UFC / MMA
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Fantastic night of fighting.
Great finishes and a couple of passings of the torch.
Cutelaba was shafted.
Two epic Championship fights. Great heart from Manon but Shevchenko showed why she is the best ever in her division, and possibly of all time.
JDM was immense. Actually brought the best out of Belal. That's the most enjoyable fight I've seen Belal in.
When you look at both his offence and defence JDM is one of the most rounded fighters out there.
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As for the rest of the card. Other standouts were the Santos v Lee prelim, terrific fight.
Barriault sending Silva off in a stretcher was pretty scary.
Great win by Stirling.
Jasudavicius dominated, might be against Grasso/Fiorot next.
Malott was awesome but damn cringey in his interview. "Canada I fight for thee" or some shit..
Silva dominated Grasso, such an interesting style of fighter, guess she is next in line for Shevchenko.
Zahabi fight was an absolute roller-coaster, father-time undefeated since Couture's retirement so the end of Aldo.
Shevchenko, Fiorot fight was riveting for the whole 25 mins.
Overall a way better watch than I thought when the card was announced
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Big UFC announcement.
Islam definitely vacating lightweight title, will be fighting JDM for Welterweight title some time in the future
Tuporia vs Olivera for vacant lightweight title at 317 along with Pantoja and Kai Kara France as co-main for flyweight titleAlso Du Plessis vs Chamaev at 319
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Big UFC announcement.
Islam definitely vacating lightweight title, will be fighting JDM for Welterweight title some time in the future
Tuporia vs Olivera for vacant lightweight title at 317 along with Pantoja and Kai Kara France as co-main for flyweight titleAlso Du Plessis vs Chamaev at 319
Good to see KKF finally get a confirmed date
Another interesting fight that got announced recently is Whittaker vs RDR in late July
Still waiting for news on the Aspinall v Jones fight
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I see Kevin Jousset got cut from the ufc. That seems a bit harsh. 1 win 2 losses, the first lost was to Bryan Battle and the second was in a short notice fight with no camp
@Duluth That's rough. Must be hell of a demand on places in the UFC now, I'm not very familiar with him I'm guessing not super entertaining then?
Just started catching up on "The Road to UFC - Asia". A couple of kiwis competing. Aaron Tau made it through to the semi's a couple days back. Another City Kickboxing fighter, back story has him recently on Dana White's contender series losing to some beast of a fighter, he was asked to compete on this tourney but to drop down to Flyweight.
Made short work of a 9/0 Indonesian fighter. You'd think with his look and heavy Maori influence he'd be a certainty getting signed up if he takes this tournament out.
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@Duluth That's rough. Must be hell of a demand on places in the UFC now, I'm not very familiar with him I'm guessing not super entertaining then?
Just started catching up on "The Road to UFC - Asia". A couple of kiwis competing. Aaron Tau made it through to the semi's a couple days back. Another City Kickboxing fighter, back story has him recently on Dana White's contender series losing to some beast of a fighter, he was asked to compete on this tourney but to drop down to Flyweight.
Made short work of a 9/0 Indonesian fighter. You'd think with his look and heavy Maori influence he'd be a certainty getting signed up if he takes this tournament out.
@Rembrandt said in UFC / MMA:
@Duluth That's rough. Must be hell of a demand on places in the UFC now, I'm not very familiar with him I'm guessing not super entertaining then?
Just got caught up in the recent cull. Some decent fighters were let go. I thought they may have kept him because he’s a French fighter with a solid foundation. It’s a region they are growing
@Rembrandt said in UFC / MMA:
Just started catching up on "The Road to UFC - Asia". A couple of kiwis competing. Aaron Tau made it through to the semi's a couple days back. Another City Kickboxing fighter, back story has him recently on Dana White's contender series losing to some beast of a fighter, he was asked to compete on this tourney but to drop down to Flyweight.
Made short work of a 9/0 Indonesian fighter. You'd think with his look and heavy Maori influence he'd be a certainty getting signed up if he takes this tournament out.
I saw his contender fight. He had very good comeback and there was an argument he should have got a contract despite the loss.
White was very dismissive of him. Pointed out if he didn’t show boat in the first round he would’ve had a better chance of winning. He pushed the Maori angle very hard in his build up interviews and it missed the mark. Fell on the wrong side of the pride vs superiority tone
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Has any other athlete overcome such enormous pressure?
Arguably the greatest athletic achievement of all time.
https://twitter.com/DudespostingWs/status/1927114599976841531?s=19
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Who have we got for this weekend?
I'm only familiar with the title fighters...and Kevin Holland whom I swear has been in most of the modern UFC's I have watched since getting into it a year ago.
Picking Harrison by some distance...also weirdly O'Malley. Not sure if he has confirmed he was injured last match, my guess is he was and went through with it anyway to save the card and that's why he's got another shot. Not basing any of that on fact though so could easily just run the same as the first fight.
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Luque
Bautista
Pyfer
Harrison
O’Malley -
Absolutely cracking day of fights,
Only one that slightly dragged was Spivac vs Acosta, even down to the early prelims had me glued.O'Malley was better than last time but I did not expect to see Merab that much better again, might be long reign. Harrison was awesome, assuming the next weight cut doesn't kill her (reasonable odds on that) then the match vs Nunes could be awesome.
