🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread

[TopTort777]

He looks Leaner now in my opinion, this might come in handy with his cardio, If you would look closely in the image.

Leaner on not, this fight wont last all 5 rounds. Usually fights like, with strikers of their level, whole fight ends in 2-3 rounds. After Overeem stopped being on steroids, he loses to every decent fighters and this fight wont be any different imho.

In last 5 years, only 2 of Overeem fights ended with decision, against Verdum an Roy Nelson. In all other fight he either gets tko/ko in first two rounds or tko/ko his opponent.

[-CryptoViking-]

The new storyboard for Dana is for Jon Jones to fight versus Francis Ngannou. Was this not Jon wanted before he removed himself as the light heavyweight champion?

@CryptoViking. Sakai also was never finished. This is a 5 round fight, however. His fat body might become tired hehehe.

Yes, as expected. People expecting Stipe to be manhandled by Dana were too optimistic, knew he would chill now a bit and choose wisely who and when he fights. He learned a lot about the business from this trilogy.

Also I think Jones has much bigger chances against Francis then people believe. Francis does not have real fights, he had only one with Stipe, every other confrontation was banging around and done. With Jones it won't be easy as that and cardio will come into play.

Regarding Sakai, he has good cardio too, he just looks so weird and deceiving. He looks slow and fat , yet he has just enough speed, his style is like sbadger/cobra combo from what I've seen. He is aggressive even when he is slow, but when he sees opportunity explodes.

Overeem gets tired after 2 rounds if he is pressed traditionally, so I see Sakai taking this one.Could even bet on it, haven't done that a while and this really looks solid to me.

[eaLiTy]

The new storyboard for Dana is for Jon Jones to fight versus Francis Ngannou. Was this not Jon wanted before he removed himself as the light heavyweight champion?

Dana White has made his mind that Francis Ngannou will fight for the title against Stipe Miocic, now with Brock Lesnar a free agent there are talks about Jon Jones taking on Brock Lesnar and even Dana White is willing to make this fight happen if Brock Lesnar is interested to come back to the UFC, but there are other talks about Fedor Emelianenko and Brock Lesnar and the odds makers have already gave Brock Lesnar as the favorite against Fedor Emelianenko but he is an underdog against Jon Jones.

[YuginKadoya]

He looks Leaner now in my opinion, this might come in handy with his cardio, If you would look closely in the image.

Leaner on not, this fight wont last all 5 rounds. Usually fights like, with strikers of their level, whole fight ends in 2-3 rounds. After Overeem stopped being on steroids, he loses to every decent fighters and this fight wont be any different imho.

In last 5 years, only 2 of Overeem fights ended with decision, against Verdum an Roy Nelson. In all other fight he either gets tko/ko in first two rounds or tko/ko his opponent.

Well you had a point that heavy hitters or strikers like them usually ends the match 2-3 matches only, my opinion is Sakai must have gone intense training to have such drastic change with his Physique this can sometimes make a fighter more stronger and faster than they used before, in the case of Agustos Sakai maybe a different performance this time, and look at their huge age gap of 11 years

I really like Alistair Overeem to win this but having Augusto Sakai as an opponent he should take steroids again because he might need it and he might have a hard time with this fight.

[notblox1]

Daniel Cormier is retiring from mixed martial arts fighting, and that was officially confirmed by Dana White and usada today.
I think he will still be a big part of ufc as commentary for fights or maybe as coach in future.
https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2020/09/daniel-cormier-officially-withdraws-from-usada-testing-pool

[tokeweed]

Dropped a little bit of action just now for the weekend's event.  A little less so than what I usually bet...  I got owned by the books the last event.  Lawl.  

My bets:  Karol Rosa ML at 1.74, Jalin Turner ML at 2.39, Fabinski at 1.66. And I made a 6 leg parlay for fun.  Azure to win, Kelleher to win, Araujo to win, Fabinski to win, Rosa to win and the main event over 1.5 rounds at 13.78ish.

