🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread

[notblox1]

Khabib and Justin Gaethje have signed the contract and the fight will be on October 24. This is official.

Did you see what I wrote?
I think you mixed things up, and I was not talking about his fight with Justin Gaethje but about potential fight that comes after that with Georges StPierre.
We are going to see what happens in near future.

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[-CryptoViking-]

Ray Borg is a tough fighter and i waged a bet for him in his last fight against Ricky Simon which went the distance and a split decision loss and i might be going with over rounds rather than picking an opponent as Ray Borg always goes the decision and not an easy fight for anyone in the division.

True, if he is not clearly wining the fight usually goes the distance as he is really tough guy to K.O. or submit, so from betting aspect that might be a good strategy. I'more focused on the heart aspect so that is why I would love to see him improve just a bit so he can end the fights and not rely on decision lottery.

[tokeweed]

^  New event..  The lines mostly for this one are wide and it seems like there are lesser spots than there was compared to the Whitaker vs Till one.  But we'll see.  I've been practicing my MMA betting skillz.  

I am also practicing for sometime and in the last card Fabricio Werdum showed his class when i expected Alexander Gustafsson to maintain distance against a ground expert like Werdum and made some silly mistakes in the card with over under rounds .

I need to look at the clips of under card fighters to decide my picks, till then waiting for your picks  .

It might be weird, but looking at this card , the fight that I'm looking forward to the most is Ray Borg fight to be honest. I really like the way this guy fights and hope that it's only a matter of time before he gets some bigger fights.

Ray Borg is a tough fighter and i waged a bet for him in his last fight against Ricky Simon which went the distance and a split decision loss and i might be going with over rounds rather than picking an opponent as Ray Borg always goes the decision and not an easy fight for anyone in the division.

I got Ed Herman, Green and parlayed Holland and Borg.  I'm still thinking about pulling the trigger on Calderwood.  I think it's better to wait right before the weigh ins to get a better price since her line is still going down.

[YuginKadoya]

Middleweight:  Derek Brunson vs Edmen Shahbazyan            

Edmen Shahbazyan is the favorite here and his knockout power is the best there is but if Derek Brunson can get to take on the advantage over the less experienced young Shahbazyan if he would able to survive the first round that is Because Brunson is very susceptible to getting knockout
that being said most of his losses were all came to a knockout out so Shahbazyan can still have the winning upper hand here if he could finish off quickly and easy against Derek Brunson.

Women's Flyweight:  Joanne Calderwood vs Jennifer Maia

Another fight that is worth the watch and a safe bet to pick another fan favorite non other than Joanne Calderwood I think she is a safe pick to win the day because of her strength in her close range Caldewoodd will surely have an advantage with fighting Jennifer Maia in the punching competition.

[eaLiTy]

I think you mixed things up, and I was not talking about his fight with Justin Gaethje but about potential fight that comes after that with Georges StPierre.
We are going to see what happens in near future.

When Georges St-Pierre expressed his interest on becoming a three division world champion the UFC especially Dana White was against it because he knew that GSP will not defend the belt and he broke the promise that he will defend the Middleweight belt but ended up vacating and retiring again but now the situation has changed dramatically, Khabib wants to fulfill his fathers dream of retiring at 30 fights which i personally do not want him to follow that and the final fight would be against GSP and he even said the date to be April 2021 to be his last fight and now Dana White accepted that he is willing to grand the wishes of Khabib if he wants to fight GSP.

If GSP accepts the fight it will be the biggest fight in MMA history. GSP coming off another 4 years lay off and returning for a third belt and the last fight of the undefeated king from Russia .

[notblox1]

UFC Fight Night is back in Las Vegas with main event Brunson vs. Shahbazyan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_Fight_Night:_Brunson_vs._Shahbazyan

Shahbazyan is heavy favorite in this fight, but I honestly never watched him perform.
His record is fantastic so far with 11 wins in 11 fights and four of that in UFC.
Maybe this is his first real test against experienced 36 year old Derek Brunson (20-7)

[tokeweed]

Dropped some action on Saenz at 3.05.  Martinez looks like he had a bad weight cut and looked deflated at the scale.  And it's a smaller cage at the Apex.  It favors wrestlers more than strikers.  So it's worth a gamble I guess.

Glad I didn't pull the trigger on Calderwood yet cos now I'm thinking of betting Maia.  Calderwood didn't look like she wanted to be there judging from her weigh in and her face off.  Maia is game and could go full on Chookagian vs Calderwood.  Dunno...

