🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread

[YuginKadoya]

Dana White said that he wont get punished for that, nor he see how he could be punished. Feminists must be furious right now. They have claimed that he should leave the post of UFC CEO, but Mr. White said that UFC could easily function without him, he could retire in 2016 already as he has earned enough, he could leave his post, but that wont change much. Dana 1, feminists 0.

Seriously, how can him leaving UFC CEO post help this situation? How can a fine help this situation? I think he has already had a bad talk with his wife at home, in private.

Love him or hate him, he is the face of UFC, and as the president of UFC I think he is good at it, but eventually, something like that issue needs to be in private but sad to say there are many who have camera phones right now so you will be capture in just one snap, well both Dana White and his Wife was sorry about the kids and I think they are sorry for what has happened for sure it is not only Dana White's fault his wife was involved aswell and regarding the last Johnny Depp incident right now we can not say for sure who has really started the altercation his wife had to slap him so he needs to slap back, but both of them are very apologetic that it happens in a public place, I guess we should move on his wife is not brutally injured it was just a slap, and both of them sure is at fault, for me just this time every problem regarding the family matters should be kept on privately,


Now here are my picks for the UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Imavov I was really disappointed when the fight Geoff Neal vs. Shavkat Rakhmonov was canceled, so here is the list of my picks and what I think about this fight,

Sean Strickland VS Nassourdine Imavov

The stake odds for this fight are 2.10 for Strickland and 1.74 for Imavov, for me the late preparation of Strickland is very crucial for him and because of that he is 10 pounds heavier than Nassourdine Imavov but even though that was the case I think Nassourdine Imavov has great striking and much more dominant when it comes to wrestling and grappling pertaining this because Strickland is in now late preparation in dealing with Imavov, but surely his last fight was against Jared Cannonier that was last 12/17/2022 which is most recently but for me, my bet is Nassourdine Imavov,

Dan Ige VS Damon Jackson

The stake odds for this fight are 1.78 for Ige and 2.05 for Jackson, for this fight, for me Dan Ige can finish this fight whether it is standing or even on the ground while his opponent Jackson now Jackson has the reach and height advantage but his fight with Ilia Topuria has proven size does not matter, so for this Dan Ige can be like Topuria not close to Topuria but can have that kind of guts inside the ring destroying Jackson so I would go with Dan Ige,

Umar Nurmagomedov VS Raoni Barcelos


The stake odds for this fight are  1.11 for Umar Nurmagomedov, and 6.80 for Barcelos, With odds like this surely I am not betting because of the high volume, but I will bet for Umar Nurmagomedov winning via submission for sure, Raoni Barcelos surely has decent boxing, but Umar The Kicking Nurmagomedov surely has combo's that could go on dominant with Raoni Barcelo's boxing and that is his reach with his kicking, and when the fight goes south Umar can unleash the fury of his submission and finish it with that, so my pick Umar Nurmagomedov betting for the submission win, against Barcelos,

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[TopTort777]

The only stories I really care about in the UFC right now are Khamzat kicking everyone's ass...  When will someone be able to beat him, or at least not look like a rag doll out there?

Any top class wrestler among welterweight. Burns showed that Chimaev is not unbeatable. Covington - with his unlimited stamina has chances to beat him. Usman is able to do it. The problem with Chimaev is that he is big and I suppose has problem to make weight. As soon as he moves to middleweight, that division is full of guys who can beat him. Chimaev is to much self confident. That will play bad for him.

[Welsh]

Right, getting my predictions out early today. Here they are:

Charles Johnson
Daniel Argueta
Allan Nascimento
Mateusz Rębecki
Claudio Ribeiro
Javid Basharat
Umar Nurmagomedov
Ketlen Vieira
Punahele Soriano
Damon Jackson
Sean Strickland

As much as I dislike Strickland's fighting style, I think he's going to take it via decision. Soriano fight is going to be a close one so I'm not that confident in that pick.

[tokeweed]

Here's my lottery ticket for the event.  Hope I win a couple. 

Soriano - Nurmagomedov - Rebecki at 1.96
Add:  Argueta - Nascimento - Basharat at 3.92
Add:  Imavov - Ige - Vieira at 21.28
Add:  Ribeiro - Flick at 146.05

Good luck to all your bets guys!

