🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread

[tokeweed]

Date:  Saturday, March 16
Main Card (ESPN/ESPN+):  6:00pm EST
Preliminary Card (ESPN/ESPN+):  4:00pm EST
Venue:  Apex Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
Live Streams:  



Main Card (ESPN/ESPN+)
Tai Tuivasa    vs Marcin Tybura            
Bryan Battle vs Ange Loosa            
Ovince Saint Preux vs Kennedy Nzechukwu            
Christian Rodriguez vs Isaac Dulgarian            
Pannie Kianzad vs Macy Chiasson            
Gerald Meerschaert vs Bryan Barberena   

Preliminary Card (ESPN/ESPN+)
Natan Levy vs Mike Davis            
Josiane Nunes vs Chelsea Chandler            
Jafel Filho vs Ode Osbourne            
Joshua Culibao vs Danny Silva            
Cory McKenna vs Jaqueline Amorin            
Charalampos Grigoriou vs Chad Anheliger

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Here are some sites you could use to get to know the fighters’ stats, past wins and losses, etc...  Go to these.

https://www.tapology.com/

http://ufcstats.com/

https://fightmetric.rds.ca/events/upcoming

https://www.fightmatrix.com/

If you need to do some tape study you can use MMA Core.  

https://mmacore.tv/

And to check the betting market there’s Fight Odds.

https://fightodds.io/

Good luck.  

[Hydrogen]

Rose Namajunas vs Jessica Andrade

Joanna Jędrzejczyk's skillset improved since moving to the united states to train at american top team in florida. Her health, physical conditioning and weight cuts however suffered as she consumed american food, which is far inferior and less healthy on average than european food. This makes it difficult to measure Rose Namajunas success via her two wins over JJ due to fluctuations in JJ's health.

Andrade posted an impressive KO win over Karolina Kowalkiewicz where both stood toe and toe and exchanged punches. Rose however is unlikely to do this being a well schooled technical kickboxer who typically does not brawl or engage in fire fights with opponents.

This fight could easily resemble Cory Sandhagen vs John Lineker back in april 2019. I think Rose will win the stand up kickboxing battle using her reach, technique and unorthodox style. Andrade's best chance to win could be with her explosive wrestling if she can get the fight to the ground consistently enough to win rounds or finish.

If I had to make a prediction I would say Rose wins.

[tokeweed]

^  Still Namajunas beat JJ twice.  JJ also beat Andrade which could make Namajunas on top of the heap imo.  The thing tho is the event is in Brazil, making it hostile territory for the champ.  If the event was in neutral ground, I think the lines would be slightly in Namajunas favor.

Anyway I got Namajunas at 2.14 a week ago.   

UFC 237:  Embedded 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kZrM_nhxBw

Enjoy. 

[electronicash]

seen Namajunas fight ferociously but her opponent this time has much experience over the number of fights. she has the reach advantage and has the boxing skills though.  it would be a disaster if she gets mounted. as long as she can avoid the take downs, she will win the fight.

[rosezionjohn]

I cannot believe Anderson Silva is still fighting. It was just a few months ago when he last fought. He looked pretty good in his last fight so he might win with all that experience.

[BRE]

I cannot believe Anderson Silva is still fighting. It was just a few months ago when he last fought. He looked pretty good in his last fight so he might win with all that experience.

Anderson is a true warrior, just like you I cant believe it... He is 44 years old and he is competing against younger guys in a very demanding sport. In this occasion Anderson is more than 10 years old than his opponent... but we'll see how the fight goes.

With all the defeats and the controversy over the use of steroids, his name continues to have weight in the sport.

[bbc.reporter]

@BRE. He is forced to be a warrior. Anderson Silva only wants to collect his paychecks from the UFC while his body can take it, I reckon hehehe. He has a family to feed and bills to pay hehe.

[edisystem]

I cannot believe Anderson Silva is still fighting. It was just a few months ago when he last fought. He looked pretty good in his last fight so he might win with all that experience.

Anderson Silva match always entertaining, i'm sure UFC boss seeing this as a money and for anderson silva too but i'm not sure is Silva will win on this fight or not.

Namajunas vs. Andrade, i'm favoured Namajunas but Andrade is good fighter too, i hope this match can be one of the best female match.

[SaShiRaJaVu]

@BRE. He is forced to be a warrior. Anderson Silva only wants to collect his paychecks from the UFC while his body can take it, I reckon hehehe. He has a family to feed and bills to pay hehe.

