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To what level does a fighter go before accusing another of using magic? Instead of training even more, he wastes time making accusations that even he doesn't believe are true. That's why he lost last time and I hope he loses in this next fight.

Prochazka was accusing Pereira of using "magic" and "spirits". That's his alibi and Pereira is said to be doing his rituals before the fight. Well, every fighter has their own rituals. As Pereira is tied to Shamans, Prochazka believed that they are helping him on his fights. Do you really think it has something to do with Pereira's performance inside the ring? Below is one of the images of Alex Pereira..On this case - I am more on how the boxer has been training for the fight and not because of the  "voodoo" stuffs involved.


UFC 303 PREVIEW: Accusations of 'black magic', three days in darkness without food and a deal to replace Conor McGregor on short notice, as Alex Pereira and Jiri Prochazka clash in huge rematch

This was very intense face-off between Pereira and Prochazka, both of them very serious faces and I am expecting to see interesting fight.
With all the additional talk if black magic is used or not, we have more attention towards this fight, and maybe this is mind strategy used by Prochazka.
Pereira won in first fight last year and Prochazka will do everything to win this time.


https://youtu.be/o3KHa_NJTx8

^ Garry is the one of the most hated guys in UFC. But he is very well rounded though. Fans always wants him to be KO's but the Garry is very skilled. If he wins vs MVP, it will piss more of the UFC fans. But same with MVP, he isn't also the most liked person even in Bellator. Its what happens when a fighter showboat all the time.

Pereira by the way asked for trilogy if ever he lose against Jiri. Anything can happen so he said but if UFC agrees immediate then Anka has no chance of fighting Alex.

@rdbase. The picture of samurai Jiri and Amazon warrior Poatan has caused me to become very much excited hehehehe. I reckon that this UFC 303 remains to be very good even if the fight of Conor and Chandler is cancelled.

Also yes, there is also the fight of Michael Venom and Ian Garry. The fans were cheering for Venom, however, they were not cheering for him because he is better fighter than Garry. They might be cheering for him because the face of Garry is very much annoying.



There is also a very good fight with sexy fighting kittens Michelle Waterson vs. Gillian Robertson hehehehe.

Well that was an interesting press conference to say the least.
Most of the questions were for Venom vs Garry and both did not disappoint with their answers.
BBL song for Ian Garry is gaining traction because it is quite funny to know what he is referring to:
Michael 'Venom' Page - BBL Garry (UFC 303 Official Walkout Track)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRfsb5XBzvo

Highlight was when asked Dana about the bonuses and he said he will hand out two separate fight of the night bonuses.
Believe he said an extra $50k each so totaling $100k each after Ortega suggested it being $303k.
https://www.essentiallysports.com/ufc-mma-news-ducking-wild-three-hundred-three-k-demand-dana-white-baited-into-giving-out-two-fight-of-the-night-bonuses-for-ufc-303

As the MMAFightingSBN guys mentioned in their earlier podcast, the whole dealing in the dark arts thing that Jiri is the reason why Pereira beat him the first time and him training with a shaman makes this fight fun all the sudden and possibly better than what we were going to get with a comeback from McGregor against a setup Chandler.

How Alex Pereira DESTROYS Jiri Prochazka...Again (Alex Pereira vs Jiri Prochazka 2)

courtesy of TheWeasle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF7SmV7RddQ

However, it appears that this Michael Venom has become very much over estimated after his victory against Kevin Holland. Yes, I predict Ian Garry will leg kick the very thin legs of this Michael Venom and this will create an open punch on this Venom's jaw for the knockout by Ian Garry. We can be quite certain that Michael Venom cannot make a distance on Ian Garry's kicks on the legs heheehhe.

Many fans think this is unpredictable? This is the most predictable, I reckon.

True but did you see the interviews from both fighters from today's media day yet?

