🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread

[tokeweed]

^  Early stoppage imho.  I would've wanted to see more.  But I don't mind the win.  Ship it!  Too bad I didn't fire the trigger on Faber.

Herb Dean prolly thought the bad weight cut made Ladd go down easy so he had to get in and stop it...?  Dunno.  And Ladd is still kinda raw anyway (but talented).  She'll get back for sure.

[Saint-loup]

@Saint-loup ~ Aw, you're right on your prediction mate! De Randamie won by TKO against Ladd. However, I just felt that it was a very early stoppage, I mean yeah De Randamie landed a very strong puch which knocked down Ladd but I do believe that she can hang on. IMO that was a bad stoppage coming from Dean, I was a little upset for that.

Thank you to highlight it bro  Yes I think de Randamie is physically above this young baby face lady.
Be carefull, in the women division,  arbitration is different. And frequently women are stopped while there are still standing.
I don't know if there are specific rules for the TKO for her, but at least the arbitration is not the same.

[tokeweed]

Date:  Saturday, July 20
Main Card (ESPN):  21:00 EST
Prelims (ESPN):  19:00 EST
Venue:  AT&T Center, San Antonio, Texas



Main Card (ESPN)
Welterweight:  Rafael dos Anjos vs Leon Edwards            
Heavyweight:  Aleksei Oleinik vs Walt Harris            
Heavyweight:  Greg Hardy vs Juan Adams            
Lightweight:  James Vick vs Dan Hooker            
Lightweight:  Alexander Hernandez vs Francisco Trinaldo            
Heavyweight:  Andrei Arlovski vs Ben Rothwell
         
Preliminary Card (ESPN)
Featherweight:  Alex Caceres vs.   Steven Peterson            
Women's Bantamweight:  Raquel Pennington vs Irene Aldana            
Light Heavyweight:  Sam Alvey vs Klidson Abreu            
Women's Flyweight:  Roxanne Modafferi vs Jennifer Maia            
Bantamweight:  Ray Borg vs Gabriel Silva            
Bantamweight:  Mario Bautista vs Jin Soo Son            
Bantamweight:  Domingo Pilarte   vs Felipe Corales

All info from Wikipedia:  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_on_ESPN:_dos_Anjos_vs._Edwards

RDA vs Edwards this weekend guys...  I have no idea why RDA is the slight underdog but I took it at 2.11ish at FJ.    I don't think Edwards is ready for anybody vs the top 5 WW, judging from his last bout.

[kenzawak]

^  Early stoppage imho.  I would've wanted to see more. 

Yep, both main events were stopped too early.
Not saying Simon or Ladd could have gotten back into their fights but still...
It was nice seeing Urijah back after a 3 year hiatus. Simon made a rookie mistake going all in right from the start against a much more experienced fighter.

[rosezionjohn]

RDA vs Edwards this weekend guys...  I have no idea why RDA is the slight underdog but I took it at 2.11ish at FJ.    I don't think Edwards is ready for anybody vs the top 5 WW, judging from his last bout.

Edwards is a technical fighter. He definitely has the striking skills to go toe-to-toe with RDA.
I think RDA has not been that impressive as of late and that probably made him the underdog in this fight.

[TopTort777]

«Heavyweight:  Andrei Arlovski vs Ben Rothwell»

If Im not mistaken, they have already meet before and Andrei (when he was in his best shape)  was a victorious via KO.
This gonna be a good fight and for Ben an opportunity to win this rematch.

[mich]

«Heavyweight:  Andrei Arlovski vs Ben Rothwell»

If Im not mistaken, they have already meet before and Andrei (when he was in his best shape)  was a victorious via KO.
This gonna be a good fight and for Ben an opportunity to win this rematch.

