🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread

[Welsh]

Sergei Pavlovich looks the real deal, even defended a few takedown attempts, despite them not being setup by Blaydes. I'm not sure why Blaydes stayed on the feet as long as he did, it was quite clear Sergei Pavlovich was hurting him every single time he was landing. I didn't want to see Curtis lose in that way, but I've got to give it to Pavlovich he's put a real statement on that win.

He looks like the real deal, and can defend wrestlers. Remember, Curtis is one of the best in the division for his wrestling skills. I believe he has the most time on top in control time.

[cabron]

Sergei Pavlovich looks the real deal, even defended a few takedown attempts, despite them not being setup by Blaydes. I'm not sure why Blaydes stayed on the feet as long as he did, it was quite clear Sergei Pavlovich was hurting him every single time he was landing. I didn't want to see Curtis lose in that way, but I've got to give it to Pavlovich he's put a real statement on that win.

He looks like the real deal, and can defend wrestlers. Remember, Curtis is one of the best in the division for his wrestling skills. I believe he has the most time on top in control time.

He was so effective in his last two fights but after being inactive for months, it made him inefficient.
He looks intimidated in front of Pavlo although his hands are up, it does look like he only raises them to block an attack. No counter was done that could hurt Pavlo so Pavlo also charges all the time.

Pavlo does have an edge against Gane if he fights the same way.

[notblox1]

Sergei Pavlovich looks the real deal, even defended a few takedown attempts, despite them not being setup by Blaydes. I'm not sure why Blaydes stayed on the feet as long as he did, it was quite clear Sergei Pavlovich was hurting him every single time he was landing. I didn't want to see Curtis lose in that way, but I've got to give it to Pavlovich he's put a real statement on that win.

Yes he is the rea deal and I think title fight is next for him soon.
He was better than Derrick Lewis and Tai Tuivasa before this fight, he can fight both strikers, big guys and wrestlers, so he is no joke.
Only fight he ever lost in MMA was from Alistair Overeem but that was back in 2018 and he improved a lot since that time.
His winning style is amazing, 15 of his 18 fights he won fight KO ot TKO, that is 83%, and crowd loves this especially in heavyweight division.
If everything goes according to plan his next fight should be against winner of Jon Jones vs Stipe Miocic.

[tusandii]

Well, I think you forgot to add the comments on Khabib Nurmagomedov to your math in adding that your equation should be complete, Sergei Pavlovich really did a great job and has used his striking as his defense aswell, he got a pretty much solid chin, and looks massive than Curtis Blaydes, if not for Khabib Nurmagomedov, I will not switch my bet for Sergei Pavlovich, so next fight will be none other than Ciryl Gane, and technically Ciryl Gane could be the weakness of Sergei Pavlocich because Gane is more technical than him, but what if Pavlovich could have a takedown, that is a different story,

Congratulations on your win buddy for betting on Sergei Pavlovich.
And next, if Sergei Pavlovich fights Ciryl Gane, I'm not sure Pavlovich can win because Gane is a former heavyweight champion and was the number one fighter in his class.
In the previous fight, Gane lost the heavyweight championship belt to Jon Jones, but Gane started to train more actively and will fight back for the title he once held.
Maybe Pavlovich is a great fighter with a record of 5 wins in his last fight but if he has to fight Gane it seems that it will be more difficult for him to win.

[YuginKadoya]

Congratulations on your win buddy for betting on Sergei Pavlovich.
And next, if Sergei Pavlovich fights Ciryl Gane, I'm not sure Pavlovich can win because Gane is a former heavyweight champion and was the number one fighter in his class.
In the previous fight, Gane lost the heavyweight championship belt to Jon Jones, but Gane started to train more actively and will fight back for the title he once held.
Maybe Pavlovich is a great fighter with a record of 5 wins in his last fight but if he has to fight Gane it seems that it will be more difficult for him to win.

