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

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Let us talk about the last event of the year for this UFC Fight Night in Tampa, shall we?

Did anybody see the media day yesterday with Colby Covington talking about every fighter recently?
It is quite amusing and is his arrogant attitude that stands out more than his fighting experience in the octagon that stands out more than not.
Colby Covington goes OFF - Trump is going to make America right again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRIrN-q3gf8

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Here's my personal pick for UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Buckley in Tampa. Note this is not AI generated pick although I use ChatGPT to summarize my duelbits UFC Jackpot pick. lol
This is my 1st time to post in thread I guess, also my 1st time to check all UFC fighters profile and latest fights before submitting my prediction


Preliminary Card

Josefine Knutsson vs. Piera Rodriguez
Prediction: Knutsson by Decision
Davey Grant vs. Ramon Taveras
Prediction: Taveras by Decision
Miranda Maverick vs. Jamey-Lyn Horth
Prediction: Maverick by Decision
Miles Johns vs. Felipe Lima
Prediction: Lima by Decision
Sean Woodson vs. Fernando Padilla
Prediction: Padilla by KO/TKO
Joel Alvarez vs. Drakkar Klose
Prediction: Alvarez by KO/TKO
Michael Johnson vs. Ottman Azaitar
Prediction: Johnson by KO/TKO


Main Card

Navajo Stirling vs. George Tokkos
Prediction: Stirling by KO/TKO
Adrian Yanez vs. Daniel Marcos
Prediction: Yanez by KO/TKO
Vitor Petrino vs. Dustin Jacoby
Prediction: Petrino by KO/TKO
Manel Kape vs. Bruno Silva
Prediction: Kape by KO/TKO
Cub Swanson vs. Billy Quarantillo
Prediction: Quarantillo by Decision
Colby Covington vs. Joaquin Buckley
Prediction: Buckley by KO/TKO

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Let us talk about the last event of the year for this UFC Fight Night in Tampa, shall we?

Did anybody see the media day yesterday with Colby Covington talking about every fighter recently?
It is quite amusing and is his arrogant attitude that stands out more than his fighting experience in the octagon that stands out more than not.
Colby Covington goes OFF - Trump is going to make America right again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRIrN-q3gf8

Man of the Hour messes everyone, he is a funny dude. He said he is the superstar in his current division. lol Fans know he was ducking Garry when the discussion about the fight floats and now he wants to fight Usman for the 3rd time while accusing Usman cheated him.  After this Buckley, they should set him up with Garry to see who's the superstar.

Of course, Khabib is Trump's fave fighter. Trump came on his fight against Edwards and was disappointed, the president exited the arena and didn't wait for his octagon interview. 

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I think it's very risky to bet on knockouts on this card. In my opinion, this card doesn't look like there will be that many knockouts. Especially on the main card, I think everyone should go to the judges to decide.

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Weigh-ins are currently happening for this Tampa card and Mane Kape is up to the scale so let's see if he makes weight now for his bout.

UFC Tampa: Covington vs. Buckley Official Weigh-In Live Stream | MMA Fighting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nj1mZfCTCs

Don't forget to see the very exciting Ceremonial Weigh-In for this very last Fight Night of the year!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfm4wGXtQms

You just know Covington is going bring his mouth and cause trouble during these ones!

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For the UFC ESPN 63 event that is starting later on tonight for the final fight night card of the year.
Have put together this UFC parlay earlier so the odds have changed especially for the main event where Buckley's odds are slightly higher as of now:


I think Colby's talk at the prefight press conference and having a look at the weigh-ins have swayed some people to put big money on him now.

I mostly picked the favorites and hopefully there aren't any upsets in these bouts. But I can see Cub Swanson winning against Billy Quarantillo as an underdog or Navajo Stirling getting beat by Tucos as a very heavy favorite.

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Results of my picks for the last UFC Fight Night: Colby Covington vs. Joaquin Buckley. I got 5/13 lol
Edit: When is the next UFC Fight Night? I'm excited to predict again. lol

Preliminary Card
Josefine Knutsson vs. Piera Rodriguez — Prediction: Knutsson by Decision ❌
Davey Grant vs. Ramon Taveras — Prediction: Taveras by Decision ❌
Miranda Maverick vs. Jamey-Lyn Horth — Prediction: Maverick by Decision ✅
Miles Johns vs. Felipe Lima — Prediction: Lima by Decision ❌
Sean Woodson vs. Fernando Padilla — Prediction: Padilla by KO/TKO ❌
Joel Alvarez vs. Drakkar Klose — Prediction: Alvarez by KO/TKO ✅
Michael Johnson vs. Ottman Azaitar — Prediction: Johnson by KO/TKO ✅


