UFC / MMA

[Duluth]

@MiketheSnow

Very fortunate. It looks like O'Malley was already contracted for the winner no matter what happened.

I guess Cejudo could wait a year

Such a good division. I want Sterling to lose the belt so Dvalishvili can have a good crack at it

[MiketheSnow]

UFC 290

Here we go

UFC 290 | UFC

[Duluth]

@MiketheSnow said in UFC:

UFC 290

Here we go

This might be the best card of the year

So many entertaining matchups

[Duluth]

Looking forward to seeing how Ulberg goes overnight. He's shown big improvements each fight.. hope it continues

Walker is always fun. If he doesn't fight like a tard he's better than Smith. But it's entirely possible he puts on a show for 3-4mins and gasses

Garry to extend his winning streak

A couple of interesting HW matchups too. A decent card.

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Jairzinho Rozenstruik v Jailton Almeida
Anthony Smith v Johnny Walker
Daniel Rodriguez v Ian Garry
Carlos Ulberg v Ihor Potieria
Alex Morono v Tim Means

Matt Brown v Court McGee
Karl Williams v Chase Sherman

[MiketheSnow]

@Duluth said in UFC:

Looking forward to seeing how Ulberg goes overnight. He's shown big improvements each fight.. hope it continues

Walker is always fun. If he doesn't fight like a tard he's better than Smith. But it's entirely possible he puts on a show for 3-4mins and gasses

Garry to extend his winning streak

A couple of interesting HW matchups too. A decent card.

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Jairzinho Rozenstruik v Jailton Almeida
Anthony Smith v Johnny Walker
Daniel Rodriguez v Ian Garry
Carlos Ulberg v Ihor Potieria
Alex Morono v Tim Means

Matt Brown v Court McGee
Karl Williams v Chase Sherman

Should be some swinging and banging

[Duluth]

I missed the prelims. The card had some heavy favourites. I guess with the ABC audience the UFC wanted finishes and to showcase some fighters they think will kick on

Ulberg got it done but that was a strange finish.. keep punching until ref tells you to stop. Accurate punch that got the knock down

What the fuck was Smith talking about and why didn’t Walker go for the kill late in the 3rd? Weird fight

[MiketheSnow]

Matt Brown living his nickname

Great finish from Battle

Ulberg and Garry looked very comfortable

[Duluth]

291 is another fun card

Good to see they are giving Pereira a different type of test. I’m picking Jan in this one.

[MiketheSnow]

Should be very entertaining

[Duluth]

Good challenge for Kai Kara-France on Sunday. Albazi has a bit of hype behind him and he's going up the rankings fast. Striker v Wrestler

Mullarkey worth watching on the prelims. His fights are always entertaining

Hope Arlovski goes well. 44 years old, still competitive, pro debut last century back when he had hair like 1980s George Michael

[Duluth]

Oh and TUF started this week. Barely recognised McGregor

[Kirwan]

@Duluth His face is really puffy.

[MiketheSnow]

Great first episode of TUF

Also came across this

Great doco

Catching Lightning (TV Mini Series 2023) ⭐ 7.4 | Documentary, Crime, Sport

1h | TV-MA

[Duluth]

The KKF decision was odd

I was drinking when watching but I see most other people had the same score

1,4 & 5 KKF
3 Albazi

Round 2 very close

So I was expecting 49-46 or 48-47

The judge that gave round 4 to Albazi should have to explain why. No takedowns and significant strikes were 27-5 in favour of KKF

Mullarkey got sloppy for a couple of seconds and paid the price

Caceres v Pineda was awesome

Loved the finish from Miller

[JK]

I missed this event but have seen the heat surrounding the KKF decision. Sure does sound odd!

[Duluth]

@JK said in UFC:

I missed this event but have seen the heat surrounding the KKF decision. Sure does sound odd!

Normally White would say something shitty about the judging but the UFC are keen on Albazi and his region

It'll be interesting to see the rankings when they get updated (tonight I think)

[Duluth]

So they did a standard change to the rankings. Nicolau and Perez should be a bit pissy about that too

KKF probably about as far from a title fight as he was before the weekend

[Duluth]

It’ll never happen but it would be fun: Wilder v Ngannou first fight in boxing, second fight in mma

[Duluth]

The usual Izzy video but with a few boxing cameo's. A short chat with Tyson Fury, plus David Nyika & Joseph Parker

I wouldn't be surprised if the French MMA fighter towards the end of the video turns up on the Contender series soon. Bareman has hinted that he might have a couple of fighters on it this season (presumably Navajo Sterling)

[MiketheSnow]

Ultimate Fighter still interesting enough to watch

Been some very good cards

UFC 289
Fight of the Night performance from Erceg (Aus)
Zahabi, Jasudavicius, Barriault, and Mallot flew the Canadian flag well
Oliveira smashed Dariush
Nunes won and retired as female GOAT

UFC Fight Night
Fight of the Year contender between Vettori and Cannonier

Tafa fighting this weekend

And what should be a banger between Emmett and Topuria