So that's Herman, Green, Saenz and maybe Maia.  My Borg and Holland parlay was cancelled cos Borg backed out.  Valiev and Spicely are out too.  Heh.

UFC Las Vegas 5:  Weigh in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4m6-zsvzEY

UFC Las Vegas 5:  Face off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6oSJfKHbNc

Derek Brunson (186) vs. Edmen Shahbazyan (185.5)
Joanne Calderwood (126) vs. Jennifer Maia (124.5)
Randy Brown (170.5) vs. Vicente Luque (170.5)
Bobby Green (156) vs. Lando Vannata (155.5)
Trevin Giles (185) vs. Kevin Holland (184)
Jonathan Martinez (140.5)* vs. Frankie Saenz (136)
Ed Herman (206) vs. Gerald Meerschaert (204.5)
Nate Maness (144.5) vs. Johnny Munoz (145.5)
Jamall Emmers (146) vs. Vincent Cachero (145)
Cody Durden (135.5) vs. Chris Gutierrez (135.5)

*Missed Weight

[boltz]

I'm with you on this pick as I think Saenz is way more prepared than Martinez even if the odds are against him tonight. On the other side, I'm rooting for Derek aswell as last main events of the UFC's none of the contenders won so this might be the one.

[7788bitcoin]

I got Ed Herman, Green and parlayed Holland and Borg.  I'm still thinking about pulling the trigger on Calderwood.  I think it's better to wait right before the weigh ins to get a better price since her line is still going down.

I was searching for Ray Borg to wage a bet and then i had to google what happened to know that he is out of the card which was unfortunate.

My picks are Jamall Emmers, Kevin Holland, Lando Vannata, Vicente Luque, Jennifer Maia and Joanne Calderwood with over 2.5 rounds and Edmen Shahbazyan. Hope i wont bust everything  .

The Gerald Meerschaert and Ed Herman removed from the card due to Corona positive result from Gerald Meerschaert.

[JanpriX]

A little bit late but here are my predictions in today's matches. Enjoy.   Just click on my thread to read the reasons behind those picks.

UFC FIGHT NIGHT - Brunson vs Shahbazyan  
*The leans below will not count to my stats here in this thread. Follow or fade, it's up to you!

DRAW - Take Cody Durden over Chris Gutierrez (6:12p.m., Saturday, August 1st)

LOST - Take Frankie Saenz over Jonathan Martinez (8:25p.m., Saturday, August 1st)

WIN - Take Bobby Green over Lando Vannatta (9:35p.m., Saturday, August 1st)

WIN - Take Derek Brunson over Edmen Shahbazyan (10:50p.m., Saturday, August 1st)

[Twinkledoe]

A little bit late but here are my predictions in today's matches. Enjoy.  Just click on my thread to read the reasons behind those picks.

UFC FIGHT NIGHT - Brunson vs Shahbazyan 
*The leans below will not count to my stats here in this thread. Follow or fade, it's up to you!

Take Cody Durden over Chris Gutierrez (6:12p.m., Saturday, August 1st)

Take Frankie Saenz over Jonathan Martinez (8:25p.m., Saturday, August 1st)

Take Bobby Green over Lando Vannatta (9:35p.m., Saturday, August 1st)

Take Derek Brunson over Edmen Shahbazyan (10:50p.m., Saturday, August 1st)

You really take time to compose the reasons behind those picks. I will follow your thread as you are giving reasonings that are worth reading and considering those points. As NBA season is already here, will check also your picks. Thank you for spending time giving your valuable inputs.

[notblox1]

Oh boy somebody made great profit betting on Derek Brunson, as we won in third round by TKO.
He was much better than Shahbazyan and he deserved to win in this fight
His post fight interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og4WJIGzU3g

Fight of the night for 50k was Vannata vs Green!

Full results for this event:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_Fight_Night:_Brunson_vs._Shahbazyan

[7788bitcoin]

Oh boy somebody made great profit betting on Derek Brunson, as we won in third round by TKO.
He was much better than Shahbazyan and he deserved to win in this fight

The hype train of Edmen Shahbazyan was put on halt by Derek Brunson, the problem with Derek Brunson is that he always like to trade fire with fire and never uses his brains and usually ends up loosing but this fight he fought really different and took Edmen Shahbazyan down and controlled the fight on the ground.