It seems that Venom Page has gotten into his head since he was the first at the table to speak what he thinks of Ian and calling him a BBL.
Garry seemed to be affected from what Page had said about him as he was what seemed to be grasping for answers.
Venom Page said exactly what I was saying earlier today about Ian Garry as coming off as a fake person and just plain annoying.
He seems to be the more level headed fighter out of the two.

UFC 303 Pre-Fight Press Conference | ESPN MMA - tomorrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdjfK_6s3BY

UFC 303 Ceremonial Weigh-In | ESPN MMA - Friday night after the official weigh-ins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwhwNL-BQAM

Ian Garry is the fave though. Many fans think this is the most unpredictable fight in this card and they probably will not add this to their parlay. I don't see MVP aged, he still puts on a show every fight and can manage to defeat Holland even at his age. Quick reflex to getting hit from Holland's strikes. With Garry who has no BJJ and wrestling, this will be a fair fight that MVP could stand. As long a MVP can make a distance and close in for a strike. This could be a win for him.
 

Took a screenshot of the odds for this entire event right after the last fight night in Riyadh ended.
So there were only the co-main and main event you took the screen for the odds for danherbias07.
Here is the odds for all fight on this card if there are no missed weight or pull outs for this one:


Now about Ian Garry.
I seriously don't like the guy. His attitude is annoying and his whole aura is fake to me.
Michael Venom Page is considered an up and coming in the UFC from Bellator.
He has only the 2 losses on his record while Machado has none.
Didn't know the age gap for these two were so huge at 11 years for Ian Garry.
So yes, this one will be an interesting one to witness this weekend.

For the main event, it is a rematch so it is what it is.

Great picks. I am doing the same because I believe those two can win their fights too.

Done watching that countdown. Wow! They made that Pereira knocking down Jiri as the introduction, and it still gives me goosebumps.
Then, the Irishman next to them. Ian Machado Garry. Undefeated, fast, strong, using every part of the body for striking, and very confident that he will soon have a belt on his waist. That main card is going to be fun too.
I think I will add Ian to my bets. @1.75, that's decent. Ian will be up against Michael "Venom" Page who is also good at striking, kickboxing, and karate,   it might become bloody.

Good luck with your bets guys.

Was watching the Ortega vs Holloway fight from UFC 291 yesterday so to remind me of how tough he is to put down.
Diego will have his hardest challenge yet with Brian this UFC event. No doubt about that.

Less than 35 minutes away we will have the countdown begin with the release of the video from the UFC:

UFC 303 Countdown - Full Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BgEJU6mqJU

From this card I will only bet on Pereira and Diego Lopes. I believe in both of them and they will perform as they did on their last fight card. Both are also on the rise and have everything to come out on top.

A big one will happen this upcoming weekend.

UFC 303: Pereira vs. Procházka 2

https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/109011-ufc
Date/Time: Saturday 06.29.2024 at 06:00 PM ET
Venue: T-Mobile Arena
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Main Event
Alex Pereira  vs.  Jiří Procházka
Co-Main Event
Brian Ortega  vs.  Diego Lopes
Main Card
Anthony Smith  vs.  Roman Dolidze
M. Bueno Silva  vs.  Macy Chiasson
I. Machado Garry  vs.  Michael Page
Preliminaries
Joe Pyfer  vs.  M. Barriault
Cub Swanson  vs.  Andre Fili
C. Jourdain  vs.  Jean Silva
Payton Talbott  vs.  Y. Ghemmouri
M. Waterson-Gomez  vs.  G. Robertson
A. Arlovski  vs.  Martin Buday
C. Hernandez  vs.  Rei Tsuruya
Ricky Simón  vs.  V. Oliveira


https://sportsbet.io/sports/mma/ufc/ufc-303-mc-gregor-vs-chandler/matches
I know the toughness of Jiri but I am all in for Alex here again just like in their first match. Those hands are like wooden hands that could take down maybe even an elephant. They are so big and scary.

