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

[Synchronice]

With Charles showing more about what he's eating than training, my chips are going to Topuria for simply making sure he's training. Plus, I've always felt that Charles is poorly advised both for past mistakes and belt losses as well as unnecessary fights in the recent past.

Ilia will beat him, that's almost guaranteed. I believe in this guy, if you look at his past and present, you'll understand who he is and what he is going to do. Mark my words, he will be remembered as the greatest UFC athlete of all time, despite the fact that he is not in heavyweight. If you want, I'll explain in deep details why I think like this.

Sonnen is right about Makhachev running away, but it was already clear that there would be no fight with Bellal as champion. I don't know if that's fair, but it's valid that it happened. But I don't think it's out of fear of Topuria, Makhachev has faced other talents in the past and they were undefeated, if I'm not mistaken. So I don't think that's why.

Sonnen had a very good argument about that. Basically, Islam was saying that he doesn't want to fight the Champ (which Belal was) and he is waiting for the Champ to be beaten by another one and the new champ might be an easier target for Islam. Islam said that he wouldn't vacate his belt but since the UFC had a new rule, I thought that he would at least beat one guy to not vacate the belt and then do a welterweight fight (beat lightweight one day, then gain weight and beat welterweight). He really seems to be scared of Ilia Topuria. He is a hypocritic cause he said many times to just put anyone in front of him and then he refuses to fight Topuria.

[Pumared]

Please @Synchronice share your opinion, I'm already doubting that Oliveira will achieve anything with his current stance and I need more arguments to prove it. And for me, to be honest, Toupuria is relatively unknown, so I'm interested in knowing more about him!

[Synchronice]

Please @Synchronice share your opinion, I'm already doubting that Oliveira will achieve anything with his current stance and I need more arguments to prove it. And for me, to be honest, Toupuria is relatively unknown, so I'm interested in knowing more about him!

He is Jiu-Jitsu black belt, has a very good boxing, good stamina and powerful punch, his fight IQ is also very high, he blends striking and grappling seamlessly. Out of his 16 win and 0 loss, 6 wins are by knockout and 8 wins are by submission, from which 9 were first round finishes. This means that this man basically wins without decision and in his first round. He is extremely confident, which is an important factor in life and especially in fight. His past words and results look scary for everyone because the guy delivered what he promised, he KO'd Max Holloway, which has never been KO'd before.

He began with Greco-Roman wrestling before teen ages. Then transitioned into Jiu-Jitsu in his early teen ages & in his late teen ages, he transitioned into MMA. When he became rich, he used all the money to build a GYM in his house and to have access to modern medicine for further body repair and conditioning. He is very smart, dedicated and serious about his future, so I'm sure he will be remembered as The Legend in UFC. Of course, this means that I'm sure he will KO Charles Oliveira.

[rdbase]

It's all been very quiet from what I'm seeing from some of the fighters. I think they're saving everything for fight week next month. I hope that's it and that it's something very exciting to see, because the lack of hype for such a big event must be for a good reason.

It has been too quiet in the UFC since it has been long weekend holidays but extra quiet for fights being announced aswell.
They started promoting for this fight just now:
Roman Dolidze vs. Anthony Hernandez UFC Vegas 109 main event on August 9th. So this brings a bit of excitement of Fluffy's upcoming challenge.

For this week there is the following fight set up for UFC Fight Night: Blanchfield vs. Barber:
Bolaji "The Zulu Warrior" Oki Takes On MarQuel Mederos.
This will be part of the preliminary card of UFC Fight Night: Blanchfield vs. Barber on May 31, 2025, at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada, all eyes will be on this intriguing lightweight matchup between Belgium's Bolaji "The Zulu Warrior" Oki and the United States MarQuel Mederos. Both fighters are looking to make their mark in the competitive lightweight division.

[Pumared]

Please @Synchronice share your opinion, I'm already doubting that Oliveira will achieve anything with his current stance and I need more arguments to prove it. And for me, to be honest, Toupuria is relatively unknown, so I'm interested in knowing more about him!

He is Jiu-Jitsu black belt, has a very good boxing, good stamina and powerful punch, his fight IQ is also very high, he blends striking and grappling seamlessly. Out of his 16 win and 0 loss, 6 wins are by knockout and 8 wins are by submission, from which 9 were first round finishes. This means that this man basically wins without decision and in his first round. He is extremely confident, which is an important factor in life and especially in fight. His past words and results look scary for everyone because the guy delivered what he promised, he KO'd Max Holloway, which has never been KO'd before.

He began with Greco-Roman wrestling before teen ages. Then transitioned into Jiu-Jitsu in his early teen ages & in his late teen ages, he transitioned into MMA. When he became rich, he used all the money to build a GYM in his house and to have access to modern medicine for further body repair and conditioning. He is very smart, dedicated and serious about his future, so I'm sure he will be remembered as The Legend in UFC. Of course, this means that I'm sure he will KO Charles Oliveira.

