UFC 248
O’Malley looked great after a long lay off. He’s going to make a run at the title and it’s going to be fun.
Zhang and Joanna was a fight for the ages. Not just as a woman’s fight but for all mma fights. It was amazing. If Joanna had won no one, who understands and loves mma, would have been disappointed. But fuck me with the braids and that haematoma Joanna initially looked like a klingon and by the final round she looked like Grendal from the CGI Beowulf movie from a few years ago.
Izzy was smart and stayed out of the way. That’s not running. Especially when Romero has a leg that looked like tenderised steak.
Yoel is a strange guy. World class wrestler that doesn’t wrestle. So when your other weapons are counter striking and that’s not working for you, you would expect him to attempt to wrestle. But aside from one ineffective take down and one stuffed take down Yoel fought like an idiot. I thought, at first, he’s very smart. Doing nothing but stand with his guard up for the first round. No energy exerted, now it’s a 4 round fight. But he did that for the whole fucking fight.
Then to bitch about it after the fact and lay the blame at Izzy?! He was beaten because he did fuck all. I can’t believe the shit I’ve read on Instagram. People saying he was robbed and he fought the perfect fight. Other saying this was the worst title fight ever. Silva vs Maia was the worst title fight I have seen but then the casuals complaining about this fight have no idea who Silva or Maia are.
The one take away I got was that Costa has been eating way too much coxhina. He looked fat and seemed to be wearing lippy.
@raznomore said in UFC:
Zhang looked drained after the face off. I saw just now she's still cutting weight.
That's enough for me to put a sneaky $20 on JJ for KO/TKO or SUB
I'm starting to lean this way too.. and JJ is looking the best she has for years
I was surprised at how big Adesanya looked next to Romero too
Well that's easily the best womens MMA fight I've seen. Joanna is tough.. could anyone else take those punches??
Her face is a mess right now
She had plenty of success, a razor thin decision again
The finish of the Dariush fight was amazing too
Great card already. Now it's time for Izzy...
..and the main event didn't deliver
The tone was set by Romero standing still for the first minute of the fight
Adesanya won relatively comfortably by just throwing a modest amount of volume from distance. Good legs kicks though.
Romero's 10 second bursts didn't achieve much
Adesanya is already unpopular in the US. This won't help
@Duluth That's the first Izzy fight I've seen. Just from the highlights of his next opponent you'd think he'd be in trouble, that a fair assessment or can he do the work up close as well?
@Duluth
People expected fireworks and instead got a boring fight where neither fighter engaged much. Both fighters were looking for the counter and since neither fighter really engaged, it never got going. Typical flush the dunny performance, Izzy did what he felt he needed to do but he won't win any fans on that performance.
Yeah very weird fight but you got the feeling it was gonna be after Romero took to a standing fetal position for the first minute or so. Izzy did what he had to do and nothing more.
Kind of reminded me of the blues win last night. Take the win and move on...
The women’s fight before it was amazing
@raznomore said in UFC:
I thought, at first, he’s very smart. Doing nothing but stand with his guard up for the first round. No energy exerted, now it’s a 4 round fight. But he did that for the whole fucking fight.
He's had some success with it before, shortening the fight, avoiding his cardio issues and impatient fighters have walked into his punching range.
It was clear early that Israel was content to stand outside punching range and throw kicks. Now what? Romero had zero path to victory when the fight settled into that pattern.
I was shocked Yoel didn't change anything. 42 years old, last chance of winning the belt and he let it drift towards a dull points loss
@raznomore said in UFC:
I thought, at first, he’s very smart. Doing nothing but stand with his guard up for the first round. No energy exerted, now it’s a 4 round fight. But he did that for the whole fucking fight.
He's had some success with it before, shortening the fight, avoiding his cardio issues and impatient fighters have walked into his punching range.
It was clear early that Israel was content to stand outside punching range and throw kicks. Now what? Romero had zero path to victory when the fight settled into that pattern.
I was shocked Yoel didn't change anything. 42 years old, last chance of winning the belt and he let it drift towards a dull points loss
Yep Romero finished.
Apparently there's a virus going around..
- The Brazil event (Lee v Oliveira) this weekend will have no crowd
- The London event (Woodley v Edwards 21st March) is going ahead as planned.
- Ngannou v Rozenstruik (28th March) is moved from Ohio to the UFC octagon in Vegas where they filmed ultimate fighter etc.. so no crowd
- Overeem v Harris (Portland 11th April) is also rumoured to be moving to the Vegas octagon
The cursed fight - Khabib v Ferguson is on April 18th in Brooklyn. This is the 4th time the fight has been scheduled. A ppv with no crowd?
Apparently there's a virus going around..
- The Brazil event (Lee v Oliveira) this weekend will have no crowd
- The London event (Woodley v Edwards 21st March) is going ahead as planned.
