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

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Why would he move to UFC when he can make more money in Bellator and he doesn't have to be under control of Dana White?
Being in Bellator can allow him to with with fighters from different promotions, and have personal sponsors.
I can't predict future but with recentz PFL signings maybe they hire him for some big money deal.

Because UFC is the most known MMA promotion and everyone consider the best fighter are always in UFC, not the other MMA promotion. So it will depends on Umar Nurmagomedov if he's only looking to make money or he's looking to become best MMA fighter in the world.

Well does Umar Nurmagomedov can fight with Islam Makhachev even Makhachev under UFC promotion? maybe a fun match would be interesting to watch them.

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[notblox1]

Big news! Francis Ngannou reveals he is very close to signing new contract with PFL or ONE Championship, but he is going to have boxing fights as well.
He is still thinking if it's going to be PFL or ONE, but if he asks me I think PFL is better option right now, unless ONE is accepting all his conditions.
PFL has better heavyweight fighters and they can always create cross promotion fight with other organizations.
YOu can listen full interview Ngannou gave to Ariel Helwani on MMA Hour youtube channel.
https://www.mmafighting.com/2023/3/15/23641926/francis-ngannou-reveals-hes-close-to-signing-with-pfl-or-one-championship

[YuginKadoya]

Big news! Francis Ngannou reveals he is very close to signing new contract with PFL or ONE Championship, but he is going to have boxing fights as well.
He is still thinking if it's going to be PFL or ONE, but if he asks me I think PFL is better option right now, unless ONE is accepting all his conditions.
PFL has better heavyweight fighters and they can always create cross promotion fight with other organizations.
YOu can listen full interview Ngannou gave to Ariel Helwani on MMA Hour youtube channel.
https://www.mmafighting.com/2023/3/15/23641926/francis-ngannou-reveals-hes-close-to-signing-with-pfl-or-one-championship

That is great news, wish he could go with Bellator instead-but if PFL or ONE has a great offer on him I think that is still a good choice, but if there is a collaboration between PFL and UFC I would like to see a Francis Ngannou VS Jones, that would be a great 1 shot match to watch just wishful thinking though, but still a great PPV for both fighters fans

exactly in one week (17-03) the ksw 80 event will take place in lubin, poland. the main fight for the interim featherweight belt will be contested by german cage fighter Lom-Ali Eskiev (2-1-0) and pole Robert Ruchała (5-0-0). among other things, there will again be a female duel - Emilia Czerwińska (poland, 2-0-0) will meet the debutant Yasmina Guimarães (brazil)

I have seen a post by Cygan a couple of days ago, about KSW 80 event that is happening tomorrow but here is another event on Cage Warriors

Cage Warriors 150: London

Friday 03.17.2023 at 02:45 PM ET
Promotion: Cage Warriors
Location: London, England



MAIN EVENT

Jordan Vucenic VS Tiziano Ferranti

CO-MAIN EVENT

Jamie Richardson VS Justin Burlinson

MAIN CARD

Davide Scarano VS Lone'er Kavanagh
Alberto Ciardo VS Jan Quaeyhaegens
James Webb VS Alan Carlos

PRELIMINARY CARD

Wesley Machado VS Nik Bagley
Omiel Brown VS Daniel Skibiński
Awa Sow VS Kate Bacik
Jack Eglin VS Ilie Meryacre
Weslley Maia VS Bogdan Barbu
Mush Aslani VS Omran Chaaban

All information was from TAPOLOGY

[notblox1]

That is great news, wish he could go with Bellator instead-but if PFL or ONE has a great offer on him I think that is still a good choice, but if there is a collaboration between PFL and UFC I would like to see a Francis Ngannou VS Jones, that would be a great 1 shot match to watch just wishful thinking though, but still a great PPV for both fighters fans

PFL now has more money and better names and I think they are better than Bellator.
There is no way UFC is going to work with any other MMA organization in the world for some cross promotion, I can guarantee that.
Only way for Ngannou and Jones guys to fight in future is when Jones contract with UFC is finished, maybe after his next drug test fail or after beating his wife again.

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There's an another event PFL challenger week 8 that will happen today, actually there will be 5 fights in this event, but the fight between Quemuel Ottoni vs. Chris Brown got cancelled. The good fight is only on the main card Louis vs Henrique, while the other fighters are too strong than the opponent they will face in the ring. Henrique have better grappling and wrestling skill, so I think he's will beat Louis.



