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

[Pumared]

I really believe Burns will win. However, his age is making me wary! I see Burns' stats as superior to Sean Brady's, but age ends up being a very important factor that can change the game. Does anyone have a different opinion?

[rdbase]

UFC Fight Night was not that much fun so I am guessing the next one should be.

UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Brady

https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/114678-ufc-fight-night

Main Event:
Gilbert Burns  vs.  Sean Brady
Co-Main Event:
J. Andrade  vs.  Natália Silva
Main Card:
Kyle Nelson  vs.  Steve Garcia
Matt Schnell  vs.  A. Costa
Trevor Peek  vs.  Yanal Ashmouz
Rongzhu  vs.  Chris Padilla
Preliminaries:
O. St. Preux  vs.  Ryan Spann
I. Dulgarian  vs.  B. Marotte
André Lima  vs.  F. dos Santos
Gabriel Santos  vs.  Yizha
J. Amorim  vs.  V. Demopoulos
Andre Petroski  vs.  Dylan Budka
Z. Ramaska  vs.  N. Fletcher

I am a fan of Gilbert Burns even though recently he lost twice against Belal and Maddalena. That Masvidal win is what proves he is a strong fighter and I doubt he could easily be defeated with his tough chin and strong offensive power in his fist. Now, he is up against Brady who also lost against Belal and I think both fighters win will tell who is the formidable one.
I am taking Gilbert's side in this fight.

The last fight at the Apex was actually really good. Enough so I am going to rewatch those fights before this weekend's begins just to get into the mood of staying up to see this fight night due to the labor day weekend break we just had.

@Pumared
Same here as Brady is on a good winning streak before losing to Belal while Burns does seem tired for some reason which might be due to his age. Because in his last loss it was a well fought bout but he seemed to gas out near the end from what I recall.
Will also need to rewatch some of his matches this weekend along with Vegas 96 which we had back on August 25.

[Pumared]

@Pumared
Same here as Brady is on a good winning streak before losing to Belal while Burns does seem tired for some reason which might be due to his age. Because in his last loss it was a well fought bout but he seemed to gas out near the end from what I recall.
Will also need to rewatch some of his matches this weekend along with Vegas 96 which we had back on August 25.

If I'm not mistaken, in the last fight he ended up fracturing his arm or something like that. I just remember that it was something with his arm that ended up putting him on the defensive and that's why he didn't perform well. But even with this age impediment, I'm still going to bet on him.

[rdbase]

They both fought Belal Muhammed and got beat by him so yeah it should be a good main event fight!

Here is the upcoming fight cards for the next couple of months including UFC Noche at the sphere!

The next big one we will all be waiting in anticipation for after this UFC Fight Night 242/UFC Vegas 97 with Gilbert Burns versus Sean Brady.

There was also something about Alex Pereira going back to middleweight talked about during the MMAfightingSBN podcast earlier today:
Alex Pereira MOVING BACK To Middleweight? | LIVE Reaction + Q&A | MMA Fighting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsAxNicsV34

[danherbias07]

Hmm. So Alex Pereira is really going to accept it. I hope he won't have a hard time cutting weight. I mean, for me the best place for him is where he is at not and he will probably dominate it for a long time which means more title defense.
But we will see, I would also like to see him fight against DDP because I don't like what's coming out of the mouth of that dude. He will definitely feel Alex's big fist.

That UFC 306 is full-packed. The last time I watched Grasso I also won a good amount of money. I think I am still going to bet for here if the odds are right. I am still excited to watch those two ladies even though it's their 3rd meeting.

[Pumared]

Hmm. So Alex Pereira is really going to accept it. I hope he won't have a hard time cutting weight. I mean, for me the best place for him is where he is at not and he will probably dominate it for a long time which means more title defense.
But we will see, I would also like to see him fight against DDP because I don't like what's coming out of the mouth of that dude. He will definitely feel Alex's big fist.

That UFC 306 is full-packed. The last time I watched Grasso I also won a good amount of money. I think I am still going to bet for here if the odds are right. I am still excited to watch those two ladies even though it's their 3rd meeting.

What I want to see most is him fighting and winning in every category he's in. His fighting is great to watch, but I always feel like when he loses weight everything gets harder. He seems to do well in higher weight categories.

[danherbias07]

Hmm. So Alex Pereira is really going to accept it. I hope he won't have a hard time cutting weight. I mean, for me the best place for him is where he is at not and he will probably dominate it for a long time which means more title defense.
But we will see, I would also like to see him fight against DDP because I don't like what's coming out of the mouth of that dude. He will definitely feel Alex's big fist.

That UFC 306 is full-packed. The last time I watched Grasso I also won a good amount of money. I think I am still going to bet for here if the odds are right. I am still excited to watch those two ladies even though it's their 3rd meeting.

What I want to see most is him fighting and winning in every category he's in. His fighting is great to watch, but I always feel like when he loses weight everything gets harder. He seems to do well in higher weight categories.

I do believe that too.
I think I have said many times in this thread about him taking the higher-weight classes because his body is meant to be for that. I don't know if his coaching staff learned that one too but as soon as he lost against Adesanya, he took the higher weight and now he is a champion.

Now, he is trying to go below his weight class again and I am not sure if he can win it or not and weight class may actually give him some problems. I'd rather see him in the heavyweight division against Bones Jones than go after DDP but it seems the provocation got to his nerve.