🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread

[AverageGlabella]

If Jon Bones Jones beats Cyril Gane and has 7 fights left on his contract who is the next person to challenge him because if he beats Gane I think he holds the title until he retires. The heavyweight division looks very thin without Ngannou. Could the ufc approach Ngannou again knowing that Jon Jones would be a super fight and if Ngannou does not come back Jones keeps the title until he decides to end his ufc career?

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[bittraffic]

So the press conference happened earlier and it looks to me like Makhachev is playing mind games by saying that he wants to KO Volk...  Not happening.  It's gonna be via submission and if anything I feel like it's gonna be a rear naked choke.  Dunno...  I'm just talking out of my ass rn as somehow a rear naked choke popped in my head just now. 

UFC 284:  Pre Fight Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V_MfxTdFj0

Live weigh ins will be a few hours later.  I hope to see everybody having a good weight cut so in turn we have a good event.  GL to all your bets!

UFC 284:  Live Weigh In Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MagR6zyYtA

Volk was also training for the submission game. He had been in the sport for years, he wouldn't panic to get back on his feet and give up his back easily. But because  Islam is huge, he may not be able to stop him and will be an arm triangle again.

Volk will keep Islam guessing with just a 1,2 strike so he will not last fighting on his feet. He will takedown. That KO statement is a bull.

[AverageGlabella]

Volk was also training for the submission game. He had been in the sport for years, he wouldn't panic to get back on his feet and give up his back easily. But because  Islam is huge, he may not be able to stop him and will be an arm triangle again.

Volk will keep Islam guessing with just a 1,2 strike so he will not last fighting on his feet. He will takedown. That KO statement is a bull.

He start to make me think I bet on the wrong person by saying he will try to knock out Volk. If he does I think he will lose to a decision because Volk is a master at striking. I think Makhachev will run out of stamina if he stays striking with volk in the 1st round and will not take him down after he has exhausted himself. I hope he goes in to this fight and tries to take down instantly because he will get tired and volk will win this decisively. I might cancel my submission ticket now

[Welsh]

Anyway, let's get to my predictions for the up, and coming event:

Alexander Volkanovski
Yair Rodriguez
Jack Della Maddalena
Parker Porter
Jimmy Crute
Tyson Pedro
Joshua Culibao
Kleydson Rodrigues
Jamie Mullarkey
Jack Jenkins
Loma Lookboonmee
Blake Bilder
Zubaira Tukhugov

Looks like a good event to me, looking forward to both Mullarkey's fight, and Maddalena's. I'm quite confident on the Yair Rodriguez pick, I feel he just has the edge. Culibao, I'm a little worried about, but I do give him a slight edge, and it does seem like most bookies are also giving him the slight edge. I probably won't be betting much on this one or I'll try to keep my accumulator quite short.

[notblox1]

Fighters from Australia could have small advantage this time because of time zone and support from home crowd, but I don't think this will matter much for main event.
Co-main event is going to be much more competitive and I am not sure who is going to win, but I like the odds on Josh Emmett very much.
Randy Brown is going to be my surprise of the night, he has a big reach advantage and odds on him are amazing.
Here are my main predictions for upcoming UFC event:

Islam Makhachev win by submission.
Josh Emmett
Randy Brown
Justin Tafa
Zubaira Tukhugov
Joshua Culibao

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[seoincorporation]

I already placed my bet, Islam Makhachev and Yair Rodriguez in a parlay, $10 to win $20, it is not a big deal but it should be an easy win.

I'm not sure about Yair's fight, he should win and become the second Mexican champ, but it will be a hard fight because his opponent has a big KO power, so, let's see how that fight goes.

[bbc.reporter]

Bookies are not rooting for Volkaanovski however. Personally, I wanted Volkanovski to win and remain at the top still as he had defended the title before. He just has to avoid the takedown by countering it with his accurate strike or by knee and this will fall as one of the upsets again.

Once Makhachev wins in this weight class, this will be another set of fights for him, another to challenge by the guys in featherweight which will be an opportunity for bettors though.

If Volkanovski can beat Makhachev, I think he's a monster since he's already destroy every fighters in featherweight and he's able to win against top 2 P4P rank.

