UFC / MMA

[Rembrandt]

Another cracking fight from the archives

[Duluth]

@Rembrandt

Awesome, thats the fight that made me a fan. I would watch the odd fight before that but that's when I starting following all the events

[Rembrandt]

@Duluth Just watched that this morning, takes me to 1 more event to watch from 2013 and then I'm officially just 12 years of fights to catch up on. Definitely getting my money's worth on Fightpass subscription

[Rembrandt]

So picks?

From the early prelims

Miller
Smotherman
Hokit
Hernandez
Johnson

Bukauskas
Gautier (1st round KO)
Nurmagomedov

Silva
Silva
Lewis
O'Malley
Gaethje

[Duluth]

My guesses:

Justin Gaethje v Paddy Pimblett
Sean O'Malley v Song Yadong
Waldo Cortes-Acosta v Derrick Lewis
Natália Silva v Rose Namajunas
Arnold Allen v Jean Silva

Umar Nurmagomedov v Deiveson Figueiredo
Ateba Gautier v Andrey Pulyaev
Nikita Krylov v Modestas Bukauskas

Alex Perez v Charles Johnson
Michael Johnson v Alexander Hernandez
Josh Hokit v Denzel Freeman
Ricky Turcios v Cameron Smotherman
Adam Fugitt v Ty Miller

Hard to know how good Pimblett is. His best performance has been in his hardest fight so far. I think he'll step up again

[MiketheSnow]

Justin Gaethje v Paddy Pimblett
Sean O'Malley v Song Yadong
Waldo Cortes-Acosta v Derrick Lewis
Natália Silva v Rose Namajunas
Arnold Allen v Jean Silva

Umar Nurmagomedov v Deiveson Figueiredo
Ateba Gautier v Andrey Pulyaev
Nikita Krylov v Modestas Bukauskas

Alex Perez v Charles Johnson
Michael Johnson v Alexander Hernandez
Josh Hokit v Denzel Freeman
Ricky Turcios v Cameron Smotherman
Adam Fugitt v Ty Miller

Justin within 2 minutes by knockout or Paddy by submission later than that

[Duluth]

Hmmm maybe picking Smotherman was a bad call

Figueiredo and Perez both missed weight

[Duluth]

[Rembrandt]

Classic Bisping.
Weight cutting is a bit of a blight though. Perez looked like he was on the verge of passing out and Figgy was practically carried to and from the scale. Surely there must be a better way.

[Rembrandt]

Overall a terrific event, helped massively by an incredible main event

8 - 3 -2 in my picks

[sparky]

I didn't see the fight, but it looks like Paddy Pimblett got beaten up pretty badly there. The end of nine fight winning streak for him.

[Rembrandt]

@sparky He wore it worst for sure. The bloke never gave up though despite looking like he was gone for all money midway through round 1. Wobbled Gaethje a few times too. I'm more of a fan now, reckon he'll learn from this and come back soon as a real contender.

[MiketheSnow]

Great main fight

If Justin wins the title they could run this one back for sure

[Duluth]

@MiketheSnow maybe Pimblett will listen to his corner next time? Entertaining fight though

What’s next for Pimblett? The winner of Hooker v BSD this weekend?

[MiketheSnow]

@Duluth said in UFC / MMA:

@MiketheSnow maybe Pimblett will listen to his corner next time? Entertaining fight though

What’s next for Pimblett? The winner of Hooker v BSD this weekend?

Yeah

But he tried for the single leg and got stuffed each time

[Duluth]

@MiketheSnow said in UFC / MMA:

But he tried for the single leg and got stuffed each time

Yeah but he needed to try it earlier in the fight. Only one attempt in the first three rounds. He went for it later in the fight when he was compromised with all the damage

His corner was begging for it. Gaethje was off balance plenty of times in rounds 1 and 3 in particular

[Rembrandt]

I think the bloke needed to be humbled, didnt think he needed to play to his strengths. I wonder where Arman fits into matchup calculations. Paddy/Arman maybe?