This might be the only reason he still fights, i wanted him to hang his gloves after that leg gave out during his fight against Chris Weidman and that was a horrible scene as i still remember i had to switch off my Tv after that breakage as it was too much for my eyes and i never expected him to return and i am sure he made a lot of money as he was ruling the division for a long time, but it was pre Conor McGregor era and post that the salary increased a lot and may be that is the reason he still competes.

Namajunas vs. Andrade, i'm favoured Namajunas but Andrade is good fighter too, i hope this match can be one of the best female match.

I am taking Andrade for her punching power and her ground skills and more over she is in her native Brazil and the fans are known to be brutal against foreign opponents and it will also have an impact.

[kenzawak]

The fights that interest me the most in this card are the ones of the old timers, Silva and Penn. The Aldo fight should be interesting too.
I don't know much about the women though.

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^  The women are awesome, especially Namajunas.  She beat the best fighter in her division twice.  And her story is great.  Lots of ups and downs, personal issues and drama.  But she ended up being the champ thru sheer mental strength and will.

And she has a great personality...  Very humble and very sweet.  The realest personality out there in the UFC.  Watch eeet!

UFC 237:  Weigh Ins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3su-8wcW-Q

UFC 237:  Embedded 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSmSiOxiwf8

[rosezionjohn]

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[snip]his name continues to have weight in the sport.

To a lesser extent yeah. The man is still widely respected among active and retired fighters.
If only he finished Bisping during their last fight, he could have been in a better position now.

Anderson Silva only wants to collect his paychecks from the UFC while his body can take it, I reckon hehehe. He has a family to feed and bills to pay hehe.

That's a shame if that's the main reason why he still fights. He should talked a lot of trash and demanded higher cut when he was still dominating the game just like what Connor did.

Anderson Silva match always entertaining, i'm sure UFC boss seeing this as a money and for anderson silva too but i'm not sure is Silva will win on this fight or not.

No doubt he still entertains. He is still capable.

[mich]

Interesting to see how close these odds are for this main event.
Overall a good quality fight card if you like watching Brazilian MMA!
It is almost a pick fight so I will be on the traveling Champion 'Thug Rose' who just doesnt seem to give any fucks!

[YuginKadoya]

Well, first Rose Namajunas was a strong-willed fighter in what I have seen and she conquers Joanna Jedrzejczyk 2 times by taking the UFC Women's Strawweight Championship And defending it on a rematch against her and even in circumstances that Jedrzejczyk was taller than her 5 ft 6 in while Namajunas was only 5 ft 5 in But aside from that I really think Namajunas had the guts to really won the title against Jedrzejczyk she has a great Performance back then While Jessica Andrade was beaten by Jedrzejczyk on a title match against the UFC Women's Strawweight Championship So my bet will go to Rose Namajunas Well I guess Andrade has more experience regarding Namajunas 4 matches on Amateur record fights, And 3 Exhibition matches, Well I guess Namajunas can pull out some crazy kicks and lockdown on Andrade.

While on the part on Jared Cannonier Vs Anderson Silva I guess that Cannonier could win this fight because I really think Silva was not so well in the fights anymore after his leg injury to Weidman his career was set back entirely, and his performance was not quite the same in my opinion, I really think that his Injury and his old age was dragging him down.

I will not change my previous post, Even though Andrade has a physique of a bodybuilder and I think even got strength to win in this fight I like Namajunas personality and her dedication and her sheer will of determination that could let her win in this fight, I wish her the best of luck that she may prevail in winning this one,  I guess with her footwork and speed Andrade will not caught up to her like Kowalkiewicz did, But still best of luck to both fighters.

While for Cannonier and Silva, I really like Silva back then when his cocky attitude with his every movement, But this fight is different and may get the best of cannonier in this fight, But with due respect to Silva's will on keeping on fighting despite his accident with his leg back then regards and respect for both of them.

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Wow...  Namajunas had Andrade outclassed until that slam in the second round.  I hope she's ok and I hope she gets her wits back and get an immediate rematch.  She was giving hints that she might not be fighting for a little while tho.

Here are the results:



UFC 237:  Post Fight Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqZ_QLddf94

[eaLiTy]

I missed the event completely but we now have a new champion in Jessica Andrade and it looked like she won it simply because of her brute strength and the way in which she slammed Rose Namajunas when she attempted a submission was brutal and Anderson Silva lost his fight due to injury and it was another sad way to go for a legendary fighter like Silva, he should retire from UFC, he might be able to show his skill set in other companies but not against top class fighters.

@sashi your predictions were spot on here, Anderson lost because of his leg injury and Jessica Andrade won because of her power  .