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

[Pumared]

Yes, and this happens to practically all fighters. There are even those who create content, but this content is very low or they don't post it very often. I think the UFC should take care of all this, or at least give fighters a way to create this content on other platforms. Because if fighters can create content outside of the fights, everyone wins, especially the UFC with a larger audience.

Maybe it was Demetrious Johnson or I don't know but I remember that one fighter from UFC said that Dana White suggested all of us to create social media profiles and be very active there by uploading a new content because when these fighters retire, they need to earn money to not be homeless and this fighter thanked Dana White for this advice.

I think this difference occurs because of the different strategies in each club. And depending on the region of the club the player is in, these strategies change a lot. That's why players from Europe get along well with other players who also play there. While someone from South America may not follow them as well.

[Synchronice]

Remember Suga Sean O'Malley driving around that pink lambo? He might not needing to be working if he decides to call it quits and just retire from the sport.
But guys that haven't made much money from fighting in the UFC will have to find another way to make a living after their prime years of fighting are over.
I think I recall from a past interview with either Geoff Neal or Kevin Holland they said they were delivery drivers inbetween fights if they needed money to survive. Because we all know you need to work to pay the bills. And neither of these guys will ever make enough bank in the UFC to retire comfortably.
Unless you win a title in the UFC you are not making those millions for daddy Dana to pay you enough.

I really wonder, how hard is it to become an UFC fighter? Lots of fighters were construction workers, drivers and were doing other jobs. Alexander Topuria starts his career at the age of 29. I really wonder, should I step into fighting or not because I'd really love to fight, I have been training for over a decade and I've been into boxing and wrestling when I was a kid, I've often fought too, so I really wonder but I don't want to get my nice face to go ugly from punches The way Dricus broke Strickland's nose was brutal. That image tells me to change my mind

[rdbase]

We have UFC on ABC: Hill vs. Rountree Jr. this weekend.

This will be the first time UFC has an event in Azerbaijan but not the greatest time to be travelling to this part of the world if you know its location.

https://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/Stand-and-Deliver-UFC-Baku-197340


Main card (ABC / ESPN+)
Jamahal Hill   vs.   Khalil Rountree Jr.            
Rafael Fiziev   vs.   Ignacio Bahamondes            
Curtis Blaydes   vs.   Rizvan Kuniev            
Tofiq Musayev   vs.   Myktybek Orolbai            
Nazim Sadykhov   vs.   Nikolas Motta            
Muhammad Naimov   vs.   Bogdan Grad
            
Preliminary card (ESPN2 / ESPN+)
Ko Seok-hyun   vs.   Oban Elliott            
Ismail Naurdiev   vs.   Park Jun-yong            
Melissa Mullins   vs.   Daria Zheleznyakova            
Irina Alekseeva   vs.   Klaudia Syguła            
Tagir Ulanbekov   vs.   Azat Maksum            
Hamdy Abdelwahab   vs.   Mohammed Usman   

And look who is on these prelims:
https://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Mohammed-Usman-253535

[Pumared]

Remember Suga Sean O'Malley driving around that pink lambo? He might not needing to be working if he decides to call it quits and just retire from the sport.
But guys that haven't made much money from fighting in the UFC will have to find another way to make a living after their prime years of fighting are over.
I think I recall from a past interview with either Geoff Neal or Kevin Holland they said they were delivery drivers inbetween fights if they needed money to survive. Because we all know you need to work to pay the bills. And neither of these guys will ever make enough bank in the UFC to retire comfortably.
Unless you win a title in the UFC you are not making those millions for daddy Dana to pay you enough.

I really wonder, how hard is it to become an UFC fighter? Lots of fighters were construction workers, drivers and were doing other jobs. Alexander Topuria starts his career at the age of 29. I really wonder, should I step into fighting or not because I'd really love to fight, I have been training for over a decade and I've been into boxing and wrestling when I was a kid, I've often fought too, so I really wonder but I don't want to get my nice face to go ugly from punches The way Dricus broke Strickland's nose was brutal. That image tells me to change my mind

I don't think it's difficult, the problem is just the path to get there. And there must be some persistence to get there. And about punches, you can fight without getting hurt, but you need to be very good.

Joking aside, Volka himself was/is a rugby player.

