@Duluth My feelings exactly. Most annoying part is the stars have aligned and I have the house to myself so can finally watch one live.
Can't tell if Jones is just trolling everyone trying to get as much hype as possible for an eventual Aspinall showdown..or whether he really is just ducking.
Had to avoid the internet to not get this one spoiled by the time I caught up. What an absolute cracker of an event. Easily the best since 300..might have even enjoyed it more due to actually knowing a few of the fighters and their history now than I did back then.
From the ones I remember:
Leal was robbed, such a rough start to the pre-lims, I don't know what causes these extremely bad judging calls thankfully it wasn't indicative of the rest of the day.
Basharat was awesome still taking that match despite Hugo appearing to not even try to make weight.
First time I've seen Barnett, damn he looks like fun..a shame the fight ended the way I would have expected from such a physique.
Gutted the Orolbai lost, hell of a fight, I wonder if he could actually see out of that eye? Something so likeable about him, looks like Gengus Khan reincarnated.
Aslan looks like a monster, hopefully see him on some main events now.
Magomedov's double spinning backfist was incredible. The dude looks like a hell of a Bond villain, one eye?
Thought Murphy might have been fortunate on the decision but it was close enough to not be a concern.
So weird Rakic's corner telling him he was 2 rounds up coming into the 3rd when he was clearly at least 1 down if not 2..final scoring showed that, could have made for a hell of a 3rd round if he'd tried to outscore or put Ankalaev away.
I now get the hype about Chimaev...feels like it just a matter of time before he is defending the title from the rest of todays current contenders.
So gutted that Holloway went down, become a huge fan of his since 300. Thought he was well on top of Tuporia in that first round, clearly outboxing him..but damn once Tuporia got his timing right that power was not to be denied. Showed some class after the win which was great to see after all the dumb shit he'd been drumming up of the last few months.
309 is going to be a huge let down after this one.
@Frank apparently its not open yet since the rebuild
Finally caught up on this. Some odd score cards in the earlier matches. I'd be curious how judges get judged, surely that position is ripe for dodgy betting syndicates to get certain decisions made.
Unfortunate for Pennington but that first round could have gone either way so I think the decision fair even though she did more in the last 2 than Pena did in the first 3.
Really didn't enjoy the 4th round beating of Rountree. The guy has a lot of talent, could be an absolute star but surely this fight was too soon for him, just seemed like padding for Periera's record knowing he wasn't going to test the champs ground game. Seemed like a lot of really unnecessary punishment once it was obvious he was already out on his feet and wasn't going to be a threat. Do corner's throw the towel in these days?
Up to 2006 now in my UFC catchup. This is one of the craziest fights I've seen, something just nuts about guys that love fighting this much,
I don't understand why he took the fight then, money problems in the background? Seems odd, I understand why a challenger might take a chance but not a champion
Just caught up on this yesterday as was travelling over the weekend. Sphere looks amazing, definitely becoming a bucket list attraction.
Awesome fights up until the co-main events, got bored during the women's match, just not a great spectacle for the uneducated fan like me. Merab/O'Malley was only slightly better maybe more for Merab's antics, the dude is hilarious. O'Malley just didn't fire until too late, could have been a hell of a match had he gone with those front kicks early.
Not particularly excited about 307 though keen to see Harrison in action again, 308 is where it is at though. Need to clear my calendar for that
I've been working my way through all of the UFCs while gymming/doing house chores
Some absolute ripper fights
And Adesanya speaking well in the post-match press conference, when he's being genuine he's easy to be a fan of.
Absolute madman:
@MN5 When I started getting into UFC I watched all of MacGregors fights and then all of Izzys, was a huge fan until I saw the stuff outside of the fight. Bloke seems to have a real identity crisis kiwi/nigerian/chinese and that dumbass N-word BS trying to act like some US gangbanger? Seems to think that because he is black then that is his culture? Retarded and probably offensive as fuck to actual Nigerians
Almost too dumb to be real so yeah maybe a USA based writer who doesn't actually know any black people.
I suppose he did his part to promote the fight when he essentially crashed DDPs victory party with all that cringy “N word” stuff a year or so back.
That was awful, also along with his interview where he claimed Aussies were just racist for not cheering him on against Strickland. The bloke made his own dumb headlines as far as I'm concerned.
My brother reckons some fighters now have writers to hype fights due to that integration with WWE, thought that was BS but Izzy's antics seem so unnatural that..well may he has some really dumb writers.
Yeah I thought it was pretty good, close rounds, both connecting. DDP looked gassed and then comes up with that flurry and finally the submission.
Only caught the last 3 fights. All great to watch. Hooker is an absolute madman, laughing in his corner between rds 2 and 3. Dricus classy in victory and Adesanya classy in defeat, if only he could talk like that normally and just be himself.
Funnily enough the press conference highlights cut out a lot of the highlights
Yeah it was weird alright. Adesanya is just so awful on the mic, he is a hard person to support if you watch anything more than the fights. Dricus is smashing him outside of the cage so far
No see Kai Kara yet. Erceg was awesome in that Pantoja fight, wasn't there some bad call in his corner which potentially cost him the win. From memory his corner had said he was behind in rounds and needed the finish when they were actually tied?
My thinking is he just went so above and beyond for the Pereira fight that it kinda wrecked him for the Strickland bout. Time off should hopefully fix that and at 35 should still be in decent form, I guess we'll see. The talk has been awful, certainly turned me away from being a fan of his. Hope he course corrects on that front, I'm going to guess Dricus will be the crowd favourite at least at the start of the match.
Weirdly enough the heart wants Dricus to win but the head says it'll be Israel.
Not yet seen a Chimaev fight, seems to have a pretty fierce reputation when he isn't too sick to fight. I wonder where this leaves Strickland in the title contention now? I mean if Whittaker wins there surely there would be more interest in a Strickland title shot, than a Whittaker one considering previous results against Adesanya\DuPlessis