Yes you are true that AA defeated BEN with a round 3 knock out but this was more then 11 years ago!
This contest wasnt even in the ufc so it might have been a smaller promotion that did not take care of its fighters back then like UFC does today
I would be nervous to bet on the 40 year old man from Belarus- who is 2-9 in his last 11 fights with many coming from being stopped

[eaLiTy]

Edwards is a technical fighter. He definitely has the striking skills to go toe-to-toe with RDA.
I think RDA has not been that impressive as of late and that probably made him the underdog in this fight.

Leon Edwards is basically a good striker and if you look at the career of Rafaeldos Anjos he usually fights well against strikers and he will be good at ground game against strikers, Rafaeldos Anjos usually struggles against good wrestlers and most of his defeats are against well versed wrestlers who could control him on the ground, i am betting for Rafaeldos Anjos to win the fight against Edwards.

«Heavyweight:  Andrei Arlovski vs Ben Rothwell»
If Im not mistaken, they have already meet before and Andrei (when he was in his best shape)  was a victorious via KO.
This gonna be a good fight and for Ben an opportunity to win this rematch.

Andrei Arlovski should retire from the sport and he won that fight ten years back during his prime days and now Ben Rothwell will be a tall order and i expect Ben to win this win.

[rosezionjohn]

Edwards is a technical fighter. He definitely has the striking skills to go toe-to-toe with RDA.
I think RDA has not been that impressive as of late and that probably made him the underdog in this fight.

Leon Edwards is basically a good striker and if you look at the career of Rafaeldos Anjos he usually fights well against strikers and he will be good at ground game against strikers, Rafaeldos Anjos usually struggles against good wrestlers and most of his defeats are against well versed wrestlers who could control him on the ground, i am betting for Rafaeldos Anjos to win the fight against Edwards.

I don't know about RDA winning this one. He's gotten slower in my eyes ever since he lost the belt. I agree though that he is usually dominated and controlled by well-rounded wrestlers/grapplers like the current champ Usman.

[eaLiTy]

This contest wasnt even in the ufc so it might have been a smaller promotion that did not take care of its fighters back then like UFC does today
I would be nervous to bet on the 40 year old man from Belarus- who is 2-9 in his last 11 fights with many coming from being stopped

It was a big event back then where Fedor Emelianenko was headlining the card and if you check the fight list there were many prominent fighters on that card and it was a huge event and Donald Trump was a major share holder in that company as well as partnered with Golden Boy Promotions.
The reason for the event to be so big was that fighters from Pride were facing fighters from UFC and fans were dying to see those fights during that time.

[tokeweed]

RDA vs Edwards this weekend guys...  I have no idea why RDA is the slight underdog but I took it at 2.11ish at FJ.    I don't think Edwards is ready for anybody vs the top 5 WW, judging from his last bout.

Edwards is a technical fighter. He definitely has the striking skills to go toe-to-toe with RDA.
I think RDA has not been that impressive as of late and that probably made him the underdog in this fight.

Mmm...  Dunno, maybe.  Edwards didn't show much at his last match vs Gunnar Nelson tho, who's not really as good as RDA.  But we'll see.  I like RDA as the slight underdog.

Here's a vid of RDA.  Enjoy.

UFC San Antonio Free Fight:  RDA vs Cerrone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOF-haO06-U

[TopTort777]

I would be nervous to bet on the 40 year old man from Belarus- who is 2-9 in his last 11 fights with many coming from being stopped

AA has a funny nickname - "Chrystal chin" in Russian community and is quite rages about it. Goes to sleep even from a mosquito punch.
Anyway, hope he will win this time and retire, but somehow I have a funny feeling that Ben wont allow him to win this time

[YuginKadoya]

Rafael Dos Anjos was a risk-taker and taking this fight would consider that his opponent this time is far below him, But even though Leon Edwards doesn't have enough experience because of the number of his fight I think this is not the case because Edward is rank top 10 and one of the most skilled welterweights out there so maybe that is the case why RDA is considered as a slight underdog than Edwards, But for me I'll go with Rafael Dos Anjos winning against Kevin Lee prove that he still got what it takes to fight opponent such as Edwards but this is a risk and he sure ready for taking that risk involved in this fight.

