UFC 232: Jones vs Gustafsson 2 Prediction and Info Thread

[Kemarit]

^  I guess he is.  Even if Velasquez wasn't at 100%, but somewhat near it (70% - 80%), I think he'd still win vs Ngannou.  And if he thought Miocic's wrestling was tough, wait til he's vs Velasquez.  Lmao.  Ngannou won't last the whole 5 rounds imho.

LOL. We have seen what Francis is made of specially with Stipe took him down. Now multiple that when he fights Cain Velasquez. And if the fight lasted more than 2 rounds then it will be difficult for Francis as we all know that Cain is relentless and will try to wear him down. Cain also has a good stand up game so it's really difficult fight for Francis here, not unless he improves his defense, doesn't tire fairly quick or got lucky.

[tokeweed]

^  And 'sea level Cain' could KO Ngannou any time of the day imho.  Velasquez is the numero uno HW fighter in the UFC ever!  IMHO. 

[bbc.reporter]

@peter0425. Read the news sometimes. Dana already said that there will be no rematch because Amanda Nunes dominated Chris Cyborg. He would be creating a different storyboard if the fight was so close, however. But we have what we have hehehe.

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There was a video circulating lately that showed Cyborg take a nasty fall from a trolley, that was right before her fight with Nunes, so it's not impossible to think that the damage from the fall impacted her ability to fight.

I mean let's be realistic, Cyborg is an absolute monster, before this fight there was no reason to suspect that Nunes would dominate her in such a fashion. Since this was a relatively quick defeat, we can reasonably assume that Cyborg either had a bad day, or Nunes got particularly lucky. I really doubt that Nunes would dominate her again.

That being said, Nunes is also a beast, so I imagine the next fight will be more competitive.

It's either Cyborg was affected by that trolley incident or she just grew old overnight, we will never know the reason behind. I also think that there's no need for a rematch at this point. And as far as I can remember, Cyborg has only 1 fight left in her contract so I doubt we will a rematch unless Dana signs her to a new contract that will make the fight possible in the future.

Excuses. Each fighter who has believed that they would not lose always look for a way out to change the public's perception of the loss. It was similar to Joanna Jedrzejczyk's situation after her loss to humble Rose Namajunas. Joanna gave excuses then she got the rematch. However, what occured in the rematch?

[kenzawak]

However in the words of Conor McGregor, precision beats power, timing beats speed.

He's right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EXwPdYRx70

 

[peter0425]

It's looks like Jones will be fighting again. But it's not Daniel Cormier:

https://www.mmafighting.com/2019/1/7/18171866/jon-jones-vs-anthony-smith-set-for-ufc-235-pending-nsac-license

It will be Anthony Smith set on March 2. Does he have a shot at Jones? I don't think so.

[kenzawak]

For those interested, Jones passed the test the day of the fight. No more picograms.
There goes the theory that those were from last year. 

https://www.mmafighting.com/2019/1/10/18177162/jon-jones-ufc-232-drug-tests-come-back-clean

"Test results have come back clean for fight night drug screenings administered to Jones by USADA and the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) on Dec. 29 in relation to his UFC 232 rematch against Alexander Gustafssson. CSAC executive director Andy Foster confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Thursday following an initial report by ESPN.

Jones’ test results came back free of any picograms of the M3 metabolite, the same longterm metabolite of oral turinabol that was discovered in Jones’ system in three different drug tests since Aug. 2018 and ultimately prompted the UFC to uproot UFC 232’s entire event from Nevada to California on less than a week’s notice."

[NavI_027]

For those interested, Jones passed the test the day of the fight. No more picograms.
There goes the theory that those were from last year. 

Good for him because he can now clean his name and erase the doubts of all the MMA enthusiasts and co-MMA fighters to him. I hope he now really realized the consequences of doing illegal stuffs like that in his career and finally stop from doing it once and for all.

[Jating]

Ok, at least we heard that he is cliean, but I'm sure that there are still a lot of doubters out there.

“Interested to hear the excuses of my next few victims,” Jones said.

https://mmajunkie.com/2019/01/jon-jones-revels-ufc-232-drug-test-clean


Regarding his next opponent though, no disrespect, but I don't see him dethroning Jones here. Yes he is on a 3 fight winner streak, but two of those wins are against wash up fighters (Rashad and Rua).

For those who are interested to bet, Jones open up as a 13-1 favorite. Lol.