[notblox1]

As much as I dislike Strickland's fighting style, I think he's going to take it via decision. Soriano fight is going to be a close one so I'm not that confident in that pick.

I doubt he can win in such a short notice and Imavov is a better fighter IMO who is better prepared for this fight.
Odds on Imavov are great and I think he could win with a KO or submission, I don't expect to see main event going to distance.
Umar Nurmagomedov just made one more win and he continues with amazing 16-0 record in MMA this guy really needs to fight for bantamweight title.

[YuginKadoya]

Any top class wrestler among welterweight. Burns showed that Chimaev is not unbeatable. Covington - with his unlimited stamina has chances to beat him. Usman is able to do it. The problem with Chimaev is that he is big and I suppose has problem to make weight. As soon as he moves to middleweight, that division is full of guys who can beat him. Chimaev is to much self confident. That will play bad for him.

He surely is Beatable, but you surely can not take away that he can smash anybody, I think he can overpower people in his division even the champion right now Leon Edwards, can not surely win against him for me I could say Khamzat Chimaev will have a hard time against Shavkat Rakhmonov, that is the most anticipated match I want to see, Russian Versus Russian a really anticipated fight that I want to see but for me a good fight and good PPV is that Khamzat Chimaev will be champion 1st then Shavkat Rakhmonov will challenge him,

Right, getting my predictions out early today. Here they are:

Charles Johnson
Daniel Argueta
Allan Nascimento
Mateusz Rębecki
Claudio Ribeiro
Javid Basharat
Umar Nurmagomedov
Ketlen Vieira
Punahele Soriano
Damon Jackson
Sean Strickland

As much as I dislike Strickland's fighting style, I think he's going to take it via decision. Soriano fight is going to be a close one so I'm not that confident in that pick.

A good one in my opinion, but I think that Sean Strickland will surely be having a hardtime against Nassourdine Imavov because he got accurate striking pretty much that volume will surely come in handy for him and I think Nassourdine Imavov has a decent wrestling that Sean strictland right now the fight will surely commerce any time soon,

[bbc.reporter]

Jon Jones might fight Cyril Gane on March for a championship. However, whether this championship will be for the interim championship or the real championship is not confirmed. According to Ariel Helwani, there are also rumors that the UFC will remove Francis Ngannou from the heavyweight championship.



Jon Jones and Ciryl Gane will reportedly clash for the heavyweight title in the main event of UFC 285 on March 4.

Rumors of the contest started swirling earlier this afternoon after a photo of Jones vs Gane was seen advertised at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Source https://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/ufc/report-jon-jones-vs-ciryl-gane-to-fight-for-heavyweight-title-at-ufc-285/

Source https://mobile.twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/1614400996834414597



Ariel Helwani also mentioned that the information was released by mistake when an employee of the T-Mobile Arena displayed this very early without the announcement from uncle Dana hehehehe.

[notblox1]

Oh I was so wrong about Sean Strickland, he won against Nassourdine Imavov on short notice.
I was not impressed with quality of this whole event, but there was few good fights and some surprises.

Jon Jones might fight Cyril Gane on March for a championship. However, whether this championship will be for the interim championship or the real championship is not confirmed. According to Ariel Helwani, there are also rumors that the UFC will remove Francis Ngannou from the heavyweight championship.

Big news, champion Francis Ngannou is officialy released from UFC!
Jon Jones will return to fight with Ciryl Gane for vacated heavyweight title, but this is big loss for UFC and chance for some other MMA competition to hire Ngannou.
This is one more confirmation for me that UFC is slowly declining, and they don't have full domination like before.
Dana White speaking shit about Ngannou and other fighters outside UFC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY6JA3n9OaQ

[Welsh]

Ketlen Vieira, Punahele Soriano, and Damon Jackson unfortunately let me down for 16k. Vieira fight was close at least, and could've gone either way, but was probably the right decision. Soriano really struggled, and I should've expected as much considering how much he loads up without having the best of gas tanks. Damon Jackson really struggled against Ige though, and I expected more from him.

