🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread

[YuginKadoya]

I'm still amazed at Cejudo nearly taking the crown after 3 years of inactivity. The fight was close especially if we give credit to Cejudo's takedown defense. Although Sterling was really in command by landing more strikes and how he managed to somehow takedown Cejudo after his many failed attempts. Sterling is really talented and his Hollywood acting was ready to put on display while on the ground trying to lure Cejudo. And because of that, he gets a bonus in his next fight.

I was also amazed at Henry Cejudo aswell, getting that fight so much close for many to call it a controversial fight, at his age (the same as mine) there is nothing to be ashamed of even if he lost, as he can surely withstand all of those blows he can definitely win this maybe if he can capitalize in striking even more, but because of Sterling reach and Height it is a struggle for him so respect to him, and congrats to Sterling he uses his Advantage and pretty much they know them very well,

Either Belal caused the injury or he just made the injury worse or Burns' body is a little soft and not fully healed after his 3 rounds fight with Masvidal. Too bad for Burns, this defeat could diminish his rank. He could have waited at least a month before starting another full training camp. Burns was still dangerous and Belal did well by staying safe in securing his victory and his title shot.

Short Notice can really take a toll on a fighter's body as I have said in my recent post-Royce Gracie is a master at fighting 3 to 4 opponent back then all of his fights was a striker he is the one with the ground game even if it was really exhausting for him there is a huge difference with fighters back then and today Jorge Masvidal if he fights in Royce Gracie's place he will surely dominate that fight and can dominate even the bigger fighter, he could surely mix up his ground and striking to his advantage,

[TopTort777]

From the UFC 288 I would definitely gonna remember Evloev vs Lopes fight (it was his debut fight in UFC). A debut against top10. This fight should be like taking a walk for Evlovev. Howevr Lopes impressed me a lot. Each round Evloev have to survive against triangle, kimura and knee lock. If this wasnt a fight against top10, judges would have given Lopes a victory, or his opponent would tap. He was good at striking also. Evloev has huge pain threshold and nice skills of defending against all that he was caught in. This fight was much more interesting than main and co-main event fights for me.

As I understand, Belal now is about to face winner of Edwards-Covington fight. Damn I wish they would beat Belal, because if he wins, he would hold the belt for long time with his boring fight style. Otherwise how can you describe 17 wins by UD out of 23, or only 3 wins in UFC as early finish.

[Welsh]

From the UFC 288 I would definitely gonna remember Evloev vs Lopes fight (it was his debut fight in UFC). A debut against top10. This fight should be like taking a walk for Evlovev. Howevr Lopes impressed me a lot. Each round Evloev have to survive against triangle, kimura and knee lock. If this wasnt a fight against top10, judges would have given Lopes a victory, or his opponent would tap. He was good at striking also.

The impressive thing is Lopes actually did that on short notice, without a full camp, which might be the reason he gassed so much in the latter two rounds. Yet, he still threatened submissions off of his back. If Evloev wasn't so experienced he would've likely tapped. So, Lopes has risen his stock a lot, and honestly Evloev probably lost a little bit of the hype that was behind him. However, it'll be really telling when we've seen more fights in the UFC with Lopes to really figure out where his ceiling is.

Also, Kron Gracie was a huge disappointment. I'm a massive fan of Ryan Hall so I'm not opposed to that style, but the lack of development Kron showed anywhere, but the ground was just worrying. I don't think he'll be in the UFC much longer. He didn't look particularly good on the ground either.

[notblox1]

Some new outside octagon, UFC fighter Tony Ferguson Arrested after allegedly crashing and flipping his truck in Hollywood  
This guy is a great fighter but he always looked mentally unstable to me so I am not surprised to see him in headlines again, but he is luckily not injured in this incident.

[TopTort777]

From the UFC 288 I would definitely gonna remember Evloev vs Lopes fight (it was his debut fight in UFC). A debut against top10. This fight should be like taking a walk for Evlovev. Howevr Lopes impressed me a lot. Each round Evloev have to survive against triangle, kimura and knee lock. If this wasnt a fight against top10, judges would have given Lopes a victory, or his opponent would tap. He was good at striking also.

The impressive thing is Lopes actually did that on short notice, without a full camp, which might be the reason he gassed so much in the latter two rounds. Yet, he still threatened submissions off of his back. If Evloev wasn't so experienced he would've likely tapped. So, Lopes has risen his stock a lot, and honestly Evloev probably lost a little bit of the hype that was behind him. However, it'll be really telling when we've seen more fights in the UFC with Lopes to really figure out where his ceiling is.