PFL Challenger Series 2023 Quick Card:

Kendly St. Louis  vs.  Paulo Henrique 155 lbs
Jackie Cataline  vs.  Evelyn Martins 145 lbs
Denzel Freeman  vs.  Raiden Kovacs 265 lbs
Sanon Sadeck  vs.  Ali Omar 170 lbs

Source: https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/95446-pfl-challenger-series-16

[YuginKadoya]

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PFL now has more money and better names and I think they are better than Bellator.
There is no way UFC is going to work with any other MMA organization in the world for some cross promotion, I can guarantee that.
Only way for Ngannou and Jones guys to fight in future is when Jones contract with UFC is finished, maybe after his next drug test fail or after beating his wife again.

I think you are right, PFL now has the most versatile fighters but we can not leave other MMA corporations because there is a ton of variety to choose from and with the recent match with Bellator the Bellator 292 I think that was against a former UFC champion Benson Henderson VS Usman Nurmagomedov that I think will somehow enter the UFC after he pulverized all in his division, but I really love to see him get into another division in the Bellator to get himself another belt, so he could be a two-time division champion in Bellator when he move to UFC,

There's an another event PFL challenger week 8 that will happen today, actually there will be 5 fights in this event, but the fight between Quemuel Ottoni vs. Chris Brown got cancelled. The good fight is only on the main card Louis vs Henrique, while the other fighters are too strong than the opponent they will face in the ring. Henrique have better grappling and wrestling skill, so I think he's will beat Louis.



PFL Challenger Series 2023 Quick Card:

Kendly St. Louis  vs.  Paulo Henrique 155 lbs
Jackie Cataline  vs.  Evelyn Martins 145 lbs
Denzel Freeman  vs.  Raiden Kovacs 265 lbs
Sanon Sadeck  vs.  Ali Omar 170 lbs

Source: https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/95446-pfl-challenger-series-16

I am surely gone tired of these challenger series events, both in PFL and UFC's Contender series aswell, but it is likely a great shot to look for great candidates for both MMA corporations so they can segregate those fighters that have true potential from those that are not UFC caliber, MMA has come a long way and is truly evolve anything can surely happen and people getting a good eye in watching MMA now not getting bored because of a wrestling only fighter, but I can truly say people that are watching MMA now have truly evolved aswell or learned the MMA way,

[TopTort777]

That is great news, wish he could go with Bellator instead-but if PFL or ONE has a great offer on him I think that is still a good choice, but if there is a collaboration between PFL and UFC I would like to see a Francis Ngannou VS Jones, that would be a great 1 shot match to watch just wishful thinking though, but still a great PPV for both fighters fans

PFL now has more money and better names and I think they are better than Bellator.
There is no way UFC is going to work with any other MMA organization in the world for some cross promotion, I can guarantee that.
Only way for Ngannou and Jones guys to fight in future is when Jones contract with UFC is finished, maybe after his next drug test fail or after beating his wife again.

Agree that UFC will never work with someone else, unless it is about hundred of millions on stake Dana White said that he will never accept Francis Ngannou return to UFC. UFC contracts does not allow their fighters compete outside UFC. There is only one excuse for that rule - Conor McGregor. But Ngannou is not even close to hype McGregor create. Dana White was all the time with Conor, during conferences, weigh-ins and etc during his fight with Floyd Mayweather. The only way why Dana agreed to that is because name of Floyd gave a lot of hype for UFC.

As to Ngannou, I wonder who he is going to fight against in Bellator or PFL. Are there guys who can give him good competition?

Take a look on yesterdays article Francis Ngannou says fight against Deontay Wilder closer "than with anyone else"

[JooBra]

That is great news, wish he could go with Bellator instead-but if PFL or ONE has a great offer on him I think that is still a good choice, but if there is a collaboration between PFL and UFC I would like to see a Francis Ngannou VS Jones, that would be a great 1 shot match to watch just wishful thinking though, but still a great PPV for both fighters fans

PFL now has more money and better names and I think they are better than Bellator.
There is no way UFC is going to work with any other MMA organization in the world for some cross promotion, I can guarantee that.
Only way for Ngannou and Jones guys to fight in future is when Jones contract with UFC is finished, maybe after his next drug test fail or after beating his wife again.

