MMA talk - PFL, Bellator, KSW, ONE...

[notblox1]

To me the main problem of Ivan Erslan is that he fight mostly against locals. No doubt that fighters from Poland and Croatia are strong. But what will he do against BJJ guys from Brazil ? Erslan fight usually ends quick via TKO/KO. Is he ready to fight a guy who knows 1001 way to make a submission from any position? UFC is full with such guys. I think Erslan can compete well against UFC strikers, but guy that have belt in wrestling and BJJ will his main problems.

He is training in American Top Team Zagreb and they have biggest skilled fighters there, so don't worry about that.
It's just a myth that UFC has superman fighters with super powers and some cross promotion would prove that very easy.
I heard Khabib is talking with Bellator owner and they are thinking about creating something like this.

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[TopTort777]

To me the main problem of Ivan Erslan is that he fight mostly against locals. No doubt that fighters from Poland and Croatia are strong. But what will he do against BJJ guys from Brazil ? Erslan fight usually ends quick via TKO/KO. Is he ready to fight a guy who knows 1001 way to make a submission from any position? UFC is full with such guys. I think Erslan can compete well against UFC strikers, but guy that have belt in wrestling and BJJ will his main problems.

He is training in American Top Team Zagreb and they have biggest skilled fighters there, so don't worry about that.
It's just a myth that UFC has superman fighters with super powers and some cross promotion would prove that very easy.
I heard Khabib is talking with Bellator owner and they are thinking about creating something like this.

I think Khabib just want to rent Fedor Emelianenko for few fights in EFC He has already promised, that he will try to organize JDS fight against Fedor. While making this post, I tried to remember, who is in heavy weight division in EFC, and it turns out it is hard to find their fighters roster. JDS, De Castro, Kharitonov (or he was more a guest fighters than a EFC fighter?), Spong (he is more LH). That is it?

[notblox1]

I think Khabib just want to rent Fedor Emelianenko for few fights in EFC He has already promised, that he will try to organize JDS fight against Fedor. While making this post, I tried to remember, who is in heavy weight division in EFC, and it turns out it is hard to find their fighters roster. JDS, De Castro, Kharitonov (or he was more a guest fighters than a EFC fighter?), Spong (he is more LH). That is it?

Latest news from Fedor Emelianenko is saying that he doesn't want to have have against Junior Dos Santos in some mixed promotion fight, because he lost his last fight with Yorgan De Castro in Eagle FC.
Dos Santos lost last five of his matches so I would agree with Fedor that he needs better stronger opponent, because he won last two of his fights and he is in very good form.
De Castro, Kharitonov are in heavyweight category in Eagle FC, Rizvan Kuniev is a champion, but I can't find their full list of fighters anywhere.

[tokeweed]

This looks cool..  Since UFC 275 is going to be in Singapore, the UFC organized a couple of tournaments for fighters located around Asia.  The winner of each tourney gets a contract in the UFC.

Here are the Tapology pages for the opening rounds.  These are prolly some of the best MMA fighters in Asia?  I'll def try to watch these if I have some spare time.

https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/88729-road-to-ufc-singapore-day-1

https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/88730-road-to-ufc-singapore-day-2

https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/89905-road-to-ufc-singapore-episode-3

https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/89906-road-to-ufc-singapore-episode-4

Here are the brackets.

[notblox1]

This looks cool..  Since UFC 275 is going to be in Singapore, the UFC organized a couple of tournaments for fighters located around Asia.  The winner of each tourney gets a contract in the UFC.

I saw this but I was not sure where exactly to post information about this fights.
This is something like Dana White Contender series, but this time it is all connected with upcoming UFC event, something like pre-prelims 
I don't know if they are going to broadcast this live for free or they going to charge for this as well?

[tokeweed]

^  Yeah it's in UFC Fight Pass if you have a subscription.  I got mine cancelled just a couple of months ago as I couldn't watch the events live lately.  Just some irl stuff going on that's making me a tad busy.  You could find live streams at Reddit tho if you don't want to get a subscription.  Lol.

And the prelims at least have a betting market for us to drop some bets on.  The Road to the UFC events are just for watching.  Alone it's meh but watching it with friends over beers could be fun.