Their fight got the fight of the night reward With that fight Lopes did a really nice announcement in UFC. That kid is still young, 28 only and his record among pros is 21-6. In few years, there is a chance featherweight top gonna have a real trouble in his face.

[tokeweed]

UFC on ABC: Rozenstruik vs. Almeida



Date: May 13, 2023
Main Card: SAT, MAY 13 / 10:00 PM GMT+3
Prelims: SAT, MAY 13 / 6:30 PM GMT+3

Venue:    Spectrum Center

Main card (ESPN+)
Heavyweight: Jairzinho Rozenstruik vs. Jailton Almeida            
Light Heavyweight: Anthony Smith vs. Johnny Walker            
Welterweight: Daniel Rodriguez vs. Ian Garry            
Women's Strawweight: Mackenzie Dern vs. Angela Hill            
Welterweight: Alex Morono vs. Tim Means   

Preliminary card (ESPN / ESPN+)
Welterweight: Matt Brown vs. Court McGee            
Heavyweight: Karl Williams vs. Chase Sherman            
Bantamweight: Cody Stamann vs. Douglas Silva de Andrade            
Light Heavyweight: Carlos Ulberg vs. Ihor Potieria            
Lightweight: Natan Levy vs. Pete Rodriguez            
Women's Flyweight: Kim Ji-Yeon vs. Mandy Böhm            
Welterweight: Bryan Battle vs. Gabriel Green            
Women's Bantamweight: Jessica-Rose Clark vs. Tainara Lisboa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_on_ABC:_Rozenstruik_vs._Almeida

My leans at first glance without reading much into their Tapology profile or stats:

Rozenstruik:  I think it's a huge step up for Almeida who hasn't proved that he could withstand a guy with powerrr in his hands like Rozenstruik.  And Almeida is somewhat hittable.  He should initiate a TD early and asap before Roz finds his chin.

Walker
Rodriguez:  Another step up in competition for Machado and like Roz, Rodriguez has powerrr.
Dern
Morono
Brown vs McGee:  Dunno.
Williams
Stamann
Ulberg
Levy
Kim
Battle vs Green:  Dunno.
Clark

And as always, here's a vid to watch.

UFC Free Fight:  Roz vs Sakai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmV1CGmz4uU

From the UFC 288 I would definitely gonna remember Evloev vs Lopes fight (it was his debut fight in UFC). A debut against top10. This fight should be like taking a walk for Evlovev. Howevr Lopes impressed me a lot. Each round Evloev have to survive against triangle, kimura and knee lock. If this wasnt a fight against top10, judges would have given Lopes a victory, or his opponent would tap. He was good at striking also.

The impressive thing is Lopes actually did that on short notice, without a full camp, which might be the reason he gassed so much in the latter two rounds. Yet, he still threatened submissions off of his back. If Evloev wasn't so experienced he would've likely tapped. So, Lopes has risen his stock a lot, and honestly Evloev probably lost a little bit of the hype that was behind him. However, it'll be really telling when we've seen more fights in the UFC with Lopes to really figure out where his ceiling is.

Also, Kron Gracie was a huge disappointment. I'm a massive fan of Ryan Hall so I'm not opposed to that style, but the lack of development Kron showed anywhere, but the ground was just worrying. I don't think he'll be in the UFC much longer. He didn't look particularly good on the ground either.

I think Lopes was training for another match in a regional league before the UFC gave him a call.  But yeah, he's pretty decent.  Evloev getting aways from those nasty sub attempts tho...  :/

Kron Gracie, I was more hoping for Jourdain to make a mistake in there as he usually does.  But it looks like he plugged those leaks.

[danherbias07]

Either Belal caused the injury or he just made the injury worse or Burns' body is a little soft and not fully healed after his 3 rounds fight with Masvidal. Too bad for Burns, this defeat could diminish his rank. He could have waited at least a month before starting another full training camp. Burns was still dangerous and Belal did well by staying safe in securing his victory and his title shot.

Short Notice can really take a toll on a fighter's body as I have said in my recent post-Royce Gracie is a master at fighting 3 to 4 opponent back then all of his fights was a striker he is the one with the ground game even if it was really exhausting for him there is a huge difference with fighters back then and today Jorge Masvidal if he fights in Royce Gracie's place he will surely dominate that fight and can dominate even the bigger fighter, he could surely mix up his ground and striking to his advantage,

True. I don't like what he did but I just supported him by betting for him that was some crazy decision from him and his camp too. The 1-month difference in the 2 fights took a toll on him physically. Maybe that's just a week's rest and then back to training while he had not fully healed from all the massive punches thrown by Masvidal at him. He is still human and he should remember that. 