It's possible for other featherweight's fighter will challenge Makhachev, but there's no better fighter except Max Holloway, even Holloway is a good fighter, he have been beaten by Volkanovski for 3 times. He ever fight with Dustin Poirier which is top 3 rank in lightweight, but he's lose.

So if Makhachev beat Volkanovski, technically he already beat Holloway too.

I can easily agree that Volkanovski is a monster, but gonna try to start a discussion why he is not going to win First of all it is a very rare case when a fighter advances to other weight class and performs well there. Going down in a weight class is different. But when you go up to fight against a champion and top2 p2p, imho this is a suicide mission. Islam will be only a weigh-ins a lightweight, next day he will be a welterweight . This will be first time Volkanovski fighting as a lightweight. No warm-up fight, straight against champ... I wont stop saying that wrestler beats striker. Volkanovski, I think, had only 1 or 2 (probably only Ortega) good wrestler opponents. I wish this fight to have more drama, but I think everyone knows how it is going to end.

Dagestani wrestling is also very much different from American wrestling. We will certainly witness Alexander the great have a very hard time on the ground with Islam. This might become a new experience for the Australian, however, not a very welcome experience hehehe.

Also, what is this pound for pound best UFC fighter in the world? This is nothing. The UFC only created this for hype and promotion for another type of storyline.

[YuginKadoya]

I think UFC should add a clause of "having minimum wrestling or grappling skills of black belt" in contract when they sign fighters. Wrestling gives to much advantage in the fight. Otherwise the sports turns from mix martial arts into "try to beat wrestler with your other fighting style".

From the interview I have also found out that Colby Covington was offered 4 times to fight Chimaev, and he had refused all offers. Chimaev dreams to have UFC tournament in Sweden, in his second home. He said that UFC had only 1 tournament in Sweden, he wants it back.

Remember when he announced his retirement? It turned out he has covid-19, but one of the doctors gave him false diagnose - lung cancer. Because Chimaev was coughing with blood and on xray there were some strange black dots. Switching to different doctor helped. Remember his fight against Li Jingliang? How dominant he was, how he put Li up and went to Danas side of the octagon ? Before that fight he had only 1 month of training, after a year of being sick. He said he was in a rush in that fight, because he was loosing stamina quick. Several months before the fight, he had dyspnea even after passing several floors.

I didn't know he got health issues like that I thought that he has just had Covid-19, with that really scary lung cancer I really didn't know it, but maybe the serious issue with his health he was talking about might be real, the one were he was stopped in cutting weight by his doctor, man I mean that is some serious thing and he doesn't want to discuss it, for some reason, but I really wish him well, for him to be used by the UFC in wanting to be on top, with something so serious like that man I will also do everything I can to really take it, and that fight with Li Jingliang surely skyrocket his career so much though,

Burns is like what one of the best submission artists in the UFC, and he's probably more rounded than Chimaev himself. I wouldn't be so confident that Chimaev would win the rematch. I think it needs to happen, just because that first fight was so close. Burns throwing up submissions attempts while Chimaev has him stacked, then Chimaev doesn't even go back to the ground. You can call it ego if you want, but early in that fight you could see that he was trying to get Burns on the mat. That's is until he found out it wasn't going to be easy. Then, they go to the stand up, and Burns drops him nearly knocking him out.

I honestly, had Burns up in that fight, and I think a lot of other people would've too. I'm not saying it was a robbery because it was a close fight, and obviously I'm not saying that Chimaev isn't the better fighter, since it was a close fight. I just don't like how underestimated Burns is. He legitimately could be the champion.