- Ngannou v Rozenstruik (28th March) is moved from Ohio to the UFC octagon in Vegas where they filmed ultimate fighter etc.. so no crowd
- Overeem v Harris (Portland 11th April) is also rumoured to be moving to be moved to the Vegas octagon
The cursed fight - Khabib v Ferguson is on April 18th in Brooklyn. This is the 4th time the fight has been scheduled. A ppv with no crowd?
Fuck no.
It's like Pacquiao v Mayweather all over again
The UFC can't move events to Las Vegas now because of the Nevada commission. Also the Fight in London can't happen there because of the USA travel restrictions
White claims everything is going ahead, they are just looking for new venues
It's different than team sports I guess..
The fights in Brasilia today had no crowds but were still good viewing on TV
Also ESPN is obviously very keen to still have some live sport. Their website etc was covered in UFC coverage today
@raznomore said in UFC:
I enjoyed the card and honestly didn’t miss the crowd ambience as much as I thought I would.
Yeah I was surprised at how little it mattered.
Shame I didn’t manage to hear ufc matchmaker Mick Maynard
Yay! Some live sport I give a shit about
Shame about the Khabib v Ferguson fight getting cancelled yet again. Ferguson v Gaethje should be a fun fight though. Winner gets Khabib, loser gets Conor?
Location still not announced. Strongest rumours are still for an Indian reservation on the west coast
@Duluth He's in full Donald Trump denial that he can still do this. Disney rightly have pulled the plug on him and he's not happy there's a bigger dog in the room telling him what to do.
@DrivingMaul said in UFC:
@Duluth He's in full Donald Trump denial that he can still do this. Disney rightly have pulled the plug on him and he's not happy there's a bigger dog in the room telling him what to do.
How is any different than the jockeys creating their bubble and continuing racing?
Without crowds you aren’t talking about many people. Probably more in my local supermarket right now.
@Kirwan I don't know what's going on with racing. Someone told me you can still play golf in Australia (but a lot of courses have closed). I think there's a lot of countries making a mess of this situation.
@DrivingMaul the point is they were making it as safe as any other activity that is allowed under this lockdown.
So now the UFC are tentatively saying May 9th
This will be mostly US based fighters. A few rumours that they are looking at Florida (State Govt has made positive noises)
Then hopefully 'Fight Island' will be ready for the international fighters not long after that
Fights pencilled in for May 9th:
So now the UFC are tentatively saying May 9th
This will be mostly US based fighters. A few rumours that they are looking at Florida (State Govt has made positive noises)
Then hopefully 'Fight Island' will be ready for the international fighters not long after thatFights pencilled in for May 9th:
Now that's worth waiting for.
Florida Governor put WWE on the 'Essential' list so fingers crossed.
UFC returns May 9 with first of 3 cards in Florida
An interim lightweight championship fight between Tony Ferguson (25-3) and Justin Gaethje (21-2) will headline UFC 249, which will take place in Jacksonville, Florida, without fans as a pay-per-view event on May 9.
Confirmation that UFC 249 will be in Florida with no audience on the 9th of May
Two more cards at the same location on the 13th and 16th. No announcement on fights yet.
Another US card on the 23rd with no location confirmed. I suspect they are hoping that Vegas will allow this at the UFC headquarters
'Fight Island' should be ready in June for cards with international fighters. Fighters will be spread amongst multiple hotels and the octagon will be on a beach.
I think there'll be some Kiwi's & Aussies on the first island event because it'll happen around the time of the postponed Perth card
@MiketheSnow said in UFC:
Two more sleeps
Sport to watch!
So many good fights on this card. Despite that, most of my picks are the favourites.
The only non favourite I've gone for (ignoring the early pre-lims) is Cruz over Cejudo.
It'll be a massive surprise if the main event is a dud.
Ferguson is a freak. I think he'll enjoy the chaos of a Gaethje fight and he'll get a stoppage in the 3rd. Probably an elbow..
@MiketheSnow said in UFC:
Two more sleeps
Sport to watch!
So many good fights on this card. Despite that, most of my picks are the favourites.
The only non favourite I've gone for (ignoring the early pre-lims) is Cruz over Cejudo.
It'll be a massive surprise if the main event is a dud.
Ferguson is a freak. I think he'll enjoy the chaos of a Gaethje fight and he'll get a stoppage in the 3rd. Probably an elbow..
If Cruz is 100% healthy then it could be a contest. Otherwise a beating.
Main Event won't get out of Round 1.
Can't wait.
@MiketheSnow said in UFC:
If Cruz is 100% healthy
..and has no ring rust. But of course Cruz claims there is no such thing
I’m still sceptical of Cejudo at 135 despite the Moraes win.