UFC Fight Night 89: Rory vs. Wonderboy. Share your predictions.

[tokeweed]

Date: Saturday, June 18th
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass): 3pm PST / 6pm EST
Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1): 4pm PST / 7pm EST
Main Card (Fox Sports 1): 6pm PST / 9pm EST
Live Streams: http://firstrowus1.eu/




Main Card (Fox Sports 1)

Rory MacDonald (18-3) vs. Stephen Thompson (12-1) (Welterweight)
Donald Cerrone (29-7) vs. Patrick Cote (23-9) (Welterweight)
Steve Bosse (11-2) vs. Sean O'Connell (17-7) (Light Heavyweight)
Olivier Aubin-Mercier (7-2) vs. Thibault Gouti (11-1) (Lightweight)
Valerie Letourneau (8-4) vs. Joanne Calderwood (10-1) (Women's Flyweight)

Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1)

Jason Saggo (11-2) vs. Leandro Silva (19-3-1) (Lightweight)
Misha Cirkunov (11-2) vs. Ion Cutelaba (11-1) (Light Heavyweight)
Tamdan McCrory (14-3) vs. Krzysztof Jotko (17-1) (Middleweight)
Chris Beal (10-2) vs. Joe Soto (15-5) (Bantamweight)

Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Elias Theodorou (11-1) vs. Sam Alvey (26-7) (Middleweight)
Randa Markos (5-3) vs. Jocelyn Jones-Lybarger (6-2) (Women's Strawweight)
Jonathan Meunier (7-0) vs. Colby Covington (8-1) (Welterweight)
Ali Bagautinov (13-4) vs. Geane Herrera (9-1) (Flyweight)

Other

- This event will mark the promotion's inaugural fight in the women's flyweight division as former UFC Women's Strawweight Championship challenger Valerie Letourneau will face Joanne Calderwood. Despite that, a formal introduction of the division has not yet been made since promotion officials are still determining whether or not to permanently add the division.

- Norifumi Yamamoto was scheduled to face Chris Beal at the event. However, Yamamoto was pulled from the bout on May 26 due to an undisclosed injury. He was replaced by former Bellator Featherweight Champion and one time UFC Bantamweight Championship challenger Joe Soto.

- Alex Garcia was scheduled to face Colby Covington, but pulled out on June 9 due to undisclosed reasons. He was replaced by promotional newcomer Jonathan Meunier.

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[trafficolaa]

Thanks for this thread from my opinion both players  Rory MacDonald and Stephen Thompson are very talented and much hard to predict what is going to happen into this fight, i personally like Stephen Thompson because he is more tricky fighter and his playing is very impressive so that i think bet on Stephen Thompson @1.87 would be nice pick.

[electronicfactura]

I also think Stephen Thompson has nice track record and looking more better player with wonderful technique although this fight would be full of fun because on other side Rory MacDonald also can give surprise result but for betting Stephen Thompson will be good option.

[notserp]

my pick for the card is cote

main event will be a good one close fight i think but im leaning to rory

[fulgdenea]

Both players are looking promising and it is really hard to pick any one of them, as per statics there is no big difference between them but i think Rory has pretty good chance to make it more interesting, this fight will get very close result so far and odds are almost same for both players.

[detzaw]

thompson looks more promising than cote, my pick here is thompson much more packed than cote.

[newcripto]

Stephen Thompson has more impressive statics 12-1 so that i will support him for this fight with Rory MacDonald, i watched some shots of previous fights than it looking Stephen Thompson will win this fight in the end maybe this fight will get very close result.

[tokeweed]

Pretty much an even fight between Rory and Thompson.  Tiny edge could go to Thompson. But you can't go wrong either way.

Thompson hits hard too.  Check out this fight of him vs Whitaker.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzY-AGg5CLo&ebc=ANyPxKraTTtDdJP9CzHQgzvus7FrPgOuIIPONVTbIrr5ZjWc9jJgOADjhm8JO_vxJjz3H97NlZ7SLH2KNgAEyppZCa1IfjEd2g

[Rubberduckie]

think im most excited to see

 Valerie Letourneau (8-4) vs. Joanne Calderwood (10-1) (Women's Flyweight)

think letourneau has a good shot

[ayornleydi]

i will be on thompson and cote.

[shadobitz]

I am so excited to watch this event live and i can't for this fight Stephen Thompson vs Rory MacDonald, i also would like to support Stephen Thompson for that fight but one thing is sure this will be very interesting and worth of to watch as Rory MacDonald is also playing wonderful.

[tokeweed]

I think Thompson could outstrike Rory since he's a 57 - 0 kickboxer.  So I can see there some value in betting a Thompson win via 1st round KO, maybe starting at +450...?

But then again if it goes to the distance, there could be value on Rory winning via decision starting at +275. 

What do you guys think?  At first impression in looking for value lines, that's what I would look for mostly in this fight.

[tokeweed]

Official weigh in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46X_VTk4jaM

Rory MacDonald (170.5) vs. Stephen Thompson (170.5)
Donald Cerrone (171) vs. Patrick Cote (170)
Steve Bosse (205) vs. Sean O’Connell (205)
Olivier Aubin-Mercier (155) vs. Thibault Gouti (156)
Joanne Calderwood (125.5) vs. Valerie Letourneau (125.5)
Jason Saggo (155) vs. Leandro Silva (155.5)
Misha Cirkunov (205.5) vs. Ion Cutelaba (202.5)
Krzysztof Jotko (184.5) vs. Tamdan McCrory (185)
Chris Beal (134) vs. Joe Soto (135)
Sam Alvey (185.5) vs. Elias Theodorou (186)
Jocelyn Jones-Lybarger (115) vs. Randa Markos (117.5)
Colby Covington (170) vs. Jonathan Meunier (170.5)
Ali Bagautinov (125.5) vs. Geane Herrera (125)

Goodluck on all your bets!

[Rubberduckie]

chris beal moving back up to 135 after being super bad
at 125

I think this really helps him and like him to win at good odds

[DeathAngel]

Should be some great fights tonight, I'm going to have to stay up late to watch this though man, need lots of coffee.

[pereira4]

Im not betting on any of those guys since I don't know well them enough. I will save money for UFC 200. Im still deciding if I should go conservative with a Jon Bones Jones win or bet on the possibility of Daniel Cormier winning.

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[tokeweed]

Good fight between Thompson and Rory although I expected more.  This fight was potentially Fight of the Year, but no, and that's ok.  I would prefer to have him fight Lawler for the championship than Rory.  It's a little too early for Lawler - Rory 3 imo.

It's also nice to see Cerrone win vs Cote.  Easy win for him...  He's back!

[notserp]

yeah nice fight by cowboy i lost big on that one