🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread

[YuginKadoya]

I only know Benavidez on this card. I'm not exactly sure why he is fighting. He should have retired together with his team buddies Mendez and Faber. He ain't getting that belt even if Mighty Mouse left the UFC.

I only know Benevidez Aswell that is why I am looking forward in his fight, but after seeing his opponent maybe he got a chance against Benevidez but the power is not an issue here but Benevidez Age, Joseph Benavidez debut in WEC back at 2008 so apparently I could not say if there will be a downfall of power or speed, But I think his fight with Pettis he is a little bit slower back then, But even though he has an age issue some veterans use their experience and technique and that will surely take an advantage in the ring I think that Benevidez can get a win here and even a TKO if he could sail this fight easily.

Felicia Spencer Vs Zarah Fairn Dos Santos

I think that Felicia Spencer could take this win for herself as Fairn Dos Santos fight against Anderson out grappled her by the Australian Kickboxer and was submitted by a triangle choke and Zarah Fairn Dos Santos is not that powerful of a striker and a Striker by trade that is why I think that Felicia Spencer could win this fight because a hugely powerful Cyborg could beat her I think it is fair enough to say that she could really win agaisnt Dos Santos.

[tokeweed]

Just dropping off a couple of tapes for you guys to watch in case you're interested.  I just want to get it over and done with tbh and on we go to 248! 

UFC FN 169 Free Fight:  Benavidez vs Formiga 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kki82nFydQY

UFC FN 169 Free Fight:  Deiveson vs Figueiredo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Qp5ff0QYI

[YuginKadoya]

UFC FN 169 Free Fight:  Benavidez vs Formiga 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kki82nFydQY

That Cut on Benavidez is serious and the commentator explains that by wiping the blood out of it would be crucial for the fight and might cause your opponent to have an opportunity to take down, But Joseph Benavidez had made a comeback and turn the tide over while taking Formiga down with a one-two combination after the kick.

UFC FN 169 Free Fight:  Deiveson vs Figueiredo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Qp5ff0QYI

Figueiredo here, in my opinion, is lucky here to perform a guillotine on Deiveson and take the win.

I still think that Joseph Benavidez had a huge probability of winning here if not for his old age this can be a 100% win for him but judging how he fights, for Figueiredo he only got 80% in winning this.   

[bbc.reporter]

This might be perfect scam for the next ICO season. A famous worldwide sports franchise partnering with a blockchain token project for pumping and dumping hehehehe.



The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has partnered with Dapper Labs, a company that builds digital collectibles on the blockchain to help bring the technology to the sport.

Dapper Labs is most famous for building CryptoKitties, a blockchain game where you trade digital cats. In 2017, the game was so popular it stalled the Ethereum blockchain for days.

UFC is known for mixing up fighting styles into one unique form of fighting that includes boxing, grappling and submissions. Its biggest fighter is, of course, Conor McGregor, the Irish fighter known for winning two world titles and causing mayhem in New York.

According to a statement, the UFC and Dapper Labs will create digital collectibles under the UFC brand. These will be tradeable on the Dapper Labs Flow blockchain platform, and allow fans to buy, sell and trade assets associated with the sport.

Source https://decrypt.co/20479/ufc-to-put-fighters-like-conor-mcgregor-on-the-blockchain

[NavI_027]

This might be perfect scam for the next ICO season. A famous worldwide sports franchise partnering with a blockchain token project for pumping and dumping hehehehe.

Oh boy! This will be a big project since it was correlated with the biggest MMA organization in the world so no surprise if many will clicked unto this. Honestly, even the inner self of me wants to try lol since it was related on my favorite sport hahaha. (*Chill NavI, just stick with btc. You are not a whale so there's no chance for you to survive)

[tokeweed]

^  Lmao.  Yup...  I wouldn't mind holding a couple of cards actually.  I got a couple of prospects who could make it big.  

Weigh in results:

Flyweight:  Joseph Benavidez (124.5) vs Deiveson Figueiredo (127.5)*
Women’s Featherweight:  Felicia Spencer (145) vs Zarah Fairn dos Santos (146)
Light Heavyweight:  Ion Cutelaba (204.5) vs Magomed Ankalaev (204.5)
Women’s Featherweight:  Megan Anderson (145) vs Norma Dumont Viana (146)
Featherweight:  Grant Dawson (149.5)* vs Darrick Minner (145.5)
Bantamweight:  Gabriel Silva (135.5) vs Kyler Phillips (135.5)
Middleweight:  Brendan Allen (185.5) vs Tom Breese (185)
Heavyweight:  Marcin Tybura (246) vs  Sergey Spivak (234)
Lightweight:  Luis Pena (154.5) vs Steve Garcia (155)
Featherweight:  Jordan Griffin (145) vs T.J. Brown (145.5)
Featherweight:  Aalon Cruz (145.5) vs Spike Carlyle (145.5)
Welterweight:  Ismail Naurdiev (170) vs Sean Brady (170)

