I didn't even bother to check.  Lol.  And just from the looks of it, I don't think I made one correct goal scorer for this week's Majectic 7.  And this game is funny...  You do your 'research', you make the picks and you're so excited that you'd get at least 5 goal scorers hitting.  And maybe you even get the feeling that you might hit the big one.    But once the matches are over...  Adrenaline dump.  -_-

It's like a lottery ticket.  And I'm sure doing something like the Majestic 7 for the UFC and F1 would be as much fun.

What do you mean stupid?  Lmao.  Would anybody really keep buying BTC up knowing that the owner of the exchange and his MM's are spoofing sell walls to spook the whole market out?  Just look at the market rn.  A few bad news here and there and a little spoofing, where is the Do Kwon guy?  Don't make the mistake in thinking that he'll keep buying BTC if sh*t hits the fan.  I mean who would want to hold a losing position as a 'reserve'?  That's just dumb.

Yup he's decent at stand up.  But you could see his insticts as a wrestler automatically gets him to go for the body lock or the under hooks the moment Rodtang gets too close to him.  It's so obvious. And he was just trying to hang in there at R1.  R2 was a whole different ball game.  It was Demtrious Johnson's world.

But all in all if the rounds were longer, I think Rodtang would be a problem for DJ.  I think they only three minute rounds if I remember it right.

Yeah I guess so...  We'll see.  All I can say is he could be but there are a lot of questions about Chimaev that are gonna be answered this weekend in terms of his cardio and his striking as he's facing a well rounded fighter in Burns.

And here's Embedded episode 1 for UFC 273.  Watch how Yan trains.  Treadmill to punch mits, back to treadmill then heavy bag then back to treadmill and does it all over again.  Lmao.  I think Aljo is def f*cked.  

UFC 273:  Embedded EP 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Bi8P-YxZM

^  Yeah, I guess Chimaev has become one of the most exciting, if not the most exciting prospect in the UFC rn.  Stealing a term from an infamous football manager, Chimaev could be the 'special one'.    But then again Burns could show him a thing or two...  I'd say the line is too wide but maybe after the match Chim will justify the line.  We'll see.

Here's the Countdown vid and the latest roster.  Looks like Latifi is out and replaced by Vanderaa.

UFC 273:  Countdown - Full Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gcC0dblFo0

Date:  Saturday, April 9
Main Card (PPV):  10:00pm EST
Preliminary Card (ESPN/ESPN+):  8:00pm EST
Early Prelims (ESPN+/Fight Pass):  6:15pm EST
Venue:  VyStar Veteran's Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, Florida
Live Streams:



Main Card (PPV)
Featherweight:  Alexander Volkanovski vs Chan Sung Jung
Bantamweight:  Aljamain Sterling vs Petr Yan
Welterweight:  Gilbert Burns vs Khamzat Chimaev   
Women's Strawweight:  Mackenzie Dern vs Tecia Torres         
Heavyweight:  Alexey Oleynik vs Jared Vanderaa

Preliminary Card (ESPN/ESPN+)
Women's Bantamweight:  Aspen Ladd vs Raquel Pennington            
Welterweight:  Ian Garry vs Darian Weeks            
Middleweight:  Anthony Hernandez vs Josh Fremd            
Heavyweight:  Jairzinho Rozenstruik vs Marcin Tybura

Early Prelims (ESPN+/UFC Fight Pass
Welterweight:  Mickey Gall vs Mike Malott            
Bantamweight:  Julio Arce vs Daniel Santos            
Lightweight:  Mark Madsen vs Vinc Pichel            
Women's Strawweight:  Piera Rodriguez vs Kay Hansen   

No bets in football matches for the weekend as it could get dicey in many spots.  A lot of the players are all prolly tired from their international duties.  I did my Majestic 7 picks just to keep me entertained tho.  Leeez go!

Picks:  Trossard, Adams, Saka, Rashford, Kane, Bowen and Ramsey.

^  I think I'm only confident in Kane getting a goal.  And maybe Adams.    Saka could get one but doubful vs Crystal Palace away.

I had Cory McKenna too.  At the top tier of my parlays.  Lmao.  She had the wrong game plan and stood up and striked vs her opponent who had good stand up.  If she had gone for her bread and butter with a grappling heavy game plan, it would've been an easy win for her imho.  I don't know why they did it but I think she and her camp prolly wanted to entertain the London crowd...  It cost them the W.

I'll lean Gastelum for jeremypwr's Multi Master but I'll prolly take a shot at Du Plessis.  He's on the up.

^  I guess.  But it's still not an excuse to do it.  It basically could pressure the fighter into doing a move he wouldn't have and lose the match.


I never said Dana White or any promoter could fire them.  But they could prolly go to the commission and request to habe them removed for the event.  And in case you didn't know it's the commission that sends the refs to the events to oversee the matches.  That's why we see them same refs at UFC, LFA, Bellator, etc..  They are not employed by the UFC.

But a double point deduction for two fighters feeling each other out is dumb.  I'd def say the same thing if it happened in the UFC.

Anyway, did anybody watch the PFL Challenger Series?  I couldn't find a stream.

