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Actually, I also like Erin Blanchfield more than Rose Namajuna's style, Even though Namajunas got smooth movement to evade his opponent she never had someone with a great wrestling caliber like Erin Blanchfield at all this is her 1st time taking something with this kind of intensive ground game for sure she will have a hard time against her, and as for Manon Fiorot this could be an easy task for Blanchfield as Fiorot doesn't have any ground game as if she have trained for it you will surely doubt if she can take on Erin Blachfield.

Rose wants to have revenge for defeat against her but I am not sure if she can win against Erin Blanchfield.
Blanchfield is much younger, has reach advantage and she is coming from Muay Thai background.
She is going to have support of home crowd and I expect her to win.

It was a great fight but not the Main and Co-Main it was pretty much OK as Namajunas is really playing safe, but because of her great movements she can definitely evade and make combinations and that is what is great about Namajunas Apparently Payton Talbot and Edmen Shahbazyan did a great job, well not great but extremely great as both fighters end up their fight with a KO win. apparently, I made a great win towards those 3 bets that I made, here are the results.

Amanda Ribas VS Rose Namajunas - WIN

Edmen Shahbazyan VS AJ Dobson - WIN

Payton Talbott VS Cameron Saaiman - WIN

No further details but those two fighters did great in defeating fighters and knocking them down, as Edmen Shahbazyan and Payton Talbott won their particular fights Igor Severino was in full Mike Tyson mode as he bit his opponent André Lima it was a showcase of great force on his teeth so in that day the UFC has decided that it was his debut fight and his last fight at the same time.

UFC Fight Night: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot
Date/Time: Saturday 03.30.2024 at 07:00 PM ET
Location: Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/107896-ufc-fight-night


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Main Event
E. Blanchfield  vs.  Manon Fiorot
Co-Main Event
Vicente Luque  vs.  J. Buckley
Main Card
Bruno Silva  vs.  Chris Weidman
Chidi Njokuani  vs.  Rhys McKee
N. Ruziboev  vs.  S. Dumas
Bill Algeo  vs.  Kyle Nelson
Preliminaries
V. Jandiroba  vs.  Lupita Godinez
Andre Petroski  vs.  Jacob Malkoun
C. Matthews  vs.  Dennis Buzukja
Angel Pacheco  vs.  C. Loughran
Julio Arce  vs.  Herbert Burns
Ibo Aslan  vs.  Anton Turkalj
Melissa Gatto  vs.  V. Dudakova
Nate Landwehr  vs.  Jamall Emmers

8 months rest for former middleweight champion Chris Weidman. I missed his game back in August so I guess this is a chance to see him again in the Octagon. I hope it will be an entertaining fight against Bruno Silva. Silva was active in 2023 but only won 1 of those 3 fights.

They just fought a few months ago in Paris but that was only 3 rounds so Fiorot will get to see if she can get past those championship rounds being the main event in this fight card.
I agree with you there, would like to see Grasso against Thug Rose too as now she can having filling herself out and looking comfortable in her new weight-class as a flyweight.
Holding the championship belt they should be more active as we haven't seen Alexa fight in what seems to have been in quite awhile.
https://www.ufc.com/athlete/alexa-grasso

Well back in September of last year but alas, would like to see belt holders fight every 4-5 months.
Or you end up looking like your avoiding the other contenders just like Jon Jones is doing. Which is never a good look for the sport.

Yeah @bbc.reporter The Bullet has been silent. Unfortunately for us who are fans of her work in the UFC.

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@notblox1. Agreed on Namajunas. Also, do you know who is Rose's favorite training partner and friend? It is the beautiful and sexy Valentina Shevchenko! I reckon Thug Rose will certainly want to have revenge for her friend. Valentina's last fight against Alexa Grasso was a draw, however, Valentina was the real winner of the fight, I reckon. The skeptical me thinks that they cannot give it to her because it was the UFC's celebration of Mexican independence day hehehehe. Will it be a trilogy? We cannot be quite certain. Valentina has been very silent after the fight.

Finally a win and a nice comeback for Rose Namajunas!
She deserved to win and I want to see her again trying to challenge the champion in Flyweight division Alexa Grasso, but she needs to work hard for that.
Maybe next stop for her could be fight with winner of Erin Blanchfield vs Manon Fiorot fight.

These are top fighters in the flyweight, both are skilled fighters but Blanchfield has a grappling ability, which could help how the fight will play out.
They have to fight gatekeepers above though, there's Valentina and Zhang which these two haven't fought with.

Lots of cats in the fight card
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_on_ESPN:_Blanchfield_vs._Fiorot

Namajunas sometimes gets lucky to win against an obviously dominating fighter like Zhangm weird stuff.

