🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread

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UFC is not he same as ONE championship bro

They have tough fighters too, they are not getting that exposure here but they might be big fighters in Asia. Eddie Alvarez lost his first fight in One FC, Sage Northcutt was knocked unconscious and he had to undergo facial reconstruction surgery after that fight and Demetrious Johnson who was smoking everyone in the UFC is facing tougher opponents in One FC as he went to decision twice.

[btc_angela]

Ben Askren was talking so much before his first fights...
but recently after losing that fight I hear no sign of him
UFC is not he same as ONE championship bro

You can't really shut that big mouth of Ben Askren, you might consider him a troll because of that mouth of his. Obviously it's a different league, however, there's a lot of ONE FC championship that are tough as a nails, just saying.

[NavI_027]

Sage Northcutt was knocked unconscious and he had to undergo facial reconstruction surgery after that fight

You made me remember the tragic ending of Sage's debut in ONE FC again . He is actually one of my favorite rising stars of UFC back then because he prove to us that age doesn't matter in MMA sports but then he just loss in ONE. Take note, through a total knockout and that was very upsetting.

Well, there are really several good ONE fighters in fairness (like Ev Ting) but still body build matters so for me UFC > ONE. I can't explain thoroughly but we all know that Americans tend to be more physique than Asians thus more superior, I hope you know what I mean .

[TopTort777]

Sage Northcutt was knocked unconscious and he had to undergo facial reconstruction surgery after that fight

You made me remember the tragic ending of Sage's debut in ONE FC again . He is actually one of my favorite rising stars of UFC back then because he prove to us that age doesn't matter in MMA sports but then he just loss in ONE. Take note, through a total knockout and that was very upsetting.

Well, there are really several good ONE fighters in fairness (like Ev Ting) but still body build matters so for me UFC > ONE. I can't explain thoroughly but we all know that Americans tend to be more physique than Asians thus more superior, I hope you know what I mean .

*cough* Pride *cough*

I can't just erase from my memory all the freak and brutal matches during Pride

[YuginKadoya]

Well, Because the first page isn't updated yet this is the match regarding the upcoming fight on the
UFC On ESPN 6
Date:Sat, 19 Oct, 9:00 Am
Venue:TD Garden



MAIN CARD

Light Heavyweight:          Dominick Reyes VS Chris Weidman
Featherweight:                Yair Rodriguez VS Jeremy Stephens
Heavyweight:                  Greg Hardy VS Ben Sosoli
Lightweight:                    Joe Lauzon VS Jonathan Pearce
Woman Flyweight:           Maycee Barber VS Gillian Robertson
Middleweight:                  Deron Winn VS Darren Stewart
 
PRELIMINARY CARD

Featherweight:               Charles Rosa VS Manny Bermudez
Woman Flyweight:          Molly McCann VS Diana Belbita
Featherweight:               Kyle Bochniak VS Sean Woodson
Bantamweight:               Randy Costa VS Boston Salmon
Welterweight:                Court McGee VS Sean Brady
Middleweight:                Brendan Allen VS Kevin Holland
Heavyweight:                Daniel Spitz VS Tanner Boser

All info is from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_on_ESPN:_Reyes_vs._Weidman

[Bttzed03]

Light Heavyweight:          Dominick Reyes VS Chris Weidman
Featherweight:                Yair Rodriguez VS Jeremy Stephens

I haven't watched any of Dominick's fight but I'll probably go with him, Weidman sucks nowadays.
Rodriguez and Stephens rematch deserves more attention, it could be the fight of the night. I didn't expect it this soon but I'm glad it's about to happen.


Talking about One FC not being the UFC, I was pretty sure I read some article that someone from the UFC commending One FC but during my search, I stmble upon this old article https://www.mmafighting.com/2013/12/9/5193678/ben-askren-announces-signing-with-one-fc-blames-immature-dana-white I didn't know there was already a negotiation way back 2013 between Askren and the UFC management before he joined One FC.