Aljo won which I think he also made more significant hit. Cejudo made it through til the last round where people are saying its a robbery because of the 3rd and 4th round are questioned while the 5th should have been with Cejudo. Their score cards says Cejudo. There are lots to say when decisions are already made. Anyway, Aljo may have more than 50% of beating Omalley.

The fight made people ask whether throwing knees while on the ground is going to be made legal. Its becoming a cheat sheet for fighters already.

For me, Sterling definitely won that game and there's no biased opinion on it. He won thru striking and so do with takedowns. Hell, even Cejudo is in doubt that he won that game saying he should've done more and adjusted better at each round. A challenger should be super aggressive and show how dominant he will be against the champion to win a decision.
I think Cejudo is just a bit rusty but he can definitely win it if ever he wants to continue fighting more and not decide to retire again.

[TopTort777]

No doubt that Aljo won that fight, however some people believe that Cejudo was robbed. Imho, Cejudo did not do anything or enough to win. He wasnt dominating that fight, and as it was a fight for a belt,  not being dominant or simply showing same results as your opponent means not receiving a belt. Just wonder who is going to be Aljos next opponent, as he and Dvalishvili (top1) are friends from same gym. Probably the winner of Dvalishvili vs O'Malley are going to have a title shot.

[YuginKadoya]

Some new outside octagon, UFC fighter Tony Ferguson Arrested after allegedly crashing and flipping his truck in Hollywood  
This guy is a great fighter but he always looked mentally unstable to me so I am not surprised to see him in headlines again, but he is luckily not injured in this incident.

That was one crazy fighter Tony Ferguson was driving under the influence of Alcohol with his 2 other passengers well there are no reported injuries for those involve and for the bystanders, but because Ferguson was in the influence of alcohol he is sure arrested because of it, let's just wait what will be the action of the UFC for this kind of actions,

True. I don't like what he did but I just supported him by betting for him that was some crazy decision from him and his camp too. The 1-month difference in the 2 fights took a toll on him physically. Maybe that's just a week's rest and then back to training while he had not fully healed from all the massive punches thrown by Masvidal at him. He is still human and he should remember that. 

Well, seeing the Masvidal fight and the fight ended in a Decision Gilbert Burns took those damaging shots from Jorge Masvidal so it is really not surprising that he will get injured by the Belal Muhammad fight, that is why I took the risk on betting for Belal Muhammad, but if Gilbert Burns is well rested before going for the fight I will surely take Gilbert Burns winning this, his camp surely underestimated Muhammad for  accepting this fight,

For me, Sterling definitely won that game and there's no biased opinion on it. He won thru striking and so do with takedowns. Hell, even Cejudo is in doubt that he won that game saying he should've done more and adjusted better at each round. A challenger should be super aggressive and show how dominant he will be against the champion to win a decision.
I think Cejudo is just a bit rusty but he can definitely win it if ever he wants to continue fighting more and not decide to retire again.

I may have bet for Henry Cejudo, but watching the fight Aljamain Sterling surely did good this is a close fight so there are some angles that Henry Cejudo should have won and have won and did great against Sterling but still it is not enough the Funkmaster surely have the smarts to keep the fight going but Sterling also can not ignore how close Cejudo in taking his belt he should watch the tape and carry on with those errors he made he is the champion challengers can not see any holes or opening in your game,

[Slow death]

after Cejudo's fight, I went to see many highlights of the fight, Cejudo defended himself more, he also showed to be a little out of shape, there were times when he could have a chance to immobilize the opponent and consequently he would win this fight, in the my opinion the fact that he retired more than 2 years ago made his body and mind relax and miss a part of the experience of fighting another opponent in the octagon, and he didn't do much diligence in studying the opponent's style or else he did but in the octonogo he ignored it a lot on certain occasions, even if he trained for this fight, there is a big difference between training many years and fighting constantly in practice

I didn't see a big difference in terms of skills between Cejudo and Sterling, but I saw a big difference in terms of experience fighting in the octagon, Sterling showed this great experience and that's what made him win this fight, but strange to see Conor making fun of Cejudo, for Conor Cejudo was simply massacred and had no chance of winning, at least that's what I understand when I read this news:

Video: Conor McGregor mocks Henry Cejudo loss at UFC 288, Cejudo responds

UFC in addition to fights has the marketing part, when a fighter announces that he is going to retire, years later he appears and announces that he will fight again and challenges some champion of some division and that fighter loses in the fight against the champion, so from that moment on this The fighter who loses, not only loses the fight, but also loses prestige and starts to be seen as those guys who are just starting out in the UFC. it is a mistake for a fighter to retire from the UFC and then return to fight in the UFC

[jeremypwr]

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[Marvell1]

I also believe that Sterling was the one who won the fight. The score for him looks better and he was also the one being more active in my opinion. Again the fight was not clear and it was very close. But I don't think Sterling was given the win for free or anything. I also don't believe that Cejudo got robbed.