* Missed weight

[TopTort777]

Date:  March 8, 2020
Main Card: SUN, MAR 8 / 5:00 AM EET
Preliminary Card: SUN, MAR 8 / 3:00 AM EET
Early prelims: SUN, MAR 8 / 1:15 AM EET
Venue:  T-Mobile Arena
Live Streams: will add later, but most probably it would be http://crackstreams.com/mma/2/ as previously


Main card (ESPN+)

Middleweight: Israel Adesanya (c) vs. Yoel Romero
Women's Strawweight: Zhang Weili (c) vs. Joanna Jędrzejczyk
Lightweight: Beneil Dariush vs. Drakkar Klose            
Welterweight: Neil Magny vs. Li Jingliang            
Welterweight: Alex Oliveira vs. Max Griffin

Preliminary card (ESPN+)

Bantamweight: Sean O'Malley vs. José Alberto Quiñónez            
Lightweight: Mark Madsen vs. Austin Hubbard            
Middleweight: Rodolfo Vieira vs. Saparbek Safarov            
Middleweight: Gerald Meerschaert vs. Deron Winn

Early Preliminary Card (ESPN+)

Women's Strawweight: Emily Whitmire vs. Polyana Viana            
Bantamweight: Danaa Batgerel vs. Guido Cannetti

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_248

On March 8 there will be two title fights: Israel Adesanya vs Yoel Romero and Zhang Weili vs. Joanna Jędrzejczyk.
My predictions are - easy win for Adesanya, as he simple wants to test himself against a wrestler. And Weili would win Jędrzejczyk by decision (even though she wins most of her fights by TKO)

[tokeweed]

^  I'll copy that to the main page ok?  Since you already did it and all.  

Anyway...  It's the big one for the MW championship guys.  I kinda fear for Adesanya.  Romero is a beeeast and shouldn't be underestimated.

Here are some vids for the event.

UFC 248:  Countdown - Full Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En-u2yQ7saM

UFC 248:  Inside the Octagon - Adesanya vs Romero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwl1xeiLMnM

And here are a couple of tapes for you guys to watch and see what these guys are all about.

UFC 248:  Free Fight - Adesanya vs Whitaker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLE0O-X1J-E

UFC 248:  Free Fight - Romero vs Weidman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyZ6k6BJHok

[TopTort777]

tokeweed, you are free to copy any of my "preview" posts to main/first post without asking  Strange that you have asked, but having done it with Felder vs Hooker event.

Anyway, no need to fear for Adesanya if he could survive for 1-2 rounds. I have noticed that Romero loses his stamina quickly and in few rounds is not as quick as he used to be. If your could counter his wrestling in round 2+, you can count yourself as a winner by points.

[tokeweed]

^  Just making sure dude...  You know how this forum is.   

[TopTort777]

^  Just making sure dude...  You know how this forum is.   

Naah, I'm not that kind of person to backstab and make post in Reputation with plagiarism proof 

Anyway, what do you think about the title fight ? Do you think contenders will have an opportunity to win? I'm more interested in main event. This is going to be a second title defence from Adesanya. I think Romero will not be able to win that fight and the only who can atm make a competition to Adesanya, is Paulo Costa.

[tokeweed]

^  Nono...  I don't mean you.  Lol.

Just dropping some vids for you guys to enjoy and hopefully they could help in your picks.  It's kinda quiet in here tho.  No Adesanya fans in the house?  Lol.

UFC 248:  Embedded - Ep. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cn1bLGdIqY

UFC 248:  Free Fight - Zhang vs Andrade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtWXZHUr3Y0&t=114s

UFC 248:  Free Fight - JJ vs Waterson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRwl0CkrCIo

[eaLiTy]

Anyway, no need to fear for Adesanya if he could survive for 1-2 rounds. I have noticed that Romero loses his stamina quickly and in few rounds is not as quick as he used to be. If your could counter his wrestling in round 2+, you can count yourself as a winner by points.

Israel Adesanya wanted Yoel Romero to be his next opponent to show that he is a stud and defeat him cleanly and it will not be an easy fight as none of his opponents even if he got defeated had a good week after the fight as he is a really tough fighter and majority were close fights including the second Robert Whittaker fight and Paulo Costa and i thought Yoel Romero could have edged in those fights but the judges saw a different one.
Yoel Romero fought two 5 round fights against Robert Whittaker and i am sure he had the experience now to have a decent pace in the first two rounds to reserve energy for the final three rounds and the biggest difference will be the reach difference and it will be an exciting fight and i am expecting a war once again.