Another surprise was Joanne Calderwood, she could have waited and fought for the championship but took the risk and paid the prize and Jennifer Maia showed her submission skills.

[tokeweed]

^  Lol yup.  The more he was hyped to be some sort of Rousey protege, the more I felt something bad was about to happen. 

And I think Calderwood could be pregnant.  Dunno...  She fainted after the match.

Anyway, won with Green, lost with Saenz, Herman bet cancelled, parlay cancelled.  Weird card.

[YuginKadoya]

  Pretty sad two of the fighters that I think may win would end up in a lost, but no hard feelings that are how betting seems to be, and I never expected the hype for them was all just hype, Derek Brunson was a beast on the ground, well both fighters were fighting smartly at first but Brunson has taken the fight on the ground that Shahbazyan had no qualms in fighting back,

Jennifer Maia Really did well in restraining Calderwood pretty good, that get her in winning this fight and Joanne Calderwood might not be feeling well when she was fighting I think this is not her 100% best and there might be something about her in my opinion.

[7788bitcoin]

^  Lol yup.  The more he was hyped to be some sort of Rousey protege, the more I felt something bad was about to happen.

Even i should be careful with all these hype trains especially from Ronda Rousey and hopefully he is under the coaching of Edmond Tarverdyan whose catchphrase of head movement was a meme  . Watched all the promotional videos and now Rousey will be hiding for a long time as all her prediction went down the drains.

And I think Calderwood could be pregnant.  Dunno...  She fainted after the match.

She was supposed to fight the champion but took the risk to fight a lower ranked opponent to be active and she might have fainted thinking that it will take a few more years to get a championship fight .

[eaLiTy]

Pretty sad two of the fighters that I think may win would end up in a lost, but no hard feelings that are how betting seems to be, and I never expected the hype for them was all just hype, Derek Brunson was a beast on the ground, well both fighters were fighting smartly at first but Brunson has taken the fight on the ground that Shahbazyan had no qualms in fighting back

It was a crazy card, 12 fights from the card were pulled due to many reasons including fainting back stage and positive corona virus situation and the main and co main event was crazy on its own, first time i am seeing Derek Brunson fighting according to his strengths rather than having a street mentality of taking one punch to give one and most of his losses were to elite fighters and the first test for Edmen Shahbazyan and he crumbled. 

The plan for Edmen Shahbazyan was to become the youngest champion and he failed his first test and hopefully he will learn from his mistakes.

[notblox1]

As we are waiting for next UFC event, it is one day until start of week one Dana White's Contender Series with main event Flores vs Jacoby.
This are all the fights, but so far I can't find bookies and odds on any crypto website:

Ty Flores  vs. Dustin Jacoby
Kenny Cross  vs. Damonte Robinson
Uros Medic  vs. Mikey Gonzalez
Luis Rodriguez  vs. Jerome Rivera
Jose Flores  vs. Jordan Leavitt

Countdown for start:
https://www.countdownmma.com/

[bbc.reporter]

It appears that the MMA news media is speculating that Conor will fight Pacman in a boxing match. I speculate that it might not be true. Pacman and Conor are under the same management company. What this might be is a Floyd Mayweather rematch for Conor and Pacman will train him hehehehe.



The rumors got started when McGregor posted a tweet saying, “I accept.” While some thought this was aimed at Khamzat Chimaev, McGregor denied this to ESPN’s Ariel Helwani. The “Notorious” one later made the same post but this time in Tagalog, which is the second language used in the Philippines.

Source https://www.mmanews.com/dana-white-wont-entertain-conor-mcgregor-vs-manny-pacquiao-rumors/

[target]

It appears that the MMA news media is speculating that Conor will fight Pacman in a boxing match. I speculate that it might not be true. Pacman and Conor are under the same management company. What this might be is a Floyd Mayweather rematch for Conor and Pacman will train him hehehehe.



The rumors got started when McGregor posted a tweet saying, “I accept.” While some thought this was aimed at Khamzat Chimaev, McGregor denied this to ESPN’s Ariel Helwani. The “Notorious” one later made the same post but this time in Tagalog, which is the second language used in the Philippines.

Source https://www.mmanews.com/dana-white-wont-entertain-conor-mcgregor-vs-manny-pacquiao-rumors/

Its in Tagalog, its got to be aimed to Pacquiao. Crossing is a money-making for Mcgregor. Nothing is retired when there is tons of money to make. Wouln't it be easy for them to arrange the fight because they are under same management?  If both of them are up for money, they could really make it.