It's an unparalleled resume, really. You're absolutely right to support him and it even made me change my mind about this fight. I thought it would be something more equal, but Topuria is different from everything Oliveira has faced. And given the way he's handling everything, I believe that the obvious thing should happen: Topuria's victory.

[bbc.reporter]

Please @Synchronice share your opinion, I'm already doubting that Oliveira will achieve anything with his current stance and I need more arguments to prove it. And for me, to be honest, Toupuria is relatively unknown, so I'm interested in knowing more about him!

He is Jiu-Jitsu black belt, has a very good boxing, good stamina and powerful punch, his fight IQ is also very high, he blends striking and grappling seamlessly. Out of his 16 win and 0 loss, 6 wins are by knockout and 8 wins are by submission, from which 9 were first round finishes. This means that this man basically wins without decision and in his first round. He is extremely confident, which is an important factor in life and especially in fight. His past words and results look scary for everyone because the guy delivered what he promised, he KO'd Max Holloway, which has never been KO'd before.

He began with Greco-Roman wrestling before teen ages. Then transitioned into Jiu-Jitsu in his early teen ages & in his late teen ages, he transitioned into MMA. When he became rich, he used all the money to build a GYM in his house and to have access to modern medicine for further body repair and conditioning. He is very smart, dedicated and serious about his future, so I'm sure he will be remembered as The Legend in UFC. Of course, this means that I'm sure he will KO Charles Oliveira.

This big headed small midget Topuria might appear to be a very good fighter presently, however, he has moved to lightweight division where his enemies will be bigger than him. My prediction is that on 2026, the very much underestimated Paddy the baddy will challenge the championship against this big headed small midget and give Topuria a very good power punch where he might fall on the stretcher and carry him out of the octagon hehehe.

[Synchronice]

It's an unparalleled resume, really. You're absolutely right to support him and it even made me change my mind about this fight. I thought it would be something more equal, but Topuria is different from everything Oliveira has faced. And given the way he's handling everything, I believe that the obvious thing should happen: Topuria's victory.

I bet on Ilia Topuria knocking out Charles Oliveira.

This big headed small midget Topuria might appear to be a very good fighter presently, however, he has moved to lightweight division where his enemies will be bigger than him. My prediction is that on 2026, the very much underestimated Paddy the baddy will challenge the championship against this big headed small midget and give Topuria a very good power punch where he might fall on the stretcher and carry him out of the octagon hehehe.

Why do you call him a big headed small midget? I think Conor McGregor or Paddy the baddy called him this way? Or am I wrong? By the way, he tries to be arrogant but he isn't and it's clear as the sky that he fakes it.
I think that if Ilia wins against Charles Oliveira, then Dana White will book a title fight for Paddy and we will see Ilia VS Paddy this year, in a few months, probably in winter but if Ilia loses, I doubt we will see this fight anytime soon (but I'm sure he will win).

[rdbase]

Next UFC event is this weekend with Fight Night in Las Vegas.
UFC on ESPN 68: Blanchfield vs. Barber (UFC Vegas 107)


Fight card (ESPN / ESPN+)
Erin Blanchfield   vs.   Maycee Barber            
Mateusz Gamrot   vs.   Ľudovít Klein            
Dustin Jacoby   vs.   Bruno Lopes            
Ramiz Brahimaj   vs.   Billy Ray Goff            
Zachary Reese   vs.   Duško Todorović   
         
Preliminary card (ESPN+)
Jafel Filho   vs.   Allan Nascimento            
Ketlen Vieira   vs.   Macy Chiasson            
Trevin Giles   vs.   Andreas Gustafsson            
Kurt Holobaugh   vs.   Jordan Leavitt            
MarQuel Mederos   vs.   Bolaji Oki            
Rayanne dos Santos   vs.   Alice Ardelean   

@Pumared
You see any fights on this fight night card of interest to you?
I will be betting on Maycee Barber, Macy Chiasson and Ludovit Klein in a parlay for this event.

[rdbase]

This UFC Vegas 107 media day event just ended and Barber & Blanchfield's interview was the more interesting one of them all. I guess that is why it is the main event for this fight night.

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For the bouts that I took noticed two out of the three selected were underdogs in their fights.
So after priceboost will have a 12.00x betslip for this UFC event over the last weekend of May.

[bbc.reporter]

This big headed small midget Topuria might appear to be a very good fighter presently, however, he has moved to lightweight division where his enemies will be bigger than him. My prediction is that on 2026, the very much underestimated Paddy the baddy will challenge the championship against this big headed small midget and give Topuria a very good power punch where he might fall on the stretcher and carry him out of the octagon hehehe.