Thanks, mate, at 1st I really didn't expect Sergei Pavlovich to win because at 1st I was really going to bet for Curtis Blaydes but eventually change my bet on Pavlovich, well Ciryl Gane is the Interim UFC Heavyweight Championship and not the Heavyweight Champion, and the Heavyweight Championship was vacated by Francis Ngannou that Jon Jones and Ciryl Gane has competed on, but anyway as you have said that style of Sergei Pavlovich is not going to work on a more technical fighter and that is Ciryl Gane pretty much Gane will just counter all of his attacks but 1 thing that I have noticed with Sergei Pavlovich is he got a sturdy chin just like Tai Tuivasa Ciryl Gane was a rock when Tuivasa landed a counter and if this happens with the fight of Gane against Pavlovich I am seeing a same scenario Pavlovich's just needs 1 punch to defeat Gane for sure,

Sergei Pavlovich has one punch knockout power and he is in attack mode all the time which is the only issue i find in this match up against Ciryl Gane as he has a good distance control and coming back after a devastating loss to Jon Jones. Not sure whether Jon Jones will be interested in taking these new opponents as he is fixated on Stipe Miocic and if he is not ready Sergei Pavlovich should get the title shot as he is on a 6 fight winning streak.

Ciryl Gane is a sure weakness to Sergei Pavlovich's style of fighting but Sergei Pavlovich is not throwing random punches he surely got the accuracy of where he wants to hit you he would hit that part of you, I really think he got good boxing skills if Gane would land a punch and Pavlovich decided to counter even though Pavlovich would be hit by Gane's punch he got a reliable durable chin to support it while that counter that he would throw would simply wreck Gane just like what happens with Tuivasa VS Gane fight, Gane was knockdown but he just managed to recovered fast,

[TopTort777]

UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Simón



Date: April 29, 2023
Main Card: SUN, APR 30 / 2:00 AM GMT+3
Prelims: SAT, APR 29 / 11:00 PM GMT+3

Venue: UFC Apex

Main card (ESPN+)
Bantamweight: Song Yadong vs. Ricky Simón            
Middleweight: Caio Borralho vs. Michał Oleksiejczuk            
Middleweight: Rodolfo Vieira vs. Cody Brundage            
Women's Strawweight: Emily Ducote vs. Polyana Viana            
Heavyweight: Marcos Rogério de Lima vs. Waldo Cortes-Acosta            
Welterweight: Joshua Quinlan vs. Ange Loosa         

Preliminary card (ESPN / ESPN+)
Heavyweight: Martin Buday vs. Jake Collier            
Featherweight: Julian Erosa vs. Fernando Padilla            
Lightweight: Natan Levy vs. Pete Rodriguez            
Flyweight: Cody Durden vs. Charles Johnson            
Women's Bantamweight: Stephanie Egger vs. Irina Alekseeva            
Bantamweight: Brian Kelleher vs. Journey Newson            
Women's Bantamweight: Hailey Cowan vs. Jamey-Lyn Horth   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_Fight_Night:_Song_vs._Sim%C3%B3n

[Slow death]

I couldn't watch the whole fight, because I had to watch a lot of soccer games, it was a week with a lot of interesting games, but I saw a lot of videos of this fight and the previous fights that Sergei Pavlovich, Sergei Pavlovich's right hand punches are very strong, you can see that when he starts throwing punches in sequence and fast with his right hand he manages to make his opponents dizzy and Curtis was always open in his defense, he was hit in the face with a punch and you could see that his hands his were still immobile, that is, Curtis' reaction time to defend himself from Pavlovich's punches was a very slow reaction time in my opinion, I saw comments from many people asking Pavlovich to fight Jon Jones before Jon Jones left introduce

it would be a good fight between jon jones and pavlovich if one day it happens, but i see jon jones winning if this fight happens and the reason is very simple: jon jones has great resistance, he takes a lot of punches and hopes that the opponent gets tired and when he puts the opponent on the ground, the opponent is hardly able to let go, all the effort that the opponent makes to let go causes him to spend a lot of energy and even when he lets go jon jones still has more strength and easily wins the opponent, Pavlovich has a way of fighting a bit similar to Cryil Gane and it would be close for Pavlovich to fight jon jones one day

[tokeweed]

Sergei Pavlovich looks the real deal, even defended a few takedown attempts, despite them not being setup by Blaydes. I'm not sure why Blaydes stayed on the feet as long as he did, it was quite clear Sergei Pavlovich was hurting him every single time he was landing. I didn't want to see Curtis lose in that way, but I've got to give it to Pavlovich he's put a real statement on that win.

He looks like the real deal, and can defend wrestlers. Remember, Curtis is one of the best in the division for his wrestling skills. I believe he has the most time on top in control time.

I think those looked like they were half hearted TD's.  Lol.  I forgot Blaydes kinda has low fight IQ.  He just reminded me.    I really thought he'd do Palv like he did Overeem back in the day and to think Palv's only loss was due to ground and pound.

Blaydes lost his shot for a title shot.  But I guess Palv is a more exciting match for Jones.