[cygan]

in less than a week, more precisely on 18.06. the next ksw gala will take place in torun, poland.
besides the co-main event where Marcin Rozalski (7-4 mma), the former ksw heavyweight champ, will once again step back into the ksw arena and will face kickboxing legend Errol Zimmerman (103-13 kickboxing) in a special mixed rules bout, there will also be the fight for the ksw lightweight title between the defending champion Marian Ziolkowski (24-8-1) and Sebastian Rajewski (12-6)

[notblox1]

^  Yeah it's in UFC Fight Pass if you have a subscription.  I got mine cancelled just a couple of months ago as I couldn't watch the events live lately.  Just some irl stuff going on that's making me a tad busy.  You could find live streams at Reddit tho if you don't want to get a subscription.  Lol.

I wouldn't pay anything to watch something like Road to UFC or Dana White Contender series, but it's ok if they are part of all UFC package.
I know easy way to find livestream for just about any sport events, but I have similar problem like you and I can't watch everything because I don't have time.
Whenever I miss some important MMA event I try to watch highlights or short clips with good fights.

Two Road to UFC are finished, so we have to more to go, andf I see lot of winners are from China, Korea and Japan.
Lot of MMA action this week, and one more event we have tomorrow is Cage Warriors 139 Bailey vs. Trinidad.

in less than a week, more precisely on 18.06. the next ksw gala will take place in torun, poland.

This heavyweight fight looks interesting, but I don't know most of the fighters on this fight card.



 

[tokeweed]

^  It is part of the package.  For around 10 bucks a month, you get to watch all cards of the Fight Night events live and all early prelim and prelim cards for PPV events except for the main card.  It's a good deal and it's like what..  the price of a couple of over priced hot cafe americanos from your favorite coffee shop.  Lol.

But yeah..  I'll prolly get my subscription reactivated again soon.  

And here are the results for the Road to UFC.  Semi finals and the finals dates and venue yet to be announced.  Maybe 'soon'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_UFC:_Singapore

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And here are the results for the Road to UFC.  Semi finals and the finals dates and venue yet to be announced.  Maybe 'soon'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_UFC:_Singapore

I only watch the main card of the featherweight division and lightweight division.

Featherweight divison: Koyomi Matsushima vs  Hong Jun Young is a controversial match since Matsushima won via split decision over Jun Young, I think Jun Young won on the first round, while Matsushima won the second round, but the third round is close and I'm more on Jun Young, while the judges look otherwise.

Lightweight division: Jeka Saragih vs Pawan Maan Singh a good match even Maan Singh seems like have a trouble against Saragih, but he's still survive until the third rounds. The spinning back fist by Saragih is really clean and make Maan Singh fell down.

The other fighters they're won very easy in the first round, I think both Matsushima and Saragih will road to UFC.

[notblox1]

It is part of the package.  For around 10 bucks a month, you get to watch all cards of the Fight Night events live and all early prelim and prelim cards for PPV events except for the main card.  It's a good deal and it's like what..  the price of a couple of over priced hot cafe americanos from your favorite coffee shop.  Lol.

This is not expensive at all if you watch UFC all the time, but it adds up if you have many other subscriptions on netflix and everything else with ppv fights.
I think they should broadcast this Road to UFC and DW Contender series for FREE, like ONE Championship and Eagle FC are doing for most of their fights.
I am fine paying to watch main event fights and big events, but not for some anonymous fighters.

[notblox1]

PFL is finally back this week with PFL 4 Regular Season and lighweight main event Clay Collard vs Alex Martinez.
On this card we can see there is Jeremy Stephens in his second fight in PFL after he switched from UFC, and he lost his first fight in PFL against Clay Collard, same Collard that is now fighting in main event.
Strange enough, this PFL event looks more interesting to me than upcoming UFC event, but I am always open for surprises


http://pflmma.com/

[Sarah Azhari]

PFL is finally back this week with PFL 4 Regular Season and lighweight main event Clay Collard vs Alex Martinez.
On this card we can see there is Jeremy Stephens in his second fight in PFL after he switched from UFC, and he lost his first fight in PFL against Clay Collard, same Collard that is now fighting in main event.
Strange enough, this PFL event looks more interesting to me than upcoming UFC event, but I am always open for surprises ;

Seems balanced for weight and height each other, but Martinez must be careful from collard kick when playing distance, what more if combined with a head attack. Martinez has to make a dazzling move so that make collard is confused about where the direction. I bet Martinez Win.