[notblox1]

We have UFC on ABC: Hill vs. Rountree Jr. this weekend.

This will be the first time UFC has an event in Azerbaijan but not the greatest time to be travelling to this part of the world if you know its location.

I think it is good when UFC moved to other countries outside United States, and that is why this time we have more fighters from surrounding regions in this card.
I suggest tuning live early, prelims are starting with good heavyweight clash between Mohammed Usman and Abdelwahab.
Main event should be interesting, and Hill has reach advantage, but I am giving slight advantage to Khalil Rountree this time.

[Pumared]

We have UFC on ABC: Hill vs. Rountree Jr. this weekend.

This will be the first time UFC has an event in Azerbaijan but not the greatest time to be travelling to this part of the world if you know its location.

I think it is good when UFC moved to other countries outside United States, and that is why this time we have more fighters from surrounding regions in this card.
I suggest tuning live early, prelims are starting with good heavyweight clash between Mohammed Usman and Abdelwahab.
Main event should be interesting, and Hill has reach advantage, but I am giving slight advantage to Khalil Rountree this time.

Khalil should win this fight with some difficulty. Hill will only win this fight if he is lucky enough to find a knockout blow. If Khalil knows how to get in and out of the fight with the blows, Hill will lose again and will be forgotten until he gets into a new controversy.

[rdbase]

We have UFC on ABC: Hill vs. Rountree Jr. this weekend.

This will be the first time UFC has an event in Azerbaijan but not the greatest time to be travelling to this part of the world if you know its location.

I think it is good when UFC moved to other countries outside United States, and that is why this time we have more fighters from surrounding regions in this card.
I suggest tuning live early, prelims are starting with good heavyweight clash between Mohammed Usman and Abdelwahab.
Main event should be interesting, and Hill has reach advantage, but I am giving slight advantage to Khalil Rountree this time.

The good thing with doing this the start times are very early. This one the main card begins in the mid afternoon. So the prelims are around noon. So the entire card is done a little after your done your dinner.

Khalil should win this fight with some difficulty. Hill will only win this fight if he is lucky enough to find a knockout blow. If Khalil knows how to get in and out of the fight with the blows, Hill will lose again and will be forgotten until he gets into a new controversy.

Many are saying a Khalil knockout win because of his durability in his last fight and Hill already got slept by that same opponent.

So it will be very interesting to see what happens in this main event.

Weigh-ins are in the regions local time but Ceremonial weigh-ins are in about 28 hours from now:

UFC Baku: Ceremonial Weigh-In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8pnqgC5ays

[cabron]

We have UFC on ABC: Hill vs. Rountree Jr. this weekend.

This will be the first time UFC has an event in Azerbaijan but not the greatest time to be travelling to this part of the world if you know its location.

https://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/Stand-and-Deliver-UFC-Baku-197340


Main card (ABC / ESPN+)
Jamahal Hill   vs.   Khalil Rountree Jr.            
Rafael Fiziev   vs.   Ignacio Bahamondes            
Curtis Blaydes   vs.   Rizvan Kuniev            
Tofiq Musayev   vs.   Myktybek Orolbai            
Nazim Sadykhov   vs.   Nikolas Motta            
Muhammad Naimov   vs.   Bogdan Grad
            
Preliminary card (ESPN2 / ESPN+)
Ko Seok-hyun   vs.   Oban Elliott            
Ismail Naurdiev   vs.   Park Jun-yong            
Melissa Mullins   vs.   Daria Zheleznyakova            
Irina Alekseeva   vs.   Klaudia Syguła            
Tagir Ulanbekov   vs.   Azat Maksum            
Hamdy Abdelwahab   vs.   Mohammed Usman   

And look who is on these prelims:
https://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Mohammed-Usman-253535

Of all place, there is border issue going on there AFAIK just close Nagorno Karaba. If Trump attends the fight night  accompanied by his mongering officials, I wouldn't be surprise if war sparks a few weeks after the event.

Rountree vs Hill seem a fair match.  It would be nice to just watch and bet live. I'd be rooting for Rountree if I have to parlay along with Bahamondes and Blayde. Maybe this 3 will make it.

[Hydrogen]

Khalil Rountree vs Jamahal Hill is a tough match to call.