Anyway, lost my lottery ticket again.  I gotta stop doing these.  Next event I just bet on the guys that I think are gonna win with good value. 

[Apocollapse]

An easy win by Pavlovich, it's so quick than what I was expected. The wrestling and ground skills by Blaydes is still not enough if he want to reach higher position, I think Jon Jones might easily win via submission against Blaydes lol.

The next UFC fight night seems to be 50/50, hard to guess which one will win. Yadong's recent lost against Sandhagen make him not looks good, but Yadong had fights with many good fighters. Simon on other side, always lost when he fight with a fighter which have higher rank than him. The advantage of Simon, he's well rounded than Yadong which is a puncher.

Personally, I think Yadong have higher chance to win.

[TopTort777]

An easy win by Pavlovich, it's so quick than what I was expected. The wrestling and ground skills by Blaydes is still not enough if he want to reach higher position, I think Jon Jones might easily win via submission against Blaydes lol.

To bad we did not have an opportunity to see a how Pavlovich performs in later rounds. It makes harder to make predictions. Once again we saw punches and first round finish. This really makes Sergey a once side fighter. Who knows what would be an outcome if his opponent got lucky to born with stone chin? How cool is Pavlovich besides punching? I think I am gonna avoid placing a bet on his next fight until I see him from different angle. Even though bookies next time would see him as a favourite (if only he did not fight JJ next), but it might turn that IRL it will be a 50/50 situation, if he is for example really bad against submissions. Like early Lesnar, who was defenceless against Mir and kneebar in their first fight.

[Balmain]

I thought Curtis Blaydes could defend Sergei Pavlovich's hits and pull him into deep water, but I was completely wrong. As soon as the match started, I immediately realized how wrong I had been. Sergey Pavlovich swings such punches that they're all so strong and fast for heavyweight opponents that it's hard to see those fast punches. What will happen now? Does he need to play one more match before the belt match? Heavyweight complicated up Ngannou, Jones now Sergei is a total devil triangle.

[YuginKadoya]

I couldn't watch the whole fight, because I had to watch a lot of soccer games, it was a week with a lot of interesting games, but I saw a lot of videos of this fight and the previous fights that Sergei Pavlovich, Sergei Pavlovich's right hand punches are very strong, you can see that when he starts throwing punches in sequence and fast with his right hand he manages to make his opponents dizzy and Curtis was always open in his defense, he was hit in the face with a punch and you could see that his hands his were still immobile, that is, Curtis' reaction time to defend himself from Pavlovich's punches was a very slow reaction time in my opinion, I saw comments from many people asking Pavlovich to fight Jon Jones before Jon Jones left introduce

it would be a good fight between jon jones and pavlovich if one day it happens, but i see jon jones winning if this fight happens and the reason is very simple: jon jones has great resistance, he takes a lot of punches and hopes that the opponent gets tired and when he puts the opponent on the ground, the opponent is hardly able to let go, all the effort that the opponent makes to let go causes him to spend a lot of energy and even when he lets go jon jones still has more strength and easily wins the opponent, Pavlovich has a way of fighting a bit similar to Cryil Gane and it would be close for Pavlovich to fight jon jones one day

The thing is there are really great matches on soccer games right now and I prefer Premier League and Bundesliga, but in Bundesliga, it is very unpredictable right now and it is nearing the last matchday, while Dortmund is near becoming champion,

Anyway back in the UFC, Ciryl Gane and Sergei Pavlovich don't have the same style of fighting, yes they are both strikers but in boxing with two boxers both boxers have the same style, the answer is no they are both boxers but they surely have a different style in fighting, and in the case of Ciryl Gane and Sergei Pavlovich both are strikers but you can tell the difference Ciryl Gane is more of a technical striker, were he would surely look and adjust to his opponents striking, while Sergei Pavlovich is a brawler type of striker, that would rely on the durability of his chin, to counter his opponent with a devastating punch, for me Sergei Pavlovich is not ready to face Jon Jones yet, Jones have many tools in his sleeves getting into him without proper experience with the gatekeeper would be suicide,

I think those looked like they were half hearted TD's.  Lol.  I forgot Blaydes kinda has low fight IQ.  He just reminded me.    I really thought he'd do Palv like he did Overeem back in the day and to think Palv's only loss was due to ground and pound.

Blaydes lost his shot for a title shot.  But I guess Palv is a more exciting match for Jones.

Anyway, lost my lottery ticket again.  I gotta stop doing these.  Next event I just bet on the guys that I think are gonna win with good value. 

