UFC 225: Whittaker vs Romero 2 Info and Prediction Thread

[peter0425]

^  Yup...  I honestly had Romero winning that match.  But yeah, I think it would look really bad for the UFC to parade Whitaker with the belt around the octagon if he lost.  Lol.

Edit:  Surprising was RDA vs Covington...  I really thought RDA was taking Covington to school.

Yes, we can go and argue all day that Romero did win the fight, the first win was interesting but the 2nd one was brutal also there's a lot of drama involved (with Romero not making the weight and him winning is a dismay to the organization). But I'm not sold on a 3rd fight though, we have seen everything and I don't think that they still have something that will bring the fight to the next level. Let's see a Whitaker vs Gastelum, maybe a end of the year fight will be great.

[btc_angela]

^  Yup...  I honestly had Romero winning that match.  But yeah, I think it would look really bad for the UFC to parade Whitaker with the belt around the octagon if he lost.  Lol.

Edit:  Surprising was RDA vs Covington...  I really thought RDA was taking Covington to school.

Yes, we can go and argue all day that Romero did win the fight, the first win was interesting but the 2nd one was brutal also there's a lot of drama involved (with Romero not making the weight and him winning is a dismay to the organization). But I'm not sold on a 3rd fight though, we have seen everything and I don't think that they still have something that will bring the fight to the next level. Let's see a Whitaker vs Gastelum, maybe a end of the year fight will be great.

It was a close and I wasn't expected Romero to perform much better in their second fight. Actually I had him winning the last 3 rounds so I said, damn, surprisingly, Whitaker hands is raise so I don't have a problem with that. But I agree that we don't want another fight. Let's see Robert Whitaker take other challenger like Michael Bisping or Kevin Gastelum.

[tokeweed]

^  If you guys are looking forward to Gastelum or Bisping going for the MW belt then that just shows how post USADA MW division in the UFC sucks.  Lol.

There's no one left to make us interested.  Rockhold, Weidman, Gastelum, Jacare...  Nobody.  There's just Romero imho (who couldn't even make weight).

[Hydrogen]

I bet on Stephen Thompson and Yoel Romero. Two events in a row where I might have made the correct choice only to be robbed by judges. 

Yoel vs Whittaker 2 was an exciting fight, in my eyes. Yoel missed weight. Whittaker broke his right hand early on in the fight. Still was a good scrap. Yoel is like a dinosaur in there. Nothing his opponents do ever seems to faze him. But when Yoel does something to his opponents they're in trouble.

I remember a time when people would watch UFC fights and say: "I could beat up some of these guys".  Today, its more like "I had no idea the human body could absorb that much punishment or have that much cardio".

Tokeweed might be right about 185 losing its luster. There aren't many compelling personalities in MMA today, like there used to be. No one has that aura of indestructibility or dominance that people used to admire.

[bbc.reporter]

@Hydrogen. Nice choice if words in using dinosaur to describe Yoel. I do not know if it is positive or negative in the way you used it hehehe.

[Baofeng]

I bet on Stephen Thompson and Yoel Romero. Two events in a row where I might have made the correct choice only to be robbed by judges. 

Yoel vs Whittaker 2 was an exciting fight, in my eyes. Yoel missed weight. Whittaker broke his right hand early on in the fight. Still was a good scrap. Yoel is like a dinosaur in there. Nothing his opponents do ever seems to faze him. But when Yoel does something to his opponents they're in trouble.

I remember a time when people would watch UFC fights and say: "I could beat up some of these guys".  Today, its more like "I had no idea the human body could absorb that much punishment or have that much cardio".

Tokeweed might be right about 185 losing its luster. There aren't many compelling personalities in MMA today, like there used to be. No one has that aura of indestructibility or dominance that people used to admire.

Specially when Silva aura of invincibility was cracked by Wiedman. However, when I watch Whitaker in the beginning of his career I never thought that he could go as high as the MW division. Anyways, I agree with you and Tokeweed that the division has dried up and no one to take the torch that Silva left. Well we though that Wiedman did, but he also didn't sustained the aura and got exposed early.

[tokeweed]

^  Cos he's running good.  And I watched the match again.  I still think Romero won it.  It wasn't like Thompson vs Till if either fighter won, you'd say 'ok it was close'.  Whitaker vs Romero was a robbery on Romero imho.