Main Card
Navajo Stirling vs. George Tokkos—Prediction: Stirling by KO/TKO ❌
Adrian Yanez vs. Daniel Marcos—Prediction: Yanez by KO/TKO ❌
Vitor Petrino vs. Dustin Jacoby—Prediction: Petrino by KO/TKO ❌
Manel Kape vs. Bruno Silva—Prediction: Kape by KO/TKO ✅
Cub Swanson vs. Billy Quarantillo—Prediction: Quarantillo by Decision ❌
Colby Covington vs. Joaquin Buckley—Prediction: Buckley by KO/TKO ✅

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I think it's very risky to bet on knockouts on this card. In my opinion, this card doesn't look like there will be that many knockouts. Especially on the main card, I think everyone should go to the judges to decide.

But there were quite a few knockouts even the main event between Buckley and Covington was ruled a technical knockout even if it was a doctor's stoppage.

@xLays 5 correct and 8 losses isn't that bad of a prediction for a difficult one to predict but if you took the favorites than you mostly won your bets.
The only one I had incorrect for mine was Petrino where he got knocked out with only a minute and a half left of the final round for him to win the fight. As he was dominating Dustin Jacoby for almost all three rounds.

Here is his post fight interview along with video:
https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2024/12/ufc-tampa-dustin-jacoby-one-punch-knockout-vitor-petrino

All my other selections came in and cashed on those bets.
Just wish I took Marcos instead of that bet so to have had that 4.41x UFC parlay to cash in.

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Joaquin Buckley did a great job at winning the fight against Colby Covington. He is very aggressive but he never let his defense down and in fact, he stopped a lot of takedown attempts of Covington. Truly, the only way for Covington to win that match was to take it to the mat and he did it in Round 2. Sadly, he didn't do much damage during that time and Buckley got back up. Round 3 was too much blood from Covington and it's scary because the blood coming out was thick. Buckley won, ref/doctor stoppage.

That's it for this year. On January 2025 we will have Ribas versus Dern. How I wish next year UFC will have some Christmas specials too just like in other sports as their year-end fight.

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With the UFC ending this year, what are the prospects for the upcoming fights and for the fights that will shake up the divisions? From what I've seen, it will be a night fight in Las Vegas. So, I don't expect it to be a big event.

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With the UFC ending this year, what are the prospects for the upcoming fights and for the fights that will shake up the divisions? From what I've seen, it will be a night fight in Las Vegas. So, I don't expect it to be a big event.

My most favorite fight of 2025 will be on the first event of the UFC next year heheheheheh! This will be the fight on who will be the baddest sex kitten in the world, Mackenzie Dern vs. Amanda Ribas. These sex kittens are blackbelts in BJ because their fathers are very much experts who began teaching them only they were very young. They have different tactics and technics, however, there can only be one winner!

Everyone should be very much excited for this. I wish they will show all of their skill on the ground and they will not stand up hehehe.

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With the UFC ending this year, what are the prospects for the upcoming fights and for the fights that will shake up the divisions? From what I've seen, it will be a night fight in Las Vegas. So, I don't expect it to be a big event.

The biggest upcoming fight would be Jon Jones vs Tom Aspinall as they had been talking about it non-stop over the past month.
Had heard that Jon is asking for $20million which is along the lines of what one of those Jake Paul boxing matches go for that got grabbed by streaming on NetFlix. So they definitely had the money to pay him what he was asking.
But I am not so sure Dana White will just say yes to what he wants to be paid.
Tom Aspinall would not get paid as much Jones will be getting paid since he is the challenger.

The next big fight that is getting alot of attention is Merab vs Umar.
UFC 311 Countdown: Merab Dvalishvili vs Umar Nurmagomedov - Full Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuBEvp3jsxM

The press conference which they have a month early showed that with this:
Merab explodes at Umar Nurmagomedov: "You're a piece of S***!" | UFC 311 Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O0F3YvCksY

@bbc.reporter
These sex kitten fights aren't seen as main event prospects but more like an appetizer for these main card fights with championship contenders. Such as a Islam Makhachev vs Arman Tsarukyan set up for the first UFC numbered card for the new year.

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In my opinion, there are very few women who really dream of fighting. It seems that they all start out with the goal of being a champion, but halfway through, they prefer to just be famous as a fighter and turn to other sources, leaving the fights aside.