I agree with you brother, seeing how Khamzat Chimaev struggle so much in that fight I see Kevin Holland struggle aswell with Gilbert Burns when they fight, and I think if Gilbert Burns could be given a chance I think he can also be a double belt champion aswell, he surely got the skill and heart, and Khamzat Chimaev really underestimated Gilbert Burns here and that ego of his kick in, even though his coach or his corner was pretty much mad for not doing the path of the way to victory and giving his all in the 1st round it nearly cost him a lost, and now I also want to see a rematch against this two aswell, and Paolo Costa too,

[owengtam09]

I am really excited about this fight and pretty much here are my prediction for the UFC 284

Islam Makhachev (-400)
Alexander Volkanovski (+310)

This is a sure lot of profit when Alexander Volkanovski wins this, and many are doubting him and saying that Volkanovski will not have any chance at all, and yes for this fight Makhachev has an advantage with his weight, and Volkanovski coming from a lighter division will surely struggle, and yeah Makchachev is bigger than Volkanovski, but for me, Alex Volkanovski is faster than Makhachev he already said that Islam Makhachev will surely take him down but Alex Volkanovski already knew this he just got to find a way to stand back up again fast, and Alex Volkanovski Speed is really something he might give Islam Makhachev a hard time with that insane speed, and Volkanovski will surely blitz through Makhachev and finding ways to make the fight winnable for him, I want to see those jabs and leg kick from Volkanovski and he could win this with a decision for him winning,

Yair Rodriguez (-190)
Josh Emmett (+160)

Yair Rodriguez is a technical fighter well these two fighters surely have the opposite style and if Rodriguez is a more technical approach John Emmett will come to you without hesitation, but if Yair Rodriguez can intercepts all of that into a counter then I think Yair Rodriguez can win this so my pick is Yair Rodriguez,

[YuginKadoya]

Now here are my picks and prediction for the UFC 284 Makhachev vs. Volkanovski

Islam Makhachev VS Alexander Volkanovski

The stake odds for this fight are 1.29 for Makhachev, and 4.10 for Volkanovski, for me because of the weight advantage of Makhachev, and height surely it will all come in handy with his Dagestan wrestling, and for this fight, and even though Volkanovski is a calculating fighter but surely Islam Makhachev strength just pulverize Charles Oliveira, and for this Islam, Makhachev has the defense and can counter the striking Volkanovski, and Alex Volkanovski just fought 2 wrestlers and that is Chad Mendes and Darren Elkins but those two isn't in the level of Islam Makhachev and this is the 1st time for Volkanovski to fight a southpaw fighter, Brian Ortega is a switching southpaw and Makhachev is a pure southpaw fighter, so this is going to be a new fight for him and because of that I am going with Islam Makhachev and will go with a win for a submission,

Yair Rodriguez VS Josh Emmett

The stake odds for this fight are 1.57 for Rodriguez and 2.60 for Emmett, this is a complete opposite of a fighter, Rodriguez is a much more technical and more calculating fighter, while Emmett, is an aggressive powerhouse there could be a little technicality in it, but he will surely get to his business with his power, but for me, Yair Rodriguez can easily check on this with his left hooks and kicks if Josh Emmett would just blitz towards Rodriguez the counter from Yair could definitely end this fight so my pick would be Yair Rodriguez,

Randy Brown VS Jack Della Maddalena

The stake odds for this fight are 3.70 for Brown and 1.34 for Della Maddalena, For this fight, Jack Della Maddelena is a boxer, he could surely move like one and could fight like one, but Randy Brown could throw those leg kicks and Della Maddalena doesn't really check on those leg kicks and he could surely damage Jack's leg in the process, and sometimes those unpredictable kicks from Brown could be a pressure for Della Maddalena, but as a boxer Jack Della Maddalena defense is great he is like a wall and as a boxer, he could check on those kicks from Randy Brown and he could win this with a counter, so my pick will be Jack Della Maddalena and would go bet on 3rd round TKO/KO

[tokeweed]

Here are the ceremonial weigh ins and the face off for those of you guys who still hasn't made their bets, parlays, lottery ticket or whatever.  A couple of guys missed weight and one of them is at the top of my lottery ticket.  Mother fking Tukhugov decided that he doesn't like to make weight today.  Lolol.  I should've known...  The weight cut has always been a problem for the guy.

He could be the pie shitter.  But at least it's the first match of the event.  It's gonna be easy to set up another lottery ticket.