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Interesting card in Atlantic City! Erin Blanchfield will have the crowd on her side since she is from New Jersey.
Didn't realize she is 12-1 but not as active since she fought Taila Santos back last August their previous fight cancelled.
While Manon Fiorot fought Rose Namajunas what doesn't seem that long ago and beat her in a good matchup.

These fight nights are getting better now closer to the big main event since they will be having a two week hiatus for Spring Break.

Fiorot is 2.24 odds underdog vs Blanchfield and i think these are pretty nice odds for her, expecting them to go down to 2.1 maybe next weekend..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=m0UudRmD18Doosgh

UFC released the promo for fight night ^^

Another play i like is Buckley at a nice 2.2 odds 

Have the same selection for the last pick of yours on my parlay for this UFC event which begins in the next few minutes.
Payton Talbott is a favorite to win same as Karl Williams. So put them both along with the underdog Ribas as a single.
Not sure what state of mind Namajunas is in from fight to fight so don't want to rely on this and her end up losing again as she did against Manon Fiorot.

During this event, it was not that awe not like the main events for the UFC this was just a fight night but because I was bored and had nothing to do I might aswell take my time in making my predictions on some of the fights, and this event was UFC Fight Night: Ribas vs. Namajunas I hate watching all women division whether it is boxing or MMA as it is not the same as watching with the guys fight, but seeing that this is a little different as both Ribas and Namajunas are interesting fighters here are my pick.

Amanda Ribas VS Rose Namajunas

Even though I don't like the women's fights this is kind of interesting as for the odds it is 2.75 for Amanda Ribas and 1.46 for Rose Namajunas, for this fight I think Manon Fiorot is a better striker than Amanda Ribas even though Rose Namajunas lost to Manon for sure Rose Namajunas is a cleaner striker than Ribas, because Amanda Ribas got those 1 and 2 combination but that was it she doesn't have a better output with her striking so for me I think I will go with Rose Namajunas.

Edmen Shahbazyan VS AJ Dobson

For this fight, the odds were 1.50 for Edmen Shahbazyan and 2.60 for AJ Dobson for me Edmen Shahbazyan is a better striker than AJ Dobson even though he got a lot of trouble when it comes to great grapplers I think that AJ Dobson is not a great grappler yes he can take the fight to the ground but Edmen Shahbazyan has great takedown defense and it was already improved since then for sure the fight will be on a favor for Edmen Shahbazyan so my pick is Edmen Shahbazyan.

Payton Talbott VS Cameron Saaiman

In this fight, the odds are 1.64 for Payton Talbott and 2.27 for Cameron Saaiman, for this fight Cameron Saaiman is great with his ground game and both fighters are great prospects so this is going to be a good match for sure, but Payton Talbott for me has good striking and even though Cameron Saaiman has wrestling it is not that smooth and Talbott's takedown defense is improving for sure so my take in this fight I think that Payton Talbott could win I like his striking so my pick is Payton Talbott.

UFC Vegas 89 is in full gear with media day yesterday showing what the main event fighters are thinking ahead of their bouts.
At first I was going to side with Namajunas but then just as you explained, this would only her second fight at this weighclass. And Fiorot seemed to dominate her during this entire bout except for near the ending of the fight.
So I will be going with Ribas on this one. She has the experience fighting at this weight.
We will see how it goes at the weigh-ins tomorrow.

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Yeah, that's cool.

Amanda Ribas ‘If You Want To Be A Legend, You Have To Beat a Legend’ | UFC Vegas 89
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bl22qiUgKs


She looks excited and pretty. She is hoping to have 3 fights this year again. Wow!
"I'm prepared for all 5 rounds," said Ribas.
So this is the first 5 rounder for Ribas in the UFC, I guess that's one of the advantages of Namajunas because she had been doing 5 rounds a lot of time.
I guess that's one of the reasons why Ribas was so excited. Namajunas on the other hand, has 5 wins and 2 losses in 5-round fights. The big question is if they will use this strategy to check if Ribas has the stamina to go for long-distance fights.
This is just the 2nd fight of Namajunas in the Flyweight Division while Ribas had been jumping back and forth to both weight classes.

Yeah, both are good strikers so I guess it might go long, Round 5 decision maybe? Guys, share your picks.

Nice promo video released by UFC on their official youtube channel earlier in the week for this UFC Vegas 89 event:
UFC Vegas 89: Ribas vs Namajunas - March 23 | Fight Promo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjybzSM8TNM

Actually looking forward to this fight with Rose vs Amanda since they both have similar fighting styles and body types. Long and lanky which make for some good strikes.