There should be more women's fights on all cards to better introduce these fighters who are more interested.

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In my opinion, there are very few women who really dream of fighting. It seems that they all start out with the goal of being a champion, but halfway through, they prefer to just be famous as a fighter and turn to other sources, leaving the fights aside.

There should be more women's fights on all cards to better introduce these fighters who are more interested.

I would like to think Kayla Harrison is the except to this.
She started out as a fighter in the PFL but I imagine she became one of those who nobody could beat so she moved on to where she could be challenged and get paid more to do it.
From this video clip on a social media platform, I think she is going to be in the running to receive an award for fighter of the year in the UFC's women division:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2239623423105183

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Very slow time in the UFC since they are off for the next few weeks and currently on hiatus until all fighters can return to training for their upcoming matches in the new year.
But we had some news on another UFC fighter who is going to make his return but this time to a boxing ring once more.

https://themaclife.com/sports/mma/conor-mcgregor-set-for-big-money-logan-paul-bout

An India billionaire is looking to pay for this bout to happen:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/conor-mcgregor-jake-paul-boxing-34388413
It was mentioned by Forbes in the previous article above but here is what they had to say about it coming in 2025:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianmazique/2024/12/24/jake-paul-vs-conor-mcgregor-everything-you-need-to-know-about-so-far

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Very slow time in the UFC since they are off for the next few weeks and currently on hiatus until all fighters can return to training for their upcoming matches in the new year.
But we had some news on another UFC fighter who is going to make his return but this time to a boxing ring once more.

Make his return? Really? He became an alcohol and drug addict, which is a huge shame. He really was a motivation for many people in UFC and MMA, he was a good image of discipline and hard work, he could really be one of the best UFC fighter of all time but he ruined everything when he earned money.

He was making fun of Paul brothers and now he fights against them, it's a huge shame. Will they make money? Sure, they'll make but I believe that it will affect his legacy. We are basically seeing a man that has gone from nothing to something to everything and then returns back to nothing.
He will get knocked out, money will be made and that's all. By the way, he can really make comeback if he knocks out Logan Paul but I'm afraid this fight will also be scripted.

[Pumared]

Yet another marketing show by McGregor... He sells a lot but doesn't deliver what is expected of him. So this doesn't make me excited about anything, quite the opposite, I won't want to watch anything.

It's time for him to fight in an octagon again and earn respect there. Otherwise he'll be fired soon.

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What does Ambanis get for this fight?  Because I'm doubting this fight will be get a huge profit if they make this fight be regular boxing event. This is not a fight that Indians will pay to see really.

I don't see this profitable for Ambanis. If they are up to grab the sports committee in the country, they'd be interested in Indian sport and not the sport controlled by the West.

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Yet another marketing show by McGregor... He sells a lot but doesn't deliver what is expected of him. So this doesn't make me excited about anything, quite the opposite, I won't want to watch anything.

It's time for him to fight in an octagon again and earn respect there. Otherwise he'll be fired soon.

Dana will take half of his purse if he wants to return to the UFC.
There are always things going on behind the scenes when it comes to Conor and his fights it seems.

What does Ambanis get for this fight?  Because I'm doubting this fight will be get a huge profit if they make this fight be regular boxing event. This is not a fight that Indians will pay to see really.

I don't see this profitable for Ambanis. If they are up to grab the sports committee in the country, they'd be interested in Indian sport and not the sport controlled by the West.

I am not too familiar with their family and not sure how they make their money but from them making this fight go to India then promotion can be listed as one of those sources.

As for UFC news, it looks as if Merab might be not exactly ready to make the next installment of 311 afterall.
https://www.mmamania.com/2025/1/2/24334158/umar-warns-nobody-will-be-surprised-merab-withdraws-ufc-311-he-wants-fight-guy-he-can-beat-mma
There was a photo on X of Merab in a hospital bed wearing a blue gown so it might be of him post surgery.

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Yet another marketing show by McGregor... He sells a lot but doesn't deliver what is expected of him. So this doesn't make me excited about anything, quite the opposite, I won't want to watch anything.

It's time for him to fight in an octagon again and earn respect there. Otherwise he'll be fired soon.

Dana will take half of his purse if he wants to return to the UFC.
There are always things going on behind the scenes when it comes to Conor and his fights it seems.

Being a McGregor fan must be a very complicated thing. The guy doesn't fight anymore, he only does marketing and appearances in movies, etc.

It's like a singer from a very famous band who doesn't do new shows and only lives in the past. That's terrible for me, but I know he'll still have fans.