Rountree has made progress and improved.

While Jamahal Hill's recent history has been strange. He looked terrible when he fought Pereira. Months later, there were pictures of him looking 50 pounds overweight on the internet. Then he fought Jiri Prochazka and looked fatigued in round 1 but still put up a good fight.

[rdbase]

We have UFC on ABC: Hill vs. Rountree Jr. this weekend.
This will be the first time UFC has an event in Azerbaijan but not the greatest time to be travelling to this part of the world if you know its location.

https://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/Stand-and-Deliver-UFC-Baku-197340

Main card (ABC / ESPN+)
Jamahal Hill   vs.   Khalil Rountree Jr.            
Rafael Fiziev   vs.   Ignacio Bahamondes            
Curtis Blaydes   vs.   Rizvan Kuniev            
Tofiq Musayev   vs.   Myktybek Orolbai            
Nazim Sadykhov   vs.   Nikolas Motta            
Muhammad Naimov   vs.   Bogdan Grad      
Preliminary card (ESPN2 / ESPN+)
Ko Seok-hyun   vs.   Oban Elliott            
Ismail Naurdiev   vs.   Park Jun-yong            
Melissa Mullins   vs.   Daria Zheleznyakova            
Irina Alekseeva   vs.   Klaudia Syguła            
Tagir Ulanbekov   vs.   Azat Maksum            
Hamdy Abdelwahab   vs.   Mohammed Usman   
And look who is on these prelims:
https://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Mohammed-Usman-253535

Of all place, there is border issue going on there AFAIK just close Nagorno Karaba. If Trump attends the fight night  accompanied by his mongering officials, I wouldn't be surprise if war sparks a few weeks after the event.
Rountree vs Hill seem a fair match.  It would be nice to just watch and bet live. I'd be rooting for Rountree if I have to parlay along with Bahamondes and Blayde. Maybe this 3 will make it.

He will not be travelling to this part of the world. Never! Besides, If you haven't noticed he only goes to events that just in the United States.
Pakistan already had blocked it's borders just yesterday for asylum seekers. So those closes of borders have already started.
It is just weird time to have a card so close to a warzone. People there will be on edge as it is and not have their minds completely into having fun at an event.

Khalil Rountree vs Jamahal Hill is a tough match to call.
Rountree has made progress and improved.
While Jamahal Hill's recent history has been strange. He looked terrible when he fought Pereira. Months later, there were pictures of him looking 50 pounds overweight on the internet. Then he fought Jiri Prochazka and looked fatigued in round 1 but still put up a good fight.

Yeah I completely agree with you there. But look at how Rountree Jr. did against Pereira.

Alex Pereira vs Khalil Rountree Jr | FULL FIGHT - official channel of UFC Eurasia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFtIa_AEFiA

Khalil almost made it to the fifth round with Alex while Jamahal got step-off ko'd by him.

[Synchronice]

We have UFC on ABC: Hill vs. Rountree Jr. this weekend.

This will be the first time UFC has an event in Azerbaijan but not the greatest time to be travelling to this part of the world if you know its location.

I think it is good when UFC moved to other countries outside United States, and that is why this time we have more fighters from surrounding regions in this card.
I suggest tuning live early, prelims are starting with good heavyweight clash between Mohammed Usman and Abdelwahab.
Main event should be interesting, and Hill has reach advantage, but I am giving slight advantage to Khalil Rountree this time.

Khalil should win this fight with some difficulty. Hill will only win this fight if he is lucky enough to find a knockout blow. If Khalil knows how to get in and out of the fight with the blows, Hill will lose again and will be forgotten until he gets into a new controversy.

I really think about it but I'm not very sure. I'm still very young but my time is going. I'm doing some other sports related things where I'm quite good at the moment. If I really decide to step in the octagon, I might be the first Bitcointalk UFC fighter And then Chips.gg will sponsor me I'd say that my chances of becoming an MMA fighter is 2 out of 10 because I'm not 100% sure whether I dedicate my life to this or not. There is a part of me that wants it very much but there are also other things that I can't afford to risk to lose at the moment.