It's probably good to remove the underdogs from your parlay and just leave Volk, Yan and Garry parlayed at 1.75 since it's mostly likely going to cash then just bet straight on Burns and Du Plessis.  They're both live dogs imho.  Burns is a bit of step up for Chimaev, tho Chimaev could be something special.  And Du Plessis is going against Gastelum that seems to be deteriorating.  He hasn't looked himself since losing to Adesanya.

And tbh, I really don't know who I'd pick between Gastelum and Du Plessis.  The Du Plessis guy has some serious power in his hands and he's a big guy.  Go watch him vs Giles.

Draw no bet is exactly the same as +0 in the Asian handicap.  Go check your bookie if it has it.  Most likely it's there, and if not then it's prolly not worth betting anyway, esp if a match is so lopsided that the draw no bet option would be lined at 1.01 or something.  Lol.

Anyway, I've been trying to be wrong in the IQ test.  What would happen if my IQ goes to 0?  I won't be able to post for the day?

^  It's all about the money for guys like Ronaldo.  As I've been saying in these parts...  Not everyone is a Steven Gerrard.  He's prolly the only classy guy in European football after 2010.

As for him staying at United, I doubt it.  Not with how we saw that he's more of a liability than an asset in terms of when the manager is setting up the squad.  The manager seems to have to adjust his strategy and how he wants the squad to play because Ronaldo lacks some defensive skill sets.

Edit:  This is weird.  Sporting Lisbon is favorite to acquire Ronaldo this summer.  :/

https://www.oddschecker.com/football/football-specials/cristiano-ronaldo/club-after-summer-transfer-window

Dana White or the UFC can't 'ban' referees per se but remember that ref at UFC 267 (I think) when he didn't stop the fight while one fighter was beating up the other guy who wasn't even fighting back anymore?  He was gonna be the ref of another match that night but it seems like the UFC has some say to remove a ref from their events.  Now I'm not sure if some dumb shit like the double point deduction for inactivity at ONE was a valid reason to remove the ref but they should be reprimanded for doing things that could change the outcome of a match.

You gotta watch it.

Edit:  No UFC and Bellator weekend.  That PFL challenger series will do.  Lol.

Uh yeah...  It's a dip that doesn't signal a reversal of the trend up rn.  And it's important that the price should not break down 44k or we could see a possbility for BTC to go lower and enter goblin town.  You see that red bar right?  That's where resistance flipped and became support.  At least that's what I think...  I could be wrong tho.

Are you waiting for a dip back down to 30k?

^  After what happened during him and Yan's last match up, there's going to be no excuse coming from Aljo.  Yan showed that he was the better fighter that night.  Losing in the rematch would only be showing something like the inevitability of the crowd being shown who the real winner of the first fight is...  If that makes any sense.

And it isn't that Volk chose the weakest opponent.  The guy is a stud and beat most of all the best in his weight class.  TKZ is a former 155'er dropping down to 145.

I just heard that the reason for RON's massive sell down was it was exploited and had around 600m USD stolen from the network.  I'm not sure if the theft was all in RON or if there was some AXS stolen too.  And what's worse about it was the exploit happened 6 days ago and the devs didn't even say anything about it or at least have their community of users know what's went on.

So yeah...  RON devs' integrity is close to zero rn.  Stay away from this coin.  IMHO.

So...  Where's the Do Kwon guy right now?  Is he afk?  There are talks swirling around that he got spooked when a guy in Binance started making huge asks in spot so he must have pulled out his bids.    Dunno, I'm not really sure how true tho.  It could prolly just be CZ telling Do Kwon 'FU lemme accumulate lower before sending it to 50k.'.  Lol.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if it goes back down around 44k.  It could be the right time to btfd for those who missed the move.  What do you guys think?  

But a double point deduction just cos both fighters were in the process of feeling each other out in what could be the most important match in their careers?  C'mon.  If Herb Dean or Keith Peterson did something like that in let's say Yan vs Aljo bout, they would't see the end of it.  They'd never be allowed from ever working in the UFC again.  It's basically the ref manipulating the fighters into making a wrong decision.  It's dumb.

Aljo actually has no KO power.  He'd have to grapple with Yan or grind him against the cage if his TD's don't work to nullify Yan's tools.  And yup, Aljo is really pretty good in wrestling and BJJ.  He finished Sandhagen in under a minute or so via rear naked choke.

And I'm actually hyped for the rematch.  Aljo has a good coach in Ray Longo who's considered to be one of MMA's best coaches.  Let's see what kind of adjustments they have cooking.    But yeah the lean is Yan but the line should prolly be closer.  Dunno...

^  The best engineering teams are Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes.  I'd say the most noticeable improvement could come from Mercedes.  Being so dominant in the V6 hybrid era, I don't think they'll just be sitting down and do nothing.  They prolly get another engine mode up or find a loop hole to get an edge.

From a betting perspective, just get ready to bet on Hamilton at quali and the race if you see a sudden shift in momentum.  I don't think Toto Wolff and his boys are done.

^  I wasn't just talking about the match with Demetrious Johnson and Rodtang.  It was in most of the matches.  I mean I get it, they want it to be more entertaining for the fans but the refs shouldn't do that in matches that have something more on the line than just a W.  Like the title fight with Moraes vs Wakamatsu.  The ref can't pressure the fighters to get into action, even threatening to give a point deduction, if they're in the process of feeling each other out.  It's a title fight ffs.

And there were also a couple other matches...