🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread

[bbc.reporter]

Havent seen such an interesting main card for a long time.

My predictions are. Miocic wins by decisions and we see again tears in DC eyes. This is going to be last fight in DC career, right?
O'Malley submits Vera. And Rozenstruik TKO dos Santos.

Btw, can someone explain why Sean O'Malley is already top14 Bantamweight with only 3 fights in UFC against not higher than his rank fighters and with not extraordinary record ? It is like he fighting guys that are weaker than he, but advances in ranking.

Sean O'Malley is a striker. It might be a knockout or a decision. Also, his only win by submission was on 2015 when he was not in the UFC. However, he can be lucky. Darren Stewart has won his only victory by submission only this Sunday hehehehe.

@yazher. It might only be a commercial with him and Pacman for Proper 12 hehe.

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[YuginKadoya]

I thought this was just a fan made days ago I saw it on my FB news feed. I never though McGregor would gonna try his luck with our national fist. I just can't see this fight is going to happen though. since money is not gonna aim for huge threshold when he is fighting. He only fight those kids who's career are rising who dreamed to beat him someday like Thurman did. I mean they're fight with McGregor is meaningless since Manny is not a trash talker like Floyd.

McGregor is just taunting Manny Pacquiao and aiming a publicity stunt with his tweets but there is no official answer that it will really happen, and Dana White doesn't really care at all, but as many fans would really love to see this fight there are still that thinks Conor McGregor is not qualified in fighting Pacquiao because of the previous fights he had with Mayweather, I would rather love to see Pacman moves on to higher Division but it is surely up to him if he can still go up a notch than fighting Conor McGregor.

Havent seen such an interesting main card for a long time.

My predictions are. Miocic wins by decisions and we see again tears in DC eyes. This is going to be last fight in DC career, right?
O'Malley submits Vera. And Rozenstruik TKO dos Santos.

Btw, can someone explain why Sean O'Malley is already top14 Bantamweight with only 3 fights in UFC against not higher than his rank fighters and with not extraordinary record ? It is like he fighting guys that are weaker than he, but advances in ranking.

Sean O'Malley is a striker. It might be a knockout or a decision. Also, his only win by submission was on 2015 when he was not in the UFC. However, he can be lucky. Darren Stewart has won his only victory by submission only this Sunday hehehehe.

@yazher. It might only be a commercial with him and Pacman for Proper 12 hehe.

Sean O'Malley had a good record both in his Amateur Career that has 9 fights that only has 2 losses and on his Mixed Martial Art Record that now has 12 matches, even though he is just a recent fighter on UFC I think he fits the bill for a shot for the belt in the future.

[tokeweed]

Date:  Saturday, August 15, 2020
Main Card (PPV):  10pm EST
Preliminary Card (ESPN+):  8pm EST
Early Prelims (UFC Fight Pass):  6pm EST
Live Streams:  http://crackedstreams.com/mma/2/



Main Card (PPV)

Heavyweight:  Stipe Miocic vs Daniel Cormier
Bantamweight:  Sean O’Malley vs Marlon Vera            
Heavyweight:  Junior dos Santos   vs Jairzinho Rozenstruik            
Bantamweight:  John Dodson vs Merab Dvalishvili            
Light Heavyweight:  Magomed Ankalaev vs Ion Cuțelaba
         
Preliminary Card (ESPN+)

Lightweight:  Jim Miller vs Vinc Pichel            
Women's Strawweight:  Ashley Yoder vs Lívia Renata Souza            
Heavyweight:  Chris Daukaus vs Parker Porter            
Women's Strawweight:  Felice Herrig vs Virna Jandiroba
Featherweight:  Herbert Burns vs Daniel Pineda
         
Early Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Featherweight:  T.J Brown vs Daniel Chavez
Heavyweight:  Chris Daukas vs Parker Porter


^  New event!  Awesome main event...  But meh under card.  And it seems chalky with all the favorites sure to win.  We'll see...

