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Tracy Cortez is on a hot winning spree although she needs to be careful against Namajunas as that lady has some firepower in her kicks and a good submission skill too. It feels like a long time ago but I can still remember that head kick that she did against Weili Zhang in their first fight, it ended the fight so fast in Round 1. That fight gave me the goosebumps.

The face of Joe Rogan when Namajunas hit Weili with the head kick and gained the strawweight belt.

It was damn strong that Weili cannot accept her defeat and then she realizes it all after a minute of rest. She was literally out while still awake.

Tracy will have to be careful with those because Namajunas has a lot of skill up in his sleeve. She might be the one that will stop her winning streak.

It's what they said so. Maybe Rose has to keep this fight standing then. She has to invoke his upset fighting skill she has been defeating top fighters in the rank in the most unexpected way, especially Zhang.

It's a fair speculation that the fight will end in UD. Most probably so based on Tracy's record. I wouldn't any in this card though. Dana is likely just putting up this event for the sake of there being something to watch.

It appears that this is another underestimation by the sportsbooks hehehe. If everyone can remember Rose's fight vs. Carla Esparza, Rose was not going near Carla because Rose was very much scared of Carla's takedowns. I predict that this will be a similar fight where Rose will avoid Tracy for the whole fight and the judges will consider this an advantage for Tracy in the score. The winner will be Tracy and this will be with a split decision. She is also a sexy fighting kitten hehehehehehe.

We are back to the UFC this weekend for another fight night at the Ball Arena in Colorado.
UFC ON ESPN 59 - NAMAJUNAS VS. CORTEZ

Main Card
Rose Namajunas (1.40) vs. Tracy Cortez (2.70)
Drew Dober (N/A) vs Mike Davis (N/A)
Santiago Ponzinibbio (1.45) vs. Muslim Salikhov (2.55)
Gabriel Bonfim (1.22) vs Ange Loosa (3.85)
Julian Erosa (2.85) vs Christian Rodriguez (1.37)
Cody Brundage (2.18) vs. Abdul Razak Alhassan (1.61)
Preliminary Card
Viviane Araujo (2.28) vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius (1.56)
Luana Santos (1.30) vs. Mariya Agapova (3.25)
Josh Fremd (1.76) vs. Andre Petroski (1.96)
Nazim Sadykhov (N/A) vs. Chris Duncan (N/A)

Markets can be viewed here for this upcoming event on July 13th:
https://sportsbet.io/sports/mma/ufc/ufc-fight-night-namajunas-vs-cortez/matches

That's the worse part being a celeb and endorsing some stuff they know nothing about and getting dragged into a scam, they can't get away by just saying they know nothing about it.  Kim Kardashian I think was one who also got into one and SEC taught her a lesson.

Jones wouldn't let go of that Stipe fight like it was his obsession with that old man. There is already an interim champ Tom but Dana didn't give this a chance and put Stipe to fight when we already knew Stipe wouldn't last a round.

Jones was cancelled back in November of last year for UFC 295 with Stipe and since then he had been ducking fights.
But now we have a date setup, so let's see if this time he will hold up and actually fight this time:
https://www.lowkickmma.com/stipe-miocic-says-jon-jones-is-beatable-ufc-309

As for Khamzat, I think he knew exactly what he was getting into, just like all those other celebrity crypto scams that have had a surge lately with Chris Derulo all the way to Iggy Azalea.
You can not tell me they did not know what they were putting their reputations on the line for. These are endorsements and as with any entertainers in the performance industry, they have agents they must put these sponsorships across before accepting any sort of payments from or they could get sued.

More about these type of cryptoscams can be discussed here on a thread I put up about how the SEC goes after them and successfully took down several of these celebrities by suing them a few years ago:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5415795.120

@OgNasty
This is a UFC thread so obviously we are not going to be talking much about boxing. But since Nate was in the UFC I can say good for him with the win last night.
Jorge Masvidal is the chair and founder of an MMA organization known as Gamebred Bareknuckle and actually watched a full event when they were Miami offered on youtube.
But UFC still is the only game in town when it comes to anything MMA and will continue to only discuss about this on the thread as per the title in the subject.

Nobody seems to care about the fight between former UFC fighters Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal. I think they’re going to box here shortly (hope I didn’t already miss it) and I can’t find anyone talking about it. I guess that shows the event isn’t going to be a huge success… I think after the performance with Jake Paul, I might have to see if I can still bet against Nate Diaz.

Edit: The Masvidal bet didn't have good enough odds so I parlayed it with a bet for Trump to win the election. 

If Pereira vs Jones happens , that will most likely be the greatest fight of UFC in the last decade or even of all time right ? The internet are basically begging for this fight to happen and Dana will try anything he can to make it possible because it's been a while since we had blockbuster fight in UFC that will attract the entire planet to watch the fight. However , we all know how Jon Jones is right ? this dude basically fight when he wants and against who wants so it really hard to book him into fight nowadays.

When it comes to huge paydays, anything can happen like Poatan vs Jones. I think users are already talking back and forth with this on x.com. Fighters want to fight a top fighter to get a shot at the title. Right now though there is no reason to ask Paddy to fight him, he doesn't rank.

Merab vs Suga is possible but seems like an easy pick.
Tuporia vs Holloway is gonna be good. But UFC might want I'm to defend his title first before fighting BMF.

Anyway, I don't think Khamzat understands this scam. Yes, it's a classic rug pull but this guy I think doesn't even understand how those wallets are linked. Khamzat is just dragged into this since he also promoted the token.

I believe it will become a trend that when a champion defends his belt a few times, he increases or decreases his weight to try to fight another champion. The categories become very boring even for the fighters.