[TopTort777]

Hey tokeweed, do our posts with predictions and thoughts help you to make bets and to win? Just curious if all what we post here is useful or we here just chat and dont understand in fights at all?

P.S. I think you are the one who makes ufc bets or am I wrong?

[notblox1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_Fight_Night:_Overeem_vs._Sakai

Few more days until next UFC event with heavyweight main event Overeem vs Sakai and I am also interested in women bantam Eubanks vs Rosa.
Overeem is favorite if we look ad bookies odds but I need to research more and read nes before any predictions.

Nevada State Athletic Commission also suspended four UFC fighters Jamahal Hill, Tim Elliott, Luis Peña and Deron Winn were all suspended, as they tested postive on recent drug tests with cannabis and amphetamines:
https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/29802516/four-ufc-fighters-suspended-fined-positive-drug-tests

[-CryptoViking-]

Hey tokeweed, do our posts with predictions and thoughts help you to make bets and to win? Just curious if all what we post here is useful or we here just chat and dont understand in fights at all?

P.S. I think you are the one who makes ufc bets or am I wrong?

Great question! I am also interested to hear whether our ideas and opinions affect him or does he take them into consideration when deciding on whom to place a bet. Sometimes thinking too much about other people opinions can be counterproductive too and it can kill your intuition.

[tokeweed]

Hey tokeweed, do our posts with predictions and thoughts help you to make bets and to win? Just curious if all what we post here is useful or we here just chat and dont understand in fights at all?

P.S. I think you are the one who makes ufc bets or am I wrong?

What would really help is if everybody engages in discussions about the matches.  Like my Fabinski bet, somebody I know made a case that it wasn't a good bet because Fabinski being a wrestler who likes grinding opponents down could play into Muniz's hands as Muniz is too good on the ground.  I watched Muniz's last couple of fights and thought he's right.  Now I wanna cancel my bet and bet Muniz  Lol.

If you guys think I'm wrong, tell me so.  Critique me, I'll do it to you too.  It's the best way to learn. 

[YuginKadoya]

Hey tokeweed, do our posts with predictions and thoughts help you to make bets and to win? Just curious if all what we post here is useful or we here just chat and dont understand in fights at all?

P.S. I think you are the one who makes ufc bets or am I wrong?

Great question! I am also interested to hear whether our ideas and opinions affect him or does he take them into consideration when deciding on whom to place a bet. Sometimes thinking too much about other people opinions can be counterproductive too and it can kill your intuition.

In my opinion, all counter predictions and suggestion are pretty good stuff and away in learning and understanding things that some of us don't know or pretty much doesn't understand, like what happen with Sean O'Malley VS Marlon Vera fight he got some interesting video that he shared to me that Marlon Vera may be really aiming for the back of the knee of O'Malley some stuff that you will learn in just engaging discussion like this and I think this is very healthy in making decisions and learning some stuff. 

[7788bitcoin]

Hey tokeweed, do our posts with predictions and thoughts help you to make bets and to win? Just curious if all what we post here is useful or we here just chat and dont understand in fights at all?

P.S. I think you are the one who makes ufc bets or am I wrong?

I thought anyone posting in this thread is wagging a bet on the sport, i wage on MMA and i usually will never miss a fight card. I will not take anyone's prediction here on face value to make my bet, but if a few members who usually make a prediction does any fight prediction i usually watch their past fights and come to a conclusion before wagging a bet.

[TopTort777]

I’m not very good at predictions and so far dont have spare funds for betting. All I can do is make predictions based “on paper” info. This event I think that Sakai and Lima will be the winners. Dont now much about other fighters.

[tokeweed]

^  I suck too.  But I love watching the matches and make small bets here and there.

As for Lima, he's been weighing in heavier and heavier in his last three matches.  I don't think he's been training all that well at HW.  Lol.  He used to be at LHW.  He's got a good overhand right that could knock Romanov out tho.