UFC 284:  Ceremonial Weigh Ins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF_WZxQPqwk

Champ Islam Makhachev (155) vs Alexander Volkanovski (154.5)
Yair Rodriguez (145) vs Josh Emmett (145)
Randy Brown (171) vs Jack Della Maddalena (171)
Parker Porter (264) vs Justin Tafa (266)
Jimmy Crute (204.5) vs Alonzo Menifield (206)
Modestas Bukauskas (206) vs Tyson Pedro (206)
Melsik Baghdasaryan (146) vs Josh Culibao (146)
Kleydson Rodrigues (127)* vs Shannon Ross (125.5)
Jamie Mullarkey (155) vs Francisco Prado (154.5)
Jack Jenkins (145.5) vs Don Shainis (146)
Loma Lookboonmee (115.5) vs Elise Reed (115.5)
Blake Bilder (146) vs Shane Young (145.5)
Elves Brenner (155.5) vs Zubaira Tukhugov (157.5)*

*Missed weight

[Welsh]

He could be the pie shitter.  But at least it's the first match of the event.  It's gonna be easy to set up another lottery ticket.

Honestly, I always find these the most frustrating. Since, you make a bet, maybe all you can afford to bet for the weekend, and then all that buzz, and excitement that comes with betting dies in the first fight. I hate it, and it's usually what happens to me. He's on my actual betting slip by the way, so I'd advise you change it .

I've actually put Makhachev on my betting slip, just because it was a little extra value; not much though obviously. Anyway, the reason being; I like Volk, and I'm actually rooting for him, but the disadvantages this guy has in physical size, and wrestling alone makes me nervous for him. However, the actual reason is because win or lose, I get something (unless the others on my betting slip mess up obviously). Either Volk wins, and I'm happy because that's who I'm supporting or Mak takes it, and makes me some money. Win, win right? I can almost guarantee you it won't get to that, as tokeweed said the very first fight will probably mess it up.

[bittraffic]

Goodness! 5th round just made it. Volk loses but he is just another level. Definitely deserves another fight for this two.
Got to give Islam, all credit. 5 rounds and he barely stands. And a lot of thought a submission is almost 100%. Crazy fight.

I don't think Islam had proven himself against the no 1 P4P. He didn't dominate this fight.

[eaLiTy]

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I don't think Islam had proven himself against the no 1 P4P. He didn't dominate this fight.

Alexander Volkanovski proved his toughness and both had crazy cardio and only during the final minutes of the 5th round did Volkanovski had an upper hand on Islam Makhachev, the rest of the fight Islam Makhachev was controlling the fight, his striking was on point and he made some slick take downs and his ability to hold the opponent down is incredible but Alexander Volkanovski was the toughest in his career and hopefully we will see them meet again in the future.
Yair Rodríguez surprised me with his ground game, he improved a lot on his submission and did not expect him to win the fight with a submission and that too in a title fight.

[TopTort777]

Makhachev vs Volkanovski - what a fight. Great 25 minutes of action. Havent seen such intense in a fight for a long time. I would say, that people tagged Makhachev as "greatest", "best fighter", "best p4p" to early. This fight showed that there are fighters who can beat him. I would say that they need a rematch. The victory wasnt obvious or dominant. Could agree on a draw today. And I would like to end with "it is better to lose like Volkanovski, then to win like Makhachev" in this fight.

As usually, I've checked Instagram for some of backstage videos - came across Makhachev to Khabib video call. Islam told that if Khabib was in his corner, it would be more easy win. Added that previous opponent was easy, but this was one was tough. Khabib congratulated him and told that it does not matter how the fight went, a win is always a win.

[YuginKadoya]

Here is the Result for my pick on the UFC 284

Islam Makhachev VS Alexander Volkanovski ROUND 5 DECISION - WIN

It was a close 1 and Alexander Volkanovski hung on for dear life, as I thought that the punch from Makhachev have rack Volkanovski but he recovered from it, and also rack Makhachev with his own punch and on the takedown attempt Volkanovski is really doing a great job in hanging on or even exposing Makhachev's takedown, but the strength of Islam Makhachev has proven him wrong, but Alex Volkanovski is a safe fighter you can see how he calculate his movements into fighting Makhachev, you can see that Islam Makhachev has got the respect of Volkanovski in the stand-up for sure, and also Makhachev now has respect for Volkanovski aswell in getting out from his submission attempts and Islam Makhachev have said it aswell Alexander Volkanovski is a good experience for him for sure in the next fight he will know what he will do, and I think Khabib Nurmagomenodov will now be on Islam Makhachev's corner next time,

