UFC / MMA

[Duluth]

Good card tomorrow. Here's my guesses

Adesanya vs Vettori
Vettori will be hoping he can impersonate Jan. Obviously he's not as big, plus he's faded in later rounds. He's proven he can take good shots and keep pressuring.. probably needs to get early clinch positions and/or takedowns to drain Izzy.
Adesanya by KO in the 4th is my guess. I doubt he'll risk throwing a knee, maybe an upper cut on a desperate takedown attempt is the decisive shot

Figueiredo vs Moreno
Going for the upset here, Moreno keeps improving and exceeding expectations. It appears Figueiredo had another tough weight cut

Edwards vs Diaz
I thought Edwards was ready to have some big fights back in 2019. Since then he's had 18 seconds of action in two years. A win here probably gets him a title shot because Usman is running out of people to beat. Edwards should be comfortable if he can keep his output high

Maia vs Muhammad
Maia has a decent chance but at this stage of their careers Belal should be too good

Craig vs Hill
Not many people picking Craig. I think he'll be able to get a hold of Hills neck

Riddell vs Dober
Close to a 50/50 for me. Likely fight of the night. Riddell looked a little drained at weigh in, that makes me lean towards Dober. I hope I'm wrong

[MiketheSnow]

Ad inside 2 rounds
Moreno with a finish
Edwards
Maia
Craig
Dober

[Duluth]

I should learn my lesson and stop picking against Riddell

Entertaining fight as expected. Tough first round and then got better and better.

He’s probably earned a bonus

[Duluth]

Izzy dedicating the win to Fau Vake

Wants to fight Whittaker in Auckland. That should be in a stadium.

[edit]Izzy wants the fight to happen in October. Dana White thinks it’s almost impossible to have that in NZ or Aus[/edit]

[MiketheSnow]

@duluth said in UFC:

I should learn my lesson and stop picking against Riddell

Entertaining fight as expected. Tough first round and then got better and better.

He’s probably earned a bonus

Tough as fuck fair play

Dober missed a trick by watching his work

Paul Craig was immense.

Nate Diaz, what can you say. Dominated but could have snuck it. He'll always get high profile fights when he pulls out performances like that.

Edwards may have to wait for a title shot.

Moreno. Passing of the baton. Beautiful.

Adesanya is nails.

[Duluth]

@mikethesnow said in UFC:

Edwards may have to wait for a title shot.

Yeah White said Colby is next.

Edwards v Masvidal would be a fun one

[Duluth]

@mikethesnow said in UFC:

Paul Craig was immense..

Apparently that wasn’t a broken arm just a dislocation?? I hope I never see that ref again

[Duluth]

Picks for the weekend?

Dustin Poirier v Conor McGregor
Gilbert Burns v Stephen Thompson
Tai Tuivasa v Greg Hardy
Irene Aldana v Yana Kunitskaya
Sean O'Malley v Kris Moutinho

Will cheer for Conor though. It's more fun when he's in the mix for the title.

Thompson too fast and will keep the fight at distance

Hardy is improving and I'm picking a slight upset. Money is against Hardy because he loses massively in the likability contest

[MiketheSnow]

@duluth said in UFC:

Picks for the weekend?

Dustin Poirier v Conor McGregor
Gilbert Burns v Stephen Thompson
Tai Tuivasa v Greg Hardy
Irene Aldana v Yana Kunitskaya
Sean O'Malley v Kris Moutinho

Will cheer for Conor though. It's more fun when he's in the mix for the title.

Thompson too fast and will keep the fight at distance

Hardy is improving and I'm picking a slight upset. Money is against Hardy because he loses massively in the likability contest

CMG
Burns
Tai
Kunitskaya
O'Malley

Condit v Griffin for Fight of the Night

[Duluth]

@mikethesnow

Ha, I was going to say I’m only confident about the O’Malley fight

[Duluth]

Aldana missed weight by a few pounds and looked drained. Might be the difference in that fight

Conor looking great. Only one win since 2016 though..

[raznomore]

@duluth said in UFC:

Picks for the weekend?

Dustin Poirier v Conor McGregor
Gilbert Burns v Stephen Thompson
Tai Tuivasa v Greg Hardy
Irene Aldana v Yana Kunitskaya
Sean O'Malley v Kris Moutinho

Will cheer for Conor though. It's more fun when he's in the mix for the title.

Thompson too fast and will keep the fight at distance

Hardy is improving and I'm picking a slight upset. Money is against Hardy because he loses massively in the likability contest

I've got the Irishman. He's better after a loss.

Wonderboy is either very well rested or past his useby. I'm going with Burns.

Hardy is massive. A complete oxygen thief of the highest order but I think he gets better ever time he goes out. Don't think Bam can get it done but hoping he does.

I really hope O'Malley gets a KO or gets KOd he's either lots of fun when he's winning or a whiney bitch otherwise.

[raznomore]

Great set of fights so far. Du Plessis with the highlight KO of the night so far. And against the self proclaimed best boxer in the UFC.

[raznomore]

Yes Bam. Yes!

[Duluth]

@raznomore said in UFC:

Yes Bam. Yes!

Stopping Hardy will make him even more popular.

Worst thing about him winning is the shoeys. I can watch bones being broken, eye injuries etc but my I have look away on that shit

[raznomore]

@duluth the one on the side of the ring I didn't mind but the ones in the crowd, yuck!

Some idiot tipped a bottle of hot sauce in one of them. He's lucky Bam didn't hit him.

[raznomore]

What and absolute anti climax.

[Duluth]

Hope that’s not the end of Conor

[sparky]

@duluth said in UFC:

Hope that’s not the end of Conor

Some of the videos on social medial of McGregor's ankle look extremely ugly. Lots of surgery and recuperation ahead at the least.

[JK]

@raznomore said in UFC:

What and absolute anti climax.

Especially after what was a pretty awesome first round. Such a shame that had to happen.