It will be interesting to see Sterling fight against O'Malley. But of course for that first of all O'Malley will have to beat Dvalishvili. I also agree that the winner of this fight may actually have a chance against Sterling for that title shot.

No doubt that Aljo won that fight, however some people believe that Cejudo was robbed. Imho, Cejudo did not do anything or enough to win. He wasnt dominating that fight, and as it was a fight for a belt,  not being dominant or simply showing same results as your opponent means not receiving a belt. Just wonder who is going to be Aljos next opponent, as he and Dvalishvili (top1) are friends from same gym. Probably the winner of Dvalishvili vs O'Malley are going to have a title shot.

[bbc.reporter]

This is the first time I dare to bet some money on the women's fight between Jessica-Rose Clark vs. Tainara Lisboa which will take place next Saturday.
Usually I only bet on male fighters but seeing a chance to win for Jessica I dared to take the risk.
Jessica is a female fighter in the Bantamweight division and has quite a history of fighting.
When I did my research and looked at her fight history, can see that Jessica has the upper hand and has a big chance to win the fight.

Hehe I reckon women's MMA is where the fights become more unpredictable the lower it is placed in the card. However, I agree on the bet. Jessica Rose Clark recently has lost only vs. grapplers and Tainara Lisboa appears to be a striker only who trained in Muay Thai.

Also, this might be another more important reason why everyone will like Jessy Jess hehehee. I am quite certain @YuginKadoya would agree.

[TopTort777]

Also, this might be another more important reason why everyone will like Jessy Jess hehehee. I am quite certain @YuginKadoya would agree.

YuginKadoya has interesting reputation in this topic

I suggest not to miss following fights during upcoming event: main event for sure, Smith vs Walker, Brown vs McGee. Damn, I still cant forget how Brown chopped Sanchez with elbow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDWsA6Pg6_w. Also cant wait for him to retire. Because all those strikes to head already start to cause him speech and memory problems, but he keep on participating. And Smith and Walker are always good to watch.

[owengtam09]

Congratulations to Aljamain Sterling on defending his Bantamweight title against Henry Cejudo, that was a pure class performance by him. And it's time for the upcoming title match between Aljamain Sterling vs Sean O'Malley. This would be a banger, but we need to wait until September. And also congratulations to Belal Muhammad for securing his Welterweight title shot.

It was a shocker, I really know that Aljamain Sterling could win no doubt, and just like Conor McGregor has said It was an easy prediction win for him Aljamain Sterling, and Looking at the fight Henry Cejudo is one tricky opponent with his size and bulkiness Aljamain Sterling surely had a hard time with him, but Aljamain Sterling still prevail and I have seen the Scorecard it was really a mess but they still give the win to Sterling and I think they did it right,

While Gilbert Burns got an injury and Belal Muhammad capitalized on that I really don't like it when a fighter is injured for sure it is now a handicap match for Belal Muhammad and likely I am a rematch between the two and this time a healthy Gilbert Burns,

Is the next fight Aljamain Sterling vs Sean O'Malley confirmed it will be my favorite fight because I side with Sean O'Malley to take the title from the undefeated fighter, even though it's september but it's not long to wait, other than that we will see another big fight between Charles Oliveira vs Beneil Dariush on 10th june.

It is already in motion and I have seen it on Tapology it will be on August 19, and it will be on UFC 292 but there are only two bouts, for now, I think Dana White and the UFC are still arranging the fights for this event if a certain fight got canceled on another event then they will likely move it here, here is the Link so you could see it https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/101022-ufc-292 the fight for now consist of Aljamain Sterling VS Sean O'Malley for the UFC Bantamweight Championship and Cody Garbrandt VS Mario Bautista,

[TopTort777]

It is already in motion and I have seen it on Tapology it will be on August 19, and it will be on UFC 292

After seeing Aljo fights, it seems for me that his wrestling skills will beat O'Malley striking skills and it will be another title defence for Aljo. As minimum it is gonna cause a lot of troubles for Sean. People might speculate on their height, that Sean is 10cm higher, but reach advantage isnt that as huge as might be, only 3cm. Dont forget that Aljo is on hype, he is on 9 win streak (lol) already. Perhaps we might see a slight copy of Aljo vs Yan fight. Aljo would as usually spam with strikes and try to do more control, followed by a win by UD.