Curtis Blaydes is shooting takedowns out of desperation, that is why Sergei Pavlovich caught it with a punch, Curtis Blaydes won against Tom Aspinall with an injury to Aspinal kicking Blaydes shin for me Blaydes doesn't gain experience with this kind of win so going into a Pavlovich fight he was half-hearted in taking on Pavlovich, and now that he is out of the picture I think that Sergei Pavlovich deserves something and that is the title shot, but he is not ready yet, for me a fight against Ciryl Gane if he can withstand Gane's barrage of punches,

[TopTort777]

Do you know the resent story, when Nate Diaz choked some guy in New Orleans (probably due to drunk conflict and he has confused that guy with Logan Paul, older brother of Jake Paul, with who Nate is having a boxing fight in August)? Well Louisiana State police dept. gave an order to arrest Nate for committing battery of a second degree. Short info - in Louisiana such deed is counted as criminal offence and could be punished with 8 year sentence.

[inthelongrun]

I thought Curtis Blaydes could defend Sergei Pavlovich's hits and pull him into deep water, but I was completely wrong. As soon as the match started, I immediately realized how wrong I had been. Sergey Pavlovich swings such punches that they're all so strong and fast for heavyweight opponents that it's hard to see those fast punches. What will happen now? Does he need to play one more match before the belt match? Heavyweight complicated up Ngannou, Jones now Sergei is a total devil triangle.

I really have the feeling that Pavlovich was understated and will impose his skills in order to land his power shots on Blaydes. But knowing Blades and his experiences against top UFC fighters, I was still confident that he's got enough and will come out stronger against Pavlovich. Pavlovich is just so heavy-handed that his jabs are enough to hurt Blaydes which affected its focus and set up for more damaging blows to land.

I doubt Ngannou going back to the UFC anytime soon. It's Jones and old Miocic for the heavyweight title next. 1 or 2 more fights for Pavlovich and he gets a title shot. I still want to see more of Jones at heavyweight. I felt like Gane was just rattled facing the GOAT that leads to his defeat.

[TopTort777]

I thought Curtis Blaydes could defend Sergei Pavlovich's hits and pull him into deep water, but I was completely wrong. As soon as the match started, I immediately realized how wrong I had been. Sergey Pavlovich swings such punches that they're all so strong and fast for heavyweight opponents that it's hard to see those fast punches. What will happen now? Does he need to play one more match before the belt match? Heavyweight complicated up Ngannou, Jones now Sergei is a total devil triangle.

I really have the feeling that Pavlovich was understated and will impose his skills in order to land his power shots on Blaydes. But knowing Blades and his experiences against top UFC fighters, I was still confident that he's got enough and will come out stronger against Pavlovich. Pavlovich is just so heavy-handed that his jabs are enough to hurt Blaydes which affected its focus and set up for more damaging blows to land.

I doubt Ngannou going back to the UFC anytime soon. It's Jones and old Miocic for the heavyweight title next. 1 or 2 more fights for Pavlovich and he gets a title shot. I still want to see more of Jones at heavyweight. I felt like Gane was just rattled facing the GOAT that leads to his defeat.

UFC president Dana White has already told multilple times that it is over with Ngannou. He will never be in UFC anymore. After he left, they had negotiations and made him new offers. He refused all of them. I see that Ngannou has only one point, one position - he wants to do a boxing match and earn millions. Not just few, but probably ten is minimum.

I expect Jones to face old Miocic and then finish career with a victory. I think I saw somewhere, that Jones said he has only 1 fight left. So beating Miocic would be an easy fight and a nice moment to put a dot in his career. Imho it does not look that he is very motivated to fight again and again.

As to Pavlovich. He is top2 heavyweight now. Only Gane is above him. That fight is going to be a real challenge for Pavlovich. Reason is simple - Gane has gone through all the strikers, all that heavy hitter. All those beasts that have number of KOes equal number of victories. Lewis, Rozenstruik, Tuivasa. He has fought and beaten all Pavlovich alike opponents. While level of Pavlovich opponents were a bit lower.

[jeremypwr]

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[YuginKadoya]

Do you know the resent story, when Nate Diaz choked some guy in New Orleans (probably due to drunk conflict and he has confused that guy with Logan Paul, older brother of Jake Paul, with who Nate is having a boxing fight in August)? Well Louisiana State police dept. gave an order to arrest Nate for committing battery of a second degree. Short info - in Louisiana such deed is counted as criminal offence and could be punished with 8 year sentence.

