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Originally Posted by L-Kabong

Can't believe no ones posted about the Fight Night Last week. Some awesome fights happened during that Fight Night. Sure was sad to see Tyron Woodley loose, he seemed to get hurt early and never really pressed the fight like he normally does.

Also there was this

Referee Herb Dean, giving instructions to the fighters in main event
"Protect myself at all times" (the hell with you two fighters)
The ringside announcers laughed and joked about it.

The TV side announcer also said that the ring or "The cage is normally 35 feet across but tonight it's just 25 feet across"

But I thought someone mentioned here that the rules stated that the ring has to be a certain size, although I can't remember what the requirements were.

Well it's taken me a bit of time, but I finally managed to finish watching all of the recent UFC events last night. Man - I'm so glad they're back. There has been a stack of awesome fights - not just on last weeks card. Too many to pick out and disect individual fights, but imo the standard has been top notch all around. Woodley was disappointing - but Burns was a revelation for sure!

Ha-ha - I missed that Herb Dean comment. Classic - very funny.

As far as I know all championship fights are held in the 35ft cage, but some fight nights have the smaller 25ft cage due to venue space limitations. I don't think there is an actual rule set by the various athletic commissions.

Originally Posted by Justshare

Too many events per year. Water down cards.
Way too many new faces, without any interesting stars. Someone to follow.
Too many commentators, most very boring.
All look same, talk same, dress same, have same social media style.

Bad blood is faked in 90% of cases. Trash talk is fake. Everyone wanna be Conor.

No real contenders. I have no clue who is Reyes, who he fought, and he fight Jon Jones. Let me not start on women divisions.

I honestly can not say without googling who is male champion of UFC's 125 and 145 divisions. 4 real!

3 UFC's this week I fast forwarded 90%.

I somewhat follow sport and yesterday I did not have a slightest clue who 14 of 22 fighters were.

Huge difference from when we anxiously waited for Randy Couture - Gabriel Gonzaga match. Liddell - Couture, Liddell-Ortiz. Silva-Sonnen, Forrest - Yushin, Rampage-Wand, Henderson - Bisping and so on.

UFC's like some faceless corporation that did their best to kill any individuality among fighters, instead like NBA did, gave it's best to promote it. I think they thought 3 letters UFC is all it take to keep fans. So they promoted their brand and underpaid fighters and their promotion.

PPV's are all worth watching these days, and when some people who are on fight nights right now get on PPV main cards, it will be boring since most will not know who they are.

Who knows, maybe I'm just negative today.

I've got a slightly different view on that Justshare. I actually think the overall standards in MMA are actually as high if not even higher than "back in the day". The problem now is there is just soooo much more MMA available that it is just plain difficult to keep up to date with everything. You could literally spend your entire life watching MMA between UFC, Bellator, LFA etc etc. So it's no longer special in the way it was when there were only a few cards every year, and access was relatively limited. It also makes it very difficult for any fighter to really stand out amongst the crowd.

My view on fighters in general is that I respect them all 100%. Much as I hate McGregor - I respect him too. They all work their asses to the bone, endure brutal weight cuts, and put themselves directly in harms way. And the women fighters - dang - every one of them could whip my ass inside out even though I'm 6ft tall and weigh 185lbs!!! Personally, I like seeing new fighters coming on the scene. You never know when you're about to see the birth of a new rising star.

And the "good old days" weren't alway that great. Some of the fights in the early days of the UFC were abismal. Some of GSP's fights were boring as hell. I also recently looked at a couple of the early Pride events posted by DangerDoom. Saw a couple of good fights but as many that were atrocious.

Having said all that I do use fast forward a lot - but only to skip all the promo junk that the UFC indulges in between the individual fights. I never fast forward through a fight - even if it is boring.

Anyway, I for one am really glad they're back to some kind of normality.

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OK!!! Here are my predictions for UFC 250 - let's see just how bad I can screw things up, and how many fighters I can put the jinx on.

Names in Bold will be the winners. Bouts with no Bold I haven't a clue....