And here are some vids to watch.  Enjoy.  

UFC 252 Countdown:  Full Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtJYGuOGKGI

UFC 252 Inside the Octagon:  Miocic vs Cormier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkYXJZmiWCs

BJJ Scout:  Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4KYztZNdAw

Edit:  The BJJ Scout vid is really good.  Watch eeet!

[Bttzed03]

~ BJJ Scout:  Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4KYztZNdAw

Edit:  The BJJ Scout vid is really good.  Watch eeet!

This is Gold. Where did you find this? This is the first time I've seen someone really breakdown DC's dirty boxing and it made me appreciate his versatility even more. I agree that he will rely on his wrestling more than his boxing for the third fight and will probably win by submission.

[tokeweed]

^  I've already posted a couple of vids itt from that channel some time ago.  The Dominick Cruz one and the McGregor one.  There are also indepth breakdowns of Khabib and GSP.  Good stuff.

[Saint-loup]

^  I've already posted a couple of vids itt from that channel some time ago.  The Dominick Cruz one and the McGregor one.  There are also indepth breakdowns of Khabib and GSP.  Good stuff.

BTW do you know where we can find free videos of complete UFC events?

[tokeweed]

Free ones you can find on Reddit but the quality is meh.  I bought a Fight Pass subscription recently.  It's worth every cent.

[Saint-loup]

Free ones you can find on Reddit but the quality is meh.  I bought a Fight Pass subscription recently.  It's worth every cent.

Thank you.
I've recently found this forum. But it's the only place I know for free UFC DDL

http://fight-bb.com/viewforum.php?f=10

[tokeweed]

I haven't taken any action yet but leaning on Miocic ML, the O'Malley fight goes the distance prop, Dos Santos ML, Pichel ML, Brown ML, Daukas ML and the over 1.5 rounds for Daukas' match.

Follow at your own risk.  Lol.

UFC 252:  Embedded Episodes 1 - 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq_JpOX28HI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc79ZdNXFcg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPaFOs4vu4

^  Check out Miocic in these vids.  He looks leaner.  He prolly won't make it happen like the last bout...  He started slow.  I think he's gonna be lighter on the feet this time around.

[YuginKadoya]

Stipe Miocic vs Daniel Cormier

This fight would be a tough one to predict Stipe Miocic got a list of well-known fighter that he overcomes before having a taste of lost to Cormier, while Cormier got a segway match with Derrick Lewis before losing it to Miocic, I say Stipe Miocic got my bet because of his record win with Alistair Overeem, Junior Dos Santos, and Francis Ngannou, While even though Daniel Cormier fight with Jon Jones is an NC because of Steroids Jon Jones is clearly the winning, I think Stipe Miocic's win against Daniel Cormier is still fresh for Miocic and he can recall it and take this win.

Junior dos Santos vs Jairzinho Rozenstruik

When it comes to power I guess Jairzinho Rozenstruik is quite a slight favorite here and his records with his win over Junior Dos Santos winning rate I guess many are indeed think that Rozenstruik can beat up Dos Santos well I think the same way and by the looks of it Jairzinho Rozenstruik will win this by KO/TKO.

[tokeweed]

^  Yup.  Cormier is also 41.  He'll prolly gas eventually no matter how in shape he is...  Just like the last bout.

And follow Miocic at IG.  He's leaner and could be lighter on his feet to avoid just standing there in front of Cormier like what happened the last time.

It's Dos Santos to win for me.  Roz for all his power just doesn't throw enough.  Aaand don't forget, Roz just got starched by Ngannou three months ago.  I think he needs to give fighting a rest a bit longer before going back in there.

Some vids...

UFC 252:  Embedded 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeqNGzsOEaw

UFC 252:  Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8DGsM46CxE

[eaLiTy]

Sean O'Malley had a good record both in his Amateur Career that has 9 fights that only has 2 losses and on his Mixed Martial Art Record that now has 12 matches, even though he is just a recent fighter on UFC I think he fits the bill for a shot for the belt in the future.