Agree that UFC will never work with someone else, unless it is about hundred of millions on stake Dana White said that he will never accept Francis Ngannou return to UFC. UFC contracts does not allow their fighters compete outside UFC. There is only one excuse for that rule - Conor McGregor. But Ngannou is not even close to hype McGregor create. Dana White was all the time with Conor, during conferences, weigh-ins and etc during his fight with Floyd Mayweather. The only way why Dana agreed to that is because name of Floyd gave a lot of hype for UFC.

As to Ngannou, I wonder who he is going to fight against in Bellator or PFL. Are there guys who can give him good competition?

Take a look on yesterdays article Francis Ngannou says fight against Deontay Wilder closer "than with anyone else"

PFL champion Ante Delija is the one I would like to see Ngannou go against. I have been following Delija for a long time and I know he will be ready. Fun fact is that Delija had a contract with UFC couple of years ago but cause of some mismanagement with papers and PFL he didn't join UFC. I know it was short notice fight in Emirates I think.

[TopTort777]

Thanks, gonna pay attention on him. His record looks good, but these are just numbers. I would count his PFL record only as valuable, M1 and KSW fighters are not on the same level of former UFC fighters. What is Delija speciality? Universal fighter? Imho such things dont work against Ngannou. Punching powers isnt enough. Gane was a punching power, but Ngannou outwrestled him. Imho an elite bjj or grappler is needed. Sort of a prime Verdum or Nogeira. The one that can stand after a direct hit and knows 1001 submission combo.

[YuginKadoya]

Agree that UFC will never work with someone else, unless it is about hundred of millions on stake Dana White said that he will never accept Francis Ngannou return to UFC. UFC contracts does not allow their fighters compete outside UFC. There is only one excuse for that rule - Conor McGregor. But Ngannou is not even close to hype McGregor create. Dana White was all the time with Conor, during conferences, weigh-ins and etc during his fight with Floyd Mayweather. The only way why Dana agreed to that is because name of Floyd gave a lot of hype for UFC.

As to Ngannou, I wonder who he is going to fight against in Bellator or PFL. Are there guys who can give him good competition?

Take a look on yesterdays article Francis Ngannou says fight against Deontay Wilder closer "than with anyone else"

Francis Ngannou thought that he is very significant compared to Conor McGregor which is why I think he might have thought that he is more than big than Conor McGregor because he was the Heavyweight champion but we can not compare Ngannou to McGregor's accomplice even though he a former UFC featherweight and lightweight double-champion but we can say that Dana White is biased to the Irish fighter pretty much but yeah I think Dana White is in favor with McGregor so much because he is his cash cow until Khabib Nurmagomedov Smesh! him,

Well it is good that Francis Ngannou will take what is a big offer for him and landing the PFL and the Boxing match-up that he wanted, even though not against Tyson Fury, but Deontay Wilder is good enough,

PFL champion Ante Delija is the one I would like to see Ngannou go against. I have been following Delija for a long time and I know he will be ready. Fun fact is that Delija had a contract with UFC couple of years ago but cause of some mismanagement with papers and PFL he didn't join UFC. I know it was short notice fight in Emirates I think.

If Francis Ngannou is signing for the PFL then Ante Delija is likely his future opponent and I think the PFL is anticipating this match-up ever since Francis Ngannou cut ties with the UFC, so it a likely PFL signing contract will be ready to offer for him, and a match against their best mostly the PFL heavyweight champion for sure, but this could be an interesting one, and for me, Francis Ngannou signing for PFL will likely be giving PFL some major views for some fans that didn't know PFL, so this is really a big catch for the PFL,

[notblox1]

PFL champion Ante Delija is the one I would like to see Ngannou go against. I have been following Delija for a long time and I know he will be ready. Fun fact is that Delija had a contract with UFC couple of years ago but cause of some mismanagement with papers and PFL he didn't join UFC. I know it was short notice fight in Emirates I think.

I watched some of Ante Delija fights and he is very good fighter but I don't think he is on the same level like Francis Ngannou.
They have Bruno Cappelozza and few other fighters in heavyweight division, but they need to hire fresh blood if they want to have serious competition for Ngannou.
Don't be surprised if you see bunch of fighters starting to sign up for any MMA organization Ngannou signs contract

[YuginKadoya]

Moving on now that UFC 286 is done and we got an upcoming match on March 24, Monday

Cage Warriors 151: Unplugged

Friday 03.24.2023 at 04:00 PM ET
Promotion: Cage Warriors
Location: London, England