[TopT3ns]

PFL is finally back this week with PFL 4 Regular Season and lighweight main event Clay Collard vs Alex Martinez.
On this card we can see there is Jeremy Stephens in his second fight in PFL after he switched from UFC, and he lost his first fight in PFL against Clay Collard, same Collard that is now fighting in main event.
Strange enough, this PFL event looks more interesting to me than upcoming UFC event, but I am always open for surprises
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I think this is the toughest test for Alex Martinez because he has to face Clay Collard who is a professional boxer who already has a lot of experience, from here I might give a prediction that Clay Collard will win this match, it's a different story when Martinez can control the ring and know the gap then Martinez will have a chance to win.

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I think this is the toughest test for Alex Martinez because he has to face Clay Collard who is a professional boxer who already has a lot of experience, from here I might give a prediction that Clay Collard will win this match, it's a different story when Martinez can control the ring and know the gap then Martinez will have a chance to win.

Clay Collard is experienced and no doubt he will become a favorite in this fight, but his boxer career is terrible since his latest 4 fight is lose streak, he didn't even lose against a good boxer. The advantages of Clay Collard is the experience of 21 fights on MMA and his punch, he's not really a pure MMA since he's not good in ground. It's different with Martinez who're a pure MMA and good grappler, so he's good in the ground.

It's either Collard will win via KO or decision, or Martinez will win via submission.

[Sarah Azhari]

I think this is the toughest test for Alex Martinez because he has to face Clay Collard who is a professional boxer who already has a lot of experience, from here I might give a prediction that Clay Collard will win this match, it's a different story when Martinez can control the ring and know the gap then Martinez will have a chance to win.

Clay Collard is experienced and no doubt he will become a favorite in this fight, but his boxer career is terrible since his latest 4 fight is lose streak, he didn't even lose against a good boxer. The advantages of Clay Collard is the experience of 21 fights on MMA and his punch, he's not really a pure MMA since he's not good in ground. It's different with Martinez who're a pure MMA and good grappler, so he's good in the ground.

It's either Collard will win via KO or decision, or Martinez will win via submission.

That is the point I choose Martinez, he is a real MMA different from Clay Collard with going under performance in 4 fights. The odds are leaning toward Clay because of his better experience (21-9), but it's not so interesting If we bring the briefcase to Clay, that will be a big surprise if going to Martinez.

[notblox1]

There are two MMA events starting tomorrow, one is PFL 4 I spoke about few days ago, and second one is KSW 71 Ziółkowski vs. Rajewski.
Main event is lighweight championship belt fight with two guys from Poland, and co-main event is reserved for some kickboxing.
There are many unknown fighters on this fight card but maybe someone will shine and get noticed by some bigger organization.


http://www.kswmma.com/en/

[notblox1]

Jeremy Stephens finally won his second fight in PFL against Myles Price after long losing streak, but this time was not easy with split decision.
Main event was also split decision from brawl fight with Alex Martinez winning against Clay Collard, so overall this was very interesting fight card.
Next PFL event should be a bomb with fighters like Anthony Pettis, Bruno Cappelozza, Ante Delija, and I am interested to watch heavyweight Ali Isaev that has perfect 9-0 MMA record so far.

[Sarah Azhari]

Clay Collard vs Alex Martinez.



Alex Martinez won, I don't expect he won in round 3. Collard got hocked and seems controversial where many people expect to clay collard to win because clay has better points and control of the games.

[notblox1]

Alex Martinez won, I don't expect he won in round 3. Collard got hocked and seems controversial where many people expect to clay collard to win because clay has better points and control of the games.

Collard got used to losing fights, winning only one from his last five fights, but he started this fight very good with some takedown attempts and big shots.
There was a lot more strikes for Collard, but judges had something different in their score cards.
Full fight highlights for PFL 4 is available on their youtube channel, as well as more than five hours complete event.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifChZDD5UVw