Marlon Vera is the toughest opponent Sean O'Malley is facing in his career and his two losses in the amateur bout was by submission and Marlon Vera does have some slick submissions and never lost a fight by knockout. I am going with Sean O'Malley because of his striking skills.

^  Yup.  Cormier is also 41.  He'll prolly gas eventually no matter how in shape he is...  Just like the last bout.

The last time Cormier was coming after a surgery and he was not able to wrestle because of a stiff back and this time we will see him incorporating his wrestling skills and you have to take into account the cage is really small which will help Cormier to cover the distance easily.

Stipe Miocic looks different and hopefully it is going to be a long fight.

[tokeweed]

^  Weigh ins done 30 mins ago.  Cormier is leeaannerrr at 236...  Way leaner than the last fight.  I think he weighed around 250 or more then.  Ugh, kinda worried about my Miocic bet now.  Lolol.

And Miocic is leaner too as expected.  Weighed 230 from 242.

Will post results and face off vids later.  But if somebody else could do it, that would be nice.  Thanks.

Edit:  Miocic weighed in at 242 for the first fight, 230 for the second fight and 233 coming in for this bout.  So no big change there.

Cormier...  I got a baaad feeling he'll rag doll Miocic around the cage.

[-CryptoViking-]

~ BJJ Scout:  Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4KYztZNdAw

Edit:  The BJJ Scout vid is really good.  Watch eeet!

This is Gold. Where did you find this? This is the first time I've seen someone really breakdown DC's dirty boxing and it made me appreciate his versatility even more. I agree that he will rely on his wrestling more than his boxing for the third fight and will probably win by submission.

If you want a channel that has great breakdowns you should definitely check out Brendan Doorman, he is my favorite guy.

This is his channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxXlAxx7YY93xWYRiNnhTqg


And here is the video about DC and Stipe's last fight, if you like eye poking of Cormier you won't like this breakdown, I personally love it and happy that is was finally addressed by someone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBcJonsnGMc

I would be so happy if Stipe would walk in the octagon with glasses to troll Cormier even more, same as he did so far.

^  Weigh ins done 30 mins ago.  Cormier is leeaannerrr at 236...  Way leaner than the last fight.  I think he weighed around 250 or more then.  Ugh, kinda worried about my Miocic bet now.  Lolol.

And Miocic is leaner too as expected.  Weighed 230 from 242.

Will post results and face off vids later.  But if somebody else could do it, that would be nice.  Thanks.

Edit:  Miocic weighed in at 242 for the first fight, 230 for the second fight and 233 coming in for this bout.  So no big change there.

Cormier...  I got a baaad feeling he'll rag doll Miocic around the cage.

Face of vid to help you out, while I'm already at it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7bVufzIXvo

Weigh in vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UQRisGRKC0

See the glasses 

[tokeweed]

^  Cool thanks. 

Anyway, TJ Brown missed weight ugh...  I got some action riding on him.  I hope the botched weight cut is not too bad on his conditioning.

Here are the weigh ins.


Stipe Miocic (233) vs Daniel Cormier (236)
Sean O’Malley (136) vs Marlon Vera (136)
Junior dos Santos (238.5) vs Jairzinho Rozenstruik (254)
Herbert Burns (149.5)* vs Daniel Pineda (146)
John Dodson (136) vs Merab Dvalishvili (136)
Jim Miller (156) vs Vinc Pichel (156)
Felice Herrig (116) vs Virna Jandiroba (115.5)
T.J. Brown (146.5)* vs Daniel Chavez (146)
Livia Renata Souza (155.5) vs Ashley Yoder (115.5)
Chris Daukaus (241) vs Parker Porter (264.5)
Kai Kamaka III (145.5) vs Tony Kelley (145.5)


*Herbert Burns and TJ Brown missed weight.