Yair Rodriguez VS Josh Emmett ROUND 2 SUBMISSION - WIN

Yair Rodriguez looks more massive than Josh Emmet it was a wild fight actually and you can see how good Rodriguez is and his timing was superb indeed, and even though Josh Emmett landed some strikes it was not enough Yair Rodriguez had the reach advantage that is why he have easily seen his opening to Emmett and surely landed that Submission to him, it was excellent,

Randy Brown VS Jack Della Maddalena ROUND 1 SUBMISSION - WIN

Jack Dela Maddalena was the real deal not only good at boxing but surely now has a submission as well Randy Brown was always running while Della Maddalena is high on guard, like a boxer that 1 punch in the 1st round have stumbled Brown down, and when it is not over Jack Della Maddalena have gone to submission to finish the fight like I have predicted it could be a knockout but interestingly he submitted Randy Brown,

[Erumo]

Islams Makhachev face shows who is the real winner in their fight. Why we havent seen famous Dagestani wrestling and full dominance in this fight? I striker from different weight class gave a champion a nice beating and could have won this fight in fifth round. Some might say that Alex Volkanovski survived all ground games by luck, but why Islam Makhachev did not finish him, but instead did more striking? Maybe coz wrestling did not work against Alex and Islam had to switch to striking (and get his face beaten).

A little guy (Islam had more reach advantage) move to other territory, switched off other guys best weapon (wrestling), smashed his face and lost. How can UFC judges be objective after that?

[owengtam09]

Now that the UFC 284 was finished it was a great fight that he has witnessed I don't really want to say that Volkanovski lost in that fight and I don't want to also say that he also lost,

Islam Makhachev (-400)
Alexander Volkanovski (+310) - LOST

It was really a close match for these two I really thought as well that both of them respected each other now, and if a rematch would continue on the horizon I think each fighter will be different in their strategy and approach, I really think that there is a way in giving Makhachev a hard time and this is it, Alexander Volkanovski could also in 1 point walk out as a winner in her as well, Alexander Volkanovski might have lost this fight but I think he can carry on with a great experience from this,

Yair Rodriguez (-190) - WIN
Josh Emmett (+160)

Yair Rodriguez has a taller guy than Josh Emmett, so there is no doubt when they face each other Rodriguez will never going to have a hard time getting the opening that he needed, and when Josh Emmett was not down with that punches, he has proven he can go into submission and with those huge wingspans he has to pull a triangle Choke on Josh Emmett,

[yazher]

Goodness! 5th round just made it. Volk loses but he is just another level. Definitely deserves another fight for this two.
Got to give Islam, all credit. 5 rounds and he barely stands. And a lot of thought a submission is almost 100%. Crazy fight.

I don't think Islam had proven himself against the no 1 P4P. He didn't dominate this fight.

But still, he won and Volk has nothing to say but to congratulate him on the result earlier. That was really a clear war right there, when you put two real champions inside the cage, you will always have that kind of close match up and that was really close and it was really hard to be a judge of that fight and I'm sure his next potential opponents will gonna review this fight and they will gonna learn a lot about Makachev's weaknesses that they will need to in order to have a high chance to beat him.

[7788bitcoin]

Here is the results, not many surprises


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Islams Makhachev face shows who is the real winner in their fight. Why we havent seen famous Dagestani wrestling and full dominance in this fight? I striker from different weight class gave a champion a nice beating and could have won this fight in fifth round. Some might say that Alex Volkanovski survived all ground games by luck, but why Islam Makhachev did not finish him, but instead did more striking? Maybe coz wrestling did not work against Alex and Islam had to switch to striking (and get his face beaten).

A little guy (Islam had more reach advantage) move to other territory, switched off other guys best weapon (wrestling), smashed his face and lost. How can UFC judges be objective after that?

Alex Volkanovski has the bigger reach advantage than Islam but you need to watch the fight again to understand who really won the fight. In the fourth round Islam controlled Volk in the ground. Final round Volk was on top in the end but he was not able to do much damage either. Either way it was a great fight and Volk showcased his skills and proved his legacy.