It was a total Look Alike of Logan Paul a striking image of him, probably can become a double of Logan Paul when Paul would star in movies when Logan Paul is about to get Whacked by someone, then the stuntman double would change him, this is him, surely even though he is the original Logan Paul he shouldn't have done such thing and this incident has occurs minutes after he throws a water bottle on Netflix star Chase DeMoor, at the Misfits boxing events,

So I think Nate Diaz will need to get arrested after these two incidents, which he surely deserves, Nate Diaz is surely getting out of hand whenever he is drunk or getting mad at nothing,

UFC president Dana White has already told multilple times that it is over with Ngannou. He will never be in UFC anymore. After he left, they had negotiations and made him new offers. He refused all of them. I see that Ngannou has only one point, one position - he wants to do a boxing match and earn millions. Not just few, but probably ten is minimum.

I expect Jones to face old Miocic and then finish career with a victory. I think I saw somewhere, that Jones said he has only 1 fight left. So beating Miocic would be an easy fight and a nice moment to put a dot in his career. Imho it does not look that he is very motivated to fight again and again.

As to Pavlovich. He is top2 heavyweight now. Only Gane is above him. That fight is going to be a real challenge for Pavlovich. Reason is simple - Gane has gone through all the strikers, all that heavy hitter. All those beasts that have number of KOes equal number of victories. Lewis, Rozenstruik, Tuivasa. He has fought and beaten all Pavlovich alike opponents. While level of Pavlovich opponents were a bit lower.

Sad to say Francis Ngannou has already destroyed his career after leaving the UFC, his worth is dropping significantly fast that nothing can surely stop it anymore, even boxers don't want to fight him because he doesn't worth a thing now,

While Jon Jones could simply get back to retire, I really don't know if he is going to decide on his own or if there is a written contract with the UFC that he needs to accept but I really don't know how many fights he can take on the contract, but if he wants out he can surely get it,

For me, Sergei Pavlovich is a very different animal when it comes to Lewis, Rozenstruik, Tuivasa, and the many Heavyweights that Ciryl Gane fought Pavlovich is surely a striker, but that strikes have that accuracy and technicality for a striker, and I think with the Curtis Blaydes fight I really think he hasn't shown his full potential yet, because it mostly end up in a TKO in round 1,

[Welsh]

Anyway, lost my lottery ticket again.  I gotta stop doing these.  Next event I just bet on the guys that I think are gonna win with good value. 

I was one fight off from a few k. A Bellator fight let me down, though. Surprisingly had a good week in the UFC. The one week I add a Bellator fight on to my card, it ends up ruining a win. Anyway, next UFC event looks fairly spicy. I'm liking Simon in this headliner though, don't know about you.

[bittraffic]

No one is interested to fight Ngannou. I think Dana really stretch his arms to affect Francis's career to end. He hadn't done it  to Demetrious Johnson's career though.

Anyway, lost my lottery ticket again.  I gotta stop doing these.  Next event I just bet on the guys that I think are gonna win with good value. 

I was one fight off from a few k. A Bellator fight let me down, though. Surprisingly had a good week in the UFC. The one week I add a Bellator fight on to my card, it ends up ruining a win. Anyway, next UFC event looks fairly spicy. I'm liking Simon in this headliner though, don't know about you.

One fight that you may just be interested in is Demetrious Johnson vs Adriano Moraes 3 in One Fight Night on May 5. This is going to be an action-packed fight. The 1 1st and 2nd fight was also cruel, if this is just in UFC, it will be highly promoted.

[danherbias07]

I expect Jones to face old Miocic and then finish career with a victory. I think I saw somewhere, that Jones said he has only 1 fight left. So beating Miocic would be an easy fight and a nice moment to put a dot in his career. Imho it does not look that he is very motivated to fight again and again.

Yeah, that's the hint of his recent tweet.
https://twitter.com/JonnyBones/status/1647438579327717376?s=20

How cool would it be to spend my retirement fight dominating the greatest heavyweight of all time, in my home state at Madison Square Garden?

I don't know, Jones likes to stir things up and this could also be a marketing strategy. There's no detail about why and I doubt it is about his age. He is just 35 years old and there are fighters who still do it at almost 40 or more.
It may be the best way to hang the gloves, from a win and his hometown but I do believe fighting young and hungry players would cement the GOAT title that had been doubted by many UFC fans.
Just going thru the replies in that tweet, I still find many people who disagree about it.