a well fought bout but he seemed to gas out near the end from what I recall.
Will also need to rewatch some of his matches this weekend along with Vegas 96 which we had back on August 25.

I really believe Burns will win. However, his age is making me wary! I see Burns' stats as superior to Sean Brady's, but age ends up being a very important factor that can change the game. Does anyone have a different opinion?

Chandler seems to be hopeful still getting the fight.  It wasted Chandler's prime years since. Idk what he did but it seems he doesn't have Dana privileges too. No fight, no money as well. Conor can just sniff all he wants and could still survive since he has millions.

Charles is 2 weight class apart from DDP. And DDP is not going to be moving from this class any time. Charles only needs a fight to win and he gets a rematch to Tsarukyan when he's back.

So the drunkard is coming back to the ring? I don't expect much to be honest. He's burned out, like Ferguson. Some people should retire. I know he has his fan base, but IMO he's done.
He used to be great in 2013 when he defeated Holloway and later in his fights vs Diaz, but after Khabib and Poirier he's given up.
I'd rather see Oliveira beat the shit out of Du Plesis, or at least I hope the fight will end up this way.

UFC Fight Night was not that much fun so I am guessing the next one should be.

UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Brady

https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/114678-ufc-fight-night

Main Event:
Gilbert Burns  vs.  Sean Brady
Co-Main Event:
J. Andrade  vs.  Natália Silva
Main Card:
Kyle Nelson  vs.  Steve Garcia
Matt Schnell  vs.  A. Costa
Trevor Peek  vs.  Yanal Ashmouz
Rongzhu  vs.  Chris Padilla
Preliminaries:
O. St. Preux  vs.  Ryan Spann
I. Dulgarian  vs.  B. Marotte
André Lima  vs.  F. dos Santos
Gabriel Santos  vs.  Yizha
J. Amorim  vs.  V. Demopoulos
Andre Petroski  vs.  Dylan Budka
Z. Ramaska  vs.  N. Fletcher

I am a fan of Gilbert Burns even though recently he lost twice against Belal and Maddalena. That Masvidal win is what proves he is a strong fighter and I doubt he could easily be defeated with his tough chin and strong offensive power in his fist. Now, he is up against Brady who also lost against Belal and I think both fighters win will tell who is the formidable one.
I am taking Gilbert's side in this fight.

McGregor fight won't happen atleast this year. There is just too much back and forth between the two sides you don't know who is telling the truth and Dana White denies everything to do with this fight that at this point he just has to say it is cancelled indefinitely.
So how I view this is that negotiations for something to transpire is still ongoing and best not to even start talking about him fighting until he is at a venue and is in the octagon. Because even in the parking lot he can just decide he does not want to fight anymore and just turn back and leave the building.

As for Volk and Do Bronx, I am not very exciting to see these two fight to be honest. Volkanovski after that loss to Topuria has not been the same and it showed during the post interview right after the fight.
He is a broken man now and is on a long road to recovery. So any talk of him fighting this year too shouldn't be taking seriously. Because the way he was talking like he was looking to retire. So he would need more time than a year to get his life back ontrack before looking for the next fight.

Also notice this on socials at the beginning of the month but didn't want to say anything but since we are in the middle of a long two week break from the UFC. What else is there really to talk about?

Muhammad Mokaev wants to fight for free just to get back in the UFC after getting rejected by the PFL:
https://www.thesportster.com/muhammad-mokaev-offers-ufc-to-fight-for-free-after-pfl-snub

He voiced about it on his tiktok when this request was released back at the end of last month:
https://www.tiktok.com/@shredderbailey/video/7399015507870911750

Dana White would love this if he didn't need to pay any of his fighters.

I believe that a third defeat would only motivate Volk. He has lost twice in a row and as he himself has said, that is all he knows how to do and cannot stand anything else. So, in a possible defeat he would only try harder and harder, it is not so easy to take him down like that.

Can't find the thread on X but found Dana talking he got something for the two. Volk going up and then fighting someone way fit than him is suicide. He could just pick someone like Chandler in the LW. Volk coming up from 2 terrible losses can become worse after the 3rd worse loss. Charles is not as easy as he thought.

Chandler also should forget about Conor fight. Not gonna happen anymore. Conor knows the simulation if he loses against Chandler and while thinking about it, he does have money which he doesn't need to fight.

I saw a news story on x that talked about Charles vs Volka. Has it been made official yet? I haven't seen anything, but Charles has already posted that he is in negotiations about his next fight. I hope it's soon.

Mcgregor fight might be coming very soon as dana as teased news about him, Oliveira and chandler

https://www.mmafighting.com/2024/8/29/24231303/dana-white-teases-conor-mcgregor-news-mcgregor-responds

Mcgregor also did his part by putting a wink emoji on X 

Who do you guys think he will fight next?