[YuginKadoya]

Light Heavyweight:          Dominick Reyes VS Chris Weidman
Featherweight:                Yair Rodriguez VS Jeremy Stephens

I haven't watched any of Dominick's fight but I'll probably go with him, Weidman sucks nowadays.
Rodriguez and Stephens rematch deserves more attention, it could be the fight of the night. I didn't expect it this soon but I'm glad it's about to happen.


Talking about One FC not being the UFC, I was pretty sure I read some article that someone from the UFC commending One FC but during my search, I stmble upon this old article https://www.mmafighting.com/2013/12/9/5193678/ben-askren-announces-signing-with-one-fc-blames-immature-dana-white I didn't know there was already a negotiation way back 2013 between Askren and the UFC management before he joined One FC.

I guess even though Dominick Reyes didn't face many strong wrestlers Reyes is a good athlete in my opinion and Weidman will have a hard time winning the wrestling department and the striking department in my opinion, and Weidman really sucks nowadays and I really think that Reyes is a wrong opponent for Weidman being less durable and this weakness might expose him.

Wow! Askren is pretty pissed with Dana White right now but I guess Ben Askren will have a fight Oct, 26 Saturday that will be on the Fight Night 162 with Demian Maia as his opponent.

[eaLiTy]

I didn't know there was already a negotiation way back 2013 between Askren and the UFC management before he joined One FC.

There is a big history between Ben Askren and Dana White and why Askren was delayed to get into the UFC and retired from MMA thinking his dream is done because of his fight with Dana and he controls everything. The loud mouth of Ben Askren is nothing new and there was a time when Dana White said it was impossible to implement Olympic type drug testing for UFC and Ben Askren called out Dana White and said he is a liar and that started their bad blood and during that time he was the Bellator champion and he was trying to get into UFC and he was asked to provide the release documents from Bellator to consider and Ben Askren forced Bellator to give his release while he was the champion thinking about joining UFC and after getting the release from Bellator UFC said they are not interested in Ben and hence he move to Asia to fight in One FC and after that too Ben was critical about Dana White and they had many fights in social media in the past.

[tokeweed]

It feels like Yair Rodriguez is gonna get it from Stephens.  Lolol.  Stephens ITD could be around 3.00ish...?  If only there was a BTC sports betting site that has prop bets.  Those are fun.

[tokeweed]

Here's a funny one.  It's the highlight of Weidman's career (it's been downhill after) and the beginning of Anderson Silva's downfall (cos hubris and he never recovered).  Watch for the lulz if you haven't yet. 

UFC Boston:  Free Fight - Weidman vs Silva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc1TlXAVfI4

[SaShiRaJaVu]

I haven't watched any of Dominick's fight but I'll probably go with him, Weidman sucks nowadays.
Rodriguez and Stephens rematch deserves more attention, it could be the fight of the night. I didn't expect it this soon but I'm glad it's about to happen.

Dominick Reyes is an upcoming talent and the way in which he won against OSP and Volkan Oezdemir was impressive and Weidman is coming up in weight and it will be a challenge for him and even before fighting he is challenging Jon Jones, the same happened with Luke Rockhold who was challenging Jon Jones even before fighting and was out cold in the second round, i am not expecting a different result here.

[rosezionjohn]

Here's a funny one.  It's the highlight of Weidman's career (it's been downhill after)

Yes, it's the highlight of his career because it was Anderson Silva whom he defeated. It wasn't exactly downhill after that since he defended the title a few times. It was his defeat to Luke Rockhold that started his downfall. It was probably hard for him to recover from his first loss in MMA.

[ene1980]

Yes, it's the highlight of his career because it was Anderson Silva whom he defeated. It wasn't exactly downhill after that since he defended the title a few times. It was his defeat to Luke Rockhold that started his downfall. It was probably hard for him to recover from his first loss in MMA.

Chris Weidman was a good fighter and when he came to face Anderson for the first time everyone thought  Weidam will be another victim for Anderson but he was show boating a loan and got knocked out cold and on the rematch Silva was injured, then Weidman faced an aging Lyoto Machida and Vitor Belfort and then he faced Luke Rockhold and then went on a 3 fight loosing stream and my guess is that Weidam will use his wrestling skills to control the fight and if he is able to do that he will win, other than that it is impossible .