Why do you call him a big headed small midget? I think Conor McGregor or Paddy the baddy called him this way? Or am I wrong? By the way, he tries to be arrogant but he isn't and it's clear as the sky that he fakes it.
I think that if Ilia wins against Charles Oliveira, then Dana White will book a title fight for Paddy and we will see Ilia VS Paddy this year, in a few months, probably in winter but if Ilia loses, I doubt we will see this fight anytime soon (but I'm sure he will win).

He is being called a small midget by @TopTort777 on the original UFC thread, I only added the big headed because his head is big for his body heheheheh.

In any case, I was not implying anything for Ilia Topuria on lightweight. I was implying that if more news outlets begin to publish articles about him, it appears that they are very much underestimating Paddy the baddy. Also, agreed on uncle Dana booking the fight for the big headed small midget vs. Paddy the baddy after Paddy will have the right tank.

[Pumared]

@Pumared
You see any fights on this fight night card of interest to you?
I will be betting on Maycee Barber, Macy Chiasson and Ludovit Klein in a parlay for this event.

Thanks for the suggestions @rdbase. I don't know anyone by name on this card, I might remember Mateusz Gamrot, but I think that's it. But I'll watch the fights you suggested and try to bet on them too! You're never wrong!

Lately, the fighting world has been getting quieter and quieter, literally. I hope the UFC has something huge to make up for it. I even saw that they received a prize for the "Noche UFC" card that was held at Sphere.

[Synchronice]

This big headed small midget Topuria might appear to be a very good fighter presently, however, he has moved to lightweight division where his enemies will be bigger than him. My prediction is that on 2026, the very much underestimated Paddy the baddy will challenge the championship against this big headed small midget and give Topuria a very good power punch where he might fall on the stretcher and carry him out of the octagon hehehe.

Why do you call him a big headed small midget? I think Conor McGregor or Paddy the baddy called him this way? Or am I wrong? By the way, he tries to be arrogant but he isn't and it's clear as the sky that he fakes it.
I think that if Ilia wins against Charles Oliveira, then Dana White will book a title fight for Paddy and we will see Ilia VS Paddy this year, in a few months, probably in winter but if Ilia loses, I doubt we will see this fight anytime soon (but I'm sure he will win).

He is being called a small midget by @TopTort777 on the original UFC thread, I only added the big headed because his head is big for his body heheheheh.

In any case, I was not implying anything for Ilia Topuria on lightweight. I was implying that if more news outlets begin to publish articles about him, it appears that they are very much underestimating Paddy the baddy. Also, agreed on uncle Dana booking the fight for the big headed small midget vs. Paddy the baddy after Paddy will have the right tank.

I wonder why he calls him a small midget but what I found very strange is that he and Arman Tsarukyan are the same height. Arman looks way taller than Ilia. By the way, I just imagines the moment when Ilia called Volkanovski a short guy, that was very funny Short guy calling short to another short guy. I think that Ilia is shorter than Messi, at least he looked that way when he took a picture with Leo.

I think that Topuria is much better figher than Paddy Pimblent but my heart tells me that Paddy the baddy wins the fight. When it comes to actual fight, I still don't know whom I'll support. I feel like Paddy will win but my head tells me that Ilia will win.

[rdbase]

@Pumared
You see any fights on this fight night card of interest to you?
I will be betting on Maycee Barber, Macy Chiasson and Ludovit Klein in a parlay for this event.

Thanks for the suggestions @rdbase. I don't know anyone by name on this card, I might remember Mateusz Gamrot, but I think that's it. But I'll watch the fights you suggested and try to bet on them too! You're never wrong!

Lately, the fighting world has been getting quieter and quieter, literally. I hope the UFC has something huge to make up for it. I even saw that they received a prize for the "Noche UFC" card that was held at Sphere.

Gamrot is one of the more well known names on this fight card since he is a veteran within the UFC.
But I will still side with his opponent Klein despite that experience in the octagon.

After the weigh-ins yesterday there seems to be some issues concerning a bout being cancelled and one of the fighters for the main event missing weight.

Andreas Gustafsson vs Trevin Giles fight was cancelled due to injury and Maycee Barber missed weight but it will continue just at a cost to Barber's purse:
https://bloodyelbow.com/2025/05/30/ufc-vegas-107-thrown-into-chaos-as-main-event-weight-misses-and-fight-cancellation

[Pumared]

@Pumared
You see any fights on this fight night card of interest to you?
I will be betting on Maycee Barber, Macy Chiasson and Ludovit Klein in a parlay for this event.

Thanks for the suggestions @rdbase. I don't know anyone by name on this card, I might remember Mateusz Gamrot, but I think that's it. But I'll watch the fights you suggested and try to bet on them too! You're never wrong!

Lately, the fighting world has been getting quieter and quieter, literally. I hope the UFC has something huge to make up for it. I even saw that they received a prize for the "Noche UFC" card that was held at Sphere.