Nunes v Spencer
Assuncao v Garbrandt
Sterling v Sandhagen
Magny v Martin
Wineland v O'Malley

Caceres v Hooper
Heinisch v Meerschaert
Stamann v Kelleher
Byrd v Pitolo

Formiga v Perez
Menifield v Clark
Dunham v Burns

[L-Kabong]

Well I wanted until today, Wednesday June 10 to make a comment on the PPV UFC 250.

There were some fantastic One Punch (walk away) knockouts.

Sean O'Malley

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Cody Garbrandt

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UFC 250: Nunes vs. Spencer Performance Bonuses

Performances of the Night: Cody Garbrandt
Performances of the Night: Aljamain Sterling
Performances of the Night: Sean O’Malley
Performances of the Night: Alex Perez

On a side note while I was looking around for the clips of the knockouts I found this....

Conor McGregor is known for taking to social media on fight night, even when he’s not fighting. He did so following UFC 250 on Saturday, surprisingly announcing his retirement from fighting.

This isn’t the first time that McGregor has announced his retirement, so it is difficult to tell how serious he was about the announcement or if it would stick this time.

Source: Yahoo! Sports

(One can only dream and hope this is true and he will stay the fuck out of the UFC) ~ L-Kabong

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Originally Posted by Pad

OK!!! Here are my predictions for UFC 250 - let's see just how bad I can screw things up, and how many fighters I can put the jinx on.

Names in Bold will be the winners. Bouts with no Bold I haven't a clue....

Nunes v Spencer
Assuncao v Garbrandt
Sterling v Sandhagen
Magny v Martin
Wineland v O'Malley

Caceres v Hooper
Heinisch v Meerschaert
Stamann v Kelleher
Byrd v Pitolo

Formiga v Perez
Menifield v Clark
Dunham v Burns

LOL!!! Only 3 out of 9 predictions correct! Proof positive I'm never to be trusted with anything related to MMA.

I had high hopes for Chase Hooper whose last fight was a cracker. Gerald Meerschaert let me down badly. I thought he would do his usual trick of taking a beating before subbing his opponent near the end. Nice to see Herbert Burns making his debut. Subbing Evan Dunham in a tad over 3 &1/2 minutes was pretty spectacular. Anyhow if things didn't work out like you expected it's cause I put the jinx on everyone.

Originally Posted by L-Kabong

UFC 250: Nunes vs. Spencer Performance Bonuses

Performances of the Night: Cody Garbrandt
Performances of the Night: Aljamain Sterling
Performances of the Night: Sean O’Malley
Performances of the Night: Alex Perez

On a side note while I was looking around for the clips of the knockouts I found this....

Source: Yahoo! Sports

(One can only dream and hope this is true and he will stay the fuck out of the UFC) ~ L-Kabong

Performance bonuses all well deserved - and YES! we can only dream the impossible dream. (But don't believe me - 'cause I know fuck all )

I was just checking out the UFC events page. They now have eight events listed up until 16th August. Most are listed as TBD. Of interest is that the first event at the infamous "Fight Island" is UFC 251 on 12th July. It turns out "Fight Island" is Abu Dhabi (presumably they have an Island there - or even possibly built one).

The most interesting thing about UFC251 is that every fight on the main card is a Title bout. Current main card is listed as follows:

Kamaru Usman v Gilbert Burns
Alexander Volkanovski v Max Holloway
Peter Yan v Jose Aldo
Jessica Andrade v Rose Namajunas
Amanda Ribas v Paige Vanzant

That should be an absolute corker of an event. Currently no fights listed for early prelims or prelims.

Finally, one thing that has been really annoying me in recent events is all those fucking annoying twitter posts they insist on poping up on the picture. First of all I hate twitter with a passion - one of the stupidist social media platforms ever. Second who gives a shit what inane comment @whothefuckishe has to make, and I'm not going to take my eyes off the action to find out. Does anyone actually read this rubbish? They're just an annoying distraction that add nothing of value.

[L-Kabong]

Okay here's some sad news for all of you who are "Ring Girl" Fans

In case you didn't already know...

BEAUTIFUL UFC ring girl Arianny Celeste has announced she is pregnant as she revealed her baby bump with a topless photo.

