UFC 235: Jones vs. Smith Prediction and Info Thread

[tokeweed]

Date: Saturday, March 2
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass):  3:15pm PST / 6:15pm EST
Preliminary Card (ESPN):  5pm PST / 8pm EST
Main Card (PPV):  7pm PST / 10pm EST
Live Streams: http://www.fìrstrow.eu/




Main Card (PPV)

Jon Jones (23-1) vs. Anthony Smith (31-13) (Light Heavyweight Championship)
Tyron Woodley (19-3-1) vs. Kamaru Usman (14-1) (Welterweight Championship)
Robbie Lawler (28-12) vs. Ben Askren (18-0) (Welterweight)
Tecia Torres (10-3) vs. Weili Zhang (18-1) (Women's Strawweight)
Cody Garbrandt (11-2) vs. Pedro Munhoz (17-3) (Bantamweight)

Preliminary Card (ESPN)

Jeremy Stephens (28-15) vs. Zabit Magomedsharipov (16-1) (Featherweight)
Misha Cirkunov (14-4) vs. Johnny Walker (16-3) (Light Heavyweight)
Cody Stamann (17-2) vs. Alejandro Perez (21-6-1) (Bantamweight)
Diego Sanchez (28-11) vs. Mickey Gall (5-1) (Welterweight)

Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Edmen Shahbazyan (8-0) vs. Charles Byrd (10-5) (Middleweight)
Gina Mazany (5-2) vs. Macy Chiasson (3-0) (Women's Bantamweight)
Marlon Vera (12-5-1) vs. Frankie Saenz (13-5) (Bantamweight)
Polyana Viana (10-2) vs. Hannah Cifers (8-3) (Women's Strawweight)

Other

- Thomas Almeida was expected to face Marlon Vera at the event. However, Almeida pulled out of the fight on January 31 citing an injury. He was replaced by Frankie Saenz on February 2.

- Ovince Saint Preux was expected to face Misha Cirkunov at the event. However on February 11, it was announced that Saint Preux suffered an injury and was pulled from the fight. He was replaced by Johnny Walker on February 12.

- Yadong Song was expected to face The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America bantamweight winner Alejandro Perez at the event, but pulled out of the bout on January 11 due to an undisclosed reason. He was replaced by Cody Stamann on February 10.

Thanks to the Puertorican for letting me use this content.

[YuginKadoya]

No doubt about it a fight for the Light Heavyweight Championship I will surely go with Jon Jones because I can see that he is an excellent fighter with the range of his kicks I think he can manage to win over Smith, Well you can see from his records of 23-1 No doubt if it wasn't for his disqualifications of an illegal downward elbow in his fight against Matt Hamill he would be undefeated, But still I really think he is undefeated, Well I am sound bias against Anthony Smith but that is my thoughts on what may be the outcome over this fight, That is why my bet goes to Jon Jones.

And moving on to the Women's Strawweight division I really think that Polyana Viana is a gorgeous and astonishing fighter and my bet goes to her and will defeat Hannah Cifers in the match, Well for me wrecking a man's face after robbing her was a good example why she can win in this fight.

[TimtheYoutuber]

One of the best fight nights in UFC that I have seen in a while. This one will be really good to watch I am excited. I have to take John in this fight.

[kenzawak]

Jones has nothing else to prove in the lightheavies, he has to move up to the heavies.

[EndimyonsDream]

Jones will probably win, but I love Lionheart much more and hope he can do damage.He always fights with heart and gives it all. If he will be brave in this fight and creative he could beat Jones.

[Jating]

Pretty much a stack up line up here:

Definitely, Jones will be the favorite to win this fight. I guess if he win this fight, then he can either move up in weight or fight Thiago who blasted Jan couple of days ago and then that's it, he had clean the division again so he needs to move up to heavyweight.

Interesting to hear the thoughts of the rest of our MMA 'experts' regarding the rest of the cards. 

[eaLiTy]

The best card this year without a doubt Jon Jones, Tyron Woodley, Ben Askren, Pedro Munhoz, Zabit Magomedsharipov and Mickey Gall are my picks in this card.

Jones has nothing else to prove in the lightheavies, he has to move up to the heavies.

Jon Jones is an intelligent fighter and the weight gap in the heavyweight division is so huge if he is facing someone like Francis Ngannou, the size advantage is really a thing and one shot could change everything, he might do some selected fights in the heavy weight division rather than moving entirely up the division.

Jones will probably win, but I love Lionheart much more and hope he can do damage.He always fights with heart and gives it all. If he will be brave in this fight and creative he could beat Jones.

Anyone could beat anyone at a given day in a fight, but Jone Jones has not shown any weakness yet in his long career and that is the reason majority of the fight fans considers him as the greatest fighter ever and i am sure he is more focused than before even though he is partying even now.

[tokeweed]

I got a weird feeling that Woodley could lose this one, as much as I like him as a fighter. 

Anyway, here's a vid that should get all of you excited for this weekend's event.  Enjoy.    And there's more coming.

UFC 235 Countdown:  Full Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaTNNIDHziw

[bbc.reporter]

@eaLiTy. Jeremy Stephens might defeat Zabit similar to what he did to the Korean Superboy. This is a dangerous ladder up for Zabit versus a fighter who has fought the top fighters and who also has knockout power.

I reckon Zabit should be prepared to be disappointed hehehe.