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Saturday 03.23.2024 at 07:00 PM ET
Venue: UFC Apex
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/108462-ufc-fight-night
Main Event
Amanda Ribas  vs.  Rose Namajunas
Co-Main Event
Karl Williams  vs.  Justin Tafa
Main Card
Edmen Shahbazyan  vs.  AJ Dobson
Payton Talbott  vs.  Cameron Saaiman
Billy Quarantillo  vs.  Youssef Zalal
Luis Pajuelo  vs.  Fernando Padilla
Preliminary
Trey Ogden  vs.  Kurt Holobaugh
Ricardo Ramos  vs.  Julian Erosa
Miles Johns  vs.  Cody Gibson
Steven Nguyen  vs.  Jarno Errens
Montserrat Rendon  vs.  D. Zheleznyakova
Igor Severino  vs.  André Lima
Mohammed Usman  vs.  Mick Parkin

Rose Namajunas is the favorite in this fight @1.35.
Amanda Ribas as the underdog @2.95
Namajunas lost in her last 3 fights and this will be big for her if she wins it. Ribas on the other hand just won her last fight against Luana Pinheiro in Round 3 with a TKO.

Good luck with your bets guys.

Other than the three fighters missing weight it turned out not to be that bad.
The major upset was Ovince St. Preux winning his match as he was one of the oldest fighters going against an up and comer of the UFC in Kennedy Nzechukwu who was unbelievably 1.15x odds to win.
But experience seemed to be on St. Preux's side for this bout. He took all of Nzechukwu's heavy blows and then some. Well deserved win of the night for the big underdog!

The most controversial fights of the night was certainly Bryan Battle vs Ange Loosa.
After the eyepoke Ange said he couldn't see only after less than a minute. The referee didn't even mention to him he had a full 5 minutes to recover so to see if he can continue on with the fight.
But it was called off since he said he can't see out of that eye.
Battle was winning the match and was obviously very upset after this result because he said Loosa took the chickens way out knowing he was losing the fight.
So it was declared a no contest, so no bonus for Battle either. That is what made him mad the most since he spent so much time in training just to have this NC and on his record due to someone not taking the full amount of time to recover.

Tybura had this match as soon as he was able to get Tuivasa off his feet.
Tai has a terrible ground game and is probably going to get choked out if he is taken down.
As was the case with how this main event went.
So good for Marcin Tybura on winning and surviving those brutal elbows at the very beginning.

Okay, that was freaking amazing.

Tuivasa's elbows are crazy strong, he cut Tybura in just a minute of Round 1. But he made lots of mistakes. First, he let Tybura fake him until he got his hands to take him down. Tuivasa tried a good defensive stance but Tybura used all his power just to carry him, strong man. Another mistake is giving his back. I don't know what he is thinking but that mistake cost him the fight. His option was just to let the time run out while being down and facing him in half defense. It's better if you are looking at your opponent and can see what he is trying to do than giving you back to him without any view of what is happening.
Tybura did a great job, he knows the enemy is the time so he finished it quickly.

This weekend's UFC event looks to be a fun one with Tai Tuivasa who brought the shoey celebration to the fans of the sport.
Just to see him do this I would want him to win.

Looks like the weigh-ins are going to be in about 5 hours from now:
UFC Vegas 88 Live Weigh-In Stream | Tuivasa vs. Tybura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujgh9deQ30w

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Yeah, bloody face, lots of cuts. Suga Sean hits the target like it's a bull's eye. So accurate and the precision of the distance is there. I think a brawler is what UFC needs to face him better. Someone who could also take all those punches and yet can counterattack too. Those long arms are his best asset.

Anyway, UFC Fight Night 239: Tuivasa versus Tybura is coming up next.
Saturday 03.16.2024 at 04:00 PM ET

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https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/108288-ufc-fight-night
Main Event
Tai Tuivasa  vs.  Marcin Tybura
Co Main Event
Bryan Battle  vs.  Ange Loosa
Main Card
Kennedy Nzechukwu  vs.  Ovince St. Preux
C. Rodriguez  vs.  Isaac Dulgarian
Pannie Kianzad  vs.  Macy Chiasson
G. Meerschaert  vs.  Bryan Barberena
Preliminary
Mike Davis  vs.  Natan Levy
Josiane Nunes  vs.  Chelsea Chandler
Ode Osbourne  vs.  Jafel Filho
Thiago Moisés  vs.  Mitch Ramirez
Josh Culibao  vs.  Danny Silva
Cory McKenna  vs.  Jaqueline Amorim
Chad Anheliger  vs.  C. Grigoriou

Tuivasa is the favorite against Tybura but it is not that far.
Tuivasa lost his last 3 fights and I hope he is coming back strong this time. Tybura on the other hand lost his last fight against Tom Aspinall in the very first round with a TKO. Both are trying to make a strong return, let's see who has the strength to do so.