Strickland did what I expected, I think a lot of people underestimate his skill, and the decision was at 4.00 which is probably a reaction based on his last two losses, was definitely worth a shot on him. Unfortunately, I only do accumulators. I actually cashed out in the middle of the Vieira fight as I could see she was likely losing. I cashed out for a profit of 30 quid. Nothing to write home about.

[bittraffic]

Strickland did what I expected, I think a lot of people underestimate his skill, and the decision was at 4.00 which is probably a reaction based on his last two losses, was definitely worth a shot on him. Unfortunately, I only do accumulators. I actually cashed out in the middle of the Vieira fight as I could see she was likely losing. I cashed out for a profit of 30 quid. Nothing to write home about.

It could be that Imavov didn't do his best. You can see his takedown attempt was the worse ever, who does that? I'm hoping he'll use his Dagestan wrestling to pin Strickland to the ground. It still lasted 5 rounds though.

Oh I was so wrong about Sean Strickland, he won against Nassourdine Imavov on short notice.
I was not impressed with quality of this whole event, but there was few good fights and some surprises.

Jon Jones might fight Cyril Gane on March for a championship. However, whether this championship will be for the interim championship or the real championship is not confirmed. According to Ariel Helwani, there are also rumors that the UFC will remove Francis Ngannou from the heavyweight championship.

Big news, champion Francis Ngannou is officialy released from UFC!
Jon Jones will return to fight with Ciryl Gane for vacated heavyweight title, but this is big loss for UFC and chance for some other MMA competition to hire Ngannou.
This is one more confirmation for me that UFC is slowly declining, and they don't have full domination like before.
Dana White speaking shit about Ngannou and other fighters outside UFC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY6JA3n9OaQ

Francis I think can then go boxing already which he had been wishing for. He wants to get millions in a fight, hope he'd be signed already. 
Francis is out, Jones is in and Dana gives Jones a good match.

[AverageGlabella]

JON JONES is back! I never got the chance of seeing him live and have only seen highlights he looked to be one of the best fighters that do not have any obvious weaknesses. I think he beats Gane easily and becomes the heavyweight champion once again. I am not sure if there is any one that could beat Jones since Ngannou has left the UFC. What is next for Ngannou?

[tokeweed]

Ketlen Vieira, Punahele Soriano, and Damon Jackson unfortunately let me down for 16k. Vieira fight was close at least, and could've gone either way, but was probably the right decision. Soriano really struggled, and I should've expected as much considering how much he loads up without having the best of gas tanks. Damon Jackson really struggled against Ige though, and I expected more from him.

Strickland did what I expected, I think a lot of people underestimate his skill, and the decision was at 4.00 which is probably a reaction based on his last two losses, was definitely worth a shot on him. Unfortunately, I only do accumulators. I actually cashed out in the middle of the Vieira fight as I could see she was likely losing. I cashed out for a profit of 30 quid. Nothing to write home about.

Soriano is my pie shitter of the event.  I really thought it was gonna be easy for him and the other guy would be gassing out.  Turned out it was him.  Kopylov could actually be a good fighter with just a bad start in the UFC.  Let's see what's in store for him next...

I had Vieira winning R1 and R3.  I'm not really sure what fight the judges were watching.  Lol.  And as for Strickland va Imavov, the match being at 205 should've been a concern for Imavov.  It was also Imavov's first time to be in a 5 rounder.

Anyway moving on...

UFC 283:  Countdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jBrq61oNKA

Edit:  Oh and it sucks that Ngannou left.  Ngannou vs Jones would've been the one.  :/

[Erumo]

The fight between Strickland and Imavov showed that ranking is what matters. You dont get seventh place in top for nothing. As far as I see, Imavov just entered middleweight ranking, and he was thrown against seventh best fighter of that weight class. Expected outcome. As tokeweed say, first time fighting 5 rounds is all a new challenge. Not surprised that Strickland was better yesterday!

[YuginKadoya]

Source https://mobile.twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/1614400996834414597



Ariel Helwani also mentioned that the information was released by mistake when an employee of the T-Mobile Arena displayed this very early without the announcement from uncle Dana hehehehe.