[tokeweed]

Hey guys, just dropping by to post some vids to get you guys into the event.  I think I'm the only guy around here who's uber excited about it especially with the Woodley vs Usman bout.  Usman's been talking a lot of sh*t.  Let's see how he holds up vs Woodley's haymaker.  


UFC 235:  Inside the Octagon - Jones vs Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63fdPxJAWBg

UFC 235:  Free Fight - Woodley vs Till
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyxEDCRRcA0

UFC 235:  Free Fight - Usman vs Dos Anjos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q4uj1r98ok

UFC 235:  Free Fight - Jones vs Gustaffson 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucBsqt8hIAg

UFC 235:  Free Fight - Smith vs Shogun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln1M8Xg8678

[gabmen]

This division won't hold much of a contest for bones anymore if you ask me. The guy is on a league of his own and could easily be the most dominant ufc fighter pound for pound ever. People say he needs to go up to the hw div but i think he still would come out on top. If he could just remain clean and avoid out of the octagon issues then this guy is in for a long reign.

[kenzawak]

Ben Askren wearing a "Pay with Litecoin" shirt :

https://cryptowhaleclothing.com/products/take-control-ltc-tee?variant=14507836964906

[Baofeng]

@kenzawak - Yes Litecoin is really into MMA/UFC right now.

https://ambcrypto.com/litecoin-ltc-partners-with-premier-world-kickboxing-organization-glory-to-be-accepted-on-merch-store/

Litecoin, the fifth-largest cryptocurrency in the world, announced that it has entered into a partnership with GLORY, an International Kickboxing organization. The partnership will see Litecoin becoming the official cryptocurrency of the world’s premier stand-up combat league.

And the Litecoin logo can be seen officially @UFC 232 to promote awareness and bring crypto closer to UFC/MMA fans.

[tokeweed]

More vids!  They should help you get into the event.  Lol.  I wonder what would it take to get more people to watch and follow the UFC.  It's a great sport and fun to gamble on.

UFC 235 Embedded 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amT9lzCOdjg

UFC 235 Embedded 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_fzzYSXxkA

UFC 235 Embedded 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBDIOz4mepg

[nydiacaskey01]

Nice card we here this coming Saturday (Sunday here in Philippines). My picks will be Jon Jones,  Tyron Woodley, Ben Askren and Cody Garbrandt. I'm still at 50/50 with Ben Askren, he may have a good run with One FC but we do not know if he will have a good chance with the fighters in UFC, not that I belittle the fighters in One FC but those who are not successful in Bellator and UFC usually signs up in One FC.

[Theb]

Anthony Smith in the UFC looks good and all his matches all of them are wins via KO or stoppage. All that being said I still don't think he has a chance on winning against Jon Jones as Jones right now is definitely on a different level, Gustafsson which I thought was a evenly matched fighter didn't have any chance at all.

[bbc.reporter]

Ben Askren wearing a "Pay with Litecoin" shirt :

https://cryptowhaleclothing.com/products/take-control-ltc-tee?variant=14507836964906

Charlie Lee is known to hype altcoins on Twitter and was also known for selling at the peak of litecoin's all time highs. He might be a stone hearted pumper behind a harmless image.

The litecoin community might also say that litecoin's partnership with the UFC is for a campaign for adoption, however, it might also be Charlie's preparation for the biggest pump of litecoin hehehehe.

[mich]

Really don’t see a situation where Jon Jones loses this contest.  
The only problem is with odds of 1.11 it’s not very attractive.
This is why I am including Jon Jones in my parlays to lower the vig.
Total of 1.5 Rounds leads  me to believe he gets the late stoppage here.  
Waiting on some prop bets for Jones via stoppage.

[tokeweed]

^  Yup..  I'm waiting for the prop lines at Nitrogen too.  Lol.  I'm thinking of putting some action on Jones ITD if it's decent and Woodley ITD.  Askren via submission could be good...  And the under 2.5 rounds at 3.07 (in fact I'll do it right now.  Lol).

UFC 235 Embedded 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbIsnugaxOQ

[eaLiTy]

Nice card we here this coming Saturday (Sunday here in Philippines). My picks will be Jon Jones,  Tyron Woodley, Ben Askren and Cody Garbrandt. I'm still at 50/50 with Ben Askren, he may have a good run with One FC but we do not know if he will have a good chance with the fighters in UFC, not that I belittle the fighters in One FC but those who are not successful in Bellator and UFC usually signs up in One FC.

Ben Askren might not have debuted with UFC yet, but he was the undefeated welter weight champion at Bellator if you are not aware of it and he asked for a release thinking that he could join UFC but he got dumped because of an twitter exchange prior with Dana White and so he had no other options than to join One FC and he dominated them all and now he got a chance in the UFC and he started calling out everyone who talked about him in the past and the funny thing is no one is responding to his calls now.

@eaLiTy. Jeremy Stephens might defeat Zabit similar to what he did to the Korean Superboy. This is a dangerous ladder up for Zabit versus a fighter who has fought the top fighters and who also has knockout power.

I reckon Zabit should be prepared to be disappointed hehehe.

First you have to consider the location he is from, no emotions what so ever and he is the complete martial artist according to most of the experts as he is super technical on the feet as well as on the ground and yet with strikes and combinations we have not seen yet inside the cage and i really do not know who could match with him skill wise, Jeremy Stephens is a really good striker but i really doubt he could match up with Zabit.