UFC / MMA

[MiketheSnow]

Covington, Price, Chimaev, Walker, Markos, Stewart

[raznomore]

@Duluth there’s not a lot you can take as fact from Covington and his corner. But they were talking this week about him not being a natural Southpaw and have switched stance. They are claiming he is now a power puncher.

[Duluth]

It appears the UFC commentators owe Tognoni an apology

The rules in Nevada changed in 2019. A timeout is now allowed for video replay. They kept quoting the rule on the use of video replay on a fight ending sequence

[Duluth]

Wow Chimaev. A one punch, 17 sec fight

[raznomore]

Woodley is the Rodney So’oialo of mma

[raznomore]

Weak

[raznomore]

Retirement time

[Duluth]

Main event went mostly as expected. Woodley gets frustrated against top class guys now. Covington was impressive.. he's underrated because people pay too much attention to his silly wrestling persona

Cerrone's chin held up better than I thought it would. A draw pauses his slide

[raznomore]

Can not believe how badly Woodley has dropped off. Since and including his fight with Usman, he has done nothing.

[MiketheSnow]

Stewart shafted IMHO

Thought Cowboy did enough too. You could see Price was surprised.

Walker is loose but tough as fuck.

Chimaev. Machine.

Dern great finish.

Covington deserved winner but average bout.

Prelims were exciting as fuck.

[Duluth]

[Duluth]

My 253 predictions/guesses

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The Kiwis

Israel Adesanya v Paulo Costa
The longer this goes the better for Adesanya. I suspect he'll avoid the early danger and get a stoppage in the 5th

I wouldn't be that surprised if he gets caught early though. All the questions about this fight relate to Costa because he doesn't have a long record in the UFC. Can he catch a high quality counter striker? Does the weight cut, muscle mass and volume of his work count against him in a five round fight?

Kai Kara-France v Brandon Royval
All depends on KKF's takedown defence. KKF by KO or Royval by sub

Brad Riddell v Alex da Silva
This should be the easiest of the kiwi fights. Riddell by KO

Shane Young v Ľudovít Klein
No idea. Klein is on debut but he seems to be rated. Young almost quit in recent times because of injuries etc. Hoping to see Young back to his best but he's the slight underdog

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Others

Diego Sanchez v Jake Matthews
The Aussie by decision. Sanchez looked a bit shit recently

Dominick Reyes v Jan Błachowicz
Reyes to keep this on the feet where he has an advantage. A stoppage in the 4th

[raznomore]

I think Izzy loses the belt. I'm not happy about it but I just have a feeling that he's going to get his clock cleaned. So want to be wrong. If I am wrong then Izzy by UD if Im right, Costa KO round 1.

[Duluth]

@raznomore said in UFC:

I think Izzy loses the belt. I'm not happy about it but I just have a feeling that he's going to get his clock cleaned. So want to be wrong. If I am wrong then Izzy by UD if Im right, Costa KO round 1.

Yeah I'll be nervous watching this one. If it gets past the first couple I'm relatively confident though

[Duluth]

So that’s why Klein was rated.. impressive KO

[Duluth]

Riddell got better the longer that fight went. Good comeback after a difficult round one

[Duluth]

Royval looked great. Two awesome UFC fights for him

KKF didn’t look bad, just couldn’t settle against that volume. Another day he could’ve got a KO

Good to see KKF kept Poi E for the walkout

[Duluth]

Jan! That power gets it done. I was expecting Reyes to keep him on the end of kicks and take control later.

One of those fights I didn’t care who won. I like them both. Wierd after so many Jones LHW title fights..

[raznomore]

Just wow

[Duluth]

Fuck yeah! Izzy does it easily

Costa didn't go hard early. Izzy ripped kicks into the legs then started increasing the attacks up high in round 2.