Walker needs to learn to go forward and not to keep going back and countering. This is the third fight, if I'm not mistaken, that he has followed this strategy and lost.

He is very good with his feet against Shara, but the Brazilian they gave him only fought the first round and rested the rest.

Of course Rob will be interested to replace whoever will accidentally have toe injury. But fighting Adesanya again? That's like giving him too much credit, knowing this is his first KO win for more than 5 years. His 2nd chance already over and that was it, it was Izzy by UD. And he lost to DDP last year as well.

But it be interesting to see him fight against Sean, they been sitting their rank for a long time. Sean won and Rob won, they really should be fighting. 

Beautiful, beautiful finish from Robert Whittaker.

Experience-wise, he did the finish perfectly. He knew that Ikram was hurt as his legs got wobbly after that right-hand hook. After that, he never wasted a moment and smelled blood to finish the fight. A great uppercut to put Ikram to rest.

He said in the post-fight interview that he is ready for anyone. He looks fresh, he was not hurt, and he will probably battle again in a short span of time. This is a guy who wants to claim his title back and he is crawling slowly to it. I bet he will have his title shot in the future. He even accepted to be a backup fighter in case something goes wrong in the DDP versus Adesanya fight.

^^
Quite tired of all it to be honest with you. At this point it all just sounds like deceptive practices if you think back to what was said at the announcement with that New Years video about saying he was going to fight at International fight week. Or whatever it was. I can not even remember with all the detours they had been having with this fight.
And frankly, I think everybody else are quite annoyed at this point where this has gone.
All just delays and trying to save face. This is very unfair to the fans and many are just sick and tired of it.

So let us move on to what is actually going to happen today with this fight night in Riyadh which I realized is the first time they had ever had UFC event there before.
All the other times they had been hosted by a middle eastern country they were in Abu Dhabi.
Remember the covid lockdowns and they had them toted as The fight in the desert.
And who could forget about Johnny Walker's response to the doctor during his fight when asked where he was:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mma/article-12657807/Johnny-Walker-told-doctor-fighting-desert-medical-check-concussion-taking-illegal-knee-leading-chaos-Brazilian-fumed-UFC-294-bout-Abu-Dhabi-stopped.html

He is fighting as @Pumared had already mentioned in today's fight night which actually has an early start time in about 4 hours from now.

Another thing to note about this event is fighter Shara Magomedov had two opponents drop out and it was looking like his fight would of been cancelled along with 6 other fighters who were on this card making this one of the lowest amount fights on one card for the UFC.
Shara Magomedov was going to fight Joilton Santos first but he dropped out then he was scheduled to fight Ihor Potieria as a replacement but he also cancelled.
So now we have Antonio Trocoli taking to the octagon against him.

We will see how he fares against a very strong Shara on such short notice.

Here are the markets for this UFC Fight Night Saudi Arabia:
https://sportsbet.io/sports/mma/ufc/ufc-fight-night-whittaker-vs-chimaev/matches

It's 3:00 in my timeline tomorrow so I guess I will miss the fight again. Well, there's always the replay.

Conor McGregor reveals broken toe as reason for pulling out of UFC 303 bout with Michael Chandler
https://sports.yahoo.com/conor-mcgregor-reveals-broken-toe-as-reason-for-pulling-out-of-ufc-303-bout-with-michael-chandler-171653252.html

The X-ray results of Conor's foot were already deleted in X. I was looking for it and could not find it anymore. I don't know why they deleted it if it's true.
Damn, that's a lot of cancelled fights in UFC 303 even though it's still a week from now. Well, this gives Daddy Dana White some time to call out different fighters who want a shot for the scheduled ones but the downside is there's no time for preparation anymore. We have seen fighters who made miracles and win their fights on short notice, I just hope it will be entertaining.

I'm looking forward to seeing Walker again, he'll be really funny to see back in the desert. I even think he'll make some jokes about it during the fight. He's an average fighter, but he's really fun to watch.