UFC / MMA

MajorPom

UFC 209 ... They had the card in the wrong order.

Hunt vs Overeem was a good fight - technical vs power. And a brutal knockout to finish - maybe not spectacular as others but when Hunt went down he was stone cold 100% out. Bloody fight after Hunt split his leg open early doors.

Calvillo vs Cooper - easy for Calvillo, once Cooper down, then it was a no contest

Kelly vs Evans - have you ever seen a guy look least likely to be an MMA fighter - that is Dan Kelly? He looks like a miner who got lost on the way to the whore house, but he's one tough bastard. Good on him.

Teymur vs Vanatta - fight of the night, easily. they really went at it, although neither had real knockout power, otherwise this could have been over early doors. Felt for Vanatta, as the score didn't really reflect how well he did in the fight. 3 x 30-27 unanimous makes it seem like he got owned, but he 100% didn't.

Headliner Woodley vs Wonderboy was a bit of a non event. Both fighters were really really cagey and unwilling to engage. Was more of a chess match than a fight. Woodley had him on the ropes at the end and I think this saved him. I had the fight 27-28 to Wonderboy, arguably 27-27 on the last round being a 10-8. Having said that though, he didn't deserve to be named champion on the basis of that fight, and Woodley didn't deserve to lose it. either. So I think the right outcome.

MiketheSnow

Good summary.

Elkins v Bektic was Fight of the Night for me.

MiketheSnow

UFC Fight Night 106

Borrachinha is a beast. Will be interesting to see his development in the UFC.

Great finish from Prazeres.

Yaha v Soto was a war. Great comeback from Soto.

Great patience and strength from Lee to beat Trinaldo.

Oliveira too strong for Means.

Superb finish from Barboza. BOOOOOOOOM

Good old fashioned battle between Rua and Villante, with Rua finishing crisply and decisively.

Gastelum finishes Belfort on the back of a super fast jab. Tremendous.

Crucial

I don't follow MMA at all but this guy does his S&C training at the gym my son works at. He was showing me a video the other day where Jimi wanted to do some work on a heavy bag and the only guy in the gym they could rope in to hold it was an ex Harlequins front rower (can't remember which one). He was really struggling to hold the bag steady . The power in the kicks looked like they would kill you if they hit you.
https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/fighters/jimi-manuwa-the-poster-boy

Have also seen him doing this thing to strengthen his neck against taking head shots where he is basically using one of the weight machines with a cloth tied to it and gripped in his teeth

Duluth

@MiketheSnow said in UFC:

Superb finish from Barboza. BOOOOOOOOM

Dariush moving forward into it made the force even more brtual

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Situations like this are why I dislike seeing female refs in the UFC. In this instance Barboza was already starting to disengage, however the ref was correct to go flying in there to protect the downed fighter.
Can the female refs throw their weight around as well as this guy or Big John/Herb? Its a physical job and tokenism puts the fighters at risk.
Earlier in this card there was an accidental headbutt and the female ref took ~10secs to seperate the fighters.. they barely noticed her trying to pull them apart

So many good fights on that card. One of the better fight nights for a while

MajorPom

@Duluth there are female refs in the UFC? Thats PC gone complete and utterly mad. Maybe in the womans division at a cinch ...

But yes, refs should be be strong guys who would be able to withstand the force of a misdirected punch.

Duluth

@MajorRage

This is the first time I've seen this female ref. There is another one that works on a lot of the vegas cards

Heres the incident I'm talking about - the accidental headbutt (shitty video quality)

Check out how long it takes to break them up. If the guy was dazed he could have taken some damage that could have affected the result

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Crucial

@MajorRage said in UFC:

@Duluth there are female refs in the UFC? Thats PC gone complete and utterly mad. Maybe in the womans division at a cinch ...

But yes, refs should be be strong guys who would be able to withstand the force of a misdirected punch.

Don't know if you'd find many that could take anything more than a glancing blow.

I know little to nothing about MMA itself. It just doesn't interest me as a sport but I am getting quite interested in hearing about some of the training they do. My son was showing me a video last night of some S&C training he did yesterday with that Jimi Manuwa that I linked above. He was standing about 2 metres out from a wall with his back to it and hiffing a 15kg medicine ball behind him that was bouncing back and being caught about 4 metres out. That is some power! Certainly not a stray hit I'd like to take.

BTW if anyone is looking for a flutter this weekend, the inside word is that Jimi has upped all his numbers quite a bit since his last fight. Just needs to do a good weight drop for weigh in now.