Gamrot is one of the more well known names on this fight card since he is a veteran within the UFC.
But I will still side with his opponent Klein despite that experience in the octagon.

Unfortunately, Gamrot won and you lost your bet. Apparently his fighting knowledge was greater and he won by decision. I thought it was very brave of him to come out of inactivity to fight, these fighters should always be valued.

[rdbase]

@Pumared
You see any fights on this fight night card of interest to you?
I will be betting on Maycee Barber, Macy Chiasson and Ludovit Klein in a parlay for this event.

Thanks for the suggestions @rdbase. I don't know anyone by name on this card, I might remember Mateusz Gamrot, but I think that's it. But I'll watch the fights you suggested and try to bet on them too! You're never wrong!
Lately, the fighting world has been getting quieter and quieter, literally. I hope the UFC has something huge to make up for it. I even saw that they received a prize for the "Noche UFC" card that was held at Sphere.

Gamrot is one of the more well known names on this fight card since he is a veteran within the UFC.
But I will still side with his opponent Klein despite that experience in the octagon.

Unfortunately, Gamrot won and you lost your bet. Apparently his fighting knowledge was greater and he won by decision. I thought it was very brave of him to come out of inactivity to fight, these fighters should always be valued.

Those picks all lost and even the main event would of been wrong too if they did fight because my selection was the one who was not feeling too good and pulled out right at the last minute.
I believe it was the weight cut and she never recovered from trying to make weight but failed.
There has been alot of speculation of why she pulled out but I believe it was for this reason.

Gamrot ended up being the main event as many wanted this fight night to be with him and Ludovit anyways.
His fight and Jordan Leavitt submission win both stand out for me since he was also away from fighting for over a year too.

There was some announcements last night with Usman vs Buckley and Noche will be a fight night in San Antonio instead of Mexico as a PPV event.

[Pumared]

^^

This event was simply a huge fiasco. The fighter's attitude should be punished. In my opinion, she should have either negotiated or denied it. Because she probably already knew that this could happen with the weight cut. I also think it's something along those lines, but ending the main event in this way is frustrating for both the audience and the fighter.

[rdbase]

This event was simply a huge fiasco. The fighter's attitude should be punished. In my opinion, she should have either negotiated or denied it. Because she probably already knew that this could happen with the weight cut. I also think it's something along those lines, but ending the main event in this way is frustrating for both the audience and the fighter.

Well she was on her way to the octagon as the bottom photo shows her during the walkout:


But then she had some sort of physical condition that she had to be wheeled out on a stretcher and into a medical facility:

So I am not so sure what to make out of this one since she was planning on fighting but had something happen on the way to the fight.
It was nothing like what Arman Tsarukyan did and just pulled out hours before his main event a few months ago.
That to me was way worse.

Here is a shot of her with a bunch of monitoring equipment on her afterwards:

[bbc.reporter]

@rdbase. She might have gotten a problem called nervyosis heheheh. This will occur if there is much nervousness that has occurred and you will get physical symptoms that will be very much similar to a nervous breakdown.

In any case, has anyone noticed Macy's bigger breasts? She might have gotten a breast transplant and this might also cause her to have difficulty to lose weight. The extra effort to lose weight might have also caused her condition.

[Pumared]

This is very strange, there are no official explanations about this case? Because the public should know about what happened with the main fight at least. But it is something really serious for her to have to go to the hospital. It is really strange.

[rdbase]

So we are moving on to the next one since last week's main event got messed up according to Erin Blanchfield.
@bbc.reporter - They are still not sure what happened but they try to explain it here from an article a few days ago about it:
https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/45446308/maycee-barber-details-medical-emergency-forced-last-minute-cancellation-ufc-fight-night-main-event-vs-erin-blanchfield

Hopefully we don't have any missed weight fighters having a medical condition and pulling out at the last second for this one.

UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs O'Malley 2


Main card (P.P.V)
Merab Dvalishvili vs.   Sean O'Malley
Julianna Peña     vs.    Kayla Harrison
Kelvin Gastelum   vs.   Joe Pyfer            
Mario Bautista   vs.   Patchy Mix            
Vicente Luque   vs.   Kevin Holland
            
Preliminary card (ESPN / ESPN+ / Disney+)
Bruno Gustavo da Silva   vs.   Joshua Van            
Azamat Murzakanov   vs.   Brendson Ribeiro            
Serghei Spivac   vs.   Waldo Cortes-Acosta            
Khaos Williams   vs.   Andreas Gustafsson
         
Early preliminary card (ESPN+ / Disney+ / UFC Fight Pass)
Ariane da Silva   vs.   Wang Cong            
Jeka Saragih   vs.   Yoo Joo-sang            
Quillan Salkilld   vs.   Yanal Ashmouz            
MarQuel Mederos vs.   Mark Choinski

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