[inthelongrun]

While Gilbert Burns got an injury and Belal Muhammad capitalized on that I really don't like it when a fighter is injured for sure it is now a handicap match for Belal Muhammad and likely I am a rematch between the two and this time a healthy Gilbert Burns,

Burns could have won if he was healthy and had a full training camp. I would love to see a rematch. Edwards is expected to defend his title against Colby and I doubt Belal will just sit and wait for the winner, it would cost him a lot of time being inactive. I wonder if the UFC will allow Belal to fight an easy opponent for him to stay active.

Is the next fight Aljamain Sterling vs Sean O'Malley confirmed it will be my favorite fight because I side with Sean O'Malley to take the title from the undefeated fighter, even though it's september but it's not long to wait, other than that we will see another big fight between Charles Oliveira vs Beneil Dariush on 10th june.

It is already in motion and I have seen it on Tapology it will be on August 19, and it will be on UFC 292 but there are only two bouts, for now, I think Dana White and the UFC are still arranging the fights for this event if a certain fight got canceled on another event then they will likely move it here, here is the Link so you could see it https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/101022-ufc-292 the fight for now consist of Aljamain Sterling VS Sean O'Malley for the UFC Bantamweight Championship and Cody Garbrandt VS Mario Bautista,

I really hope this will be finalized in the next few days. There's still plenty of time to fill the cards so it should not be a problem or they can simply move the date within August or even September. I am not yet sold on the Pink Poodle but it's an intriguing match with Sterling. O'Malley made an upset win over Yan although it was only a 3-rounder, that interests me how he looks in a 5-round fight. But maybe Sterling has too many skills, an excellent ground game, and is just too strong that he will rag-doll O'Malley.

[tokeweed]

Some new outside octagon, UFC fighter Tony Ferguson Arrested after allegedly crashing and flipping his truck in Hollywood  
This guy is a great fighter but he always looked mentally unstable to me so I am not surprised to see him in headlines again, but he is luckily not injured in this incident.

That was one crazy fighter Tony Ferguson was driving under the influence of Alcohol with his 2 other passengers well there are no reported injuries for those involve and for the bystanders, but because Ferguson was in the influence of alcohol he is sure arrested because of it, let's just wait what will be the action of the UFC for this kind of actions,

Is it ok for him to have some alcohol with his mental condition?  Lolol because you know 'Tony Ferguson is the type of guy who gives his corner team advice between rounds' or he's 'the type of guy who gives his coach a sip of water after each round'.  

Seriously tho, hope he's ok.

Anyway here's another fight vid.  Enjoy...

UFC Free Fight:  Almeida vs Turkalj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhvrEBPNaG8

Anybody else think Almeida can't easily just get a TD off of Roz?  A lot of sharps seem to think so.  Roz is around 30 lbs heavier than Almeida.

It is already in motion and I have seen it on Tapology it will be on August 19, and it will be on UFC 292 but there are only two bouts, for now, I think Dana White and the UFC are still arranging the fights for this event if a certain fight got canceled on another event then they will likely move it here, here is the Link so you could see it https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/101022-ufc-292 the fight for now consist of Aljamain Sterling VS Sean O'Malley for the UFC Bantamweight Championship and Cody Garbrandt VS Mario Bautista,

Why they doing Garbrandt like that?  Lolol.

[tusandii]

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Hehe I reckon women's MMA is where the fights become more unpredictable the lower it is placed in the card. However, I agree on the bet. Jessica Rose Clark recently has lost only vs. grapplers and Tainara Lisboa appears to be a striker only who trained in Muay Thai.

Also, this might be another more important reason why everyone will like Jessy Jess hehehee. I am quite certain @YuginKadoya would agree.

The women's fights are getting low as there are very few female fighters joining the UFC so there are not as many fights compared to the male fighters.
If we look at Jessica Rose Clark's body, she is more muscular than Tainara Lisboa and of course she has quite strong fighting skills.
Even though Tainara Lisboa trains in Muay Thai which can make her body withstand punches, if Jessica Rose Clark fights with fatal attacks then I'm sure Lisboa can be overwhelmed and lose the fight session.

The fight is only three days away, let's see if Jessica Rose Clark can really deliver the winning result we expect.

[notblox1]

Seriously tho, hope he's ok.

I know Tony have a hard head and he can survive worse stuff than this flipping over, but he is in seriously bad space right now.
He lost last five of his fights and he didnt win any fight since 2019, that must affected him a lot in every way.
With him having 39 years now, he is not getting any younger, there are no upcoming fights for him and maybe Dana White is thinking of ending his contract.