It was really T mobile's fault for giving up on the information about Jon Jone And Cyril Gane's fight and it was a sad day for fans of Francis Ngannoue that has been released by the UFC prior to not giving any conclusion about his contract and the future of UFC, so Dana White has decided to release Francis Ngnnoue out of the UFC, so that event that was leaked by T-Mobile announced later by Dana White after the fight UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Imavov,

It could be that Imavov didn't do his best. You can see his takedown attempt was the worse ever, who does that? I'm hoping he'll use his Dagestan wrestling to pin Strickland to the ground. It still lasted 5 rounds though.

It was really a bummer that Nassourdine Imavov lost the fight and the only bet that I have lost, well in anticipation Sean Strickland has seen all takedowns from Nassourdine Imavov Strickland also got a takedown of his own, and Nassourdine Imavov didn't capitalize in that I guess Nassourdine Imavov has a different wrestler that comes from Dagestan, but surely Sean Strickland always anticipate Nassourdine Imavov and have stopped in the reign on being undefeated, Sean Strickland has surely exposed Nassourdine Imavov and the 1st one to giving him his lost,

The fight between Strickland and Imavov showed that ranking is what matters. You dont get seventh place in top for nothing. As far as I see, Imavov just entered middleweight ranking, and he was thrown against seventh best fighter of that weight class. Expected outcome. As tokeweed say, first time fighting 5 rounds is all a new challenge. Not surprised that Strickland was better yesterday!

Sean Strickland has a great experience with Wrestlers so with that said he surely anticipated all takedown attempts of Nassourdine Imavov, and both fighters also has limited preparation for their opponent so that is another factor, but still, Sean Strickland was the only one that have put Rankings on his opponent, `

[Balmain]

Sean Strickland

As much as I dislike Strickland's fighting style, I think he's going to take it via decision. Soriano fight is going to be a close one so I'm not that confident in that pick.

Sean Strickland's fighting style is the biggest fighting style in the UFC that I don't like or even hate, I always say that. The guy wins with this fighting style. Imavov matched Strickland's game from start to finish. Imavov should have gone after him more explosively, but as I said, he couldn't break Strickland's game.

Umar Nurmagomedov continues his progress, technically knocking out Barcelos before the first round ends. It was a really impressive ending when he knocked him down with a left hook with a knee up.

[YuginKadoya]

Now that the UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Imavov is already settled here are the results of my picks

Sean Strickland VS Nassourdine Imavov ROUND 5 DECISION - LOST

Sean Strickland just takes down Nassourdine Imavov while Imavov is having a hardtime on takedowns and repeatedly failed to takedown Strickland, this means Nassourdine Imavov is not on the level of another Dagestan wrestler, I think that he only took down strikers but against Sean Strickland that is also a wrestler you can see the difference Sean Strickland did a tremendous job in stopping the takedowns and giving a takedown to Nassourdine Imavov aswell, for me it was a close match Nassourdine Imavov did really great to the upper ranked Strickland since both fighters didn't have preparation but it was really a great fight,

Dan Ige VS Damon Jackson ROUND 2 KO/TKO - WIN

A crazy left hook from Dan Ige knockout Damon Jackson, I thought that Jackson will go with the takedowns against Dan Ige it surely led to a fast finish punch, and just like  I have said Dan Ige sure has to knock power and even though Jackson taller, he only took a fraction to be down on the ground, or Damon Jackson doesn't have the durable chin to withstand that punch,

Umar Nurmagomedov VS Raoni Barcelos ROUND 1 KO/TKO - WIN

Umar Nurmagomedov crazy knockout win, and as usual, those fast kicks to set it up, I was wrong in betting it to go to the ground and win via submission, and this is the 1st time Umar knocked someone and it was against an unknockable opponent Raoni Barcelo, so I think Umar Nurmagomedov can accent to be champion someday,

[Apocollapse]

Sean Strickland showed how good he's even though he only have 3 days to prepare the fight against Imamov, but surely Imamov will get a good lesson after this fight.

Well the next event we will see a fight between Teixeira vs Hill, it's really crazy how Teixeira still active fighting despite he's already old. Hill is really fast and he have a power to knock out Teixeira, Teixeira need to be careful with spinning kick or other unpredictable attack from Hill that will make Teixeira fall sleep.