The hugely-popular 34-year-old and her boyfriend Taylor King are expecting their new arrival on September 28.
UFC ring girl Arianny Celeste announced she is pregnant with a topless beach snap showing off her bump.

Source : TheSun

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Originally Posted by L-Kabong

Okay here's some sad news for all of you who are "Ring Girl" Fans

In case you didn't already know...


Source : TheSun

Right now you've got me looking like your avatar L-K.

On the subject of UFC 251 - reasonable night of fights but not one I'll look back on with the WOW factor. Main event was pretty much what I expected - pretty boring. As effective as Usman is he doesn't really produce exciting fights.

Ref Leon Roberts should have his liscence revoked. Probably the worst late stoppage I've ever seen. An absolute disgrace. Felt really bad for Jose Aldo.

Amanda Ribas' armbar on Paige VanZant was a thing of technical beauty. I had to watch it several times stepping through frame by frame to appreciate how it all went down.

Still have to watch the prelims.

[L-Kabong]

When the Hell are they going to do something about Herb Dean?

Maybe...just maybe after he let's someone die in the ring, then perhaps they will do something.

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I think my signature now is meant for Herb Dean...Just saying.

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Originally Posted by L-Kabong

When the Hell are they going to do something about Herb Dean?

Maybe...just maybe after he let's someone die in the ring, then perhaps they will do something.


I think my signature now is meant for Herb Dean...Just saying.

Agreed - Dean didn't exactly cover himself in glory. Having said that the performance of of Leon Roberts was x10 times worse in the Aldo v Yan fight and nobody seems to be talking about that one.

[L-Kabong]

Any thoughts or predictions for tonight's BIG UFC PPV?





The main Stipe Miocic Vs Daniel Cromier


This fight really tooo close to call. But having said that I really like both of these guys, they fight well and are just all around great men. If I were forced to pic one, I'd say DC has a better chance to win this and I would pic him as Champion. And if for no other reason than I know it would piss off Jon Jones to see DC the winner with his hands raised up and smiling and thinking "Fuck you Jon Jones"

As for the rest of the card....

I don't particularly care for Sean o'Malley but I'd say he'll win this fight.

Sean o'Malley Vs Marlon Vega
Junior dos Santos is getting too old and slow to fight and I have to believe he will loos this fight and might actually announce his retirement. Speaking of which in the main fight I believe I heard that Both Stipe and DC have mentioned they might retire after the fight.
Not sure about Herbert Burns Vs Daniel Pineda but I'd pic Burns in this battle

Jon Dodson Vs Merab Dvalishvili . Dodson was never as good as he claimed and his record reflects that. I pick Merab for the win.

Preliminary Card (ESPN/ESPN+)
Lightweight: Jim Miller vs. Vinc Pichel
Women's Strawweight: Felice Herrig vs. Virna Jandiroba
Catchweight (146.5 lb): TJ Brown vs. Daniel Chavez
Women's Strawweight: Ashley Yoder vs. Lívia Renata Souza

Early Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Heavyweight: Chris Daukaus vs. Parker Porter
Featherweight: Kai Kamaka III vs. Tony Kelley

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Originally Posted by L-Kabong

Any thoughts or predictions for tonight's BIG UFC PPV?

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Would have replied if I'd seen your post in time.

As it turns out I think UFC 252 was a bit of a damp squib. At least the main card - haven't watched the Prelims yet. But in a way I was kind of expecting that to some extent. I'm not a big fan of the Heavyweight division - in general I find the fights slow and less exciting than the lower weight divisions. Anyway DC and Stipe beat the crap out of each other but in the end it left me feeling a bit Meh!!!

The only fight that made me sit up and take notice was the Burns V Pineda fight. That was quite good.

Next card up is Munhoz v Edgar. Not a lot to say about that as there's a whole stack of names I don't really recognise.

I recently watched Eddie Bravo's CJJ The Featherweights 2020 from back in March. A great event if you have any interest in BJJ/Grappling. Pretty much all fast and furious with a majority of matches ending in regulation time.