[rosezionjohn]

Here's a vid of RDA.  Enjoy.

UFC San Antonio Free Fight:  RDA vs Cerrone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOF-haO06-U

This was a long time ago, back when RDA was the champ. If I remember correctly, Cerrone has suspected RDA of using some peds prior to their fight. I've said in my previous reply that I think he's gotten slow since losing the belt.

[nydiacaskey01]

Here are the odds for UFC on ESPN 4

Main Card (ESPN)
Rafael dos Anjos (+116) vs Leon Edwards (-130)           
Aleksei Oleinik (+130) vs Walt Harris (-147)           
Greg Hardy (+107) vs Juan Adams (-120)           
James Vick (+113) vs Dan Hooker (-127)           
Alexander Hernandez (-186) vs Francisco Trinaldo (+163)           
Andrei Arlovski (+158) vs Ben Rothwell (-180)
         
Preliminary Card (ESPN)
Alex Caceres (-145) vs. Steven Peterson (+128)           
Raquel Pennington (+131) vs Irene Aldana (-149)           
Sam Alvey (+142) vs Klidson Abreu (-161)           
Roxanne Modafferi (+125) vs Jennifer Maia (-141)         
Ray Borg (-224) vs Gabriel Silva (+195)           
Mario Bautista (+171) vs Jin Soo Son  (-195)         
Domingo Pilarte (-312) vs Felipe Corales (+267)

*odds courtesy of Nitrogensports

[peter0425]

Here's a vid of RDA.  Enjoy.

UFC San Antonio Free Fight:  RDA vs Cerrone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOF-haO06-U

This was a long time ago, back when RDA was the champ. If I remember correctly, Cerrone has suspected RDA of using some peds prior to their fight. I've said in my previous reply that I think he's gotten slow since losing the belt.

It could be PEDS, but after the UFC has made a radical changes specially when they opted for USADA a lot of high level athletes seems to lost their prime including RDA. So maybe there is some truth about the PED abuse but until he is caught (he hasn't failed a drug test), we can only assume that his is clean but suspected of using it prior to USADA.

[tokeweed]

^ ^  The line on Pennington at +131 (2.31) looks good.  She had two straight losses, but to Nunes and De Randamie before the coming match.  Nothing to think small about.  Aldana could be an easy W for her.

[Spaffin]

^ ^  The line on Pennington at +131 (2.31) looks good.  She had two straight losses, but to Nunes and De Randamie before the coming match.  Nothing to think small about.  Aldana could be an easy W for her.

I can never doubt the results of Amanda Núñez, because he is really a professional fighter who has already received 18 victories in his career, but you should always pay attention to the fact that this fighter has experience of different styles and different types of martial arts, including Brazilian jiu-jitsu  , Boxing, Judo, Karate

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[nydiacaskey01]

^ ^  The line on Pennington at +131 (2.31) looks good.  She had two straight losses, but to Nunes and De Randamie before the coming match.  Nothing to think small about.  Aldana could be an easy W for her.

I can never doubt the results of Amanda Núñez, because he is really a professional fighter who has already received 18 victories in his career, but you should always pay attention to the fact that this fighter has experience of different styles and different types of martial arts, including Brazilian jiu-jitsu  , Boxing, Judo, Karate

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It should be HER.
Regardless of what type of martial arts they use, its still how they apply it when they fight and how the other fighter will react. There are a lot of street brawlers out there who made it in UFC who only knows how to punch and doesnt like to engage on a fight laying down. But with no knowledge about other martial arts have low chance of winning in the octagon.

[bbc.reporter]

@nydiacaskey01. He is right partly right, however. Amanda Nunes is clearly the male in his relationship with fellow MMA fighter Nina Ansaroff hehehe.