Edit:  Oh and it sucks that Ngannou left.  Ngannou vs Jones would've been the one.  :/

But I think Ciryl Gane replacing Ngannou is not that bad and whoever will win become the new heavyweight champion.

[yazher]

Umar Nurmagomedov crazy knockout win, and as usual, those fast kicks to set it up, I was wrong in betting it to go to the ground and win via submission, and this is the 1st time Umar knocked someone and it was against an unknockable opponent Raoni Barcelo, so I think Umar Nurmagomedov can accent to be champion someday,

What a shocking performance from him because these guys are known to beat their opponents via submission and surprisingly he just knocked out his opponent in the first round not only then his opponent was not known to be an easy guy he hasn't been knockout like this in his career before. I guess it was just an unexpected turn of events against Raoni Barcelos because he wasn't aware of his opponent's huge power and caught him by surprise. That was just a random and amazing win for him, they are now really improving well because fans are bored to see them win every fight by submission and now they are changing their courses.

[YuginKadoya]

Sean Strickland showed how good he's even though he only have 3 days to prepare the fight against Imamov, but surely Imamov will get a good lesson after this fight.

Well, those takedowns of Nassourdine Imavov are just for dangerous strikers and Sean Strickland is an exception because he is both a striker and wrestler, so he surely knows what he is going to do with Nassourdine Imavov, I think Nassourdine Imavov is a different Dagestan wrestler, even though he is like that Nassourdine Imavov for me is not champion material,

Umar Nurmagomedov crazy knockout win, and as usual, those fast kicks to set it up, I was wrong in betting it to go to the ground and win via submission, and this is the 1st time Umar knocked someone and it was against an unknockable opponent Raoni Barcelo, so I think Umar Nurmagomedov can accent to be champion someday,

What a shocking performance from him because these guys are known to beat their opponents via submission and surprisingly he just knocked out his opponent in the first round not only then his opponent was not known to be an easy guy he hasn't been knockout like this in his career before. I guess it was just an unexpected turn of events against Raoni Barcelos because he wasn't aware of his opponent's huge power and caught him by surprise. That was just a random and amazing win for him, they are now really improving well because fans are bored to see them win every fight by submission and now they are changing their courses.

Looking forward to the next matches for Umar Nurmagomedov, for me, he may have decent boxing now, and even though it is not technical pretty much his kicks were fast enough to make his opponent have a hard time over it, and I think that his boxing is like Khabib's that overhand and has fast jab was his overhand punches even though it is not technical it doesn't really need that because it was so fast that Raoni Barcelos can not react to it, and with this kind of strikes and good reach with those kicks and a lethal wrestling that is like Khabib and Islam, Umar Nurmagomedov if he likes it can be a champion in the future,

[TopTort777]

UFC 283



Date: January 22, 2023
Main Card: SUN, JAN 22 / 5:00 AM EET
Prelims: SUN, JAN 22 / 3:00 AM EET
Early prelims: SUN, JAN 22 / 1:00 AM EET

Venue: Jeunesse Arena (Brazil)

Main card (ESPN+)
Light Heavyweight: Glover Teixeira vs. Jamahal Hill
Flyweight: Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Brandon Moreno
Welterweight: Gilbert Burns vs. Neil Magny            
Women's Flyweight: Jéssica Andrade vs. Lauren Murphy            
Light Heavyweight: Paul Craig vs. Johnny Walker

Preliminary card (ABC / ESPN / ESPN+)
Light Heavyweight: Maurício Rua vs. Ihor Potieria            
Middleweight: Gregory Rodrigues vs. Brunno Ferreira            
Lightweight: Thiago Moisés vs. Melquizael Costa            
Welterweight: Mounir Lazzez vs. Gabriel Bonfim

Early preliminary card (ESPN+ / UFC Fight Pass)
Heavyweight: Shamil Abdurakhimov vs. Jailton Almeida            
Lightweight: Terrance McKinney vs. Ismael Bonfim            
Welterweight: Warlley Alves vs. Nicolas Dalby            
Women's Featherweight: Josiane Nunes vs. Zarah Fairn Dos Santos            
Bantamweight: Luan Lacerda vs. Cody Stamann            
Bantamweight: Saimon Oliveiravs. Daniel Marcos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_283