While Jamahal Hill's recent history has been strange. He looked terrible when he fought Pereira. Months later, there were pictures of him looking 50 pounds overweight on the internet. Then he fought Jiri Prochazka and looked fatigued in round 1 but still put up a good fight.

Jiri is a psycho (at least a little bit). He lost against Pereira two times in a row. After the second loss, he improved his head movement. He couldn't afford to lose against Jamahal Hill because he wants to fight Pereira again to beat him, he can't stand the fact that Pereira beat him two times in a row and he is crazily obsessed about that.

[rdbase]

If anyone watched the weigh-ins earlier today I didn't notice most of these fighters especially in the prelims haven't fought in the UFC before.
The standouts were the women fighters.

The only fighter I noticed that was the host country is Tofiq Musayev who is fighting Myktybek Orolbai which I had seen in his last fight.
So this might be one to look out for since I have no doubt this one will be just as good as the Khalil vs Jamahal fight.
Orolbai is a very good fighter and looks in great shape at the weigh-ins.

[Pumared]

If anyone watched the weigh-ins earlier today I didn't notice most of these fighters especially in the prelims haven't fought in the UFC before.
The standouts were the women fighters.

The only fighter I noticed that was the host country is Tofiq Musayev who is fighting Myktybek Orolbai which I had seen in his last fight.
So this might be one to look out for since I have no doubt this one will be just as good as the Khalil vs Jamahal fight.
Orolbai is a very good fighter and looks in great shape at the weigh-ins.

It's interesting to see the UFC investing in new talent and new projects like BJJ, which is a very recent project of theirs from what I remember. This is the way to perpetuate and improve the UFC itself. Very good decisions, I just think they need to have more fights in Brazil.

[rdbase]

It's interesting to see the UFC investing in new talent and new projects like BJJ, which is a very recent project of theirs from what I remember. This is the way to perpetuate and improve the UFC itself. Very good decisions, I just think they need to have more fights in Brazil.

Seen them promoting UFC BJJ: Road to the Title which is a tournament comprising of lightweight and welterweight fighters. It was being featured on youtube on the UFC's official channel but all episodes are available on their website now:
https://www.ufc.com/news/ufc-bjj-road-title-all-episodes

UFC Baku is about to begin since the time for Azerbaijan is in the evening right now so the first fight with Kamaru Usman's brother is ready to kick-off the premlims for this UFC event.

Personally I have the following winning their fights:
Mohammed Usman
Azat Maksum            
Klaudia Syguła
Daria Zheleznyakova
Park Jun-yong
Oban Elliott
Muhammad Naimov
Nikolas Motta
Myktybek Orolbai
Rizvan Kuniev
Ignacio Bahamondes
Khalil Rountree Jr

Best of luck for those who have their bets put in for this UFC Baku main event!

[Pumared]

It's interesting to see the UFC investing in new talent and new projects like BJJ, which is a very recent project of theirs from what I remember. This is the way to perpetuate and improve the UFC itself. Very good decisions, I just think they need to have more fights in Brazil.

Seen them promoting UFC BJJ: Road to the Title which is a tournament comprising of lightweight and welterweight fighters. It was being featured on youtube on the UFC's official channel but all episodes are available on their website now:
https://www.ufc.com/news/ufc-bjj-road-title-all-episodes

UFC Baku is about to begin since the time for Azerbaijan is in the evening right now so the first fight with Kamaru Usman's brother is ready to kick-off the premlims for this UFC event.

Personally I have the following winning their fights:
Mohammed Usman
Azat Maksum            
Klaudia Syguła
Daria Zheleznyakova
Park Jun-yong
Oban Elliott
Muhammad Naimov
Nikolas Motta
Myktybek Orolbai
Rizvan Kuniev
Ignacio Bahamondes
Khalil Rountree Jr

Best of luck for those who have their bets put in for this UFC Baku main event!

Great choices, it's good to know we share the same opinion regarding the main fight. Khalil is more complete and was the one who gave the most work in the Poatan fight. So, using that metric, I believe he beats Hill here, because he gave the most work and was more focused.