[notblox1]

MAIN CARD

Light Heavyweight:          Dominick Reyes VS Chris Weidman
Featherweight:                Yair Rodriguez VS Jeremy Stephens

I like this two fights!
Dominick Reyes is a great fighter I am supporting him to win here.
Not sure about Yair fight... and need to do more research and think about it

[SaShiRaJaVu]

Not sure about Yair fight... and need to do more research and think about it

If you watch the fights of Yair Rodríguez and his losses he lost both times to strikers once against Frankie Edgar and the another was well back in his career and his fight against Chan Sung Jung he was loosing the fight till the last second of the fight and that crazy elbow earned him the victory, Jeremy Stephens hits really hard and he lost against top level fighters but his fight against Doo Ho Choi impressed me a lot and i am going with Jeremy to win the fight.

[notblox1]

If you watch the fights of Yair Rodríguez and his losses he lost both times to strikers once against Frankie Edgar and the another was well back in his career and his fight against Chan Sung Jung he was loosing the fight till the last second of the fight and that crazy elbow earned him the victory, Jeremy Stephens hits really hard and he lost against top level fighters but his fight against Doo Ho Choi impressed me a lot and i am going with Jeremy to win the fight.

Thank you posting this info.
I never watched Jeremy Stephens before, so I have no clue about him, and how good he is.
I will find out soon

[YuginKadoya]

MAIN CARD

Light Heavyweight:          Dominick Reyes VS Chris Weidman
Featherweight:                Yair Rodriguez VS Jeremy Stephens

I like this two fights!
Dominick Reyes is a great fighter I am supporting him to win here.
Not sure about Yair fight... and need to do more research and think about it

I really sure think as well that Dominick Reyes is a better fighter than Weidman I think Reyes is a good athlete than him.

And with Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens I kinda still thinking and undecided if who's going to win Yair is a Taekwondo black belt and wants plenty of distance to his opponent I guess this is his key victory and pretty sure very weak against submission moves but I really like Taekwondo and want to watch a kicking madness and how he will cover up for that weakness,

While Jeremy Stephens has absurdly fought a level of competition back then he is still a bruiser and has a high punching power that could instant KO his opponent in instant, despite having with his kicks I guess that doesn't compete more with Rodriguez having a black belt on that department, So I guess he must stick to what he does best so it is a complicated decision but I have bet on Stephens on this one.

[SaShiRaJaVu]

I never watched Jeremy Stephens before, so I have no clue about him, and how good he is.

If you look at his record he got many split decision losses and wins and has many fight of the night performances that means a lot about his fighting style. He is just 33 years old but he is a veteran in the sport as he had 45 fights till now and won 19 fights by knockout, both of the fighters are strikers and i am expecting another performance of the night kind of performance.

[rosezionjohn]

my guess is that Weidam will use his wrestling skills to control the fight and if he is able to do that he will win, other than that it is impossible .

Weidman is a good striker back in his prime. Reyes, on the other hand, is hard to take down and he has been knocking people out as well. Taking him on the ground may be a better strategy for Weidman but I think both fighters  will try to knock each other out. 

[tokeweed]

MAIN CARD

Light Heavyweight:          Dominick Reyes VS Chris Weidman
Featherweight:                Yair Rodriguez VS Jeremy Stephens

I like this two fights!
Dominick Reyes is a great fighter I am supporting him to win here.
Not sure about Yair fight... and need to do more research and think about it

I pick Stephens cos...  He mad.  Lol.  I think he's gonna show Rodriguez's head direct to the canvas.  Seriously tho, Stephens has the grit and it feels like he's gonna be too much for Rodriguez.

Edit:  Just watched the weigh ins.  Weidman looks like he lost some muscle mass moving up to LHW.

UFC Boston:  Weigh Ins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reWszi0Hj-0