^  Just making sure dude...  You know how this forum is.   

Naah, I'm not that kind of person to backstab and make post in Reputation with plagiarism proof 

Not seen anyone from this section crying about this yet. May be sportsman spirit  .

[bbc.reporter]

Yes he denies that he has staph infection, however, what is that hole on his arm? That is not a scrape. It appears infected and this might require antibiotics to cure.



Fight fans grew nervous when watching an interview Combat TV did with Adesanya just ahead of UFC 248. Speculation ran rampant of Adesanya possibly having a staph infection.

Speaking to ESPN’s Ariel Helwani, Adesanya shut down those rumors (h/t BJPenn.com).

“It’s just a little something, a little scrape of myself,” Israel Adesanya said on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. “That s**t happens, but whatever. A little something. I’ve never had staph. I never will,” he said.

Read in full https://www.mmanews.com/israel-adesanya-denies-staph-infection-rumors-ahead-of-ufc-248/

[tokeweed]

^  I don't see any signs of staph at the vid below.  But I do see some kind of scratch that seems to be drying up on his forearm.  Let's see what develops at episode three.  

UFC 248:  Embedded - Ep. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmxSpHkEbdg

[mich]

UFC 248 Embedded: Vlog Series - Episode 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgkilSplMzo

UFC 248: Israel Adesanya open workout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcPdCW2c79o

UFC 248: Yoel Romero open workout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jTZiPhSYZU

[YuginKadoya]

UFC 213 Yoel Romero VS Robert Whittaker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ4BCziGylA

We can see that Yoel Romero in the first 2 rounds that he is in composure and may even takedown Whittaker, but on the later rounds we can see that Yoel Romero is now exhausted and pretty much his movement is getting clumsy, but this is just their first fight and on their rematch, Whittaker still won but both fighters did a tremendous jobs,

UFC UFC 243 Israel Adesanya VS Robert Whittaker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrN60vGFSAA

Pretty much this fight is more onesided in my opinion, Adesanya surely approach this fight in a more clever way we can all see in his stance that he is watching Whittaker's movement to ready his attack,

With these two videos, I guess this is enough for bettors to make a decision on who they think will win.

[bittraffic]

UFC 213 Yoel Romero VS Robert Whittaker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ4BCziGylA

We can see that Yoel Romero in the first 2 rounds that he is in composure and may even takedown Whittaker, but on the later rounds we can see that Yoel Romero is now exhausted and pretty much his movement is getting clumsy, but this is just their first fight and on their rematch, Whittaker still won but both fighters did a tremendous jobs,

UFC UFC 243 Israel Adesanya VS Robert Whittaker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrN60vGFSAA

Pretty much this fight is more onesided in my opinion, Adesanya surely approach this fight in a more clever way we can all see in his stance that he is watching Whittaker's movement to ready his attack,

With these two videos, I guess this is enough for bettors to make a decision on who they think will win.

Whittaker doesn't look like he has a game plan. He just jump right then throwing punches but doesn't resemble a combo at all. He lasted 2 rounds though.

I'm always reminded by Adesanya and Micheal Page, this two would be a good match. If they could just put them for unification, it would be a good promotion for both Bellator and UFC.

[eaLiTy]

Whittaker doesn't look like he has a game plan. He just jump right then throwing punches but doesn't resemble a combo at all. He lasted 2 rounds though.

Ring rust is a real things and Robert Whittaker fought ten hard rounds against Yoel Romero and after the second fight too he was injured badly and he returned after 16 months and faced Israel Adesanya who was the active fighter and was confident coming into the bout and he came out victorious.

I'm always reminded by Adesanya and Micheal Page, this two would be a good match. If they could just put them for unification, it would be a good promotion for both Bellator and UFC.

It is not even fair to compare Israel Adesanya and Michael Page who never fought a top level fighter in his career and the only challenge he had was against Douglas Lima and he got knocked out cold in that fight, the rest of the wins are padded wins and not against top quality fighters and if they fight against each other Israel Adesanya will school Michael Page.

Yes he denies that he has staph infection, however, what is that hole on his arm? That is not a scrape. It appears infected and this might require antibiotics to cure.

None of the fighters will disclose their injury coming to a bout but if he really has a staph infection then the dynamics of the fight will change, he will be tired and if the athletic commission will not allow any antibiotics it will be disastrous because a fight against Romero will be really tough if you are compromised with health issues.

[bbc.reporter]

We might be neglecting that Weili Zhang versus Joanna will be a good fight also, I reckon. The China girl appears to be strong in striking. It did not show in her fight versus Tecia Torres, however, she knocked out Jessica Andrade to win the championship.

I predict Weili wins strongly. I suspect undetectable Chinese steroids hehehehe.