MAIN EVENT

Mick Stanton VS Will Currie

MAIN CARD

Guilherme Cadena VS Matthew Bonner
Steve Aimable VS Matthew Bonner
Michael Tchamou VS Naglis Kanišauskas
Ander Sanchez VS Ryan Hewitt
Stipe Brčić VS Jhonata Silva
Sam Kelly VS Pav Sahota
Kiru Singh Sahota VS S. Da Silva
Aidan Stephen VS Matthew Camilleri
Agy Sardari VS Samuel Blasco
Matthew Byfield VS Prince McLean

All information was from TAPOLOGY

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Moving on now that UFC 286 is done and we got an upcoming match on March 24, Monday

Cage Warriors 151: Unplugged

The main event in this fight is really strange

Mick Stanton is an old fighter will fight with Will Currie who is 12 years younger than him, Currie is having better record than Stanton too, that's make almost people think Currie will easily beat Stanton. I expect an one sided game, that's why I think the main event is strange.

I think the other cards will be more interesting to watch since the gap difference isn't too far.

[YuginKadoya]

Moving on now that UFC 286 is done and we got an upcoming match on March 24, Monday

Cage Warriors 151: Unplugged

The main event in this fight is really strange

Mick Stanton is an old fighter will fight with Will Currie who is 12 years younger than him, Currie is having better record than Stanton too, that's make almost people think Currie will easily beat Stanton. I expect an one sided game, that's why I think the main event is strange.

I think the other cards will be more interesting to watch since the gap difference isn't too far.

Well, you know if a fighter still wants to fight and he knows in himself that he can still fight even though he is too old for this he will still fight Mick Stanton is still 36 compared to Fedor Emelianenko that is already 46 way past Stanton age, but I think he still has his speed to perform so I surely think let him, and even way younger than Yoel Romero aswell that is now 45, I think Will Currie is way younger than the fighters I was talking about, it is not because of age but on what they can show us, inside the ring or octagon, and Ryan Bader is 39 aswell which is older than Mick Staton, but I think this will not end up like the Ryan Bader VS Fedor Emelianenko fight  that is very one-sided, you can see that the age of Emelianenko is getting into him, and while punching he is getting off balanced, slower than his usual speed, and we can see that he can not withstand Bader's strikes anymore, he really passes in what he can do in his prime, I think Mick Stanton can still do this but surely that younger and more agile fighter Will Currie is so much tempting to make a bet, but still experience can also have a big factor in the fight,

[TopTort777]

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Hungry wolves, I've got some bad news for your. Just found out that we have missed out opportunity, Gabi Garcia is married I am glad that she managed to find someone (and submit him lol).

Indeed a strange main event in CW 151. At first I thought that Mick Stanton is having his farewell fight, and CW has decided to dedicate that event him. But Mick Stanton looks like a no name to me. He has zebra record. Cant remember if he has achieved something or brought something into MMA world. Google say that he is or was a coach, but I never heard of him, nor know his greatest students.

[notblox1]

Moving on now that UFC 286 is done and we got an upcoming match on March 24, Monday

That is fine, but I have my eye on different event this week.
I am really interested to see how PFL will do in their first event in Europe, Newcastle, England.
Main event in in light heavyweight category but Mohamed Amine was fighting before as Heavyweight, and both fighters have great MMA record.
My bet is on Simeon Powell because he is in going to have support from home crowd, and now I am hunting to find best betting odds on him.
There is nothing yet in Betnomi, Sportsbet or Stake website


http://pflmma.com/

[YuginKadoya]

Moving on now that UFC 286 is done and we got an upcoming match on March 24, Monday

That is fine, but I have my eye on different event this week.
I am really interested to see how PFL will do in their first event in Europe, Newcastle, England.
Main event in in light heavyweight category but Mohamed Amine was fighting before as Heavyweight, and both fighters have great MMA record.
My bet is on Simeon Powell because he is in going to have support from home crowd, and now I am hunting to find best betting odds on him.
There is nothing yet in Betnomi, Sportsbet or Stake website


http://pflmma.com/

Well not really that interested in this PFL Europe 1 but if I could pick on the main event fight for me I would be going with Simeon Powell, for me, Simeon Powell got the height and surely the reach advantage even though he is a Light Heavyweight I think that he got a tremendous power with his strikes, while Mohamed Amine is a Heavyweight this is going to be difficult for him because he is going down and cutting of that weight to Light Heavyweight, just for this matchup so imagine him cutting weight while Simeon Powell is not, and Powell also has the wrestling game that he can go with, and faster than Amine,