^^
Yeah Merab is at bantamweight so it must of been Suga Sean O'Malley who was at this weightclass last I checked.
But with fighters wanting to change weightclass like it's a fad now (aren't fighters trying to switch to Featherweight just to try and fight Topuria in Spain?) I wouldn't be surprised to see somebody wanting to beef up to lightweight to square off against Paddy in the future.
They are going to try and grab as many headlines as their partnered company the WWE so we could possibly see these weightclasses merging into fights for the future just for the storyline. Look at the match makers trying to get Poatan to fight Jones. Lightheavyweight against a Heavyweight? Don't say it couldn't happen.

Khamzat Chimaev was caught promoting a sh*tcoin called SMASH and which had rug pulled all their holders recently.
https://finbold.com/ufc-star-khamzat-chimaev-caught-in-crypto-scam

Now it seems it has costed him a title shot according to what Dana White has said about this latest incident:
https://www.essentiallysports.com/ufc-mma-news-khamzat-chimaev-has-created-hard-feelings-with-dana-white-and-ufc-as-blunder-costs-title-shot-dreams-for-undefeated-star

Aren't they 2 weight class apart? I don't know where Paddy stands in the ranking but this is the kid they seem to like promoting in UK market. They wouldn't want to ruin this market. Although Merab isn't as impressive as a KO artist, he ranks high and Merab can potentially destroy the kid.

Yousri Belgaroui lost his first fight in the contender series. I couldn't say they brought him into UFC only to fight Pereira. Aspinall certainly is interested in fighting Pereira as seen in one of the interviews.

Yes, currently, for me, Poatan is the top 1. Both for his history inside and outside the UFC, as well as his recent journey on the cards. He is convincing and methodical with all his strikes. Great to watch.

^^
Watched when he was still in the kickboxing ring back from 2017 before his years in the UFC.
GLORY 49: Alex Pereira v Yousri Belgaroui
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovG_nxInb3E

Pretty crazy how small he looked beside Yousri this Turkish fighter who later helped him train to fight Israel.

And yeah @cabron
Now remember it was Bobby who Paddy is going to fight once you mentioned it. Not a good fight to make and would rather see Merab wouldn't you? hah!
Due to his and Suga Show's rivalry which had since just abruptly died suddenly.

It's that situation, Makhachev is a good fighter, but his fighting style is not good to watch, it's tiring. But like I said, he's a good fighter. I would like to see him against Poatan without him going to the ground. It would be something really interesting to see.

LOL Despite Belal being the most boring fighter, he still brags about his achievements like he is the best in the division.  Paddy is fighting Bobby Green by the way.

There's something to watch though such as;
Tom Aspinall vs Curtis Blaydes 2 - Though this fight is not really necessary, UFC still wants it to happen. Tom shafted again.
Muhammad Mokaev vs Manel Kape   - Mokaev could be the next champ in the division.   


ccto

As I had mentioned in an earlier post on this page that the London card will be quite boring. Belal would be the most boring champ if he manages to win against Leon. That is facts! hahah!
After seeing the promos I did see they added Paddy the Baddy to the card just because they knew how it looked. But didn't even see whom he will be fighting so it could save this card from utter disaster as many have been lately.
Just look what they did with the surprise presser for 305 the other day with Adesanya and Dricus.
It is if they knew people would probably just skip over that event and want to see the 305 instead.

@PumaRed
Just as I was typing out this, I had to update it so to include a response to your post.

Agreed with you for both points made.
Islam fights look similar so hard to tell which is which. But the sweep to the leg done to Poirier, after the fight he had mentioned that he had seen this move used successfully only one other time in his entire career.
And to the other point, fighters who go to the ground so much are quite boring to watch if they don't do anything.
Just to hold his opponent in half guard most of the fight.
I remember there was  one fight this year that even the referee got so sick of one fighter doing this, that he stood them up several times because the fight wasn't going anywhere and was so boring to watch.

You're right, Makhachev fought recently. It's just that the fight was so similar to the others that I can't tell the difference.

Personally, I don't like the way he fights, he holds too much, stays on the ground for too long and it's very boring to watch.


If during the fight there are some falls and fights on the ground it is valid, I don't see any problems. However, using this all the time as a way of fighting becomes something very predictable to watch, which is why I don't like it so much.

No fight this weekend. Sad.
Yeah, I think I'd rather just watch that and be entertained by the toughness of Diaz.

UFC 304 will be the next big thing. Leon Edwards will be defending his title one more time. His opponent is a strong fighter with 9 winning streak Belal Muhammad. When it comes to toughness, we can say he is tough that he won most of his fights through unanimous decision. Stamina won't be a problem for him too as he was tested by Gilbert Burns and he survived a 5-rounder while battling him.

Included in that fight in the main card is Paddy Pimblett with an amazing 7 winning streak. I had fun watching him last time against Tony Ferguson so I won't miss this one.

PumaRed which fighter are you referring too?
If the number one is Islam Makhachev than he fought Dustin Poirier just last month.
An update for the diamond as many thought that was going to be his last fight in the octagon:
https://www.mmamania.com/2024/7/1/24189794/forget-retirement-dustin-poirier-teases-last-dance-after-working-ufc-303-uno-mas

So one more time for him, while Makhachev had mentioned about not wanting a rematch July 1st:
https://www.si.com/fannation/mma/news/ufc-news-islam-makhachev-responds-to-dustin-poirier-rematch-offer

@notblox1
Heard of this about Khabib Nurmagomedov having tax problems in his own country but didn't know he fled to another place to avoid being arrested.
He might need to comeback to Daddy Dana to get out of it with another contract.
Now him and McGregor would be a clash of the titans and many would pay big money to see that happen.