UFC / MMA

[MiketheSnow]

Early Prelims
5 out of 5
Awesome start to the night
Baraniewski FOTN for me. But it take three, Goddard with a masterclass in reffing

Prelims
1-3
Huge heart and huge comeback from Duncan

Main Card
0-4 and one draw

Talbott just too good. Cejudo was very gracious.

Taira looked great.

Shit way for Pantoja to lose.

Fair play to Yan. Superb

Brilliant, brilliant card

[Rembrandt]

@MiketheSnow Agree on all points I still haven't seen the prelims, Fightpass for whatever reason only has the early prelims twice, like the vettori fight finishes and then the early prelims start again, super weird. Might have to sail the high seas for a download.

Have to say this sport is about to get huge with this paramount deal. For USA subscribers the cost to watch everything just dropped by like 90%, sadly Oz will still have PPV with Kayo.

I wonder if you can get a USA account from Oz? Definitely heard of that with Netflix a while back

[MiketheSnow]

VPN?

[Duluth]

@Rembrandt said in UFC / MMA:

I wonder if you can get a USA account from Oz? Definitely heard of that with Netflix a while back

VPN and a US billing address

There's some workarounds with the billing address.. I'll try to set it up closer to the first event. I'll message you if it works

[Rembrandt]

@Duluth I had a play around and might have worked it out. Granted the true test will be Jan 25th but I currently have a USA paramount account

[Rembrandt]

Cracking fight:

I'd hate to see how these guys are these days

[Duluth]

A good interview with Hooker. Talks about the errors in the last fight etc. I didn’t realise his nose got fractured at the last weigh in

[Duluth]

Izzy has another fight after a long layout - Joe Pyfer (March 29)

Fighting someone well below him in the rankings. Pyfer is limited but has power. So it is dangerous given the errors he's made in recent fights/camps

I assume a loss here would be retirement. On the other hand, a good KO and he'll be wanting to squeeze onto the WH card

[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.