Now here are my full picks for the Cage Warriors 151: Unplugged highlighted in green are my pick,

MAIN EVENT

Mick Stanton VS Will Currie

CO-MAIN EVENT

Steve Aimable VS Alberth Dias

MAIN CARD

Agy Sardari VS Samuel Blasco
Adrian Wieliczko VS Shirzad Qadrian
Stipe Brčić VS Jhonata Silva
Michael Tchamou VS Naglis Kanišauskas

PRELIMINARY CARD

Matthew Byfield VS Prince McLean
Guilherme Cadena VS Matthew Bonner
Kiru Singh Sahota VS S. Da Silva
Aidan Stephen VS Matthew Camilleri
Sam Kelly VS Pav Sahota
Ander Sanchez VS Ryan Hewitt

[notblox1]

Well not really that interested in this PFL Europe 1

You better pay more attention on PFL because they are slowly building their roster and hiring new fighters, and their first event in Europe will be much more interesting than Cage Warriors.
Proper Twelve is one more of their official partnership for PFL Europe 1, and we all know that Connor McGregor is owner of Proper Twelve.
I noticed PFL have partnership with 1XBET for Latin America and Africa, someone should tell them how shady 1XBET is, but they sponsored many top leagues before 


https://www.pflmma.com/news/professional-fighters-league-announces-proper-no-twelve-irish-whiskey-as-official-whiskey-partner-of-pfl-europe

[TopTort777]

Proper Twelve is one more of their official partnership for PFL Europe 1, and we all know that Connor McGregor is owner of Proper Twelve.

Was one of the owners until he has sold his share in 2021 for 600 millions It was pure a business project for him and Conor was only a face of it, despite him saying that he has taken direct participation in creating taste of Proper Twelve and add "a part of his soul into it". Since he has sold his share, he has never advertised it, not we ever saw him with a bottle of it on public.

PFL are doing great. I like that I hear more and more of them. That force UFC always be in tension; never relaxed, as other promotions might easily make a bite of their MMA pie. Proper Twelve, Ngannou, they have tournaments with 1 million prize.

[YuginKadoya]

Well not really that interested in this PFL Europe 1

You better pay more attention on PFL because they are slowly building their roster and hiring new fighters, and their first event in Europe will be much more interesting than Cage Warriors.
Proper Twelve is one more of their official partnership for PFL Europe 1, and we all know that Connor McGregor is owner of Proper Twelve.
I noticed PFL have partnership with 1XBET for Latin America and Africa, someone should tell them how shady 1XBET is, but they sponsored many top leagues before  


https://www.pflmma.com/news/professional-fighters-league-announces-proper-no-twelve-irish-whiskey-as-official-whiskey-partner-of-pfl-europe

Yup! I think I will but if I am not interested in a fighter then goodbye to them, but yeah If Francis Ngannou could be signed up in the PFL that is a different story because I will surely be more interested in that, but as you have said I am finding fighters in PFL that are worth the watch like Usman Nurmagomedov in the Bellator, If there are some guys in the PFL like the wrestling of Dagestan then I am interested in that for sure,

I never thought they would partner themselves with Conor McGregor but it is really a great deal for them in getting that Proper is popular now, but with 1XBET it surely has some distasteful thing for other users that has some issue on 1XBET and yeah I am seeing many influencers are advertising 1XBET in a couple on months right now here in my country,

Proper Twelve is one more of their official partnership for PFL Europe 1, and we all know that Connor McGregor is owner of Proper Twelve.

Was one of the owners until he has sold his share in 2021 for 600 millions It was pure a business project for him and Conor was only a face of it, despite him saying that he has taken direct participation in creating taste of Proper Twelve and add "a part of his soul into it". Since he has sold his share, he has never advertised it, not we ever saw him with a bottle of it on public.

PFL are doing great. I like that I hear more and more of them. That force UFC always be in tension; never relaxed, as other promotions might easily make a bite of their MMA pie. Proper Twelve, Ngannou, they have tournaments with 1 million prize.

Oh! I never thought that Conor McGregor had sold his share in Proper Twelve that is really a bad move he make, and that is why he is dragging his ass up to work again because he needs it but making Proper 12 is a good business in my opinion and he blew it all, but yeah PFL is getting into this and properly assembling some nerve on the UFC, But I really like it in seeing something new and will surely get back and find great fighter in the PFL,