[YuginKadoya]

^  Yup.  Cormier is also 41.  He'll prolly gas eventually no matter how in shape he is...  Just like the last bout.

And follow Miocic at IG.  He's leaner and could be lighter on his feet to avoid just standing there in front of Cormier like what happened the last time.

It's Dos Santos to win for me.  Roz for all his power just doesn't throw enough.  Aaand don't forget, Roz just got starched by Ngannou three months ago.  I think he needs to give fighting a rest a bit longer before going back in there.

Some vids...

UFC 252:  Embedded 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeqNGzsOEaw

UFC 252:  Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8DGsM46CxE

DC looks beef up on this video and Miocic really is leaner and might be faster than Cormier, and Sean O'Malley could doing some practice on the ground submissions base on his interview with DC praising this kid, well Miocic is a great guy but seeing Miocic could make you wonder if Cormier can make a win this time that is why my bet in on him.

And Rozenstruik might Stached by Francis Ngannou back then but I feel like this Dos Santos fight could be different I sure feel that it will be Roz going out the winner.

Marlon Vera is the toughest opponent Sean O'Malley is facing in his career and his two losses in the amateur bout was by submission and Marlon Vera does have some slick submissions and never lost a fight by knockout. I am going with Sean O'Malley because of his striking skills.

Sean O'Malley should stick to his Striking skill and what he does best, but he surely like how submission could offer a different feeling for him because he like jiu jitsu that he's willing to try and do submission than he's usual forte that he does.

[-CryptoViking-]

Few more hours left till the main thing. It will be tough to watch Stipe Miopic, like every fight was, but hope his immigrant mentality kicks in at he right time and he goes after DC this time from the get go. He looked a bit to calm to me so far and I'm a bit worried he might struggle again at the beginning of the fight.

[JanpriX]

This week's leans. Check my thread for the write-ups/reasons behind those leans. Best of luck everyone! Grind on! 

UFC 252  
*The leans below will not count to my stats here in this thread. Follow or fade, it's up to you!

Take JOHN DODSON over Merab Dvalishvili (10:10p.m., Saturday, August 15th)

Take DANIEL PINEDA over Herbert Burns (10:35p.m., Saturday, August 15th)

Take JUNIOR DOS SANTOS over Jairzinho Rozenstruik (11:00p.m., Saturday, August 15th)

Take MARLON VERA over Sean O'Malley ((11:25p.m., Saturday, August 15th)

[eaLiTy]

^^^ I am really disappointed with Herbert Burns who missed weight and he was not even competitive in the fight against Daniel Pineda who was controlling when the fight went to the ground and on the fight and Burns gassed out trying to improve his positions and he failed miserably on the ground.
Sean O'Malley was a unfortunate one as he injured during the fight and it looks like he broke his right leg and Marlon Vera seeing that took the opportunity and went for the finish, if not it would be a great fight and i was rooting for Sean O'Malley to win but it was the worst ways to get defeated.
And now the main event. I am rooting for DC to win and retire.

Edit:
One hell of a war for the main event and Stipe Miocic retained the belt and Daniel Cormier should retire as he is not able to fight like he used to and age has caught up with him and Stipe Miocic controlled majority of the fight.

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And now the main event. I am rooting for DC to win and retire.

Edit:
One hell of a war for the main event and Stipe Miocic retained the belt and Daniel Cormier should retire as he is not able to fight like he used to and age has caught up with him and Stipe Miocic controlled majority of the fight.

Agree that DC needs to retire. His reflexes is not the same before and also he is not on his prime anymore. He might get a chance to win if he successfully take down stipe and also if his eyes is not poked badly. His eyes was badly injured in the second half of the match. Many players surely loss on this game because DC has the upper hand in terms of betting odds and yet he was completely dominated on the fight.

I can’t say that they show an impressive match. Actually I enjoy more on watching there undercard matches which results to more KO/TKO.