[rdbase]

Good card for a debut in Baku and some astonishing news directly after during the post fight press conference from Dana White:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsEMt2A1G2E

Just announced this around half an hour ago that Jon Jones has retired meaning that Tom Aspinall is heavyweight champion.
Mentioned on numerous MMA media outlets.
https://www.mmafighting.com/2025/6/21/24453446/dana-white-jon-jones-officially-retired-tom-aspinall-promoted-to-undisputed-ufc-heavyweight-champion

https://bloodyelbow.com/2025/06/21/tom-aspinall-is-officially-ufc-heavyweight-champion-as-dana-white-confirms-jon-jones-has-retired/

https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/story/sports/ufc/2025/06/21/ufc-jon-jones-retires-tom-aspinall-new-heavyweight-champion/84302993007

[Pumared]

Good card for a debut in Baku and some astonishing news directly after during the post fight press conference from Dana White:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsEMt2A1G2E

Just announced this around half an hour ago that Jon Jones has retired meaning that Tom Aspinall is heavyweight champion.
Mentioned on numerous MMA media outlets.
https://www.mmafighting.com/2025/6/21/24453446/dana-white-jon-jones-officially-retired-tom-aspinall-promoted-to-undisputed-ufc-heavyweight-champion

https://bloodyelbow.com/2025/06/21/tom-aspinall-is-officially-ufc-heavyweight-champion-as-dana-white-confirms-jon-jones-has-retired/

https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/story/sports/ufc/2025/06/21/ufc-jon-jones-retires-tom-aspinall-new-heavyweight-champion/84302993007

And Malhadinho wasted no time and posted on his Instagram calling Aspinall to fight. Now, the UFC has finally made a great decision. They removed a big name and are going to shake up the entire category! Finally, some commendable change from them.

[Synchronice]

Good card for a debut in Baku and some astonishing news directly after during the post fight press conference from Dana White:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsEMt2A1G2E

ESPN wrote in their TikTok video that it was an amazing debut. Did you watch the fight? I haven't watched it. By the way, Merab Dvalishvili, one of my favorite UFC fighter, was the coach of Sadykhov, who won the fight with second round TKO.
By the way, I was shocked to see so many people in that event in Baku. UFC should probably consider having fights outside of Europe very often because it's very expensive to travel to the USA and then back. The UFC ticket price is also extremely expensive.

Just announced this around half an hour ago that Jon Jones has retired meaning that Tom Aspinall is heavyweight champion.
Mentioned on numerous MMA media outlets.

Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LPtaFojuXQ
Look at Dana White's face when he announced that Jon Jones retired but the good news for him is that Francis Ngannou might return in UFC.
It was a very bad ending for Jon Jones. He lost all the aura to my mind. Champions do not get scared to that level to retire.

[notblox1]

Topuria vs. Oliveira is interesting main event ahead of us, but as for outcome I cant see anything else than Topuria winning this one.

Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LPtaFojuXQ
Look at Dana White's face when he announced that Jon Jones retired but the good news for him is that Francis Ngannou might return in UFC.
It was a very bad ending for Jon Jones. He lost all the aura to my mind. Champions do not get scared to that level to retire.

This is unexpected news for me, but I think we are going to see Jones coming back fighting in future.
Maybe this wont be UFC and MMA and I am sure he is going to receive many interesting offers from different martial arts organizations.
I am not sure what to think about Ngannou, but he is not in good relationship with Dana White.

[rdbase]

Next event is a very big one and highly anticipated with whomever wins the main event matchup will get the Lightweight title!


Fight card
Ilia Topuria   vs.   Charles Oliveira
Alexandre Pantoja (c)   vs.   Kai Kara-France
Brandon Royval   vs.   Joshua Van            
Beneil Dariush   vs.   Renato Moicano            
Payton Talbott   vs.   Felipe Lima            
Preliminary card (ESPN / ESPN+ / Disney+)
Jack Hermansson   vs.   Gregory Rodrigues            
Hyder Amil   vs.   Jose Miguel Delgado            
Viviane Araújo   vs.   Tracy Cortez            
Terrance McKinney   vs.   Viacheslav Borshchev            
Preliminary card (ESPN+ / Disney+ / UFC Fight Pass)
Sedriques Dumas   vs.   Jackson McVey            
Jhonata Diniz   vs.   Alvin Hines            
Niko Price   vs.   Jacobe Smith   
https://sportsbet.io/sports/mma/ufc/ufc/matches