Romanov is faster, more aggressive with the take downs and prolly has better cardio than Lima despite being a huge guy.  He also used to be a sumo wrestler, so he's obv used to pushing guys bigger than him around.  

As for Sakai..  Dunno.  A lot of people are backing him.  Overeem is better than him everywhere...  But that chin.  Lawl.  They're fading that chin.  His chin survived at his last fight vs Walt Harris tho.  Go look that up.  You'll be 'wtf hooow?'.

Here are the weigh ins:

UFC Las Vegas 9:  Weigh ins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OopeWlAObXo

UFC Las Vegas 9:  Face offs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4OBJSIU5Zg

Heavyweight: Alistair Overeem (252.5) vs Augusto Sakai (261.5)
Light heavyweight: Ovince Saint Preux (205.5) vs Alonzo Menifield (204)
Welterweight: Michel Pereira (170.5) vs Zelim Imadaev (171)
Featherweight: Brian Kelleher (146) vs Kevin Natividad (144.5)
Lightweight: Thiago Moises (155.5) vs Jalin Turner (155)
Middleweight: Bartosz Fabinski (184.5) vs Andre Muniz (185.5)
Flyweight: Montana de la Rosa (125.5) vs Viviane Araujo (126)
Heavyweight: Marcos Rogerio de Lima (260.5) vs Alexander Romanov (259)
Bantamweight: Cole Smith (135) vs Hunter Azure (135.5)

[YuginKadoya]

I am betting on small amounts but if I am not usually familiar with the fighter or having doubts on a fighter I am not taking my risk on betting on it, you will surely see different people around there are people here who don't miss a bet, people that are betting if they can take the risk and they have insights of the fight and people that are just making a share on what they think on a certain fight, I think all of this is helpful and can really help the fan base of UFC, and I am still going with Sakai.


And by the way, does Alistair Overeem looks like Wreck-It Ralph to you? because he is to me.

[notblox1]

Good fight cart tonight with some interesting fights to watch.
I have listened Alistair Overeem pre-fight interview he gave few days ago, and I came to conclusion this could be his last fight, as he is fighting for long time, almost two decades. Odd for his win are nice and I will be taking this bet.
https://youtu.be/cV6_jz1CPdo

[eaLiTy]

Good fight cart tonight with some interesting fights to watch.
I have listened Alistair Overeem pre-fight interview he gave few days ago, and I came to conclusion this could be his last fight, as he is fighting for long time, almost two decades. Odd for his win are nice and I will be taking this bet.

He is one of the legends of the sport with 79 fights both in MMA and Kick Boxing and a long 21 years of fighting and the toll it will have will be incredible and still he is fighting against the top fighters which in itself is a great achievement and if this is a farewell fight i respect his decision and i wish he could retire on a winning note.

I am not wagging a bet in this fight card, just watching this as fan .

[7788bitcoin]

As for Sakai..  Dunno.  A lot of people are backing him.  Overeem is better than him everywhere...  But that chin.  Lawl.  They're fading that chin.  His chin survived at his last fight vs Walt Harris tho.  Go look that up.  You'll be 'wtf hooow?'.

The chin of Alistair Overeem is the only doubt even i have in this fight, a lucky punch and a weak chin could end up in a loss  . Still i am going with Alistair Overeem  as i think he will be able to drag Augusto Sakai to the later rounds, i am wagging my bet on Alexander Romanov, Alexander Romanov and Brian Kelleher in this card and hopefully everyone i predicted wins .

[TopTort777]

I was not expected that Overeem vs Sakai fight would last 5 rounds. The fight ended in 30 sec after 5th rounded started. Quite a usual one leg submission by Overeem and elbows and punches after. As he just waited for 5th round and then used his combo.

[notblox1]

Alistair Overeem win by TKO.
Fight started slower, but I expected to see him win in the end, and it looks like he wants to fight again after he spends some time with his family,
so he is not stopping any time soon, few more years as he said:
https://youtu.be/Z0KiTdrJNrs