Merab is taunting Dana. After all Dana said about him being stupid for showing his cut and then him showing more.
Dana is not respected by his fighters anymore after defending Jones being the p4p and not fighting Tom. It's getting weirder by the day even in the conference Dana is asked by someone if Jones has pictures of him. People already laughing at him.


Maybe Dana will fast-track Cong Wang too. Seem like a fair way to make the women's division exciting after the baddests are gone. Cong Wang's confident she wants to be in the main card already. 1-2 combo and then head down but I think she was given a fighter Victoria who already has a zebra record. Fair for her debut in UFC.

@OgNasty
It looks as if you watched that post fight interview Dana had at the Contender's Series yesterday too.
He was very impressed with several fighter's performances last night and said they are in!
One of them was 30 which is quite old to be entering into the UFC to start his career. If he wants another Bo Nickel or Joe Pyfer so to be able to mold into another Israel Adesanya or Jon Jones, then that one is not the guy unless he fast tracks him there just like Alex Pereira was. He will most likely hold another gatekeep role in the organization.

Now he was asked about why he gave a bonus to Cong Wang when he initially only gave two bouts for FOTN & POTN:

His answer was when he asked the reporter, how many women do you know that can put out the lights of someone like she did over the weekend?
She did beat Valentina Shevchenko before entering into the UFC for kickboxing quite awhile ago.
So there is that wow factor she is bringing with her into a promising career with them now.

@OgNasty. I speculate that Merab was doing this to get more engagement and attention for himself which might also help promote his next fight hehehe. I also speculate that uncle Dana knows this is what Merab is doing and despite that he will not admit this to everyone or encourage this to the fighters of the UFC, he might like this type of behavior because it will help the UFC to sell more of their tickets and payperviews heheheheh. This is something similar to hyping an ICO before dumping on their investors if the project is very bad. However on the UFC, I am hoping the show in the sphere will be very good and this will not make it appear that they are dumping on our faces because of a bad show.

Dana White saying that Merab is just fucking with him now after posting that video of him removing his stitches with “bush shears” as Dana called them. The video is pretty funny and I don’t think it is meant to be. If anything, I think it shows the harsh realities of fighter pay and Dana should take note of what his fighters are resorting to.

Much agreed with you. It was very good televised event for a fight night and much better then even some of the PPV they had in the past. That's what everyone in the MMA youtube sphere had said come Monday morning on their channels.
They were well satisfied with the results and how they turned out especially the main event fight going the full five rounds and not being cheated at the end of the fight with those horrible judges scorecards.

The next one should be just as entertaining with some well-known fighters on the roster of the card.
But we will have to wait another week after this one to see it since it is a holiday long weekend where the UFC venue is.

In the meantime, here is a video of something that Dana White was mentioned about of "Well that is a real good PFL event!":
RAWL ERUPTS between UFC fighters in a CASINO; Brendan Allen PUNCHES Marvin Vettori IN FACE at PFL 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNrC-U-3Bz4

Cool to see since we don't have any fights scheduled for this weekend!

It was a much better fight night than many numbered cards. And this main event was much better than any other main event on many, many events. It was a great thing to watch, and the team is showing what they're made of.

Looks like the Fighting Nerds records climbs to 14-0 for all the fighters they have in the UFC.
And the leaders of this crew won the UFC Vegas 96 in a five round slugfest!
Caio Borralho went the distance with Jared Cannonier but beat him on the scorecards.

Bonus and highlights of this UFC Fight Night card was even a feature on Forbes website:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianmazique/2024/08/25/ufc-vegas-96-results-bonus-winners-and-highlights
Michael Morales of course won his fight and Tabitha Ricci beat Angela Hill on the scorecards.

Overall it was a good fight night weekend at the Apex.

Faking records and fooling UFC to sign them looks very common with fake promotions to pump up their records. I look into that channel and there are more of those fighters who actually got into UFC.  One fighter went all the way to change his name just to reset his record to zero.

Dana definitely has the right to call Merab stupid for posting that cut while they are up to fight next month. The fight against Omalley is still up though but they are saying that Merab posting it cut is like trying to get out of the fight.

Wasn't very pumped about this being a fight night at the Apex, But during the week have warmed up to it, because the matchups are quite good and betting-wise, profitable if you know these fighters and how they drop off during certain times.
Can't remember when I have been so vested into one of these in awhile because of this fight nerd team and what I have seen about them lately.

There was also this video about how a fighter with a fake record made it into the UFC using fake identities:
The Indian Fake Record FRAUD Who Lied His Way To The UFC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFevKGFgqE8

This just reminds me how much Dana White hates Merab and what he is doing in his organization is quite interesting on why he is keeping him on.
The way he pranks fighters I wouldn't doubt if he comes out with an entire head bandage during the next month just to punk Dana.