UFC Fight Night & Main Event: Sportsbet.io Predictions & discussion

[rohang]

Fight night this weekend is on prefect time for asian countries as it starts at 9:30 PM for me and ends around 2 AM    (compared to usual 4-5am starts)

Whittaker vs Aliskerov is the main event and whittaker is the favorite at 1.71 odds,

I dont see prop bets yet on my site yet so I may be ignorant but Aliskerov has only fought in UFC 2 times vs people i dont really recognise,

so whittaker at 1.71 odds might be a really good play, although the odds do sus me out a little, was expecting 1.5 perhaps 

[cabron]

I will be a contrarian on this and I will be on team Izzy. He might have learned a new tactic in his homeland on the mountain ranges of China hehehehe. There might be a kungfu master there who will teach him new types of kicks and I predict that this will knockout this African Dricus. These fighters from China similar to Izzy do not surrender to a challenge hehehe.

In any case, if Izzy is the winner, does this imply that the king of Africa is a Chinese?

Hehe if am being serious, I speculate Izzy will win against Dricus.

Well it's true. Izzy could win the fight by a wide margin and I say this because I think they both have serious metrics that can actually contribute to making this a close fight. If Izzy can make a clean hit, DDP will lose. I haven't checked it yet but the odds probably favor Izzy.  He learned it all from Master Po but I think he will win the fight by UD.

I don't know if they mentioned it here, because I didn't see it. But Dana White said the following about Chimaev:

The problem is we don't really know. I saw a video of him on the ground, extremely sick. He's not doing well at all. He's been hospitalized again. Every time he's close to fighting, he gets really sick. I don't know, I don't know what to say. It's not like he's here in this country and we have doctors here to check on him or anything. He's kind of out of touch, so it's hard to deal with that.

So apparently he got sick over there, wherever he is, but he didn't want to be around the UFC doctors. I never understand why these fighters don't want to be around the UFC itself.

Dan lies all the time. Fans don't believe Conor was even injured. Conor vs Chandler fight didn't make a big sale and UFC wouldn't pay him what he asked so they didn't agree on a deal. That's what the rumor says. But check his interview https://x.com/jimrome/status/1802803402185048483

[notblox1]

I never watched Ikram Aliskerov fighting in octagon and it is interesting to see five canceled bouts in his MMA record, lets hope this one wont be canceled.
He only had two fights in UFC so I cant judge how good he is and what he can do against Whittaker.
This is tricky one to predict, Aliskerov is underdog against Whittaker, but I see he has a better record and reach advantage.
https://sportsbet.io/sports/event/mma/ufc/ufc-fight-night-whittaker-vs-chimaev/whittaker-robert-vs-aliskerov-ikram-666b7c10aafd2b0001e4956d

[Pumared]

I will be a contrarian on this and I will be on team Izzy. He might have learned a new tactic in his homeland on the mountain ranges of China hehehehe. There might be a kungfu master there who will teach him new types of kicks and I predict that this will knockout this African Dricus. These fighters from China similar to Izzy do not surrender to a challenge hehehe.

In any case, if Izzy is the winner, does this imply that the king of Africa is a Chinese?

Hehe if am being serious, I speculate Izzy will win against Dricus.

Well it's true. Izzy could win the fight by a wide margin and I say this because I think they both have serious metrics that can actually contribute to making this a close fight. If Izzy can make a clean hit, DDP will lose. I haven't checked it yet but the odds probably favor Izzy.  He learned it all from Master Po but I think he will win the fight by UD.

I don't know if they mentioned it here, because I didn't see it. But Dana White said the following about Chimaev:

The problem is we don't really know. I saw a video of him on the ground, extremely sick. He's not doing well at all. He's been hospitalized again. Every time he's close to fighting, he gets really sick. I don't know, I don't know what to say. It's not like he's here in this country and we have doctors here to check on him or anything. He's kind of out of touch, so it's hard to deal with that.

So apparently he got sick over there, wherever he is, but he didn't want to be around the UFC doctors. I never understand why these fighters don't want to be around the UFC itself.

Dan lies all the time. Fans don't believe Conor was even injured. Conor vs Chandler fight didn't make a big sale and UFC wouldn't pay him what he asked so they didn't agree on a deal. That's what the rumor says. But check his interview https://x.com/jimrome/status/1802803402185048483

It really makes perfect sense. Knowing Connor's character, the clauses for him to return will certainly include some percentage of the event's box office, if not from sponsors. It's a shame, I really wanted to see him again, so I hope he loses more visibility and leaves all this arrogance aside.

[rdbase]

I never watched Ikram Aliskerov fighting in octagon and it is interesting to see five canceled bouts in his MMA record, lets hope this one wont be canceled.
He only had two fights in UFC so I cant judge how good he is and what he can do against Whittaker.
This is tricky one to predict, Aliskerov is underdog against Whittaker, but I see he has a better record and reach advantage.
https://sportsbet.io/sports/event/mma/ufc/ufc-fight-night-whittaker-vs-chimaev/whittaker-robert-vs-aliskerov-ikram-666b7c10aafd2b0001e4956d

It is a rather interesting matchup because if I am being honest not many people have seen Aliskerov fights.
With what you have mentioned, this fighter has had so many cancelled bouts and it has been a horrible trending lately especially for main events.
Let's hope this is not the case for this fight night too.

Here is the Saudi Arabian Fight Night Media Day which I caught in the middle of it because of the time zones when I woke up a little while ago:
UFC Saudi Arabia: Whittaker vs. Aliskerov Media Day Live Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Wp5Bx0MAw

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It really makes perfect sense. Knowing Connor's character, the clauses for him to return will certainly include some percentage of the event's box office, if not from sponsors. It's a shame, I really wanted to see him again, so I hope he loses more visibility and leaves all this arrogance aside.

Conor made a video recently explaining for himself what this injury is and a possible return to the octagon September 14 at the Sphere in Las Vegas.


https://x.com/EdParker02/status/1801604876352291004

This could all be for nought and just to throw more wood onto this dumpster fire of a comeback I had ever seen.
I have never heard of anything from the UFC about this and this was supposedly released by Conor on his own.
If that is so, then you are 100% correct in saying this was all about negotiations and getting the biggest bang for scheduling it for international fight week instead.