Duluth

@Crucial said in UFC:

BTW if anyone is looking for a flutter this weekend, the inside word is that Jimi has upped all his numbers quite a bit since his last fight. Just needs to do a good weight drop for weigh in now.

Not sure about that. Manuwa is rightly the favourite but there is not much value there

If the fight stays on the feet Manuwa is the better striker by a long way.

Anderson has been unimpressive but he has a style that could take advantage of Manuwa's take down defence. It doesn't matter what numbers he's pushing in the gym if his can't sort that out. Anderson could win in a dull humping match

Then there is the question of age: Manuwa 37 vs Anderson 27 and Manuwa has been put to sleep in 2 of his last 4 fights

I still pick Manuwa to win but those odds I've seen aren't attractive enough given the risk

Oh and hopefully one day we'll see Corey Anderson vs Pat Cummins to really confuse cricket fans

canefan

http://www.mmafighting.com/2017/3/13/14909326/stunning-double-knockout-ends-fight-in-dramatic-fashion-at-shamrock-fc-285

Duluth

A shitty end to Pickett's career, it looked like he comfortably won the first two rounds then got caught by a kick in the third. Just one win in his last seven fights

Gunnar look great against Jouban. So many good match ups coming in the WW division.

Manuwa got the expected early knock out against Corey 'bitch tits' Anderson. Corey had a decent chance if he got the fight to ground, but he was waaay too eager for the take down and was shooting from distance.
On the feet it was just a matter of time. It was a clean knock out shot that Rumble Johnson would be proud of.

I had to laugh when he claimed that knocking out Anderson should get him a title shot. There's a gap between the top of LHW (Cormier, Johnson, Gustafsson, Jones) and the rest. The top guys have a lot of sorting out to do before Manuwa deserves a look in.
Maybe he should fight the loser of Cormier/Johnson, the loser of Teixeira/Gustafsson or if he gets lucky a return fight for Jones (I suspect Jones will get a title shot immediately)

Duluth

Nothing formally confirmed for the Auckland Fight Night but these are the rumoured fights so far:

		Division
Derrick Lewis	Mark Hunt	Heavyweight
Derek Brunson	Dan Kelly	Middleweight
Joseph Benavidez	Ben Nguyen	Flyweight
John Moraga	Ashkan Mokhtarian	Flyweight
Dan Hooker	Ross Pearson	Lightweight
Damien Brown	Vinc Pichel	Lightweight

Thats a hard fight for Hunt. Lewis would be one of the scariest fighters in the UFC

Dan Kelly shouldn't be a test for Brunson but that guy finds a way to stay in fights

Looking forward to seeing how Hooker goes against a veteran

Hooroo

@Duluth said in UFC:

Nothing formally confirmed for the Auckland Fight Night but these are the rumoured fights so far:

Division

Derrick Lewis Mark Hunt Heavyweight

Derek Brunson Dan Kelly Middleweight

Joseph Benavidez Ben Nguyen Flyweight

John Moraga Ashkan Mokhtarian Flyweight

Dan Hooker Ross Pearson Lightweight

Damien Brown Vinc Pichel Lightweight

Thats a hard fight for Hunt. Lewis would be one of the scariest fighters in the UFC

Dan Kelly shouldn't be a test for Brunson but that guy finds a way to stay in fights

Looking forward to seeing how Hooker goes against a veteran

Are you going to this?

Duluth

@Hooroo

Yes

MajorPom

I will be in NZ then too ... might have to look into it!

MiketheSnow

UFC 211

Watching the Prelims

What a fight between Chase Sherman and Rashad Coulter

Heavyweight heart and heavy hitting. Cracking.

MiketheSnow

Skelly v Knight
Another cracker.
Mississippi in the House

MiketheSnow

Alvarez v Poirier
WOW
Lots of talk about the 6th round between Joshua v Klitschko
Watch the second round of this match. Next level.
Tough as.
Then mix up with old rules v new rules and it's a No Contest
Shame. That was going to finish one way or another
Rematch for definite

Best Prelim Card I've ever seen

Unco

Joanna is the GOAT woman fighter. Rhonda is so one dimensional compared to her.

MiketheSnow

@Unco said in UFC:

Joanna is the GOAT woman fighter. Rhonda is so one dimensional compared to her.

Edgar, nails.
Maia, nails.
Miocic, nails.

Boxing has Triple G, Women's MMA has Triple J

Joanna 'Jab' Jedrzejczyk

Awesome, awesome display against a very tough opponent

Prelim plus Main Card = one of the best in a very, very long time

The Silver Fern

UFC / MMA